Items and Equipment

You find it on the beach at Toronbo Shores right after the opening scene, stuck in the sand at the water’s edge. Pick it up and put it on a button. Cutting bushes, the Piece of Heart in the Mabe Village well and every early fight depend on it.

Take 20 or more Secret Seashells to the Seashell Mansion in Ukuku Prairie, east of Kanalet Castle, and the owner gives you the L-2 Sword. It hits harder than your first sword and is the only prize the Mansion offers; shells beyond 20 turn into rupees. If you want the two bonus shells, visit once with exactly 5 shells and once with exactly 10. The full list is on Secret Seashell Locations.

Tarin hands you the Shield in his house when you wake up. Hold it forward to block rocks, arrows and most shots, and to push small enemies aside. A replacement costs 20 rupees at the Town Tool Shop.

The Mirror Shield is a chest reward in Eagle’s Tower, in a room walled in by raised crystal blocks. The game describes its polished surface as able to reflect light or energy. It replaces your old shield, and it shields you from the flames in the cave on the way to Turtle Rock. The route is in the Eagle’s Tower chapter.

The chest is deep inside Tail Cave, at the end of an underground passage that you reach by stairs and a ladder. Equip it and press the button to jump over pits, gaps and small obstacles, which also helps you dodge attacks. Almost every later dungeon needs it. See the Tail Cave chapter.

Bottle Grotto hides it in a chest that appears only after you light a dark room with Magic Powder and defeat the ghosts inside. With it you lift and throw pots, skulls and ordinary rocks, and you need it to break the Genie’s bottle in the same dungeon. Rocks all over the overworld, a few Secret Seashells and the boulders at the Dream Shrine door wait for it. The path is in the Bottle Grotto chapter.

Face Shrine holds this upgrade in a chest in an upstairs room, after a fight with Wizzrobes. It lets you lift heavy stone statues, and outside the dungeon it moves the weathercock in Mabe Village, which uncovers the stairs to the Flying Rooster. See the Face Shrine chapter.

The Boots wait in a chest in Key Cavern, after the Dodongo Snakes mini-boss. Hold the button to dash in a straight line. The dash smashes crystals, shakes things loose from trees, knocks a book off the shelf in the Mabe Village library and breaks through the green block that guards the Ocarina. Used together with the Roc’s Feather, a dash carries you across wider gaps.

Angler’s Tunnel (Level 4) holds the Flippers in a chest. With them you swim in deep water and press B to dive. That opens the island Secret Seashells, two Pieces of Heart hidden underwater, the entrance to Catfish’s Maw and several trading-sequence stops.

Master Stalfos carries it in Catfish’s Maw. You fight him several times, and his last defeat drops the Hookshot. Fire it at chests, rocks and blocks to pull yourself across a gap, or to drag a distant object to you; it also stuns some enemies. Details are in the Catfish’s Maw chapter.

Blaino, the boxer mini-boss in Turtle Rock, stands between you and the chest with the Rod. It shoots a fireball in a straight line, lights torches from a distance and you cannot finish Turtle Rock without it. It also helps against one form of the final boss. See the Turtle Rock chapter.

No dungeon holds the Bow. You buy it from the Town Tool Shop in Mabe Village for 980 rupees. The shop offers it only once you have bought the Shovel and are around the third dungeon, and it is sold once. Arrows are separate stock at 10 for 10 rupees and also drop from enemies. Your arrow limit starts at 20 and the Mad Batter can raise it to 60.

Ten bombs cost 10 rupees at the Town Tool Shop, and they also drop from enemies and pots. They crack weak walls, hurt bosses such as Master Stalfos and the Dodongo Snakes, and open many secret rooms. Your limit starts at 20 and rises to 60 at a Mad Batter altar.

The Town Tool Shop sells the Shovel for 200 rupees, once. Dig in loose soil, under certain trees and in front of owl statues to find Secret Seashells and other prizes, starting with the doghouse next to Madam MeowMeow’s house. Buy it before the Bow, because the shop stocks the Bow only afterwards.

The Ocarina sits in the Dream Shrine in the northeast of Mabe Village, east of the Quadruplets’ house and north of the Town Tool Shop. Lift the three boulders at the door with the Power Bracelet, sleep in the shrine bed to enter the dream cavern, and dash through the green block with the Pegasus Boots to reach it. Once you own it, Marin teaches you the Ballad of the Wind Fish, and the other two songs come later. See Ocarina Songs.

The Boomerang is an optional swap, not a gift. Go to Toronbo Shores with the Magnifying Lens and some Bombs, blow open the cracked wall south of the coconut-throwing monkey and talk to the Goriya behind the table. He takes one of your items and gives you the Boomerang; hand it back whenever you like to get your own item again, as often as you want. It stuns enemies, flips switches and fetches faraway items, and a single hit from it destroys the final boss. More in the Face Shrine chapter and on Trading Sequence.

Pick the Sleepy Toadstool in the Mysterious Forest, carry it to the Witch’s Hut and use it in front of the Witch to receive 20 doses. Sprinkle the powder on torches to light dark rooms, on the raccoon to reveal Tarin, and on certain enemies to stun or change them, including the first form of the final boss. Defeated enemies sometimes drop refills, and the Mad Batter can raise your limit to 40. You also throw powder into each Mad Batter well. See the Tail Cave chapter.

What it does: Fills in the dungeon layout on your map screen

What it does: Marks chests and the Nightmare’s Key on the map and sounds a tone in rooms that hide a small key

What it does: Lets the dungeon’s owl statues give hints

What it does: Opens one locked door or key block and is used up; the number in a dungeon varies

What it does: Opens the door to the boss room; found in a chest or after a puzzle in each dungeon

Where you get it: Chest in the Mysterious Forest

What it does: Opens Tail Cave (Level 1)

Where you get it: Dug up behind Prince Richard’s villa once you give him the five Golden Leaves

What it does: Opens Key Cavern (Level 3)

Where you get it: Dropped by the Lanmola in the quicksand of Yarna Desert

What it does: Opens Angler’s Tunnel (Level 4)

Where you get it: Armos Knight, Ancient Ruins

What it does: Opens Face Shrine (Level 6)

Where you get it: Cave in the Tal Tal Mountains, reached across pits with the Flying Rooster

What it does: Opens Eagle’s Tower (Level 7)

Where you get it: Kanalet Castle, dropped by specific enemies inside

What it does: Handed to Prince Richard for the Slime Key

Where you get it: Crazy Tracy’s Health Spa for 28 or 42 rupees; free chests in Face Shrine, Eagle’s Tower and Turtle Rock

What it does: Revives you with full hearts when you run out

You get it from: Trendy Game, Mabe Village

You give it to: Mamasha

You get it from: Mamasha

You give it to: CiaoCiao, the small Chain Chomp

You get it from: CiaoCiao

You give it to: Sale, Toronbo Shores

You get it from: Sale

You give it to: Kiki the monkey

You get it from: Kiki

You give it to: Tarin at the beehive

You get it from: Tarin

You give it to: Chef Bear, Animal Village

You get it from: Chef Bear

You give it to: Papahl in the mountains

You get it from: Papahl

You give it to: Christine the goat

You get it from: Christine

You give it to: Mr. Write

You get it from: Mr. Write

You give it to: Grandma Ulrira

You get it from: Grandma Ulrira

You give it to: The fisherman in Martha’s Bay

You get it from: The fisherman

You give it to: The Mermaid

You get it from: The Mermaid

You give it to: The Mermaid Statue

You get it from: The Mermaid Statue

You give it to: Keep it

The wallet holds up to 999 rupees and cannot be upgraded. Rupees come from chests, bushes and enemies, and the Color Dungeon has a rupee room that refills every time you re-enter it. The Trendy Game and the fishing pond cost 10 rupees per try.

Red hearts restore health. They drop from enemies and sit under bushes and pots, and the Town Tool Shop sells three for 10 rupees.

The island hides 12 Pieces of Heart, and every four make an extra heart. Their locations are on Heart Piece Locations.

Each of the eight bosses leaves one behind. You start with three hearts, eight containers add eight more and the 12 pieces add three, so 14 hearts is the maximum in DX. The Color Dungeon gives no heart.

Both appear when you defeat a long run of enemies without being hit, and a few are placed in rooms. The Guardian Acorn halves the damage you take for a while, and the Piece of Power raises your attack. The effect is temporary.

After you clear the Color Dungeon, the Great Fairy offers new clothes. The Red Clothes permanently raises the damage your attacks deal.

The Blue Clothes reduce the damage you take. You can go back to the Great Fairy to switch between red and blue, but you cannot return to the green clothes. See Color Dungeon.