| Big quests on this page | Romani Ranch events, Goron Race, Frog Choir, Anju and Kafei, Swamp Spider House, Oceanside Spider House |
|---|---|
| Main prizes | Bottle of Milk, Romani’s Mask, Bottle of Gold Dust, Piece of Heart, Couple’s Mask, Mask of Truth, Giant’s Wallet |
| Needs a Powder Keg | Romani Ranch (the boulder on Days 1 and 2) and the Goron Race, so plan both once you hold the Fire Arrows from Snowhead Temple |
| Clock-sensitive | Ranch defense (Night 1), Cremia’s escort (Day 2), Anju and Kafei (all three days), Giant’s Wallet (Day 1) |
Termina has six long side quests: the Romani Ranch events, the Goron Race, the Frog Choir, Anju and Kafei’s quest and the two Spider Houses. Between them they pay out a Bottle of Milk, Romani’s Mask, a Bottle of Gold Dust, a Piece of Heart, the Couple’s Mask, the Mask of Truth and the Giant’s Wallet. Most of them depend on the clock, so check the day and hour in each section before you start. A sensible order is: Romani’s balloon game on the First Day, the Spider Houses early (the Oceanside one on a First Day of its own), the Goron Race and the Frog Choir once Snowhead and Great Bay are done, and Anju and Kafei in a cycle of their own. The smaller errands from the Bombers’ Notebook are summarised at the bottom, and every timed game has its own entry on the mini-games page.
Table of Contents
Quick reference
| # | Quest | Region | You need first | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Romani Ranch events | Romani Ranch, Milk Road | Powder Keg, Hero’s Bow | Epona’s Song, Bottle of Milk, Romani’s Mask |
| 2 |  Goron Race | Goron Racetrack, Snowhead | Goron Mask, Snowhead Temple cleared, Powder Keg | Bottle of Gold Dust |
| 3 |  Frog Choir | Five places across Termina | Don Gero’s Mask, Snowhead Temple cleared | Piece of Heart |
| 4 |  Anju and Kafei | Clock Town, Ikana Canyon | Kafei’s Mask | Couple’s Mask, Keaton Mask, Chateau Romani or Postman’s Hat |
| 5 |  Swamp Spider House | Southern Swamp | Deku Mask, bottles, Magic Beans, bombs | Mask of Truth |
| 6 |  Oceanside Spider House | Great Bay Coast | Hookshot, Goron Mask, bombs | Giant’s Wallet (Day 1 only) |
Romani Ranch Events
The ranch is a three-part quest that spans the first two nights: a balloon-shooting practice on Day 1, a defense of the barn on Night 1 and a milk-cart escort with Cremia on Day 2. A boulder closes the road to the ranch on Days 1 and 2, so you need a Powder Keg from the Goron Powder Keg seller in Goron Village (the Goron Races section explains how to earn one) and the Hero’s Bow. The boulder is already gone on Day 3, so the ranch is open for the other errands then. The other things to do at the ranch are covered in the Clock Town, Termina Field and Romani Ranch walkthrough.
Romani’s Ghost Balloon Game
On Day 1, between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM, blow up the boulder on Milk Road with a Powder Keg and walk into the ranch. Talk to Romani and accept her horseback practice: she tells you there are ten ghost-shaped balloons around the ranch, and that you are out if you take longer than two minutes. You can retry as many times as you like. Pop every balloon with the Hero’s Bow while riding Epona. Pass and she teaches you Epona’s Song, which calls your horse anywhere in Termina Field. Epona carries you over the fences on the roads out of Termina Field, so do this first.
Defend the Ranch (“Them”)
After the balloon game Romani asks for your help that night. Be at the ranch by 2:00 AM on Night 1; the invaders arrive at 2:30 AM and keep coming until about 5:15 AM. Every one of them heads for the cows in the barn, so keep them off the barn until dawn. A single arrow destroys each invader, so fight from Epona or on foot, and keep turning to check every side of the barn.
Do not play the Inverted Song of Time here: it slows the clock, so the night lasts far longer. Hold the barn until about 5:15 AM and Romani thanks you for the help and gives you a Bottle of Milk, a drink that restores hearts. Your Bombers’ Notebook records that you helped the ranch.
Cremia’s Milk Cart Escort
This part only opens if you saved the barn on Night 1. Return to the ranch on Day 2 and talk to Cremia in the ranch house; in the evening she waits at her cart, leaves the ranch at about 6:00 PM, and you go with her. A boulder blocks Milk Road, so she takes a detour, and the masked Gorman Brothers ride out to smash her milk jars. Ride in the back of the cart and shoot them with the Hero’s Bow, aiming at whoever is closest to the wagon.
The ride ends on the road beside a stone owl statue, where the cart is parked. Cremia says the delivery to Mr. Barten went well and gives you Romani’s Mask right there, and the Notebook records that you guarded the ranch’s milk. You then go back to the ranch on Epona. The mask is your pass into the Latte Milk Bar in East Clock Town, which admits you from 10:00 PM. If you already own the Circus Leader’s Mask, wear it and the brothers will not attack at all, which makes any repeat trip easy. You need Romani’s Mask to enter the Milk Bar for the sound check and for the Chateau Romani bottle at the end of the Anju and Kafei quest, so do the escort before Day 3.
Goron Races
The Goron Race is a single contest on the Goron Racetrack, on the Road to Goron Village, and its prize is a Bottle of Gold Dust. Take the Gold Dust and your Razor Sword to the Mountain Smithy on the Second Day and you collect the Gilded Sword at dawn on the Final Day, so this stop is required for a 100% run. The race can be repeated, so the real cost is the preparation.
You need the Goron Mask and a cleared Snowhead Temple. The race only runs once Goht is gone and spring returns. First, take the Powder Keg test at the Goron Powder Keg Shop in Goron Village: the owner will not let you use kegs until he has tested you, so he gives you a lit keg, and you carry it to the boulder that closes the racetrack and blow it up before the fuse runs out. Passing earns the Powder Keg certification, which lets you buy kegs afterwards (you need one for the ranch too).
With the boulder gone, speak to the Goron elder at the start line to enter, and race as Goron Link against the Gorons. Finish first and the Goron Elder’s Son hands over a Bottle of Gold Dust as the prize from his father. Roll through the Magic Jars along the track to refill your magic, expect the other Gorons to ram you, and steer clear of the Bomb Flowers and trees, which cost you speed. You can retry as often as you like, and a bigger Magic Meter lets you roll longer.
Frog Choir
Don Gero’s Frog Choir is five frogs, one in Mountain Village and four scattered across Termina, and bringing them together earns one Piece of Heart. Wear Don Gero’s Mask when you talk to each frog. The final gathering happens in Mountain Village, which only has its spring pond after you beat Goht in Snowhead Temple. Find all five in a single cycle so that none of the progress is lost to a reset. One frog waits in Great Bay Temple, so plan this quest for a cycle in which you also clear that temple.
To get Don Gero’s Mask, first thaw the Goron Elder with Hot Spring Water and learn the Goron Lullaby by playing it for the Elder’s Son in the Goron Shrine. Then light the torches in the shrine with a Deku Stick before the flames die, and use Goron Link to roll off the ramp into the pots hanging from the chandelier. One pot holds a Rock Sirloin. Take the sirloin to the hungry Goron on the cliff in Mountain Village and he trades you Don Gero’s Mask.
The five frogs are here:
- Mountain Village: Don Gero, on a lily pad in the pond (spring only).
- Clock Town: beside the tree at the Laundry Pool.
- Southern Swamp: on a log in the water. Reaching it needs Koume’s boat cruise from the Swamp Tourist Center, which opens after you clear Woodfall Temple.
- Woodfall Temple: the Gekko mini-boss turns into a frog when it falls.
- Great Bay Temple: the Gekko mini-boss turns into a frog here too.
Talk to each frog with the mask on; you can visit them in any order, but do it all within one cycle. When the other four have joined, return to Mountain Village, put the mask on and speak to Don Gero on the lily pad. The choir sings and you receive the Piece of Heart.
Anju and Kafei
Anju and Kafei‘s quest is the longest in the game: it uses all three days, touches almost every character in Clock Town, and ends with the Couple’s Mask. Day by day: on Day 1 you take Kafei’s Mask from Madame Aroma in the Mayor’s Residence (10:00 AM or later), speak to Anju at the Stock Pot Inn wearing it once the Postman has left, and meet her in the kitchen at 11:30 PM to receive her letter. Mail it before 6:00 AM on Day 2; that afternoon the Postman delivers it at the Laundry Pool, and you follow him in to find Kafei, who gives you the Pendant of Memories. Bring the pendant to Anju from the late afternoon of Day 2, and before noon on Day 3 at the latest. On Day 3 the Curiosity Shop man gives you the Keaton Mask and a letter at 1:00 PM, and you follow Kafei into Sakon’s Hideout in Ikana Canyon at 7:00 PM to win back the Sun’s Mask. Deliver the “Special Delivery to Mama” for either a Chateau Romani bottle or the Postman’s Hat, and Anju and Kafei finally meet in the Inn at about 4:30 AM before the final dawn. Every step has its own hour, and the full timeline with the mistakes to avoid is on the Anju and Kafei page.
Swamp Spider House
The Swamp Spider House is in the Southern Swamp and holds 30 Gold Skulltula spirits. Burn the web over the door with a lit Deku Stick, listen to the cursed man in the first room, then work through the six rooms: the Central Chamber (tokens 1 to 5), the Tablet Room and upper floor (6 to 13), the Giant Jar Room (14 to 20), the Golden Room (21 to 24) and the Tree Room (25 to 30). Clear them all and the man who was cursed explains that a stranger once promised him riches with a mask, and gives you the Mask of Truth, which reads Gossip Stones and the thoughts of animals (it also helps you pick a winner at the Doggy Racetrack). Bring the Deku Mask, a bottle for Spring Water, Magic Beans, a few bombs and the Hero’s Bow. The room-by-room list is on the Swamp Spider House page.
Oceanside Spider House
The Oceanside Spider House is on the Great Bay Coast, on the beach, and also holds 30 Gold Skulltula spirits. Blow open the cracked wall at the entrance with a bomb and slide down the passage; you also need the Hookshot, Fire Arrows for the webs and the Goron Mask. The Giant’s Wallet, which lets you carry 500 Rupees, is only given if you finish all 30 on Day 1 (a later finish pays a rupee instead), so tackle this house on your first visit and start at dawn, or slow the clock with the Inverted Song of Time. The house also hides a Piece of Heart in its dining room, where you must shoot six coloured skull masks in the right order, an order the Stalchildren tell you if you wear the Captain’s Hat. The Oceanside Spider House page lists every token.
Smaller errands from the Bombers’ Notebook
The remaining optional errands are short and mostly sit in Clock Town. The Bombers’ Notebook page gives all 20 people; these are the ones most often missed. Each pays a mask, a Piece of Heart or a bottle, so none of them is worth skipping on a 100% run.
The Old Lady and Sakon
Around midnight on Night 1 (be there before it), Sakon steals the old lady’s bag in North Clock Town. Chase him down and hit him with your sword to stop him, and the old lady gives you the Blast Mask. Do not do this in the cycle where you finish Anju and Kafei‘s quest: stopping Sakon changes his schedule, so Kafei cannot follow him on the Final Day. Save the Blast Mask for a different cycle.
Rosa Sisters and Kamaro
Learn the Song of Healing, then climb the mushroom rock in Termina Field near Clock Town to find Kamaro, who dances between midnight and 6:00 AM on any night. Play him the song and he gives you Kamaro’s Mask. On Night 1 or 2, wear the mask and dance (press B near the sisters) for the Rosa Sisters in West Clock Town, who thank you with a Piece of Heart.
The Milk Bar sound check
With Romani’s Mask, enter the Latte Milk Bar between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM on Night 1 or 2 and play along as Hylian, Deku, Goron and Zora Link: Toto’s band needs the four instruments, and each form plays its own. Gorman rewards you with the Circus Leader’s Mask. Wear the Circus Leader’s Mask on Cremia’s cart run and the Gorman Brothers will not attack.
Grog’s chicks
Get the Bremen Mask from Guru-Guru in the Laundry Pool by playing him the Song of Healing, then wear it at the Cucco Shack in Romani Ranch between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM and lead all ten chicks until they grow up. Press B to march so the chicks follow you, and keep going until they have all grown up. Grog hands over the Bunny Hood.
Kotake’s potion
Talk to Kotake in her Magic Hags’ Potion Shop in the Southern Swamp and she gives you a bottle with a Red Potion. Do not drink it. Carry it to her sister Koume at the end of the Woods of Mystery; once she is cured, she lets you keep the Empty Bottle. See Bottle Locations for the other five.
The Title Deed trades
Look through the telescope in the Astral Observatory toward the Moon and watch a Moon’s Tear fall, then pick it up outside. Take it to the Business Scrub in South Clock Town for a Land Title Deed. From there, trade for a Swamp Title Deed at the scrub beside the Swamp Tourist Center, a Mountain Title Deed in Goron Village and an Ocean Title Deed from the scrub in Lulu’s room in Zora Hall. The Ocean Title Deed goes to the scrub in Ikana Canyon. Each scrub leaves a Deku Flower behind that carries you to a Piece of Heart. All the deeds are lost when you replay the first day, so make every trade in one cycle.
