Zora River and Zora Domain Walkthrough

Ocarina of Time Remake 100% Completion Walkthrough41 chapters

Walkthrough overview

• Kokiri ForestFind the Kokiri Sword, buy the Deku Shield for 40 rupees and get past Mido to the Great Deku Tree.
• The Great Deku TreeFairy Slingshot, Dungeon Map, Compass, four Gold Skulltulas, Gohma and the Kokiri Emerald.
• Leaving Kokiri ForestSay goodbye to Mido and Saria, get the Fairy Ocarina, meet Kaepora Gaebora and cross Hyrule Field.
• Hyrule Castle TownGold Skulltula, Bazaar, Shooting Gallery seed bag, Potion Shop bottle and the Temple of Time.
• Hyrule CastleGet the Weird Egg, wake Talon, sneak in, meet Zelda, learn Zelda’s Lullaby and collect Zelda’s Letter.
• Kakariko VillageCucco Lady’s bottle, House of Skulltula, Adult’s Wallet and the rooftop Heart Piece.
• GraveyardDampé’s Grave-Diggin’ Tour Heart Piece, Sharp and Flat, the Royal Family’s Tomb and the Sun’s Song.
• Lon Lon RanchTalon’s cucco game, Lon Lon Milk, Epona’s Song, a Heart Piece and Gold Skulltula.
• Gerudo ValleyTwo Heart Pieces, Lon Lon milk from Miss Moo with Epona’s Song, and a Gold Skulltula token.
• Lake HyliaLakeside Laboratory, the scarecrow quest, a Gold Skulltula and the fishing Heart Piece.
• Lost Woods and Sacred GroveRichard’s Heart Piece, Happy Mask Shop, Skull Kid, Saria’s Song, Gold Skulltulas 16 to 19 and the Business Scrubs.
• Death Mountain Trail and Goron CityClimb to Goron City, win over Darunia with Saria’s Song and take the Goron Bracelet before Dodongo Cavern.
• Dodongo CavernDungeon Map, Compass, Bomb Bag, four Gold Skulltulas, King Dodongo and the Goron Ruby.
• Death Mountain Summit and CraterGoron City Heart Piece and Bigger Bomb Bag, Din’s Fire and magic meter, crater Heart Piece, Echo Gem.
• Bombchu Bowling and the Great Fairy of PowerWin the Bombchus, Biggest Bomb Bag and Heart Piece, then get the enhanced Spin Attack.
• Zora River and Zora DomainHeart Pieces, a Gold Skulltula, the Silver Scale, Ruto’s bottle in Lake Hylia and King Zora’s request.
• Lord Jabu-Jabu’s BellyFarore’s Wind, the Boomerang, Ruto, Barinade, the Heart Container and the Spiritual Stone of Water for child Link.
• Errands Before the Temple of TimeThe child errands before the Temple of Time in the Ocarina of Time Remake.
• Temple of TimeFind the Ocarina of Time, open the Door of Time, draw the Master Sword and earn the Light Medallion.
• Ingo Ranch and EponaIngo’s two horse races, winning Epona and teaching Bonooru the Scarecrow Song.
• Kakariko Village and the HookshotDampé’s race, the Hookshot, Song of Storms and Heart Pieces #17 to #19.
• Sacred Grove as an AdultGet past Mido with Saria’s Song, cross the Moblin maze, beat the Great Moblin.
• Forest TempleSmall keys, Fairy Bow, four Poe Sisters, Phantom Ganon, Heart Container and Forest Medallion.
• Poes, the Hall of Fallen Foes and Lake HyliaBigger Quiver, Prelude of Light, Big Poes, Golden Scale and three Heart Pieces.
• Goron City as an AdultHeart Pieces, a Gold Skulltula, the Goron Tunic from the small Goron.
• Fire TempleFree all nine Gorons, find the Megaton Hammer and Boss Key, beat Volvagia and earn the Fire Medallion.
• Double Magic and Death MountainCrater Great Fairy Fountain, doubled magic, Gold Skulltulas 60 to 62 and a Business Scrub Seed as adult Link.
• Ice CavernBlue Fire, Iron Boots, Serenade of Water, the Zora Tunic and two Heart Pieces.
• The Biggoron Sword RouteBuy the Giant’s Knife, trade from the Pocket Egg to Cojiro, and finish every step up to the Biggoron Sword.
• Water TempleTriforce doors, small keys, Longshot, Dark Link, Morpha, the Water Medallion and Gold Skulltulas 68 to 73.
• Kakariko Village and the Nocturne of ShadowLearn the Nocturne of Shadow and find two Gold Skulltulas and two Heart Pieces.
• Bottom of the WellLenses of Truth, Dungeon Map, Compass, both small keys, Dead Hand and Gold Skulltulas 76 to 78.
• Treasure Box Shop and the Way to the Shadow TempleWin the Piece of Heart with the Lenses of Truth, then warp to the Shadow Temple via the Nocturne.
• Shadow TempleFloors B1 to B4, Hover Boots, Bongo Bongo, Heart Container and the Shadow Medallion from Impa.
• Gerudo FortressRescue all four carpenters, win the Gerudo Pass, find Gold Skulltulas 84 and 85.
• Mirage Desert and Evil Desert ColossusPhantom Guide, Requiem of Spirit, five Gold Skulltulas, three Heart Pieces, Biggest Quiver, Nayru’s Love.
• Spirit TempleChild and adult routes, Silver Gauntlets, Mirror Shield, Boss Key, Iron Knuckle Nabooru, Twinrova.
• Gerudo Proving GroundsPay 30 rupees, solve every room, and claim the Ice Arrow and a Business Scrub Seed.
• Last Heart Pieces and Gold SkulltulasTokens 96 to 100, Heart Pieces 33 to 35, the Rich Man reward and Light Arrow.
• Ganondorf’s CastleClear the six barriers, get the Golden Gauntlets and the Great Fairy of Courage’s gift.
• Ganondorf and GanonTower climb, Boss Key, Ganondorf boss fight, the escape with Zelda and the Ganon boss fight.

Head up Zora River to Zora Domain, where King Zora asks you to rescue his daughter. Blast through the boulder gate, buy a Magic Bean, collect a Gold Skulltula token and three Heart Pieces, open the waterfall with Zelda’s Lullaby, win the Silver Scale in the diving game, then fish a bottle with Ruto’s letter out of Lake Hylia and hand it to the king.

Zora River

Bomb the boulder gate

Set a bomb at the base of the two boulders and back away. The blast shatters both and opens the trail upriver. A few rupees lie in the grass along the next stretch.

Buy a Magic Bean from the Bean Seller

Beside a lattice gate, a Bean Seller sits near a patch of bare soil. He offers a Magic Bean for 10 rupees, and his next beans cost more. Pay the 10 rupees for a Magic Bean. The item text says to bury it in fresh soil and see what happens.

Plant the bean in the patch of fresh soil the seller points to, and a green sprout rises right away. He then offers more beans, first for 20 rupees and then for 30. Buy them if you want spares for other soil patches. The planted bean pays off later, so remember this patch. Soft soil spots are listed on Magic Bean Locations.

Fairy’s Thought on the cliff path

Follow the cliff trail past a crumbling arch. Navi stops beside a glowing rock face and reads out a Fairy’s Thought: the twitchy one living in the dirt would be good friends with the skittish one under the rock. The hint points you toward bugs, so keep your bottle handy, and carry the Cucco along this stretch.

Frog pond and Epona’s Song

A little farther along, a dark grove holds a ring of five frogs on tree stumps. Talk to a frog and it tells you to play a song from the stony stage. Step onto the staff, open the songbook and play Epona’s Song. The frogs leap in turn and the first one remarks on your froggy tune, but they give you nothing here.

Climb the cliff ledges

Head down from the frog pond to the waterfall pools. Swim the deep water, then carry the Cucco up the mossy ledges, setting it down or throwing it when you need your hands free. When you reach a wall of green vines, climb it. At the top you stand on a flat shelf between two blue-tiled stone pillars.

Blow open the hole between the pillars

A large cracked boulder stands between two twisted, blue-tiled stone pillars. Set a bomb beside it and back away. The blast clears the boulder and leaves a round hole in the ground, with a green rupee beside it. Drop in to reach a hidden cave beneath the cliff.

Zora Domain

Open the waterfall with Zelda’s Lullaby

Follow the stream to a flight of stone steps beside a huge waterfall. Climb the steps to the Sleepless Waterfall stone, which says the flow of these falls serves the royal family and the falls slumber when the princess does. Go on along the grassy ledge, climb the vine wall and take the long staircase beside the falls to the platform with the royal crest. Play Zelda’s Lullaby. The message “The waterfall parted!” appears and the water opens onto a stairway.

Arrive at Zora Domain

Climb the stairs to reach Zora Domain. A Zora at the water’s edge muses about a spectacular failed dive. Talk to him and, when the prompt appears, choose “King Zora?” to learn that the king’s chamber lies just ahead. He cannot escort you, since the guards are searching for Princess Ruto.

Zora shop

Up the stairs, a Zora shopkeeper welcomes you at a counter that sells arrow bundles and other goods. Nothing here is required, so walk on past the doorway toward the torch-lit corridor.

Light the torches

The corridor is dark. Take out a Deku Stick, light it on a burning torch, then use it to light each unlit torch along the hall. The stick burns up after a while, so keep moving. The corridor leads to a small chamber with two torch pillars and a chest.

Catch a fish

Leave the chamber and drop into the shallow cave pool below. A Zora there is grumbling about fish that keep swimming away. Take out an empty bottle and scoop one of the fish. The box says you collected one, and the game asks if you want to release it. Keep it in the bottle for now.

Diving game explained

Climb the stairs to the diving instructor, a Zora in a high-vaulted cavern. He wants to teach you to dive deeper. You must fling yourself off the ledge and retrieve all five scales he tosses into the water before time runs out.

Scale dive: five scales in 40 seconds

Jump off the ledge. The timer starts at 40 seconds with a counter showing 0 of 5. Hold the dive button, swim down and grab each glowing scale in turn, dashing between them. Collecting the fifth scale ends the dive with about 12 seconds to spare.

Ruto’s bottle in Lake Hylia

Swim to Lake Hylia

Go down the steps and drop into the pool beneath the gate. Swim under the stone gate and follow the underwater passage until you surface in Lake Hylia. A hint appears reading “Treasure…somewhere?” For the rest of the lake, see Lake Hylia.

Return to the throne room

Swim back through the green cavern to Zora Domain, then run up the stairs to the throne room. Walk to the central platform and talk to King Zora again. He apologizes for making you wait, then notices the bottle in your hands.

Ruto’s letter

Hand over the bottle. King Zora reads the message, recognizes his daughter’s handwriting and cries out that Lord Jabu-Jabu, the guardian deity of the Zora, would never eat his precious Ruto. Then he remembers that the guardian has been behaving strangely since the Zora drove off a band of Gerudo, who fled shouting about someone named Ganondorf.

Promise to rescue Ruto

When the prompt appears, choose “Leave it to me!” King Zora agrees to open the way to Zora Fountain and tells you to keep Lord Jabu-Jabu’s condition secret. He keeps the letter, but you may keep the bottle it came in. Your Threads of Time entry for the Spiritual Stone of Water updates.

Head for Zora Fountain

Walk away from the throne and follow the dark, torch-lit corridor. The path climbs out into the night and ends at a staircase with the Zora Fountain banner.

Chapter checklist

Next is Lord Jabu-Jabu’s Belly.