Bottom of the Well Master Quest - Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Ocarina of Time Master Quest Walkthrough12 chapters

Inside the Great Deku Tree (Master Quest)Dungeon Map, Slingshot, Compass, Gold Skulltulas, Queen Gohma, Heart Container and Kokiri’s Emerald.
Dodongo’s Cavern (Master Quest)Every room in order, Dungeon Map, Compass, Bomb Bag, silver rupees, Gold Skulltulas, King Dodongo and the Goron’s Ruby.
Inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly (Master Quest)Cow switches, Map, Compass, Boomerang, Big Octo, Barinade, Heart Container and Zora’s Sapphire.
Forest Temple (Master Quest)Six Small Keys, Boss Key, Fairy Bow, the four Poe Sisters, five Gold Skulltulas and Phantom Ganon.
Fire Temple (Master Quest)Five Small Keys, Din’s Fire puzzles, Iron Knuckle, Megaton Hammer, Boss Key, five Gold Skulltulas and Volvagia.
Water Temple (Master Quest)Early Longshot, Map, Compass, both Small Keys, Dark Link, Boss Key and Morpha.
Shadow Temple (Master Quest)Hover Boots, map, compass, Boss Key, Gold Skulltulas, Bongo Bongo and the Shadow Medallion.
Spirit Temple (Master Quest)Every chest, 7 Small Keys, Silver Gauntlets, Mirror Shield, Boss Key, Skulltulas and Twinrova.
Bottom of the Well (Master Quest)Map, Compass, two Small Keys, Dead Hand, the Lens of Truth and all three Gold Skulltulas.
Ice Cavern (Master Quest)Blue Fire, Song of Time blocks, Stalfos, Iron Boots, Serenade of Water.
Gerudo Training Ground (Master Quest)The remixed rooms in order, Small Keys, Silver Rupee puzzles and the Ice Arrows.
Ganon’s Castle (Master Quest)Light Arrows, the rainbow bridge, all six remixed trials, Golden Gauntlets, Double Defense, the tower.

Covers	The whole Master Quest Bottom of the Well: the drained main hall, the pit-room key, the coffin room, the Dead Hand crypt, the bottom floor with the Lens of Truth and the three Gold Skulltulas
Dungeon	Bottom of the Well (child Link only, mini-dungeon): no boss, no Boss Key, no medallion; mini-boss Dead Hand
You need	Fairy Slingshot, Bombs, Deku Sticks, Zelda’s Lullaby, Sun’s Song, an Empty Bottle (for a fairy) and a well drained with the Song of Storms
Rewards	Dungeon Map, Compass, Lens of Truth, 2 Small Keys, 3 Gold Skulltulas, one fairy for a bottle. No Heart Piece and no Heart Container
Differences	Hidden switches and crystals do most of the work, fake walls are visible, the Lens of Truth moves to the bottom floor, and Dead Hand now guards the Compass

The Master Quest well keeps the same mood as the original (dark crypts, ReDeads, Skulltulas hanging from the ceiling) but rebuilds the puzzles around switches and gates. The route below drains the well, takes the Dungeon Map and the first Small Key, passes the coffin room, beats Dead Hand for the Compass, and finishes on the bottom floor with the Lens of Truth.

Child Link facing a bandaged Gibdo between purple coffins in a dark crypt

A ReDead lunging at Child Link in a blood-stained stone corridor

Getting in

Enter as child Link through the well in the middle of Kakariko Village. Play the Song of Storms in the windmill beforehand so that the water level drops, as in the regular game, then crawl through the small tunnel at the bottom of the shaft. The entrance is the same in Master Quest, so you only need to arrive with Bombs, the Slingshot and a few Deku Sticks.

Child Link at the top of the ladder shaft of the well in Kakariko Village

Child Link walking down the stone tunnel at the bottom of the well

The main hall and the drained water

Down the ladder

Climb down the ladder at the end of the first corridor. A ReDead stands near its foot, so get behind it and cut it down, or move around it if you want to save your health. Then walk on to the large, ring-shaped main hall.

Child Link standing beside a wooden ladder on the wall of the first corridor

Child Link with shield raised fighting a ReDead in a stone corridor

Rubble, eye switch and floor switch

Bomb the rubble to the left of the barred passage to open a small cave filled with Recovery Hearts, which is worth remembering for later. Walk into the first alcove on the left and bomb the rock to uncover an eye switch. Hit it with the Slingshot and a grate opens elsewhere in the hall.

Child Link beside a rock formation in the flooded hall of the well

An eye switch glowing on the wall of the alcove in the Bottom of the Well

Follow the water around the hall until you see two rocks on your right. Blow them up with a Bomb, then throw a second one to kill the Skulltula hanging from the ceiling just behind them. Run through to find a floor switch and step on it to open more gates.

Child Link standing before the barred room in the flooded hall of the well

Child Link standing near the floor switch in the barred room

Zelda’s Lullaby on the Triforce

Keep walking clockwise until you reach a large Triforce symbol on the floor and play Zelda’s Lullaby on it. This opens the remaining gates. Look at the statue beside it: a crystal switch sticks out of its right hand. Hit it and the well drains.

Child Link playing Zelda's Lullaby while a purple swirl surrounds the statue

Zelda's Lullaby message box above Link in front of the statue

Chest: Dungeon Map

Turn around and walk straight to the treasure chest. It holds the Dungeon Map, and the pause screen now shows the three floors, B1 to B3. Go left to the open cell nearby and hit the crystal switch inside it to unlock a door on the opposite side. Leave that door for now.

Child Link opening a wooden chest in a burst of green light

Child Link holding up the Dungeon Map with the You found the Dungeon Map message box

Pit room and the first Small Key

Rubble and hearts

Drop through the opened way beside the Map chest to the lower level and bomb the rubble. It hides hearts, so take them if you are hurt. Continue to the door that the cell switch unlocked.

Child Link beside a broken rock with hearts scattered on the floor

Child Link beside a rock with a heart pickup on the floor

The safe path across the pit

The room looks like one giant pit. The Lens of Truth is not required here, because the path across is visible in this edition; follow it to the far wall. A Small Key lies at the end. Take it and go back to the main hall.

Child Link in a stone room with clay pots on the ledges ahead

Child Link holding up a Small Key with the You found a Small Key message box

On the way back, smash the pots in the corridors for Rupees. The minimap now reveals the floors you are about to use, so check it before moving on.

Child Link in a stone corridor beside two clay pots

Child Link with a green Rupee raised above his head in a stone corridor

The coffin room and a Gold Skulltula

Chained door and Gibdo

Go to the west passage, drop down, climb the vines and use your Small Key on the locked door. A Gibdo waits right behind it, so pause and play the Sun’s Song to freeze it, then cut it down.

Child Link beside the chained locked door with a keyhole

A Gibdo frozen in place by yellow stun markers beside a lit torch

Gold Skulltula behind the bird statue

This large crypt is optional except for one prize: a Gold Skulltula behind the right-hand bird statue at the back. The torches around the room open the coffins when lit, which releases more Gibdos, so leave them alone unless you want a fight. If you do light them with a Deku Stick, freeze the mummies with the Sun’s Song and take them one by one.

Child Link lighting a torch with a flaming Deku Stick in the crypt

Child Link beside a lit torch between the crypt coffins

Cross the room along the coffins to the statue, collect the token with the Boomerang or by slashing it, and return to the entrance. Nothing else in this room is needed.

Child Link walking between the purple coffins toward the back of the crypt

The bird statue standing on its pillar at the back wall of the coffin room

Crystal face and the Floormaster room

Shoot the face

Return to the main hall and crawl through the hole in the northeast corner. The door beyond looks permanently locked, but a sliver of crystal switch sticks out of the stone face on the wall. Shoot it with the Slingshot to unlock the door, then go through it.

Link stepping into the low crawl hole in the northeast corner of the Bottom of the Well

Child Link in a stone corridor beyond the crawl hole, with a grate and a door at the end

Floormaster and Wallmaster

The next room holds the new Floormaster and a Wallmaster. Keep moving, hit the Floormaster before it splits and walk along the grates to the door at the end. It needs a Small Key, which you will not have until Dead Hand. Bomb the rubble beside it to reveal a switch and step on it to open another grate, then turn back.

Link slashing a Wallmaster hand on the grated floor of the Bottom of the Well

Link locking on to a Floormaster across the grated floor of the Bottom of the Well

Catch a fairy

On the way back, a wall of skull niches has a fairy hovering near it. Pick the Empty Bottle in the pause menu and swing at the fairy to catch it. Set the bottle to a C button and the fairy revives Link whenever he runs out of hearts.

A fairy hovering in a stone corridor beside a skull niche in the Bottom of the Well

Link swinging an Empty Bottle at a fairy in the Bottom of the Well crypt

Dead Hand and the Compass

Down the drained pit

Return to the start of the main hall. The pool you passed is now a pit, so drop in and crawl through the hole. Climb the vines on the other side and go through the door at the top into a dark crypt.

Link in a dark stone doorway leading into the Dead Hand crypt in the Bottom of the Well

Link in the dark Dead Hand crypt, lined with pale grasping arms

Mini-boss: Dead Hand

The crypt is lined with pale arms. When Link steps close one of them grabs him and Dead Hand’s body rises out of the floor. Mash the buttons to break free, then stand in front of it and slash its face when it leans in to bite. After a few hits it sinks and sends a shockwave through the dirt, so jump or guard. Walk next to an arm to draw it up again, and repeat until it falls.

Dead Hand rising out of the crypt floor as Link lock-on targets its head

Link slashing the face of Dead Hand with a burst of red impact

Chest: Compass and a Small Key

When Dead Hand dies, a chest appears with the Compass. In Master Quest this is the mini-boss prize. Before leaving, bomb the rubble in the top-left corner of the room to uncover a Small Key. Collect it, then take the drops from the pots and bones.

Link raising a Small Key over his head after defeating Dead Hand

A treasure chest in the crypt opening with a green light

Bottom floor: Lens of Truth

The locked door and the drop

Go back to the locked door at the end of the Floormaster room and open it with the new key. Return to the Dungeon Map chest and drop through the hole that opened behind it. Step on the switch on this platform to make a chest appear, then jump off the platform.

Link standing before a chained iron door in a stone corridor of the Bottom of the Well

Link standing on a gold platform by a barred grate in the Bottom of the Well

Boulders back to the ladder

The bottom floor is full of big rolling boulders, so keep to the sides of the narrow passages and run when one comes at you. Follow the passage to the ladder, climb all the way up and return to the main hall.

A large rolling boulder bearing down on Link in a narrow cave passage of the Bottom of the Well

Link running along a rocky cave floor with a boulder rolling up behind him

The other two Gold Skulltulas

Northeast passage

With the lens on, take the northeast passage of the main hall. It is lined with Skulltulas hanging from the ceiling, many of them hard to see. A Gold Skulltula sits at the end of the passage.

A Skulltula hanging from the ceiling of the Bottom of the Well corridor, seen through the Lens of Truth

A white Skulltula with yellow lock-on markers dropping from the ceiling beside Child Link

The grave west of the Map

Walk to the door west of the Map chest. The crypt behind it is full of hidden monsters, with Bubbles and Skulltulas dropping in from the niches. Pull the gravestone aside to reveal the second Gold Skulltula, and pick up the green Rupee beneath it. Together with the coffin room token, that makes three Gold Skulltulas in the Well.

A white Bubble enemy with lock-on markers floating near Link in the skull-niche crypt

A Skulltula lock-on target near a gravestone in the skull-niche crypt

Leaving the Well

Climb the ladder out. There is no boss and no medallion: the Lens of Truth and Compass are your rewards. From Kakariko, the Prelude of Light takes you straight to the Temple of Time.

Link climbing a ladder up and out of the Bottom of the Well

Link standing in a stone room as the Kakariko Village location name appears on screen

How Master Quest changes the Bottom of the Well

The regular dungeon is explained in its own chapter. The table lists what changes in the Master Quest edition.

Topic	Original	Master Quest
Lens of Truth	Chest after Dead Hand; needed for fake walls and floors	Chest on the bottom floor; fake walls and floors are visible, so it is optional here
Compass	Chest in a cell of the central room	Dead Hand’s reward
Small Keys	Three, one in the coffin room	Two: pit room and Dead Hand’s room
Coffin room	Holds a Small Key	Optional; holds only a Gold Skulltula
Enemies	Green Bubble, Like Like, Beamos	Green Bubble, Like Like and Beamos are gone; a Floormaster appears
Puzzles	Mostly Lens and fake walls	Hidden switches in walls, Zelda’s Lullaby opens gates, Slingshot and bombs

Chapter checklist

Type	Item	Where
Dungeon item	Dungeon Map	Large chest after the Lullaby on the Triforce
Small Key	Key 1 of 2	End of the safe path in the pit room
Gold Skulltula	Coffin room	Behind the right-hand bird statue
Bottle	Fairy	Fairy near the skull-niche wall
Dungeon item	Compass	Chest after Dead Hand
Small Key	Key 2 of 2	Rubble in the top-left of the Dead Hand crypt
Key item	Lens of Truth	Chest on the bottom floor
Gold Skulltula	Northeast passage	End of the passage lined with Skulltulas
Gold Skulltula	Grave crypt	Under the pulled gravestone west of the Map chest

Bottom of the Well (Master Quest) Walkthrough

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