Inside the Great Deku Tree Master Quest

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	Inside the Great Deku Tree in the Master Quest edition, from the open mouth to Queen Gohma, plus the Great Deku Tree’s farewell scene outside
Dungeon	Inside the Great Deku Tree (first dungeon). Dungeon items: Map, Compass, Fairy Slingshot. No small keys and no Boss Key. Boss: Queen Gohma.
You need	Kokiri Sword and Deku Shield equipped, and a few Deku Sticks. Everything else is found inside.
Rewards	Dungeon Map, Fairy Slingshot, Compass, Deku Nuts and Deku Seeds on the way, Heart Container, Kokiri’s Emerald, and 4 Gold Skulltula tokens (1 on this visit, 3 later)
Differences	Hostile Deku Babas, Gohma Larva eggs in almost every room, a new room order, and a Slingshot you earn by clearing a room instead of beating a Deku Scrub

The Master Quest version of the Great Deku Tree keeps the same boss and the same reward but rebuilds every room. You collect the Dungeon Map first, climb to the Slingshot, use it to reach the Compass, then burn your way down through two layers of the basement to Queen Gohma. Only one of the four Gold Skulltulas can be taken on this visit; the other three wait for Bombchus, the Song of Time and the Boomerang.

Link holding up the Dungeon Map he took from the large chest

Message that Link destroyed a Gold Skulltula and got its token

Entering the tree

Walk up to the Great Deku Tree in his clearing and listen to what he asks of you. When the talking stops, walk straight into his open mouth. Navi gives hints whenever you press C-Up near something she can read, and in this dungeon she explains vine walls, doors and pushable blocks as you meet them.

Link walking up to the Great Deku Tree in his clearing

Link walking toward the dark opening of the Great Deku Tree mouth

The lobby and the Dungeon Map

Lobby

The first room is a large hall with a spider web stretched over a hole in the middle of the floor and an unlit golden torch beside it. A ladder stands against the wall on the left, and a vine wall ahead is patrolled by a Skullwalltula, so ignore the vines for now. Cut the grass and the withered Deku Baba here for Rupees and Deku Sticks, then take the ladder.

Link standing on the spider web stretched over the hole in the lobby floor

Walkway and chest ledge

The ladder leads to a wooden walkway along the wall with a log to jump over and several Keese flapping around. You have no ranged weapon yet, so keep running rather than fighting them. Burning Keese can set your Deku Shield alight if they touch you, which matters later.

Link climbing the wooden ladder toward the walkway

A Keese flying near Link on the wooden walkway

Near the end of the walkway you find a Gohma egg beside another unlit golden torch. Step close and it hatches into a Gohma Larva; kill it with two sword hits and open the large chest for the Dungeon Map. Be ready for a second Larva that drops from above while you stand at the chest.

A Gohma Larva hatching from its egg beside a golden torch pillar

Roll into the oddly placed crate right beside the chest. It breaks and reveals the first Gold Skulltula of the dungeon, which you can take on the spot. This is the only token in the Deku Tree that needs no extra item.

Link beside the large chest in the Deku Tree after the crate breaks open

Up the vines: Deku Nuts and the web door

Go back to the vine wall and climb to the highest floor of the hall. Walk around the ring to the far side, keeping an eye out for Keese.

Link climbing the vine wall toward the upper floor of the hall

A Keese flying near Link beside the web-covered wall on the upper floor

A Deku Baba waits on the upper floor. Let it lunge, step back, then cut it down. It leaves Deku Nuts, which you set on a C button to throw and stun enemies with a flash.

Link fighting a Deku Baba on the upper floor

Deku Nut item box telling Link to set the nuts to C and throw them to stun enemies

The only door on this floor is covered by a web, so walk to the golden torch and step on the nearby floor switch. The torch flares up, the other torches in the room light with it and the web burns away. Go through the door; Navi reminds you that a door opens when you press A while standing in front of it.

Navi text box explaining that a door opens when you press A in front of it

Link walking under the raised bars of the grated door

Platform room and the Fairy Slingshot

The room beyond is a stone cave with raised platforms, Gohma Larva, Deku Babas and Keese. Kill the enemies on the ground first. The switch next to the entry door raises three platforms to the high ledges, so cross them and clear the enemies up there too. An egg hangs near the top of the room and falls when you run under it, so be ready to kill the Larva that hatches.

Link standing on the floor switch in the stone cave

Link standing on a raised stone platform above the cave floor

Light a Deku Stick from a lit torch and carry it to the unlit golden torch in the middle of the room. A chest falls from above. It holds a Deku Shield if yours has burned up, and a Blue Rupee (5) if you still have it, which is a good reason to guard the shield from fire.

Link beside a lit tripod torch with a fairy nearby

Link holding up a Blue Rupee he took from the chest in the stone cave

When every enemy in the room is dead, a chest appears in the side alcove. Open it for the Fairy Slingshot, your first ranged weapon, and refill your seed supply from grass and defeated Deku Babas. From here on, Keese, Skullwalltulas and Gohma eggs can be shot from a distance, so fire at eggs before you walk under them.

Link beside the chest that appeared in the side alcove

Message that Link found the Fairy Slingshot, with the slingshot raised

Down to the Compass

Climb down and burn the first web

Leave the room and go back to the vines. Shoot the Keese that perch near them and the egg that hangs above, then climb down. Back on the walkway, light a Deku Stick at the torch and carry it to the web that covers the nearby door.

A Keese flying near Link in front of the web-covered wall

The room behind the web contains a Big Deku Baba, much taller than the ones before and with a long reach, plus a few Gohma eggs. Shoot the eggs first, then target the Baba from a distance and keep shooting until it falls. Collect the Deku Seeds it leaves behind.

A tall Big Deku Baba rising beside the room behind the web

Link striking the Big Deku Baba with its locks showing

The door ahead is barred, with a painted eye above it. Aim the Slingshot at the eye switch and fire. The bars lift and you can walk through.

Link facing the barred door with a painted eye above it

Link in front of the barred door, with the painted eye switch above

Compass chest room

A floating wooden platform leads to the chest at the far end, but do not step on it: a Big Skulltula drops onto the platform and your weight sends it crashing. Shoot the egg in front of the chest, break the egg on the ground, and shoot a Skullwalltula off the vines before you climb them. Then slip behind the chest and shoot the Big Skulltula hanging from the ceiling in its back. Open the chest for the Compass.

Link opening the chest in the compass room

Link holding up the Compass after finding it in the chest

A Gold Skulltula sits high on the wall beside the chest, hidden behind boulders that you cannot move yet. Come back with Bombchus, or with the Song of Time and a Bomb, to blast them away and claim the token.

Navi locks onto a Gold Skulltula on the wall beside the chest

A Gold Skulltula clinging to the wall beside the chest with its target marker on it

To leave, shoot the rolled-up ladder next to the door so it drops, or ride the floating platform back now that the spider is gone. Back in the main hall, go down to the ground floor and look at the big web over the hole near the lobby.

Link aiming the Slingshot at the rolled-up ladder above the door

A wooden ladder reaching up to a doorway above Link

Basement

Drop through the web

Light a Deku Stick at the golden torch on the ground floor and roll over the web so it catches fire. The web burns away and opens the hole in the floor. Drop in and you land in the water of the basement, then swim to the shore on the right.

Link standing at the edge of the opened hole in the floor beside a golden torch

Link's view down the opened hole in the floor above the basement

Switch ledge

The ledge has two Deku Babas and a floor switch. Kill the Babas and step on the switch to light a distant torch. Swim to the lower level, light a Deku Stick, and burn the web that hides another switch. Pressing it makes a chest fall. It holds a Deku Shield if you need one and 5 Rupees otherwise. Go back up to the first ledge for the door.

Link lighting a golden torch with a flaming Deku Stick

Link holding a lit Deku Stick beside a stone switch pedestal

Above the door of this ledge there is a painted eye. Shoot it with the Slingshot and the door opens. It locks behind you once you pass, so check your hearts and seeds first.

Link aiming the Slingshot at the painted eye above the door

Link drawing the Slingshot back toward the painted eye above the door

Deku Scrub egg room

A Deku Scrub ambushes you in the next room, and eggs sit around the floor and on the ceiling. Hold up the Deku Shield (R) and send the Scrub’s nuts back, or shoot it from a distance. Throw a Deku Nut near the floor eggs to break several at once, and shoot the ceiling egg last. When everything is dead the door you came through unlocks, but the new door stays closed.

Pink eggs scattered across the floor of the Deku Scrub room

A Deku Scrub caught in an explosion in the egg room

Go back out, light a Deku Stick on the torch there and carry it quickly through the door to the two unlit torches beside the sealed door. Light both and the second door opens. The enemies stay dead, so you can walk straight through.

Link carrying a flaming Deku Stick across the room toward the torches

Link with a lit Deku Stick in front of the barred door, one torch already burning beside it

Spiked log room

Next to the door is a chest holding a Recovery Heart. Shoot the egg on the ceiling, then step onto the blue switch. As long as you stand on it, the torch beside it burns, so light a Deku Stick from it right away.

Link walking past a wooden chest beside the door

Link standing on the blue floor switch at the edge of the water

A wooden platform floats in the water beside the switch. Jump on it as it passes, hold the lit stick, and roll under the spiked log, or crouch behind your shield. Hop off at the far end and light the two unlit torches. There is a withered Deku Baba on that side if you need new sticks, and a second chest in this room that you cannot reach yet.

Link on the floating wooden platform with a lit Deku Stick under the spiked log

Link lighting the two torches on the far side of the room with a Deku Stick

A Big Skulltula hangs from the ceiling near the exit. Throw a Deku Nut to stun it and sneak past, or walk behind it and shoot it. Climb the stone block under the doorway and go through.

Link standing on the stone block under a Big Skulltula hanging from the ceiling

Link aiming the Slingshot at a Big Skulltula above the stone block

Egg and Keese rooms

The next room is full of Keese and Gohma eggs on the ceiling. Do not walk into the middle, or all the eggs fall and hatch at once. Pick off the Keese and the eggs from the doorway with the Slingshot, then move on when it is clear.

Link in the egg room with pink eggs scattered across the floor around him

Link fighting enemies in the egg room among the scattered eggs

Keep shooting whatever is left on the ceiling until the next door opens, and pick up the Rupees lying around the doorway as you go through.

Link aiming the Slingshot up at a Keese near the ceiling

Link beside the mossy stone door as it opens, a green Rupee above his head

Four-torch room

The following room looks like a graveyard of golden torches. Shoot the Keese that sit on top of the torches, then kill the Deku Babas and the withered Baba on the ground. Step on the blue switch surrounded by torches: it lights all four of them at once.

Link facing a Deku Baba among the golden torches

Link standing beside the blue floor switch with unlit golden torches

Two more Gold Skulltulas hide here. One is on the ceiling and needs the Song of Time to build time blocks up to it. The other is in a room to the north-east guarded by a Big Deku Baba, and needs the Boomerang. Note them and move on for now.

A Skulltula hanging from the ceiling of the stone passage above Link

Link walking through a stone passage with spiders on the ground around him

Burn the web

Use a flame from one of the torches to burn the web on the west wall, then crawl through the tunnel behind it. You come out on the high platform of the first basement room.

Link holding a lit Deku Stick up to the web on the west wall

Link walking into the dark stone passage past the carved stone tiles

The last drop

The Business Scrub on that platform sells a Deku Shield for 50 Rupees, which is useful if yours burned. Hit it with a nut or a seed to make it talk, then clear the enemies on your side of the room.

Link facing the Business Scrub on the platform with its target marker on it

Business Scrub offering a Deku Shield for 50 Rupees in a finished dialogue box

Push the stone block on the other side of the platform down into the water. It forms a step that lets you climb back up after you fetch a flame. Light a Deku Stick at a torch on the lower level, carry it up the block, and burn the web in the floor.

Link pushing the stone block toward the water on the lower level

Link standing on the stone block in the water holding a lit Deku Stick

Drop through the burned hole. You land in the water of the lowest room, with the door to Gohma’s lair ahead of you.

Link standing down inside the burned hole in the floor

Link in the water of the lowest room with hearts floating nearby

Three Deku Scrubs

Three Deku Scrubs wait on the shore, each guarding the door. Deflect their nuts back at them with the Deku Shield, in this order: left, right, then the middle one, who hops around until you run into him. Recovery Hearts floating in the water in front of them hint at the order. The last Scrub explains that Gohma can only be hurt while stunned, drops a Recovery Heart and opens the door.

Link facing a Deku Scrub on the shore beside the barred doors

Link holding up the Deku Shield in front of a Deku Scrub

After the fight: Kokiri’s Emerald

The warp drops you in front of the Great Deku Tree. He thanks you, explains who cursed him, and tells you about the Triforce and the Sacred Realm. He asks you to keep the desert man out of it and to find the Princess of Destiny.

Link standing before the Great Deku Tree's open mouth with a fairy beside him

Great Deku Tree in a text box saying he knew Link would carry out his wishes

He then gives you the Kokiri’s Emerald, the Spiritual Stone of the Forest, and falls silent. Navi decides that it is time to head for Hyrule Castle. Everything outside the dungeon works exactly as in the original quest.

Kokiri's Emerald floating beside the Great Deku Tree

Kokiri's Emerald item box naming it the Spiritual Stone of the Forest

How Master Quest changes the Great Deku Tree

The tree is lighter on small tricks and harder on combat. Almost every room contains Gohma Larva eggs, Deku Babas lunge at you from the first room, and you burn your way forward with Deku Sticks far more often than in the original dungeon. The boss itself is unchanged.

Topic	Original	Master Quest
Dungeon Map	Chest on the second floor of the hall	Chest at the end of the walkway above the lobby, with a Gold Skulltula crate next to it
Fairy Slingshot	Behind a Deku Scrub and a crumbling platform	In a cave on the top floor, after clearing every enemy in the room
Compass	Chest at the end of a platform room	Chest in a trapped room guarded by a Big Skulltula
Gold Skulltulas	Three available on the first visit	Only one on the first visit; the others need Bombchus, the Song of Time and the Boomerang
Enemies	Few eggs, passive Deku Babas	Eggs in every room, lunging Deku Babas, a Big Deku Baba
Basement	Spiked log, water, three Scrubs	Same elements in a new order, with extra torch and block puzzles
Boss	Queen Gohma	Queen Gohma, same fight

Chapter checklist

Type	Item	Where
Dungeon item	Dungeon Map	Large chest at the end of the lobby walkway
Item	Deku Nuts	Dropped by the Deku Baba on the top floor
Chest	Blue Rupee (5)	Falls when you light the torch in the platform room
Dungeon item	Fairy Slingshot	Side alcove chest after clearing the platform room
Item	Deku Seeds	Dropped by the Big Deku Baba
Dungeon item	Compass	Large chest in the Big Skulltula room
Chest	5 Rupees (or Deku Shield)	Falls when you hit the switch behind the web in the first basement room
Chest	Recovery Heart	Beside the door of the spiked log room
Gold Skulltula	Lobby crate	Roll into the crate beside the Map chest
Gold Skulltula	Compass room	Behind boulders; Bombchus, or Song of Time and a Bomb
Gold Skulltula	Four-torch room ceiling	Song of Time
Gold Skulltula	Room north-east of the four-torch room	Boomerang
Boss reward	Heart Container	Queen Gohma
Spiritual Stone	Kokiri’s Emerald	Given by the Great Deku Tree after the fight

Inside the Great Deku Tree (Master Quest) Walkthrough

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