Forest Temple 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 walk to the Sacred Forest Meadow and the Minuet of Forest, every room of the remixed Forest Temple, the four Poe Sisters, Phantom Ganon and the Forest Medallion
Dungeon	Forest Temple, Master Quest version (adult Link only): the Poe Sisters Joelle, Beth, Amy and Meg, then Phantom Ganon as the boss
You need	Adult Link, Saria’s Song, the Hookshot, the Song of Time and a Bomb supply; the Fairy Bow is found inside. The Sun’s Song is a nice extra against one Redead
Rewards	Boss Key, Fairy Bow, Dungeon Map, Compass, 6 Small Keys, 5 Gold Skulltulas, Heart Container, Forest Medallion; no Heart Pieces in this dungeon
Differences	Hookshot vines at the entrance, the Wolfos and a Redead behind new doors, the Boss Key long before the Fairy Bow, a block-and-switch room that twists a hall, and the Poe Sisters met in a different order

The Master Quest Forest Temple keeps the four Poe Sisters, the central hall with its four stolen flames and Phantom Ganon, but nearly every room between them has been rebuilt. You enter by the vine-covered trees, find the Boss Key early, win the Fairy Bow from a Stalfos trio, defeat the sisters in a new order and finish in the basement. This chapter follows that route and collects all six Small Keys, all five Gold Skulltulas and every dungeon item.

Link walking toward the central hall with its torch pedestals and blue flames

Link aiming the Fairy Bow at a painting of a dark rider on horseback

Getting to the Forest Temple

Lost Woods and the Sacred Forest Meadow

Leave Kokiri Forest through the Lost Woods and follow the music to the Sacred Forest Meadow, playing Saria’s Song for the Skull Kid when he asks. The meadow is patrolled by Mido’s Moblin guards, so use cover and the bow or Hookshot instead of running past them. These paths are unchanged in Master Quest and are described in full in the original Forest Temple chapter.

Link walking through the dark Lost Woods tunnel

Link running through the Lost Woods under its name card

Sheik and the Minuet of Forest

At the stump in front of the ruined temple Sheik teaches you the Minuet of Forest. Play it afterwards to warp straight back to the temple from anywhere, which saves you a long walk if you have to leave for supplies. Every melody and its notes is listed on the Ocarina songs page.

Sheik at the stump teaching the Minuet of Forest on the harp

Link playing the ocarina with the Play using A and C prompt

The temple doorway

The doorway is far above the broken steps. Aim the Hookshot at the big tree branch above it and pull yourself up; if you land on the branch, simply walk to the door and drop in.

Link on the broken steps beside the vine-covered temple wall

Link below the temple door under the Forest Temple name card

Entrance: the vine trees and Small Key 1

Climb the right vines

The vines on your left are crawling with Skullwalltulas, so do not climb there. Walk around the tree on the left to find a clean stretch of vines and climb it to the top of the tree. A Skulltula hangs between the two trees; take it out first with the Hookshot or the bow, because it will bite you as you jump.

A Skulltula hanging on the vine-covered wall

Link at the base of the tree beside the vine wall

The switch and the first Small Key

Jump across to the tree on the east side and step on the button switch there. That makes a chest appear on the stump you came from, so jump back and open it for Small Key 1. If you fall, the Skulltulas you left alive are still waiting, so kill them on the way up.

Link standing on a tree stump beside a chest and a Skulltula on the vines

Item box reading You found a Small Key that opens a locked door in this dungeon

The corridor and the first Gold Skulltula

Leave through the door and walk the corridor, where a line of big Skulltulas drops from the ceiling. Their shadows give them away, so Hookshot each one as it appears. Just before the locked door, look up at the wall above it and Hookshot the Gold Skulltula there for the first token. Use Small Key 1 on the door.

The wooden locked door at the end of the stone corridor

A large Skulltula lunging at Link in the corridor before the locked door

The main hall and the north door

Four ghosts and four torches

You come out in the central hall, where four Poe Sisters steal the colored flames from the torches around the dais. The elevator in the middle will not work until all four flames are back, and that is the real goal of the dungeon.

Poe Sisters circling the pedestals beside the central hall doorway

Four Poe Sisters hover above the torch pedestals in the central hall

The Time Block

Go through the north door and play the Song of Time in front of the block in the corridor to make it disappear. The door behind it leads to the Wolfos room.

Link walking up the north corridor toward a sealed stone door

Link playing a tune on the ocarina in a red-lit corridor

Small Key 2

Two Wolfos attack in this room. Defeat both and a chest appears with Small Key 2. Go back out to the hall and take the west door.

Link fighting a Wolfos in the dim stone room

The Small Key message box shown as Link holds up the key

The west wing and the Boss Key

Stalfos at the west door

A Stalfos ambushes you as soon as you step through the west door and bars the gate until it is dead. Block its swing and cut it down. In the next room turn right at once and look in the corner for the second Gold Skulltula, then climb the ladder straight ahead.

Link slashing at a leaping Stalfos in the narrow corridor

A Stalfos rising in front of a barred gate with Link beside it

The sliding block corridors

At the top, Navi points out the arrows painted on the floor. Pull the first blue block straight back along its corridor until it is out of the path, run through to the left and push the other blue block straight ahead until it clicks into its recess.

Link gripping a carved block in the narrow stone corridor

Link leaning against a carved block in the corridor

Climb onto the blue block you just fixed in place, turn left and push the brown block up there until it clicks into place. Leave the second brown block alone for now.

Link climbing a wooden ladder in the stone shaft

Link pushing a carved block along a stone passage

Shortcut switch and the locked door

The brown block gives you access to a switch that raises a Hookshot target, a shortcut back up here if you ever fall. Turn left and climb the ladder to a room with two Blue Bubbles. Let them hit your raised shield to put out their flames, cut them down, and open the locked door with Small Key 2.

Link climbing a wooden ladder in a dark stone shaft

A Blue Bubble flaming enemy in a small stone room with Link

Boss Key

Navi warns you to watch for shadows in the hall beyond, and she means Wallmasters, which carry you back to the temple entrance. Walk to the end of the hall and drop down to the ornate blue-and-gold chest for the Boss Key. A Wallmaster may drop here for some Rupees, but you can ignore it.

The ornate blue-and-gold chest opening with a light beam rising from it

Item box reading You got the Boss Key and the chamber it opens

The hole, the Floormaster and the Redead

Floormaster

Jump into the hole next to the Boss Key chest to land in a dark room with a Floormaster. Defeat it, or simply dodge it, and take the only door. When it dies it splits into small hands, so strike those quickly.

Link striking a red enemy with sparks at the foot of the dark stairs

Redead and Small Key 3

The door leads onto a narrow ledge overlooking the garden. Walk along it and take the plain door on your left, where a single Redead guards a chest. If you have the Sun’s Song, play it to freeze the Redead, then cut it down. The chest that appears holds Small Key 3.

Link walking a narrow stone ledge above the garden pond

Link standing on a stone ledge beside the garden bridge

Twist the hall

Back outside, take the next door on the left, the colorful one. Hit the crystal switch just inside, then Hookshot up to the target that the earlier switch raised. The switch also moves the platforms in this room: use the Hookshot targets and the transparent blocks that have slid into new places to climb to the door at the top.

Link aiming the Hookshot at a silver target beside a transparent block

Link walking past a wooden ladder in the stone hall

The Boss Key room on its side

Walk back down the same hall as before. It is now twisted, and it leads into the Boss Key room turned on its side. Skip across the platforms to the locked door and open it with Small Key 3.

Link walking down the red-carpeted hall with sparkles around him

Link at the chained locked door with the Open prompt showing

Stalfos arena and the Fairy Bow

Three Stalfos

Go down the steps and ignore the portraits for now. Cross to the other exit and enter the arena with the hole in the middle. A Stalfos attacks first; the hole in the floor drops you back into the Wolfos room, so do not fall in. When it falls, a platform rises to cover the hole and two more Stalfos step out.

Link in the arena with the hole in the floor and a fairy beside him

A Stalfos attacking Link beside the hole in the arena

Defeat the last two close together, because a Stalfos you leave alone stands up again after a while.

Link slashing two Stalfos in a crumpled pile on the arena floor

Link fighting two Stalfos with their shields raised in the arena

The chest

The chest in the arena holds the Fairy Bow, which you need for the portraits, the eye switches and the boss. Equip it to a C button before you leave.

Link raising the Fairy Bow above an open chest in the arena

Box announcing the Fairy Bow and its Select Item Subscreen setting

Joelle and Beth

Joelle (red) and the Dungeon Map

Take the door with the red carpet to a staircase with portraits on its wall. Shoot the portrait of the Poe Sister with an arrow to bring her out of hiding.

Link standing in a mossy hall beside a portrait of a Poe sister

Link aiming a bow with an arrow up a staircase toward a portrait

Joelle drops out of the frame and fights you in the room. Hit her when she appears, and corner her if you can; she vanishes and reappears, so keep your shield up. When she falls, her torch lights and a chest appears with the Dungeon Map.

Link fighting the ghostly Joelle with flames behind her in a stone room

A torch burning with flames in a stone room as Link swings his sword

Beth (blue) and the Compass

Go back to the arena and leave through the door with the blue carpet. The staircase beyond has the portrait of Beth, who is blue. Shoot the picture with an arrow and she steps out to fight.

Link walking up a stone staircase toward the upper landing

Link aiming a bow up a staircase toward a portrait on the wall

Beth uses the same tricks as her sister: she vanishes and returns, so shoot her or slash her as she reappears. When she falls, her torch lights and a chest appears with the Compass.

Link slashing at the teal ghost Beth as she reappears beside a torch

Link raising an item over an open chest in a stone room

Back to the hall and the garden

Return through the twisted hall

Climb the stairs, take the door and cross the twisted hall again. Wallmasters wait here, so stay out of their shadows, and keep going until you are back in the main hall.

Link climbing a stone staircase in the forest temple

Link walking down a red-carpeted hall with a stone wall beside him

Eye switches

Two silver eye switches hang over the northwest and northeast corridors, each guarding a barred gate. Shoot both with the Fairy Bow and the gates open to the gardens.

Link aiming the Fairy Bow at an eye switch in the main hall

Link in a stone corridor facing a barred gate

West garden and the Gold Skulltula over the door

Go into the west garden and deal with the Big Deku Babas, which are easy if you step back and strike as they lunge. Turn round and Hookshot the third Gold Skulltula above the door you came through.

Link striking a Deku Baba beside a pond in the garden

Link striking a large Deku Baba plant in the garden

Drain the well

Walk to the west end and stand on the rim of the well. An eye switch sits at the bottom, so shoot it with the bow and the water drains.

Link aiming the bow at the eye switch on the floor of the well

Link standing on the rim of the well after the water has drained

Small Key 4 and two more tokens

Drop into the empty well and follow its tunnel to a chest with Small Key 4. At the far end of the well, on the opposite side, a Gold Skulltula waits: that is the fourth token. Take the ladder or vines on the east wall out of the well.

Item box reading You found a Small Key in the drained well

Link climbing a wooden ladder up a stone shaft

Keep climbing past the top of the well until you stand on a small platform above it. The fifth Gold Skulltula is on the wall here, in Hookshot range.

Link climbing a ladder up a stone well shaft toward the open sky

Link standing on a small stone ledge at the top of a ladder with vines above

Song of Time stairs to the balcony

Hookshot to the top of the door frame and play the Song of Time to make a block appear next to you. Jump to it and play the song again for the next block, and keep repeating until you reach the vines. Shoot the Skullwalltula on the vines first, climb up to the balcony on the north wall and open the chest there for Small Key 5.

Link playing an ocarina with the Song of Time staff on screen

Link standing on a grey stone time block beside a mossy wall

Beth’s stairs, the green corridor and the pillar room

The locked door at the top

Return through the garden door to the stairs where you fought Beth and climb to the locked door at the top. Open it with a key. Jump across the platforms beyond (if you fall, you may meet a Wallmaster) and walk the straight hall.

Link climbing a stone staircase with his sword and shield

Link standing before a chained wooden door at the top of the stairs

Two Green Bubbles

Two Green Bubbles drift in this corridor. Shoot them with arrows or stun them with the Hookshot, and use another key on the door at the end.

Link facing a green flaming Green Bubble in a long stone corridor

Link facing the chained wooden door at the end of the long stone corridor

The pillar room: melt the eye

You find a room of turning stone platforms over spikes, with a lit torch, a blue switch and a frozen eye switch high on the wall. Jump to the platform under the eye, pick up the box and carry it over to the blue switch. Then ride a turning platform and shoot an arrow through the torch’s fire at the eye so the burning arrow melts the ice. This twists the Green Bubble corridor; pick the box up again and leave.

Link standing on a blue floor switch in the spike room

Link holding a wooden box over his head beside a torch in the spike room

Back through the twisted hall

Walk back past the Green Bubbles, through the hall that is now twisted. The stairs lead back to Beth’s room, so ignore them and drop through the hole in the floor.

Link drawing a bow at a Green Bubble wrapped in green flame in a stone corridor

Link standing beside a stone staircase in a dim hall

The checkered room

The falling ceiling

The floor of this room is a black-and-white checkerboard, and the ceiling crashes down at intervals. Holes in the floor are the safe spots, but Skulltulas sit in them. Step forward just far enough to make the ceiling fall, step back, and shoot as many Skulltulas as you can before it comes down again.

Skulltula in a floor hole of a checkered room, marked with yellow target arrows

Link targeting a Skulltula in a checkered stone room

Two switches lie across the floor. The one on the left makes a chest of arrows drop, and the one on the right unbars the door. Hit the switch you need, then run back to the side corridor where you entered.

Link walking across a checkered room toward a small chest near the far wall

Item box reading You got a bundle of arrows above a held arrow

Small Key 6

Drop one level to the garden outside, defeat the Deku Baba, and open the chest there for Small Key 6.

Link with a shield fighting a purple Deku Baba in the garden

Item box reading You found a Small Key held up beside a stone wall

Play the Song of Time to make blocks and climb back up to the door. If you fall down again, you must cross the falling ceiling room another time.

Link playing an ocarina under a stone block in a mossy hall

Link standing on top of a stone time block beside a pond

The far door

Cross the room once more, staying on the safe holes, and open the door at the far end with Small Key 6.

Link crossing the checkered room on the raised safe tiles in the Forest Temple

Link in the checkered room facing the locked door at the far end

Amy and Meg

Amy’s portrait puzzle

Make sure you are not standing on a shadow, then shoot the large portrait of Amy on the wall. Blocks fall into the room and a timer of one minute starts. The picture is the green Poe, and you have to push and pull the blocks to rebuild it; none of the blocks need turning, and the blue block belongs to Beth’s picture, so simply push it aside. If time runs out, the blocks reset and you can try again.

Link among the green portrait blocks in the room with the timer just started

Link pushing the portrait blocks around the room with the timer running

Amy (green)

When the picture is complete it burns and Amy appears. Fight her like her sisters and the green torch lights. Go through the door that opens and walk the corridor back to the main hall.

Link facing Amy, the green Poe, in the room after the portrait burns

Link beside the green torch that lights after Amy is defeated

Meg (purple) and the elevator

You step out above the dais, and the last Poe Sister weeps in the middle of the hall. Drop down to her. She splits into four images that circle you and all spin at once. The real Meg spins one extra turn, so keep the whole room in view, shoot that Poe and the rest vanish. Repeat until she falls, and the final torch relights and brings the elevator back.

Link in the main hall as Meg and her copies circle him

Link surrounded by spinning Meg copies, the real one among them to shoot

The basement and the boss door

Down to the basement

Ride the elevator down to a circular room with red and blue floor sections and a big outer wall. Skulltulas hang in the doorways, so shoot them before you walk under them.

Link on red and white floor sections of a room with pillars and blue water beyond

Link beside a pillared platform on red and blue floor sections

Turn the wall

Push the outer wall in one direction and the whole room turns, lining its openings up with new doorways. Keep pushing in the same direction, step on the floor switches that appear behind each doorway and keep going until you can walk into the passage on the far side. A barred doorway near the end may need an arrow in the eye switch above it.

Link standing in a doorway toward a barred gate over blue water

Link walking down a blue carpet toward a barred gate

Boss door

Follow the blue carpet to the boss door, which opens with the Boss Key you collected early on. Iron bars close behind you, so check your hearts and arrows first.

Link facing the chained boss door with its gold lock

Heart Container and the Forest Medallion

Heart Container

A Heart Container waits in the middle of the room. Pick it up to raise your maximum life by one heart, then step into the blue light.

Item box reading You got a Heart Container and the maximum life energy increased by one heart

Forest Medallion

In the Chamber of the Sages, Saria tells you she is the Sage of the Forest and gives you the Forest Medallion. Every medallion and stone is covered on the Medallions and Spiritual Stones page.

Saria, the Forest Sage, standing on the green pad as she speaks

Link holding the green Forest Medallion above his head in the Chamber of the Sages

How Master Quest changes the Forest Temple

The temple has the same shape of play as the original Forest Temple: four stolen flames, a central hall with an elevator and the same boss. The rooms between them, and their order, are different.

Feature	Original	Master Quest
Entrance	Two Wolfos in the room, vines to the first key	Skulltula vines, a switch that makes the key chest appear; the Wolfos are behind the north Time Block
Small Keys	5	6
Boss Key	After the Fairy Bow, once you straighten the corridor	Early, at the end of the west wing’s block puzzle
Fairy Bow	Stalfos arena	Same arena, but the hole in the floor drops into the Wolfos room
Poe Sisters	Joelle and Beth, then Amy after the poison room, then Meg	Joelle (Map) and Beth (Compass) together, then Amy after the checkered room, then Meg
Courtyards	West garden behind a Time Block, the east one from a balcony	Both opened by eye switches over the northwest and northeast corridors
Poison room	Four pillars round a poison pit, frozen eye melted by fire	Spike pit with turning platforms, a box for a blue switch and a frozen eye
Boss	Phantom Ganon	Phantom Ganon, same fight

Remember that Master Quest does not change anything outside the dungeons: the Heart Pieces, Gold Skulltulas and side quests of the overworld stay where they were. Inside, the five Gold Skulltulas (above the entrance corridor door, in the west wing corner, over the west garden door, at the far end of the well and on the ledge above it) are in places that differ from the original.

Chapter checklist

Type	Item	Where
Small Key 1	Entrance trees	Chest after stepping on the east tree’s switch
Small Key 2	Wolfos room	Chest behind the north Time Block, after the two Wolfos
Small Key 3	Redead room	Chest off the garden ledge after the Redead
Small Key 4	Well	Chest in the drained well
Small Key 5	North balcony	Chest above the Song of Time block stairs
Small Key 6	Garden below the checkered room	Chest after the Deku Baba
Boss Key	West wing	Blue-and-gold chest at the end of the hall after the block corridors
Fairy Bow	Stalfos arena	Chest after three Stalfos
Dungeon Map	Joelle’s staircase	Chest after the red Poe Sister
Compass	Beth’s staircase	Chest after the blue Poe Sister
Gold Skulltula	Entrance corridor	Wall above the locked door
Gold Skulltula	West wing	Corner on the right after the Stalfos room
Gold Skulltula	West garden	Above the door you came through
Gold Skulltula	West garden well	Far end of the drained well
Gold Skulltula	Above the well	On the wall of the small platform you climb to
Heart Container	Boss reward	Phantom Ganon’s room
Forest Medallion	Dungeon reward	Saria, Chamber of the Sages

The six Small Keys open the entrance corridor door, the Blue Bubble door, the Boss Key room door, the door at the top of Beth’s stairs, the door at the end of the Green Bubble corridor and the far door of the checkered room; if you run short, you have missed a chest. For boss tactics across the whole game, see the boss guide, and for what each dungeon item does, see Dungeon Items.

Forest Temple (Master Quest) Walkthrough

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