Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly 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	Feeding Lord Jabu-Jabu, the Master Quest rooms in route order, carrying Ruto, the Boomerang, Big Octo, Barinade and the Zora’s Sapphire
Dungeon	Inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly (child dungeon, Master Quest version). No small keys and no Boss Key. Mini-boss: Big Octo. Boss: Barinade.
You need	Fairy Slingshot, Bombs, Deku Sticks and Deku Nuts, a bottle holding a Fish, and the Ocarina with Epona’s Song if you want the milk. Din’s Fire and the Song of Time only matter for the optional Gold Skulltulas.
Rewards	Dungeon Map, Compass, Boomerang, Heart Container, Zora’s Sapphire. Outside the dungeon, in Zora’s Domain, there is one extra Piece of Heart.
Differences	Cow-head switches replace the ceiling switches, the Boomerang comes much sooner, Lizalfos and Like-Likes roam the halls, and Ruto is needed far less than in the original.

Master Quest keeps the twisting inside of Jabu-Jabu’s Belly but rebuilds nearly every room. You blast and shoot your way through with Bombs and the Slingshot, collect the Boomerang long before the original does, carry Ruto only for a few stretches and finish with Big Octo and Barinade. Beating Barinade earns the Heart Container and the Zora’s Sapphire, the Spiritual Stone of Water.

Getting there

Zora’s Domain Piece of Heart and the Fish

Before you leave Zora’s Domain, open the chest in its side cave for a Piece of Heart. Carry a Deku Stick, because you need fire to get at the chest. The Piece of Heart list covers the rest of the set.

Link holding a Deku Stick in a cave beside a tripod torch

Link opening a wooden chest with light bursting out of it

Walk on to Zora’s Fountain with the Fish in your bottle. Stand on the ledge in front of Lord Jabu-Jabu, let the Fish out and wait. Jabu-Jabu opens his mouth to swallow it, and you walk straight in after it.

Link on the ledge at Zora's Fountain holding the Fish

Lord Jabu-Jabu with its mouth wide open, showing rows of teeth

Entrance room: Map and Deku Nuts

Ceiling creature, Magic Jar and Shabom

You start in a round chamber with a creature clinging to the ceiling. Lock onto it and shoot it with the Slingshot; it drops a Magic Jar that fills your magic meter. A Shabom, a floating bubble with a small enemy inside, drifts past. Seeds do not pop it, so use the sword or keep out of its way.

Link locking onto a creature on the belly wall with the Slingshot equipped

Link holding up a Magic Jar after his Magic Meter is filled

Bomb the boulder for the Dungeon Map

Blast the boulder in the middle of the room with a Bomb. Underneath is a yellow floor switch; step on it and a chest rises holding the Dungeon Map. A second chest in the same room holds Deku Nuts.

Link with a lit Bomb in a red chamber of Jabu-Jabu's belly

Link standing on a glowing yellow floor switch in the belly chamber

Shoot the cow

The slimy membrane over the exit is opened by cow heads set into the walls, which act as switches in Master Quest. Hit the cow on the left with a Slingshot seed and the membrane vanishes. Leave through the red tunnel.

Slingshot seed bursting against the wall beside the cow switch

Link walking up a red tunnel toward a golden membrane

Biri room

The next room is a plus-shaped chamber of red flesh with Biri, floating jellyfish that shock you on contact. Bombs deal with them safely. The way onward is to drop down the hole in this room.

Link in a red flesh chamber, the room shaped like a plus sign

Link being shocked by a purple Biri jellyfish

Waterfall room: Compass

Cow chest and the dive

At the bottom you wade onto a pink platform beside a waterfall. A cow in a hole is the trigger: shoot it and a chest appears on the far side, which you reach by diving through a small opening. Beware of the Stinger lurking in the water.

Link diving between two pink platforms over the water

Link locking onto a cow in the water with the Slingshot

Open the chest for the Compass. Step on the yellow floor switch beside it to open the door above, then dive back out and take the spiked platform up. Slingshot the brown creature swimming near the pads if it gets in the way.

Link holding up the Compass with its name box on screen

Link underwater by the water pads with a brown creature below

Leave by the tunnel

Cross the water pads and swim up the waterfall to the tunnel door on the side wall. The red wriggling growths in the doorways hurt if you touch them; they can be dealt with later using the Boomerang.

Link at the foot of a waterfall, with water pads and a Biri jellyfish below

Link facing a red tunnel door set into the side wall of the belly

Princess Ruto and the cow-head chests

Meeting Ruto

Ruto waits in the next room. She demands to know who you are, says her father needs not worry and refuses to leave until she finds the thing she came for. She then walks away and drops into a hole in the floor. Follow her down.

Ruto telling Link to go away, with the dialogue box on screen

Ruto talking to Link in the belly room, with the dialogue box on screen

Chests and the first stretch

Down below, talk to Ruto until she agrees to be carried; press A beside her to pick her up and again to put her down. You cannot fight while holding her. Past her room, carry her to the pad under the waterfall; shoot cow heads along the way to bring out chests of Deku Nuts.

Link standing on a glowing yellow pad in a red corridor

Link walking toward a waterfall in a red corridor

Follow the S-shaped corridor to the ledge where the next chest of Deku Nuts sits. A Lizalfos drops in as you pass. Dodge its first strike and slash back; a thrown Deku Nut stuns it for a free hit.

Link facing a Lizalfos with lock-on arrows around it

Link holding up a Deku Nut with its name box on screen

Pool room: Boomerang

Water enemies and the chest

The next room is a shallow pool with a Like-Like and Stingers lurking in the water. Throw Bombs (not Bombchus) to clear them, or fight them with the sword and nuts. When the room is empty, a chest appears on a high ledge.

Link wading in a shallow pool with a stinger flying over the water

Link standing in a shallow pool beside a Like-Like

Swim to the yellow switch in the middle of the pool. It raises the water so you can reach the vines and climb to the chest holding the Boomerang. Set it on a C button: it stuns enemies, hits distant switches and collects items from afar. A Gold Skulltula hides under a Song of Time block here, but you can only take it later.

Link holding up the Boomerang in its item box message

Link at an open chest in the red chamber with a fairy nearby

A drop beside the chest gives you five more Bombs, and a pot sits close by. Swim back to the pink platform and leave through the red tunnel past the round platform.

Link beside a chest in the red chamber after picking up Bombs

Link swimming across the pool toward the pink platform

Crates, Deku Stick and the three tentacles

Crates and cube enemies

Climb the purple block at the start of the next room and shoot the small creature beyond it with the Slingshot. In the tunnel after that, pick up a wooden crate and carry it to the frosted pressure pad; a crate on the pad opens the door. Cube-shaped shelled enemies guard the following rooms; shoot them or use the sword.

Link standing beside a purple block at the start of a red chamber

Link carrying a wooden crate overhead down a tunnel

Deku Stick room

Break the pots in the next room to find a Deku Stick. Light it on the torch and burn the web in the hall off the doorway, which opens the way to the first giant Parasitic Tentacle.

Link's message box reading You got a Deku Stick, with the stick held above him

Link beside a pot in a red chamber near a wooden chest

Parasitic Tentacles

A Parasitic Tentacle hangs from the ceiling in each of three rooms. Lock onto its centre and throw the Boomerang. After the first hit it retreats into the ceiling and comes back down when you approach, so stay near and throw again. Three hits kill it. The blue, red and green tentacles each guard one branch of the junction.

Link locked onto a hanging Parasitic Tentacle in a red tunnel

Link beside a green Parasitic Tentacle hanging from the ceiling

The central hall holds a Lizalfos that attacks when you walk halfway down. Bomb the boulders in that hall to uncover a blue switch, then set a crate from the opposite hall on it. Stun the red wriggling growths with the Boomerang and climb over them to reach the doors behind them. The Lizalfos returns each time you come back, so kill it again.

Link holding a Bomb overhead in front of a boulder

Bomb blast at a boulder hitting blue Lizalfos enemies

Cows and Like-Likes

In a cow-head room, shoot each cow in turn; each drops a Like-Like on you. Beat both and the door opens, a torch lights and a chest with a Deku Stick appears. A shelled monster and a bomb-weighted pad lie further on; take the recovery hearts from the pots if you are low.

A blue Like-Like has dropped onto Link beside a golden shelled enemy

Link beside a large golden shelled enemy

Back to Ruto and the Sapphire

Water and web room

Go back for Ruto, who complains that you left her behind. Carry her through the water room and use the yellow switch to raise the water, setting her down on the platforms that need her weight. Watch your breath when the switch is underwater.

Ruto with a message box calling Link inconsiderate for leaving her behind

Link holding Ruto overhead in a red corridor

A honeycomb web blocks the next door. Shoot it with the Slingshot from first-person view, then dive for the switch that opens the way. Clear the curtain-like growth that follows with the Boomerang.

Link diving into the water room beside a pink ledge

Slingshot drawn in first person toward a honeycomb web

Throwing Ruto at the stone

Carry Ruto to the room with the pad and put her down on it. In the final chamber she sees the Spiritual Stone on a raised platform, shouts that this is what she was looking for and demands that you throw her up there. Throw her onto the platform; she takes the stone, and a guardian drops in.

Ruto standing on a glowing pad in a red hall

Link holding Ruto up, ready to throw her onto a platform

Mini-boss: Big Octo

Big Octo circles in a round pool. Keep moving and stay away from its spiked ring. Stun it with the Boomerang; when it spins to show its back, stun it again and slash its weak spot. If it faces you, wait for it to turn and stun it again. A few rounds finish it, and it leaves recovery hearts. Climb out afterwards to the next rooms.

Big Octo with its spiked ring and Link circling the round pool

Big Octo turned to show its weak spot with Link close by

Toward Barinade

Slime halls and the cow

Shoot the blue and purple blocks to use them as platforms and jump over the slime hall; electricity in the walls shocks you. Cube enemies show up again. In the green cow room, play Epona’s Song to the cow to fill an empty bottle with Lon Lon Milk.

Link in the red slime hall beside a blue block as electric arcs crackle along the walls

Link standing in front of a purple block in the green-walled slime hall

Crate, Fairy and the Blue Rupee

Carry a wooden crate to the frosted pressure pad to open the next door. A Recovery Heart waits in the tunnel beyond. In the shallow water room, catch the Fairy hovering there in an empty bottle.

Link standing on a frosted pressure pad while carrying a wooden crate overhead

The You got a Recovery Heart box in the red tunnel, with the pink heart above Link

Throw the Boomerang at the pillar in the slime room, then shoot the red cube enemies, cross the red platforms and slide down the slope. At the end of the corridor, open the chest for a Blue Rupee, worth five Rupees. A fairy is hiding in the nearby pot.

Link's Boomerang flying at a web-covered pillar in the green slime room

Link facing a red cube enemy in a slime corridor, its yellow markers showing the lock

Optional Gold Skulltulas

Four Gold Skulltulas sit in this dungeon: under the Song of Time block in the Boomerang room, behind a boulder in a water room (Song of Time and Bombs), behind a web that needs Din’s Fire, and behind a web in the room before Barinade. None is needed to finish the dungeon. The Gold Skulltula list has more.

Heart Container and Zora’s Sapphire

Walk to the middle of the arena and take the Heart Container. Step into the blue warp. Ruto appears in the light, a little embarrassed, and you are carried out to Zora’s Fountain.

The You got a Heart Container box, with the heart item rising above Link

Link stepping into a blue warp light in the arena

Ruto offers you her stone. Accept it and you receive the Zora’s Sapphire, the Spiritual Stone of Water. See the stone list for the next steps.

Ruto standing in the fountain water beside Link as she offers her stone

Link raising the Zora's Sapphire above his head in the fountain water

How Master Quest changes the Inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly

Compare with the original chapter.

Topic	Original	Master Quest
Switches	Ceiling switches opened with the Slingshot	Cow heads in the walls act as switches
Boomerang	Found mid-dungeon in the Stinger room	Found much earlier, in a pool room
Ruto	Carried through most rooms	Carried only for short sections
Enemies	Octoroks, Stingers, Biri, tentacles	Adds Lizalfos and Like-Likes
Chests	Map, Compass, Boomerang	Same items in new places, plus Deku Nuts and a Blue Rupee
Gold Skulltulas	Four	Four, in new places
Boss	Barinade	Barinade, with the same fight

Chapter checklist

Type	Item	Where
Piece of Heart	Piece of Heart	Chest in a side cave of Zora’s Domain
Dungeon item	Dungeon Map	Entrance room, under the boulder
Chest	Deku Nuts	Entrance room
Dungeon item	Compass	Waterfall room, chest reached by diving
Chest	Deku Nuts (two)	Corridors after Ruto’s room
Dungeon item	Boomerang	Pool room, chest on the high ledge
Pickup	Deku Stick	Pot room
Bottle	Lon Lon Milk	Cow, Epona’s Song
Bottle	Fairy	Shallow water room before the boss door
Chest	Blue Rupee	Corridor before the boss door
Mini-boss	Big Octo	Stone room
Boss reward	Heart Container	Barinade
Spiritual Stone	Zora’s Sapphire	Ruto, Zora’s Fountain

Inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly (Master Quest) Walkthrough

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