Death Mountain, Goron City and Hyrule Market Walkthrough

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Walkthrough overview

• Kokiri Forest and the Lost WoodsKokiri Sword, Deku Shield, both Skull Kid Heart Pieces, upgrades, Saria’s Song, Skulltulas.
• Inside the Great Deku Tree (Dungeon 1)Map, Slingshot, Compass, all 4 Gold Skulltulas, Queen Gohma, Heart Container and the Kokiri’s Emerald.
• Hyrule Field and Hyrule CastleEvery field grotto, Pieces of Heart, Skulltulas, Din’s Fire, Zelda’s Letter and Lullaby.
• Kakariko Village and Hyrule MarketBottle, Sun’s Song, Heart Pieces, masks, mini-games, shops and Skulltulas.
• Death Mountain, Goron City and Hyrule MarketBracelet, Big Bomb Bag, Heart Pieces, Gold Skulltulas, the Great Fairy, Richard and Din’s Fire.
• Dodongo’s Cavern (Dungeon 2)Every room, Dungeon Map, Compass, Bomb Bag, 5 Gold Skulltulas, King Dodongo tactics and the Goron’s Ruby.
• Zora’s River and Zora’s DomainBean seller, frogs, Heart Pieces, Silver Scale, Ruto’s Letter, Lake Hylia, Farore’s Wind and Jabu-Jabu.
• Inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly (Dungeon 3)Carrying Ruto, Boomerang, Map, Compass, 4 Gold Skulltulas, Big Octo, Barinade and Zora’s Sapphire.
• Transition to AdulthoodThe Ocarina, Song of Time, Door of Time, Sacred Realm, Light Medallion, Sheik, age change and the ruined Market.
• Lon Lon RanchEpona’s Song, Lon Lon Milk bottle, tower Heart Piece, 4 Skulltulas, Ingo’s races, Epona and the cow.
• Forest Temple (Dungeon 4)Minuet of Forest, all 5 Small Keys, 5 Gold Skulltulas, Fairy Bow, the four Poe Sisters and Phantom Ganon.
• Fire Temple (Dungeon 5)Goron Tunic, Bolero of Fire, 8 Small Keys, 5 Gold Skulltulas, Megaton Hammer, two Flare Dancers and Volvagia.
• Ice CavernReach it across Zora’s Fountain, Blue Fire, 10 Silver Rupees, 3 Gold Skulltulas, a Heart Piece and the Iron Boots.
• Water Temple (Dungeon 6)Three water levels, 6 Small Keys, 5 Gold Skulltulas, Dark Link, the Longshot, the Boss Key and Morpha.
• Bottom of the WellDrain the Kakariko well, beat Dead Hand for the Lens of Truth, then get the Map, Compass, keys, Skulltulas.
• Shadow Temple (Dungeon 7)All 5 Small Keys, Map, Compass, Hover Boots, Boss Key, 5 Gold Skulltulas, Bongo Bongo and Shadow Medallion.
• Gerudo’s Fortress and the Haunted WastelandFree the 4 carpenters, get the Gerudo Card, win the archery prizes, then cross the Haunted Wasteland.
• Gerudo Training GroundEvery room, all 9 Small Keys, the Silver Rupee puzzles and the Ice Arrows in the central treasure room.
• Spirit Temple (Dungeon 8)Child and adult routes, 5 keys, Map, Compass, Boss Key, 5 Skulltulas, Silver Gauntlets, Mirror Shield, Twinrova.
• Ganon’s Castle and Ganon’s TowerLight Arrows, six trials, Golden Gauntlets, Double Defense, the tower climb, Ganondorf and Ganon.

This chapter is the child-Link sweep of the mountain and of the Market. The order matters because two things gate it: the Bracelet from Darunia (it lets you lift Bomb Flowers, which Dodongo’s Cavern needs) and the Bomb Bag from the cavern (it lets you carry bombs, which most of the optional spots below need). So go up to Goron City now, win Darunia over, clear Dodongo’s Cavern, and then return to pick up everything that wanted bombs. Adult-only extras (the Goron Tunic, two Heart Pieces in the Crater, the Hammer tokens) are collected in the same places but are marked as such.

From Kakariko to the mountain

Show Zelda’s Letter to the guard

Death Mountain Trail starts at the north end of Kakariko Village, behind a gate with a guard who will not let a stranger through. Use Zelda’s Letter on him (select it from the item screen while facing him) and he steps aside. You get the letter from Zelda at Hyrule Castle (see Hyrule Field and Castle). If you have not been to Kakariko yet, the Kakariko chapter covers the village.

Death Mountain Trail

Climb to the fork

The Trail is a long switchback path up the mountain. Red Tektites hop at you along the way; lock on and strike them as they land (a vertical slash right after they land works well), and watch for the rocks that tumble down the slope. Near the bottom, on the side of the path, you will see two cracked walls that cannot be opened until you have bombs. Remember them, because the Trail has two small rewards hidden there (see the table at the end of the chapter).

At the top of the first stretch the path splits. The wide, steep path to the left leads to the summit, but it is blocked by boulders for now. Take the narrow path to the right; it runs down past a ring of stones to the large entrance of Goron City, marked by a red flag. Gorons you pass will tell you that Ganondorf has sealed Dodongo’s Cavern, which is where they find their food, and that the boulder stays until Darunia hands him the Goron’s Ruby.

Heart Piece on the ledge above Dodongo’s Cavern

Before you walk into the city, step back to the ring of stones. Beside it a lone Goron sits next to a Bomb Flower on a ledge, and just behind the Bomb Flower the fence is a little lower than the rest. The cavern entrance lies directly below that spot. You can get the Piece of Heart on the ledge under the low part of the fence now: stand with your back to the fence, backflip over it (aim into the corner toward the heart) and land on the ledge below. The heart sits there; collect it and walk back down the path.

If you would rather do it with a bean, plant a Magic Bean in the patch of soft soil that the blast uncovers in front of the cavern (see below), return as an adult, and ride the sprout up to the ledge. As an adult the Hover Boots also work. The backflip is the simplest way for a first run.

Goron City

Open Darunia’s door

Goron City is a big hollow of rock built on several rings, with a staircase between each. Most Gorons here are hungry and sleepy and will say so. Walk or drop down level by level to the bottom floor, where a large doorway stands next to a Goron guard. The mat in front of it bears the royal crest. Play Zelda’s Lullaby while you stand on it, and the door opens.

Inside, Darunia, the Goron chief, is in a terrible mood and will not discuss the problem. Play Saria’s Song for him. It cheers him up so much that he dances, and afterwards he tells you about Dodongo’s Cavern and that the Goron’s Ruby, the Spiritual Stone of Fire, will be yours if you clear it. He also gives you the Goron’s Bracelet, which lets you pick up Bomb Flowers. Child Link needs it for the whole of Dodongo’s Cavern. (Adult Link is strong enough without it.)

Light the torches around the vase: Heart Piece

Darunia’s room has a lit torch. Take a Deku Stick, light it there, and carry it out to the bottom floor. In the middle of that floor stands a big clay vase surrounded by four unlit torches. Light all four with your stick and the vase begins to turn. It shows a different face on its side as it spins.

Climb to the next level up, pick a Bomb Flower from the plants on the lower floors (or use a bomb once you have a bag), and throw it into the open top of the vase. The vase stops where it is when the blast goes off. If the face looking at you at that moment is the smiling one, a Piece of Heart pops out; any other face pays out Rupees at best. Light the torches again and repeat until you get the smile. The vase belongs to child Link: in the adult era a statue pedestal stands where it was.

The Goron Shop

The Goron Shop is on the bottom floor, behind a rock wall. Pick up a Bomb Flower, set it against the wall and step away; the blast opens the entrance. Bombs can only be bought if you carry a Bomb Bag, so this will not help until you have cleared Dodongo’s Cavern. Stock: Recovery Heart 10 Rupees, Red Potion 40 Rupees, Bombs (5) 25 Rupees, Bombs (10) 50 Rupees, Bombs (20) 80 Rupees, Bombs (30) 120 Rupees (the larger packs need a bigger bag), and the Goron Tunic for 200 Rupees, which only adult Link can buy.

Shortcut to the Lost Woods

One level above the bottom floor, a tunnel is blocked by boulders. Two torches stand beside it. Light a Deku Stick on the lit torch in Darunia’s room, climb up slowly (a stick burns out quickly, so use a fresh one if it dies) and light the torches. Then use the flame to set off the Bomb Flowers that grow down the passage, which clears the boulders. At the end you come out in the Lost Woods. It saves the long walk through Hyrule Field, and the Lost Woods paths and Deku Scrub upgrades are described in the Kokiri Forest chapter.

Go and clear Dodongo’s Cavern

With the Bracelet in hand, go back out through the main entrance. Return to the ring of stones, pick up the Bomb Flower beside the sitting Goron, and throw it over the low part of the fence so that it lands on the boulder in front of the cavern. A good throw blows the boulder open. Release a bottled bug onto the patch of soft soil that appears for a Gold Skulltula (any time of day), once you own a bottle. Now continue in Dodongo’s Cavern. Darunia hands over the Goron’s Ruby outside the cave when you are done.

After Dodongo’s Cavern: bombs and returns

Stop the Hot-Rodder Goron: Big Bomb Bag

Back in Goron City, a Goron has curled into a ball and rolls round the ring path one level above the vase, past a sign and through a short tunnel. He is the Hot-Rodder Goron. As a child, lay a bomb (or send a Bombchu) in his path so that it explodes as he rolls through the tunnel by the sign. He stops, shaken, and gives you the Big Bomb Bag, which raises your capacity from 20 to 30 bombs. If the blast catches him outside the tunnel he only mutters and rolls on, so be patient. The other Bomb Bag upgrade (40 bombs) is a Bombchu Bowling prize, see below.

You will be told “You got a Big Bomb Bag!” and can carry 30 bombs from then on. Once you hold the Big Bag you can also buy the 30-bomb pack in the shop.

Rocks on the top floor: Gold Skulltula and Rupees

On the top floor, close to the entrance, a passage leads to a room filled with rocks. Bomb your way to the far end of it. There you find two chests with a Purple Rupee (50 Rupees) each, a Gossip Stone, and a wooden crate. Roll into the crate and a Gold Skulltula drops out (child, any time). Kill it and take the token.

The Trail’s own secrets

With bombs you can do everything else the Trail hides. Bomb the cracked wall on the right side of the lower Trail (the one near Kakariko): kill the Gold Skulltula inside and climb the wall behind it to get the token (child or adult, any time). Bomb the other wall near Goron City, where a small chest holds a Purple Rupee. Play the Song of Storms (learned later from the windmill man as an adult) in front of the ring of stones outside Goron City: a hole opens and drops you into a small cave with a chest of Rupees. A bombable boulder on the ridge above the left (summit) path opens a hole to a cow in a small cave with Rupees lying around; play Epona’s Song for it and fill an empty bottle with Lon Lon Milk once you own a bottle.

To the summit

Rocks, eruptions and Skullwalltulas

Blow the boulders on the summit path with bombs and climb. Near the top the volcano throws fiery rocks down the slope, and as a child the rocks home in on you. Equip the Hylian Shield, hold R to crouch behind it when a rock falls and move in the gaps. At the end there is a tall climbable wall with a Skullwalltula on it at each ledge. Clear each one with the Slingshot, then climb. You can ignore the red-rock Skulltulas on the wall for now: two Gold Skulltula tokens on the Trail are sealed under red rocks that only the Megaton Hammer breaks (adult, at night; one above the cavern entrance, one at the foot of the climbing wall).

The Great Fairy of Magic

At the top you meet Kaepora Gaebora, the owl. Behind him is the path into Death Mountain Crater. To the owl’s left a cracked wall hides the Great Fairy Fountain. Bomb it, walk in, stand on the Triforce symbol and play Zelda’s Lullaby. She teaches you the Spin Attack, a charged sword swing that draws on the green Magic Meter. Magic also powers Din’s Fire (below) and the Lens of Truth, so you will want it before the Treasure Chest Game.

Ride the owl to Kakariko: the caged-cow Heart Piece

Talk to the owl again and he carries you off to Kakariko Village (run under him to grab his talons if he offers). He sets you on the roof of Impa’s house. Turn toward the windmill and drop to the back corner of the house, where you land on a wooden awning below. There is a hole in the wall behind you; crawl in and take the Piece of Heart beside the cow in the cage. More Kakariko tasks (the Cucco Lady, the House of Skulltula, the windmill) are in the Kakariko chapter.

Death Mountain Crater

Child tasks in the Crater

Behind the owl’s perch a path leads into the volcano. As a child you can walk the near end of the Crater; as an adult, without the Goron Tunic, an on-screen heat timer drains your hearts and you cannot stay long. Just inside the entrance, to the left, stands a wooden crate. Roll into it (child, any time) and a Gold Skulltula falls out. Kill it and take the token. Most of the rest of the Crater belongs to the Fire Temple chapter, but its small rewards are listed here so nothing is missed.

The Bolero of Fire is taught to you by Sheik, as an adult, on the pad in front of the Fire Temple’s bridge. Learn it, then go back to child Link (see Transition to Adulthood) and play it anywhere outdoors to warp straight onto that pad as a child. Beside the pad is a patch of soft soil. Release a bottled bug onto it for a Gold Skulltula (child, any time), and plant a Magic Bean there for the adult-era Piece of Heart.

Adult Crater tasks: with the Goron Tunic on, ride the bean sprout from the warp pad to the rocky outcrop and jump off onto the Piece of Heart hidden in the smoke. Separately, a Piece of Heart sits in a rocky niche in the wall just inside the Crater entrance from the summit: drop off the edge, grab the wall and climb down to it. Either age can get it, though child Link has to hurry because of the heat. The Great Fairy Fountain of the Crater is closed by boulders that only the Megaton Hammer breaks; Zelda’s Lullaby on the Triforce symbol there gives Double Magic, which doubles the Magic Meter. Details: Great Fairy Fountains.

Adult Link in Goron City

Adult Gold Skulltula and Medigoron

With the Hookshot, look at the back of the pedestal in the middle of Goron City, where the Spiritual Stone of Fire once rested. Stand on one of the ropes so that you can see the Gold Skulltula and hook it. Mind the wooden platform, which is not a hook target. Medigoron’s shop, behind a bombable wall in the same cavern, is where the Giant’s Knife is sold (200 Rupees); the full story, including Biggoron and the end of the trading quest, is in the Biggoron Sword guide.

Hyrule Market (child)

Din’s Fire from the Great Fairy near the Castle

Walk from the Market through the castle gate as you did earlier. Climb the vines on the right as before, then follow the main path across the grounds until it forks. Take the right fork. A “Dead End” sign marks a large boulder that blocks a small cave. Blow up the boulder with a bomb, crawl through the tunnel and stand on the Triforce symbol inside. Zelda’s Lullaby calls the Great Fairy, who gives you Din’s Fire. Din’s Fire needs the Magic Meter from the summit fairy.

Richard the dog

Come to the Market after dark. In the area near the Bazaar a white dog called Richard wanders around, and several other dogs do too. Only one dog follows you at a time, and Richard is the one you want; if a different dog attaches itself, duck into a building and come out again, or hug the wall to slip past the others. Walk Richard to the Back Alley (the street on the right side of the Market, as you enter) and through the left door. His owner, Mamamu Yan, gives you a Piece of Heart the first time you bring him back. Later returns pay Rupees. This is a child, night-time quest only.

Bombchu Bowling Alley

Find the building with the Bombchu sign above the door. It opens to you once you have cleared Dodongo’s Cavern. Playing costs 30 Rupees and you get 10 Bombchus; your task is to send them through a series of holes in three rows of walls: the first lane has a sliding spiked trap, the second adds a small Cucco, the third adds a big Cucco. The middle target changes position (left, right, centre). You will be told the prize before you start. The prizes are: a Piece of Heart (once), the Bomb Bag upgrade (once; you get the 30-bomb bag first if you have not stopped the Hot-Rodder Goron yet, otherwise the 40-bomb bag), Bombs, 10 Bombchus (repeatable), or a Purple Rupee (50). Play until the one-time prizes are gone. Bombchus are also needed later for adult-era spots.

Shooting Gallery

The Shooting Gallery, marked by an arrow-and-target sign, costs 20 Rupees. With the Slingshot, hit ten Rupees that pop up in sequence. The first full clear gives you a larger Deku Seed Bag (to 40 or 50 seeds, depending on which of the two seed-bag rewards you already have); later clears pay a 50-Rupee Purple Rupee. If you hit eight or nine you get a free retry. Aim at the middle between the left and right so you can swing either way, and use the jumping green Rupee as your cue to move up.

Treasure Chest Game and the guardhouse Skulltula

The Treasure Chest Game in the Market is open at night to child Link only. Pay 10 Rupees to the muscled owner for a small key. In each room two chests stand: one holds Rupees, the other a key to the next door. The value rises each room, and the last room holds a Piece of Heart. Without the Lens of Truth it is a guess in every room; with the Lens (from the Bottom of the Well; the Magic Meter is needed) you can see what is in each chest and clear it in one go. Winning again later only pays Rupees. The Market also has a Gold Skulltula in a crate in the guardhouse beside the drawbridge: roll into the second crate to the right of the soldier (child, any time). The Bazaar, Potion Shop, Bombchu Shop and the Happy Mask Shop are covered in the Kakariko and Market chapter.

Next

With the Bracelet, the Big Bomb Bag and the Magic Meter, head to Dodongo’s Cavern if you have not yet, then on to Zora’s River and Zora’s Domain.

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