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Crown Dungeon (Level 5) Walkthrough

Oracle of Ages 100% Completion Walkthrough24 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversThe Crown Dungeon on Rolling Ridge, in the present, from the entrance to the Essence of Time
DungeonCrown Dungeon (Level 5): Cane of Somaria, mini-boss Smasher, boss Smog, Essence of Time: Sacred Soil
RewardsDungeon Map, Compass, 5 Small Keys, Cane of Somaria, Boss Key, 50 Rupees, Heart Container, Sacred Soil. No Heart Pieces, rings, Gasha Seeds or soft soil in this chapter

The Crown Dungeon is the fifth dungeon, a maze of red and blue color barriers, stone statues and colored floor tiles built under the high ground of Rolling Ridge. Its treasure is the Cane of Somaria, a rod that conjures a solid block wherever you point it, and nearly every puzzle after it depends on that block. You collect the Dungeon Map, the Compass and five Small Keys, beat the mini-boss Smasher, solve the owl statue puzzle for the Boss Key, and defeat Smog to earn the Sacred Soil.

Link holding the Cane of Somaria after the chest, with the message that it creates blocks
Link beside the blue owl and colored statues in the owl statue room
Link with the Cane of Somaria making blocks in Smog's arena as a blue blob and a Smog piece drift nearby

Crown Dungeon entrance and how the barriers work

Open the door with the Crown Key

The Crown Key from the Goron Elder opens the keyhole door on Rolling Ridge (see the West Rolling Ridge chapter), and you need the Seed Shooter, Ember and Pegasus Seeds, the Power Bracelet, Roc’s Feather and the Switch Hook here.

The Goron Elder in his cave telling Link he will give him the key
Link holding up the Crown Key in the Goron Elder's cave
Link playing the Tune of Currents on Rolling Ridge
Link at the edge of the wide gap and floating platforms in the cave
Link opening the Crown Dungeon door on Rolling Ridge

Red and blue barriers

The first Moblin rooms and the crystal switch are covered at the end of the West Rolling Ridge chapter, and a crystal switch flips every red and blue block in the dungeon, so remember which color is raised before you leave a room.

Link slashing at red and blue Moblins beside the stone block pillars
Link walking between rows of blocks with Moblins at the far end
Blue blocks raised around the crystal switch with Link on the ledge
Link crossing the raised red blocks with the blue blocks lowered

Small Keys 1 and 2

Small Key 1: three statues

Small Key 1 comes from the three statues on the yellow tile, which the West Rolling Ridge chapter walks through.

Link firing the Switch Hook toward the stone diamond
Link entering the room with three statues around a yellow floor tile
A seed hitting the yellow tile as the top statue shows its eye
The chest appearing in the middle of the three statues
Link holding up the first Small Key with the full message

Small Key 2: the chest below

Small Key 2 is in the chest in the room below the first staircase, reached by flipping the crystal switch as the West Rolling Ridge chapter explains.

Link in a room of blue and red blocks beside the crystal switch
Link beside the raised blue blocks over the pit with a spiked enemy below
Link beside the blue block view around the closed chest
Link holding up the second Small Key with the full message

Dungeon Map

The chest beside the boss door

The Dungeon Map is in the south-east corner of the ground floor, in the same room as the boss door. Its chest stands inside a U-shaped frame of blue blocks, with a black orb switch on a square of yellow tiles in front of it. Open it to receive the map, which shows the layout of both floors and darkens the rooms you have not visited. You cannot open the boss door yet, so go back west and carry on collecting keys.

Link jumping toward the black orb switch on the yellow tiles
The map chest inside the U-shaped view of blue blocks
Link holding up the Dungeon Map with its message box

How to get the Cane of Somaria

First locked block and the Ember Seed burners

Push the skull-faced blocks in the next rooms to clear a path, and open the locked block with a Small Key. In the large room with orange blocks, you reach the west door only by shooting Ember Seeds from the Seed Shooter at the empty burners on the wall until they light.

Link pushing a skull-faced block beside the red floor button
Skull-faced blocks moved aside with the red button and staircase tile visible
Link slashing in the orange block room with unlit wall burners
Link shooting an Ember Seed toward the wall burners
Link at the west door of the orange block room with the burners lit

Copy the statue pattern

Below, stand on the floor button and read the pattern of colored statues shown on the right side of the room. Then push the yellow, blue and red statues on the left until their order matches the pattern; you can step off and back on the button as often as you like to re-check it. When the two sides agree, a chest appears with the Cane of Somaria. Equip it and press the button to create a block in front of you. The block can be pushed, stepped on and used as a stepping stone or a weight.

Link standing on the floor button among yellow, blue and red statues
Link pushing a blue statue next to the yellow one
Statues rearranged around Link and the floor button
The chest appearing among the matched statues
Link holding up the Cane of Somaria with the full message

Small Keys 3, 4 and 5

Small Key 3: statues on the buttons

Back on the ground floor, the room with four floor buttons and three statues finally makes sense. Push the three statues onto three buttons, then create a Cane block on the fourth. The chest in the middle of the room appears with the third Small Key.

Link among three statues, a red floor button and a Cane block in the button room
Link pushing a statue toward a floor button in the four-button room
Link pushing a statue past a red floor button with the Cane block at lower left
The chest appearing in the middle of the button room
Link holding up the third Small Key with the full message

Small Key 4: statues that move together

The next branch lies north of the door you opened with the key. Jump down from the ledge, descend the stairs ringed by blue tiles, pass the two pots and descend again. In the side-view room, make a Cane block and jump from it to the next ledge. Shoot the crystal switch with a seed to open the way north. In the last room, two statues move in unison and must end up on the two red tiles; stop one of them behind a Cane block so that the other can reach its tile alone. The chest then gives the fourth Small Key.

Link in the dark side-view room beside the ladder under a wall light
Link jumping from a Cane block onto the next ledge in the side-view room
Two statues and two red tiles in the last room
A Cane block placed beside one statue while Link prepares to push the other
One statue settled on a red tile with the Cane block beside Link
Link holding up the fourth Small Key with the full message

Small Key 5: the dark room with the hidden floor

Head to the east part of the dungeon, cross the floating platforms and climb the ladder into a dark room with invisible floor tiles. Moblins walk here, and they only step on real floor, so watch where they go. A seed fired from the Seed Satchel also reveals whether a square is solid or a pit, and a Cane block pushed ahead of you helps test the way. Cross to the chest on the pedestal in the middle of the room to take the fifth Small Key. Throw a Scent Seed if the Moblins keep getting in your way.

Link in the dark room with a Cane block beside him and the chest on its pedestal
Link crossing the dark room as a Moblin approaches the pedestal
Link pushing a Cane block ahead of him in the dark room
Link and the Cane block approaching the pedestal chest
Link holding up the fifth Small Key from the pedestal chest with the full message

Mini-boss: Smasher

Cross the gaps

Smasher waits in the north-east part of the ground floor. Two wide pits lie on the way, and you cross them by jumping with Roc’s Feather and using a Pegasus Seed in mid-air for extra distance. Unlock the door to his room with a Small Key and equip the Power Bracelet before you go in.

Link leaping across floating platforms in the dark side-view passage
Link crossing a wide pit with Roc's Feather and a Pegasus Seed
Link beside the stone ledge room with hearts dropping near the locked door

Defeat Smasher

Smasher throws a heavy ball at you. Pick the ball up with the Power Bracelet and throw it back at him; if you wait too long the ball vanishes and reappears elsewhere in the room, so keep an eye out for it. After enough hits he falls and the north door opens.

Link carrying Smasher's ball overhead with the Power Bracelet
Link throwing the ball across the arena toward Smasher
Smasher flashing red as the thrown ball hits him
Red sparks flying at the north door as Smasher is defeated

Compass

The bridge and the Switch Hook

In the room north of Smasher, create a Cane block on the switch so that the bridge extends and you can cross it. Equip the Switch Hook and fire it at a stone diamond to swap places with it, which carries you to the chest. Open it for the Compass, which tracks your position and locates chests. Take the stairs at the north end of the room.

The bridge of pale blocks extended along the pit after the Cane block was set
Link crossing the extended bridge toward the stone diamond
Link above the chest between two stone diamonds
Link holding up the Compass with the full message

How to get the Boss Key

Platforms, key blocks and the north cross

The path leads over moving platforms in a side-view room and back to the unexplored cross-shaped section on the ground floor. Make sure the blue blocks are lowered before you step onto them, then shoot the crystal switch with the Seed Shooter. Go west and south and use Small Keys on the key blocks, then raise the red barrier. From the south balcony jump onto the raised red blocks, cross to the next room, jump off to the north and descend the stairs.

Link leaping toward a moving platform in the side-view room
Link standing on lowered blue blocks near the crystal switch
Red block view around the crystal switch with Link on the ledge
Link walking across the raised red blocks
Link in a room with key blocks, red blocks and a spiky crawler

50 Rupees

Shoot the crystal switch to open the door on the left, and take the chest in this room: it holds 50 Rupees. The chest is optional, but it fills a good part of your wallet. Then go down the second staircase.

Link approaching the chest inside the red block view
Link holding up the red rupee with the 50 Rupees message
Link by the blue and red blocks on the way to the second stairs

Ladder and the owl statue room

Make a Cane block to climb over the platform, dodge the bubble and climb the ladder. In the last room, eight statues in three colors stand around a blue owl. Statues of the same color move together, so one push moves several of them. Your goal is to put all eight on the tiles that surround the owl. A Cane block holds one statue in place while the rest are pushed. One way is to move the yellow statues first, line the others up in one column, and then settle the blue statues and the red ones last.

Link climbing the ladder in the side-view room before the owl statue room
Eight colored statues scattered around the blue owl and its ring of tiles
Yellow statues grouped beside the owl with a Cane block placed beside the red statues
Link at the left of the statue cluster with a Cane block above it near the owl
Blue and yellow statues settled around the owl with a Cane block set at the upper right

Take the Boss Key

When the last statue is in place, a chest appears. Open it for the Boss Key.

The chest appearing in the statue room after the last statue is in place
Link holding up the Boss Key with the full message

Boss: Smog (Level 5)

Return to the boss door

Walk back to the room with the Dungeon Map chest in the south-east corner of the ground floor, where the boss door stands, and use the Boss Key. Fill up your hearts before you enter, and equip the Cane of Somaria with the sword on your other button.

Link in the map chest room heading for the boss door
Link at the boss door with the keyhole block in the east wall
Link stepping into the empty boss room through the west door

Defeat Smog

Smog breaks into several smaller pieces that drift around the arena, together with blue blobs. Create blocks with the Cane and push the stone blocks around so that the pieces are forced to bump into each other and merge. The blue blobs cannot pass through blocks, so you can hide behind one, and the sword stuns a piece for a moment and cuts down enemy bullets. When every piece has merged, Smog returns to full size, flings lightning bolts that you cannot cut and charges straight at you. Dodge them and slash him a few times until he is destroyed or breaks apart again; repeat the block puzzle for several rounds until he finally falls.

Link in Smog's arena among stone blocks with small Smog pieces drifting
Link making a Cane block while a blue blob drifts near a Smog piece
Link slashing at a merged Smog piece beside the stone blocks
A Smog piece swelling between stone blocks next to the red Cane block
Smog fused into one large piece near the Cane block and stone blocks
The arena after Smog is defeated, lightning sparks near the left wall

Heart Container and Sacred Soil

Smog leaves a Heart Container, which adds a full heart to your life meter. Walk north up the aisle into the shrine and step onto the dais to take the Sacred Soil, the fifth Essence of Time. As you leave, the Maku Tree tells you that she senses another Essence echoing near Rolling Ridge.

Link holding up a Heart Container with the full item message
Link walking up the aisle of statues toward the shrine stairs
Link at the shrine steps with the Sacred Soil glowing on the dais ahead
Link holding up the Sacred Soil, an Essence of Time, with the full message
Link on the dais as the Sacred Soil sends rays of light outward

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere (era)
Key itemCrown KeyGoron Elder, after the Bomb Flower delivery (present)
Small KeySmall Keys 1 and 2Three-statue room and the chest below the first staircase (present)
Dungeon itemDungeon MapSouth-east room beside the boss door (present)
Dungeon itemCane of SomariaStatue pattern puzzle, west side of the ground floor (present)
Small KeySmall Keys 3, 4 and 5Four-button statue room, red-tile statue room and the dark hidden-floor room (present)
Mini-bossSmasherNorth-east ground floor (present)
Dungeon itemCompassChest north of Smasher’s room (present)
Rupees50 RupeesChest in the room after the key blocks (present)
Dungeon itemBoss KeyOwl statue room (present)
BossSmogBoss room in the south-east corner (present)
Heart ContainerHeart ContainerDropped by Smog (present)
EssenceSacred SoilShrine north of the boss room (present)

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