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Jabu-Jabu’s Belly (Level 7) Walkthrough

Oracle of Ages 100% Completion Walkthrough24 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversJabu-Jabu’s Belly in the present, from the pink rooms past the entrance to the Rolling Sea altar
DungeonJabu-Jabu’s Belly (Level 7): Compass, Like Like Ring, Long Hook (Switch Hook L-2), Angler Fish mini-boss, Plasmarine boss, Essence of Time: Rolling Sea
RewardsLike Like Ring, Compass, Long Hook upgrade, 5 Small Keys, Boss Key, Heart Container, Rolling Sea. No Heart Pieces, Gasha Seeds or soft soil in this stretch

Jabu-Jabu’s Belly is Level 7, the big fish-shaped dungeon inside Lord Jabu-Jabu in the Zora Seas. This chapter takes you from the first pink rooms to the Rolling Sea Essence of Time. Along the way you collect a ring to appraise, the Compass, five Small Keys, the Long Hook upgrade and the Boss Key, then beat Plasmarine for a Heart Container. The route is linked-game safe; nothing here depends on a Seasons secret.

Link and a red Zol-like enemy in the first pink rooms of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Green enemy beside a dark hole in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Blue pad inside a gold-railed pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Level 7 entrance: pink rooms and the Like Like Ring

Cross the first pink rooms

Enter the first pink rooms and clear the red Zol-like enemies and the green snake near the teal floor tiles. You arrive with one Small Key already in your pack. Use it on the locked door you reach after the teal tile crossing, which leaves you with none until you find the next one.

Teal floor tiles and a block column in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Link among red Zol-like enemies and a green snake in a pink room
Link stepping through an opened locked door in Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Lower the water with the red pad

In the room with the red square block, blue blocks and switch tiles, a small blue creature at the bottom left explains how the water works: blue water rises and red water drains. Stand on the red block pad to lower the water. You will hear it drain, and the rooms around you change. Wikibooks lists the same rule, with the red button lowering the water and the blue buttons raising it.

Small blue creature explaining the blue and red water rule beside the block room
Link standing on the red block pad in the water room
Link on the red block pad after the message says water is going out

Take the ring from the chest by the teal column

In the pink room with a teal block column, open the chest on the left side. It holds a ring that the game asks you to get appraised later, so take it to Vasu. In both written sources for this dungeon it is the Like Like Ring, which is the only ring in Jabu-Jabu’s Belly; see the magical rings page for its effect once it is appraised.

Link beside the chest on the left side of a pink room
Get it appraised later message after taking the ring in Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Small Key from the block-frame chest

Continue through the pink rooms to a room where a chest sits inside a block frame, with two red Zol-like enemies nearby. Open the chest for a Small Key. Your key count goes from zero to one, and the key is what you need for the next locked door in the rooms to the south.

Chest with a small key inside a teal block border in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
You found a Small Key message above the chest in its teal block border in Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Escape the Like Like

In the pink room with a teal water strip, a green Like Like-type enemy swallows Link and takes the Shield for a moment. Attack it from inside its grip to get free. Do not rely on the Shield in this room; the sword is enough.

Link slashing with the sword near red enemies in a pink room with teal floor tiles
Green Like Like-type enemy in a pink room after the message that the shield was eaten

Compass on the teal pad

Step onto the teal tile pad with the red chest and open it. The chest holds the Compass. The Compass tracks the chests and Small Keys of this dungeon on your map, which matters here because the three-floor layout hides several of them. Its box says it helps you locate chests and find keys.

Link holding up the Compass on a teal tile pad with the You found the Compass message
Compass message ending locate chests and find keys, Link holding the Compass

Middle rooms: switches, chests and a second Small Key

Clear the chest rooms and the switch room

Continue through the pink rooms with teal and magenta tiles, red blocks and skull pots. A teal water strip has a grey button and a red switch; press them to change the water level for the rooms beyond. Keep rupees in mind: the count rises as you break the pots and pick up gold drops, and you will want rupees for the shop trips later on.

Grey button beside the teal water strip in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Red switch and grey button at the edge of the teal water strip in Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Small Key from the block-row chest

Fight the green caterpillar-like and dark Hardhat-like enemies on the row of teal blocks. Open the chest in the block row for a Small Key, then open a second chest on the next block row. A dark-green water pit lies between the rooms, so check the water level before you swim across. Your key count goes from zero to one.

Link holding up a Small Key in a pink room of teal blocks in Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Small Key message ending in block in this dungeon, with Link beneath the chest

Angler Fish and the Long Hook

Side-view rooms and the Angler Fish

The side-view purple rooms have ladders and water. The Angler Fish, a blue anglerfish-like mini-boss, swoops at you with bubbles, so bring the Roc’s Feather to dodge its rushes. Shoot Scent Seeds from the Seed Shooter to make it fall, then slash its lantern with your sword. Repeat until it is defeated; hearts drop during the fight. Climb the ladder when it is down.

Blue Angler Fish with bubbles swooping over Link in a side-view room
Angler Fish above a red ring attack while Link stands on the ledge below
Angler Fish firing rings at Link along the ledges in the side-view room

Take the Long Hook

In the lilac room with gold rails, open the chest on the left for the Long Hook. Its box names the item and explains that it swaps places with objects from a distance. The Long Hook is the Switch Hook upgraded to level 2, so it reaches farther and pulls you across longer gaps. In the Zelda Wiki listing, the hook is what gets you to Plasmarine, and it is the only upgrade you need from this dungeon.

Link at the chest on the left of the lilac room with gold rails
Link holding the Long Hook overhead with its message box in the lilac room

Use the Long Hook across the black gaps in the lilac rooms with blue gem tiles. Chests inside block rings are reachable this way, and the side-view rooms with ladders and turtle-like enemies lie beyond.

Long Hook reaching across a black gap toward the lilac room's far side
Link pulled by the Long Hook through a gold-railed doorway in the lilac rooms

Crabs, switches and rupees

Walk through the lilac rooms, then the yellow-sand strip room with crabs and back into the pink rooms. A gold-bordered switch ring and a blue pad with a grey button sit in the pink rooms, and a red chest waits at the top left. Each route change matters for the water, so press the switch rings you pass.

Blue pad inside a gold-bordered switch ring in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Blue pad, grey button and yellow sand floor in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly

Small Keys, locked doors and the Boss Key

Small Key beside the red crystal block

In the pink room with a chest beside a red crystal block, open the chest for a Small Key. Use one of your keys on the next locked door, then check the teal pad with the crab-like enemy for another chest. Your key count goes up by one here.

Link holding up a Small Key beside a chest in a pink room of Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Small Key message ending in block in this dungeon above the chest in a pink room

Walk across the grey button and teal-water strip to reach the chest on the teal pad. Fight the crab-like enemy first. Gold drops and recovery hearts show up in the pink rooms, so you can restock.

Chest on a teal pad beside a crab-like enemy and gold drops in a pink room
Link beside a chest on a teal pad with gold drops and a crab-like enemy nearby

Small Key in the block-frame room

Head to the block-frame chest with a key sign on top. Opening it gives you another Small Key. The box text is cut off in the middle, but the key count goes up and the box names the key by its use on a locked door or block. Your total goes up to two.

Chest with a key sign above it, inside its block border, in a pink room, before opening
Small Key message ending in block in this dungeon, with Link beside the block-surrounded chest

Small Key in the lilac room

In the lilac room, use the teal block row to reach the chest and take the next Small Key. Cross the statue-lined bridge and the black-void rooms with the four-chest pattern. Spiky black balls appear in the rooms that follow, so keep your hearts up.

Link beside a chest in the teal block row of a lilac room in Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Link holding up a Small Key above a teal block row chest in Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Small Key message ending in block in this dungeon, with Link at the teal block row

Boss Key in the centre chest

Walk up to the room with a 3×3 patterned red and gold block. The chest in the centre holds the Boss Key. Open it and the box confirms the Boss Key, with Link holding it overhead. The sword and the Long Hook are all you need to reach it.

Link standing at the chest in the centre of a red and gold patterned block room
You found the Boss Key message with Link holding the key above the centre chest

Plasmarine (Level 7 boss)

Reach the boss room

Follow the statue-tile corridor to the top door of the boss door room. Your Boss Key opens it. Plasmarine’s room has a yellow brick floor and blue-grey walls.

Statue tiles and chests along the lilac corridor leading toward the boss door
Link at the top door of the boss door room in Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Link entering the yellow brick Plasmarine room with its blue-form boss in view

Plasmarine boss strategy

Plasmarine, the electrified jellyfish-type boss that Level 7 is built around, appears as a blue form and a red form, and it switches between them each time you hit it with the hook. Its energy balls match its current color. Aim the Long Hook at Plasmarine just as it fires a ball at you, so you trade places with it, and the ball hits Plasmarine instead of Link. Keep lined up horizontally or vertically, and repeat until it goes down. Your sword does nothing to it directly. Hearts drop from it along the way.

Red Plasmarine form with a red energy ball on the yellow brick floor
Blue Plasmarine form on the yellow brick floor beside Link
Red Plasmarine form firing an energy ball toward Link in the boss room

Heart Container

When Plasmarine falls, a heart drops and you collect it. Walk to the reward, where the box confirms a Heart Container. The Heart Container adds one full heart to your health meter.

A heart dropped on the sand floor after the boss falls in Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Link holding a Heart Container overhead with the You got a Heart Container message

Rolling Sea and the Essence of Time

Walk north from the boss room to the Essence chamber, a dark altar room with stairs up to the altar. Stand on the altar to take the Rolling Sea, one of the eight Essences of Time that Link collects to open the Black Tower. A box confirms it and the Essence’s blue sparks glow around you. The Rolling Sea is the Essence of Time in this dungeon; see the Essences of Time page for the full list.

Link holding up the Rolling Sea essence in the altar room with its name box
Link on the altar in the dark chamber with blue sparks glowing around the Rolling Sea essence

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere
RingLike Like Ring (appraise with Vasu)Level 7 pink rooms, present
Dungeon itemCompassLevel 7 pink rooms, teal pad chest, present
Small Keys5 Small Keys in this stretchLevel 7 chest rooms, present
UpgradeLong Hook (Switch Hook L-2)Level 7 lilac room, present
Dungeon itemBoss KeyLevel 7 3×3 patterned block room, present
Heart ContainerHeart Container (Plasmarine)Level 7 boss room, present
Essence of TimeRolling SeaLevel 7 altar room, present

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