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Samasa Desert and the Pirate’s Bell Walkthrough

Oracle of Seasons 100% Completion Walkthrough26 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversSunken City and the snowy Holodrum mountain, Goron Mountain, the Samasa Desert coast and desert, Subrosia (the pirate house and the smithy), the Western Coast cottage and graveyard, and Horon Village for ring appraisals. The route needs summer at one tree stump on the Western Coast.
DungeonNone cleared here. The chapter ends at the entrance of the Explorer’s Crypt (Dungeon 7), which the next chapter clears.
RewardsGoron Vase (Lava Soup trade), Pirate’s Bell (quest item), Rang Ring L-1 and Red Ring (both appraised by Vasu), Slayer’s Ring, a chest of 10 Bombs, two Gasha Seeds planted, and a Maple race for her drops. No Heart Pieces, Heart Containers or Essences.

This chapter follows the trade that begins with Lava Soup, the rusty bell from the desert, and the pirates who need it to sail again. You leave the Ancient Ruins, cross the snow to Biggoron, pick up a ring and a Gasha Seed on the Samasa Desert coast, and recover the bell from a cave under the quicksand. You then polish it in Subrosia, return it to the captain, and sail to the Western Coast. The chapter ends at the entrance to the Explorer’s Crypt.

Link standing at the stone tower entrance of the Ancient Ruins
Link in a sand chamber ringed by skull rocks in the Samasa Desert

Leaving the Ancient Ruins and reaching Sunken City

Warp out with a Gale Seed

Leave the Ancient Ruins by its stone tower entrance and open the item menu. Select a Gale Seed from your Seed Satchel and choose the Sunken City warp. Gale Seeds take you to the trees you have already set up, so make sure your Satchel holds enough of them for the rest of the chapter.

Link on a fenced grass patch just outside the Ancient Ruins
Link arriving on a grass islet in the water at the Sunken City warp spot

Cross Sunken City to the snow

In Sunken City, swim past the sunken chests on the water and dive past the turtle near the waterfall. Climb the vines up the cliff, then head west until you find the cave that leads to the snowy mountain. The sources differ on the exact route through the water, so follow the vines and the cave entrance rather than a fixed path.

Link swimming past a sunken chest in the Sunken City water
Link diving through an underwater channel between rock pillars
Link at the base of a waterfall beside climbable vines on the Sunken City cliff

Winter Holodrum: the Maple race

Race Maple for her drops

Across the snow field, Maple will appear on her broom and challenge you to a race. Both of you race to collect the items lying around, and whoever gathers more keeps them. Grab the seeds and rupees as quickly as you can, because a fast win gives you the drops she is carrying.

Maple on her broom beside Link in the snow field before the race
Maple's race call: one wins, ready and go, in the snow field
Maple on her broom after the snow field race, saying she will remember this

Take the Lava Soup to Biggoron

Open the trade menu and select the Lava Soup. The Subrosian chef makes it in the Iron Pot, and it is the fifth step of the trading sequence and the only one made in Subrosia. Climb the snowy mountain to the cave near the top, where the stairs lead up to Biggoron’s room. For the full list of trades, see Trading Sequence.

Link at the doorway of a cave on the snowy mountain with stairs leading up
Biggoron's large round body filling the screen in his room on the snowy mountain

Biggoron and the Goron Vase

Biggoron is sick with a cold and asks for something warm. Hand him the Lava Soup, and he drinks it and is cured right away. As thanks he gives you the Goron Vase, the next item in the trading sequence. Keep the vase, because the next trade is made with it.

Biggoron asking Link whether he has anything to warm his body up
Biggoron drinking the Lava Soup with a glug sound
Biggoron saying he is all better after drinking the soup
Link holding the Goron Vase over his head as Biggoron explains it is a very nice vase

Samasa Desert coast: the gate, the ring and the Gasha Seed

Open the desert gate

Follow the coast to the Samasa Desert sign, then go to the desert gate. The gate opens with a code of four switches, and the skeletal pirate upstairs in the pirate house in Subrosia gives you the order. Reach the pirate house by the Subrosia portal near the beach at Horon Village, two screens west and one south of Horon’s edge. Enter the code on the switches to open the gate.

Link walking along the Samasa Desert coast by the palms and the sea
The ghost pirate standing on the Samasa Desert coast between the palms
The ghost pirate walking along the Samasa Desert coast toward the east

Get the ring chest

Inside the desert, a chest holds a ring you cannot identify until Vasu appraises it. Reach it through the quicksand in the southern part of the desert, then swim through the underwater passage to a small hut on the water-side platform. Open the chest for the ring, which becomes the Rang Ring L-1 once appraised.

Link swimming through the underwater passage between stone pillars in the desert
Link inside a small hut on a water-side platform beside the chest
You got a ring box: Get it appraised later, shown inside the water-side hut

Plant a Gasha Seed on the soft soil

Go to the soft soil patch on the desert coast and stand on it. Press the A button to plant a Gasha Seed, and the planting prompt will ask you to confirm. A Gasha Seed grows into a tree after roughly 40 enemy kills, and planting in a hard-to-reach spot tends to give rarer nuts. For every soft soil spot in the game, see Gasha Seed Locations.

Link walking on the sand toward a soft soil patch on the Samasa Desert coast
Prompt asking whether to plant the Gasha Seed on the soft soil, with Plant selected

Samasa Desert: the talking skull and the Rusty Bell

Carry the skull to the quicksand

The desert’s north-east oasis holds a talking skull. Lift it with the Power Bracelet, and carry it across the desert. The skull reacts when it is over a quicksand pit that hides the bell, and the reaction is the only sign of which pit to use.

Palm-lined oasis pool in the Samasa Desert
Link at the edge of a water pool inside a stone chamber in the Samasa Desert

Find the bell in the cave

Two screens east of the desert’s entrance, a buried ship lies in the sand, and a ghost pirate waits in its aft. Leave the ship and step into the quicksand where the skull chatters, and let yourself sink. Falling into the right pit drops you into a cave with the Rusty Bell in front of you. Pick up the Rusty Bell from the cave floor.

Link standing in front of the skull-topped arch in the desert sand
Link at the dark pit under the skull arch in the desert

Subrosia: from the Rusty Bell to the Pirate’s Bell

Show the captain the bell

Go back to Horon Village, take the Subrosia portal near the beach, and enter the pirate house from the front. The captain says he needs his bell to sail. Hand him the Rusty Bell, and he refuses it because it is rusty and sends you to the smithy to have it polished.

Link entering the Subrosia pirate house with the captain and crew
Link holding the Rusty Bell as the pirate captain says he brought him the bell
The pirate captain refusing the Rusty Bell because it is rusted, in the pirate house
The pirate captain telling Link to go get the Rusty Bell polished

Polish the bell at the smithy

Take the Rusty Bell to the Subrosian smithy. Answer the smith’s question with the bold option, Do it!, and wait while he works. The smith will say he is making something special and that the bell should be treated like an heirloom.

Subrosian smith in his shop telling Link the rusty bell is a bell of great value
The smith's question about polishing the bell, with the Do it! option selected
The Subrosian smith apologizing for the wait while he works on the bell

When he finishes, you receive the Pirate’s Bell, which you carry back to the captain.

Pirate's Bell item message in the Subrosian smithy with the bell over Link's head
Link back in the Subrosia pirate house with the captain and crew after the polishing

Return the bell and sail

Return to the captain’s quarters in the pirate house and give him the Pirate’s Bell. The ship sails away from the desert and docks in an inlet just west of Hero’s Cave on the Western Coast. Walk along the planks from the ship to reach the new area, where the ghost cottage and graveyard lie.

The pirate captain ordering the crew to set sail in the Subrosia pirate house
Link alone in the pirate house after the captain's order to set sail

Western Coast: the cottage, the bombed wall and the ghost

Open the chest and bomb the wall

From the ship, go north twice to an abandoned cottage on the Western Coast. The chest inside holds 10 Bombs. Bomb the crumbled wall in the upper-right corner to open a secret second room, then use your Roc’s Feather to cross the potholes on the way out.

Link in the abandoned cottage on the Western Coast beside the chest room
You got ten Bombs message in the abandoned cottage on the Western Coast
Link in the cottage room with its chest after collecting the Bombs

Hear the ghost’s secret

A ghost inside the cottage tells a secret from long ago. The secret is part of a linked-game exchange with Oracle of Ages, so it is not something you can finish in an unlinked game. See Linked Game Secrets for the full list.

Link entering the ghost cottage on the Western Coast, with the ghost waiting at the right
The ghost in the cottage asking Link whether he can hear its regret

Use the Rod of Seasons at the stump

Go north from the cottage to the tree stump and use the Rod of Seasons on it. Change the season to summer, which turns the snowy coast green and lets the vines grow in the graveyard you need next.

Link on the snowy coast beside the tree stump before the season changes
The tree stump on a green summer coast after the season has changed
Link walking on the green summer grass beside the tree stump

The Golden Beasts ring and Vasu’s appraisals

Collect the Golden Beasts ring

Return to the old man in the cave south of Gnarled Root Dungeon after you have slain all four Golden Beasts. He gives you a ring that you cannot identify yet, a Seed Ring. Vasu identifies it as the Red Ring, which doubles sword damage. For the four beasts and where to find them, see Golden Beasts.

Link in the blue-tiled room hearing the old man speak of the four golden beasts
Link in the blue-tiled room as the old man warns him not to be tempted
Link standing alone in the blue-tiled room after the old man's talk

Get the Member’s Card reward in Horon Village

Walk into the Horon Village shop and show the shopkeeper your Member’s Card. He lets you through to the members’ room at the back of the shop. The room sells the Seed Satchel upgrade. For the Satchel upgrade and other shop items, see Items and Equipment.

The Horon Village shop with its blue roof, Link standing outside
The shopkeeper saying Link is a Member's Card holder and letting him through
The members' room behind the Horon Village shop with its counter and sign

Appraise the rings with Vasu

Go to Vasu Jewelers in Horon Village. Vasu charges 20 Rupees per ring and appraises them one at a time. He identifies the Rang Ring L-1, then the Red Ring, and then the Slayer’s Ring, which he awards once you have slain 1000 monsters. For the whole ring list, see Magical Rings.

Vasu at his counter telling Link he has slain 1000 monsters and handing over a ring
Vasu welcoming Link to Vasu Jewelers in Horon Village

The snowy coast, the graveyard and the Explorer’s Crypt

Plant the second Gasha Seed

On the snowy coast path, find the soft soil patch and plant a second Gasha Seed. The planting prompt asks you to confirm, just as on the desert coast. A seed planted here grows as you kill enemies nearby.

Link on the snowy coast soft soil with the message that he can plant a Gasha Seed
Plant or Don't prompt for the Gasha Seed on the snowy coast soft soil

Cross the graveyard

Walk to the graveyard and climb the vines to the second screen. In the graveyard, the first Ghini on each screen is special: defeating it kills the other Ghinis on that screen. Touching the graves spawns more enemies, so move through quickly. A Piece of Heart lies on the graveyard plateau, but it needs autumn and Roc’s Cape; see Heart Piece Locations.

Link climbing the vines onto the graveyard screen beside a gravestone patch
A Ghini enemy among the gravestones in the graveyard with Link nearby
Link fighting a Ghini among the gravestones in the graveyard

Reach the Explorer’s Crypt entrance

Go north from the graveyard to the dark stone building at the top of the screen. This is the entrance to the Explorer’s Crypt, Dungeon 7. Enter it to start the dungeon in Explorer’s Crypt (Dungeon 7) Walkthrough.

Link walking north toward the dark stone building at the top of the graveyard
Link at the doorway of the dark stone Explorer's Crypt building
The Explorer's Crypt name box as Link enters the dungeon entrance

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere
Trade itemGoron VaseBiggoron, in the cave on the snowy mountain above Sunken City
Quest itemRusty Bell, then Pirate’s BellQuicksand cave in the Samasa Desert; polished at the Subrosian smithy
RingRang Ring L-1Chest reached through the desert quicksand and underwater passage; appraised at Vasu Jewelers
RingRed RingOld man in the cave south of Gnarled Root Dungeon after the four Golden Beasts; appraised at Vasu Jewelers
RingSlayer’s RingVasu Jewelers, after 1000 monsters are slain
Gasha SeedTwo seeds plantedSoft soil on the Samasa Desert coast and on the snowy coast path
Chest10 BombsAbandoned cottage on the Western Coast, north of the ship landing
Season changeSummerTree stump north of the Western Coast cottage
MapleRace for her dropsSnow field in winter Holodrum

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