Items and Equipment

This is your weapon for almost the whole adventure. On Mercay Island, look for the storehouse door that is shut tight. The sign beside it asks how many palm trees grow on the beach where you landed: the answer is 7, which you write on the Touch Screen. Inside, a chest holds the sword. Tap an enemy to slash it, or drag the stylus across it for a swing; sword training follows.

The only shield in the game costs 80 Rupees at the Mercay Island shop (the Molida Island shop sells it for the same price). Once you have bought it, the shops stop stocking it, unless a Like Like swallows it. Gather a few Rupees from the grass near Oshus’s house before you go shopping.

This is the sword’s only upgrade, and nothing else can hurt Bellum. Carry the three Pure Metals (Crimsonine from the Goron Temple, Azurine from the Temple of Ice and Aquanine from Mutoh’s Temple) to Zauz on his island in the Northwestern Sea. He forges the blade while Jolene challenges you to one last duel, and he has it ready once you have beaten her. Take the blade to Oshus on Mercay Island: he fuses the Phantom Hourglass into it, and you leave holding the Phantom Sword. See Phantom Sword and Bellum for the full sequence.

You find it in a chest in the Temple of Fire. Tap the item, draw a path with the stylus, and the boomerang follows it, flicking switches, stunning enemies and lighting torches along the way. Several later puzzles need long, bending lines, so practice drawing around corners.

On Molida Island, Romanos tells you about a cave behind his house that his father used as a hideout. Cross it (the Boomerang handles the river Zora Warrior, and bomb flowers open a cracked wall) and open the chest at the end. The Shovel digs up marked spots, uncovers treasure and releases gust geysers from soft soil. It also pays for the Digging Game on Harrow Island. Read Cannon Island and Molida Island for the route.

The Temple of Wind hands you your first bombs, along with a Bomb Bag that holds 10. Bombs open cracked walls, break rocks and stun some enemies. Shops sell more only once you can carry them, and ten bombs cost 50 Rupees at the Mercay Island shop.

A chest in the Temple of Courage holds the Bow. Keep the stylus on the Touch Screen to aim and look around, and tap the screen to fire. Your quiver starts at 20 arrows. Ten arrows cost 50 Rupees at the Molida Island and Goron Island shops.

The big chest of the Goron Temple contains them, and you can carry 10 at first. Draw a route for the little mouse bomb and it runs along it until it hits something, which lets it crawl through small holes and reach switches and enemies that you cannot get near yourself. The Goron Temple gives Bombchus, not the Hammer.

You collect it in the Temple of Ice. Tap a post and the hook latches on, letting you swing across gaps, stretch a tightrope between two posts and fling yourself across wide holes. Light objects are pulled toward you, while you are pulled toward heavy ones, and the hook can also bounce arrows back. It is the key to the boss Gleeok.

The last tool waits deep inside Mutoh’s Temple. It pounds down pegs, flips switches, launches you from springboards and smashes the bolts on the armor of the boss Eox. It also comes in handy on the deepest floors of the Temple of the Ocean King.

Eddo sells the Cannon from his garage on Cannon Island for 50 Rupees. Fuzo points you around the bomb garden to reach him; agree to the price and the cannon is mounted on your ship. Tap a target at sea to fire. It handles sea monsters, boulders and Jolene’s ship.

After the Temple of the Ocean King trip that shows you the sun crest, a letter from Eddo arrives to say his Salvage Arm is ready. Visit him at his garage on Cannon Island. He sets the price by how loudly you shout into the microphone, anywhere from 200 to 1,000 Rupees, so shout with all your might. With the arm fitted, open the menu at sea over a marked treasure map spot and lower it to haul up chests. Every hit on a mine or rock wears it down, and Gazpacho at the Mercay Island shipyard repairs it for a fee. The first chest worth fetching in the Southwestern Sea is the Sun Key. See Treasure Maps for every spot.

The Old Wayfarer on Bannan Island gives you the Fishing Rod once you finish the mermaid favor: clear the island of monsters, hit the “mermaid” who keeps ducking into the water with the Boomerang and let her visit his hut. Pick Fish from the sea menu to cast. Show him a Loovar and he gives you the Big Catch Lure, which lets you hook the bigger fish. Details are on the Fishing page.

Cylos, the golden chief of Uncharted Island (the whale-shaped island in the Northwestern Sea), gives you the slate after you solve the statue puzzle that opens the cave. Draw the symbol shown for each Golden Frog on it and you ride a waterspout to that frog’s spot from anywhere at sea. See Golden Frog Locations.

The game has four charts: Southwestern, Northwestern, Southeastern and Northeastern. The first comes from a chest on the first floor of the Temple of the Ocean King, and later visits to the temple deliver the rest. Without the right chart you cannot plot a course to those seas, so return to the temple whenever you are stuck.

Play the Cannon Game on Bannan Island (20 Rupees per round, in the cave southeast of the Old Wayfarer’s hut that a bomb opens; Salvatore runs it) and score more than 2,500 points to win a bigger bag. Blue targets are worth 100 points and break when hit, while red ones are worth 20 points per hit and never break. Beedle’s ship sells the other upgrade for 1,000 Rupees once you can carry Bombs. Together they take you from 10 to 30 bombs.

Romanos opens the Shooting Range on Molida Island after the Temple of Courage. You pay 20 Rupees, get 70 seconds and unlimited arrows, and a first score from 1,700 to 1,990 earns a quiver upgrade. The Molida and Mercay shops sell the other upgrade for 1,000 Rupees. Do both and your quiver reaches 50.

The Goron Island shop sells the first upgrade for 1,000 Rupees. On Dee Ess Island, Gongoron’s Goron Game costs 50 Rupees; roll through the course in 35 seconds or less to win a Bombchu Bag upgrade. The game opens only after the Temple of Ice, once Gongoron’s letter arrives. See Mini-Games for the full rules.

It heals six hearts and sits in the item menu, where you tap it to drink. The Mercay Island and Molida Island shops sell it for 50 Rupees, while Beedle’s Shop Ship and the Masked Ship charge 80.

It restores eight hearts and, unlike the others, works by itself: if you would otherwise fall, it revives you. The Mercay, Molida and Goron Island shops sell it for 150 Rupees, and Beedle’s ship offers it for 200.

This one refills all of your hearts when you drink it from the menu, so use it before you are in trouble. The Goron Island shop sells it for 150 Rupees, and Beedle’s alter ego, who runs the Masked Ship, offers it for 200.

The Mercay Island shop sells the Wooden Shield, Bombs, potions and a random treasure; Molida Island and Goron Island have shops of their own with arrows, Bombchus, potions and the bag upgrades. The Mercay and Molida shops each stock the 500-Rupee Power Gem, which you can buy only once, and once you have cleared the Goron Temple and bought both the Quiver and Bombchu Bag upgrades, a Heart Container goes on sale for 2,000 Rupees (see Heart Containers). Beedle’s Shop Ship sails the seas and sells ship parts, treasure, potions and the 1,000-Rupee Bomb Bag; spending there earns membership points, and a Freebie Card or Complimentary Card brings a discount. The Masked Ship that replaces it at set hours gives no discounts. The Treasure Teller on Mercay Island buys ship parts and treasure.

On your second trip into the Temple of the Ocean King, once Leaf is with you, Oshus sends you to take the hourglass from the pedestal in the first room. Its sand starts at 10 minutes and grows to 25 as you beat bosses and salvage sunken sand chests; see Sand of Hours. Safe zones pause the drain, and sunlight outside refills it.

Salvage the crest spot that the temple’s stone tablet copied onto your Southwestern Sea chart. The chest holds the Sun Key, which opens the sun-shaped door in Molida Island’s second hideout, the way to the Temple of Courage.

The Cubus Sisters drop it when you beat them aboard the Ghost Ship. On a later visit it opens a keyhole block in the first maze, behind which Tetra waits. It is described in Ghost Ship.

Brant, the fourth knight on the Isle of the Dead, lets you open a chest outside his tomb after you cross the Phantom Corridor. Carrying it calms the cyclone around the Isle of Ruins.

Doylan, the second knight, keeps it on an altar on the second floor of his pyramid. Set it into the hole in Bremeur’s temple and the water flooding the Isle of Ruins drains away.

Crimsonine waits in the Goron Temple, Azurine in the Temple of Ice and Aquanine in Mutoh’s Temple. Each is yours after the dungeon’s boss, and all three go to Zauz for the Phantom Sword.

A small key opens one locked door and then vanishes, while a dungeon’s Boss Key opens the large door to its boss. Not every dungeon has small keys, and a key found in one dungeon works only in that dungeon.