Items

The Candle is the first key item you can take. It is found in Parapa Palace, the first palace on the route, behind the first orange Iron Knuckle, which guards a locked door in the room with the second Gooma. Defeat the Iron Knuckle, open the locked door behind it, and take the item. Use it in dark caves: when you hold the Candle, the cave is lit and the hidden paths become visible.

The Hammer is hidden in a cave on Death Mountain. Follow the cave network from Saria Town and keep to the rightmost opening at each junction. Past the lava room, beyond a red Daira, you reach the Hammer. Press the attack button against a boulder on the overworld to smash it. Its other big use is revealing the hidden town of New Kasuto.

The Handy Glove is inside Midoro Palace, behind a locked door past a red Iron Knuckle. With it equipped, your sword can break the special brick blocks found in palaces, which opens many hidden rooms and some of the routes to palace bosses.

The Raft is inside Island Palace. Defeat the blue Iron Knuckle and open the door on the left. Once you have it, use the Raft at a dock on the overworld to sail across the water to the other shore.

The Boots come from Maze Island Palace. The item sits past a blue Iron Knuckle that guards a locked door. Equip the Boots to walk across certain shallow water on the overworld, which opens the route east toward the Palace on the Sea.

The Flute is the item from the Palace on the Sea. It is behind a locked door past the orange and blue Iron Knuckles. Go back up the elevator and head left to reach it. Play it from the overworld map. Its sound makes the River Devil at the river disappear, and it reveals a hidden palace once you stand between three rocks in the south desert.

The Flute reveals Three-Eye Rock Palace; the Magical Key is the intended way to open its locked doors without spending ordinary keys. Pick it up in New Kasuto before going to the palace.

The Cross is inside Three-Eye Rock Palace, behind the locked door just after the first Rebonack. The Cross makes the invisible Moas visible, so you can fight them and walk past them normally.

The Trophy is in a cave in the Tantari Desert, north of the North Palace. A red Goriya guards it, and you reach it after you have cleared Parapa Palace. Take the Trophy to Ruto Town. The red-dress woman in the second screen of the town lets you into the house, where an old man in the basement teaches you the Jump spell. See the Ruto chapter for the full route.

The Mirror lies under a table in an empty house on the second screen of Saria Town. Attack the table to uncover it. Return the Mirror to the purple-dress woman near her house on the first screen, and she lets you in. The old man in her basement then teaches you the Life spell. The Saria chapter covers the steps in order.

The Water of Life is a jar in a swamp cave in Moruge Swamp, north-west of Bagu’s cabin. The entrance is blocked by a boulder, so break it with the Hammer first. Three Dairas guard the jar, so learn the Downward Thrust before you go. Take the jar to the old woman in purple on the third screen of Mido Town. She lets you into her house, where the man downstairs teaches you the Fairy spell. The Mido chapter has the full route.

The child is held in a pit on Maze Island, guarded by orange Lizalfos. Reach the pit by the bridge from Darunia and rescue the child. Bring the child back to Darunia, where the mother introduces you to the old man who teaches the Reflect spell. The Darunia chapter explains the route to the child.