Infusing the Picori Blade Walkthrough

The Minish Cap 100% Completion Walkthrough19 chapters

Walkthrough overview

• The Picori Festival and the Minish WoodsGet the Small Shield and Smith’s Sword, meet Ezlo, shrink and reach Minish Village.
• Deepwood Shrine (Dungeon 1)All four small keys, Dungeon Map, Compass, Madderpillar, Gust Jar, Big Key, Heart Pieces and Big Green Chuchu.
• Ascent to Mount CrenelBomb Bag, Kinstone Bag, Big Wallet, bottle, Grip Ring, Great Fairy, Heart Pieces and Melari’s Mines.
• Cave of Flames (Dungeon 2)Every key, chest and mine cart, the Cane of Pacci, the Big Key, Gleerok boss tactics and the Fire Element.
• Infusing the Picori BladeMelari’s White Sword, the Elemental Sanctuary, a Heart Piece and a Kinstone piece on the way.
• Getting the Pegasus BootsSyrup’s Wake-Up Mushroom, Lon Lon Ranch, eight Kinstone fusions, three Heart Pieces and Swiftblade.
• Castor Wilds and the Wind RuinsThree Gold Kinstones, the Bow, the Mysterious Statue fusions and the road to the Fortress of Winds.
• Fortress of Winds (Dungeon 3)Every key, Compass, Map, Mole Mitts, Big Key, Mazaal boss tactics, Heart Container and Ocarina of Wind.
• The Library Books and the FlippersReturn the three overdue books in Hyrule Town, win the Power Bracelets and get the Flippers.
• Hyrule Town Side Quests and Kinstone FusionsAnju’s Cucco Roundup, Simon’s Simulation, Kinstone fusions, heart pieces and the Magical Boomerang.
• Collectibles Sweep Before the Temple of DropletsKinstone fusions, 10 Pieces of Heart, Roll Attack and Peril Beam dojos and the Large Quiver.
• Temple of Droplets (Dungeon 4)Every key, Map, Compass, Big Key, Flame Lantern, Big Blue Chuchu, Big Octorok and the Water Element.
• Royal Valley and the Royal CryptWater Element, Sword Beam, Remote Bombs, Graveyard Key, Great Fairy and King Gustaf’s Gold Kinstone
• Veil Falls and the Cloud TopsHeart Pieces, Splitblade’s dojo, Source of the Flow and five Mysterious Cloud fusions.
• Palace of Winds (Dungeon 5)Roc’s Cape, four Small Keys, Big Key, Compass, Map, Heart Piece, Gyorg Pair boss and Wind Element.
• Collecting the Upgrades Before the Four SwordDown Thrust, Great Spin Attack, seven Kinstone fusions, seven Heart Pieces and the Goron Cave bottle.
• Dark Hyrule Castle (Final Dungeon)King’s cell, Map, Compass, six Small Keys, Big Key, Darknut rooms and the Darknut trio before Vaati.
• Vaati Final Boss and EndingBeat Vaati Reborn, Transfigured and Wrath, free Zelda, escape the castle, then save after the credits.
• Postgame Collectibles and 100% CompletionLast Kinstone fusions, Biggoron’s Mirror Shield, Heart Pieces, Heart Container, Tingle Trophy and all 136 figurines.

With the Fire Element in hand, you carry the broken blade back to Melari, who forges it into the White Sword. You then walk to Hyrule Castle, infuse the new blade with the Earth and Fire Elements in the Elemental Sanctuary and learn to split into two Links. On the way you activate the Hyrule Town Wind Crest, find a Piece of Heart in the Castle Garden and a red Kinstone piece in Trilby Highlands.

Melari’s Mines: the White Sword

Receive the White Sword

Walk back down into the mines and speak to Melari at his forge. He has finished reforging the Picori Blade and hands you the White Sword, which replaces your grandfather’s sword. It becomes your sword for the rest of the game, though it still needs the four Elements to reach full strength.

Melari explains that the doorway to the Elemental Sanctuary opens only once every hundred years and that the blade must be filled with the power of the four Elements there. Let him finish, because he also tells you about a shortcut down the mountain that starts in front of the mine entrance. Then leave the mine.

Down Mount Crenel to Hyrule Town

Step on the portal rock outside to grow back to normal size, then take the shortcut Melari described. Drop down the ledge, use the ladder and climb down the climbable rock walls and the vine to reach the foot of the mountain. Head east out of the Crenel area, cross the bridge in Trilby Highlands and follow the path on to Hyrule Town.

Hyrule Town: Wind Crest and Swiftblade

Walk north through Hyrule Town to the stone marker in the northern part of town, close to the exit to North Hyrule Field. Stand in front of it and press A to activate the Hyrule Town Wind Crest. Nothing is needed to activate it, and once you own the Ocarina of Wind it works as a fast-travel point.

Optional stop: Swiftblade, the sword master, lives in a house in the south part of town. Once you own the White Sword he teaches the Rock Breaker technique and gives you a Tiger Scroll. It is not needed to reach the Sanctuary, so visit now or on a later pass through town.

Hyrule Castle and the Elemental Sanctuary

Through Hyrule Castle to the glowing door

Leave Hyrule Town by the north exit, cross North Hyrule Field and enter Hyrule Castle through the front doors. Go through the castle and out into the inner courtyard, where a large doorway glows at the end of the garden path. Walk up to it and go in.

The entrance rooms

The first chamber is only an entrance hall, so go straight north. In the second room the door behind you shuts and flashing panels appear on the floor. Continue north to the central chamber.

Infuse the sword with Earth and Fire

Walk to the pedestal in the middle of the chamber and press A to thrust the White Sword into the slot. The Earth and Fire Elements flow into the blade, so it is now infused with the first two Elements. The Water and Wind Elements are added on later visits.

Learn to split in two

In the room with the stone tablet, stand on one of the flashing panels and hold the sword button until the charge gauge in the corner of the screen fills. Keep holding it and walk onto the second flashing panel to split off a clone. The clone fades when your charge runs out, and Ezlo points out that you can do this whenever you see flashing panels.

Return to the second room, where the exit is blocked. Two panels there must be pressed at once: stand on one, charge, and walk your clone onto the other. The way out opens, so leave through the green corridor and dismiss the clone with R.

Hyrule Castle Garden: Piece of Heart

Out to the Garden

Walk back out through the castle and across the drawbridge into Hyrule Castle Garden. A long cutscene starts here in which Vaati confronts you and Ezlo explains his past. There is nothing to collect or fight, so just let it play out.

The hidden ladder

Once you have control again, go to the lower right (southeast) part of the garden and cut the grass to uncover a hidden ladder. Climb down and follow the cave past the Keese to the Piece of Heart on a pedestal at the end. Four pieces make a full heart, so keep count.

Trilby Highlands: red Kinstone piece

The ladder cave and the clone puzzle

Head back through Hyrule Town and out by the western exit to Trilby Highlands. Take the ladder down to the cave below. This is the cave where a Business Scrub later sells a bottle, so ignore the scrub for now.

Stand on one of the flashing panels, charge your sword and walk the clone onto the other panel. With both of you in place, push the big stone block out of the way, then climb the ladder at the top of the room to leave the cave.

Percy’s house

Shrink at the stump

Next to the pond, step on the wooden stump to shrink and walk left through the tall grass to the hollow under the big tree. It leads into the tiny house of Percy, a travelling poet who tells you he lost half of a red Kinstone. Fusing a red piece with him later makes the fallen tree by his house stand up again. Leave by the door mat and walk east towards Western Wood.

On towards the next Element

A cutscene at the castle shows the king ordering a search for the Light Force; you take no part in it. Afterwards Ezlo says you must find the next Element. Follow the path through Western Wood to the signpost, which points to Castor Wilds and warns you to bring your Pegasus Boots, the next item you need.

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