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Temple of Droplets (Dungeon 4) Walkthrough

The Minish Cap 100% Completion Walkthrough19 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversThe Temple of Droplets, the frozen Minish-sized dungeon in Lake Hylia, from the entrance hall to the Big Octorok and the Water Element
DungeonTemple of Droplets Temple of Droplets (Dungeon 4): Flame Lantern, mini-boss Big Blue Chuchu, boss Big Octorok, Water Element
RewardsFlame Lantern, Dungeon Map, Compass, Big Key, 4 Small Keys, 5 Kinstone pieces on the main route (2 blue, 3 red), 50 and 100 rupees in chests, Heart Container, Water Element; no Heart Pieces, Tiger Scrolls, bottles or Kinstone fusions

The Temple of Droplets is the fourth dungeon, an ice-bound temple built at Minish scale, so Link stays tiny for the whole visit. Sunlight is the puzzle here: you pull levers to open skylights, slide ice blocks into the beams to free keys, swim and ride lily pads through the flooded half, and take the Flame Lantern from the Big Blue Chuchu to melt ice and light the dark rooms. The Lantern also lets you burn the plant on the back of the Big Octorok, the boss that has swallowed the Water Element. Beat it for a Heart Container and the Water Element.

Link in the ice arena facing the Big Octorok with a plant growing on its back
Link holding up the glowing Water Element after the boss falls
Link holding the Water Element while its message about water is shown
Link holding up a Heart Container with the item message fully shown

Starting in the Temple of Droplets

The entrance hall and the icy floors

You arrive on a warp pad between two flaming skull torches. Ezlo complains about the cold and warns you not to slip, and the floors really are slick, so stop before ledges and holes. Leave the hall by the south stairs, push loose ice blocks out of your way and carry on through the cold halls toward the first sunlit room.

Link on the warp pad between two flaming skull torches as Ezlo complains about the cold
Link at the foot of the south stairs on the slick ice floor
Link walking south along an icy ledge past loose ice blocks

Dungeon: Temple of Droplets (Dungeon 4)

Sunlight and the first Small Key

Pass the torch-lit room with four pots and the room with the double door and a few red beetles, and enter the ice room that holds a large ice block with a key frozen inside. Pull the lever at the right edge of the room: a skylight opens and a patch of sunlight lands on the floor. Slide the ice block down, then right, until it rests in the sunlight. The block melts and the first Small Key is yours.

Link by the lever as a beam of sunlight starts to fall into the ice room
Link pushing the ice block with the key inside along the wall of the ice room
The key block sitting in the sunlight patch as the ice melts around it
Link holding up a small key with the You got a small key message shown beside the melted ice block

Go back to the room with the hole in the floor and the red beetles, then to the torch room with the four pots, where a locked door waits on the left. Open it with the Small Key. In the next room blue bugs buzz around a hole in the floor, so defeat them and drop through it.

Link in the room with a hole in the floor and red beetles, key counter showing one
Link walking toward the locked door on the left of the torch room with four pots
Link facing blue bugs buzzing around the hole in the floor, key counter at zero
Big Key

Big Key: the three-block ice room

You land in an ice room with three ice blocks and a patch of sunlight on the floor. The Big Key is frozen inside one of the blocks, and it has to end up in the sunlight. Push the bottom block down and then left, push the top block left, then slide the key block left, up, left, down, left, up and right until it sits in the beam.

Link standing above three ice blocks in the room with a patch of sunlight to reach
Link pushing the lower ice block along the bottom wall
The key ice block pushed left toward the sunlight patch past the rock blocks
Link pushing the key ice block beside the lever, close to the sunlight

When the ice has melted, take the Big Key. Pull the lever on the left side of the room to shut the skylight, then climb back up to the entrance hall. The Big Key opens the large door on the south side of the hall. Behind it is a hall of torches and pots where the Water Element sits frozen inside a huge block of ice. Ezlo explains that only strong sunlight will thaw it, which is the goal for the rest of the dungeon.

Link holding up the Big Key with the You got the Big Key message fully shown
Link walking down the torch-lined hall of pots toward the huge ice block
Link at the huge ice block holding the Water Element, with Ezlo's remark about the element
Ezlo explaining the element cannot be touched while trapped in the ice
Dungeon Map

Dungeon Map: the waterfall chest

Leave the element room by the door in the south-west corner and follow the corridor south along the water. At the end you reach a room with a waterfall at the top and a chest on a platform in the middle. Open it for the Dungeon Map.

Link walking south down the corridor beside the water channel
Link on the platform beside the closed chest below the waterfall
Link holding up the dungeon map with the You found a dungeon map message shown

Flooded rooms: roller, mushroom switch and the pot key

Go back out and swim north. A spiked roller patrols the channel, so dive with the B button to pass under it. Climb out on the west side, then swim on. Where a gap blocks the way, aim the Gust Jar at the mushroom and pull it toward you so that you can reach the square floor switch. This lowers the gates in the waterfall and opens the way down.

Link swimming along the flooded channel toward a spiked roller
Link blowing the Gust Jar at a mushroom to pull it toward him beside the waterfall gates
Link beside the mushroom and the square floor switch on the stone ledge

Swim down the waterfall to the lower pool and dive under the roller to reach the stone tablet, which says that the way forward is hidden in the bottom of the pot. Step on the switch below it, then swim into the area outlined like a pot. Dive to the bottom and the second Small Key is waiting there.

Link in the nook with the stone tablet beside the channel patrolled by spiked rollers
Link swimming into the pool outlined like a pot
Link holding up the second small key with the You got a small key message
Link swimming up from the bottom of the pot pool with the key counter at one

Use the Grip Ring to climb the wall beside the waterfall and head north. Open the locked door with the second Small Key and step on the floor switch inside. Your path now leads to the lily pads.

Link climbing the wall beside the waterfall with the Grip Ring
Link walking up the ledge toward the locked door beside the water channel
Link past the unlocked door beside the water channel with the key counter back at zero
Link on the ledge by the floor switch beside the water gates and a lily pad
Compass

Lily pads, the Madderpillar and the Compass

Step onto the green lily pad and blow it along with the Gust Jar, steering it around the spiked rollers. Ride it over the waterfall and down into the next channel, then on to a small island with a floor switch. Press it to lower the water gates, and keep riding east to the ice shore. Red flying bugs drift over the water, so watch for them.

Link on the green lily pad blowing it along with the Gust Jar
Link steering the lily pad to the edge of the waterfall
Link on the lily pad passing a spiked roller in the channel
Link standing on the small island beside the floor switch with the lily pad next to it

On the ice you meet a Madderpillar, a segmented worm like the one in the Deepwood Shrine. Dodge its charges and strike it from the side or behind. Cobwebs line the walls and bounce you back into the worm, so keep away from them. When it is beaten, the north door opens.

A blue Madderpillar crawling out of the north door onto the ice as Link waits on the lily pad
Link slashing the Madderpillar on the ice among rock blocks and cobwebs
Link dodging the pale Madderpillar near the cobweb wall
Link walking to the north door after the Madderpillar is beaten

Beyond the door is a small room with ice blocks and a chest. Open it to take the Compass.

Link opening the chest in the small room with ice blocks
Link holding up the compass with the You got the compass message fully shown

Ice-block switch and the 50 rupees

Return to the lily pad and head north-west, stepping on the island switch to lower another gate. Swim onto the large ice field with floating blocks. Push one ice block onto the round floor switch next to the purple pillar by the water gate; it takes a few pushes to line the block up, and the switch lowers the gate that blocks the lily pad.

Link on the lily pad beside the island with the floor switch
Link on the large ice field among floating ice blocks, with the water gate and lily pad at left
Link pushing ice blocks around the round floor switch
Link pushing an ice block toward the round switch next to the purple pillar and water gate

Ride the lily pad north to the narrow island with a chest. Open it for 50 rupees, then step on the switch beside the chest. Continue by lily pad to the north-east door.

Link riding the lily pad north toward the narrow island with the chest
Link holding up a green 50 rupee gem with the You got 50 Rupee message shown
Link on the lily pad using the Gust Jar beside the floor switch heading for the north-east door
Red Mulldozer

Mulldozers and the blue warp tile

The door opens onto a tiny dark room with a torch. Head on to the stairs, cross the platform, and go through the north door into a carpeted room with three Mulldozers, red beetles with pincers. Keep your shield up against the pincers, and strike each one from behind or when it has thrown its pincers away. When all three are beaten, a blue warp tile appears in the middle of the room as a shortcut back toward the entrance.

Link crossing the platform beyond the stairs toward the north door
Link striking one of three red Mulldozer beetles in the carpeted room
Link facing the last Mulldozers on the carpet with a blue crystal on the floor
A blue warp tile appearing on the carpet after all three Mulldozers are beaten

The four-pad lever room

Make your way to the room with a large lever and four coloured pads. Charge your sword on a pad to create a copy of Link, and make more on the other pads. The lever needs two Links to push it. When it moves, sunlight falls into the temple and melts the ice that blocked the passage to the right. Jump off the ledge to the south.

Link charging his sword on a coloured pad to split off a copy
A copy of Link standing beside the real Link at the large lever
A beam of sunlight falling into the temple onto the huge ice block
The four-pad platform with two pads glowing green beside the open passage

Two blue Kinstone pieces

Head right through the door that is now open and north into the chest room. Open the chest next to the torch for a blue Kinstone piece. Follow the ledge east and cross the narrow ice path along the wall to a second chest, which holds another blue Kinstone piece. Green spinning blades patrol the path, so wait for a gap before you dash past. Keep both pieces for the Kinstone fusions later; nobody in the temple will fuse them.

Link holding up a blue Kinstone piece beside the torch with the full item message shown
Link on the narrow ice path with green spinning blades below and a chest ahead
Link holding up a second blue Kinstone piece with the full item message shown
Small Key

Frozen chest and the third Small Key

Go back and take the stairs down to the room with the frozen chest, set in a block of ice. Two levers control the skylights above it. Pull the lever below, go up and pull the other, then go back to the lower lever, so that sunlight lands on the ice. The ice melts away and the chest gives you the third Small Key.

Link at the lower lever in the room with the chest frozen in a block of ice
Link at the upper lever as a skylight beam falls into the room above
Sunlight landing on the ice block that holds the chest
Link holding up the third small key with the You got a small key message shown

Climb the stairs to the room with four ice blocks and open the locked door with the key. Walk through the door and into the dark room beyond.

Link at the locked door in the room with four large ice blocks, key counter at one
Link in the room beyond the door with spikes along the wall
Big Blue Chuchu

Mini-boss: Big Blue Chuchu

Pull the lever at the bottom of the room. A skylight opens, icicles start to fall and the gate shuts behind you, so the Big Blue Chuchu is the only way out. Keep moving to avoid the icicles. Wait until the Chuchu’s electricity fades, then pull its base with the Gust Jar so that it topples. Slash it while it lies helpless. Repeat each time its sparks stop, until it bursts.

Link at the lever at the bottom of the room with the skylight above
Icicles falling from the open skylight as Link runs
The Big Blue ChuChu crackling with electricity
Link pulling the ChuChu's base with the Gust Jar
Link slashing the toppled ChuChu

A big chest rises in the middle of the room. Open it to take the Flame Lantern, the dungeon item. Equip it and press its button to light the Lantern. It lights torches, shows the way in dark rooms and melts ice.

The big chest risen in the middle of the room
Link holding up the Flame Lantern, You got the Flame Lantern

The 100 rupees and the dark room

Leave the room and use the Lantern on the ice blocks next to the stairs. The melted ice frees a chest holding 100 rupees. Collect it and move east into the dark room.

Ice blocks and an ice-covered chest next to the stairs
Link burning the ice blocks beside the chest with the lit Lantern
Link holding up 100 Rupees, You got 100 Rupees

This dark room holds four unlit fire pits and three more Mulldozers. Keep the Lantern lit and fight them, touching the pits with the Lantern to relight them as they go out. When the room is clear, head right through the door.

Link fighting Mulldozers in the dark room beside a lit fire pit
Link with the Lantern lit among fire pits and Mulldozers
Link fighting Mulldozers near the east door of the dark room
Dark room cleared with a heart dropped and pits lit
Red Kinstone

The dark maze: three red Kinstone pieces and the fourth Small Key

In the dark maze, only a circle around you is visible. Light the fire pits with the Lantern to make the stone blocks vanish. Follow the maze to a chest and open it for the first red Kinstone piece.

Link lighting a fire pit in the dark maze with the Lantern
Link at the maze chest with only a circle of light around him
Link holding up a red Kinstone piece, You got a Kinstone piece

Bomb the cracked wall further on and step through the opening. Take on the three Mulldozers in the room of nine pillars and four torches, with the Lantern lit. When they fall, a Small Key appears: take it, the fourth one.

Link with a lit bomb beside the cracked wall in the maze
Link fighting Mulldozers among the pillars and torches
Link in the pillar room with the Lantern lit
Link holding up the small key, You got a small key

Return to the maze. Head east and north, taking the right-hand path at each fork, to a chest with a second red Kinstone piece. Light the fire pit to open a block and go left and north. At the next fork, take the downward path to the third chest, which holds another red Kinstone piece, and light the fire pit there too. Now use the fourth Small Key on the locked door to leave the maze.

Link holding up the second red Kinstone piece, You got a Kinstone piece
Link lighting a fire pit at a fork in the dark maze
Link holding up the third red Kinstone piece, You got a Kinstone piece
Link at the maze door unlocked with the small key

Fire lines, block puzzles and torches

The next ice room is crossed by lines of fire that cannot be attacked, so run across as soon as the lines are clear. Go on through the next dark room, keeping off the ledges, and out through the north door.

Link in the ice room with a line of fire sweeping past
Link running across the ice room behind a column of fire
Link on the icy path of the next dark room
Link heading north through the dark room on the ice

The next room has two sets of coloured pads and three large pink blocks. Make clones on the pads and use them to slide the three blocks aside, one by one. Finish by pushing the top block right so that the way north opens.

The room with three large pink blocks and coloured pads
Link and a clone pushing a pink block on the pads
Link and a clone sliding a pink block aside
Link pushing the top block right to open the way north

The ice room that follows has three floor switches. Push ice cubes onto two of the switches, and have a clone stand on the third. The door opens. In the room with flame lines running around the edges, push the top-right block up and the door on the left opens.

Ice room with floor switches and an ice cube
A clone and Link standing on the floor switches
Link beside the pressed green floor switches
Link in the room with flame lines running around its edges
Link pushing the top-right block as flame lines sweep the room

Burn the large ice chunk with the Lantern, make a clone and push the central block right, then go up the stairs. The room beyond holds nine torches in a three-by-three grid. Light all nine with the Lantern; the torches go out quickly, so relight any that go dark until the door on the left opens.

The large ice chunk to burn with the Lantern
Link and a clone on the pads beside the icy stairs
The room of nine unlit torches in a three-by-three grid
Link lighting the nine torches with the Lantern
All nine torches lit and Link at the left door
Madderpillar

Rollers, bombs and two Madderpillars

Swim south past the spiked rollers and press the floor switch in the corner, which makes a red warp tile appear. Flying enemies drop bombs in the next rooms, so keep moving. Bomb the marked north wall to open a way through.

Link swimming past the spiked rollers in the water
Link swimming as flying enemies close in
Flying enemies dropping bombs near the pots
A bomb ready at the marked north wall

The next room is dark and full of cobwebs, with two Madderpillars. Light the way with the Lantern, burn the cobwebs and defeat the worms one at a time.

Link facing a Madderpillar in the dark cobweb room
Link burning a cobweb with the Lantern beside two Madderpillars
Two Madderpillars in the dark room as Link lights the way
Link keeping away from the blue Madderpillar
Link setting a Madderpillar on fire with the Lantern

Climb the stairs to the bridge room, cross the bridge quickly and head north. Go through to the room of coloured pads and the second large lever. Make a column of clones and have them push it. Sunlight pours in and melts the ice around the Water Element, but the Big Octorok thaws too, swallows the element and charges off. Ezlo tells you not to stand around.

Link crossing the railed stone walkway above the water
Link making a column of clones on the coloured pads
Link and a clone pushing the second large lever
Sunlight melting the ice around the Water Element
The Big Octorok thawed and charging off with the element
Link beside the lever as Ezlo says Don't just stand there

Chests you can open before the boss

Two chests in the flooded half of the temple are not on the way to the boss: one holds 100 Mysterious Shells and the other holds one more Kinstone piece, which brings the temple’s total to six. Reach them by lily pad and melt any ice around them with the Lantern. Collect both before you go south to the boss room, where the pots in the corners of the element hall refill your hearts.

Link picking up pots beside the element hall
The element hall with pots at its sides and torches lit
Link entering the boss room as the Big Octorok rises ahead

Big Octorok boss strategy

Go south into the boss room; the gate closes behind you. Equip the Small Shield on one button and the Flame Lantern on the other. The Big Octorok spits boulders at you. Hold up your shield to bounce them back, and do it three times to stun it. Keep your distance, because it can also suck you in.

The Big Octorok reeling after Link's shield sends its boulder back
The Big Octorok stunned with its withered plant showing
Link with the Small Shield ready as the Big Octorok turns
Link keeping his distance from the Big Octorok's suction

After the third hit the floor freezes over and the Octorok freezes in place. A withered plant grows on its back. Light the Lantern and set it on fire. The Octorok thaws and crashes into the wall, dropping rocks from the ceiling, so run clear of the shadows.

The floor frozen over and the Big Octorok iced in place
Link setting the plant on the frozen Octorok alight with the Lantern
Flames spreading across the frozen Big Octorok
The Big Octorok thawing back to red as the ice breaks off
A rock falling from the ceiling as Link runs clear

Repeat the shield rounds. At the end it spits ink and the room goes dark. Hold the Lantern lit to see it, deflect the last boulders and burn the plant again. The Big Octorok bursts and spits out the element.

The Big Octorok spitting a boulder at Link
The room dark with only the Lantern circle around Link
Link in the Lantern light as rocks fall near the Octorok
The Big Octorok's plant burning bright orange
The Big Octorok bursting in a red cloud

Water Element and Heart Container

Pick up the Water Element and hold it high. Ezlo explains that it is the power of water, which quenches thirst and ends droughts. A Heart Container appears: take it for an extra heart and a full refill. Step on the green warp tile to leave the temple. You return to the Elements circle with the Water Element lit.

Link holding up the Water Element, You got the Water Element
Link with the Water Element as its power is explained
Link holding up a Heart Container, You got a Heart Container
Link back on the Elements circle after leaving the temple

Chapter checklist

TypeItemWhere
Small Key Small KeyFirst Small KeyIce block in the sunlight room off the entrance
Big Key Big KeyBig Key Big KeyFrozen in one of three ice blocks, room below the blue bugs
Dungeon itemDungeon Map Dungeon MapChest in the waterfall room, south-west of the element room
Small Key Small KeySecond Small KeyBottom of the pot-shaped pool
Dungeon itemCompass CompassChest after the first Madderpillar
Rupees50 rupeesChest on the north island in the ice field
Kinstone Piece Kinstone pieceBlue pieceChest next to the torch after the lever room
Kinstone Piece Kinstone pieceBlue pieceChest at the end of the narrow ice path
Small Key Small KeyThird Small KeyFrozen chest melted by two skylights
Key itemFlame Lantern Flame LanternBig chest after the Big Blue Chuchu
Rupees100 rupeesFrozen chest next to the Lantern room
Kinstone Piece Kinstone pieceRed pieces (3)Three chests in the dark maze
Small Key Small KeyFourth Small KeyDropped by the Mulldozers beyond the bomb wall
Chests100 Mysterious Shells and one Kinstone pieceLedges in the flooded half, reached by lily pad
BossBig Octorok Big OctorokHeart Container and the Water Element

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