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Snowpeak Ruins (Dungeon 5) Walkthrough

Twilight Princess 100% Completion Walkthrough23 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversYeto and Yeta’s mansion from the front door to the Bedroom, plus the courtyard and the soup quest
DungeonSnowpeak Ruins (Dungeon 5): Spinner and Clawshot recommended, Bombs and Gale Boomerang useful; mini-boss Darkhammer, boss Blizzeta
RewardsBall and Chain, Dungeon Map (from Yeta), Compass, Bedroom Key, 2 Heart Pieces, 3 Poe Souls, 2 Miiverse Stamps, Good and Superb Soup, Heart Container, second Mirror Shard
PreviousSnowpeak Mountain

Snowpeak Ruins is a mansion you walk through in loops. Yeta hands you a map with a wrong guess for where the Bedroom Key is, and each wrong guess gets you an Ordon item for Yeto’s soup, a Small Key or the Ball and Chain. Break ice with the cannon first, then with the Ball and Chain, and finish at the bedroom with Blizzeta. Directions use the Normal Mode layout. Hero Mode mirrors the world, so swap left and right and east and west. There are no hearts in pots or from enemies here (Blizzeta’s room excepted), so bring spare bottles to fill with soup or fairies.

Wolf Link standing on the snowy plaza before the Snowpeak Ruins mansion
Link climbing the stone steps toward the Snowpeak Ruins mansion door

Entrance, Yeta and the kitchen

Poe

Poe and the map

Step in and run straight ahead to find a Poe floating in the entrance hall. Switch to Wolf Link and defeat it (see Poe Souls). The north-west door leads nowhere useful, so cross the hall and go through the central door to find Yeta in the next room.

Link standing on the red carpet in the Snowpeak Ruins entrance hall
Wolf Link near a floating Poe lantern in the Snowpeak Ruins entrance hall
Wolf Link facing a glowing Poe on a patterned floor in the Snowpeak Ruins

Talk to Yeta. She says the Mirror Shard is in the bedroom, gives you the Dungeon Map and marks where she thinks the Bedroom Key is. She then points you to the east door. No chest holds the map in this dungeon.

Yeta sitting on the red sofa in her room in the Snowpeak Ruins mansion
Yeta telling Link the mirror bedroom is on the third floor
Link holding up the map of the mansion with its message box fully shown
Yeta telling Link to start with the door right here beside the red sofa
Ooccoo

Yeto’s soup and Ooccoo

The east door leads to the kitchen, where Yeto cooks. Climb up with an empty Bottle to scoop Simple Soup, which restores two hearts. His pot is the only dependable healing in the dungeon, so refill whenever you pass. In the south of the room Ooccoo sits in a shaking pot; she lets you leave and re-enter the dungeon (see Characters).

Yeto stirring the soup pot in the Snowpeak Ruins kitchen
Link holding a bottle of Simple Soup with the item message fully shown
Link at the kitchen pot holding an empty bottle, ready to scoop soup
Ooccoo freed from the pot in the kitchen, speaking to Link

Block puzzle, courtyard chests and the Ordon Pumpkin

Push the block onto the switch

Go through the north door into the room with two movable blocks and a third frozen in ice. Push the block near the door east. Then take the other block west, south, east, south so it lands on the floor switch. That opens the west door.

Link pushing a stone block across the icy floor of the ice-block room
Link pushing a second stone block toward the floor switch in the ice room
The glowing floor switch in the ice-block room beside the stone blocks

Courtyard: dig for the Small Key

The west door puts you in the mansion courtyard, which is full of White Wolfos and deep snow. Human Link wades slowly, so use Wolf Link here. A chest near the entrance holds Rupees. Dig into the snow to reach the larger courtyard, run north and dig up a buried chest. It holds a Small Key. Then go through the east door in the north of the courtyard.

Wolf Link digging up snow in the mansion courtyard
Wolf Link running across the snowy courtyard past a buried chest
Wolf Link holding up a Small Key with the item message on screen
Mini Freezard

Mini Freezards and the locked door

Mini Freezards slide over the ice and freeze you if they touch you; hit one and it spins away, and a jump attack or Shield Attack bounces them off. Use the Small Key on the locked door ahead. In the next room three more block the door, so beat them with your sword to open the east door.

Link slashing at Mini Freezards with his sword in a stone hall
Link sword-fighting frosty Mini Freezards in a snowy hallway

Chilfos and the first wrong chest

As you near the next door it shuts and two Chilfos attack with thrown icicles; a Back Slice works well since they block frontal hits. Defeat both and go through the opened door to a chest. It holds an Ordon Pumpkin, not the key. Leave through the south door to the ice-block room, climb the crates, drop down and carry on south to the kitchen.

Link fighting two Chilfos skeletons in the hall with his sword
Link attacking a Chilfos skeleton with his sword in the hall
Link holding up the Ordon Pumpkin with the item message on screen
Good Soup

Good Soup

Give the Ordon Pumpkin to Yeto (he sniffs it out and knocks you over to take it). The soup becomes Good Soup, which restores four hearts. Return to Yeta; her memory is muddled and she marks a new spot at the north of the mansion.

Link holding a bottle of Good Soup with the item message on screen
Link raising the bottle of Good Soup in the mansion cellar
Yeta sitting on the couch in the mansion talking to Link

Cannons, ice and the Compass

Courtyard to the north-west room

Yeta opens the north door to the courtyard again. Go to the north-west corner, climb through the window and enter the door. A large Freezard prowls near the north door, so keep your distance from it. The room beyond has Mini Freezards, which you can strike from the doorway so you do not stand on ice.

Link facing a ghostly Freezard in the snowy Snowpeak Ruins courtyard
Link and Midna in a stone passage framed by carved stonework in Snowpeak Ruins
Link standing beside the carved double doors leading into the ice room
Link facing Mini Freezards in the icy room beyond the carved door
Cannon

Cannon puzzle: first shot

Lift the cannonball and carry it to the cannon at the north end. Drop it into the barrel, then a Bomb, and it flies to the north-east corner and destroys the ice. Open the chest there for Bombs.

Link carrying the cannonball toward the cannon in the icy corridor
Cannonball set beside the cannon on its wooden platform
Cannon fires across the room and the blast shatters the ice wall
Link holding up a bomb with the bombs (5) item message fully shown

Cannon puzzle: second shot

Pick the ball up again, put it back in the cannon, then stand beside the cannon and push or pull to rotate it to face south. Drop in another Bomb and it blasts through the ice toward the south door. Walk to the south door and go in.

Link lining up the cannon by pushing it on the stone floor
Link behind the cannon aiming it toward the south passage
Cannonball lying on the floor of the passage beyond the ice
Compass

Wooden planks and the Compass

The next room has Ice Keese, Mini Freezards and slick platforms. Kill the Ice Keese, then shoot the Mini Freezards with arrows. Jump the gap and slide south-west, but do not overshoot or you slide off the ledge. Shoot the other Mini Freezard nearby and leap to the next platform. The chest in the middle of the room holds the Hylian Letter B stamp (see Miiverse Stamps). The chest in the south-east corner holds the Compass.

Link walking across the wooden planks in the slick-platform room
Link drawing the bow toward an icy enemy in the plank room
Link holding up the Hylian Alphabet B stamp with its message box
Link holding up the Compass with its message box in Snowpeak Ruins

Walk north and Clawshot the target to get back to the door you came in by. Head east to the courtyard.

Link walking north along the mansion walkway toward the door
Link near a dark door in the mansion corridor
Link standing in a stone doorway with the bright courtyard beyond

Second Small Key, the lever and the Ball and Chain

Cannonball

Buried chest and cannonball lever

With the Compass, your map shows a chest buried in the courtyard snow. Defeat the White Wolfos, then dig as Wolf Link to uncover it; it holds a Small Key. Use it on the gate to the west. Inside, a lever by the gate lowers a seesaw: put a cannonball on it, return to the courtyard, then pull the other lever and the ball rolls out for you.

Wolf Link digging in the snow of the Snowpeak Ruins courtyard
Link holding up a Small Key with its message box in Snowpeak Ruins
Cannonball beside the lever alcove and barred gate in the Snowpeak Ruins
Link picking up the cannonball outside the open gate in Snowpeak Ruins
Cannon

Courtyard cannon

Carry the ball to the cannon in the middle of the courtyard, add a Bomb and fire it south to shatter the ice around the chest at the south end; it holds more Bombs. Then take the ball again, rotate the cannon toward the north and fire to destroy the big Freezard. A Mini Freezard takes its place. Go through its door.

Link loading the iron ball into the cannon in the Snowpeak Ruins courtyard
Link lighting a Bomb inside the courtyard cannon aimed at the ice
Link standing before an armored statue in the barred corridor of Snowpeak Ruins

Mini-boss: Darkhammer

Walk past the two statues; the door shuts behind you and Darkhammer comes to life, swinging a ball and chain and slowly cornering you in the narrow corridor. Wait until he hurls the ball, sidestep it, and run in to slash his tail. When he crowds you, Clawshot the ceiling targets to reach the far side of him, dodge the next throw and slash the tail again. Repeat until he falls. Then pick up the Ball and Chain (see Items and Equipment) and leave through the north door.

Link slashing at Darkhammer with his sword in the barred corridor
Link rolling clear of Darkhammer's swinging ball and chain in the corridor
Darkhammer fallen on the floor of the barred corridor with Link standing nearby
Link holding up the Ball and Chain with its message box in Snowpeak Ruins
Ordon Goat Cheese

Ordon Goat Cheese and extra Rupees

Use the Ball and Chain to break the ice in the next room and open the chest, which holds Ordon Goat Cheese. Smash one of the statues on the east side of the room and a Bubble pops out; kill it for an orange Rupee (100). You can also go back to the north-west room and smash the ice along its left wall for a chest with a red Rupee, since Mini Freezards now fall in one hit.

Link holding the Ball and Chain up in front of a block of ice
Link beside the chest and an armored statue in a Snowpeak Ruins room
Link holding up Ordon goat cheese with its message box in Snowpeak Ruins

Superb Soup and the foyer statues

Superb Soup

Take the cheese to Yeta, who sends you to give it to Yeto. The soup becomes Superb Soup, which restores eight hearts. Return to Yeta; she marks a spot at the north-west of the second floor.

Yeto dropping cheese into the bubbling soup pot
Link standing beside the soup pot while Yeto cooks
Message box confirming Superb Soup placed in a bottle
Rupees

Foyer statues: Rupees, stamp and Poe

Go through the south door to the entrance hall. Two chests are marked on the map, one east and one west, each behind a soldier statue. Hit each statue twice with the Ball and Chain. The east chest holds 10 Rupees and the west chest holds the Hylian Letter Q stamp. Break the middle statue on the right wall to expose a Poe lantern: turn Wolf Link and kill it (see Poe Souls). Breaking the top-left statue releases a Bubble worth an orange Rupee (100). Go north and talk to Yeta again.

Link walking down the red-carpeted entrance hall
Wolf Link beside a Poe with the Poe soul message box
Link swinging the Ball and Chain in the foyer
Link holding the Hylian Alphabet Q stamp with its message box

West wing: spiral ramp, chandeliers and Heart Pieces

Freezard

Freezards on the spiral ramp

Take the newly opened west door, then the north door. Push the block forward to reach the cannonballs, put one in the seesaw by the door, return to the previous room and pull the lever to drop it. Break the ice to the north with the Ball and Chain. A Freezard breathes frost on the spiral ramp; hit it twice through the gap in its cage while it faces up the ramp. Clear the Mini Freezards if you wish, beat the next Freezard in the same way and climb to the top.

Link swinging the Ball and Chain at ice beyond a barred gate
Link holding a cannonball overhead beside a stone doorway

Chandelier and the third Small Key

Go through the right-hand door at the top. Kill the Chilfos on the left with one swing of the Ball and Chain, then smash the ice on the right wall to reveal a Clawshot target. Stand by the gap in the center, lock onto the chandelier and hit it so it sways. Jump on and across to the chest on the far side for a Small Key. You can also Clawshot the new target to return.

Link swinging the Ball and Chain at a Chilfos on the walkway
Link swinging the Ball and Chain at a block of ice on the wall
Link holding a small key with its message box beside a chest
Piece of Heart

Heart Piece in the cracked floor

Return to the previous room and walk to its south end, where the floor is uneven. Place a Bomb (or smash it with the Ball and Chain) to open a hole, drop down and open the chest for Piece of Heart #38 (see Heart Pieces). Aim the Clawshot at the target above to climb back.

Link walking across the wooden floorboards of the room toward a chest
Link beside the stone chest in the room
Link holding up a Piece of Heart with its message box fully shown
Link beside the opened chest after getting the Piece of Heart

Second chandelier route and Heart Piece

Use the Small Key on the locked door at the east end. Smash the ice block to uncover another target; this lets you also reach this area from the foyer later. Walk to the ledge, rock the chandelier with the Ball and Chain, jump onto it and kill the Chilfos on the other side, or use Bomb Arrows if the timing is bad.

Link holding the Ball and Chain on a platform beneath the chandelier in Snowpeak Ruins
Link standing on a square platform in the chandelier hall of Snowpeak Ruins

South of here is a line of hanging platforms. Wait for yours to stop, hit the next one with the Ball and Chain, jump over and repeat; Ice Keese flutter over the next two. While the last platform still sways, jump to the ledge and open the chest for Piece of Heart #37. Afterwards drop down, climb the stairs on the right and Clawshot back to the second floor.

Link standing on a hanging platform above a red carpet in Snowpeak Ruins
Link holding up a Piece of Heart with its message box in Snowpeak Ruins

The Bedroom Key

Poe

East balcony room and the Poe

Rock the platform again, jump to the east balcony and enter the door. Defeat the Mini Freezards with the Ball and Chain, then break the ice on the east side to uncover a Poe lantern. Kill it as Wolf Link. Go through the north door.

Link swinging the Ball and Chain at Mini Freezards in the ice room of Snowpeak Ruins
Link in the frozen ice room of Snowpeak Ruins near the east doorway
Wolf Link attacking a Poe lantern in a Snowpeak Ruins chamber

Ice block puzzle (second version)

Push the block on the east side to make a shortcut to the second floor, then drop to the first floor and you are back in the block room. Smash the ice in the center and around the third block. Push the south block north, so it slides on the ice. Push the formerly frozen block south, east, then north to stop below the first. Push the north block west, south, east, north so it lands on the switch. The upstairs door opens.

Link grabbing a stone block in the Snowpeak Ruins block room
Ice-covered stone block in the Snowpeak Ruins block room beside a floor switch
Link pushing a stone block toward the floor switch in Snowpeak Ruins
Stone blocks beside the yellow floor switch in the Snowpeak Ruins block room

Courtyard second floor

Climb the crates on the north side and jump back across to the south side; go through the west door. You reach the upper courtyard where three Chilfos wait. Hit the first from the platform, then hop to the broken wall piece and finish the other two. Clawshot the target beyond the gap and enter the door.

Link on a snowy courtyard ledge beside a stone table and frozen pool
Link with his shield on a snowy ledge above the upper courtyard
Link facing a Chilfo in a stone corridor, the enemy marked with a target arrow

Fourth Small Key

Break the ice on your left, rock the hanging platform ahead, jump on and then rock the next one facing south. Land on the second-floor ledge and open the small chest for a Small Key. Leave by the nearby door, drop off the ledge, climb the crates south and exit to the room with Mini Freezards. Run past them and unlock the west door with the key.

Link beside chains hanging from the ceiling in a pillared hall with a red carpet
Link beside a large platform hung on chains in the pillared hall
Link holding up the Small Key with its message box fully shown
Freezard

Two Freezards and a cannon

Beat the two Freezards in turn, then knock down the blocks on the west wall to open a passage back to a room you visited before. Descend the spiral ramp to the cannonball you left (or fetch another through the door mechanism), carry it to the top, smash the big ice block, kill the Ice Keese and put the ball in the cannon. Rotate it east and fire with a Bomb; the ball flies to the room with the Freezards.

Link with the iron ball on its chain beside a large glowing ice block
Link striking an ice creature that breaks into shards in the pink-carpeted room
Link holding the iron ball overhead beside the snowy cannon
Link at the cannon with a lit bomb fuse at the barrel mouth

Follow it, send it through the seesaw at the north into the courtyard and go through the door to the upper courtyard. Break the ice on your left to reveal a target, take the ball from the seesaw, put it in the cannon nearby and turn it 180 degrees to face north-west. Fire a Bomb to destroy the Freezard blocking the corner.

Link holding the iron ball overhead on the cannon platform in the upper courtyard
Link beside the snowy cannon on its wooden platform in the upper courtyard
Link pushing the cannon around in the snowy upper courtyard
Bedroom Key

Chilfos room and the Bedroom Key chest

Drop to the courtyard, enter the west door, go north and climb the ladder. Kill the remaining Mini Freezards and go through the east door. Both doors lock, so smash the ceiling icicles with the Ball and Chain to stop Chilfos from appearing, or fight them as they fall. When the room is clear, open the north door and the large chest to get the Bedroom Key.

Link swinging the Ball and Chain at a Chilfos as an icicle falls in the snowy room
Two Chilfos and shattering icicles in the Chilfos room while Link swings the Ball and Chain
Link holding up the Bedroom Key with its message box in the chest room
Blizzeta

Boss: Blizzeta

Go to the bedroom

Backtrack to the courtyard, where Yeta waits and says the bedroom is above. She moves slowly, so run to the top and use the Bedroom Key on the locked door. Yeta enters, shows you the mirror, then changes into Blizzeta, the Twilit Ice Mass. Refill soup beforehand if you can.

Yeta walking beside Link through the snowy courtyard
Yeta and Link standing before the snowy doorway to the bedroom
Yeta standing on the red carpet of the mirror room

Phase one: ice shell

Lock onto the ice mass and hit it with the Ball and Chain over and over. It shrinks and zips around faster each hit, and Mini Freezards fire out of it; ignore them and keep hitting until she bursts out of the ice and floats up.

Link striking the glowing Blizzeta ice mass with the Ball and Chain
Link swinging the Ball and Chain into the shrinking Blizzeta ice mass

Phase two: spikes

She wraps herself in ice with a ring of spikes. Watch the reflection in the ice above her, which shows which spike will fall, and roll away from it. After the last one drops, break as many spikes as you can with the Ball and Chain; each gap is a safe spot later. She then forms a circle of spikes around you and drops in the middle. Roll through a gap, and when she lands hit her with the Ball and Chain. She regenerates the spikes and repeats; three hits defeat her.

Link standing inside Blizzeta's ring of ice spikes
Link beside an ice spike falling in the snowy arena
Link swinging the Ball and Chain between ice spikes in the arena
Link with the Ball and Chain raised in the open snowy arena
Heart Container

Heart Container and Mirror Shard

After the fight, the room returns to normal and you receive the second Mirror Shard. Yeto runs in and Yeta recovers as the shard leaves her. A Heart Container drops from their embrace; grab it (see Boss Guide). Warp out with Midna. After the dungeon, you can race Yeto and Yeta from Snowpeak Top for another Heart Piece (covered in the next chapter, Heart Pieces Hunt and Return to the Sacred Grove).

Yeta recovering in her white cloak and calling out to Yeto in the Snowpeak Ruins boss room
Yeto holding Yeta in his arms on the red carpet after the boss fight
Link holding up a Heart Container with the You got a Heart Container message box open

Chapter checklist

TypeItemWhere
Key itemDungeon Map Dungeon MapYeta, first room
Small Key x4Courtyard north (buried); courtyard center (buried); chandelier chest; upper-platform chestCourtyard / west wing
Compass CompassChest in the south-east corner of the slick-platform roomNorth-west wing
Dungeon itemBall and Chain Ball and ChainDarkhammer Darkhammer
Big Key Big KeyBedroom Key Bedroom KeyLarge chest in Chilfos room, west
Heart PieceCracked floor chest (#38)Below the chandelier room on the west side
Heart PieceHanging platform ledge (#37)South end of the platform hall
Poe Soul x3Entrance hall; foyer statue (middle right); balcony room east of the chandelier hallAs described
Miiverse StampHylian Letter B; Hylian Letter QSlick-platform room, centre chest; west foyer statue
FoodSimple, Good, Superb SoupYeto’s kitchen
BossBlizzeta Blizzeta: Heart Container, Mirror ShardBedroom

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