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Route by Benstephens56, revisions by TheWayfaringFox
Beginner friendly route guide by Tunglekrok
Child 1
- Intro [3 HP] [0 GS] [0 R]
- Kokiri Sword, Equip
- TSC escape
- Fairy Ocarina
- To Market
- Chain Rupees, both sides [60 R]
- To Hyrule Castle, Back to Market, Back to Hyrule Castle
- Tree GS [1 GS]
- Talk to Malon for Weird Egg
- Cucco hatches, Wake Talon, push one box, navigate courtyard
- Talk to Zelda for Zelda's Letter
- ZL Cutscene
- To Kakariko
- Standard Cucco route for Cucco Bottle
- To Graveyard
- Learn the Sun's Song
- Dampe HP [3.25 HP]
- Back to Kak
- Bazaar GS [2 GS]
- Show letter to guard
- To GC via DMT
- ZL to open the door at the bottom
- Use Deku Stick to get to LW [1 stick]
- To SFM
- Beat the Wolfos
- Navigate the maze
- Saria's Song
- Fairy from the gossip stone [1 Fairy]
- Play Sun's Song, to GC via LW
- Goron Bracelet
- To DMT
- Open DC
- Enter DC, intro CS skip
- Walk through lava and death jump to the switch
- To stair case room, lower the staircase
- 20-Rupee pot if you are low on rupees (want at least 24)
- Keese room
- Blow up the rock wall on the other side of the trap room
- Sling skip pt. 1
- Lizalfos Fight pt. 2
- Sling skip pt. 2
- Get Bombs
- Bomb the Eyes to open the mouth [18 B]
- Bomb wall for deku shield [17 B]
- Exit DC
- Climb Death Mountain Trail (2 HESS's) [13 B][+20 R]
- Magic [12 B]
- To DMC
- Crate GS [3 GS]
- 20 Bombs from the grotto [20 B]
- Climb wall HP [3.5 HP]
- Savewarp
- To ZR via LW & Navi Dive, bugs from grass [1 bug]
- Enter ZD
- Diving Game (HESS up stairs) [19 B]
- Torch HP while the timer is going then collect rupees [3.75 HP]
- Deku Nuts and Deku Sticks from a pot (HESS up stairs) [2 stick][5 nuts][18 B]
- Silver Scale [~50 R]
- Dive to LH
- Ruto's Letter [Ruto's Letter, 1 Bug]
- Soil GS and lab wall GS [Ruto's Letter, 0 Bugs] [4 GS][5 GS][17 B]
- Play Sun's Song to make it night
- Fire Arrow platform GS (HESS across bridges, superswim to platform) [6 GS][15 B]
- Fishing HP (superswim to pond) [4 HP][14 B]
- Dupe over Ruto's Letter using the bugs in the grass and by using ocarina to keep bottle in hand. Get bugs (superswim to grass) [2 Bugs][13 B]
- Play a song to the Scarecrow
- Dive To ZD, Deku Stick and Deku Nuts from pots (HESS up stairs) [3 stick][10 nuts][13 B]
- TSC past King Zora
- To ZF, Enter Jabu with deku stick recoil [2 stick]
- Bomb the first switch [12 B]
- Talk to Ruto, carry her to rising water room
- Throw her down, jumpslash the skulltula, throw her out
- Jump on the switch, get the GS, climb up the vines and jump over [7 GS]
- Throw Ruto at the switch
- Ride the elevator and head for the boomerang room
- Defeat Stingers with Deku Nuts [8 nuts]
- Boomerang
- Backtrack to the room with the holes and fall down the closest hole
- Jumpslash GS on the way down [8 GS]
- Throw bomb at upper GS [9 GS][11 B]
- Savewarp
- Megaflip Big Octo Skip [10 B]
- Use Zelda's Letter to switch trick
- Boomerang throw to hit the switch without climbing the vines
- Preboss room GS [10 GS][7 nuts]
- Beat Barinade [5 nuts]
- Heart Container [5 HP]
- Zora's Sapphire
- Swim to the log and then play Sun's for Night
- Boomerang the Wall GS, use a bomb to kill it [11 GS][9 B]
- Tree GS [12 GS]
- Farore's Wind
- Savequit
- Set FW at Kokiri Forest -> Lost Woods [3/4 MP]
- Kokiri Forest Soil GS [1 Bug] [13 GS]
- To Deku Tree
- Vine text skip and door text skips, Slingshot
- Vine and door text skips, climb to Compass room
- Light the torch, press the switch and jump over and get the Top floor GS [14 GS]
- Jump through the web, jumpslash the GS on the way down
- 2 Basement GS [15 GS][16 GS]
- Precise Jump B1 skip (bomb boost helps)[8 B]
- Through the crawlspace, the web isn't solid from behind
- Bomb the wall and get the Back room GS [17 GS][7 B]
- Savequit
- Megasidehop B1 skip and break 2nd web
- 23 is #1
- Beat Gohma
- Heart Container [6 HP]
- RI FW WW to Silver Gauntlets cutscene
- Kokiri Emerald
- Enter and leave Spirit Temple (Don't open the Silver Gauntlets chest)
- Soil GS [0 Bugs][18 GS]
- Requiem of Spirit
- Reverse Wasteland for GS (HESS if you're good)(kill GS with bomb) [19 GS][5 B]
- Return FW, to Goron City and bugs from grass [1 Bug]
- Throw bomb in spinning pot and go into first person on stairs (exits CS fastest) [4 B]
- Bomb rolling Goron for Big Bomb Bag [30 B]
- Collect pot HP [6.25 HP]
- Boulder maze GS (try to take damage) [20 GS][25 B]
- To Kakiriko, bomb wall with GS behind it [24 B]
- Set FW at Death Muntain Trail -> Kakiriko Village [2/4 MP]
- Collect GS behind bomb wall (kill with bomb)(try to take damage) [21 GS][23 B]
- Soil GS, damage to 1/2 HP while waiting for it [22 GS][0 Bugs]
- Enter DC
- Die on the switch in the mouth area [21 B]
- Beat King Dodongo [24 B]
- Heart Container [7.25 HP]
- RI FF WW to Nocturne of Shadow CS
- Goron Ruby
- HESS to Hyrule Field [23 B]
- Tree Grotto GS [23 GS][24 B]
- Zelda Escape CS
- Guard House GS (grab extra rupees if needed to get to 40) [24 GS]
- Buy Red Potion from potion shop [~10 R]
- Rent Keaton Mask from Happy Mask Shop
- Dispel and reset FW at Happy Mask Shop -> Market Town [1/4 MP]
- Ocarina of Time and Song of Time
- HESS to Lon Lon Ranch [22 B]
- Cucco Minigame for Milk Bottle
- HESS to Malon for Epona's Song [21 B]
- Sun's Song for night
- HESS to window GS and tree GS [25 GS][26 GS][20 B]
- HESS to corral GS [27 GS][19 B]
- HESS to wall GS [28 GS][18 B]
- Enter Tower and clip through boxes for HP [7.5 HP]
- Play Nocturne of Shadow
- Sun's Song grave HP [7.75 HP]
- Wall GS (kill with bomb) [29 GS][17 B]
- Construction house GS [30 GS]
- House of Skulltula GS [31 GS]
- Tree GS [32 GS]
- HESS to the guard and sell Keaton Mask [16 B]
- Tower GS [33 GS]
- Sidehop to house man HP [8 HP]
- Navi Dive to BotW
- Bomb the dirt and get Bombchus [15 B]
- Left side fake wall Key [1 Key]
- Boomerang trick for Coffin Key [2 Keys]
- Lower the water
- Center room GS's (bomb 2nd one) [0 Keys][34 GS][35 GS][14 B]
- Right side fake wall key [1 Key]
- Through the crawlspace and navigate around the holes that you can't see [0 Keys]
- Like Like Room GS [36 GS]
- Hylian Shield
- Savequit
- Bombs in chest outside crawlspace [24 B]
- Beat Dead Hand
- Lens of Truth
- Return FW
- Open DoT
Adult 1
- Light Medallion
- Play Nocturne
- Dampe race for Hookshot, zone out
- Dampe Race HP [8.25 HP]
- Song of Time to Windmill
- Windmill HP [8.5 HP]
- Learn Song of Storms
- Pocket Egg
- Set FW Kakariko Village -> House of Sleeping Talon
- Use Redeads in secret grotto to damage to 1 HP [23 B]
- DHWW using same grotto [21 B]
- Damage down to 1/2 HP (5 FW buffers) and return FW [20 B]
- Die and savequit [19 B]
- Exit Jabu and play Sun's Song for night
- Silver rock skip with ledge cancel [18 B]
- Silver Rock GS and 2 big magics from pots [37 GS][4/4 MP]
- Megaflip Ice Float HP [8.75 HP][17 B]
- To Ice Cavern
- Hookshot clip the first gate using a freezard (or kill them with spin attack)
- Megaflip over red ice [16 B]
- Dupe over Milk Bottle and catch blue fire in other bottle [2 Blue Fire]
- GS and HP in this room [38 GS][9 HP][1 Blue Fire]
- Catch Blue Fire then shield swipe same bottle to dupe Blue Fire over deku sticks [3 Blue Fire]
- Put Deku stick blue fire in Y and shield swipe with it [3 Blue Fire]
- Without putting the Deku stick bottle out of Link's hand, dump it on red ice next to blade spinner GS [3 Blue Fire][20 B]
- Spinning Blade room GS [39 GS]
- Collect the Silver Rupees (pause the game in order to use deku stick blue fire again)
- Melt the ice for one of the Silver Rupees [2 Blue Fire]
- Get the Block Room GS [40 GS]
- Use a blue fire on the red ice wall [1 Blue Fire]
- Beat the Wolfos (use deku nuts) [4 nuts]
- Iron Boots
- Serenade of Water
- Savequit
- Iron Boots for HP at bottom of ZF [9.25 HP]
- To ZD, unfreeze King Zora [0 Blue Fire]
- Zora Tunic
- Zora's Domain GS [41 GS]
- Exit to ZR and get upper river GS [42 GS]
- Lower river GS and enter grotto [43 GS]
- Catch fish, set, and return FW [3/4 MP]
- Iron Boots to LW If you were fast, you can make it here before day. If not play Sun's Song at some point to make it night
- Move Mido with Saria's Song
- Forest Stage area GS with bombchu and hookshot [44 GS][9 Chus]
- To Sacred Forest Meadow
- Maze Skip with trick jump
- Maze GS [45 GS]
- Watch Moblin CS
- Minuet CS skip with Hookshot jump
- Exit to Kokiri Forest and damage down to 3 HP with Deku Baba
- House of Twins GS [46 GS]
- To Goron City via Lost Woods
- Center Platform GS [47 GS]
- Darunia Door skip with ledge clip [19 B]
- Damage out of pulling statue if you still have 3 HP [18 B]
- Damage to 1/2 HP by dropping chus at the boulder (grab the magic if you killed freezards in Ice Cavern) [5 chus][3/4 MP]
- Bolero CS skip [17 B]
- Play Minuet and enter Forest Temple
- GS and small key in the first room [48 GS][1 key]
- Poe CS trick for basement GS [49 GS]
- Set FW on the way back up on the elevator [2/4 MP]
- Stalfos Small key [2 keys]
- Ledge clip to skip SoT block
- Hookshot jump off well vines to get to floor 2
- Kill Deku Baba for a Deku stick and get the GS [50 GS][2 sticks]
- Block room
- Fight Stalfos for Bow
- Fairy Bow and return FW
- East Courtyard GS [51 GS]
- Set FW in main room and grab banister GS [52 GS]
- Boss Key skip on railing
- Phantom ganon
- Heart Container [10.25 HP]
- RI CS skip
- Forest Medallion
- Play serenade
- Megaflip WESS to scarecrow and play song [16 B]
- Play Sun's Song and enter fishing pond right before it becomes night
- RI Bomb to catch Big Fish [15 B]
- Gold Scale
- RI bomb to steal the rod [14 B]
- Grab ledge and enter and exit pond
- Break 2 sticks on rock and savequit [0 sticks]
- Prelude CS skip with Sun's Song
- Dupe Bottle over B with Red Potion on II
- Catch Fish with Pocket Cucco on II
- Dump Fish with Lens of Truth on II
- Catch fish with Hookshot on II
- Drop Master Sword
Child 2
- To Mask Shop,
- Skull Mask, set FW [0/4 MP]
- Sell fish [99 R]
- Slingshot Minigame for Bullet Bag 50 [79 R]
- To Hyrule Castle
- Blow up boulder for Dins with chus [4 chus]
- Din's Fire [4/4 MP]
- SoS Grotto GS (blow up pot area and GS area with chus) [53 GS][2 chus]
- Dupe bugs over red potion, catch 4 more bugs, red rupee, bombs [5 bugs][99 R][19 B]
- Play Minuet
- Deku Nut upgrade from business scrub (blow up boulder with chu [1 chu][59 R]
- Exit and enter Lost Woods
- Skull kid HP [10.5 HP]
- Sell Skull Mask [74 R]
- Soil GS [4 Bugs][54 GS]
- Buy Deku stick 30 upgrade from business scrub [34 R]
- Return and set FW, Spooky Mask [3/4 MP][14 R] I'll stop counting rupees now because you should be fine
- Play Nocturne
- Soil GS and Crate HP with boomerang [55 GS][10.75 HP][3 Bugs]
- Sell Mask
- HESS to Skulltula House [18 B]
- Shard of Agony, bombchus, Adult's Wallet, HP, Giant's Wallet [11 HP][11 chus]
- Return and set FW, Bunny Hood [2/4 MP]
- Exit to Hyrule Field
- HESS to tree grotto and enter after it turns night [16 B]
- Tree grotto HP [11.25 HP]
- Sell Bunny Hood
- HESS to grotto near Gerudo Valley [14 B]
- Use Din's to burns the webs and get the GS near the cow [56 GS][1/4 MP]
- Enter Gerudo Valley and get the GS before it turns day [57 GS]
- Use cucco to fly to the crate HP [11.5 HP]
- Megaflip or use the cucco to get to the soil GS below [58 GS][13 B][2 Bugs]
- HESS to the waterfall HP [11.75 HP][12 B]
Play Sun's Song at some point between getting the first Gerudo Valley GS and getting the last HP. You need to get the Zora's River GS before it turns day so use this to determine when you want to play the song. Also this will affect how fast you will need to get to Biggoron to skip Sun's Song uses
- Return FW for Mask of Truth
- Bombchu Bowling for HP and Biggest Bomb Bag [12 HP][40 B] I will stop counting bombs here but I will point out where good places to grab some are. They are not all necessary from this point on. Grab what you think you need!
- Richard HP [12.25 HP]
- Chest Minigame HP (make sure none of your magic is depleted during this You still need to end with 1/4 MP) [12.5 HP]
- Savequit
- Know-it-All Brothers house GS [59 HP]
- Ocarina Minigame HP [12.75 HP]
- Forest Stage are soil GS [60 GS][1 Bug]
- Forest Stage Deku Nut upgrade
- To ZR
- Boomerang to get upper ZR HP [13 HP]
- Ladder GS [61 GS]
- Play songs with frogs for 2 HPs [13.25 HP][13.5 HP]
- Boomerang to get lower ZR HP [13.75 HP]
- Sidehop-JS around the fence
- Buy a Bean [1 Bean]
- Tree GS [62 GS]
- Play Bolero
- Soil GS and plant Bean [0 Beans][0 Bugs][63 GS]
- Play Prelude
- Pick up Master Sword
Adult 2
- To Lon Lon Ranch
- Skip racing Ingo with gate clip and jump over the fence
- Get Big Poes #8, #6, and #7 [3 Poes] (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05/Walkthrough/09/Map_BigPoeLocations.jpg)
- Business Scrub grotto HP [14 HP]
- Top of lab HP [14.25 HP]
- Lab Crate GS and dive HP [64 GS][14.5 HP]
- Trade Eyeball Frog and IMMEDIATELY pull out ocarina
- Play Bolero
- Claimcheck
- Play Sun's Song until three days pass (5x times probably) Depending on when you play Sun's Song in Gerudo Valley as child, it is possible to get to Biggoron right before it turns day so that you only need to play Sun's Song 4 times
- Set Fw while you are playing Sun's Song [0/4 MP]
- Biggoron Sword (Equip BGS and then switch back to Master Sword)
- Megaflip to Double Magic [8/8 MP]
- Megaflip to Pillar HP [14.75 HP]
- Enter Fire Temple
- Talk to Darunia and get a small key [1 key]
- Get the small key on the left side of the bridge room [1 key]
- Trick jump to skip SoT for GS [65 GS]
- Actor glitch with Din's Fire cancel to skip key [1 key]
- Block Room [0 keys]
- Trick jump to skip pushing block in torch slug room
- Ledge clip + damage boost to skip boulder maze and get the key [1 key]
- Hookshot clip to the GS on the first floor of the boulder maze [66 GS]
- Scarecrow for two tower GS [67 GS][68 GS]
- Fall down and enter map room
- Hookshot jump off of the map chest to get over the gate
- HESS through fire wall maze [0 keys]
- Flare Dancer Fight
- Megaton Hammer
- Drop down and hookshot clip to key [1 key]
- Savequit
- rooms behind hammer blocks for GS [69 GS][0 keys]
- Backtrack and hookshot clip to Boss Key
- Play Nocturne
- Use Din's to enter Shadow Temple
- Hover Boots and return FW
- Jump off the edge and play Sun's Song as soon as you land
- Upper Death Mountain Trail boulder GS [70 GS]
- Enter Goron City
- Goron Tunic
- Lower Death Mountain Trial boulder GS [71 GS]
- Backflip to HP above DC [15 HP]
- Enter DC
- Break rock wall to the right
- Scarecrow's Song for Baby Dodongo Room GS [72 GS]
- GS in keese room behind rock wall [73 GS]
- Hookshot jump to the top floor and hammer slide to the other bridge
- Staircase room vine GS [74 GS]
- GS above the stairs [75 GS]
- Enter head area and climb up where the block is (bombs in pot here)
- Break rock wall for Armos room GS [76 GS]
- Play Serenade
- Cast FW
- Use Iron Boots to Enter Water Temple
- Iron Boots to the bottom of the temple
- Talk to Ruto
- Float up and lower the water
- Hookshot clip to the key on the floor below [1 Key]
- Jump down and light the torches with your bow
- Kill shellblades for a Key [2 Keys]
- Head out and to the left and through a bombable floor
- Go through the tunnel and get the GS [77 GS]
- Savequit
- Hammer slide to go through the locked door to the left [1 Key]
- Waterfall room GS with just the Hookshot [78 GS]
- Use Hammer slide to save time in switch room
- Beat Dark Link and get the Longshot [0 Keys]
- Song of Time to vortex room (hug wall to skip Navi text)
- Get GS on wall with Longshot [79 GS]
- Shoot the eye switch and get the key in the chest [1 Key]
- Continue on to the spinning water room and get the key in there too with Longshot clip [2 Keys]
- Savequit
- Jump down to the middle floor
- Shoot torch to open the door and get the GS [80 GS]
- Back to main room, go through the water straight ahead
- Head through the locked door in the next room [1 Key]
- Hover over to where the boulders are coming from.
- Get the GS here [81 GS]
- Continue on to the boss key [0 Keys],
- Savequit
- Hammer slide to the boss room
- Defeat Morpha
- Heart Container [16 HP]
- RI FW CS Skip
- Water Medallion
- Longshot to the top of the tree for the GS [82 GS]
- Shoot Arrow at the Sun for Fire Arrows (Scarecrow)
- Play Requiem
- Nayru's Love [8/8 MP]
- Play Sun's Song and get the GS right outside the fountain [83 GS]
- Oasis GS on palm tree [84 GS]
- Hookshot jump to the HP [16.25 HP]
- Early Mirror Shield with hoverboost and seam walk
- Mirror Shield
- Beat the Iron Knuckle
- Use Mirror Shield to get a key [1 Key]
- Use a key and Longshot to the top of the climb wall room [0 Keys]
- Enter the Mirror Puzzle room and cast FW [7/8 MP]
- Hookshot jump BK Skip
- Beat the Iron Knuckle and Twinrova
- Heart Container [17.25 HP]
- RI FW CS Skip
- Spirit Medallion
- Hookshot jump out of bounds off the chains and jumpslash the platform to load the room below
- Play ZL on the hand and Longshot the chest [1 Key]
- Get the GS in this room [85 GS]
- Jump down to the lower child side door
- Get the GS and fall down the hole [86 GS]
- Use a key and hookshot clip the torch into the lower child area [0 Keys]
- Kill the enemies and get the GS in the room to the left [87 GS]
- Climb to the top of the gate in the middle to clip over the gate and get the key from lighting the torches with Din's [6/8 MP]
- Get caught by the Wallmaster
- Leave and Longshot to the Silver Gauntlets chest and enter the other side
- GS through the door [88 GS]
- Savequit
- Silver block skip from the snake head statue
- Play SoT to get the GS in the right room [89 GS]
- Play Nocturne and enter Shadow Temple
- Enter Shadow Temple
- To the spinning blade silver rupee room
- Cast FW [5/8 MP]
- Hookshot Clip to Key [1 Key]
- Through bombable wall to main room [0 Keys]
- Use a Hookshot clip to skip part of the Skulltula hallway
- Hookshot clip to GS in invisible spinning blade room [90 GS]
- Hookshot clip to skip collecting the silver Rupees in the main room.
- To spike trap room, trap jump
- Get Key, Get GS [1 Key] [91 GS]
- Across moving invisible platform [0 Keys]
- Silver rupees in the Redead Room
- Get another Key from the skull pot [1 Key]
- And another GS [92 GS]
- Return FW
- Longshot Boat Gate clip
- Longshot to Boat Room GS [93 GS]
- Cast FW after the door after the boat ride [4/8 MP]
- Pot room GS [94 GS]
- Get BK with din's fire skip (or just use Din's (Don't set FW before this if you use Din's))
- Return FW
- Get across the gap with a megaslideflip [0 Keys]
- Cast FW in the boss door room [3/8 MP]
- Beat Bongo
- Heart Container [18.25 HP]
- RI FW CS Skip
- Shadow Medallion
- Play Prelude
- Light Arrows
- Trade poes and cast FW in poe house [0 poes][2/8 MP]
- Big poes #1, #2, #9, and #10 [4 Poes] (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05/Walkthrough/09/Map_BigPoeLocations.jpg)
- Play Sun's Song and Enter Kakariko
- Clip into Archery and get Big Quiver
- Longshot to GS on top of Impa's house [95 GS]
- Cow in house HP and return FW [18.5 HP]
- Trade 3 poes [1 Poe]
- Collect Poes #3, #4, and #5
- To Gerudo Valley
- Jump the bridge
- Play Sun's Song
- Tent GS [96 GS]
- Pillar GS [97 GS]
- To Gerudo Fortress
- Longshot up to the jail, then longshot to the HP chest [18.75 HP]
- Wall GS [98 GS]
- Enter Thieves Hideout at the entrance closest to the GS
- Fight the first guard
- Longshot to the vines and enter the door across from you
- Fight the guard and leave the way you came
- Drop to the left, enter and exit loading zone, and set FW [ 1/8 MP]
- Drop down in front and enter
- Fight the gaurd and leave through the other exit
- Drop down and enter the fortress near the crates
- Gerudo Card
- Leave through the other exit
- To GTG with Epona
- Hookshot clip to Ice Arrows and hookshot clip out
- Leave GTG
- HESS to Archery GS, Sun's Song [99 GS]
- Win HP, Win Biggest Quiver [19 HP]
- Savequit
- Trade 4 poes for Poe Bottle [0 Poes]
- To Ganon's Castle
- Hoverboost, megaslideflip, or HESS to Ganon's Castle early
- To Shadow Trial
- Longshot to the torch and then to the Like Like
- Hit the switch and longshot back up
- Golden Gauntlets
- Savequit
- HESS to Ganon's Castle GS [100 GS]
- Double Defense [8/8 MP]
- Play Bolero and enter Fire Temple
- Kill Volvagia with 8 Chus (use deku nuts) and a Biggoron Sword jumpslash
- Heart Container [20 HP]
- RI FW WW to credits
- Fire Medallion
Last updated 05/08/2017
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Tunglekrok