The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Water Temple

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An Arctic Wind

Navi will mention that an arctic wind is blowing from Zora's Domain. That is your next destination. Head to Zora's River. When you are near the end of the path, it will begin to snow. When you get inside Zora's Domain, you will find that it has completely frozen over! The King and the shop entrance are frozen solid as well. When you head out to Zora's Fountain, you will find that Jabu-Jabu is no longer there, but a series of ice platforms leading to a cave. That cave is the Ice Cavern, your next dungeon. Be careful of octocroks and make your way towards the cavern.

The Ice Cavern

Make your way down the frozen path, being wary of icicles that may fall from the ceiling. When the room widens out into a large area with a frozen floor, you will encounter three frozen enemies called "Freezards". You may destroy them with the weapon of you choosing. They are able to freeze you. When this happens, tap your buttons to break free. Be careful of the Blade Trap circling the room.

Silver Rupees

Head north into the next hallway. Cut your way through the stalagmites and enter the next major room. A frozen, spinning scythe is located directly in the center of the room. When a blade comes towards you, duck using your shield. To progress, you will need to gather the Silver Rupees in the room. Three rupees are easy to find, but are also located in the scythe's path. There is another silver rupee behind three blue stalagmites in the corner (to the left as you first enter the room). The last rupee hangs above the room. To reach it, climb up the cliff in the back of the room and jump out to grab the rupee. The door at the top of the cliff will now unlock. Climb up and go through it.

Blue Fire

Continue along the path until you enter a wider room. This room contains a new kind of Keese, the Ice Keese. Upon impact, they will freeze you. Even worse, they do not lose their freezing effect once they touch you. The best method of attack against Ice Keese is the bow and arrows.

Climb up onto the ledge near the front of the room. Move slowly along it and eliminate the Freezzard at the end. Jump to the platform on the left, and jump to the next platform. It contains a pillar which houses an altar of Blue Fire. Blue fire can be used to melt the Red Ice that you've seen around Zora's Domain and thus far in the Ice Cavern. Store Blue Fire in a bottle.

Use the Blue Fire to unfreeze the large chest within the room. It contains the Dungeon Map. Return to the room with the scythe.

Look to the left and right from the cliff where you emerge from the Dungeon Map room. You should see two bits of ice that have an red tinge near their base. These are barriers that can be melted with Blue Fire. Melt the barrier on the left first, and go down the hall. You may want to get in the middle of the next room and run in a small circle a few times to get rid of falling icicles.

You should find yourself in a room containing another Blue Fire altar. Unfreeze the chest. It contains the compass. Make your way back to the scythe room. Look for the other "barrier" with a red-tinge base. Make your way down the hall and into the next major room.

Block Puzzle

To progress, you will need to collect all Silver Rupees while moving a sliding block in the correct direction to get them. Grab the block from it's east side and push forward. Now, climb on top of it, and use it to reach the silver rupee on top of the tall stone block. Go to the west side of the block, and push it east. Get on top of it, and climb into the small alcove. Use your remaining bottle of Blue Fire to melt the Red Ice and take the Silver Rupee inside. Drop back down out of the alcove and push the ice block to the north or south and off the cliff to make it re-appear at the entrance to the room.

Now, grab the block from it's north side and push it south. Get on the ice block and use it to reach the silver rupee on top of the rock. Grab onto the east side of the stone block and push it west. Get on top of the ice block, and grab the silver rupee on top of the stone. Jump back down and get on the south side of the ice block. Push it to the north. Grab the silver rupee from the stone that the ice block has to come rest on, and the door will open.

Hop on the ice block's east side and push it to the west, then get on it's north side and push it south. Get on the ice block and jump over to the Blue Fire. Refill your bottles with Blue Fire. Drop back down to the ground, and push the block from it's west side going east. Now, push it north going south. The block will run into the wall. Jump up onto the block, and jump diagonally to the doorway

The Iron Boots

Continue along the path and you should come to a large, decorative room. Here, you will fight the White Wolfos, a slightly larger version of a normal Wolfos. Defeat it the way you would a normal Wolfos. Once it is dead, a chest will generate. Retrieve the Iron Boots from it. They will allow you to walk underwater.

As soon as you obtain the Iron Boots, Sheik will appear before you. It is revealed that the Zora's have been sealed under the ice. The source of this great freeze is the monster in the Water Temple. Unless it is destroyed, the ice will never melt. Sheik managed to save Ruto though. She already went to the temple. Sheik then teaches you the melody that will lead you to the Water Temple, the Serenade of Water.

The Serenade of Water:

There is a small square of water behind the chest you got the boots from. Equip your newfound boots and move along the underwater path. Be careful, if you stay underwater too long, you will drown. Enter the sliding door, and you will find yourself in the room with the spinning choppers. Simply make your way out of the dungeon from there, but bottle up some Blue Fire before you leave.

The Zora Tunic

Return to Zora's Domain and unfreeze King Zora with your bottle of Blue Fire. He will reward you with the Zora Tunic, a garment that will allow you to breathe underwater. It is also a good thing to keep a second bottle of Blue Fire with you so that you can unfreeze the Zora Shop entrance as well. You can buy a Zora Tunic here, but it cost 300 Rupees.

Play the Serenade of Water to transport to Lake Hylia. Everything seems the same except for one thing: where's the lakewater? Go down to the bottom of the dried-up lake and there will be a small pool of water. Put on the Zora Tunic and sink into the water with the Iron Boots. Underneath the water is a entrance leading to somewhere, but there are bars blocking it. To open it up, take out the Hookshot and hit the crystal above the entrance. The crystal will come out and the entrance will open, which will lead to the next temple.

The Water Temple

Underneath Lake Hylia is the Water Temple. It is perplexing, tricky, and an all-around difficult place to navigate through. Many puzzles and dangers await you, so be prepared to act quickly.

Reunited with Ruto

Once you are in the temple you have to take your iron boots off so you can climb up. You have to have your water tunic on right now. This here is the main room. Remember that. Climb up than walk forward and fall in the water. Then put the boots back on. Go all the way to the bottom. Once you are on the bottom walk around until you see a place where you can enter that has a torch on each side. Go in that area and follow the path until you reach Princess Ruto. Talk to her. She tells you to follow her and she floats up.

Draining the Temple Dry

Simply take off your iron boots and you will float up. When you reach the top, you notice that she isn't there. Get out of the water and ignore the symbol on the wall for now. Enter the next room and kill all the enemies in the next room to get the map. Then go back through the door and play Zelda's Lullaby in front of the symbol. It lowers the water level in the temple. Then drop all the way down the way you came up.

Turn around and you will see that the middle torch is lit but the other two aren't. Either use Din's Fire or shoot an arrow through the lit torch to light up all three torches. Enter the now unlocked door. Kill the clams inside and you will get a small key. Exit the room and go back to the main room. Use the map, if necessary. In the main room look for the brown block on the bottom floor. Push it in as far as it goes. The block should fall down. Put on the iron boots and follow it down. Go to the end of the hallway and take off the iron boots. In this room hit the crystal and water should shoot up from the ground. Jump on top of it to get to the other side. In this next room there is a whirlpool of water. If you look in the corner that is furthest from the entrance, there is a statue underwater. Jump into the water with your regular boots. When the whirlpool reaches over the statue put on the iron boots. Now you are underwater on top of the statue. Look around, but don't go off the statue. You will see a diamond. Hit it with your hookshot and a near by gate will open. Then turn your view and hook shot onto the target. Than go into where the gate use to be and take off your iron boots. Float to the top and you will find a small key. Get the key and then go all the way back top the main room.

Half-Full, Half-Empty

Back in the main room there is a large tower in the center of the room. At the bottom of the tower there is a locked door. Open it and enter the tower. Once you are in go straight on the platform and then turn around. Look up and there will be a target where you can hookshot to. On this platform there is another triforce symbol so play Zelda's Lullaby to raise the water. Notice how the block also floats up. Put on the iron boots and sink down to the bottom and under where the block use to be.

In this next room hit the diamond object and kill all the enemies in this room. Once you kill them all another gate will open. Take off your boots and float up and get the small key in this room. Now return to the room where you raised the water.

Float all the way to the top and exit through the door. Now jump back down and put on your iron boots. Go to the room where you met Princess Ruto (the one with a torch on each side). Once again take off your iron boots and float up. Now that the water is only half risen so you can reach a new place. Place a bomb near the odd shaped wall and stand back. Get the small key and head back to the main room. Float up to the top and stand on the platform in the center. Look around for a hookshot target that has no door below it. Go into the passage and through the tunnel. Hookshot to the target on the wall and then hookshot to the target on the ceiling. You will find a chest that is covered with water. There is a switch in this room. Shoot your hookshot or an arrow at it and open the chest. You will receive the compass. Now head back to the main room.

All Wet Again

Swim around the tower until you find a locked door. Go into it. In this room stand on the little area with water and shoot an arrow at the switch. It will raise the water along with the you. You might get hit and have to do this a few times. Once you finally get to the top go through the door. You are once again in the main room but in a little different area. Play Zelda's Lullaby and raise the water all the way to the top. Now jump down. Look around until you see a locked door but don't go in it yet. Walk halfway around the center tower. There is a block here. Push it around as far as it goes. Then go back and enter the locked door.

Kill the two keese on the two sides first. This room can be very challenging. Go straight to the edge and look down. Jump onto the platform that is moving up and down. Take out your hookshot and be ready to shoot. Shoot across to one of the platforms that is moving downwards. Then immediately aim your hookshot and shoot upwards. Once you are on that platform once again aim your hookshot up and shoot to the next platform. The tricky part about this is that the platforms are moving down so you have to sort of race them. Once you reach the top go through the locked door. In this room there is a diamond in the center. This raises the water and statues. Some of the statues have targets on them. Use the targets to get across the platforms. At any time in this room shoot an arrow to hit the diamond to raise or lower the statues and water. Once you are at the last platform, lower the water and step on the statue. Then raise the water and go up with the statue. Kill the like like and then hookshot to the target on the ceiling to get to the other side of the spikes. Enter into the sub boss room.

Your DarkSide

This room appears to be in a cloud of fog, and even stranger is the tree in the middle of the room. Run past it to the door on the other side of the room, but you'll see that it's locked. Turn around and face the tree.

In this room you will face Dark Link. He is considerably one of the hardest sub-bosses you'll encounter. You can use your sword against him, but he can block and counter almost every slice you make. The easiest way to beating him is by using Din's Fire over and over, because he can't block it. He's a strong opponent, so it takes awhile to defeat him, and it depletes your magic meter and health to fight him, so bring a Blue Potion. Dark Link is also vulnerable to the Megaton Hammer, and he drops his guard if you use the Hookshot on him. Every time Dark Link is hit, he dissapears and then reappears behind you. After he takes a lot of damage, he reappears further away.

==The LongCumShot==(long shot wepon) When Dark Link is finally defeated, the illusion in the room will vanish, and you can head on to the next one. This room has a treasure chest inside. Open and you'll be rewarded with the Longshot. This is a Hookshot that can extend twice as far, making many more Hookshot targets reachable.

Treacherous Waters

Once you have the longshot, go behind the chest and you will see a blue block on the ground. Play the song of time to make it disappear. (Not while you are standing on it) Jump into the water and swim through the small river. There are whirlpools in the ground in a few areas. Try to dodge them or use the iron boots to get around them. Either one works the same. Once you have avoided three whirlpools there should be a platform. Get onto the platform and then look around for a yellow eye. Hit it with an arrow and then use your longshot to get past the now opened gate. Longshot to the chest thats in there before the time runs out. If the time runs out just hit the eye with an arrow again. If you ever fall into one of the whirlpools it will take you to where you got the longshot and you will loose one heart.

Get the treasure to receive a small key. Go through the hole in the wall and then go back to the main room. If you don't remember where you are just simply use your map. (The real cheap way to do this is to save and then turn off the game. Then re-start your record and you will be at the beginning of the temple and you will have the longshot and the key.)

Once you are in the main room just go to the room where you met Princess Ruto and float all the way to the top. Then, lower the water all the way to the bottom. Jump down and go back to the main room. Enter the tower in the middle. Go straight and turn around. Shoot your longshot at the target and get onto the platform. Then play Zelda's Lullaby to raise the water to mid-level and exit the tower. Look around for a passage with a gate covering it. There is a target behind the gate which is reachable with the longshot. Shoot the switch to make the gate disappear for a short amount of time. Then, quickly use your longshot on the target to get past the gate. Inside the passage is a large block. Pull it out as far as possible (it will fall into place). However, you will notice that you are now trapped. Go the direction opposite the block, back to the tower. Repeat the process of opening the gate. This time, push the block against the wall and enter the newly opened area and open the chest. Return to the main area.

Sink to the bottom and go through the passage at the northern part of the map. Put on your iron boots to sink down and then take them off to sink back up on the other side. Float up to the platform. Use your longshot to get to the door across the spikes. Enter the door. Kill all the enemies in this room with your arrows to make it easier. Use your iron boots and jump into the water. Walk across to the other side. Then take them off and climb onto the platform. Enter the door. This can be a very confusing room if you don't know what you are doing. First, kill all the enemies in the room. You will see that there is a switch in the water. You go and press it and the water raises, but after you get off, the water sinks. Climb up onto a platform. From the entrance of the room turn completely right and use a bomb against the wall. Go in and you will find a huge block. Pull it as far that it goes, but you still cant get it onto the switch. Go back to the main part of the room. Now go to the left of the entrance and place another bomb, to open this side. Go in and punch the block as far that it goes. Than go back around to the other side and pull it three spaces. Now go back to the other side again and push it until the it falls in the water and covers the switch. Climb up and enter the door.

In this room kill the enemies with arrows first. Then hit the switch and jump from the water platform to water platform to reach the other side. In this room there is a boulder that keeps running by. Once it passes go in the direction where it is coming from. Once you are in deep water put the iron boots on and sink to the bottom. Go through this little tunnel passageway and find a treasure chest. Open the chest to get the boss key. Go back to the place where the boulder was. This time go down the waterfall and find yourself back in this room. Head all the way back to the main room.

The water should be half risen right now. Walk around the tower until you find a door that has a reddish-orange platform in front of it. You've been in this room before. Kill then enemy that falls from the top. Then hit the diamond and go up with the water platform. Enter the door and play Zelda's Lullaby for the last time in the level to raise the water all the way. Now jump down into the main area of the room. On the top floor there is a place that you have never been that has a target on it which you couldn't reach with the hookshot but you can reach with the longshot. Longshot over there and enter the door. This room is tricky sometimes frustrating. You have to run up the ramp in a straight line. If you stop running or get hit by a spike you will slide down. Once you get through you have reached the boss.

Boss: Morpha

The boss of this Temple is MORPHA, a huge amoeba. To start the battle, jump onto one of the platforms in the center. The way to kill the boss is to get to its nucleus (the small pinkish thing) and hit it with your sword. To do this z-target it and use your longshot. If you get him he will be sucked right next to you. Hit him with your sword many times. It will grab you with its tentacles and suck power from you. This boss can do tons of damage coupled with the spike wall, so be sure not to get hit. Avoid his tentacles and keep hitting him with your longshot and then your sword. Repeat this until he has died, then take the Heart Container and leave.

The Fourth Medallion

Once again you will be transported to the Chamber of the Sages once you step into the blue light. The Sage of Water is Ruto. She breaks off the engagement, given that you and her can no longer live in the same world now. She can sense your concern about Princess Zelda. She reveals that she is fine. She gives you the Water Medallion, which contains her strength.

Upon re-entering Lake Hylia, the storm stops, and the Lake refills with water. Sheik is there, observing the events. After you give Ruto's thanks to him, he disappears into the water.

Sidequests

Get a Full Heart

You can now get a full heart plus one extra piece:

• Zora's Fountain: One lies on the farthest ice platform. You must jump onto several spinning ice platforms to reach it.
• Zora's Fountain: Once you've obtained the Iron Boots and the Zora Tunic, sink to the bottom of the lake to find a Heart Piece.
• Ice Cavern: It is frozen in the room where you found the Compass. A blue fire altar is present as well.
• Lake Hylia: As a child, plant a magic bean in the soil outside the laboratory. Return as an adult and ride the platform up to the roof, and climb the observatory to find this Heart Piece.
• Lakeside Laboratory: Once you obtain the Gold Scale, go to the laboratory, jump in the water and dive eight meters. You should be able to touch the bottom. Confirm this with the alchemist and he will give you a heart piece.

More Skulltulas!

There are now a few more skulltula's to round up:

• Zora's River: As you enter Zora's Domain, venture up to where the bean seller used to be and cross the river. Walk down the pathway about 60 feet, and then look high up on the south wall. Take the Skulltula down with your hookshot. (nighttime only)
• Zora's River: As you approach the curve that leads to the entrance to Zora's Domain, use your hookshot to take down this Gold Skulltula, which hides high up on the outer wall. (nighttime only)
• Zora's Domain: Walk up to where King Zora's throne is, and then take a left and go down the hallway where the Zora Diving Game was. Approach the ledge, and look left. Use your hookshot to bring down this Gold Skulltula. (nighttime only)
• Lake Hylia: Use your longshot to pull yourself to the top of the dead tree on the island with the warp pad. Up here lies a Gold Skulltula. Obtain the token by using your longshot. (nighttime only)
• Lakeside Laboratory: Inside the Lake Hylia lab is a pool the alchemist draws water from for experiments. At the bottom of the pool is a crate. Sink down into the pool with the Iron Boots and do a rolling attack to break the crate to expose the Gold Skulltula. Finish it off with your sword or hookshot and collect the token. (nighttime only)
• Water Temple:

In the room with the Triforce symbol that raises the water mid-level, go up to the platform beyond it to see a Gold Skulltula. Use the Hookshot on it.

• Water Temple:

Lower the water completely and then go down to the south entrance and bomb the crack in the floor. Use the Iron Boots to drop down into the opened area and use the Hookshot or Longshot to kill the Shell Blade, then go up with the Koriki Boots and activate the switch, which will cause the statue to move up and reveal a target. Hookshot/Longshot up and kill the Blue Tekitites, then open the cage with a Super Spin Attack (Spin attack fully charged) and kill the Gold Skulltula inside.

• Water Temple:

In the room with all the moving platforms, a Gold Skulltula lies on the right wall. Use the Hookshot or Longshot (which makes things much easier) to reach it.

• Water Temple:

In the narrow passageway with the boulder that keeps coming through, look to the right of it to where it falls to find a Gold Skulltula. Kill it quickly with the Longshot.

Magical Morning Light

Once Shiek is gone, pull out your bow and arrows and shoot the rising sun. The Fire Arrows will drop from the sky and land on the island with the two pillars. These arrows are magical and disperse fire when they hit their targets.

Quest for the Biggoron's Sword

If you want to, you can go ahead and finish the item-trading sequence and collect the Biggoron's Sword now. However, to finish this event, you will need to travel through Kakariko Village, which at this point in the game, you will need to go through a series of cut-scenes before continuing to Death Mountain Trail. If you wish to continue anyways, start where you left off, with the Poacher's Saw.

• Broken Goron's Sword: Head to Gerudo Valley. (The entrance to it, from the field, is just north of Lake Hylia.) To cross the broken bridge, aim your longshot at the wooden board with the black dot in the middle. It is just above the other end of the bridge. Once across, show the carpenter (the bald, screaming man) the saw, and he will give you the Broken Goron's Sword in return.

• Prescription: Your next destination is the summit of Death Mountain. (Where the first Great Fairy Fountain was.) There are two methods of getting there. The first is simply going there on foot, that means, going through Kakariko and dealing with the cut-scenes. The second is using the Bolero of Fire to warp to the Mountain Crater, entering Goron City through the back entrance and simply going to the top on foot from there. (It is recommended that you travel through Kakariko now, because soon you will need to travel though the village, but it will be a timed event.) When at the top of the mountain, walk in the opposite direction of the fairy fountain entrance. The Biggoron will show himself. Show him the Broken Sword. You will find that his eyesight has been disrupted by a recent eruption. He will then give you a prescription to take to King Zora.

• Eyeball Frog: Travel to Zora's Domain and show the prescription to King Zora. It is revealed that the ingredients to make Biggoron's medicine are present, but you will need to deliver them to scientist at Lake Hylia before they spoil.

• World's Finest Eye Drops: You have three minutes to deliver the Eyeball Frog to the scientist at the Lakeside Laboratory in Lake Hylia. Use Epona if you have her. (Make sure you know how to jump gates with her. Accelerate straight towards the fence and she will automatically jump.) The scientist will make the eye-drops for you. (after mistaking them for his dinner!)

• Claim Check: You have four minutes to deliver the eye drops to Biggoron before they lose their effect. Once again, use Epona if you have her. While on the trail, do your best to avoid all the boulders and enemies. Once you give the eye drops to Biggoron, he will give you a claim check for the Biggoron's Sword.

Wait three days after receiving the check. Then, show it to him and the Biggoron's Sword will be yours.

The Gold Scale

Head to the Fishing Pond and capture a 15 pound or heavier fish to receive the Gold Scale. It will allow you to dive eight meters underwater. It costs 20 rupees to fish and you can do so for as long as you like.