The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Bottom of the Well: Difference between revisions

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Before you enter the temple, you will need an item that will allow you to see invisible items, enemies and passages: the Lens of Truth. It lies at the bottom of the well. Unfortunately, the well is sealed off, so you will need to return to the past and retrieve the item as a child.  

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Note: If you already acquired this song after getting the hookshot from Dampe, you can skip this and just play the same song when you come back to the windmill as a kid.

Head to the Temple of Time and return the Master Sword to it pedestal. Return to Kakariko Village (You can use the Nocturne of Shadow you just learned.) Enter the village windmill and play the Song of Storms. The song

will make something very startling happen. The crank will spin much faster and the music in the windmill will

get more frantic. Then, something even crazier will happen!

Special note: You can do this after Forest Temple. This is the earliest point to do it. If you finish "The Bottom of the Well" prior to Shadow Temple, you can skip this and continue on your quest.

Crawl through the tunnel at the well's entrance. Drop down the ledge with the ladder in front of you, then kill the Big Skulltula. You will see a skeleton lying against the left wall. If you {{control|{{N64|Z}}|{{gc|L}}|{{wii-cc|L}}}}-Target and use Navi, she'll tell you that the spirits are saying "Look for the eye of truth..."

Walk through the section of the wall between the skeleton and the mound of the dirt; it is not real. The Lens of Truth in this dungeon, when you get it, will allow you to see what is real and what is not.

'''Warning!''' If you happen to fall into one of the holes in the middle area between the fake wall and the Triforce symbol (the room with the Wallmaster), you'll end up in a room with acidic water, a re-dead, three silver rupees on the floor, and five pathways (the ones without torches are useless unless you need to stock up on supplies - one has grass, and the other has pots - the pathway with torches contains the Dungeon Map).

Go across the pool of water in front of you (notice the crawl space at the bottom of the pool, on the right) and wait a bit. You'll hear the flapping of some sort of wings; unfortunately it's a giant Green Bubble patrolling the shallow trench that wraps around this room. If you watch the Green Bubble, its fire will extinguish once in a while; use this time to shoot it with a bullet from the Fairy Slingshot.  

# Go left or right (right is easier as the Green Bubble won't be coming straight at you) down the trench, and follow it around two corners. After the second corner, run halfway down the hall until you reach an area where there is a Triforce inscribed on the floor (the middle of the hallway, opposite the fake wall you entered from). Stand on the symbol and play Zelda's Lullaby. The water on this floor will stop flowing and drain.

After draining the water, return to the pool of water you passed near the dungeon entrance (with the crawlspace). It is now an empty pit, so drop down into the pit and head through the crawlspace (there's a chest opposite the crawlspace with some bombs in it). Go forward slightly, kill the Big Skulltula, climb the wall, and then go through the door straight ahead.

On the map, you'll now be in the large room that's the farthest to the east on level B1. You'll see four white pillars located around the room; however they're quite peculiar. If you approach one, it will bend over and grab you! They aren't pillars, they are arms! After you are grabbed, a nasty monster will come out of the ground and try to eat you. This beast is the demented Dead Hand, the mini-boss of the well.

Tap buttons to breakaway from the hand you trapped yourself in. Ignore the hands but stay clear of them unless you need to call Dead Hand back again; they can't harm you, but they might hold you long enough for Dead Hand to. Note that the arms can be destroyed, but they don't drop anything or help defeat Dead Hand any quicker, although they may drop hearts which are useful if you are low on health. An alternative way to get Dead Hand above the ground again is by throwing bombs at the hands. If you hit one hand twice or three times with a bomb, Dead Hand will come.

Open the chest that Dead Hand left behind to obtain the Lens of Truth[[File:OoT_Item_LensofTruth.png]]. Try looking through the Lens before you leave this room: behind the big chest, against the wall, will be another chest with a Huge Rupee (200)!.

In the main room, notice the mounds of dirt to either side of the false door which leads to the center room with the prison cells, locked doors, and Wallmaster. The mound on the left can be destroyed with a bomb to reveal a pit. This pit will NOT lead to the basement, and will instead lead to a small room with a chest containing Bombchus.

Head into the middle room and deliberately fall into one of the pits. In the basement, head into the path with the lit torches in front of it (bomb the boulders if necessary). Kill the re-dead and grab the Dungeon Map from the chest.

There are two ways to get to the chest with the Compass:

#From the fountain with the Triforce in front of it, head left (if facing the fountain) and follow the trench around the corner. Keep going until you see a “tunnel,” and hug the left wall of the tunnel (or use the Lens of Truth to see the fake wall there). You'll enter one of the jail cells of the central room, which contains a chest with the Compass.

For '''Key #1''', Return to the main room and follow the trench to the left (west). Round the corner north, and halfway down the trench, look to your left to see an opening. Fall down into the pit with the small chest (which contains a single Recovery Heart), then climb up and into the farthest west room. The room is dark a purple, with six coffins. A Gibdo (a mumified re-dead) has opened his coffin and is walking around. Stun the Gibdo with the Sun's Song and kill it, then light the torch by the southwest coffin (“northwest” of the entrance, if you don't have the Compass – it's the one farthest from the door, on the left as you enter the room) to obtain the '''first small key'''; note that this coffin also contains two Keese, so be prepared. Light the other torches to open the other coffins if you wish, but they only contain monsters (one contains another Gibdo, and the others each contain two Keese).

After grabbing the key, head back to the main entrance. Follow the trench to the far northeast of the Green Bubble's track to find a crawlspace. Head through it and then open the locked door.

In this room you'll see three Fire Keese and the Beamos. '''Do not move'''. There are four large hidden holes in the floor. Kill the three Fire Keese with the Fairy Slingshot or Boomerang, then throw a bomb at the Beamos. Now use the Lense of Truth to make your way to the door on the other side of the room (and, optionally, to the chest, which contains a Deku Shield, or a Blue Rupee if you still have it). Now head through the door on the opposite side of the room.

You'll be in the eastern cell block, with a Like-Like, '''Gold Skulltula #1''', and small chest. Kill the Like-Like with your sword (stunning it with your boomerang before strking is tremendously helpful). Now claim '''Gold Skulltula #1''' with your boomerang (and, optionally, the chest, which contains an Hylian Shield, or a Blue Rupee if you still have it).

Now return to the main entrance. '''Key #2''' and '''Key #3''' are both in small chests very near the main entrance (along the Green Bubble's track) behind fake walls. Use the Lens of Truth to find '''Key #2''' to the left of the central room (northwest from the entrance) just before the corner. For '''Key #3''', round the corner to the right (northeast) and look immediately to your left using the Lens of Truth.

Return to the Temple of Time and retrieve the Master Sword (make sure you have the Lens of Truth!), then play the Nocturne of Shadow and Warp to the Graveyard. You'll end up somewhere new: a ledge high above the graveyard beyond the Royal Family's Tomb. Head down the tunnel behind you.  

You'll come to a large chamber with a spellcasting circle and unlit torches. At the end of this room is a large sealed door. Stand in the center platform and use Din's Fire to light all of the torches at once. The

Special note: You can go through the Shadow Temple as a child but you'll be limited to the entrance. Better stick to being the adult for this dungeon.