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Increased Carrying Capacity | The Heart Container Pieces | The Four Bottles |
| The Faerie FountainsThe Magic Beans | The Gold Skulltulas |


Increased Carrying Capacity


Increased Deku Nuts 1: Go R,L,R,L,F,L in the Lost Woods and bomb the rock there. Fall down and beat the first shrub guy and pay him 40 rupees to get the upgrade to 30 Deku Nut capacity.
Increased Deku Nuts 2: Go R,L,R,L,L in the Lost Woods and fall down the hole in the grass near the butterflies. Wear the Mask of Truth and be judged. The shrubs will decide that you are ugly but give you the Deku Nut upgrade to 40 Deku Nuts anyway. There is a bug in the game that makes it so you can't get this after becoming adult Link. So you want to do it the second you get the Mask of Truth, and thus want to get the Mask of Truth as soon as you can (immediately after getting the Ocarina of Time).
Increased Deku Seeds 1: Go to the Lost Woods. Go right from the first room and you'll see a round gray object hanging from a tree. Hit it with your slingshot. Get three bullseye's in a row (100 points is a bullseye) and you'll get a bigger Deku Seed bag that holds 40 Deku seeds.
Increased Deku Seeds 2: In the market is a target shooting game. Hit all the targets to increase your Deku seed carrying capacity to 50 seeds.
Increased Deku Sticks 1: Go to the Lost Woods. Go left from the first room and then go on to the next room after that. Walk across the room to the ramp on the other end, and one of those bush monsters will be there. Knock it out by deflecting its bullet back to it and it will ask you for 40 rupees. Pay the 40 rupees and you'll get a 20 Deku stick carrying capacity.
Increased Deku Sticks 2: Borrow a Skull Mask from the Happy Mask Shop as young Link. Go to the Lost Woods and go R,L,R,L,L. Walk in the grass in the back of this area near a bunch of butterflies until you fall down a secret hole. Immediately put on your skull mask and walk forward. All these little guys will start hopping around you. Make your way to the right to a bush monster that's still submerged in the ground and talk to him to get a 30 Deku Stick carrying capacity. You can also wear other masks in this area to get other prizes.
Increased Bombs 1: In Goron City there is a wild rolling Goron on the 3rd floor. Stop him from rolling while he's in the tunnel by using a bomb. He'll give you a Big Bomb Bag which allows you to carry 30 bombs.
Increased Bombs 2: One of the random prizes in the Bombchu Bowling game is a bigger Bomb Bag which allows you to hold 40 bombs.
Increased arrows 1: You can get a bigger quiver (40 arrow capacity) by playing the Shooting Gallery in Kakariko Village.
Increased arrows 2: Win at the Gerudo fortress shooting range with 1500 points (after getting the HCP for 1000) to get a 50 arrow quiver.

The heart container pieces


There are 36 heart container pieces in this game. Here is the complete list of their locations. Note that some that say Adult Link only can still be gotten as young Link by using a boomerang.

HCP = Heart Container Piece, AL = Adult Link only, YL = Young Link only, BL = Both Links, nothing = either Link.

1. Hyrule Field - The path to Lake Hylia is blocked by a few fences. You either have to climb up a ladder to the side or jump over them with Epona in order to get to Lake Hylia (unless you warp). Instead, put a bomb in the middle of the square that the fences form then drop down the hole. Defeat the bush guy and he'll sell you a HCP for 10 rupees.
2. Hyrule Field - AL - Exit the Market and turn right. Keep walking in that general direction and you'll see a lone brown tree. Bomb the base of it, fall down the hole, then use the Iron Boots to sink to the bottom of the pond and get the HCP.
3. Market - YL - In a house in the back alley at night you'll find a woman who lost her dog. Go outside and find the dog (Look for a white one in the corner near the Bazaar). Give the dog back to the woman and she'll give you a HCP.
4. Market - YL - Go into the market at night to play the treasure chest game. If you make it to the end you'll get a HCP. If you have the Lens of Truth you can cheat by looking into the chests with it.
5. Market - YL - After beating Dodonogo's Cavern, return to the market and the Bombchu Bowling game will be open. Play to win a prize. Randomly the prize will be a HCP.
6. Lost Woods - YL - Enter the Lost Woods and go left from the first room. Stand on the short stump and play Saria's Song and the Skull Kid on the big stump will give you a HCP.
7. Lost Woods - YL - Go right from the first room in the Lost Woods and climb down the ladder to find two skull kids. They'll want you to play songs with them. Repeat whatever they play and after a few songs they'll give you a HCP.
8. Lon Lon Ranch - YL - In the far southeast corner of the ranch is a stone tower. Go inside and there is a bunch of crates. Move them around to find a hole in the wall and crawl through to get the HCP.
9. Kakariko Village - Method 1(YL): Climb to the top of Death Mountain and talk to the owl. Have him take you back down to the village. He'll place you on a roof. Drop down off the roof on to the roof of the Chicken Women's pen and then walk into the hole on the side of the house there. Find the HCP next to a cow. Method 2(AL): You can longshot from the roof of a house to inside the windmill (look for a hole on the front of it and you can longshot inside). At the end of the hole is a chicken. Use it to float down to the top of the Chicken Women's coop and go in the hole there to get the HCP.
10. Kakariko Village - Method 1(AL): Use your hookshot to get on top of the house with the man sitting on top of it. He'll give you a HCP. (NOTE: Some people have written me saying you need the longshot to do this. That simply isn't true. Just go into the potion shop and out the back door. Stand on the very corner of the platform you are on now and you can just barely get your hookshot to hit the bottom of the roof and get onto it. There are other places you can hookshot from as well.) Method 2(YL): Get a chicken and make your way up the construction site beams by throwing it up and then climbing up. Then you can float over to the roof from there and talk to the man. Method 3(YL): Climb to the top of that very high lookout tower, then face the construction sight and hold Z, then tap left+A to hop over the fence where you can then climb up onto the roof.
11. Kakariko Village - The prize for 50 gold skulltula tokens is a HCP.
12. Kakariko Graveyard - Pull on the middle gravestone in the second row (4th from the right) to reveal a hole. Fall down, kill the zombie, and play the Song of the Sun to get a HCP.
13. Kakariko Graveyard - YL - First in the day time watch the kid walk around the graveyard. Make note of all the places he stops and waves his stick. Then go outside and wait on the steps of Kakariko village until the skeletons FIRST pop out, then go immediately into town. Talk to the gravedigger and he'll charge you 10 rupees a dig. Have him dig in all the places where the kid waved his stick and one of them should be the HCP.
14. Kakariko Graveyard - AL - Pull the gravestone with flowers in front of it on the left side of the graveyard to find the gravedigger's tomb. Talk to him and race him through the cavern. Then play the Song of Time to get rid of the blue stone blocking your exit. Follow the path and you'll end up inside the windmill. Jump on the rotating platforms to get to the HCP.
15. Kakariko Graveyard - AL - If you get 1 minute or less in the race against the gravedigger you'll get a HCP. Use the longshot on one of the torches in the last room for a shortcut, although it's possible to do it without this (I did it without).
16. Kakariko Graveyard - BL - Plant a Magic Bean in the graveyard as young Link. Return as adult Link and ride the magic leaf platform up to get the HCP.
17. Goron City - YL - Light up all the torches on the ground level of Goron's City to make the giant Urn in the middle spin. Go up a level and throw a bomb into the Urn to make it drop prizes. Eventually, it will drop a HCP, depending on what face on the Urn is facing forward when it stops spinning.
18. Dodonogo's Cavern - Method 1(YL): Find the ledge above the entrance to Dodonogo's Cavern where a bomb plant is. Stand against the short fence and face the bomb plant then backflip over the fence (back + A) to get to the ledge with the HCP. Method 2(BL): As young Link plant a Magic Bean at the entrance to Dodonogo's Cavern. Return as Adult Link and ride the magic leaf platform up, then jump off of it to get the HCP above the entrance.
19. Death Mountain Crater - If you enter Death Mountain Crater from the cave at the peak of Death Mountain, go straight forward on the large platform you are on until you come to the edge. Slowly walk over the edge. If you walked slowly enough you'll start to climb down the face of the cliff. There's a hole halfway down with a HCP in it. You can also get to this one using the magic leaf platform near the entrance to the Fire Temple if you've planted a bean there.
20. Death Mountain Crater - BL - Have young Link plant a magic bean at the entrance to the Fire Temple (use the Bolero of Fire to warp there). Then return as adult Link and use it to ride up to the HCP at the peak of one of the small volcanoes.
21. Zora's River - YL - If you play the Song of Storms for the frogs that are halfway up the river they'll give you one.
22. Zora's River - YL - After playing all your songs for the frogs (including the Song of Storms, but not any of the songs that warp you somewhere), take your ocarina out again. They'll ask you to help them get bugs. Play the ocarina in the correct pattern to get a HCP. The correct pattern is A,CL,CR,CD,CL,CR,CD,A,CD,A,CD,CR,CL,A.
23. Zora's River - YL - There's a chicken near the beginning of the river. Pick it up and take it along with you. You'll see the HCP on a small raised platform. Next to it is a high ledge on the west bank of the river. Now there's two methods to get this. Method 1: Jump toward the part of the ledge closest to the wall and just as you hit it throw the chicken with A and hold your control stick toward the ledge and you should grab the ledge. Climb up and jump to the small platform to claim your HCP. Method 2: Keep going with the chicken, throw it up on the platform in front of you. Then on to the next platform to your right. Now face downstream and you should see a very narrow ledge to your left. Use the chicken to float over to it. Lose the chicken and climb up the ladder there. Grab another chicken that's up there and float down to the HCP.
24. Zora's River - YL - Bring the chicken with you until you reach the big waterfall. In this last area you'll see a HCP on a ledge. Jump to it with the chicken.
25. Zora's Domain -YL - Go to King Zora's room and light a Deku stick with a torch that's there. RUN down and light a torch at the bottom of the steps, then run around and light the one in front of the shop, then across the water to the one by the circle of stones, then hugging the wall run behind the waterfall and light both of those torches. If you manage to get them all you'll get a HCP that will appear in a chest behind the waterfall.
26. Lake Hylia - BL - Plant a Magic Bean as young Link near the Lake Hylia lab. Return as adult Link and ride the Magic Leaf platform up to on top of the lab, then climb the ladder there to get a HCP.
27. Lake Hylia - After you have the Gold Scale dive (don't use Iron Boots) to the bottom of the pool in the Lake Hylia lab. Then talk to the weird lab person and get a HCP.
28. Lake Hylia - YL - Go to the Fishing Pond and catch a 10-pound fish. Try near the sticks and under the log to find the big ones.
29. Zora's Fountain - AL - There's a HCP floating on a ice block on the Eastern side.
30. Zora's Fountain - AL - Use the Zora Tunic and the Iron Boots to sink under the water and find the HCP at the bottom.
31. Ice Cavern - AL - You'll see a HCP in some Red Ice in the Ice Cavern in the round room east of the room with the helicopter blade made of ice. Use some Blue Fire in a bottle to melt the ice and get it.
32. Gerudo Valley - Method 1(YL): Use a chicken on the bridge to float down to a platform that's to the right of the bridge and on the opposite bank (from where you enter the valley). Then you can walk up the ledge to the point closest to the water fall and jump behind it, then climb a ladder to the HCP. Method 2(BL): Use the chicken as young Link as in method 1 and float down to the platform. Then plant a magic bean in the soil by the cow. Then return as adult Link and ride the magic leaf platform to the HCP.
33. Gerudo Valley - YL - Grab the chicken and walk to the far left side of the cliff. Jump off and float to a small ledge on the opposite side with a crate on it. Smash the crate for a HCP.
34. Gerudo Fortress - AL - In the big chest at the top of the fortress. You can play the Scarecrow's Song and longshot to the scarecrow or to the chest itself depending on where you are aiming from. Just try to get to a nearby rooftop.
35. Gerudo Fortress - AL - Beat the horseback archery range with 1000 points or more.
36. Desert Colossus - BL - Plant a magic bean at the soft soil location at the entrance to the Spirit Temple as young Link (use the Requiem of Spirit song to get there). Return as adult Link and ride it. Eventually it will loop around a stone arch in front of the entrance to the temple. Jump off onto the top of the stone arch to fetch the final HCP.

The Four Bottles


Bottles can be used to hold potions, faeries, ghosts, blue fire, etc. EXTREMELY useful.

Bottle #1: Win Talon's chicken game at Lon Lon Ranch after waking Talon at Hyrule Castle. He will give you a bottle with some Lon Lon Milk in it. To make it easier, first throw all the regular chickens in the corner at the bottom of the stairs before starting.
Bottle #2: Gather all the chickens at Kakariko Village and put them in the Chicken Woman's pen. Talk to her to get the bottle. See the Chickens section below.
Bottle #3: Found by diving in Lake Hylia after gaining the Silver Scale to dive deeper. Has a note in it. Give the note to the Zora King to use the bottle for something else.
Bottle #4: Given to you from the Poe trader at the entrance to the Market as adult Link. Bring him 10 Big Poe's and he'll give you the bottle. See the Poe's section below.

Finding the Chickens:

There are 7 chickens to find in Kakariko village. Here are their locations and how to get to them.

1 - Right near the entrance to the village.
2 - Right near the chicken woman's pen
3 - On the path up to the North part of town, where the guard and Death Mountain are.
4 - Behind a fence next to the rich cursed family's door. Float over with another chicken, then throw both chickens over the ledge and then take them each to the pen.
5 - In the fenced off area in the Northeast part of town. This one's tricky. Get a chicken and go up the steps by the chicken pen. Now aim slantwise and run and jump off aiming for the corner of the small fence on the ledge. This may take a few tries but you can get over. If you can't seem to make it another thing to try is throwing the chicken at the last second and grabbing the edge of the fence. You can also try getting to the roof of the house with the guy sitting on it and dropping down the other side. Get up there by climbing up the very high lookout tower, facing the construction site, then holding Z and tapping left+A to side jump over the side and grab onto the fence. Now once you're over throw the chicken back over the fence (if you used one), then grab this chicken and throw it over too. Then hop over the fence and bring it to the pen.
6 - Do the same as chicken 5, except this time after floating over and throwing the chicken back, climb up the ladder to the ledge where the windmill is. You should find the chicken somewhere up there.
7 - As you enter the town the first house on your left, with a red roof, has a crate next to its wall. Smash open the crate by doing a roll attack. (Push A while running toward the crate. You'll have to time it right.) The chicken is inside the crate.

Finding the Big Poe's:

The Big Poe's only appear in Hyrule Field as Adult Link while riding Epona. Don't get them confused with regular poes, which appear when you aren't riding Epona. You'll know a Big Poe because they fly away instead of attacking you, and it will say it's a Big Poe when you put it in a bottle. Catch them by shooting them with 2 arrows then walking up to their remains. Make sure you have an empty bottle. If you figure out exactly where you have to be to make a Poe appear (try slowly walking with Epona around an area where you saw a big poe and stop as soon as you hear it), you can just wait there and the poe will keep reappearing in the same spot, in the direction Epona is facing, every 10 seconds or so. There are 10 Big Poe's to find and capture to bring to the Poe Trader, who is at the entrance to Hyrule Castle.

1 - Center of Hyrule Field near a tree next to the entrance to Lon Lon Ranch.
2 - Middle right of Hyrule Field near a gray boulder South from the Kokiri Forest entrance.
3 - Top right of Hyrule Field near an overhang by Zora's River overlooking the entrance to Kakariko Village. Try backing up Epona onto the overhang and the poe should appear in front of you.
4 - Center right of Hyrule Field along a brick wall East of Lon Lon Ranch. Ride close to the outside of the wall and it should appear when you hit the corner.
5 - Center of Hyrule Field in front of Hyrule Castle, near a sign pointing to Lon Lon Ranch.
6 - Middle left of Hyrule Field, on a triangular section of grass to the Southwest of where the paths leading into Gerudo Valley cross, right next to the outer wall of Hyrule Field.
7 - Middle left of Hyrule Field near a lone tree just barely North of the paths leading into Gerudo Valley.
8 - Top left of Hyrule Field, near a stream that's coming out of the West side of Hyrule Castle, next to one of the bushes there.
9 - Bottom right of Hyrule Field near a green tree and a patch of high grass (the kind you can cut with your sword). Ride through or stand in the middle of the patch of high grass.
10 - Bottom right of Hyrule Field near a rock in a grove of brown trees. The grove is right next to the green tree from Poe #9. Stand or ride past the tree that's just to the Southeast of the rock.

Note: Top right, middle right, etc. refer to where to look on the Hyrule Field map. So top right is actually Northeast.

The Faerie Fountains


Faerie Fountain Locations:

1. On the upper level of the forest maze, down a hole.
2. In the graveyard behind a bombable wall in the tomb below the gravestone with flowers in front of it in the first row of gravestones (where you got the Hylian Shield).
3. In a hole under a boulder on top of a ledge near the beginning of Zora's River. You can use a chicken as young Link (float to a small ledge at the bottom of it where there's a ladder) or the magic leaf platform as adult Link to get up there.
4. In a sand pit at the Desert Colossus (play Song of Storms on the nearby rock to activate it).
5. In Gerudo Fortress, outside on the ground level in the area next to the 2 two pairs of crates, near the right pair. Play the Song of Storms to open a hole leading down to it.
6. As you exit the Market turn right and follow the wall of the castle around to a boulder. Bomb the boulder to reveal a hole leading to a faerie fountain.
7. If you play the song of storms as young Link on the island in Zora's Domain (The one with a zorian standing on it, its right next to the ladder), a hole will appear with a Faerie fountain inside.

Great Faeries:

1 - Spin Slash and first magic meter - Hold down B and wait for your sword to charge up then release to use this magic. Hold B longer for an even more powerful one. Go to the top of Death Mountain and bomb the rock to the left of the sign to find the great faerie.
2 - Din's Fire - Makes a ball of fire surround you burning enemies and lighting torches. Go to the Hyrule Castle grounds (after the Market) and find the rock with a sign that says dead end. Blow up the rock with a bomb and enter the cave to find this great faerie.
3 - Farore's Wind - Set's up a warp point at the last doorway you went through and then either dispels it or warps you to it if you use it again. Go to the Zora's Fountain (behind King Zora in Zora's Domain) and look behind Jabu-Jabu to find a little island. Bomb the rock in the wall here to find this great faerie.
4 - Double magic meter- First you need the Megaton Hammer from the Fire Temple. Then go to King Goron's room. Go through the back of his room and enter the Death Mountain crater. Immediately go right over a bridge to a cave blocked by two red rocks. Destroy the red rocks using the hammer and enter the cave to find the faerie.
5 - Nayru's Love- Puts a protective barrier around you for a time. Warp to the Desert Colossus and look for 2 palm trees with a gap in between them. Bomb the crack in the wall there to find this faerie.
6 - Double defense - Makes you take half damage from enemies After you get the Golden Gauntlet in Gannon's Castle, go outside to where the faerie fountain was that you got Din's Fire in and lift the huge black pillar up to find this last faerie.

The Magic Beans


Magic Beans can be planted by young Link in soft soil. Soft soil looks like a square of light dirt with a hole in the middle. When a bean is planted by Young Link, it will transform into a magic moving platform for adult Link. These magic moving leaf platforms are very useful. Magic Beans can be bought from a character near the entrance to Zora's River. It costs 10 rupees for the first bean and the price goes up 10 every bean you buy. Also, every soft soil spot except the one next to the Magic Bean merchant has a gold skulltula in it. Drop a bottle of bugs on the soft soil to get it. It doesn't matter whether or not you've already planted a bean there.

There are 10 spots to plant beans, and as such you can only buy 10 beans.

Soft soil locations to plant Magic Beans:

1. To the right of the shop in Kokiri forest. The shop is the building with the red roof.
2. In the Lost Woods, two areas left of the first area.
3. In the Lost Woods, go R,L,R,L,L.
4. In the Northeast corner of the Kakariko Graveyard.
5. The entrance to Dodongo's Cavern.
6. Right next to the guy that's selling the beans at Zora's River.
7. Next to the Lake Hylia lab.
8. In the Death Mountain Crater (use Bolero of Fire to get to it).
9. In Gerudo Valley (fall down to a platform on the right side of the bridge and far side of the river).
10. At the Desert Colossus, right next to the entrance to the Spirit Temple (use Requiem of Spirit).

The Gold Skulltulas


These items relate to the very rich but cursed family in Kakariko village. They have been cursed to look like spiders and the curse will be lifted when you kill Gold Skulltulas spread throughout the world and collect their gold tokens. There are 100 Gold Skulltulas to find in the game. When you've killed all the gold skulltulas in a dungeon a skull token symbol will appear on that dungeon's map screen. When you have killed a certain number of gold skulltula's return to the rich cursed family and one of the children may have returned to normal. Talk to the child to get your prize. This is what you get:

10 Gold tokens - Adult's wallet - gives you 200 rupee capacity.
20 Gold tokens - Stone of Agony - makes your Rumble Pak react to secret holes in the ground.
30 Gold tokens - Giant's Wallet - gives you 500 rupee capacity.
40 Gold tokens - Bombchu.
50 Gold tokens - Heart Container Piece.
100 Gold tokens - Huge rupee (200 rupees) - Can be gotten infinite times.

Gold Skulltula's can be found everywhere. Note that some of the skulltulas you can find and kill but you won't be able to get the token they drop until you get the boomerang or hookshot. Also some require you to return to a dungeon later with another item or the Scarecrow's Song in order to get it.

The locations of the 100 Gold Skulltulas:

Dungeon Gold Skulltulas:

Deku tree - In an alcove on the left side of a room on the third floor.
Deku tree - Room you fall to after falling through web (On vines).
Deku tree - Room you fall to after falling through web (On grate).
Deku tree - Behind the only bombable wall in the Deku tree. You'll have to come back for it later. From start, it's down the big hole, crawl through the small hole, then to your right behind a web.
Dodonogo's Cavern - In the passageway to the right of the entrance into the big room, in a secret room on the right wall of the passage. Blow up the doorway by killing an exploding lizard next to it.
Dodonogo's Cavern - In the big stairway room, on the vines by the second floor doorway.
Dodonogo's Cavern - In the big stairway room, right above the big stairs in a small alcove. In order to get this one you have to return to the cavern after getting the boomerang and use the moving pillar in the big room to get to the second floor, then make your way back to this room and the stairs will be raised so you can get to it.
Dodonogo's Cavern - In the room before the boss's room where you have to push some blocks around, there's a bombable door on the north end of the room. Bomb it open and kill the statue inside to reveal this one.
Dodonogo's Cavern - Go right from the main room into the hallway with the exploding lizards. To your left is an alcove. Use the scarecrow's song and hookshot to it.
Jabu-Jabu's belly - On the vines in the room with a switch in the middle that raises the water level.
Jabu-Jabu's belly - In the room you fall to after falling through a pit.
Jabu-Jabu's belly - Right next to the previous gold skulltula in the same room.
Jabu-Jabu's belly - On the vines in the room right before the boss.
Forest Temple - Entrance on vines on right wall.
Forest Temple - On the right wall of the big room, near the stairway opposite the entryway.
Forest Temple - In the East Plant Room on the wall on the Island. (use the hookshot on the chest to get on to the island.)
Forest Temple - In the West Plant Room on the wall , only reachable from the balcony.
Forest Temple - In the rotating room just before the boss, in one of the little alcove's.
Bottom of the well - In the pit room (See Bottom of the Well walkthrough for details).
Bottom of the well - In the room next to the pit room (See Bottom of the Well walkthrough).
Bottom of the well - In the Shield-eater room (See Bottom of the Well walkthrough).
Fire Temple - In the big lava room with the bridge (first room you go through) on the far North side there's a blue block above the doorway. Play the song of time to move it and go through the new door that's revealed. The gold skulltula is in that room.
Fire Temple - In the maze like room with the large boulders everywhere, one of the walls can be blown open to reveal a gold skulltula in a small alcove. Walk along the outside walls and listen for it. It's in the northeastern part of the room.
Fire Temple - In the room with the Shield-eater just before the boss key room.
Fire Temple - On the second floor of the boulder maze above the doorway there is a high platform. Use the Scarecrows song and hookshot to it. Then hookshot over to a platform across from it and it will lift you to a secret area that has a gold skulltula.
Fire Temple - Continue past the last gold skulltula and you'll end up in the donut room where the megaton hammer is. To your left on the wall is a skulltula you can get with the hookshot.
Ice Cavern - In the room with the helicopter blade thing made out of ice.
Ice Cavern - In the small round room East of the helicopter blade room.
Ice Cavern - In the room with the moving block of ice, West of the helicopter blade room.
Water Temple - Above the second vortex in the underground river.
Water Temple - Inside the tower in the middle of the main room, at the top. Need longshot first.
Water Temple - Behind the waterfall in the room with the boulder rolling right before the boss key.
Water Temple - High on the right hand wall in the room with the big waterfall and the platforms going down it. Need longshot.
Water Temple - There's a passageway on the bottom level (left from the passage that leads to where you meet Ruto) that leads to a dead end with a gold skulltula behind a grate. Use a power spin move (hold B and charge, then release) next to the grate to hit the shock switch inside and open the grate.
Shadow Temple - In a room on a side path from the giant room with the falling blades. Go left instead of right after fighting the Stalfos, go through the door, and kill the enemies to open a door leading to the skulltula (This one's in the walkthrough).
Shadow Temple - In the room with the falling spikes in a cage to the left.
Shadow Temple - In the room with the single giant skull there's one behind the skull.
Shadow Temple - In the room with the ghost ship, stand on the platform next to the ship and play the Scarecrow's Song to have Pierre appear across the way. Longshot over to get the skulltula.
Shadow Temple - In the room with the three rotating giant skulls, behind the skulls.
Spirit Temple - After crawling through the hole at the beginning as young Link, go through the right door and it's on the fence across the pit.
Spirit Temple - After crawling through the second small hole as young Link, climb up the rock face where the regular skulltulas are and then turn around to see the gold one.
Spirit Temple - As young Link, after the room where you have to move the blocks to get the sun symbol into the sunlight you'll be in a staircase. It's above the door you entered through.
Spirit Temple - As adult Link, in the room with the rolling boulders and the silver coins, in an alcove blocked by a blue Time block. Use song of Time. (Cool camera angle in there!)
Spirit Temple - As adult Link, in the room with the huge statue where you got the map, go up the stairs and play Scarecrow's Song to hookshot across to a ledge with a gold skulltula.

Non-dungeon Gold Skulltulas:

Most of these require it to be night in order to get them. Also many require a boomerang, hookshot, or longshot to recover the token they drop.

AL = Adult Link only, YL = Young Link only, neither = either link

Hyrule Field - AL - Find a circle of stones near the entrance to Gerudo Valley, smash the red boulder with the hammer, bomb a hole in the ground, then use Din's Fire to find it behind a web and a cow.
Hyrule Field - As you leave Kakariko Village turn right and head to a small tree. Bomb the ground near it, drop down the hole. Skulltula is near ceiling.
Kokiri Forest - YL - Back of Know-It-All-Brother's house.
Kokiri Forest - YL - Drop a bottle of bugs on the soft soil by the shop and one will pop out.
Kokiri Forest - AL - Back of the Twin's House.
Hyrule Castle - YL - In a crate inside the guard house at the market entrance (roll attack to open).
Hyrule Castle - YL - The first tree you see when entering the castle grounds (roll attack it).
Hyrule Castle - YL - After getting past the outside guards in Hyrule Castle's grounds, swim down the moat to the corner where there's a big tree. Play Song of Storms, drop down the hole, and bomb the walls.
Hyrule Castle - AL - Go to the right of the castle and there's a stone arch. It's on the back of it.
Lon Lon Ranch - YL - Near the roof of Talon's house on his second story window.
Lon Lon Ranch - YL - In a tree near the entrance to the ranch, roll attack to get it.
Lon Lon Ranch - YL - Behind the shed at the edge of the corral.
Lon Lon Ranch - YL - Outer wall of the ranch, just north of the stone structure.
Kakariko Village - YL - On a tree near the entrance.
Kakariko Village - YL - On a red brick at the construction site in the middle of town.
Kakariko Village - YL - On the side of the house where the guard's son lives.
Kakariko Village - YL - On that high tower in the northern part of town.
Kakariko Village - YL - The side of the rich cursed family's house.
Kakariko Village - AL - On the wall above the chicken woman's house (use longshot to get up there).
Kakariko Graveyard - YL - On the southeastern wall.
Kakariko Graveyard - YL - Use bugs on the soft soil.
Lost Woods - YL - The soft soil two screens left of the first area has one if bugs are used on it.
Lost Woods - YL - The soft soil that's R,L,R,L,L from entrance (use bugs).
Lost Woods - AL - The magic leaf platform R,L,R,L,L from the entrance leads up to one.
Lost Woods - AL - High on the East wall of the maze (near the sacred meadow).
Death Mountain Trail - In a cave behind a bombable wall a little ways up the trail.
Death Mountain Trail - YL -In the soft soil at the entrance to Dodonogo's Cavern (use bugs).
Death Mountain Trail - AL - In a small nook above the entranceto Dodonogo's Cavern where the bomb plant was. Destroy the red rock there with the hammer to find it.
Death Mountain Trail - AL - After beating the Fire Temple, go up to where the rocks used to rain down on your head. Smash the red boulders there with the hammer and it's behind one of them.
Death Mountain - YL - In a crate just inside the crater (the mountain summit entrance).
Death Mountain - YL - Another soft soil spot in the crater. Use Bolero of Fire to get to it.
Goron City - YL - Smash open a crate on the top floor in a room full of boulders.
Goron City - AL - On the side of the small stone platform suspended above the city.
Zora's River - YL - In a tree at the mouth of the river.
Zora's River - YL - On the ladder near the entrance to Zora's Domain.
Zora's River - AL - Just before the section with the waterfall is a bridge in a fairly narrow valley. Look very high on the left wall. You'll need the Longshot.
Zora's River - AL - Ride the magic leaf platform that's at the beginning of the river (assuming you planted the bean as young Link there) and near the beginning of its trip it floats over a high platform with a boulder in the middle of a ring of rocks. Jump off onto this platform. Look high on the South wall and you should see it.
Zora's Domain - AL - High up next to the frozen waterfall.
Zora's Fountain - YL - A tree on the small island in the Southeast corner (roll attack).
Zora's Fountain - YL - Just to the right of the fallen log.
Zora's Fountain - AL - Pick up the gray boulder in front of the Faerie's Fountain using the silver gauntlet to reveal a hole leading to one.
Lake Hylia - YL - The small island with the two small pillars where you get the Fire arrows.
Lake Hylia - YL - Behind the Lake Hylia Lab.
Lake Hylia - YL - Use bugs on the soft soil next to the lab.
Lake Hylia - AL - In a crate at the bottom of the Lake Hylia Lab pool (use roll attack with Iron Boots).
Lake Hylia - AL - Above the Water Temple is a dead tree. Use your Longshot on a spot on the trunk just above the branch to get up and land on the branch. It's on the top of the trunk.
Gerudo Valley - YL - When you first enter the valley and are walking across the plank look right.
Gerudo Valley - YL - The soft soil spot on the ledge that you float to from the right side of the bridge using a chicken. Drop a bottle of bugs on it.
Gerudo Valley - AL - Look behind the tent on the back stone wall at night.
Gerudo Valley - AL - On the left leg of the stone arch near the tent.
Gerudo Fortress - AL - There is one high above the eastern wall of the fortress.
Gerudo Fortress - AL - In the horseback archery range on the Northern target.
Haunted Wasteland - AL - Inside the stone structure where you discover the phantom guide.
Desert Colossus - AL - When you first get there, head left and it's on a palm tree near a sand pit.
Desert Colossus - YL - A soft soil spot has one if you use a bottle of bugs on it.
Desert Colossus - AL - The magic leaf platform from the previous one will take you to one.

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