Deku Tree ✓ Completed
The first dungeon: defeat Queen Gohma, get the Kokiri Emerald.
The Deku Tree, in the Kokiri Forest, has fallen under the evil influence of Ganondorf, Prince of Darkness. Link must go inside this huge tree and kill all of the monsters to rid it of the evil forces.
Enter through the Great Deku Tree’s mouth. Kill all of the monsters on the first floor with your sword. Then, climb up the ladder nearby.
Get the Dungeon Map
Start going up the ramp, running to jump across the gaps. You will see a large chest near some vines (Contains the Dungeon Map).
Keep going up the ramp (don’t climb the vines yet) until you get to a door. Open it with the ‘A’ button. The
monster in the middle of the floor is a Deku Scrub. It will hide in its
hole if you get too close. You cannot hurt it with your own weapons. Stand
back and then wait until he fires a nut at you. Block it with your shield
(press ‘R’ button). It will then reflect back at the Deku Scrub. It will pop
out of its hole, and run around for a short time. Before it goes back in
it’s hole, get close enough to it to activate its dialog, and it will let you in the next room.
Get the Slingshot
Go into the room that unlocks. Jump from the platform to the ground. Climb up the side of the wall
on the vines to reach the slingshot in the treasure chest. If you need a
heart, there is one to the left of the chest up a ladder in the small cave. After you do
this, turn around and look for the ladder hanging above the exit. This is your only way out of this room.
Shoot it with your slingshot once. It should
fall, letting you escape this room.
After you leave the next room, go back to where the spiders (Skulltulas) are blocking the vine path upwards. Shoot all three of them with your newly found slingshot. Now climb upwards until you get to the next level.
Get the Compass and the 1st Golden Skulltula
On this floor, you should find a door if you want to grab the Compass and a Golden Skulltula. If you don’t care about the compass or the skulltula, you can skip to the next paragraph. Walk inside and step on the switch near the edge. Jump across the islands until you get to the other side. Kill the plant thing and get the compass in the treasure chest. Repeat this process except go to the left side of the room to grab the golden Skulltula.
Now it’s time to go back to the other room. To leave, you have to light a Deku Stick on fire with the already-lit torch, and light the unlit torch. The bars should raise and you should be able to leave.
Jump through the spider web on the floor
Once back in the large room, go up to one of the three spiders hanging from the ceiling and kill it with the slingshot or sword. You must hit its back in order to kill it (wait for it to turn around). Now, walk up to the edge of the platform and look down. See the spider web on the floor? You must land on it from that platform. It won’t hurt you if you land on it. Once you jump, land on it and break through it. You should land as close to the center as you can to break it.
Get Skulltula 2 and 3
You will be in a swampy area. There are two Gold Skulltulas in this room, so you should grab them. You can try using your flying sword attack to jump a little bit farther. Press attack when you are already jumping to use your flying sword attack. Get a Deku Stick out, and step on the switch. Now light the Deku Stick with the torch. Then cross the water and light the spider web on fire to enter the next room.
This room should have a Deku Scrub in the middle of the room. Kill this with the same technique as the other one from earlier (hold R to use your shield). Now, you must shoot the eye above the door with the slingshot to open the door.
Dive to button to lower water level
You should now be in a room with a small pond and spikes rolling over it. You must get to the other side. To do this, go to the left side of the room and look for a switch in the water. When you see a switch on the bottom, press and hold A to dive down and press the button. When the water lowers, go back onto the ledge and jump onto the moving platform. When you get to the other side, push the block to under the cave, then jump up to the cave.
After you enter this room, kill all the monsters and go to the room to the right. When you enter this room, kill the Skulltula and then kill all the other monsters that fall from the ceiling. After you kill all of the monsters, get out another Deku Stick. There’s two webs in this room. One leads to a bombable wall (you don’t have bombs yet), you can come back after you’ve got the bombs and the boomerang to capture the 4th and final Gold Skulltula in the Deku tree. Light your deku stick and then catch the other spider web on fire.
Push the block and roll to light the spiderweb
Crawl into the cave and you will come into the room that you landed in the first time. You should see a big spider web right when you enter. You also should see a block. Push the block out into the river. After that, get another Deku Stick out. Light it on fire with the torch across the river. You must hurry back across the block you pushed down, to the spider web and do a roll attack while holding the lit Deku Stick to catch the floor web on fire.
You will land in a swamp with a bunch of hearts, get them. Then approach the 3 Deku Scrubs. Defeat them like you would defeat any other Deku Scrub, but in a special order. Defeat the Second one first, then the 3rd one, then the 1st one (left to right). So, #2, #3, #1. 23 is number 1!
Fight the boss: Gohma
Once the door opens, walk inside. Gohma’s weakness
is when she is stunned. Shoot her in the eye when her
eye is red, which will stun her. Then, when she is stunned, hit her with your
sword. Keep doing this 2-3 times until she dies. Be sure to grab your heart
container before teleporting out and seeing the rest of the Deku Tree story.