Welcome to Part 7 of our 100% Walkthrough of Zelda Ocarina of Time Remake. With the Goron’s Ruby in hand and your first Bomb Bag, you go back over the places you’ve already been and blow open everything that was out of reach before.
Hyrule Field is full of hidden grottos that only bombs can open, and you visit them all: a fairy fountain, a cow, Business Scrubs, a few rupee stashes and a beehive cave in Kakariko Village that pays out nicely with Din’s Fire. In the Lost Woods you blast a boulder open for a bigger Deku Nut Bag. Then in Hyrule Castle Town, Bombchu Bowling gives you the Biggest Bomb Bag and a Heart Piece, and a night visit finds Richard the dog for another Heart Piece.
To finish, you bomb your way into the Great Fairy Fountain by Hyrule Castle for the Gift of Improved Spin, your second Great Fairy, and then set your sights on the last Spiritual Stone, held by the Zora.
Kakariko
Before you leave Kakariko, there is a grotto that you can only access once you have bombs. Head around the left side of the house where you give the Gold Skulltulas to the Cursed Family to find a grotto covered by a cracked rock. Place a bomb on it to open it up and head inside.
Once inside, stand below the beehives and use Din's Fire to destroy them. They will drop a nice amount of rupees.
One more stop before you leave Kakariko Village: enter the house next to the grotto and you will get the Echo Gem for collecting 20 Gold Skulltulas. With it equipped, it will make a noise whenever you are close to a Gold Skulltula.
Hyrule Field
Another grotto you can open with bombs is located just north of Lon Lon Ranch. Inside you will find a fairy fountain.
The next grotto can be found just outside the path to Gerudo Valley (the western exit of Hyrule Field). Blow up the large rock surrounded by other rocks. Inside, use Din's Fire to burn the webs. You can find 10 rupees in the pots behind the Skulltula, as well as a cow (use Epona's Song to fill a bottle with milk).
Another grotto that you can open with bombs, and which will later give you a Gold Skulltula, can be found next to the water in the southeast corner of Hyrule Field. Head inside and make sure you kill the Skulltula on the wall as a child. This will spawn a Gold Skulltula later as an adult.
The final grotto you can open at the moment in Hyrule Field can be found next to a small camp against the mountain just north of the Kokiri Forest exit. Inside you can find a nice amount of rupees.
Lost Woods
Next, head through Kokiri Forest and go back to the Lost Woods. There are two grottos that can now be opened with bombs.
For the first, from the start go right and then left to reach the Goron City shortcut. Here, destroy the rock on the right to discover a grotto. Inside you will find bushes that almost always give out bugs.
From the previous grotto, continue through the Lost Woods by following the music. You will soon see another rock similar to the one covering the previous grotto. This one only gives you a rupee, so continue until you see yet another one. This one (just outside the exit to Sacred Woods) hides another grotto. Inside you will find two Business Scrubs. The one on the left will sell you a Deku Nut Bag Upgrade (1/2).
Hyrule Castle Town
Next stop is Hyrule Castle Town.
First, enter the bombchu minigame building to the west of the fountain (not to be confused with the bombchu shop that now opens at night down the western street).
Inside, pay 10 rupees for each of the three levels of the minigame and beat all 3. The first will get you some bombchus, the second the Bomb Bag Upgrade (2/2) and the last a Heart Piece (11/36).
Next, head outside and make it nighttime with the Sun's Song. Then talk to the NPC in the white dress to the south of the fountain. She will be looking for her lost dog.
You can find her dog down the street to the west. It's one of the white ones. Interact with it and it will follow you. Take it back to the NPC and you will get another Heart Piece (12/36).
Hyrule Castle
Next, leave the town through the northern exit to reach Hyrule Castle. Climb the vines on the right and, once you get to the corner going left, look right and use a bomb to destroy the rock. Then crawl through the tunnel to reach a Great Fairy Fountain (2/6). Offer the 50 rupees and you will get the Gift of Improved Spin (Fairy Gift 1/3). Basically, hold down your basic sword attack and your spin will be magical, with better range and damage.
Leave the Great Fairy Fountain and you will meet Impa. She will hint that you now have to go to Zora's Domain to find the last Spiritual Stone. That is where you will be heading next.
