Deku Tree

Do: Complete the deku tree
Get: map, Slingshot, compass, and Kokori Emerald
Meet: The Deku Tree, Mido

Enter by walking in the mouth, and go forward to some vines, Navi will tell you something so do it. Climb up the vines to reach a ledge. Walk right to find a chest. Open the chest to receive the map. It will say what to do but you could have guessed it. Continue right to find a door. Open the door and deflect the Deku Scrubs nut back to him (it is that bush guy spitting nuts at you) hint: if you get close enough, he will hide in the plants. Now he will begin to rampage all around the room and if you can’t catch him he will go back in his flower. Catch him to automatically speak with him. This will open the door so you can get to the next room by going through the door duh. In the next room jump off the ledge (not on the platform) or it will shake and you will fall. Climb to the next ledge. Open the chest to receive the slingshot. Now jump on the platform and jump forward to the ledge and exit before the platform brakes.

Now walk through the next door and you will be in the first room. Get to the vines and take out your slingshot, aim for the skullwullatas (they like giant skulls with spidery legs scratching on vines). There are three, one is low on the right vine then stand a few steps backwards and aim up high, the final one is on the left vine. (The second one may be on the left vine, I can’t remember). Sling down three skullwullatas in those three places. Now it is safe to go up without being attacked. Begin to climb up the vines on the right. Once up high where all the vines connect and go left and get on the ledge (or you could say branch). Go left ignoring the dropping skulltullas to find a door and enter it. (There are three or four skulltullas that drop if you get close to the web they hang on. These you will find every few feet you move.)

In this room step on the switch to make some platforms rise (hurry, the time is limited). Jump on them jump on the raised platforms and go strait until you reach a ledge with a chest, open it to find the compass. Now the platforms are not raised but that is OK because all you need to do is get back to the first ledge (you will need to destroy the plant/Deku Baba to get back up) and step on the switch again. Go left to another ledge and dodge the thing doing push-ups. Now you see a golden Skullwullata, (like before only golden) strike it twice with your sword to earn a token, collect it, and it will be useful. Go back up to the first ledge and light the braziers (torches) with a Deku Stick. Equip one and bring it to the lit torch, now your stick is lit, hurry before it burns swing it at the unit torches to light them and open the door.

Now you are in the web part of the room. Now sling all of the skulltullas down so that all of the openings are free. Find one, and get back to the wall straight behind the opening. (You will notice that there is a light brown, small path between the wall and the opening. Stand on this (but kind of far back) then target a straight view forward and run as fast as you can so that you leap right off the edge and fallin’ directly for the skulltullaweb. If you make a direct middle shot on it you will fall into water, but if you don’t make a direct hit then you will just have a soft landing back to the beginning floor.

Hit the switch on the second highest ledge to light a brazier (there are three ledges, one is low and you can easily reach it, one has a switch, which you should be on, and another one is too high to reach but don’t worry you will get up soon enough.) Well get to and on the one ledge with the switch. You could have guessed to hit it and cause an effect. The effect is a torch will light and burn a web with a chest containing a life resumer. Take out a Deku stick and light it. Hurry, jump in the shallow part of the water (the part coming out from the left and middle side of that ledge) or else the light will be put out if you try to swim in deeper water, get speed and jump to the lowest ledge then continue forward and light the web plus continue through the door. (The life resumer is a heart that replenishes your three hearts at the top, this is your life, every time an enemy(s) attacks you, and you will lose some of this life. Depending on the creature is how much life gets taken away. If too many enemies attack you or attack too many times and you loose all of your life, you will faint and restart somewhere. At this case, the beginning of the Deku Tree Dungeon)

Here in this room there will be another deku scrub. Again bounce its nut back at it, (or dodge the nuts and stand on the flower as well as hitting the eyeball with a deku seed from your slingshot to open the door) and then talk to it (just like before). Only this time it tells you something that doesn’t make any sense. Anyway take out your slingshot and sling (I can make my own words like sling) the eye above the door to open it.

This room you may say, is simple to complete. That is, unless you have gotten on the floating platform and knocked off by the rotating spiked pillar. But it is still simple to complete if you know what to do. Well hop in the water and just as Navi tells you: “once you get in the water dive and you will find some interesting things or something like that. Well get about 2/5 of the way there on the left side you may locate a switch underwater. Get right above it the press A (which right now says DIVE) to dive down and hit the switch. Hurry, the water only stays down for a limited time. Quickly swim over to the other side and wait for the platform to come, and then jump on it. Wait until you are in jumping range then jump to the other side. Walk to the wall and then destroy the big skulltulla. Now walk up to the block and pull/push it until it can no longer. Climb it, and then enter the door up ahead.

Now you are in a room with three braziers. (First destroy the big skulltula to free the path). One is lit and the other two aren’t. There are also two deku babas. One is in the middle, which you can easily see, and the other is partly “hidden” in the shadow of the room. Ignore this one and worry about the one in the middle so you aren’t attacked while carrying flames. Anyway equip a deku stick and light it on fire. Bring it over to the other two braziers and light them to open the door.

Okay, this room scared my little sister, but I don’t know why. She didn’t mind the part you should do about the destroying the big skulltulla. Maybe it was the baby gohmas, which surprisingly dropped down on you. Well don’t just sit sucking the controller; move forward and usually two gohmas will drop on you. Okay, L- target one gohma dodging the other. When it pounces swipe with your sword at it’s eye or whatever you can hit of it’s. As soon as they are both gone, equip a deku stick and light the stick from the lit brazier and light the two skulltulawebs. Find the one without a rock blocking it. By now, the final gohma must have dropped. (I’m sorry, but I can’t be sure of the pattern in which they fall. For example, it might drop down with the others or it may never drop. I only told you the average of what happens. This is one of very few non-market game unpredictable rooms.) Anyway, go through the small tunnel in the blocks.

See I TOLD YOU SO. You are on the highest ledge of the first water room. But you have to be very careful because if you don’t and fall, you will have to do everything all over again. So what you do is simple. Just walk over to the block and PUSH it. Do not pull or else you will fall and you know what will happen then. Anyway, once you have the block pushed into the shallow water, NOW you may get down there because you may just get back up by climbing the block. Now walk over to the vines and kill the gold skulltulla with the slingshot the climb the vines to get it. Now there is one on some bars, get rid of it by doing you know what. Then stand on a ledge and jump at the token. Back to the real guide. Walk to the ledge with the switch and light a deku stick, then run and jump on to the block then climb to the high ledge. Stand on the web then swing your deku stick and fall to B2.

Now, the hardest part of the Deku Tree Dungeon (my opinion). The three deku scrubs. This is actually fairly easy to complete once you know the order to stun them in. Well I suppose I should tell you. First hit the middle one, next the one on the right side, and then finally the left one (he will act like a normal deku scrub and does not turn purple and make a weird noise). You catch him and he will tell you something about the boss you will find in the next room. Her name is Queen Gohma, and I don’t know about you, but I would not like her as my queen (not like I have one or anything).

Now you shall meet queen gohma, but first, look up and she will see you. Look under Bosses for defeating info. Once you have defeated her, her body will shrivel up and leave behind a heart container. Collect it first. Then step into the blue light to be placed outside of the Deku Tree.

He will ask you if you will listen to the triforce’s legend. Say yes, and it will be long but interesting.