BotW Eventide Island Guide: Stranded on Eventide Rules and 3 Orbs

What is the Eventide Island trial?

Eventide Island is a small island far out in the Necluda Sea, in the southeast corner of Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The moment you step onto it, the shrine quest Stranded on Eventide begins: a voice announces a trial and strips you of your weapons and armor. The voice also tells you how to win them back:

Offer up the orbs to the three altars on this island. Only then will I acknowledge your skill and return your items.

This page covers the island as a whole: getting there, the rules, where the orbs and altars are, and what you can find. For the step-by-step screenshots, see the Korgu Chideh Shrine guide.

Where is Eventide Island and how do you get there?

The island is in Hyrule’s far southeast, in the Faron Tower region. Three ways across:

• Glide: head southeast from Cape Cales, where Muwo Jeem Shrine is. It takes about two stamina wheels; if you are short, bring stamina-restoring food and eat it mid-flight.
• Raft: as one traveler puts it, “If you hop on a boat and head east of Lurelin Village, you can get to Eventide Island!”
• Cryonis: chain ice blocks across the water. Slow but safe.

Before you land, a chest on the rocks near the island holds a Purple Rupee.

How should you prepare before your gear is taken?

All you can bring are the Sheikah Slate runes (Remote Bomb, Magnesis, Stasis, Cryonis) and the Champion abilities — Urbosa’s Fury can stun a whole camp at once. Freeing a few Divine Beasts first makes the island much easier.

The usual trick: before you step onto the sand, stand in the shallows or on a rock and drop the weapons, shield and bow you want. After the trial starts, walk back and pick them up; they are no longer taken. You can also eat heart- and stamina-boosting meals before you land.

Where are the three orbs and altars?

Any order works. A safe route is the treehouse orb first (weakest enemies, and you can grab a bow), then the Hinox’s orb, then Koholit Rock last.

What enemies and supplies are on the island?

The enemies are mostly low-ranked, but you start empty-handed, so none of them are a pushover:

First weapons: three Bokoblins sit around a campfire on Toronbo Beach next to a pile of explosive barrels. Set off the barrels with a Remote Bomb before they spot you and most of them go down at once; take their Boko Spears. The Koholit Rock camp has explosive barrels too.

Food: Hearty Durians and Hearty Truffles grow on the island — cook one on its own for a full heal plus extra hearts. There are also Palm Fruit, Mighty Bananas, Bird Eggs and Hylian Shrooms, and a cooking pot to use them.

Chests: more than ten chests on the island and in the shallows around it, mostly Soldier’s swords, spears, bows and shields, plus a Zora Spear, a Silver Shield, an Iron Sledgehammer and a Knight’s Broadsword.

What should you watch for when the trial ends?

When the last orb goes in, the shrine rises from the top of Koholit Rock and your original gear comes back. Drop any weapons you found on the island and want to keep before you place the last orb, then pick them up again; otherwise they are taken away with the trial.

Inside the shrine you just open the chest and see the monk; there is no extra puzzle. Once the trial is over its restrictions are gone, so leaving and coming back does not reset anything.

Related guides

• Korgu Chideh Shrine: screenshots for each step and the shrine chest.
• Shrine quests: other shrines that appear only after a quest.
• Hinox locations: if you want to fight the Blue Hinox head-on.
• Hearty recipes: the best use of Hearty Durians and Truffles.