Ocarina of Time Remake Hyrule Field and Castle Town Guide

Hyrule Field is the wide plain at the center of Hyrule. Every other region opens off its edge, Lon Lon Ranch stands in the middle, and to the north a drawbridge leads into Hyrule Castle Town, the market below the castle that most players simply call Castle Town. This page covers Hyrule Field in the Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time: where each road goes, what changes at night, what to do in Castle Town as a child and as an adult, how to get to Lon Lon Ranch, and a short list of what you can collect here.

How do you get around Hyrule Field?

Hyrule Field is the hub. Each region below has its own entrance on the edge of the plain:

The map tab of the pause menu shows the regions around the field. Later you can call Epona with Epona’s Song to cross it quickly, and as a child the owl Kaepora Gaebora at Lake Hylia offers to fly you back to Hyrule Castle.

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What happens on your first trip across Hyrule Field?

Leave Kokiri Forest after the Great Deku Tree and follow the path up the first slope. An owl perched on a branch introduces himself as Kaepora Gaebora. He tells you the road leads to the castle, where you will meet a certain princess, then flies ahead to wait for you there. When he leaves, the Threads of Time quest log opens with the event “Princess of Hyrule Castle”.

Stay on the road north, cross the drawbridge and walk through the gate into Castle Town. The Hyrule Castle chapter covers the route from there to Princess Zelda.

What changes in Hyrule Field at night?

Day and night pass on the field. After dark, Stalchildren climb out of the ground around you. Navi warns that they keep coming one after another and that fighting all of them only wears you down, so the best plan is to keep running to where you are going. Once you learn the Sun’s Song in the Graveyard, you can play it to switch to morning. See the ocarina songs.

Hidden grottos in the remake have entrances you can see on the ground. Several hold the field’s collectibles, listed in the last section.

What can you do in Castle Town as a child?

The banner on arrival reads Hyrule Castle Town. The guard just inside the gate tells you the town sits right below Hyrule Castle and has been peaceful since the current king took the throne. In the remake the camera turns freely here, and once you have met Zelda, day and night pass inside the town too, so some places open only at certain times.

A good first visit:

1. Pick up the Gold Skulltula in the guard house. The door is beside the gate. Break the pots for rupees and roll into the crate that shakes.
2. Win the seed bag at the Shooting Gallery. Clear all ten targets with 15 seeds. Come back later and the operator offers a harder expert version: he pays 20 rupees for clearing the basic game and 30 for the expert one, and hints at a special prize for the expert game.
3. Get your first bottle at the Potion Shop. The shopkeeper’s bug has escaped and he lends you an empty bottle to catch it. Catch it and you keep the bottle, filled with a Red Potion. The shop also sells a bug for 30 rupees and a fish for 50, each needing an empty bottle. The bottles guide lists the other four.
4. Buy the Hylian Shield when you can afford it. It does not burn like the Deku Shield, which helps on Death Mountain. A free one is hidden in the Graveyard; see tunics, boots and shields.
5. Head up the castle road. Malon waits by her milk wagon with an egg, and Kaepora Gaebora sits at the top. Continue with the Hyrule Castle chapter.

The paid games and their prizes are on the side quests page, and the mask chain on the masks page. Come back at night for the Treasure-Chest Shop and Richard.

Where do you get the Ocarina of Time and the Song of Time?

Return to Castle Town once you hold all three Spiritual Stones. It is raining, the drawbridge is up, and Zelda and Impa gallop past on a white horse with Ganondorf close behind. When the scene ends, Navi points to something Zelda threw into the moat: dive for the blue glow beside the drawbridge to find the Ocarina of Time. Zelda’s message then teaches you the Song of Time and asks you to play it at the altar in the Temple of Time.

Walk through the town to the Temple of Time, play the song at the stone tablet and the Door of Time opens. The Temple of Time chapter covers the Master Sword and what follows.

What happens to Castle Town when Link grows up?

Step out of the Temple of Time as an adult and the market is gone. Fog hangs between broken houses and dead trees, and the townspeople are gone; in Kakariko Village the villagers say it is safe inside their walls. Hyrule Castle itself has become Ganondorf’s Castle.

• ReDeads. They wander the ruined streets. If one’s gaze catches you, you are frozen in place, so do not walk straight up to it.
• A Gossip Stone stands in the open among the ruins.
• The Ghost Shop. The building with purple lanterns on your right, just inside the entrance, now belongs to the Poe Collector. He buys bottled Big Poes for 30 rupees and 100 points each, gives you a bottle at 500 points and a Gold Rupee at 1,000. He tells you that you need a horse to catch them, so this waits until you have Epona. All ten Big Poes are on the Big Poe page.

You can still change age at the Temple of Time whenever you like, so anything you skipped in the market as a child can be done later.

What can you do in Hyrule Field as an adult?

• Ride Epona. Win her at the ranch (below), then play Epona’s Song anywhere on the field to call her.
• Hunt the Big Poes. Ten of them haunt the field. Each spot has a purple lantern, and you jump the glowing obstacle beside it on horseback to make the Big Poe appear. Shoot it with the Fairy Bow and catch its spirit in a bottle. See the Big Poe locations.
• Find the scrub’s password. Walking the field as an adult, Navi reads a fairy thought with a password. A Business Scrub in a grotto by the castle moat sells a Piece of Heart for 100 rupees to child Link who says it.
• Check the canyon chest. A small chest under a red canyon wall on the way to Gerudo Valley can only be opened as a child after you have visited it as an adult. Both are on the Pieces of Heart checklist.

What is there to do at Lon Lon Ranch?

Lon Lon Ranch is in the middle of Hyrule Field, and in the remake you walk in from the field without a loading screen. The milk seller in Castle Town tells you how to get there and that the owner, Talon, and his daughter have gone to the castle.

• As a child: Malon teaches you Epona’s Song in the paddock. Talon’s game of finding three special Cuccos in 30 seconds gives a bottle of Lon Lon Milk. A Piece of Heart is hidden in the tower in the corner of the ranch.
• As an adult: Ingo has taken over and the area banner now reads Ingo Ranch. Rent a horse, win his two races and escape with Epona. Once Talon is home again, beat the record on Malon’s obstacle course and she sends a cow to Link’s house.

Everything at the ranch, from Talon’s game to the Piece of Heart and Gold Skulltulas, is on the Lon Lon Ranch page; the races and the escape are on the Epona page.

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What can you collect in Hyrule Field, Castle Town and Lon Lon Ranch?

Full steps for each item are on the linked checklists.

What should you read next?

• Hyrule Castle: the castle road, Malon’s egg and sneaking in to see Zelda
• Temple of Time and Hookshot: the Ocarina of Time, the Master Sword and becoming an adult
• Epona: Ingo’s races and the escape from the ranch
• Big Poe locations: all ten spots in the field and the Ghost Shop
• Interactive map: every item in Castle Town and the field