Ocarina of Time Remake: Ice Cavern and Iron Boots

After the Fire Temple, take at least one empty bottle, the Fairy Bow, Hookshot and Megaton Hammer toward Zora Domain. This chapter covers the main equipment route, including the map and compass. Optional spider tokens, heart pieces and the Biggoron Sword trade are not prerequisites. The walkthrough hub lists the full chapter order.

How do you reach the Ice Cavern?

1. Return up Zora River to the waterfall entrance. Follow the river route used as a child. The waterfall has frozen and the entrance stands open, so no song is needed: walk past the Triforce plate into Zora Domain, now frozen, and climb its stairs toward King Zora. The pink ice around him cannot be cleared with your ordinary weapons.
2. Pass the king and cross Zora Fountain. Leave through the passage beside him. Jump between the floating ice slabs, climb the taller blocks and follow the connected ice ridge to the cavern mouth. The heart piece along the way is optional.
3. Clear the first ice-breathing enemy and go through the gate. Break small icicles with the sword and avoid the Freezard’s breath. Approach from outside its breath line and strike between attacks. Once the gate opens, take the winding passage into the room with the rotating ice blade.
4. Collect the silver rupees around the blade. Move with the blade’s rotation and cross its path only when there is room. Pick up the silver rupees until the barred exit lifts, then climb onto the doorway ledge and continue to the room with round stone platforms.

Where do you get Blue Fire and the map?

5. Cross the round platforms to the blue flame. Clear the ice-breathing enemies and the diving bat, then climb the stairs around the stone platforms. At the alcove containing blue flame, equip an empty bottle and use it close to the flame to collect Blue Fire.

6. Melt the pink ice around the map chest. Return across the room to the small chest trapped in pink ice. Stand beside the ice and use the filled bottle; open the chest for the Dungeon Map. Go back to the flame and refill before leaving.

7. Return to the blade room and open the other pink-ice passage. Go back through the doorway, cross carefully past the rotating blade and use Blue Fire on the pink ice sealing the side passage. Follow it into the large room with a sliding ice block and stone pillars.

How do you solve the sliding ice-block room?

8. Remove the bats, then use the block to reach the first pillar. Shoot the ice bats before working on the slippery floor. Push the carved ice block toward the nearby tall stone pillar until it stops. Climb the block, then the pillar, and collect the silver rupee on top.
9. Move the block to the second rupee pillar. Return to floor level, get around to the block’s side and push it toward the other tall pillar with a silver rupee. The stone pillars and low stone stops determine where the block comes to rest. Climb from the block to the pillar and collect that rupee as well.

10. Move the block beneath the blue-flame alcove and refill. Guide the block around the stone stops until it sits below the high alcove with Blue Fire. Climb up and fill your bottle. The Song of Time symbol beside this alcove creates a route to an optional rupee chest; that chest is not needed to open the exit.
11. Reach the pink-ice ledge for the last silver rupee. Move the block back around the pillars and place it beneath the raised ledge sealed by pink ice. Climb up, melt the ice with Blue Fire and collect the silver rupee inside. The barred doorway across the room opens.
12. Refill once more, then move the block beneath the opened exit. Return to the flame alcove for a filled bottle. Reposition the block against the stone stop below the now-open doorway, climb it and pull yourself onto the exit ledge. In the passage beyond, clear the small icicles and use Blue Fire on the large pink barrier before the wolf arena.

How do you get the Iron Boots and water song?

13. Defeat the White Wolfos. Lock on, keep your shield ready and wait for its leap or swiping attack. Dodge or guard, then attack during its recovery instead of swinging into its raised guard. Sword strikes work; the hammer also damages it when you have an opening. Defeat it to lift the gate and reveal the chest.
14. Open the chest for the Iron Boots and speak to Sheik. Collect the boots, then complete the conversation and learn the Serenade of Water. Follow the equipment prompt to set up quick boot changes. Keep traveling through the cavern for now: King Zora still needs Blue Fire.

How do you leave with the Compass and Zora Tunic?

15. Refill and take the remaining pink-ice route. Leave the wolf room, return to the block chamber and collect Blue Fire from its alcove. Follow the return route to the still-sealed pink-ice passage and melt it. Clear the ice enemies beyond; the hammer is useful here. Open the chest at the end for the Compass. If your only bottle is now empty, return to the previous flame and refill before trying to melt the next barrier.
16. Use the next flame source before leaving. Continue along the passage, melt the remaining pink barrier and refill from the flame beyond it. Follow the cave back toward the entrance. Check that you still carry Blue Fire before crossing the ice outside.
17. Thaw King Zora and finish his conversation. Return across Zora Fountain and stand beside the king’s pink ice. Use Blue Fire to free him, then talk until he gives you the Zora Tunic. Equip it for extended underwater travel. With the tunic and Iron Boots ready, use the water song to reach Lake Hylia and continue to the Water Temple.