TotK Kakariko Ring Ruins: A Trip through History, Out of the Inn

Several Ring Ruins have crashed around Kakariko Village (Show on map) in Tears of the Kingdom, and the Zonai Survey Team has a camp beside each one. Three village side quests send you around these ruins: A Trip through History, Out of the Inn and Codgers’ Quarrel. Take all three before you set out and one loop of the ruins finishes them. Every side quest is on all side quests.

Where are the four Ring Ruins?

A Trip through History counts only the four ruins on the ground; the one floating above the village is not part of it (that one belongs to the main quest Secret of the Ring Ruins, see main quest order).

How do you complete A Trip through History?

Bugut is a tourist who wanders around Kakariko Village; if you cannot find him, select the quest in the Adventure Log to mark him on the map. He wants to know what the stone slabs in the ruins say, but heights scare him. The quest log: “Bugut has come to see the writing on the slabs but is afraid of heights and can’t visit the ruins.”

1. Visit the four ruins in the table above and read the slab in each one.
2. Go back and tell Bugut. You can report one slab at a time or all four at once; the Adventure Log shows how many you still have to tell him about.
3. Once he has heard all four, he gives you 3 Thunderwing Butterflies.

A group of Bokoblins camps in the west hill ruin, so clear them before reading that slab. They are the same monsters Codgers’ Quarrel asks you to deal with.

How do you complete Out of the Inn?

Inside the Kakariko inn, Dai behind the counter is only minding the place. The owner went out to change the survey team’s bedsheets and never came back, and since the team’s tents are in four different areas, Dai has no idea where he is.

1. The owner, Ollie, is asleep on a stone slab in the survey team camp at the northwest ruin (last row of the table). You visit every ruin for the slabs anyway, so you will pass him.
2. Talking to him does not wake him. Open your inventory and drop a Hearty Truffle next to him; the smell wakes him and he hurries back to the inn.
3. Return to the inn and talk to Dai for a Sticky Elixir. From now on you can stay at the inn.

Gordi, a survey team member at the camp, cannot believe Ollie fell asleep on one of the priceless stone slabs. For where to gather the truffle, see Hearty Truffle.

How do you complete Codgers’ Quarrel?

Trissa at the general store in the southwest of the village is worried: the shop is running out of goods because Steen and Olkin, the two old men who stock it, went to drive monsters out of the Ring Ruin in the hills west of the village and have not come back.

1. Go to the west hill ruin (first row of the table). The two are outside, arguing over the right way to deal with the monsters and getting nowhere.
2. Go into the ruin and defeat every Bokoblin camped there.
3. Talk to Steen and Olkin again. Having watched you fight, they agree that offense and defense both matter, make up and head home.
4. Return to Trissa at the general store for an Endura Carrot.

Trissa is said to follow up with another request, Follow the Cuccos, about the cuccos that have moved where they lay their eggs.

Related guides

• Spirit Temple: where the floating Ring Ruin’s main quest ends up.
• Divine Helms and hot spring quests: more riddle side quests.
• Wells: Kakariko also has a well you can climb down.