Preparations: You must have Bombs and either the Lamp or Fire Rod in order to proceed here.
In the seemingly empty entrance room, you will quickly notice a giant Floormaster floating overhead. It will follow you around before stopping to grab you; if you keep moving you can stay out of its grasp. If you are caught, you get returned to the dungeon entrance. With that said, go into the east room with your Lamp equipped. Light the nearby lantern, then go around to the northeast corner and continue into the northern chamber. Defeat the Gibdos and open the chest to get a
Compass.
From here, exit the room and return to the entrance. Go into the narrow room to the west this time. Defeat the enemies as you head all the way southward to a floor switch. Press it and a door will be unlocked, so go back and enter that room. Here, avoid the rotating fireball bars and defeat the various enemies along the narrow paths. Merge with the wall if necessary to avoid the flames early on. At the south end, go through the door to end up outside.
To reach the next part of the dungeon, head right. At the end of the path, you will find a hole; drop into it to land on the upper ledges of the room you just came from. Ride a moving platform across the gap, merging with the wall to avoid the Floormaster if needed, then open the chest to get a
Small Key. After that, go into the next room. There, light the lanterns as you make your way to the southeast corner of the room. Unlock the door and continue south to exit the dungeon once more.
Back outside, head through the bone tunnel to the northeast and you will see another hole in the ground. If you jump in, you will land next to a chest on a high ledge containing
100 Rupees but will have to come back outside again to progress. Further along, you will find a square formation of bushes. Cut them down to reveal another hole, then drop into that room.
When you land inside again, simply go into the next room to the west. Here, go north and bomb the cracked floor panel, then fall through to the lower level. The Floormaster can't grab you if you are underneath a catwalk, so keep that in mind. Defeat the enemies and step on the floor switch to lower a wall divider. Go around the room to another cracked floor panel, then bomb your way through. Defeat the other enemies and press the second floor switch to create a bridge across the gap. Open the chest to obtain a
Small Key as well, then unlock the southwest door and enter it.
On the upper ledge of the entrance room, go right and pull the wall lever out. This will lower the center block, revealing some stairs. Take them down to B2. Here, merge with the east wall and head southward where you can defeat the enemies. There will be four buttons lined up, which trigger different wall panels to come out of the wall. Push the two statues onto the leftmost two switches while avoiding the Floormasters, then go up the steps to the left. Merge with the wall and move all the way across to the east side. Pull the wall lever to reveal stairs as a shortcut, then continue onward.
Here, press the first floor switch to cause a block to start moving back and forth. Merge onto it to get across, then pop out onto the middle platform, which is entirely covered by a catwalk. Look for the floor switch above, then stand below it so the Floormaster hits it, activating the second moving block. When the right block moves northward, merge onto it and drop off onto the northern ledge where you can reach the next room.
In this room, you must defeat all of the enemies to proceed. Hit the floor switch and defeat the first three enemies, which leaves two Gibdos on high ledges in the corners. To get them, stand directly below those ledges so the Floormaster appears and crushes the Gibdos, killing them. When the room is clear, the entrance portal will appear and the way forward will be open. In there, ride the first moving platform to the left, making sure to get onto the southern ledge when you can. Avoid/defeat the Floormaster, then when the leftmost platform moves to the left, walk onto its lower level and stand there as it moves back to the middle area. Open the chest and grab the
Small Key, then ride the platform back to the left and unlock the southern door.
Now, go down the steps and dash across the darkened room to the far end. Light the unlit lantern to reveal two Gibdos; defeat them and continue to the next room, and upstairs to B1. Here, merge with the wall and pass through the bars to the south. You will see two eyeball pedestals in the middle area. Merge with the east wall and cross the north gap, then toss the eyeball over to the middle area. Cross back over and throw the eyeball onto one of the pedestals. The big chest will be partially revealed, and the way southward will open up.
Continue through this room by using the moving platforms and merging with the walls when necessary. At the south end, merge to get through the bars and proceed outside. Go west and open the chest with
50 Rupees inside, then head through the tunnel to the north. First, head right and cut the bushes at the end to uncover a hole to fall into. When you land on a high ledge below, merge with the east wall and go north to the next part of the upper ledge. Follow it along to the southwest and open the big chest on the narrow ledge to obtain the
Master Ore.
With the ore in hand, go back to the eastern wall and merge back to the south by where you fell into this room. This time, merge across to the southwest ledge where the other eyeball is sitting. Pick it up and start carrying it back through this room to the north. You can move somewhat more quickly if you throw the eyeball ahead and run to it, pick it up, and repeat. If you are being followed by a Floormaster, make sure you hide under a catwalk or toss the eyeball on the ground and run! When you reach the first gap, toss the eyeball across first and then merge into the wall to cross yourself. After you ride the moving platforms across, go north and throw the eyeball into the other pedestal to fully reveal the big chest. Open it to get the
Big Key.
Now, go through the bars to the west and head downstairs to B2 once more. Continue to the following room and run to the boss door in the center of the darkened room. Unlock the door and go inside to meet the boss, Giant Floormaster.
Boss: Giant Floormaster
The battle against this giant hand takes place in an arena full of cracked floors. For the first part of the battle, the cracks won't matter too much. The boss will float overhead while following you, periodically charging up an attack. When it charges up, merge into the wall so that the boss crashes into it and gets stunned. At that point, pop back out and attack repeatedly with your sword. Repeat this pattern until the area around the boss's eye becomes purple, meaning the second part is about to begin.
For the second part of the battle, the charging move is still used, but following the new attack being introduced. The Giant Floormaster will float above you before attempting to crush you. If it hits a cracked floor panel, it will break it, forming a hole. The trick to avoiding this attack and falling yourself is to stay put until the boss winds up to hit the ground. When you see how the fingers are lined up, run in the opposite direction. That way you are much less likely to get clipped while running away and can stay safe better. I also recommend trying to lure the boss to pound solid sections of floor to minimize the holes.
After three attempts to crush you, the charging move will commence, so get ready to merge with the wall to stun the boss so you can attack. The charging attack is much faster, so you need to be ready to merge as soon as the third crush attack happens. After the boss flies away, the crushing pattern begins again. Keep it up and you will win soon!
Following the battle, take the
Heart Container and exit through the doorway to the north. Touch the painting to meet none other than Sage Seres in the Chamber of the Seven Sages. Exit and you will be back at the weather vane.
NEXT: Before Turtle Rock
