Woodland Shrine Solutions
The Woodland region is the Great Hyrule Forest: the Lost Woods, the Korok Forest where the Master Sword waits, and the dark Thyphlo Ruins. Half of its eight shrines are rewards for the Korok Trials and other quests in and around the forest.
Jump to a shrine: Daag Chokah | Keo Ruug | Ketoh Wawai | Kuhn Sidajj | Maag Halan | Mirro Shaz | Monya Toma | Rona Kachta
See the full shrine list for every region, and our interactive map for exact locations.
Daag Chokah Shrine: Daag Chokah's Blessing
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Shrine quest, The Lost Pilgrimage: A young Korok, Oaki, is making a pilgrimage through the Lost Woods. Follow him without being seen until he reaches the pedestal.
A blessing shrine deep in the northwest of the Lost Woods. It's one of the Korok Trials: a Korok in the Korok Forest asks you to secretly follow little Oaki on his pilgrimage without being seen. Keep your distance and sneak after him until he reaches the shrine. Inside there's no puzzle.
Chest: Ancient Core.
Keo Ruug Shrine: Fateful Stars
Keo Ruug is in the Korok Forest. Two rows of holes run along the sides of the room, and the number of lanterns by each hole (1 to 5) is its number. Four constellations are shown on the wall near the holes, and the far back wall is covered with copies of them. The tablet tells you to look to the stars.
- Count how many times each of the four constellations appears on the back wall. Each count tells you which numbered hole that constellation's ball goes in.
- Our count, left to right: 5, 3, 1 and 2. Put each ball in the hole with that many lanterns, and the gate to the altar opens.
Chest: Royal Claymore. To the right of the altar gate is a second locked gate with its own set of constellations above it. Count those (we got 4, 2, 2 and 1, left to right), move the balls to the matching holes, and the gate opens.
Ketoh Wawai Shrine: Ketoh Wawai's Blessing
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Shrine quest, Shrouded Shrine: In the dark Thyphlo Ruins, light the bird-shaped torches to find the way, take the orb from the Hinox and place it on the pedestal.
A blessing shrine in the middle of the Thyphlo Ruins, the pitch-dark forest north of the Korok Forest. Entering the ruins starts its shrine quest. Bring a torch or other fire, and light the bird statues' braziers as you go to find your way. Defeat the Hinox inside to get an orb, and place it on the pedestal to raise the shrine. Inside there's no puzzle.
Chest: Ancient Core.
Kuhn Sidajj Shrine: Kuhn Sidajj's Blessing
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Shrine quest, Trial of Second Sight: In the Lost Woods, use Magnesis to follow the hidden metal, then give the trees what they ask for.
A blessing shrine on the northwest shore of Lake Saria, southwest of the Korok Forest. Another of the Korok Trials: Zooki, standing on a rock in the Lost Woods through the archway southwest of the forest, says the "hungry trees" will show you the way. Follow the trees holding metal objects in their mouths. Where one is empty, put the Rusty Shield in it with Magnesis; a chest appears. Carry the chest across the lake on a raft and put it in the last tree's mouth to raise the shrine. Inside there's no puzzle.
Chest: Giant Ancient Core.
Maag Halan Shrine: Maag Halan's Blessing
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Shrine quest, The Test of Wood: Damia in Korok Forest sets a test: cross the swamp wearing only Forest Dweller gear.
A blessing shrine in a clearing at the edge of Mido Swamp, northeast of the Korok Forest. It's the "Test of Wood" Korok Trial from Damia, east of the forest. Damia takes away your gear and gives you Korok weapons, and you must fight your way along the path to the shrine using only those and your runes, without breaking them all or dying. Clear some space in your inventory first. Inside there's no puzzle.
Chest: Giant Ancient Core.
Mirro Shaz Shrine: Tempered Power
Mirro Shaz is on the north shore of Pico Pond, east of the Woodland Stable. The puzzle is Stasis golf: freeze a ball, hit it, and send it flying into a goal.
- Go right and take the lift down. Open the chest on the left for an Iron Sledgehammer.
- Stand straight behind the ball and freeze it with Stasis. Hit it with the sledgehammer five times (until the arrow is orange, not red) so it lands or rolls into the goal. Hit too hard and it bounces out.
- A gate opens on the left. Freeze the stone block there with Stasis and hit it so it slams into the big stone slab and knocks it into a ramp. Climb up to the altar.
Chests: Iron Sledgehammer (by the first ball), a second Iron Sledgehammer and a Giant Ancient Core. For the last two, take the walkway left and ride the lift down to a second, longer hole. The chest with the hammer is next to the ball. Freeze the ball, hit it five times with a two-handed weapon and then once with a one-handed weapon, keeping your aim dead straight. Or move the ball back behind the little fence and hit it at full power. When it lands in the goal, a gate opens on the chest with the core.
Monya Toma Shrine: Drawing Parabolas
Monya Toma is on Salari Hill, south of and overlooking the Serenne Stable. Three launchers fling a ball (or you) around the room, and the orange crystal turns the last one.
- Shoot the crystal until the launcher in the far corner faces the goal. Blow up the wooden crates at the end of the path next to the goal.
- Drop the ball into the first launcher, to the right of the entrance. It bounces from launcher to launcher and lands in the goal, opening two gates. Go through to the altar.
Chest: Thunderblade, on an upper platform. Turn the third launcher with the crystal until it faces the chest. Stand in the first launcher, glide quickly to the second when it throws you, and let the launchers carry you up to the chest.
Rona Kachta Shrine: Rona Kachta's Blessing
A blessing shrine at the far end of the Forgotten Temple, in the canyon east of the Snowfield Stable. The temple's two great halls are full of Decayed Guardians, six in each. You can fight them for Guardian parts (perfect-guard their lasers), but the easiest way through is to glide: ride the updrafts through the halls and keep moving. Bring hearty food. Inside the shrine there's no puzzle.
Chest: Great Flameblade.