The Sky

When you leave the hub town Skyloft, you are free to explore a vast world around it on your Loftwing. This world is the sky and is far less empty than it might seem.

Goddess’s Treasure Chests

The sky is stuffed with goddess’s treasure chests that sit on small empty islands, on top of buildings, and deep within small hidden areas. You ordinarily cannot open them.

You can only open a goddess’s treasure chest after you’ve activated the Goddess Cube that corresponds to it on the surface world. Instructions for finding the Goddess Cubes are in the walkthrough.

Each Goddess Cube is numbered. The goddess’s treasure chest on the map that’s labeled with the same number corresponds to that cube. Some chests are a little tricky to get into once you’ve found them.

Instructions for obtaining these goddess’s treasure chests can be found in the walkthrough.

Goddess’s Treasure Chest Checklist

Traveling the Sky

Usually when you travel the sky, you’re interested in going directly from Skyloft to whatever part of the surface you want to explore. Take a moment to glance around you, though, and you can find some interesting things.

Flying Rupees

Birds called Guays fly through the sky, dangling Rupees from their claws. There’s one that carries a Green Rupee, one that carries a Red Rupee, and one that carries a Silver Rupee. When you spot one of the birds, you can try to get the Rupee in its claws.

You can do this by flying right under the Guay, snatching the Rupee from its claws, or you can attack it with a Dash or Spiral Charge by pressing 3. Once the Guay is destroyed, you snag the Rupee it was carrying.

Octoroks

Annoyingly, some of the stones that float in the sky are infested with Octoroks. The rocks they spit can stagger your bird or damage Link, if they hit him. It is usually easiest to avoid them, but sometimes your course in the sky takes you right past an Octorok’s home rock.

In this case, you want to attack and eliminate the Octorok. Just slam into it with your Loftwing’s Dash or Spiral Charge to defeat it.

Shortcut Stones

As you fly from place to place in the sky, you may sometimes see strange stones with perfectly round holes cut into them. Shimmering energy lines the hole. If you can fly your Loftwing perfectly through the hole, you get a tremendous speed boost that is very helpful in getting from place to place faster.

These stones are called shortcut stones, and it’s to your advantage to get a feel for where they occur between major landmarks.

Sky Attractions

You can fly to certain islands in the sky to play minigames and visit certain characters. Some minigames must be unlocked before you can play them. For more details about how to beat these minigames and what you can win from them, consult the “Secrets and Side Quests” chapter.

Lumpy Pumpkin

Kina and her father run this rustic pub that specializes in pumpkin soup and unusual chandeliers. Eventually, you can play a harp minigame here.

Peater’s Clean Cut

On a round island far to the north of Skyloft dwells a man called Peater. Once the heartthrob of Skyloft, now Peater is a nervous, overweight father. Peater was famous for his skill with a sword and challenges visitors to try their luck at chopping a bamboo pole while it’s in midair.

Pumpkin Pull

Once your friend Fledge builds up his biceps, he offers you a chance to test your archery skills in a pumpkin-shooting minigame. Fledge tosses pumpkins and you get points for shooting them down, with big bonuses if you can keep from missing. Get over 600 points in the minigame and Fledge hands over a Piece of Heart.

Dodoh’s High Dive

Dodoh’s High Dive is a place about “fun” run by a strange little man who thinks nothing should delight you more than being shot out of a cannon. If you can land at the right spots on the island’s giant roulette wheel, you can win Rupees and one prize that’s even bigger.

Strich’s Bug Heaven

Inside the mysterious western part of the sky called the thunderhead, your bug-obsessed classmate Strich has created an island where every species of bug in the world can be found. He charges an admission fee to let other bug lovers see how quickly they can catch bugs there. Your reward for catching bugs well is, of course, rare bugs.