Common Items

Find common items by smashing pots, cutting grass, visiting shops, or defeating enemies. There is no limit to the common items that Link can find or purchase, but there are restrictions on how much he can carry. The sole exception is Blue Chu Jelly - only 22 of these most rare Chu Jellies can be found in all of the Great Sea.

All-Purpose Bait

Where to find it: Purchase it from Beedle or Rats.

Where it’s stored: Bait Bag

What to do with it: Use it near a Fishman to make the Fishman surface and chart the nearest island on your Sea Chart. You can also use it to lure small pigs or to persuade large pigs to dig in dark soil. Use it near a Rat hole to make the Rats stop attacking you and open their shop.

Arrow

Where to find it: Grass, breakable objects, defeated enemies, or purchased from Beedle

Where it’s stored: Items subscreen

What to do with it: Arrows are ammunition for the Hero’s Bow. Link can only fire the Hero’s Bow when he has arrows. When Link first finds the Hero’s Bow, he can carry up to 30 arrows. The Great Fairies at Western Fairy Island (A3) and Thorned Fairy Island (G4) can upgrade Link’s carrying capacity to 60 and then 99 arrows.

Boko Baba Seed

Where to find it: Boko Baba enemy spoil

Where it’s stored: Spoils Bag

What to do with it: Link can exchange four Boko Baba Seeds for a Blue Potion by giving them to Hollo in Forest Haven (F6).

Bomb

Where to find it: Grass, breakable objects, defeated enemies, purchased from Beedle, purchase from Cannon

Where it’s stored: Items subscreen

What to do with it: If Link has bombs, he can use the bombs item in the Items subscreen. Bombs can be used as weapons, as well as tools for clearing obstacles.

Chu Jelly

Red Chu Jelly	Green Chu Jelly	Blue Chu Jelly

Where to find it: Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green ChuChu enemy spoil

Where it’s stored: Spoils Bag

What to do with it: Give 15 Green or Blue Chu Jellies to Doc Bandham on Windfall Island (D2), and he’ll invent the Green or Blue Potion, respectively. After a potion has been invented, Link can exchange five Chu Jellies of the matching color to Doc Bandham for an additional dose of the potion. (The Red Potion is invented by default.)

Deku Stick

Where to find it: In pots or carried by Bokoblins, or dropped by Boko Babas

Where it’s stored: In Link’s hands. Link can only carry one at a time and can’t use any items while holding a Deku Stick.

What to do with it: Use a Deku Stick as a crude weapon (swing it with or throw it with ). Light it from a burning torch by pointing the end into the torch’s flame. You may then use the lit Deku Stick to burn away ropes or wooden objects.

Enemy Weapons

Where to find it: Carried by enemies

Where it’s stored: In Link’s hands. Link can carry only one enemy weapon at a time and can’t use any items while holding it.

What to do with it: Knock a weapon out of an enemy’s hands by blocking an attack with your shield or by knocking the enemy to the ground with a combo, parry, or jump attack. Pick up enemy weapons and use them to fight foes (although these larger weapons are slower and less effective in combat than Link’s sword). Some blocked doorways can only be opened by throwing an enemy weapon through them.

Fairy

Where to find it: Pots, Fairy Fountains

Where it’s stored: Use it right away or capture it in an Empty Bottle for later use.

What to do with it: Touching a Fairy fills up to 10 Heart Containers in Link’s Life Gauge. Use an Empty Bottle to catch a Fairy and save it for later. If Link’s Life Gauge is depleted, the Fairy automatically pops out of the bottle and refills up to 10 Heart Containers, averting a “game over.”

Golden Feather

Where to find it: Kargoroc, Peahat, and Winged Mothula enemy spoil

Where it’s stored: Spoils Bag

What to do with it: Give 20 of these to Hoskit on Dragon Roost Island (F2), and Hoskit’s girlfriend sends Link a thank-you letter containing a Piece of Heart.

Heart

Where to find it: Grass, breakable objects, defeated enemies

Where it’s stored: Life Gauge

What to do with it: One Heart refills one empty Heart Container in Link’s Life Gauge. If Link has no empty Heart Containers, picking up a Heart has no effect.

Hyoi Pear

Where to find it: Purchased from Beedle or Rat

Where it’s stored: Bait Bag

What to do with it: Use a Hyoi Pear near a seagull to take control of the seagull and fly it around. Fly the seagull into switches to activate them. If you press or an enemy hits the seagull, you lose control of it.

Joy Pendant

Where to find it: Chests, pots, Bokoblin enemy spoil, Auction House, quest rewards

Where it’s stored: Spoils Bag

What to do with it: Miss Marie, Windfall Island’s (D2) school teacher, loves Joy Pendants. Give her one to get a Red Rupee (20 Rupees). Give her 20 more to get the Cabana Deed as part of the main quest. Give her another 20 to get Treasure Chart #45.

Knight’s Crest

Where to find it: Chests, Darknut enemy spoil

Where it’s stored: Spoils Bag

What to do with it: Give 10 Knight’s Crests to Orca on Outset Island (B7), and he teaches Link the Hurricane Spin attack.

Magic Jars

Small Magic Jar	Large Magic Jar

Where to find them: Grass, breakable objects, defeated enemies

Where they’re stored: Magic Meter

What to do with them: Large and small Magic Jars replenish Link’s Magic Meter. If Link’s Magic Meter is full, picking up Magic Jars has no effect.

Rupees

Green Rupee (1 Rupee)	Blue Rupee (5 Rupees)	Yellow Rupee (10 Rupees)
Red Rupee (20 Rupees)	Purple Rupee (50 Rupees)	Orange Rupee (100 Rupees)
Silver Rupee (200 Rupees)

Where to find them: Grass, breakable objects, defeated enemies, chests, side quest rewards, selling enemy spoils to Beedle...just about everywhere!

Where they’re stored: Link’s Rupee Wallet

What to do with them: Rupees are the currency of the Great Sea islands. Use them to purchase goods and services. At the game’s start, Link can carry only 500 Rupees, but the Great Fairies at Outset Island (B7) and Northern Fairy Island (C1) can upgrade his carrying capacity to 2,000 and then 5,000 Rupees.

Skull Necklace

Where to find it: Moblin enemy spoil

Where it’s stored: Spoils Bag

What to do with it: On Windfall Island (D2), give Maggie’s father 20 Skull Necklaces to get Treasure Chart #2. Also on Windfall, give three Skull Necklaces to Dampa the sailor to play his “Piggy-Sitting” minigame.

Trading Quest Items

Where to find them: Zunari’s Stall, Wandering Goron Merchants

Where they’re stored: Delivery Bag

What to do with them: Use these items during the trading quest side quest that begins at Zunari’s Stall on Windfall Island (D2) and takes you to the three Traveling Merchants on Greatfish Isle (B4), Bomb Island (F5), and Mother & Child Isles (B2). For more information on the trading quest, see the “Windfall Island (D2)” section in the “Islands of the Great Sea” chapter. After completing the trading quest, use the items to decorate Windfall Island, which impresses Sam so much that he gives Link a Piece of Heart.

Treasure Sphere

Where to find it: Dropped by larger enemies

Where it’s stored: N/A

What to do with it: Larger enemies, such as Moblins, Darknuts, and Seahats, often leave behind these spheres, each of which contains a handful of common items. Shatter them with Link’s sword to release the items. Treasure spheres don’t disappear over time, so you can wait to break them open if you like.