Task 4: Remove the Buzzing Threat from the Tall Tree — The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD eGuide

Slingshot Shenanigans

Optionally try out your Fishing Rod at the shallow hillock’s bottom. Stop at the stream edge and test the rod. If you’re patient, you can catch a Greengill here. This is one of three good fishing spots in the village.

Now to befriend the cat! Move to the fishing spot behind Jaggle and Pergie’s wheelhouse, and stand at this jetty’s edge. Cast your line, and wait for a moment or two. The bobber slowly sinks until it’s vertical. Wait for it….

Fish on! Pull the rod up and gently pull back when the floater bobs down slightly in the water. If you miss, re-cast your line. Keep this up until you land a fish! This is likely to be a moderately sized Greengill.

When you reel in your first fish (from any location), Sera’s cat can smell it! The cat now becomes much more friendly. Now reel in a second fish from where the cat is by the wheelhouse jetty. The cat plays with your prize, then scampers away with it, all the way to the cat-flap at Sera’s house!

Fun with Fishing

Remember these tips for hours of fishing frivolity:

You receive a Heart for each fish you catch.
Later in your adventure you can obtain different lures.
When you’re near a body of water, check it for fish, then cast your line.
Fish aren’t in all areas; don’t bother fishing at a spring for example.
There are monstrous specimens to land later on!
All the different types of fish you catch, and their size, are recorded.
Your Fish Journal keeps track of only the fish you catch using a bobber.

Head to Sera’s Sundries! Sera is inside, both surprised and delighted. That cat “brought a fish back with him. He was worried about me being angry!” She’s feeding the cat some Milk, but she kindly gives you the dregs in a Bottle for free. How kind!

Milk Bottle

You got Milk in a Bottle! But this Bottle’s half-empty!

The Milk isn’t important; the Bottle is the most important item. Finish the Milk. There are four Bottles to find during your adventure, and the healing liquids you can carry in them are critical to your survival. It may not seem like it at first, but the Bottle is an amazing gift!

Swap Set Items by dragging each one on the Wii U GamePad menu screen,then set them to the Y, X or R button icons on the top of the tablet’s screen. Just press the button you assigned the item to to use it. Some items are used automatically when you press the R button; don’t worry, we’ll tell you when!

Set your Bottle to the R button, swig the Milk (even if you have full health), and then inspect Sera’s Sundries, as she’s happy to sell you some items. The three in question are all behind her. Press right on the Left Analog Stick to access them.

Store

Sera’s Sundries

Name	Price	Effect
Milk	10 Rupees	Two helpings; each replenishes 3 Hearts
Bee Larva (10)	10 Rupees	Fishing bait, minimum life energy gain
Slingshot and 50 Pellets	30 Rupees	Projectile weapon

Don’t buy the jug of Milk. It fills up the Bottle, and you need it empty later. You also must keep the Bee Larvae in a Bottle, so they aren’t ideal, either (and you can claim free Larvae in a moment). However, purchase the Slingshot. Hand over the 30 Rupees; it’s worth it!

You don’t have enough money? What have you been doing? We’ve just shown you loads of places to find Rupees. Check back and read up on all the hidden places. We managed to arrive at Sera’s with 83 Rupees! Can you do better?

Slingshot

You got the Slingshot! Children LOVE this item. You can hold up to 50 pellets.

Milk Bottle

You got Milk! One Bottle holds two helpings!

Bee Larva

You got the Bee Larva! Fish love these, but you can eat them too.

Bee Larva

If you purchase or locate Bee Larva, you must use the Bottle to capture 10 Larvae.
Each is either used to bait your Fishing Rod hook (the fish are more attracted to this new lure, but they eat one larva each time they bite).
Or, you can eat larva to recover one-quarter Heart per larva. That means that chomping down all 10 gives you only two and a half Hearts!

The best way to use Bee Larva is to scoop some up from the broken hive shortly, instead of paying for it. Don’t use them to increase your health. Bait your hook with one, test it out, then ignore this item after you finish fishing here. There are better ways to increase your health, and better things to use as bait!

Slingshot: Your First Weapon

Set the Slingshot to the Y button on the Wii U GamePad menu screen. Use the Left Analog Stick or move the Wii U GamePad around until you’re over your target. Press and release the B button to fire. Lock on to your target with the ZL button on your Nunchuk.

When you’re aiming, remember that your pellets travel in an arc, and they will fall to the ground, rather than travel in a straight line like an arrow. This means you should aim at distant targets (like the hive, in a moment) higher than dead-center, to adjust for the trajectory.

You can refill your Slingshot with pumpkin seeds!

Hornet Keeping

Head out of Sera’s shop, and walk to where Hanch is standing. It’s time to bring an end to these pesky Hylian Hornets. Achieve this in one of three ways:

Plan 1: Hawk Strike

You may have launched your bird of prey at the hive from the flat rock near Sera’s store roof, aiming at the hive. The bird knocks the hive down, and the Hylian Hornets are far enough away to dissipate.

Plan 2: Slingshot Strike

The second plan is to stand by Hanch and aim up at the hive with your Slingshot, whacking it with a pellet until the hive falls and smashes. The Hylian Hornets don’t take too kindly to this and swarm you. Run!

Plan 3: Headbutt Strike

A final plan, which is only slightly less insane than it sounds, is to head around and up to the vines on the tree, climb them, and head up, dislodging the Hylian Hornets with your head! You’ll lose about one Heart dropping and fleeing the swarm.

Hylian Hornets

Hylian Hornets are angry only if provoked. If you find yourself surrounded by them, you cannot stand and fight. One option is to run away from them. Five seconds into your flight, the Hylian Hornets give up the chase. The second option is to dive into water, to where the Hylian Hornets cannot fly. You can be stung and defeated by Hylian Hornets, but only if you wait around while they attack!

After the hive explodes, talk to Hanch, who was throwing stones at the nest ineffectually. Head up to the hive’s remains. Empty your Bottle and stand near the nest. Use the A button to scoop Bee Larvae into your Bottle. That way, you get these for free! Don’t pay Sera’s outrageous prices!

Return to Ordon Village and the hive reappears. Knock it down just like you did, and capture 10 Bee Larvae, and you’ll have more than you need. Inspect the tree from top to bottom for Rupees (see Missing Links), then optionally destroy pumpkins and take your first pumpkin seeds (these are available from some pumpkins now that you have the Slingshot).

Pumpkin Seeds

You got pumpkin seeds (50)! Use them with your Slingshot.

This is the first time you secure pumpkin seeds. Explode more pumpkins to gather additional seeds, up to the maximum of 50.

Missing Links

Once again, there’s much to do in the village, especially now that you’re able to fish.

1. Fishing Hole #1

Start at the shallow stream below Rusl and Uli’s house. You catch Greengills here.

2. Fishing Hole #2

Another fishing hole is where the cat was prowling, behind Jaggle and Pergie’s waterwheel home. You catch Greengills here, too.

3. Fishing Hole #3

Another good spot to fish is the narrow bank protrusion at the pond’s far end, near where the monkey was standing. You can catch Ordon Catfish here!

4. The Hornet Tree: Two Green Rupees and a View

Head left up the narrow bank to a small promontory and great view of the village. Find two Rupees here, and this is a great spot for Cucco flying!

5. The Hornet Tree: 15 Rupees and a Great View

After the hive is downed, climb the tree vine all the way to the top, then edge along the main branch to claim two precariously positioned Rupees, a 5 and 10 on each smaller branch. Enjoy the highest view of the village from here!

Leap from these branches, and you can land without hurting yourself. Remember to roll (press up on the Left Analog Stick).

6. Pumpkin Pulverizing: From Range

Remember you can strike items that explode, like pumpkins, from a distance now that you have the Slingshot. Practice on those pumpkins, and don’t forget the seeds!