Here, you'll find out where to get every single Gold Skulltula in the game.
There are 100.. good luck! The lay out is the same as the Piece of Heart Guide,
but with much shorter explanations. Remember, Gold Skulltulas can only be found
at night, unless they're hidden in trees or crates.
- LEGEND -
YL - Can only be obtained as Young Link
AL - Can only be obtained as Adult Link
EL - Can be obtained as either Link
BL - Must be obtained using both Links
- The Rewards for Killing the Skulltulas -
10 Skulltulas - Adult's Wallet. Allows you to carry 200 Rupees. Yeah!
20 Skulltulas - Stone of Agony. Makes your Rumble Pak (if you have one) rumble
when there is a nearby secret. Very cool.
30 Skulltulas - Giant's Wallet. Allows you to carry 500 Rupees. Cha-ching!
40 Skulltulas - Bombchu. An unpredictable bomb that can travel up walls. What
a letdown..
50 Skulltulas - Piece of Heart. 1/4 of a Heart Container. Duh!
100 Skulltulas - Infinite Huge Rupee. Worth 200 Rupees each time. You can keep
getting this over and over, allowing for unlimited Rupees, but it's still
sucks..
Kokiri Forest: 3 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - In the back of the Know-It-All Bros. House.
2 - Bug - YL - Drop a bug on the plot of soil next to the Item Store. Out pops
a Skulltula!
3 - Hookshot - AL - In the back of the House of Twins.
Hyrule Field: 2 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Bombs - EL - Plant a bomb inside of the stone circle in front of the Gerudo
Valley entrance to uncover a cave.
2 - Bombs - EL - Plant a bomb next to a tree on the east side of Hyrule Field.
Hyrule Market: 1 Gold Skulltula
1 - No Item - YL - Bash into a box in the Guard Room (the room with all the
pots).
Hyrule Castle: 2 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - Bash into the tree straight ahead from the entrance area.
2 - Ocarina of Time - YL - Play the Song of Storms near the tree where you first
met Talon.
Lon Lon Ranch: 4 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - Bash into the tree near the entrance.
2 - No Item - YL - On the back of the small corral shed.
3 - Boomerang - YL - On the outer wall, northwest of the storage shed (the room
with the two cows).
4 - Boomerang - YL - On second story window of Talon and Malon's house.
Kakariko Village: 6 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - Bash into the tree near the entrance.
2 - No Item - YL - On the side of the House of Skulltula.
3 - No Item - YL - On the stack of bricks.
4 - No Item - YL - On the side of the Graveyard Kid's house.
5 - Fairy Slingshot - YL - On the observation tower (on the ladder).
6 - Hookshot - AL - On top of Impa's House.
Kakariko Graveyard: 2 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Boomerang - YL - On the outer wall, right of the Royal Family's Tomb.
2 - Bug - YL - Empty a Bug onto the plot of soil.
Lost Woods: 3 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Bug - YL - Go left from the start, and then go through the log at the end of
the area. Empty a Bug onto the plot of soil.
2 - Bug - YL - Go to the area with the tall grass and the Forest Stage. Empty a
bug onto the plot of soil there.
3 - Magic Bean - BL - Plant a Magic Bean in the soil for Skulltula 2 as Young
Link, and come back as Adult Link, where you will find a Magic Plant that will
take you up to a platform where a Skulltula is hiding.
Sacred Forest Meadow: 1 Gold Skulltula
1 - Hookshot - AL - Climb up on top of the hedges in the hedge maze, and,
assuming you're facing Kokiri Forest, it's on the left outer wall.
Death Mountain Trail: 4 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Bug - YL - Drop a Bug onto the plot of soil in front of Dodongo's Cavern.
2 - Bombs - YL - Inside the first bombable wall on the right side. Once you
kill it, you CAN get the Token - it doesn't look like it, but the wall IS
climable.
3 - Megaton Hammer - AL - Smash the red boulder in the area where you threw the
Bomb Flower to open up Dodongo's Cavern.
4 - Megaton Hammer - AL - Smash the red boulder in the volcanic eruption area.
Goron CIty: 2 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Bombs - YL - Go to the Boulder Maze room (on the top floor), and make your
way to the end. Bash the crate there.
2 - Hookshot - AL - Go to the center platform suspended by ropes, stand on one
of the side ropes, and fire your Hookshot at the Skulltula on the back of the
Goron's Ruby holster.
Death Mountain Crater: 2 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - Bash the crate at the entrance to the area.
2 - Bug - YL - Drop a bug onto the plot of soil.
Zora's River: 4 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - Bash the tree at the entrance.
2 - No Item - YL - On the ladder near the waterfall in front of Zora's Domain.
3 - Hookshot - AL - Near the Fairy Fountain at the top area. From that
platform, check the south outer wall, and bag the Skulltula.
4 - Hookshot - AL - Look up and to your left while on the bridge near the
waterfall, and you'll see it. Jump up on the fence past the bridge, and the
Hookshot will just barely reach.
Zora's Domain: 1 Gold Skulltula
1 - Hookshot - AL - Go to the area where the Zora man gave you the Silver Scale
(above the waterfall). Stand on the edge of the platform, look to your left,
and you'll find it.
Zora's Fountain: 3 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - Bash the southeast corner tree.
2 - Boomerang - YL - On the outer wall, west of the fallen log.
3 - Silver Gauntlets - AL - Lift the boulder near the Fairy Fountain entrance
where you got Farore's Wind. You'll have to go through an area infested with
invisible Big Skulltulas before you reach the Gold Skulltula.
Lake Hylia: 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Boomerang - YL - On the back of the Lake Hylia Laboratory.
2 - Bug - YL - Empty a Bug onto the plot of soil in front of the Laboratory.
3 - No Item - YL - On the Fire Arrow platform.
4 - Longshot - AL - Grapple to the top of the tree (where the Serenade of Water
Warp Point is). It's harder than it sounds.
5 - Iron Boots - AL - Sink to the bottom of the pool in the Laboratory, and bash
the crate there. I didn't know spiders could survive in water..
Gerudo Valley: 4 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Bug - YL - Empty a Bug onto the plot of soil at the bottom of the canyon.
2 - Boomerang - YL - On the waterfall opening (the mini waterfall near the
entrace, not the huge one).
3 - Hookshot - AL - Behind the carpenters' tent.
4 - Hookshot - AL - Under the stone arch across from the tent.
Gerudo Fortress: 2 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Hookshot - AL - Go to where you can grapple to the treasure chest containing
the Piece of Heart, and look down in the big gap, along the outer wall.
2 - Hookshot - AL - On one of the horseback archery targets.
Haunted Wasteland: 1 Gold Skulltula
1 - Hookshot - AL - Inside the stone structure where you meet the invisible
ghost.
Desert Colossus - 3 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Bug - YL - Warp to the Spirit Temple using the Requiem of Spirit, and empty
a Bug onto the plot of soil near the entrance.
2 - Hookshot - AL - On the palm tree by the dry Fairy Fountain (pond).
3 - Magic Bean - AL - Use the same Magic Plant you used to get the Piece of
Heart to get to the high stone platform on the right.
Inside the Deku Tree - 4 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - 1F, in the room with the three rising platforms, on the south
side.
2 - Fairy Slingshot - YL - B1, on the vines leading back up to 1F.
3 - No Item - YL - B1, on the wooden bars at the north side of the room. The
Token can be acquired by jumping.
4 - Bombs, Boomerang - YL - B1, in the room behind the bombable wall.
Dodongo's Cavern - 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - No Item - YL - 1F, behind one of the bombable walls that the Baby Dodongos
destroy.
2 - No Item - YL - 2F, on the vines in the room where you blew the stairs down.
3 - Bombs - YL - 1F, the northern-most room, behind the Armos.
4 - Hookshot - AL - 2F, in the stair room, there's a Skulltula in a hidden
alcove if you look up and forward from the stairs.
5 - Ocarina of Time, Hookshot - AL - 1F, in the room with the Baby Dodongos,
summon Pierre using the Scarecrow Song when Navi turns green, but there doesn't
seem to be anything there.
Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly: 4 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Fairy Slingshot - YL - B1, on the vines inside the room with the switch and
rising water.
2 - Boomerang - YL - B1, after you drop down the hole where the green tentacle
used to be.
3 - Boomerang - YL - B1, same area as Skulltula 2, if you look closely.
4 - Fairy Slingshot - YL - 1F, on the vines, in the final room before the Boss.
Forest Temple: 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Hookshot - AL - 1F, on the vines in the very first room.
2 - Hookshot - AL - 1F, in the main room (the one with the four torches), to the
right of the northern-most door.
3 - Hookshot - AL - 1F, in the northeast part of the northeast courtyard, on the
wall.
4 - Hookshot - AL - 2F, in northwest courtyard, against the wall.
5 - Hookshot - AL - B2, in the rotating wall room (the final room before the
Boss). It's hidden behind a wall.
Fire Temple: 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Ocarina of Time, Hookshot - AL - 1F, play the Song of Time to move a Time
Block so that you can get to a secret door.
2 - Bombs - AL - In the rolling rock maze, bomb a wall that sounds hollow with
your sword. To give you a hint, the view will change dramatically (to a view
right behind Link) when you're in the right area.
3 - Ocarina of Time, Hookshot - AL - When you get to the area above the rolling
rock maze, look up and to your left, where Navi will turn green. Summon Pierre
using the Scarecrow's Song, and grapple to him.
4 - Ocarina of Time, Hookshot - AL - Keep going past Skulltula 3, and you'll
come to an area with a huge pit. There's a Skulltula on the wall above the pit.
5 - Megaton Hammer - AL - In the second spinning tile room, right before the
area with the Boss Key.
Ice Cavern: 3 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Hookshot - AL - Against the wall in the room with the huge spinning ice
blades.
2 - Hookshot - AL - In the room with the Piece of Heart, right next to it,
against the wall.
3 - Hookshot - AL - In the ice block sliding puzzle room, against the wall (left
from the entrance, I think).
Water Temple: 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Longshot - AL - In the center room in the main area, very high against the
wall.
2 - Longshot - AL - In the room with the waterfall hookshot platforms (it's on
the right wall from the entrance).
3 - No Item - AL - In the room with the switch behind a closed gate. Use a Spin
Slash to hit it. It's behind the closed gate.
4 - Longshot - AL - In the whirlpool river room, midpoint, against the wall.
Use the Iron Boots to keep yourself from moving.
5 - Longshot - AL - In the room where the boulders drop down from the waterfall,
right before the Boss Key. It's behind the waterfall, against the wall.
Bottom of the Well: 3 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Boomerang - YL - In the room behind the left-hand locked door in the center
room.
2 - Boomerang - YL - In the room behind the right-hand locked door in the center
room.
3 - Boomerang - YL - In the upper-right area, in the same room as the Like-Like.
Watch out!
Shadow Temple: 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Longshot - AL - In the room with the invisible spinning scythes.
2 - Longshot - AL - In the room with the falling spiked celings, behind a cell.
3 - No Item - AL - In a room with a Skullpot. You can find it behind the
Skullpot.
4 - Longshot/Ocarina of Time - AL - In the room with the floating ghost ship.
You can either attempt to hit it while the boat is moving (very hard), or you
can summon Pierre using the Scarecrow Song to get up close and personal.
5 - Longshot - AL - Behind the three spinning Skullpots.
Spirit Temple: 5 Gold Skulltulas
1 - Boomerang - YL - In one of the silver-rupee collecting rooms. It's on the
fence.
2 - Boomerang - YL - Behind the ladder, at the top, in the room with two
Lizalfos.
3 - Boomerang - YL - Above the doorway in the hall right before you fight Iron
Knuckle.
4 - Ocarina of Time - AL - In the silver-rupee collecting room with the rolling
boulders. Play the Song of Time in front of the Time Block to reveal the
Skulltula.
5 - Longshot/Ocarina of Time - AL - In the room with the huge snake
woman/goddess/thing statue. It's on the inaccessible platform at the left side
of the room, against the wall. You can either use the Longshot to nail it, or
you can summon Pierre using the Song of Scarecrows to grapple to it.
Ganon's Castle: 1 Gold Skulltula
1 - Hookshot - AL - Go to the general area where the guard gate used to be
(where you had to sneak past in order to get into the castle grounds). There,
you'll find the last Gold Skulltula on the side of the stone structure.
Congrats! You have just conquered Zelda 64's hardest challenge! Now go get
your 200 Rupees! Heh heh.. ^_^;;
