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A hidden passage that takes you below Hyrule Casle |
Royal Hidden Passage is a Location in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, found in Central Hyrule. Facing the Hyrule Castle Town Ruins, face south and take the stairs down, to enter the small gap through the wall and access the Royal Hidden Passage. Here, players can find the Horned Statue, which allows them to respec their Hearts and Stamina, as well as the Soldier's Set.
Zelda TotK Royal Hidden Passage Location Map
You can find the hidden passage south from Hyrule Castle Town Ruins, by taking a set of stairs down. See it here on the TotK Interactive Map.
Hidden Passage Entrances and Exits:
Zelda TotK All NPCs and Merchants in Royal Hidden Passage
- None
Zelda TotK Quests in Royal Hidden Passage
Zelda TotK All Items in Royal Hidden Passage
Food & Consumable Items
- None
Materials
- Amber
- Brightbloom Seed
- Brightcap
- Bomb Flower
- Flint
- Hearty Truffle
- Hylian Shroom
- Luminous Stone
- Opal
- Purple Rupee
- Rock Salt
- Raw Meat
- Ruby
- Topaz
Zelda TotK Royal Hidden Passage Wildlife, Enemies, and Bosses
Wildlife and Enemies
- Black Horriblin
- Bubbulfrog
- Electric Keese
- Fairy
- Glowing Cave Fish
- Ice Like
- Keese
- Like Like
- Shock Like
- Stalkoblin
- Stalmoblin
- Sticky Lizard
- Stone Pebblit
Field Bosses, Other Bosses
Zelda TotK Royal Hidden Passage Location Walkthrough
The Royal Hidden Passage can be found south of the Hyrule Castle Town Ruins. Take the stairs down, to access the Emergency Shelter. If the ladder is not available, talk to Scorpis, to get the hole open, granting you access. Once there, you will find Jerrin, the quest giver for the Side Quest Who Goes There? If you have already completed one main dungeon, just past her, you will see a gap in the wall that you can enter. This small entrance will lead you to the Royal Hidden Passage.
Move forward and eventually, you will be blocked by rocks. Destroy them using a bludgeoning weapon, like a Rock Hammer, to open a path. If you don't have any similar weapons or your last one breaks, there will be lots of rocks lying around as you traverse the passages that you can use to Fuse one. A Bomb Flower can also be used to destroy the rocks blocking your path, just be careful not to get damaged by your own explosion. If you already have the Vow of Yunobo, Sage of Fire at this point, you can also use Yunobo's ability to destroy the debris.
Head to your right to find the Horned Statue behind the rocks, so create a path to interact with it. This allows you two things: the first is to progress the Side Quest Who Goes There?, and the second is to be able to use the Horned Statue able to swap Link's two main stats (Hearts and Stamina) for a small fee. As was the case in Breath of the Wild, the Horned Statue can help you respec your build allowing an additional form of customization with how you'd want to play through the game.
Respeccing in Zelda: TotK
To Respec your stats, you will have to give Horned Statue one of Link's essences - either a Heart Container or Stamina Vessel, in exchange for 100 Rupees. The "I want one back" option on the other hand allows you to exchange 120 Rupees for an essence, allowing you to, for example, pick a Heart Container even if you've only given it a Stamina Vessel previously. This essentially means you're paying 20 Rupees to be able to switch your stats around.
Why Respecing? Is Respecing necessary in Zelda: Totk?
As you should probably already know, more Heart Containers mean more longevity in fights. Endgame Enemies and Bosses can deplete a huge number of hearts with a single attack, even after taking into consideration good Equipment. However, Stamina is equally important, as every action Link does requires stamina. Having low Stamina for an all-in Hearts build isn't ideal, and obviously being incredibly frail, but having an enormous amount of Stamina, could be a frustrating way to play the game. The idea is to find the right balance between these two main stats and to customize Link based on what better suits your own playstyle, and Respeccing with the Horned Statue allows the player to do just that.
Beginners should focus on hearts first, (about six or eight hearts), before spending upgrades on Stamina. Doing so will help them learn the mechanics of the game as well as its Combat.
After interacting with the Horned Statue, take the other path to the left. You will have to break a lot of rocks in order to progress. Along the way will be some Flint, Opal, Rock Salt, and Hylian Shrooms that you can pick up. Eventually, you'll find a room where a Like Like resides. When it opens its gaping jaws, hit its weak point to stun it and deal massive damage. After defeating it, it will drop a chest with some Rock Salt. The rocks to the south lead to a small room with four Sticky Lizards.
Climb up to a ledge to the north to find another blocked passage. Once again, break the rocks and keep moving to will find two Bomb Flowers. Keep advancing and you will reach a bigger room, where there are two Stone Pebblits. There is a huge amount of rocks to your left, so destroy them to reveal a hidden passage.
Enter the hidden passage and head toward what looks like a prison-like structure. Face another Stone Pebblit, and find a Soldier's Claymore inside a chest behind the rocks located in one of the small rooms.
To the left side is another Like Like. Defeat it, to get a chest containing a Soldier's Shield. Just a bit past where it was is a chest that contains a pair of Soldier's Greaves. There are boxes on the opposite side that you can destroy, hiding five Arrows. Turn around and head back to the area where you fought the first two Stone Pebblits, and take the other exit this time, which should be on your left.
You will reach a bridge where there are two Stalkoblins waiting for you, along with a Stalmoblin. They'll keep getting back up unless you destroy their head while they're down. If you fall from the bridge and swim through the water, you will find a few Brightcaps and a Hearty Truffle. By swimming through to the other side, you will find an entrance where you will find four Glowing Cave Fishes and two Fairies.
Return to the bridge and continue forward. After facing two Keeses and an Electric Keese, you will continue downwards to eventually find another water bank. There are some breakable rocks nearby before the water, hiding some Luminous Stones you can get if you break the glowing ore. Go to the water bank now. Swim and turn left as soon as you find land, to replenish your Stamina.
You will have entered a big area with quite a lot of breakable rocks in the middle, so proceed to destroy them with whatever means are at your disposal.
Doing so will reveal a Stalnox, as well as a Purple Rupee.
After defeating it, you can swim to two different paths. One is closed by rocks, however, so head to one you can access. Head there, destroying rocks as you progress. Climb up until you reach a bridge-like structure. From there, continue forward while still breaking rocks. Eventually, you will encounter a Shock Like. Use the trenches to your advantage during the fight. Defeating it will reward you with a chest containing a Knight's Bow.
Past it, you will reach a chasm. Look down below to find a Bubbulfrog. Hit it with an arrow to loot a Bubbul Gem
Return to the bridge-like area, but jump down this time. Destroy the blocked door to find three Black Horriblins waiting for you on the other side.
In this area, one of the wooden platforms above has a chest containing a Knight's-Halberd Halberd. Climb back on the bridge-like structure and continue heading north. Eventually, you'll come across another set of a number of rocks. Clear them out to reveal a hidden tunnel. On the other side will be two Stalkoblins to defeat. In the northeast room, there is a large boulder you can move with Ultrahand to reveal a hole leading to a tunnel. Jump in and follow the tunnel to resurface on the gated room with another Stalkoblin, and a chest containing the Soldier's Armor. On the other side, near the hole you came out of, are breakable boxes hiding nine Arrows. Jump back into the hole to go back to the previous room.
Head all the way back to the large area with water and look to the northeast to find a tunnel in the water, blocked by some more rocks. Break the rocks and head through the tunnel to find an Ice Like on the other side. Deal with it as you have with the others, and it'll reward you with a chest containing a Traveler's Shield. There are some breakable boxes nearby hiding three more Arrows. Finally, on the other side is a chest containing the last piece of the Soldier's Set, the Soldier's Helm.
Zelda TotK Royal Hidden Passage Gallery and Notes
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AnonymousAcross from the rock pile that hides the Stalinox is a pile of rocks through the water (there's torches in the water indicating it). Destroying that and the like like inside will allow access to the chest containing the soldiers helm.
- Anonymous
This actually keeps going until you’re inside of hyrule castle (well what’s left of it on the ground).
There’s a section where you can go up a branch to find another path - then you’ll hit what looks like a dead end but if you look above you can bomb arrow through to keep going.
- Anonymous
After fighting the black horriblibs, continue above and destroy the blue rocks ahead. After that there will be a castle door blocked by rocks. Break those to reveal another prison cell with a gate that wont move. In 1 cell remove the large boulder and drop down. Go to the end and ascend up. Now behind the gate, slay the last skeleton. Soldiers armor is in a chest there.
If you explore all side passages you get all 3 items in the Soldiers Armor set. They each have a defence of 4.
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