During the game you are certain to stumble upon some golden spiders
from which you will receive a token when you kill. These are the Gold
Skulltulas. Once you collect a certain number of tokens, take them to
the House of Skulltula in Kakariko Village, and they will reward you
depending on how many tokens you have killed.
Rewards

10 Gold Skulltulas - Adult Wallet (Holds 200 Rupees)
20 Gold Skulltulas - Stone of Agony
30 Gold Skulltulas - Giant Wallet (Holds 500 Rupees)
40 Gold Skulltulas - Bombchus
50 Gold Skulltulas - Piece of Heart
100 Gold Skulltulas - Unlimited supply of Gold Rupees
Locations of the Gold Skulltulas
KOKIRI FOREST
- 1. (Young Link) Look behind the Know-it-All Brother's house at
night. You can not do this before you have left Kokiri Forest for the
first time, as there will be no day-night cycle until you do.
- 2. (Young Link) Put a bottle of bugs in the mound of soft soil behind the store. The Skulltula just pops right out.
- 3. (Adult Link) High up at the back of the twins' house. You need the hookshot to get the token.
THE LOST WOODS
- 4. (Young Link) After you enter... go left, and left. Take out
your bottle of bugs and use it on the mound of soft soil. A gold
Skulltula pops out!
- 5. (Young Link) After you enter... go right, left, right, left,
and left. Another mound of soft soil. Use a bottle of bugs on it.
- 6. (Adult Link) Come back to the place above. Ride the giant plant to the ledge above. At night, a gold Skulltula awaits you.
- 7. (Adult Link) Go to the Sacred Forest Meadow (right, left,
right, left, forward, right, left). Look at the wall on the right side.
It's a gold Skulltula! Use the hookshot to get the token.
HYRULE FIELD
- 8. (Young Link) At the very northeast corner of the field, near
Kakariko Village entrance, there is a tree. Get close and you should
feel the stone of agony if you are using the rumble pak. Place a bomb
there and uncover the hole in the ground. Jump inside, kill the gold
skulltula and use the hookshot or boomerang to get the token.
- 9. (Adult Link) Go to the place near the entrance to Gerudo
Valley. There is a red rock with little brown stones around it. Get rid
of the red rock with the hammer. Enter the hole. Burn the spider webs
with Din's Fire/Fire Arrows. The gold skulltula is with the cow.
MARKET
- 10. (Young Link) Go to the building at the entrance to the market
(with the overhead view) with a lot of pots inside. Roll into the box
beside the guard...and a gold skulltula pops right out.
HYRULE CASTLE
- 11. (Young Link) At the corner of the moat you will find a tree.
You can feel the stone of agony if you have the rumble pak. Play the
song of storms to that tree to make a hole appear, then drop inside to
find a gold skulltula.
- 12. (Young Link) Right in front of the entrance is a big tree. Roll into it and a golden Skulltula falls out.
LON LON RANCH
- 13. (Young Link) Bump into the tree close to the entrance but at the end of the houses/sheds. A gold Skulltula falls down.
- 14. (Young Link) Look high up at the house on the left side.
Blocking the window... you will find a gold skulltula! Use a boomerang
to get it.
- 15. (Young Link) Go to the little shed thing inside the
horsefield. You will find that a golden skulltula resides there at
night.
- 16. (Young Link) Go to the stone building at the back of the field. High up on the wall beside it, there is a gold Skulltula.
»KAKARIKO VILLAGE
- 17. (Young Link) Bump into the tree at the entrance to the village to make a gold skulltula fall down.
- 18. (Young Link) At the back of the House of Skulltula. The gold
skulltula is right there there. Just use the sword and walk up to the
token. It does not get any more simple than that.
- 19. (Young Link) This one is located at the construction area in
the past. The one with the bricks and stuff. The Skulltula is on the
brick wall.
- 20. (Young Link) There is a tall tower that you can not miss
while going up to Death Mountain. At night, a gold skulltula is on the
ladder. Use the boomerang to get the token.
- 21. (Young Link) On the side of the house near the entrance to
the Death Mountain Trail. The one where the person says "My son's in
the graveyard" or "My son is sleeping right now".
- 22. (Adult Link) Use the longshot to get to the top of Impa's house. The Skulltula is just there.
»THE GRAVEYARD
- 23. (Young Link) Look high up on the wall at the right side. The gold skulltula is there. Use the boomerang to get the token.
- 24. (Young Link) Use a bottle of bugs on the mound of soft soil
in the corner. The skulltula will appear right out of the soft soil!
DEATH MOUNTAIN TRAIL
- 25. (Young Link) There is a mound of soft soil right outside the
entrance to Dodongo's Cavern. Put some bugs there to make Mr. Gold
Skulltula pops out.
- 26. (Young Link) There is a weird looking wall near the entrance.
Bomb it to find a gold dkulltula. The wall does not look like you can
climb it but you really can.
- 27. (Adult Link) Go to the place where you threw a bomb off the
cliff to open up Dodongo's Cavern. Smash up the red rock with the
hammer and...Skulltula!
- 28. (Adult Link) In the place with the falling rocks (or at least
the place where they USED to be), there is a group of red rocks. One of
them has a gold dkulltula under it. Smash the rocks with the megaton
hammer.
GANON'S CASTLE
- 29. (Adult Link) At the back of the black stone pillar where the guard was in the past. You need the hookshot for the token.
GORON CITY
- 30. (Young Link) At the top floor where you entered the city,
there is a room with several large rocks. Bomb the rocks to get to the
back wall. Roll into the crate to find a gold skulltula inside.
- 31. (Adult Link) There is a platform at the top floor where a
Goron was in the past. At the back of the stand for the Goron's Ruby
there is a gold skulltula. Stand on the ropes and use the hookshot to
get it.
LAKE HYLIA
- 32. (Young Link) Place a bug in the mound of soft soil just outside of the Lakeside Laboratory.
- 33. (Young Link) Stand on the bridge and look at the back of the Lakeside Laboratory. Use the boomerang to fetch the token.
- 34. (Young Link) Go to the island where you got the fire arrows. At night, a gold skulltula is there.
- 35. (Adult Link) Use the iron boots to sink to the bottom of the
pool in the Lakeside Laboratory. Roll into the box at the bottom. The
skulltula is inside.
- 36. (Adult Link) On the island in the middle of the lake, there
is a large tree. Use the longshot to climb up on top of it. There is a
skulltula there at night.
ZORA'S RIVER
- 37. (Young Link) Near the waterfall (the one going to Zora's
Domain) you will find a ladder. Go there at night to find a gold
skulltula.
- 38. (Young Link) Near the entrance of the river (coming from
Hyrule Field) there is a tree. Roll yourself into that tree and a
golden skulltula will fall out.
- 39. (Adult Link) Along the path to Zora's Domain, you must have
crossed a wooden footbridge. Take out the hookshot and look up on the
left wall (I mean high, really high up). Up there is the gold skulltula.
- 40. (Adult Link) Ride the magic plant to the platform beside the
one where you got the piece of heart. A skulltula is on the wall. Use
the hookshot to get the token.
ZORA'S DOMAIN
- 41. (Adult Link) At the right side of the top of the frozen
waterfall. You will need to stand at the place where you paid for the
diving game in the past. Stand really close to the edge and look to
your extreme left. Use the hookshot to get him.
ZORA'S FOUNTAIN
- 42. (Young Link) Go to the island way back behind Lord Jabu-Jabu.
You know, the one with the great fairy? Well, roll into the tree to
make a Skulltula fall out.
- 43. (Young Link) The log in the water. Climb up at night stand
there. You should be able to see a Skulltula on the wall. Use the
boomerang to get the token.
- 44. (Adult Link) Go to the island where you got Farore's wind in
the past. Use the sliver gauntlets and pick up the gray rock there.
Follow the path and look for the Skulltula on the wall. Also use the
lens of truth to protect yourself from invisible enemies.
DEATH MOUNTAIN CRATER
- 45. (Young Link) Play the Bolero of Fire to get to the entrance
of the Fire Temple. Around there is a mound of soft soil. Place some
bugs there, kill the skulltula, and get your token. You will need to
play another warp song to exit.
- 46. (Young Link) Near the entrance, there is a box. Roll into the box and receive your prize!
GERUDO VALLEY
- 47. (Young Link) Stand on the narrow wooden bridge near the
entrance. There is a gold skulltula on the right wall. Use the
boomerang to get it.
- 48. (Young Link) Go to the platform at the bottom of the
waterfall. There is a Gerudo... a cow... and a mound of soft soil! Put
some bugs in here.
- 49. (Adult Link) Look behind the Carpenter's tent. High up is the gold skulltula. Use the hookshot to get it.
- 50. (Adult Link) Near the entrance to Gerudo's Fortress, there is
a large red stone pillar sticking straight out of the ground. The
Skulltula is on top. Use the hookshot for this.
GERUDO FORTRESS
- 51. (Adult Link) Go to the horseback archery place after getting
the Gerudo membership card. Up on one of the high targets on a stick.
Use the longshot.
- 52. (Adult Link) While exploring the fortress for carpenters,
search at night. You will come across this one on the back wall. Use
the longshot.
DESERT COLOSSUS
- 53. (Young Link) Near the entrance to the Spirit Temple, there is
a cute little heap of soft soil. Take out a bottle of bugs and place
one inside. Tada! A Skulltula pops out!
- 54. (Adult Link) This one is up on one of the trees in the area,
pretending to be a coconut (how cute...). Use the hookshot to get him.
- 55. (Adult Link) Ride on the magic beab sprout-platform to the top of a large stone. The skulltula is waiting for you there.
HAUNTED WASTELAND
- 56. (Adult Link) Go to the stone platform where you find the poe
guide. Look around the sides for an entrance. Fall down the entrance to
the golden spinning skulltula.
BOTTOM OF THE WELL
- 57. (Adult Link) Enter the tunnel at the northeast section of the
main room. Continue until you reach a room with a Like Like (shield
eater). Check on the wall for a gold skulltula.
- 58. (Adult Link) Open the locked door on the left side of the main room. On one of the walls is a golden skulltula.
- 59. (Adult Link) Open the locked door on the right side of the main room. On one of the walls is a golden Skulltula.
GREAT DEKU TREE
- 60. (Young Link) On the third floor (in the room with the three
platforms), jump to the little passage on the side. Kill the giant
skulltula and the gold skulltula will be right behind it.
- 61. (Young Link) In the water room after you fall through the
spiderweb, a skulltula is on the vines. Climb the vines to receive the
token.
- 62. (Young Link) Also in the room after you fall through the
spiderweb. There is a gold Skulltula doing his thing of the bars. Kill
it with the slingshot and jump from the nearby platform to pick up the
token.
- 63. (Young Link) This one requires the use of bombs found in
Dodongo's Cavern. In the basement of the Deku Tree, there is a room
were you fight a few small enemies. On the side of the room there is a
Deku Baba. Kill the Deku Baba and bomb the wall behind him. Continue
and kill the skulltula. Oh yeah, you also need the boomerang to get the
token.
DODONGO'S CAVERN
- 64. (Young Link) In the room to the right side of the main room.
There are several exploding lizards. Part of the wall can be destroyed
with a bomb! Kill one of the exploding lizards near the wall to destroy
it. Or you can simply use a bomb if you already got the bomb bag :)
Behind the statue in this room is another gold skulltula.
- 65. (Young Link) Go to the room with a lot of bomb flowers that
you used to make a stairway. Well, climb up the stairs and kill the
Skulltula on the vines on the above floor.
- 66. (Young Link) Go inside the Dodongo Head and enter the tunnel.
Now you are in a room with movable blocks. There is a bombable section
of wall in this room. Its hard for me to explain but I'm sure you can
figure this one out. Bomb the wall and enter the door. There is a gold
Skulltula behind the statue.
- 67. (Young Link) This Skulltula is pretty hard to figure out.
After clearing the cavern, ride up the pillar that goes up to the
second floor in the main room. From the second floor, go to the room
where you used the bomb flowers to make a stairway. If you didn't make
the stairway yet, go to the wooden path on the left side. Climb up the
vines growing on the side of the pillar to reach a small grotto.
Congrats, you have discovered the coveted golden skulltula.
- 68. (Adult Link) In the room with the exploding lizards (see
#64), play the scarecrow's song at the part where Navi turns green but
there is nothing there. Use Pierre as a hookshot target and kill the
Skulltula there.
JABU JABU'S BELLY
- 69. (Young Link) This one is very difficult...to miss! In the
room where you step on the switch to raise the water, look on the vines
at the side. There is a gold skulltula! Did I even need to include this
here?
- 70. (Young Link) In the room where you met Princess Ruto, there
is a hole where a big green tentacle used to be covering (or is still
covering if you didn't beat the dungeon yet). Drop down that hole to
the level below. You should be standing on the highest platform. Check
out the walls, you will find a gold skulltula. Use the boomerang to get
it.
- 71. (Young Link) It is really close to the one you found above.
Just search the nearby walls and you will surely see it. You have to be
blind and deaf to have missed this one while looking for skulltula #70.
- 72. (Young Link) In the room with the switch on the ceiling that
you need to hit with the boomerang. It's doing its spinning thing on
the vines. Go get it with your boomerang.
FOREST TEMPLE
- 73. (Adult Link) This is found in the first room of the
dungeon... the one with the two wolfos. Look up at the vines near the
top. There it is. Use all you brain power and courage to defeat the
skulltula and receive the token (Here is a hint: B-O-O-M-E-R-A-N-G).
- 74. (Adult Link) In the room with the four torches, walk up to
the door straight ahead from the entrance. Look right and use the
hookshot to reach the gold skulltula there.
- 75. (Adult Link) Go to the grassy wildlife vegetation area at the
upper right of the map. Up on the wall is the gold skulltula. Use the
hookshot to get it.
- 76. (Adult Link) Go to the grassy wildlife vegetation area at the
upper left of the map on the second floor. Use the boomerang to get the
skulltula found on the wall.
- 77. (Adult Link) In the basement room before the dungeon boss...
the one with a pushable wall. Keep on spinning the wall and stepping on
switches until you find a passage with the skulltula.
FIRE TEMPLE
- 78. (Adult Link) In the big fiery lava room, go to the left side
wall and play the song of time to the blue block there. Continue to the
next room where you find a Like Like and a bunch of attacking tiles.
Check behind the Like Like to find... a golden skulltula.
- 79. (Adult Link) In another cool room with the spinning tiles and
a Like Like. This is the one just before the room where you get the
boss key. As usual, you find a golden skulltula on the wall.
- 80. (Adult Link) In the maze-like room with boulders rolling
around, look around the sides for a bombable wall. It's on the bottom
floor. Bomb the wall and get the Skulltula behind it.
- 81. (Adult Link) Directly after entering the upper level of the
boulder maze from the center circular room, turn to your right and Navi
will fly up high. Play the scarecrow's song to make Pierre appear. Use
him as a hookshot target. The treasure chest has 200 rupees! Continue
up the path and you will find the golden skulltula on the wall.
- 82. (Adult Link) In the room where you get the megaton hammer
(big circular stairway), look around the walls. Use the hookshot to get
the skulltula.
ICE CAVERN
- 83. (Adult Link) In the room with icicles on the floor and
ceiling, you will find blue fire, a piece of heart, and on the wall
behind the piece of heart is a golden skulltula!
- 84. (Adult Link) Go to the room with a helicopter blade of some
sort in the center. Look on the walls to find it. It's there...
somewhere!
- 85. (Adult Link) This one is in the room where you slide the
block to get silver rupees. It is on one of the walls there. Use the
hookshot to get him.
WATER TEMPLE
- 86. (Adult Link) Go to the river with a bunch of vortexes in it.
Search around the walls to find it. In order to actually get it, equip
the iron boots to sink to the bottom. Now take out your longshot and
get him!
- 87. (Adult Link) This one is in the room where platforms are
slowly moving down a waterfall. Look at the right side. There is that
skulltula! The ordinary hookshot can not reach it, but the longshot
will!
- 88. (Adult Link) After getting the longshot, drain the water to
the bottom and enter the tall pillar in the main room. Use the longshot
to climb up the pillar. On one of the walls there you will find the
skulltula.
- 89. (Adult Link) In one of the rooms around this water temple,
you will find a diamond switch that you can not hit because a gate is
blocking your way. Simply charge up your sword, and release your spin
slash. The power from the sword will hit the switch! The skulltula is
clearly in the gate that opens.
- 90. (Adult Link) While looking for the boss key, you will come
across a shallow stream with boulders coming out. On the wall where the
boulders are coming from, is the gold skulltula you are looking for.
SHADOW TEMPLE
- 91. (Adult Link) In the room with the invisible spinning blades
(connected to the super-large room), look on the wall for a gold
skulltula.
- 92. (Adult Link) Inside the room with falling spikes, enter the
passage behind the bars to find this one. Use the longshot for him.
- 93. (Adult Link) In the big boat room, stand on the front of the
boat and you will find a high platform to your left side. You should
also see the skulltula there. Use the longshot to get it from where you
stand. You can also play the song of scarecrow to make Pierre appear.
- 94. (Adult Link) In the room where there are three spinning
skulls with blue fire coming out of them, there is an easy skulltula
behind these skulls. Use the longshot to claim your prize.
SPIRIT TEMPLE
- 96. (Young Link) In the room where you battle with Iron Knuckle,
a gold skulltula is waiting for you above the door. You need the
boomerang to get this one.
- 97. (Young Link) In the room with a wide gap and a fence at the
opposite side. Use the boomerang to get him. He is doing his skulltula
thing of the fence.
- 98. (Young Link) Look above the door at the stairway place. The skulltula is there.
- 99. (Adult Link) In the room where there are boulders moving
around and you need to get the silver rupees. There is one pass that is
blocked by a blue "block of time". Play the Song of Time to get rid of
this block and get the golden skulltula behind it.
- 100. (Adult Link) In the room with a big statue. On the ledge on
the left side you can play the scarecrow's song to get there and get
golden skulltula number 100!
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