Learn where to find all the Empty Bottles in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Switch 2. Includes tips on where you find them, how to beat the mini-games needed to win some, and shows what they’re useful for.
What Empty Bottles are used for
Empty Bottles allow you to carry numerous things inside of them. This includes utility items such as Bugs, Fish, Poe Spirits, and Blue Fire.
They can also hold restorative items such as Potions, Lon Lon Milk, or Pink Fairies. The Pink Fairies in particular are very useful as they revive you when you run out of hearts.
The more bottles with Pink Fairies you have, the more “lives” you have before you’re actually defeated. Aside from that, Empty Bottles also help you find Gold Skulltulas and make money!
Empty Bottle Locations
There are 5 Empty Bottles you can collect in Ocarina of Time. 4 of them can be found as Child Link, while the 5th can only be obtained as Adult Link.
The Potion Shop
As Child Link, go to Hyrule Castle Town’s Potion Shop. The shopkeeper is panicking as a bug got loose. He’ll give you an Empty Bottle to help him capture it.
Lon Lon Ranch
After visiting Princess Zelda, you can go to Lon Lon Ranch in Hyrule Field. Go inside the house and talk to Talon to play his Cucco-Findin’ Game for 10 rupees.
He’ll release 3 Super Cuccos, and you’ll need to find all three amongst the regular Cuccos within 30 seconds.
When released, look to your left to search for the first two. Look for feathers falling down as this gives you an idea as to where they have landed.
Once you pick up all 3 Super Cuccos, Talon will give you a new bottle filled with Lon Lon Milk!
Kakariko Village
Find the Cucco Lady on the southeast part of Kakariko Village. Placing all 7 missing Cuccos back into the pen will reward you with an Empty Bottle. The Cucco Lady can give you hints as to where they are.
Some of these Cuccos can only be reached by holding onto another Cucco and jumping off a ledge to reach an inaccessible area. Do this for the Cucco on the stack of bricks, and to get past the tall fence behind the empty house.
Try attacking a Cucco repeatedly with your sword for a fun secret!
Letter in a Bottle
This one you can’t miss as it’s required for progression. When you’re searching for Princess Ruto, you can dive to a bottle under Lake Hylia. This bottle has a letter inside it, and turning it in to King Zora will let you keep the Empty Bottle.
Big Poes
The last bottle can only be collected as Adult Link. Once you unlock Epona and get the Fairy Bow, you’ll be capable of hunting Big Poes in Hyrule Field. Selling 5 to the Poe Collector will get you the final Empty Bottle!
