***Before you go into the well, learn the Sun's Song. The explanation on how to get it is just in part 6 of the walkthrough.***

This is another little mini-dungeon like Ice Cavern. Not too tough. Go straight, run past the ReDead. Go left a bit to find an alcove with a boulder sticking out of the wall. Use the bomb to reveal an eye. Use the Fairy Slingshot to close the eye. A gate will open. Then go left a bit more and follow the passage until you see two boulders blocking a path. Bomb them out. Then kill the Skulltula and press on the switch. Don't even try to jump over the gap! Just safely go back to the moat/river and continue until you see a Triforce underwater. Stand on it and sing the Zelda's Lullaby. Don't forget to shoot the switch on the face.

The gate behind you will open so go through it and open the chest for the DUNGEON MAP. Go left and into a cell. Use the Slingshot again to hit the switch. Return to the beginning of the dungeon, where there was some deep water. Crawl through the hole and climb up to the platform.

Now you will fight a mini-boss. To beat the mini-boss, let one of the hands catch you. That will lure the monster out. Smash A to get off the hand's grasp. Go up to the monster and let it lower its head to try to bite you. When his/her head is low enough, attack the doofus with your sword. Repeat until the damn doofus dies. Open the chest for a COMPASS. Don't leave the room yet... see that weird-looking corner to the far left of the entrance? Bomb the crack on that corner, it will reveal a SMALL KEY. Now you CAN leave the room!

Go to the Triforce where you sang the Zelda's Lullaby. Then go right and crawl through the hole. Get back up and shoot a Seed at the face painting (aim at the upper right part). Enter the door. At the next room, ignore the Floormaster and open the locked door with your Small Key. Bomb the crack on the corner to reveal a switch. Step on it and return to the main plaza via the previous rooms.

Go to the middle part of the plaza and drop to B3F via the hole (behind the chest where you got the Dungeon Map). Step on the switch. Drop off again.

Look at your map and go to the direction of the chest (to the east). You will see some ReDeads. Use the Sun's Song to stun them all. Then walk to the chest and open it. The treasure of this dungeon is now yours! It's the mysterious LENS OF TRUTH! Try it out right now! Get the feel of it... Use the Lens of Truth to see the invisible spiders in the north passage of BF3. Get through the passage to find a Gold Skulltula. Go back to B1F via the ladders.

Go back to the main plaza and enter the door that you unlocked a while ago (opposite the cell, and next to the chest). Use the Lens of Truth to see the invisible floor. Take the Small Key and go back out. Go to the westernmost door and use the Small Key on that door. Enter the door and kill the Gold Skulltula in the back of the room. Ignore the enemies. Now go back to the main plaza. To the opposite of the pit, there's a door that you never used before. Use the Lens of Truth to see the invisible enemies. Kill them all then pull the gravestone to uncover another Gold Skulltula. Now the Bottom of the Well is history. Time for the Shadow Temple!

First, go to the Temple of Time and take the Master Sword back. As an adult Link WITH the Lens of Truth, you can tackle the Shadow Temple! Sing the Nocturne of Shadow and enter the...

For your information you start at B1F. There is no 1F. This dungeon only has the levels: B1F to B4F. Just letting ya know.

Also, if you don't have the Fire Arrows, go back to Lake Hylia and get it by shooting the sun at the stone tablet.

Use the Longshot to get across the pit. Then use the Lens of Truth to get through the wall. Check out the cool bird statue. It says you have to make the beak face the skull of truth. Get your Lens of Truth out again. Look at the skulls on the poles. Only one will appear when viewed through the Lens of Truth. Then push the block to the direction of the skull. Then a gate will open. Whew! Then of course, use the Fire Arrows to light up the far torches on the hands. Go into the mouth.

In the next room take the right door. The wall to the door is false so just pass through. Then sing the Sun's Song to stun the zombies and attack them each 4 times to kill them. Take the chest for a SMALL KEY. Go back to the previous room and go across the room to the other door. You should be at the room with two reapers spinning with their sickles. Your goal here is to get all of the white rupees (5) to open the gate leading to the chest. Use the roll attack to get under the sickles. Also, kill the skulltulas with your arrows. (Use the longshot for the highest rupee) When you've gotten all 5, go to the gate and kill the skulltula protecting the chest. Open the chest for the DUNGEON MAP. Go back to the original room with the statue of a bird.

Use your Lens of Truth to find a false wall that can be broken with a bomb. Do so (break the wall with your bomb) and open the door with the Small Key. In the next room, use your Lens of Truth to navigate through the maze. First, take the right door. Use the Sun's Song to stun the zombies and do them like Buffy does. Then take the COMPASS from the chest. Now use your Lens of Truth to look for a block. Go up that block and play the Song of Time. Go through to the door. Use your Lens of Truth to see the eyes and shoot them all. If you hit the right eye, a path will open. Look for the new path. Go through it to fight your old friend: that mini-boss you fought earlier in the Bottom of the Well. Kill it. Guess what you get? Yes, yet another chest. What is in that chest this time? The dungeon's Big Treasure, the HOVER BOOTS!

Go all of the way to the room down the mouth. Go left and go back into the room with the reapers. Go to the northeastern corner and go to the dead end and you'll fall. When you get to B4F, use your Lens of Truth to find an invisible chest with a SMALL KEY inside. Go back out to B2F and go to the room before the reapers.

Go to the north wall. This time, the wall ain't fake. Bomb the wall and go through, use your small key on the door.

Quickly run past the Beamos and the spikes. Now you come upon a set of guillotines. Just time yourself and walk under the blades and past the Beamos. Continue until you see two Beamos up ahead. Use your arrows to hit the bomb flower. It will stun the Beamos for a while. Use that time to go left. However, if you stun the Beamos TWICE, they will go to hell. Use your Lens of Truth to see the hidden platforms. Don't forget to burn the eye down with your Fire Arrow. Enter the door. In the new room, use your Lens of Truth again to see the reapers. Like before, collect all white rupees in the room. For the rupee that's floating in the air, play the Song of Time to make a block show itself. Get on the block to get the rupee. After collecting all of them, open the chests to get a SMALL KEY and a BLUE RUPEE.

Go back to the big room and go to the platform with the two Beamos. Ignore them and jump to the lower transparent platform. Jump all of the way to the platform with a Beamos and 2 spinning spikes. In that area, you MAY (not required to) collect all of the white rupees for a BUNDLE OF ARROWS. Go to the gate and do a spin attack to open the gate.

I remember the next room quite fondly. It gave me a hard time in the original OoT but not now... HAH! Use the Lens of Truth to find a hidden block and push it under the spikes so it protects you from the spikes. Use the block to stop the spikes while you collect the chests in the room. There are three of them: BUNDLE OF ARROWS, BLUE RUPEE, and a SMALL KEY. To get the Blue Rupee and the Small Key, go up on the top of the cells. (Push the block to the end and climb up) The Small Key's chest only comes out if you press on the switch. Also, don't forget the Gold Skulltula in a cell.

Go to the big room again. Now, you're looking for the exit! No more 'side' rooms for this room! Go past the spinning spikes to find a small bridge to a guillotine. Use the Lens of Truth to see the hidden platforms. Use the Hover Boots to get across.

Kill both zombies to get a chest with a BLUE RUPEE. Get all of the white rupees in the room (use the Longshot) to open the door to the left. There's some rupees on the top of spikes. Use a spin attack to get them. Open the door and kill all of the enemies to get a chest with a BLUE RUPEE. Go back out again and attach yourself to the roof with a Longshot and enter the locked door with your Small Key.

The next part is tough. Wait until the fan stops to get through without getting blown off the course. That's the only tip I can give, I guess. Just stick with the plan and don't give up. If you find yourself fighting with the wind, keep going. You don't want to lose some ground. Roll attack to prevent some wind. Keep fighting until the fan stops. In the room with the fans on the sides, just look at the first fan. When it stops, RUN! Don't hesitate! Just go, go, go, go to the door! You should make it pretty easily.

"In the Shadow Temple, where you have to navigate the fans to the door, I know how to keep from being blown away, just put on your Iron Boots and nothing can move you. And when you get to the gap in the floor, use the Longshot on the wooden mantel on the ceiling." Yet another great tip from flip28skater!

Use the Sun's Song to stun the zombies and kick their asses. A chest will come out, but it's invisible. use the Lens of Truth to see it. It contains a SMALL KEY. Go back to the wind room.

Use your Lens of Truth and look right for a hidden passageway. Equip your Hover Boots and let the wind carry you over to the passageway. Open the door.

Kill both mummies and open the chest for a BLUE RUPEE. You want some more arrows? Alright, bomb the corner with a crack (SE corner) to find an invisible chest with a BUNDLE OF ARROWS. Now bomb the OTHER crack (NW corner) to find a Gold Skulltula! Now you can leave the room. Pull the block on the left to the ladder. Now, climb the block and the ladder. Now time for some exploring, mate! Get on the ship! A-hoy! Want to steer? Sure, if you stand on the Triforce and sing the Zelda's Lullaby... you will move the boat! A-hoy! I see land! Ahh! Pirates! No, it's just some skeletons. Kill them all then jump off the ship to the left. The ship will sink... I miss her already... :-(

A wonderful tip from Steven Kwartler: "In the Shadow Temple when you aboard the boat to go to the boss, skeletons come. I you are low on hearts or dont want to fight the skeletons, just use din's fire WITHOUT L-TARGETING!, they will both go away" This makes fighting them a breeze! I really needed that, because it was a hassle fighting them on the ship!

Shoot the bomb flowers that's on the other side of the river. That will create a bridge so you can get across the river. Before you get across the river, turn around (on the bridge) and look right. There's a Gold Skulltula there. Now proceed over the bridge. See the block of time? Get on it to get a recovery heart. Then make it disappear with the Song of Time. Hit the eye that appears with an arrow. Some targets will come up. Get on the upper target. It will lead you to a switch. Step on the switch to open a door. Go to that door.

Use your Lens of Truth to see the invisible walls. Make your way to the west door. Go behind the spinning vases with faces to find a SMALL KEY. Go back to the maze. Go to the north door and use the Small Key. IMMEIDATELY use the Din's Fire when you enter the north room. That will burn off the wooden traps but it will set the bats on fire, making them even more dangerous! Kill them all with your arrows and the L-targeting ability. Finally... open the chests for a BLUE RUPEE and.... the BOSS KEY!!!! Whoo! time for the boss! Go back to the river and open the only remaining door that you haven't opened.

In the room, use your Lens of Truth to see the invisible platforms and use the platforms to get to the Boss Door. Before opening the door, go to the east platform and look down. Kill the Gold Skulltula and take the token. Time for the boss of the Shadow Temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gave you a pretty short explanation but it's pretty tough. I beat him the first time in the original OoT pretty easily, but when I went for a second time, I had a hard time!