Stuck in Minnish Cap

[psychotic_mechanic]

I've tried searching, but end up finding sites that either talk about what a great "retro" game this is or hate it because it looks and sounds old.

Anyway, I've just picked up the Ocarania of Wind and need to find the elder "Librari" in the "town library". I'm assuming they mean Hyrule's library, but I can't do any thing in there yet. I'm assuming I have to bring a book back or something, but I have been over the entire overworld map several times and have found a couple of books laying on top of book cases. I've tried using the pegasus boots to run into these shelves to knock the book off, but that's not working.

Any help past this point will be appreciated and make my time on "watch" go by much quicker tonight.

[Gamelver]

www.gamefaqs.com

should be a couple guides there...

[Harshboy]

go here: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6116391/p-2.html

[psychotic_mechanic]

Anything firewall (work) friendly?

[extremesonic]

I think you have to shrink somehwere and get into the wooden roof beams of the library and drop down form there and grab the book(or push it down then grab it as big link). I can't recall 100% though, hopefully that helps somehow.

[Turbo Tax 1.0]

After you reach Lake Hylia, you’ll have to shrink yourself down and talk to the Minish inside the little hut nearby; he’ll point you towards the library in Hyrule Town. Head there (it’s to the northwest of the town bell, and is now unlocked) and walk up to the roof to shrink yourself down to Minish size. If you walk up to the shelf inside with all the scratches on the floor, you’ll be told that the path to the Elder Librari has been dismantled, thanks to humans who’ve checked books out and never returned them. If you speak to the librarian on the first floor, she’ll point you to a girl, a girl with a cat in her house. Pretty vague clue, even if you have visited all of the homes in Hyrule Town.

The First Book: The house you’re looking for is in the southeastern part of town; it’s the blue house connected to a purple one with a Minish-size block of wood on the roofs. The girl isn’t home at the moment; she’s actually next door, in said purple house. In order to reach the book, though, you’ll have to find a way to get up the chimney in the purple house, which is obviously going to be difficult with the fire blazing away there. What you have to do is grab some water from the river elsewhere in the town, put it in a bottle, then bring the bottle back to the purple house and douse the flames. You’ll then be able to Minish yourself, walk into the chimney, move over to the blue house, and push the book off the bookshelf onto the floor. You can then resize yourself and grab it.

The Second Book: The next book you need to grab is the Legend of the Picori, which was checked out by the scholar in the southwestern corner of the town. If you haven’t talked to the dog guarding the ladder leading down to that area, you’ll need to Minish yourself at the bar on the other side of the river and walk across in order to talk to him; this will let you access that part of town. After you’re able to get to the scholar’s house (which is directly to the left of the ladder), walk on in to learn that the scholar hasn’t seen the book in a few days, but is certain that it’s somewhere in his house. In order to find it, though, you’re going to need to grab another item.

First up, you’ll need to douse the fire in the scholar’s home with another bottle of river water. Then, Minish yourself in the carpenter’s house nearby, then walk back to the scholar’s domicile and enter it as a mini-Link. If you climb the chimney, you’ll be able to pass through Stranger’s house, cross the river on the small bridge, then maneuver past the two cats in the little garden nearby. When you reach the cave near the fountain below, you’ll be able to fight through a set of rooms to grab the Power Bracelets, which will let you push around large items, even while you’re tiny. You can’t grab the Piece of Heart here just yet, so leave them be and return to the scholar’s house.

When you reach the house again, you should now be able to push the two bookshelves on the northern wall up against the fireplace, which will let you walk up to the Minish hanging around on the rafters. In order to return the Legend of the Picori back to ground level, you’ll need to use your Gust Jar to remove the dust on the far left end of the screen, then split Link in a vertical pair via the panels that are revealed. If you then walk over to the right side of the room and stand near the Minish that’s jumping atop the book, it’ll fall down onto the floor, where you can resize yourself and retrieve it.

The Third Book: The last book you need is A History of Masks, which has been checked out by the Mayor. Hagen’s rather vague about the whole affair, insisting that you talk to the collection of masks on the shelves behind him to learn more. Whoever ran against this guy in the election must’ve been pretty nutty if Hagen actually managed to beat them.... Anyway, you don’t actually have to talk to the masks, just destroy them; if you run into the wall while being boosted by your Pegasus Boots, you’ll blast the masks off of the wall and onto the ground. After they’ve all been destroyed, talk to the Minish in the wall to learn that the Mayor brought the book to his cabin by Lake Hylia, and didn’t bring it back with him when he returned.

In order to get to the Mayor’s place, you’ll need to retrace your path to Syrup’s hut from the Lon Lon Ranch. Before you reach Syrup, though, you’ll note a seemingly blocked-off cave near a sign. If you equip your Mole Mitts and dig through the rock in the cave entrance, though, you’ll bust through into a little subterranean cavern. A few goodies await you here. First off, if you dig to the left of the entrance, you’ll find a chest with a blue Kinstone in it. Secondly, if you head right when the path branches and thoroughly dig out that area of the cave, you’ll find a Mysterious Wall in the northeastern corner. If you do a Kinstone fusion with it, a new cave will open up in the Lon Lon Ranch area.

After you leave the cave through the ladder, you’ll be near the Mayor’s cabin. The book inside will be inaccessible to you at the moment, though; in order to reach it, you’ll need to use your Pegasus Boots on the small clump of trees to the north of the cabin, which will open a Minish portal. If you shrink yourself down and enter the Mayor’s house from the north, you’ll be able to push one of the shelves there to the right and then climb up to push the book onto the floor. Congrats! If you uncovered the wind crest in Hyrule Town, you can warp yourself right back there and return the book to the library, which will finally open the path to the Elder Librari Minish on the bookshelf on the second floor. He’ll require you to pass a little trial to get the item that he guards...

The Trial: There isn’t much to this little dungeon; walk one screen south, use your Gust Jar to suck up the mushroom launcher on the other side of the river, then head north and defeat the two beetles in the room there to obtain the Flippers. In order to kill the beetles, you’ll need to either strike them on the side, or wait for them to launch their little pincers at you, after which point they’ll be weakened until the pincers reattach. After they’re both dead, a chest will appear with the Flippers, so grab them and swim south until you find yourself back in the Hyrule Town river, after which point you’ll be able to resize yourself atop the library and get back to business.

[psychotic_mechanic]

Thanks!

I'm assuming I have to shrink myself in the pot on the roof, and I don't seem to know how to do that yet...


EDIT: I need to check my spelling better, it's "minish" not "Minnish" and I found a lot of good hints using google's cache. It looks like I use my staff yto flip those vases in town over to shrink in town, duh.

[elementxmaster]

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