The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a huge game! It may be a little overwhelming when it comes to all of the freedom and lack of clear linear direction. That’s where PlayingAround4Now comes in! Follow our Great Sky Island Shrines and Amor Set Guides to find all the chests inside the shrines and don’t forget to pick up the complete Archaic Armor Set before leaving.
After Link wakes up, get familiar with the controls and make sure you grab the Archaic Leggings on your way out of the Shrine of Awakening
How to get Ultrahand – Ukouh Shrine – The Ability to Create
Follow along with the video above get to Ukouh Shrine to find the Ultrahand ability on the Great Sky Island.
Once inside the shrine, Rauru will grant Link the Ultrahand Ability. With Ultrahand, Link can grab and move objects, rotate them, and stick them to other objects.
When you’re ready, move forward into the shrine until you come across the first gap. Press the L button to use Ultrahand to pick up the small platform on your right. Use this platform to create a bridge and cross over. Use the same strategy with the next set of platforms up against the wall on the right. Press the A button while holding one platform to attach it to another, creating a longer bridge to cover the next gap. After crossing, bring this bridge along with you and use it as a ramp to access the chest up in the corner holding a piece of Amber. There is one final gap in this shrine and you can cross it by using the same bridge you built before. The intended strategy though, is to connect a hook to a nearby wooden platform, stand on it, and let it slide along the rail to cross over.
How to get the Fuse Ability – In-Isa Shrine The Ability to Combine
After finishing the first shrine, follow the path in the video above. The way forward will have you make use of your newfound Ultrahand ability. Use your surroundings to craft bridges and rafts to cross over pits and lakes safely. Explore the route ahead and make your way over to the next shrine, In-Isa where we’ll pick up the next ability, Fuse.
Once inside In-Isa shrine, Rauru will grant Link the Fuse ability. Fuse grants Link the ability to attach something to an equipped weapon or shield to enhance it. You can undo the fusion, but that will destroy whatever has been attached.
Move forward into the shrine and pick up the Rusted Claymore on the right. Head up the stairs and use Link’s new skill to fuse the Rusted Claymore with one of the boulders on the right to create a Rock Hammer. Use this weapon to break through the cracked wall. Break the pillars in the next room to drop a chest from above which contains 5 arrows. Continue into the room lined with fire fruit trees. Pick up a few along with the Old Wooden Bow and Fuse a fire fruit to an arrow to shoot at the dried vines on the wall. The vines will burn the above platform and it will drop then next chest which contains a small key. (Alternately you can light an arrow on a lit torch in the corner and shoot that way.)
Exit this room and take a right. Go through the locked door and climb the ladder ahead. Upon entering the next open room, a fight will start against a Construct with its own fused Rock Hammer weapon. Use what you’ve learned up until now to combat and overcome the Construct. After defeating the Construct, break through the next wall and claim your next Light of Blessing.
How to get the Ascend Ability – Gutanbac Shrine The Ability to Rise
Now with the Fuse Abiility added to your arsenal, make your way towards the next shrine. Try to make as much use of your new ability as you can on the way there. Fight through the Zonai Constructs and pick up a few Brightbloom Seeds to make your way through Pondside Cave. (Make sure to pick up the Archaic Tunic near the exit of the Cave) Upon exiting, use Ultrahand to piece together a makeshift raft with a zonai fan to propel yourself across the river ahead. Pick up a few Stambulbs and cook at the cooking pot nearby if needed. Climb up the next path and place a minecart and fan combo on the rails and ride it into the Mining Cave. Use the Brightbloom seeds to light the way through the darkness inside the cave. Speak with the nearby Mining Construct in to snag some fans to hold in your inventory. Make the minecart/fan vehicle and ride the rails out. Continue on towards Pit Cave and cook up some nearby Spicy Peppers into some warming meals to prepare for the chilly areas ahead. Keep fighting your way up through the snow and into Bottomless Cave. Be careful of the lurking Like-likes here. Hit them with Bomb Flowers or Fire Fruits to expose their weak spot. Exit this cave and climb the hill on your left. Here, fuse a few trees together and place them against the ice wall to climb up. Gutanbac shrine is nearby.
Upon entering Gutanbac Shrine, Rauru returns to grant Link with the next ability, Ascend. Ascend allows you to move upward through solid materials and emerge on top of it. Head down the stairs and into the first room. Use Ascend to jump through to the above floor. Continue to use Ascend through the pillars on the right side of this level. (Make sure you grab the chest on one of the pillars housing a Stone Axe)
Take out the Combat Construct on the next level up. Break the crates wedged within the wall to clear some space to Ascend to access the next chest that has a Construct Bow inside. Hop back down then cut the ropes on the right to drop the bridge from above. This allows you to Ascend up to the next level again. Move forward and look up to find a moving platform to Ascend through. Time your ascent again through the next pillar and the end will be in sight.
How to Rewind Time with Recall – Nachoyah Shrine
Now’s the time to head back to the Temple of Time. Exit the shrine and use Ascend to go up into the hollow trunk of the large tree above. Within you’ll find the Archaic Warm Greaves in a chest.
Approach the launch platform and place a Glider within the grooves. Climb aboard and balance on the Glider to fly back towards the Temple of Time and enter through the door. The next ability you obtain is Recall which can reverse an object’s movement until it goes back to where it was. You can stop the reverse movement at any time.
Use Recalll to reverse the giant gears on the wall ahead. Ride the gears up and attempt to open the giant gate. Rauru will show you where to go to find the next shrine. Warp back to the Room of Awakening. Once here, Ascend to the next level up, use Recall on the giant gears inside and go through the path to find Nachoya Shrine.
While inside, use Recall on the rafts in the water to ride it up the waterfall. Do the gear thing at the top again to reach the chest with 10 arrows inside. Use Recall again on the rotating levers above the closed gate and match up their timing to continue forward and snag the next Light of Blessing.