

Many areas in the Ice Cavern contain platforms made of hexagonal tiles of Ice held above dangerous pits. The Fire Gloves and the Magic Hammer are introduced and used prominently here. It contains the Levels Frozen Plateau, Snowball Ravine, Silver Shrine, and Ice Temple. It consists of snowy mountain peaks, as well as a frozen temple. The Ice Cavern is a frozen, mountainous Area in the Drablands. The Ice Cavern can be accessed through the Triforce Gateway in Hytopia Castle.

New features include Boulders rolling in connecting rooms and two White Wolfos throughout the dungeon. Because there is Red Ice blocking several ways, the first time Blue Fire is seen is where the Piece of Heart originally was (it has been moved to the other room with Blue Fire).

One switch is camouflaged between some diamonds, another is behind a stalactite and the last one's tip is protruding from the floor. Some Switches need to be activated to make some platforms disappear. Instead of the ice block puzzle, the Song of Time can be played to make a block appear, which gives access to the Blue Fire. The spinning scythe is gone, and there are very few Freezards and Ice Keese. In Master Quest, many of the elements of this dungeon have been removed or replaced. Afterwards, Sheik teaches Link the Serenade of Water, the warping song of the Water Temple, before disappearing again. Sheik appears to tell the young hero about the Zoras frozen beneath Zora's domain as well as telling Link he saved Princess Ruto, who headed to the Water Temple underneath Lake Hylia. Link receives the Iron Boots in the Cavern after defeating a White Wolfos. Blue Fire melts Red Ice, and as such, Link uses Bottles to carry the fire and melt the Red Ice that is found throughout the cavern to unblock certain paths and rooms.

It is ice-themed, and inside Link finds Blue Fire, an unnaturally occurring fire only found within the cavern and the Water Barrier in Ganon's Castle (although it can also be bought in the Medicine Shop for an exceptionally high price). With the Gerudo's Training Ground, the Ice Cavern is the smallest dungeon in the entire game: it only has one floor and, unique among all the other dungeons in The Legend of Zelda series, each room (with the exception of the individual mini-boss room) is connected by hallways instead of doors, giving the illusion of one extremely large room divided into rooms and hallways. Lord Jabu-Jabu is missing from the fountain and is replaced with a path of ice floes leading to a previously inaccessible cavern, the Ice Cavern. King Zora is encased in a mysterious Red Ice, as is the entrance to the Zora's Shop. After his seven year sleep, Link finds Zora's Domain frozen and the Zoras encased in ice. The Ice Cavern is a frozen cave behind Zora's Fountain. Overview Ocarina of Time Entrance to the Cavern
