Ocarina of Time Remake Collectibles: What Changed

If you are chasing 100% in the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time with a checklist written for the Nintendo 64, it starts lying to you at the House of Skulltula. Twenty tokens no longer buys the Stone of Agony, your first wallet upgrade does not take you to 200 Rupees, and the Poe Collector hands over his bottle at half the old count.

None of these is a big change on its own. Together they touch wallets, Gold Skulltulas, bottles, Heart Pieces and Great Fairies, and our existing guides to those (Gold Skulltulas, bottles, Heart Pieces, Great Fairies) were written for the N64 and 3DS versions. This post lists what Zelda Wiki now documents as different in the remake, one system at a time, so you know which steps of an older guide to stop trusting. I have not played the remake. Everything here is from Zelda Wiki's pages as they read on November 10, 2026, five days after launch, and where the wiki is silent, I say so rather than guess.

For the release, price, controls and the broader change list, see our Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake guide. This post stays on collectibles and upgrades.

That is the inside of the House of Skulltula in the remake, which is now called the House Covered in Cobwebs. Zelda Wiki takes the name from a Kakariko villager's line warning you about it.

The short version

Wallets and the Rupee economy

Zelda Wiki's Wallet page gives the remake's three capacities as 200, 500 and 1,000 Rupees, against 99, 200 and 500 in the original. Link's starting wallet has a name now, the Kokiri Wallet, and its in-game description gives the 200-Rupee cap. The two upgrades keep their names (Adult's Wallet, Giant's Wallet) and their source: they are still the 10-token and 30-token rewards at the House Covered in Cobwebs.

The bigger wallets are not free money. The remake page says the Rupee economy was rebalanced, with shop items generally more expensive and new things to spend Rupees on. The Great Fairy donations below are one of those new costs, and the Proving Grounds fee below went from 10 to 30 Rupees. The wiki's Rupee table still lists the remake's most expensive purchase as unknown. The one remake price list I found is the Potion Shop's: Red and Green Potions at 30 Rupees, a Bug at 30, a Fairy or a Fish at 50, and a bottled Poe at 200. I found none for the other shops, so I cannot tell you whether doubled capacity outruns the higher prices. My read: the old advice that money is rarely a bottleneck in Ocarina of Time, which our Gold Skulltula guide makes for the N64, is the claim I would test first in the remake.

Gold Skulltulas and the Echo Gem

The Echo Gem replaces the Stone of Agony and the 3DS Shard of Agony. Zelda Wiki's page on it says:

• You get it for collecting 20 Gold Skulltula Tokens, the same threshold that paid out the Stone of Agony.
• It is a piece of Equipment that must be equipped to work, and you can take it off.
• It signals nearby Gold Skulltulas with light and sound; the main remake page describes an on-screen indicator that flashes.
• It reacts to Gold Skulltulas out in the open, ones that only appear at night, ones hidden in trees or crates, ones hiding in soil, and ones inside Secret Grottos.

That last point changes when the item matters. On N64 the Stone of Agony found grottos, not spiders. The Echo Gem finds the thing you are counting, and you get it a fifth of the way through the count.

The spiders themselves are easier too. Per Zelda Wiki's Gold Skulltula page, a remake Gold Skulltula dies in one hit instead of two, and the hidden ones have tells: trees hiding one often shed falling leaves, crates with one inside occasionally rattle and jump, and spots that only have a Gold Skulltula at night are covered in a golden spiderweb during the day.

The token rewards, side by side

All three columns come from the reward tables on Zelda Wiki's House Covered in Cobwebs page. The only reward that changed is the 20-token one; the wallets kept their slot and grew. Our Gold Skulltula guide has the N64 locations; Zelda Wiki does not yet document whether any of the 100 moved in the remake, so treat position-by-position lists as N64 and 3DS information.

Grottos are no longer secret

The reason the Stone of Agony could go is on Zelda Wiki's Secret Grotto page: in the remake, grottos are visible before you open them. Ones that need a Bomb or the Megaton Hammer show as a cracked stone floor. Ones that need the Song of Storms are marked by a pinwheel-shaped leaf or flower. The remake page adds that Big Poe locations in Hyrule Field are now marked by bright purple lanterns, and the Big Poe statue text in the Hall of Fallen Foes says a "suspicious-looking lantern" gives them away.

That glowing mark is a Fairy Thought, one of Nintendo's promotional screenshots for the remake. Fairy Thoughts are new: spots left behind by fairies that Navi can interpret, offering advice and secrets much like Gossip Stones, per Zelda Wiki. Play a song to one and it drops a consumable or restores your Hearts. One of them matters for a Heart Piece, below.

Bottles: five now, and a cheaper Poe hunt

The original has four bottles. The remake has five. Zelda Wiki's Empty Bottle page says the new one comes from the Potion Shop in Hyrule Castle Town: catch an escaped bug for the Potion Shopkeeper and he gives you a bottle that already holds a Red Potion. (The Medicine Shop is now called the Potion Shop.)

The Poe Collector's bottle got much cheaper. On N64 he pays 100 points per Big Poe and gives you the bottle at 1,000 points, which is all ten. Per the remake page, he now gives the bottle for five Big Poes, and selling him all ten earns a Gold Rupee instead. Combined with the purple lanterns marking where Big Poes appear, the slowest bottle in our bottle locations guide is the one that changed most. Zelda Wiki lists no change to the other three bottle sources (Ruto's letter, Talon's Cucco game and the Cucco Lady), but the remake page also says Kakariko Village was re-laid out, so the Cucco positions in that guide are N64 and 3DS positions.

One new way to fill bottles: Business Scrub Seeds, a consumable found in new chests and from amiibo. Using one summons a wandering Business Scrub who sells a Red Potion, a Green Potion, a Bug, five Bombs or five Deku Nuts, per Zelda Wiki's Business Scrub page.

Heart Pieces that moved

Zelda Wiki records two Heart Piece relocations, both from grottos (the wiki calls them Hidden Holes):

The second one is a time-travel puzzle that did not exist before, so an N64 checklist will send you to the old grotto for it. Two other changes affect every piece: Heart Pieces, Heart Containers and Fairies are now collected by pressing A rather than by walking into them, and touching one fairy in a Fairy Fountain makes all the others fly away.

Zelda Wiki does not give a remake total for Heart Pieces, and it does not say whether any other piece moved. The Zora Fountain area is one to watch: the wiki says it is icier in the Adult era, with a solid ice bridge to the Ice Cavern, though some icebergs still lead from that bridge to a Piece of Heart. Our Heart Piece guide is an N64 and 3DS list.

Great Fairies: swapped, and now they charge

Two Great Fairies switched places. On N64, the Great Fairy of Magic near Hyrule Castle gives Din's Fire, and the Great Fairy of Power on Death Mountain gives the improved Spin Attack. In the remake, per Zelda Wiki, Din's Fire is at the Death Mountain fountain and the improved Spin Attack is at the fountain near Hyrule Castle. The wiki's reason: the improved Spin Attack no longer uses magic.

That matters for anyone following our Great Fairies guide, whose sequencing advice is built on the N64 fact that the Death Mountain fairy grants the Magic Meter. Zelda Wiki's remake page does not say which fountain now grants the Magic Meter, so I am not going to guess; check it in your own game before you plan a route around it.

Three more Great Fairy details from the remake page:

• Great Fairy Fountains now ask for an ever-increasing donation of Rupees before granting a power. The wiki gives no amounts.
• The Great Fairy of Power, Wisdom and Courage upgrades now show in the Collection screen as the Gift of Improved Spin, Gift of Doubled Magic and Gift of Halved Damage.
• Farore's Wind now warps you to the exact spot you marked rather than the room's entrance, costs 2 magic instead of 6, and can only be replaced with a new point, not dispelled.

Silver Rupees and the Proving Grounds

Silver Rupees are gone. Per Zelda Wiki, the puzzles that used them now use silver gems that are not items: collect one and it flies into a slot in the door lock. The Silver Rupee page gives the reason: in later Zelda games a Silver Rupee is worth a lot of money, so the remake stopped using them as a puzzle piece.

That hits the Gerudo Training Ground hardest, because its trials are built on Silver Rupees. The remake calls it the Gerudo Proving Grounds. Zelda Wiki says it now stands on the path between Gerudo Fortress and the Horseback Archery Range instead of being part of the fortress building, and a try costs 30 Rupees instead of 10. The wiki's entrance section adds that leaving means paying again, and it still lists the Ice Arrow as the remake's reward. The wiki's room-by-room write-up describes the N64 and 3DS layout and has not been updated for the remake's gems, so our Gerudo Training Ground guide is in the same position.

What is still undocumented

• Gold Skulltula locations. No remake list yet. The Echo Gem and the tree, crate and web tells are your best tools.
• Heart Piece total. Two relocations are documented; a full remake list is not.
• Donation amounts and most shop prices. For donations, "ever-increasing" is all Zelda Wiki says; the Potion Shop is the only remake price list I found.
• The Magic Meter's fountain after the Great Fairy swap.
• What the 100-token reward is worth to you. The wiki's table gives 200 Rupees for 100 tokens in all three versions, which is a fifth of a full Giant's Wallet in the remake, against two-fifths on N64.

Quick Action Checklist

• Start the House Covered in Cobwebs early: 20 tokens gets you the Echo Gem, which signals nearby Gold Skulltulas as you hunt the rest. Remember to equip it.
• Your wallets hold 200 / 500 / 1,000 Rupees, from the same 10- and 30-token rewards.
• Look for cracked stone floors and pinwheel-shaped leaves or flowers: those are grottos.
• Grab the fifth bottle at the Potion Shop in Hyrule Castle Town by catching the escaped bug.
• Sell the Poe Collector five Big Poes for his bottle; follow the purple lanterns in Hyrule Field.
• For the moved Business Scrub Heart Piece, find the Fairy Thought near the Castle Town grotto as an adult for the password.
• For the locked chest near the Gerudo Valley road: child, adult, child.
• Bring Rupees to Great Fairy Fountains, and expect Din's Fire on Death Mountain.
• Budget 30 Rupees per attempt at the Gerudo Proving Grounds.
• Press A to pick up Heart Pieces and fairies.