Cave of Ordeals

The Cave of Ordeals is an optional dungeon in Twilight Princess.

Location and Features
The cave is located below the Gerudo Mesa. Containing a total of fifty floors, the cave can be accessed any time after restoring the Bridge of Eldin, unblocking the entrance. However, to make it into the deeper floors, Link will need weapons and items from further along in the game. Within the cave, Link has to fight his way through hordes of enemies, and only by defeating each enemy within that room will he be able to progress to the next floor.

After every ten floors and at the end of the cave, there is a fountain in which the Great Fairy appears and grants the power of fairies at each Spirit Spring. On the last floor, the Great Fairy will reward the young hero with a bottle full of Great Fairy's Tears.

Enemies and their floor number

 * 1) Bokoblin
 * 2) Rats, Keese
 * 3) Deku Babas ×6
 * 4) Skulltulas ×3
 * 5) Bulblin archers ×3
 * 6) Torch Slugs ×9
 * 7) Fire Keese ×4, Dodongos ×2
 * 8) Red Tektites ×3, Blue Tektites ×3
 * 9) Bulblin Archers ×4, Lizalfos ×2
 * 10) Great Fairy
 * 11) Helmasaurs ×3, Rats
 * 12) Large Purple Chu
 * 13) Chu Worms ×4
 * 14) Bubbles
 * 15) Bulblins
 * 16) Rats, Keese
 * 17) Stalhounds, Imp Poe
 * 18) Leevers
 * 19) Chu Horde
 * 20) Great Fairy
 * 21) Ice Keese, Purple Bokoblins
 * 22) Keese, Rats, Ghoul Rats
 * 23) Stalkin Cave of Ordeals.jpg
 * 24) ReDead Knights ×5
 * 25) Bulblin Archers, Bulblin Infantry
 * 26) Stalfos
 * 27) Skulltulas ×3, Bubbles
 * 28) Lizalfos ×2, Bokoblins ×6
 * 29) Stalkin, Stalfos, Fire Bubbles
 * 30) Great Fairy
 * 31) Beamos ×5, Keese
 * 32) Torch Slugs ×6, Fire Keese, Fire Bubbles, Dodongo ×2
 * 33) ReDead Knights ×4, Imp Poe
 * 34) Large Purple Chu, Ghoul Rats
 * 35) Ice Keese, Freezard, Mini Freezards
 * 36) Chilfos ×4
 * 37) Bubbles, Ice Bubbles Leevers
 * 38) Mini Freezards, Ice Keese ×3, Freezard ×2, Chilfos ×4, Ice Bubbles ×3
 * 39) Darknuts ×2
 * 40) Great Fairy
 * 41) Armos ×9
 * 42) Baba Serpents ×6, Red Bokoblins
 * 43) Lizalfos ×3, Bulblin Archers
 * 44) Dynalfos ×4, Poe
 * 45) Bulblin Archers ×2, ReDead Knights ×5, Large Purple Chu
 * 46) Freezards ×2, Chilfos, Ghoul Rats
 * 47) Bokoblin, Rats, Stalkin
 * 48) Aeralfos ×2, Darknut
 * 49) Darknut ×3
 * 50) Great Fairy

Rewards

 * Reaching the 10th Floor releases fairies into Ordon Spring.
 * Reaching the 20th Floor releases fairies into Faron Spring.
 * Reaching the 30th Floor releases fairies into Eldin Spring.
 * Reaching the 40th Floor releases fairies into Lanayru Spring.
 * Reaching the 50th Floor fills a bottle with Great Fairy's Tears. It also causes Link to have the the ability to collect the Tears by speaking to the Light Spirits in their respective spring. The young hero can refill a bottle at any Spirit Spring as long as he doesn't already have some; however, he can fill another bottle each time he completes the cave, for a maximum of four bottles of Fairy's Tears.

Trivia

 * The Cave of Ordeals plays the same role as the Savage Labyrinth from The Wind Waker, the difference is that the Cave requires the main items of dungeons 4 to 7 in order to explore all the floors and fully clear it. Another difference is that the Cave of Ordeals is completely optional, while the first 31 rooms of the Savage Labyrinth must be completed in order to progress in the game. It also resembles the Take 'Em All On Game in Spirit Tracks.
 * The second time completing the Cave, on the last ledge before the Great Fairy, the Postman is squatting down while trying to read a letter.
 * The Cave of Ordeals plays the same role as the Pit of 100 Trials in ' and '.
 * The Cave can be exited anytime between floors 1 and 41, if Link brings Ooccoo Jr. Note that this is not possible in floors 42 - 50, which require the Double Clawshot to access, because Ooccoo warps the young hero to the Shop, and the dungeon cannot truly be exited with Ooccoo Jr. in the inventory.