Cave of Ordeals

The Cave of Ordeals is a long and arduous optional dungeon, located in the South-Western (or South-Eastern in the Wii version) corner of the Gerudo Desert, below the center piece of the Bridge of Eldin.

It can be accessed any time after restoring the Bridge of Eldin, unblocking the entrance. However, to make it into the deeper floors you will need to have progressed further through the game.

Within the cave, Link has to fight his way through hordes of enemies, some of which may not yet be known to him.

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 faries at each Spirit Spring.



Enemies and their floor number.
1.	Bokoblin

2.	Rats, Keese

3.	Deku Babas X6

4.	Skulltulas X3

5.	Bulblin archers

6.	Torch slugs

7.	Fire Keese, Dodongos X2

8.	Red Tektites X3, Blue Tektites X3

9.	Bulblin Archers, Lizalfos

10.	Fairy

11.	Helmasaurs, Rats

12.	Large Purple Chuchu

13.	Chu Worms X2

14.	Bubbles

15.	Bulbins

16.	Rats, Keese

17.	Stalhound, Poe

18.	Leevers

19.	Chuchu Horde

20.	Fairy

21.	Ice Keese, Purple Bokoblins

22.	Keese, Rats, Ghoul Rats

23.	Stalkin

24.	ReDead Knights X5

25.	Bulblin Archers, Bulblin Infantry

26.	Stalfos

27.	Skulltulas, Bubbles

28.	Lizalfos, Bokoblins

29.	Stalkin, Stalfos, Fire Bubbles

30.	Fairy

31.	Beamos X5, Keese

32.	Torch slugs, Fire Keese, Fire Bubbles, Dodongo X2

33.	ReDead, Poe

34.	Large Purple Chuchu, Ghoul Rats

35.	Ice Keese, Freezard, Mini Freezards

36.	Chilfos X3 (WARNING: there are twice as many on 2nd time)

37.	Ice Keese, Leevers

38.	Mini Freezards, Ice Keeses ,Freezard X2, Chilfos X3

39.	Darknuts X2 (WARNING: there are three here on 2nd time)

40.	Fairy

41.	Armos X9

42.	Baba Serpents, Red Bokoblins

43.	Lizalfos X3, Bulblin Archers

44.	Dynalfos, Poe

45.	Bulblin Archers, ReDeads, Large Purple Chuchu

46.	Freezards X2, Chilfos, Ghoul Rats

47.	Bokoblin, Rats, Stalkin

48.	Aeralfos, Darknut

49.	Darknuts X3 (WARNING: there are four Darknuts here on 2nd time)

50.	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 causes a Great Fairy to appear in all Spirit Springs. You also receive the ability to collect Fairy Tears. These can be gathered at any Spirit Spring, and you can fill another bottle each time you beat the cave, for a maximum of four bottles.

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.

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