Fire Temple walkthrough in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Tears of the Kingdom: The Legend of Zelda’s Fire Temple sees you put to rest the plague of marbled rock roast that’s hypnotizing the Goron people.

After going through the Death Mountain Chasm as part of the Yunobo of Goron City quest, you’ll need to complete the dungeon and take down its boss, Gohma, Marble.

As with prior parts of the “Yunobo of Goron City” questline, you will need to have fireproof / fire resistance prepped. If you’ve made it to this point, you should have it on hand. However, you will need it for the entire temple.

Get to the Fire Temple

To get to the Fire Temple on Death Mountain, you first must travel to Goron City and complete the “Yunobo and the Goron” quest. This involves a minecart up Death Mountain, and a fight with a boss. Fire Temple Entrance: Death Mountain requires you to dive into the depths and navigate through Death Mountain.

Fire Temple chests

• The 10 Arrows
• Zonaite shield
• Diamond
• The 10 Arrows
• The 10 Arrows
• The 10 Arrows
• Ruby
• Might Zonaite shield
• The 10 Arrows
• Soldier IV reaper

Start the Fire Temple

Talk to Yunobo as you near the temple and ask him to use his abilities to remove the stone blocking the door. As you head straight in, there’ll be small rooms on both sides. On the left, there’s a room with metal weapons for you to use. On the right, there’s a chest with 10 arrows inside.

After you interact with the altar in the center of the temple, you’ll notice five locks preventing you from moving on. You’ll also be able to access a teleportation point. From here, you’ll need to ride the minecarts around the temple and use Yunobo’s ability to hit gongs to unlock the latches.

Below, we list out how to unlock all five of the Fire Temple’s locks. Although you don’t have to follow this exact order, we recommend that you do so, as this temple has a more linear layout.

First Fire Temple lock

The hydrant and floating platforms are the best way to cross the lava.

You can move the cart by hitting the fan. You can change the track direction by firing Yunobo at this switch as you near it.

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Grab a fire hydrant and turn left after the tracks stop. Keep going along the path until you see a fire-like and a breakable stone blocking a door. To get the Zonaite Shield, you need to remove the fire.

Create a ramp like this by using the hydrant and Ultrahand.

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To activate the lock, grab the Zonai capsules to the right.

You can climb this wall or return to the minecart room and find an optional diamond chest.

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Be prepared to battle the constructs that will await you at the top. Head back to your minecart after you’re done.

Second Fire Temple lock

To allow your cart to pass, hit the yellow button. You can get another cart in the same area, near where you got the hydrant lock from.

Then, get on your cart. Yunobo will destroy any constructions on your left.

If you’re looking to get 10 arrows, stop the cart here:

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The cart will flip around instantly if you ride it to the end of the track and then hit the nearby device.

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If you want to go left, turn the wheel of the cart.

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You’ll hit another gate, so hit this switch to rotate the tracks and lift the barrier. The chest contains 10 arrows if you defeat the construct. Backtrack the minecart to the place where you activated the switch.

Ride the minecart to the left and then hit the switch, so that the track will go straight.

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Recall the stones plates which are floating down the bank of lava. The plates will take you to the opposite side. Yunobo can be used to defeat the construct by hitting the gong.

Third Fire Temple lock

The workshop area has multiple tracks and carts.

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You can easily travel between this and the lower levels by hitting the yellow button. Grab the Zonai capsules that contain rockets and fire hydrants. There are also 10 arrows in the chest that is behind the construction.

Use a rocket on the cart to leap the track gap that heads southwest.

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You will find the construct when you stop the cart. You can ignore the broken-bridges by heading southwest, to find a chest that is covered with metal plates. Grab the metal plates from the chest to receive 10 arrows. Bring at least one plate back to the area of the broken bridge.

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Shoot Yunobo to the top of the ramp and he will break the rock. You’ll get a Zonai balloon capsule.

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Use Ultrahand to attach the balloon on the top of one metal plate. The balloon can be powered by a torch or wooden weapon.

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Yunobo: Hit the gong with the Yunobo at the top.

Jump back down the broken bridges, grab the hook on a car and attach it like this to the rail:

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Ruby Chest: Ride the rail and find it!

Extra optional chests

Re-enter the workshop with multiple tracks.

Switch the track so it goes straight.

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The track will now rotate, creating a new path back to the workshop. This newly created track will allow you to ride the cart back to the shop.

By pressing these switches, the track rotates horizontally instead of vertically.

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Ride straight on the same track that you started with Yunobo to find a powerful zonaite shield hidden in a chest.

Once you return to the shop, hit the switch again so the track not only goes horizontally, but also upwards.

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Ride the track again, and it’ll go up. The chest will contain 10 arrows if you defeat the construct. Riding the nearby cart up will face you off against a construct in a cart, which you can just knock off with Yunobo’s charge.

Head back to the workshop area by gliding once you’ve claimed your loot.

Fourth Fire Temple lock

In the workshop, switch the tracks so they are vertically up and upwards.

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Take the cart up and ride for a bit. You may see a construct in the cart beside you. With Yunobo, you can destroy it.

Grab the stones created by a hydrant in order to create a bridge. Place the Yunobo and use it to fire up the bridge in order to strike it.

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Fifth Fire Temple lock

You can build a huge bridge by adding more locks to your ramp. When I use the term comically big, I actually mean that.

Use the ultrahand to move the slates to the south of fourth gong. This will serve as the repaired ramp for you to climb up.

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Drop into the pit in front of your, and stop at the chest on the way to get a Soldier IV reaper.

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After dropping the last piece of the puzzle down, you can hit Yunobo on the gong and then the yellow switch.

This door puts you almost directly back in front of the center of the Fire Temple, so head back to the altar when you’re ready to take on the boss.

What to do when you face the boss of Fire Temple, Marbled Gohma

Before you activate the altar, make sure you have your basic necessities: food, fire resistance elixirs (if you’re not using armor), and an arsenal of powerful melee weapons.

Once you become familiar with the attack pattern of Marbled Gohma, this monster should be easy to defeat.

When you’re ready, fire Yunobo up a ramped wall and he’ll go so fast he circles the room, rolling across the ceiling. He’ll hit the marbled rocks off the ceiling and start the boss fight against Marbled Gohma.

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This fight begins with the first phase. you’ll need to fire Yunobo at Marbled Gohma’s legs to make it fall. You can knock the boss over by hitting two of its legs. You can hit the eye of Marbled Gohma repeatedly after it falls. It’ll begin to shake once it starts recovering. If it shakes you off, you’ll take damage, so be prepared to jump off once the boss starts shaking a lot.

After it regenerates its legs, it’ll have a brief moment of invulnerability, so don’t bother firing Yunobo off again immediately. Then launch him after waiting a couple of seconds.

Marbled Gohma will try to strike you with its legs and it’ll spit exploding rocks in sets of threes at you. To avoid damage, move away from rocks. Yunobo will fire off once it has spit out a bunch of rocks. Since Yunobo will circle around the whole room, you don’t have to aim You can also check out our supersized well, since he’ll loop back around and possibly get a second shot at the boss.

In the second phase, the boss will now trap you in a cage of exploding rocks, so you’ll have to use Yunobo to break out of them. Marbled Gohma will also now be on the ceiling instead, so you’ll need to shoot Yunobo up the walls to hit the boss. It’ll only take one shot to knock it down, but again, be careful as you will take damage if the boss lands on you.

After it has fallen, attack against the eyes by climbing up its body.

When it recovers, it’ll re-trap you in the rock cage and then fire off three more exploding rocks. While the boss recovers, have Yunobo prepared to help you break free of the cage and return to action.

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Every time you knock it down and hit it, it’ll repeat the rock cage and three-rock shot, so you’ll get the gist of when to charge up Yunobo and when to run.

You will finally defeat Marbled Ghma after you have beaten its eye.

For your efforts, you’ll get a Heart Container and you’ll be able to use Yunobo’s ability wherever you are — which is particularly useful when riding vehicles, as it’ll work the same way as it did during this quest.

The Goron people will also be freed of their rock munching addiction, so if there were any side quests or stories locked behind a Goron in a daze, you’ll be able to do them now.

When ready, it’s time to continue the Regional Phenomena quest — assuming you have other locations yet to complete.