Grotto Entrance

Grotto Entrance is an item/action actor in Ocarina of Time.

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Placement

A working grotto mouth anywhere: standing on it warps Link to a grotto scene and registers the return point. Bits 12-14 pick the destination (1-7 are safe table entries) — at 0 it falls back to indexing by Z-ROTATION + 1, which reads past the 15-entry table for rotations above 13.

Destination variants (8)

This actor is placed in one of these forms. Pick it from the editor's Destination dropdown. The value is what the actor's parameters store.

Bits 8-9 make it a hidden grotto at zero scale: 0x200 opens to a bomb/hammer hit, 0x100 to the Song of Storms. Clear both for one that's visible immediately.

Parameters

Beyond the destination above, the parameters hold these fields. The editor shows each as a labelled control.

• Destination bits 12–14: 0 From the Grotto field, 1 Fairy's Fountain, 2 Generic Grotto 0, 3 Generic Grotto 1, 4 Generic Grotto 2, 5 Generic Grotto 3, 6 Generic Grotto 4, 7 Generic Grotto 5all 8 values used
• Reveal bits 8–9: 0 Open, 1 Song of Storms, 2 Hidden (Bomb/Hammer), 3 Hidden (Bomb/Hammer) (3)all 4 values used
• Chest Contents (chest grottos) bits 5–7: 0 Blue Rupee, 1 Red Rupee, 2 Gold Rupee, 3 Bombs (20), 4 Bombs (1) (4), 5 Bombs (1) (5), 6 Bombs (1) (6), 7 Bombs (1) (7)all 8 values used
• Chest Flag (chest grottos) bits 0–4: 0–31all 32 values usedThe grotto chest's 'opened' bit — same idea as a chest's Treasure Flag, but tracked in the GROTTO scene's save flags. Keep unique among grottos sharing a destination.

Rotation fields

This actor reads these rotation fields as settings, not as a direction. The editor shows each one as a number field.

Appears in (16)

Death Mountain CraterDeath Mountain TrailDesert ColossusGerudo ValleyGerudos FortressGoron CityHyrule CastleHyrule FieldKakariko VillageKokiri ForestLake HyliaLon Lon RanchLost WoodsSacred Forest MeadowZoras DomainZoras River

Model

What this actor draws, and where each piece lives in the archive. A mod replaces a piece by writing a file at the same path.

Objects loaded

• objects/gameplay_field_keep shared with 10 other actors

An edit to a shared object reaches every actor that loads it.

Item/Action actors

Arrow · Blue Fire Flames · Body Parts · Bongo Bongo's Shadow · Bugs · Butterfly · Cell Door (Gerudo Fortress) · Cutscene Actors · Decorative Flames · Deku Shield · Dialog Spot · Din's Fire · Environmental Effects · Epona's Song Ocarina Effect · Fairy · Farore's Wind · Fire Arrow · Fish · Fish, Bugs, Butterflies Group Spawner · Ganon's Tower Magic Barriers · Gate to Death Mountain Trail · Gold Skulltula Token · Grotto Treasure Chest · Hookshot · Hyrule Castle Gate · Ice Arrow · Lava Particle Fountain (Death Mountain panorama) · Light Arrow · Lord Jabu-Jabu · Navi Infospot (Green, Time Block) · Navi Message · Nayru's Love · Ocarina of Time · Reflectable Light Beam · Saria's Song Ocarina Effect · Scarecrow's Song Ocarina Effect · Skulltula Sprouting from Bean Spot · Song of Storm Ocarina Effect · Song of Storms Storm Manager · Spin Attack · Sun's Song Effect · The End message · Time Block · Treasure Chest Light · Void-out Trigger (Tower Collapse) · Warp Portal · Zelda's Lullaby and Song of Time Ocarina Effect