Complete Guide to Locating All Seven Cuccos in Kakariko Village
In the remake, players must track down seven escaped Cuccos scattered around Kakariko Village to complete a side quest. Each bird is found in distinct spots, including near the village entrance and on elevated platforms, with no required order for retrieval. Completing the task rewards an Empty Bottle, a useful early-game item.
In *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time* remake released in November 2026, players undertake a side quest in Kakariko Village to recover seven escaped Cuccos—chickens that have wandered from their pen. The quest begins when a red-haired woman near the village’s east entrance requests help, prompting Link to locate and return each bird using the interact (A) button and throw (ZR) mechanics. The seven Cuccos are found in specific, non-sequential locations: one outside the main gate by a tree, another on an elevated platform north of the village, a third among construction materials across from the pen, a fourth atop a stack of bricks reachable via a jump using a held Cucco as a flying platform, a fifth behind a broken fence in the northeast corner accessible through a windmill staircase, a sixth on ladders leading to the windmill’s eastern wall, and the final one inside a box near a red-door house in the central square. Completing the task rewards an Empty Bottle, a practical early-game item. The guide, authored by Collin MacGregor of TheGamer, emphasizes that order does not matter and that some Cuccos must be temporarily held to access otherwise unreachable areas.
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