The Sky Mine Crystal

Gikaku Shrine is high above the spiral-shaped Rist Peninsula in the Akkala Sky. There is no easy way to get there without spare Zonai equipment.

Starting from Ulri Mountain Skyview Tower, launch into the air and look for a small island with a circular pool and a tower on it. Paraglide to this island. SAVE YOUR GAME, as its easy to mess up the next part of your journey.

There are Zonai device parts here, but not nearly enough to get you to the northeast islands and Gikaku Shrine. To reach it, you’ll need three Fans, a Wing, a Controller, and two Batteries.

The Wing and one Fan can be found on the island. The rest you’ll have to bring along from Zonai Device dispensers.

Create a plane with three fans, a controller and two batteries. To get started you’ll need to use Ultrahand to move the plane into the air, and then safely back to the ground on the northeaster edge of the peninsula, then get on the wing, use Recall to lift you up and over into the air.

Deactivate recall and hop on the Controller. Pilot up and towards the nearest northeastern island. You should easily gain enough distance and height with two batteries and three fans to reach the island with the Gikaku Shrine platform. Activate the shrine pad so you can fast travel here. This will begin The Sky Mine Crystal Shrine Quest.

Activating the Gikaku shrine pad will trigger the The Sky Mine Crystal Shrine Quest which asks you to return a green crystal to the shrine pad. It is high above on an island full of rocks you can mine.

To reach this island and retrieve the green crystal is easier than it might initially seem: You need to get up there, then simply drop the green crystal to the shrine island.

To do so, look for a circle with a glowing green pad to the southwest of the shrine. Activate this and it will activate a series of vertically-aimed launchers around you that lead up to higher islands.

They can be positioned with the rotating wheel. Aim the nearby one northeast.

Get on the stone launcher platform. Launch into the sky and land on the northeast island.

Do the same here but turn the next wheel and stone launcher to the southeast.

From here you can float to the small, rocky island with the green crystal. SAVE YOUR SAVE ON THIS ISLAND.

To get the green crystal to its “home” you can safely drop it to the island below. To aim it right, use Ultrahand to lift it out and just to the right of the small island off the edge.

Release Ultrahand and it will plummet straight down and bounce perfectly vertically and you can glide down to it.

If you screw up, it will respawn in the same place or you can reload your save.

Carry the green crystal to the shrine pad to complete The Sky Mine Crystal Shrine Quest. A Ruby is inside the chest in the shrine.

Note that the Zonaite Shin Guards piece of Armor is in the sphere high above Sky Mine. You can use the same platforms and stone launchers to reach it.

But you’ll actually need to fire a stone cube from the top launcher INTO the sphere to reach the chest. Line it up carefully and use Recall on your missed shots to get it just right.

Enter the sphere and place the stone cube on the pressure switch.

Climb a nearby column and ascend out. Paraglide down under and into the rotating hole, now on the bottom – if you miss, float to the nearest launcher and try again.

Congrats on solving the shrine and earning a Light of Blessing! Click or tap here to return to the rest of the Shrine Guides. You can also check out which shrines are nearby with our shrine map filter on our complete map of Hyrule.