Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A cool glitch that lets you warp to any owl statue without hitting them, controlled by where you put your cursor on the map.
Read more about it here: zeldaspeedruns.com/mm/msb/index-warp
EDIT: Here's the ZSR page to save you the trouble of clicking on the link.
Index Warp
DISCOVERED BY INDEXTIC
Index warp is a trick which allows the player to warp to any regular owl statue in the game without having to activate the statue. The main requirement for performing the glitch is that the player has hit and activated the Hidden Owl Statue.
Other Owl Statues
It is also important that no other Owl Statues are activated. Having any Owl Statues activated other than the Hidden Owl will stop this glitch from working.
Performing the Glitch
After these two conditions are met, the glitch can be performed. Press START to bring up the pause screen and go to the map sub-screen. Once on the map, place the selecting cursor on the map area corresponding to the owl statue you wish to warp to from the table below:
Cursor Value World Map Location Owl Statue/Effect
0 Great Bay Great Bay Coast
1 Zora Hall Zora Cape
2 Romani Ranch Snowhead
3 Deku Palace Mountain Village
4 Woodfall Clock Town
5 Clock Town Milk Road
6 Snowhead Woodfall
7 Ikana Graveyard Southern Swamp
8 Ikana Canyon Ikana Canyon
9 Goron Village Stone Tower
10 Stone Tower Dungeon Entrance (Softlock)
Note that these map positions will need to be unlocked by going to that area on the map. So for example: in order to unlock the Romani Ranch spot on the map so that the player may Index Warp to Snowhead, the player needs to have visited Milk Road or Romani Ranch at least once in their playthrough. This will make it selectable on the map.
At this point, unpause and play the Song of Soaring. The Song of Soaring cursor will automatically be selecting the Owl Statue on the map from the table above. Pressing A and soaring to this point will allow you to soar to the statue normally, as if you had hit the owl.
Due to the Great Bay Owl Statue having the Cursor Value 0, it is the default position for Song of Soaring and therefore Song of Soaring will automatically take you to this Owl without having to select the world map.
It is worth noting, while the Song of Soaring menu is up, pressing any direction on the control stick will crash the game.
A cool glitch that lets you warp to any owl statue without hitting them, controlled by where you put your cursor on the map.
Read more about it here: zeldaspeedruns.com/mm/msb/index-warp
EDIT: Here's the ZSR page to save you the trouble of clicking on the link.
Index Warp
DISCOVERED BY INDEXTIC
Index warp is a trick which allows the player to warp to any regular owl statue in the game without having to activate the statue. The main requirement for performing the glitch is that the player has hit and activated the Hidden Owl Statue.
Other Owl Statues
It is also important that no other Owl Statues are activated. Having any Owl Statues activated other than the Hidden Owl will stop this glitch from working.
Performing the Glitch
After these two conditions are met, the glitch can be performed. Press START to bring up the pause screen and go to the map sub-screen. Once on the map, place the selecting cursor on the map area corresponding to the owl statue you wish to warp to from the table below:
Cursor Value World Map Location Owl Statue/Effect
0 Great Bay Great Bay Coast
1 Zora Hall Zora Cape
2 Romani Ranch Snowhead
3 Deku Palace Mountain Village
4 Woodfall Clock Town
5 Clock Town Milk Road
6 Snowhead Woodfall
7 Ikana Graveyard Southern Swamp
8 Ikana Canyon Ikana Canyon
9 Goron Village Stone Tower
10 Stone Tower Dungeon Entrance (Softlock)
Note that these map positions will need to be unlocked by going to that area on the map. So for example: in order to unlock the Romani Ranch spot on the map so that the player may Index Warp to Snowhead, the player needs to have visited Milk Road or Romani Ranch at least once in their playthrough. This will make it selectable on the map.
At this point, unpause and play the Song of Soaring. The Song of Soaring cursor will automatically be selecting the Owl Statue on the map from the table above. Pressing A and soaring to this point will allow you to soar to the statue normally, as if you had hit the owl.
Due to the Great Bay Owl Statue having the Cursor Value 0, it is the default position for Song of Soaring and therefore Song of Soaring will automatically take you to this Owl without having to select the world map.
It is worth noting, while the Song of Soaring menu is up, pressing any direction on the control stick will crash the game.
