Deku Stick on B is a glitch that places a Deku Stick in Link's B button slot, bypassing the normal requirement for the Master Sword. This seemingly simple trick opens up numerous sequence breaks and is a crucial component of many advanced glitch techniques in Ocarina of Time.

What is Deku Stick on B?

Normally, Adult Link's B button is reserved for the Master Sword (or Biggoron's Sword/Giant's Knife). The Deku Stick on B glitch exploits various game mechanics to place a Deku Stick—a Child Link item—in this slot, even as an adult.

This enables:

• Bottle Adventure setups
• Reverse Bottle Adventure techniques
• Swordless Link playthroughs
• Various sequence breaks and glitch chains

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How It Works

The B Button Slot

The B button slot has special properties:

• It's meant to always hold a sword for Adult Link
• The game doesn't properly validate what gets placed there
• Certain sequences can leave the slot blank or with unexpected items

Platform Differences

Platform	Behavior	Notes
N64 (All versions)	Game freezes	Pulling out Deku Stick as Adult crashes the game
GameCube	Glitchy stick	Wields a glitched Deku Stick
Virtual Console	Glitchy stick	Same as GameCube
3DS	Shield appearance	Looks like Link is wielding the Hylian Shield

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Methods to Obtain Deku Stick on B

Method 1: Lon Lon Ranch (Swordless)

This method requires never having equipped a sword through the equipment screen:

1. Perform the Swordless Door of Time Skip to become Adult without the Master Sword
2. Enter Lon Lon Ranch and pay to ride a horse
3. Climb on any horse (doesn't have to be Epona)
4. This gives you a blank B button
5. Save and quit (or die after dimming B by entering water/climbing)
6. Return and pay to ride again with a blank (not dimmed) B button
7. You now have Deku Stick on B

Important: This resets if you savewarp, deathwarp, or fail a trade item sequence.

Method 2: Stealing the Fishing Rod

A more accessible method for casual players:

1. Go to the Fishing Pond in Lake Hylia
2. Steal the Fishing Rod using specific techniques
3. Exit the pond
4. Jump into water to gray out the B button
5. Return to the pond, then exit again
6. You now have Deku Stick on B

Method 3: Master Sword Bottle Dupe

The most reliable method that persists through warps:

1. Obtain a bottle normally
2. Catch something in the bottle (bugs, fish)
3. Swing the bottle at a catchable target
4. Mid-swing, open the equipment menu and equip Master Sword
5. This dupes the bottle over the Master Sword slot
6. The B button now has a bottle, which can be converted to stick

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Converting to Bottle on B

Once you have Deku Stick on B, you can convert it to a Bottle on B for even more applications:

Quick-Draw Bottle Duplication

1. Drop bugs or fish, then pull out the empty bottle
2. Execute a Quick Draw with your sword
3. Perform a shield swipe
4. This duplicates the bottle over your B button weapon

Multiple setups exist:

• Shallow water method
• Shielded damage method
• Time stop method
• Text box method
• Epona method
• Iron Boots method

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Glitched Damage Value

A powerful side effect: getting a broken stick after Quick Putaway with a Deku Stick gives a glitched damage value of 16171617.

This single "weapon" combines effects of multiple items:

Effect	Normal Item
Burns webs	Fire Arrow / Deku Stick
Lights torches	Deku Stick
Activates eye switches	Arrow / Slingshot
Triggers Lost Woods target	Slingshot
Stuns Gohma	Deku Nut / Slingshot
Stuns Barinade	Boomerang

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Speedrun Applications

Category	Use Case
Any%	Setup for Bottle Adventure / Wrong Warp chains
100%	Early item acquisition, sequence breaks
Swordless	Required for entire run category
All Dungeons	Optimization and routing flexibility

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Tips and Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Game Freezes (N64):

• Don't actually pull out the Deku Stick as Adult on N64
• Use it only as a setup for other glitches

B Button Resets:

• The Lon Lon Ranch method resets on savewarp/deathwarp
• Use the bottle dupe method for persistence

Gray/Dimmed B Button:

• Enter water or climb something to dim the button
• Some setups require dimmed, others require non-dimmed

Practice Tips

1. Learn the bottle dupe method first—it's most versatile
2. Practice the Quick-Draw timing separately
3. Understand which version you're playing (affects behavior)
4. Use the Fishing Rod method on 3DS for easier setup

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See Also

• Wrong Warp
• Stale Reference Manipulation (SRM)
• Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE)

Sources

• ZeldaSpeedRuns - Bottle on B
• ZeldaSpeedRuns - Quick Putaway / Glitched Damage Value
• Zelda Dungeon - Ocarina of Time Glitches