Heart Pieces
45 Heart Pieces are scattered throughout the lands, acquired in dungeons, in hidden locations, and by completing various quests. Again, these are incorporated in my walkthrough, but here is a checklist in chronological order.
1) Where: Faron Province, the northeast red dot on the map
How: In the cave, light the two torches by the chest to make another one appear.
2) Where: Forest Temple, room with eater plants and Spider Bombs
How: Toss a Spider Bomb into its mouth after getting the Small Key from the plant enemy.
3) Where: Forest Temple, room with tile enemies
How: With the Gale Boomerang in hand, snuff out the two lit torches to drop the stairs, revealing a chest.
4) Where: Hyrule Field, take the cliff path (north from Ordon Province) to a fork with a tree stuck in its way
How: Use the boomerang to target it on the limbs of the tree.
5) Where: Hyrule Field, ride to the southwest corner of Eldin Province
How: Find a small series of jagged rock pillars. On the tallest pier, use the boomerang to retrieve it.
6) Where: Ordon Village, Ranch
How: Talk to Fado 2x to begin yet another game of goat herding. This doesn’t require much more skill than before, however there is a time limit. Herd 20 goats in three minutes.
7) Where: Goron Mines, big magnetic ceiling room two rooms after Gor Amoto
How: Head to the northeast to find a chest below you. Drop when you have safe ground below and open it.
8) Where: Goron Mines, Beamos room
How: At the west end, climb the magnetic wall to the fork and go left, dropping to a chest.
9) Where: Kakariko Village, Target Practice Mini-Game
How: Shoot the red & white targets, then the pole atop the Highest Building to receive it from Malo. For hints on winning, see my walkthrough or my Mini-Games page.
10) Where: Kakariko Village, need Bombs
How: On the west side by the road to Hyrule Field is a cracked wall with a boulder smooshed in there. Use a bomb to obliterate it, then enter the tunnel revealed. Climb to a ledge situated above the spring and (Geronimo) jump in. Sink to the bottom with your Iron Boots and open the chest
11) Where: Kakariko Village
How: Look above the tunnel that you just blew open (in # 11 above) to see another boulder higher up. Use a Bomb Arrow (combine the two items) and fire it to blow another rock. Use your boomerang to claim it.
12) Where: Hyrule Field
How: Ride north out of Kakariko Village and look for two boulders and a ramp on the right. Dismount and bomb the boulders, then climb the ramp to the top, jumping the gap. Climb the ivy wall to the top and head to the ledge. Use a Bomb Arrow to blow the boulder across the gap. Jump over and climb more ivy to the top. Look down and north to see a chest. Jump down to it.
13) Where: Lake Hylia
How: Head northwest to Fyer’s shop. Speak with him and pay 10 rupees to be launched to upper Lake Hylia. Enter the door to reach the Flight-by-Fowl mini-game. Talk to Falbi, another clown, to play. Save here in case you mess up countlessly and you can reset without losing rupees. Pick up a cuckoo and stand on the edge. Use your point-of-view camera to spot the multi-tiered platform below. Your aim is to reach the high tier that is not spinning around. When you fly out, ignore the big rupees in the sky as they only distract from the bigger prize. Speed up and slow down continuously and use the C-stick to keep a bird’s eye view of the platform. The lower you are to the chest, the likely you will drop to it, so make sure you’re close enough when you land. If you land on the right tier, open the chest.
14) Where: Upper Zora’s River, Fishing Pond
How: Rent a lure rod and canoe for 20 rupees. Direct your canoe north and spot it on the rock structure. Use your lure rod to reel it in for the taking.
15) Where: Hyrule Castle Town, west side
How: Talk to the man in the robe, who is a priest soliciting donations. Donate a total of 1000 rupees (not necessarily at once) for the piece.
16) Where: Lakebed Temple, central staircase room
How: Take the stairs up and look up at the chandelier. Clawshot one of its surrounding targets to pull yourself up. Open the chest.
17) Where: Lakebed Temple, central staircase room
How: Head to the lower east side using the clawshot on the ivy and pull the handle there. Follow the new current to the east door and head through it. Follow the water east to another door. At the south end is a bridge. Activate the switch there to open the south gates. Defeat the Lizalfos that appears and stand on the switch again to open the gates further. Clawshot to the target behind the gates to fly through before they close. Open the chest.
18) Where: Lake Hylia, Lanayru’s Spring
How: Head west to the end of the path and look south to the ivy. Clawshot to it and climb up to the top. Head through the door to the south. Light the two torches with your Lantern. Open the chest that appears.
19) Where: Lake Hylia, cave south of the Howling Stone
How: Navigate the cave (for directions, see Lakebed Temple section of walkthrough), light two torches by the third Poe Soul and open the chest.
20) Where: Lake Hylia, head towards Fyer’s place and howl by the Bird Grass to the south, following the notes as prompted, to summon Plumm
How: He will take you to Zora’s River and along the way, you’ll collect fruit scattered around the area for points (watermelons= 1, oranges= 3, strawberries= 10). The goal is 10 000 points, however there is a great strategy involved in racking up points. Concentrate on hitting as many strawberries in a row as you can to double your points
21) Where: Death Mountain (from Kakariko Village road)
How: Go north and use a Goron to launch up, have the second one launch you west to the ledge, head north, hugging the wall along the narrow ledge to a cave at left, open the chest
22) Where: Kakariko Gorge, bomb the boulder to the south and enter the cave
How: Go right 2x, left 2x to the Poe Soul, then go right. Light the two torches and open the chest.
23) Where: Eldin Province/Hyrule Field, head northeast to the east cliff off the bridge
How: Clawshot to the target to reach a high ledge, then head south and through a cave, go south along the platform to a magnetic field. Run/jump off the platform and equip the Iron Boots with good timing to attach yourself to it, drop off and take the platform north to another magnetic field, attach yourself to it again and drop, attach to yet another magnetic wall and drop to yet another ledge, light the two torches and open the chest for an orange rupee (worth 100), head south, defeat the Dodongo and open the chest near it
24) Where: Gerudo Mesa, base camp area
How: Head north through the gate, west up a sand dune to the barracks, north some more, then east, making your way to the northeast corner where they are having a pig roast. Slice the porker open (ew).
25) Where: Arbiter’s Grounds, Poe chamber room
How: Head northeast to find a chest opposite some quicksand. Clawshot the target nearby to reach it and open it.
26) Where: Arbiter’s Grounds, second Spinner track room
How: Ride the track to the right to the end over the quicksand, then left to another track, jumping right, then left, then right again onto a fourth track. Jump left to a circular track which ultimately drops you off into a pit. Defeat the Stalfos Knight, then climb the ramp to the east. Open the chest at the top.
27) Where: Hyrule Field, warp to Castle Town and head west further into the field
How: At the very north end is a spinner track that leads south. Ride the two tracks, then you’ll reach a bunch of parallel tracks that you must jump back and forth between about 8x. At the end of the tracks, jump out to the ledge with a chest and open it.
28) Where: Eldin Bridge, warp there and head north to the wooden bridge
How: Defeat the Moblins, then look west to spot a spinner track. Ride it, then use your wolf senses to find a digging place in the grass at the end and dig into the cave underground. Use Bomb Arrows to defeat three Stalfos enemies, then open the chest that appears.
29) Where: Snowpeak Ruins
How: In the aviary, at the south end past the broken wall, bomb the cracked floor and drop through the hole. Open the chest.
30) Where: Snowpeak Ruins
How: In the room adjacent to the aviary, head to the east ledge to find another chandelier and rock it with the B&C, jumping east to the opposite end. Defeat the Ice Warrior, then get back on the chandelier. When it stops moving, look south and use the B&C on the next chandelier, jumping to it. Do that again for the next chandelier, avoiding/defeating Ice Keese, then head to the south ledge to find it.
31) Where: Hyrule Field
How: Warp to Castle Town. Head north further into Hyrule Field and look for a cliff with a path through it. Take the south path at the fork around the cliff to the east side (on the map, it’s the northwest part) to a boulder blocking a cave. Bomb it and enter. This is an awesome hidden mini-game. Use the B&C to destroy the ice block ahead and enter a more complicated game of block sliding. You’ll go through three puzzles. See walkthrough or Games section for help on the puzzles. Head north to the chest after completing them.
32) Where: Kakariko Village/Hyrule Field
How: Outside Malo Mart, talk to the elder Goron who asks you to bring a jug of Hot Spring Water to the Goron on the west bridge in Hyrule Field from Castle Town. You’ll have to carry it on foot as you start in the field. Carry it west all the way to the bridge with the Goron, avoiding the Leevers that appear in the field. L-Target the Goron and toss the water on him to revive him.
33) Where: Snowpeak Ruins
How: Warp there and head west to Yeto and Yeta. Beat them both in two successive snowboard races to win.
34) Where: Sacred Grove
How: Bomb the stone boulder in the middle and use your senses to dig underground where the boulder sat. Defeat the Deku Babas in the cave below. Open the chest that appears.
35) Where: Temple of Time
How: In the red light/green light room, use the Rod to move the Guardian Statue and head north into a wall. Have the statue surpass the wall barrier, then release control and shoot the switch on the high west wall. If the statue was close enough, it will be on the north side now. Control it onto the switch opposite the electric barrier, then release control and get on the other side. Open the chest at north.
36) Where: Temple of Time
How: Head through to the chapel. Defeat the Skulltulas, then head south. On the west wall, a gate closes off a ledge. Control a mini-statue and move it north to the ledge onto a switch. Release control, then toss a mini-statue in the south-center area onto the southeast ledge and activate another switch. Open the chest that appears to the east.
37) Where: Temple of Time
How: After defeating the boss, head south down the stairs and to the south end. Use the Rod to control the statue in the southeast corner. Open the chest behind it.
38) Where: Hidden Village
How: As a wolf, talk to the cucco near the Howling Stone who will open up a cute game of hide ‘n’ seek with the old lady’s resident cats. There are 20 to find, most of whom are in the open, though some are cleverly hidden. Search all the alleys and buildings. One cat is found by clawshotting the webbing hanging over the horse trough (so Rio Bravo) to the southeast. Dash/jump to the southwest building and through the window to the cat. Another is in a barrel in that same area. A running total is kept on the screen and a cat will tell you if you already talked to it. Once you finish, talk to the cucco and then collect your reward in front of Impaz’s house.
39) Where: Eldin Bridge, Hyrule Field
How: After restoring power to your Dominion Rod, warp to Eldin Bridge. After getting the piece of the Sky Book, control the statue to move south to the bridge. On the west side is a gap with a ladder. Drop the statue into the gap, positioning it roughly in the middle, then use it to jump to the ladder, avoiding or defeating the Moblin Archer nearby. Open the chest atop the ladder.
40) Where: South Faron Woods
How: After collecting a piece of the Sky Book, control the statue to move all the way south to the end of the bridge. Release control, then climb the boulder and use Midna’s jump as a wolf to the top passage, then west into Faron Woods. Open the chest here.
41) Where: City in the Sky
How: In the room with the Giant Deku Baba, defeat it and the big (though not compared to the giant one) Deku Babas, then clawshot the target on the high west ceiling, then quickly clawshot to the ivy north above you. Drop down from there and climb the ledge east, then slowly navigate it, defeating the Keese with arrows. Open the chest about halfway for more arrows, then continue, defeating a big Deku Baba at the end. Defeat the Keese ahead, then grab the edge of the next ledge too narrow to walk and edge your way across. Defeat the Big Deku Baba, then open the chest it guarded.
42) Where: City in the Sky
How: In the spacious room with no walls and a big series of Peahats, clawshot the closest Peahat, then use L-targeting to latch onto the next several Peahats. On the fourth one, look southwest and follow a new series of Peahats to the ledge, then drop and head through the door there. Open the chest on the ledge.
43) Where: Kakariko Gorge/Hyrule Field
How: Warp to Kakariko Gorge. Head to the west end with a few rock spires. On the south side, look for a target and clawshot it, then to another on the opposite side, then to the ivy. Climb up and right to a chest.
44) Where: Palace of Twilight
How: Two rooms after getting the first Sol, head west to the passage through the fog carrying the Sol, then drop the Sol and clawshot the target by a chest, opening it.
45) Where: Palace of Twilight
How: After getting the Light Sword, head east to the first room. The Light Sword cuts the fog so you can navigate it as human Link. Take the southeast elevator platform to a chest and open it.
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