Piece of Heart

A classic Zelda item. Four Pieces of Heart are required to form one Heart Container in most Zelda games. Pieces of Heart are scattered all across Hyrule and the subsidaries of the mainland. Link can usually acquire a Piece of Heart by completing a task, reaching an out-of-the-way area through use of a special item, or from within dungeons and temples. Pieces of Heart are usually part of a sidequest related to the game but are not at all necessary to the game's completion.

Like their complete contemporaries, the Heart Containers, collecting a Picece of Heart refills the health of the player to maximum. With all boss-held Heart Containers and individual pieces of heart collected, it is possible to obtain a total of 20 hearts in the majority of the game.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess breaks the tradition set in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and requires that five Pieces of Heart be collected to complete a Heart Container. This game is also set apart from the others in that upon collecting the pieces, health is only partially restored.

A Link to the Past

 * ZeldaUniverse.net's Guide
 * Karri Huismann's Guide

Ocarina of Time

 * ZeldaDungeon.net's Guide

The Wind Waker

 * ZeldaUniverse.net's Guide

Twilight Princess


H-01 Faron Woods Burn through the Faron Woods swamp's poisonous fog by waving your lantern, and enter the cave in the northwest (where you found the key to the north woods gate). Light two torches at the dead end to make the Piece of Heart appear.

H-02 Forest Temple Drop a bomb into a large plant in the killer-plant-filled chamber that is northeast of the Forest Temple entrance. The giant bud will explode, giving you access to a ground-level alcove and a treasure chest.

H-03 Forest Temple Use the Gale Boomerang to put out the torches in the far east Forest Temple chamber, where creatures wait under floor tiles. The wood platforms in the room will drop, allowing you a clear path to the Piece of Heart.

H-04 Hyrule Field Venture to the south end of the bridge in the middle of Hyrule Field. Equip the Gale Boomerang and investigate the trees in the area with your first-person view. You'll find a heart floating near the branches of one of the trees. Use the boomerang to retrieve it.

H-05 Ordon Village After restoring light to Eldin Province, you'll regain the use of your horse, Epona. Any time after that, go to the ranch during the day, call Epona and talk to Fado. He'll ask you to herd the goats, and will give you a gift after a successful run.

H-06 Hyrule Field Look for a tall rock formation that towers over the east end of Kakariko Gorge. You'll find a Heart Piece floating above it. Target the prize with your boomerang, then send the boomerang across the gap to add the piece to your collection.

H-07 Goron Mines Shortly after you speak to Gor Amoto, the first elder in the mines, you'll use the Iron Boots to walk on the ceiling of a large chamber. Advance to the chamber's northwest corner to find a treasure chest that contains a Piece of Heart.

H-08 Goron Mines After you advance to the second-floor room that houses two turrets and a drawbridge, walk up the magnetic track on the east wall. Follow the track's southern branch to reach a treasure chest on a ledge. Your prize is inside.

H-09 Kakariko Village After you complete your adventure in the Goron Mines, get a boost from a Goron at the north end of Kakariko Village, then climb the tower. You'll find Talo at the top. He'll challenge you to an arrow-shooting exercise that will end with you hitting a pole at the top of the tower from the south end of town. That shot will earn you a Piece of Heart-but only if you don't use the Hawkeye.

H-10 Kakariko Village There's a huge boulder west of the Spirit Spring at the south end of the village. Use a bomb to destroy it and reveal a cave. Follow the path inside, to a pool of water. Dive in, use the Iron Boots to sink to the bottom of the pool, then walk to a treasure chest.

H-11 Kakariko Village You'll see a grouping of rocks on the cliff above the giant boulder that you bombed to access Piece of Heart H-10. Use a bomb arrow to destroy the rocks and expose another Piece of Heart. Standing close to the cliff, use the boomerang to collect the item.

H-41 Lantern Cavern 1 Bombs get you into a lot of places in Twilight Princess. Plant an explosive near a giant boulder southwest of the Kakariko Gorge bridge to gain entry to a sprawling cavern. Light to torches in the cavern's northwest section to make the treasure appear.

H-12 Hyrule Field Travel north of Karkariko Village and use a bomb to destroy a large block on the path's west side. That will give you access to a narrow trail along the rock. The trail will lead you south. After you destroy a rock with a bomb arrow, climb a vine, then go north to the prize.

H-13 Lakebed Temple After you get the Clawshot by defeating the humongous frog, return to the central circular room. From the second floor, use the clawshot to grapple your way to the chandelier in the middle of the room. You'll find the Piece of Hear in a treasure chest.

H-14 Lakebed Temple Make sure the water is flowing west in the main chamber, then travel to the westernmost room of the first floor. Cross the bridge to the south, then stand on the switch and grapple to the wall, where you'll find a treasure chest containing a Piece of Heart.

H-15 Lake Hylia You can reach a room at the back of Lanayru's Spirit Spring by grappling to the ivy with the Clawshot. At the far south end of the room, you'll find two torches. Light the torches with the lantern-a chest with a Piece of Heart inside will appear.

H-16 Lantern Cavern 2 There's a rock-blocked cave south of Lake Hylia's Windstone. Destroy the barrier and venture into the darkness with a full lantern. Your path has many twists, turns, and alcoves. Light two torches in the last chamber to make a Piece of Heart appear.

H-17 Bridge of Eldin Grapple to a ledge on the west cliff wall north of the Bridge of Eldin. Go south then west into a cavern. As you travel through the cave, you'll leap off ledges for distance then put on your Iron Boots in midair to stick to a wall. After the third time you do that, look for a chest.

H-18 Gerudo Desert There's a boar on a spit in the northwest corner of the enemy camp. Use a spin attack to destroy the embers under the boar, then attack the boar itself to cut your way through to a Piece of Heart.

H-19 Arbiter's Grounds Travel to the northwest corner of the Arbiter's Grounds central chamber. Use the Clawshot to fly over a patch of sinking sand and collect the contents of a treasure chest-a Piece of Heart. A grappling point of the west wall will help you get out of the corner.

H-20 Arbiter's Grounds You'll put the spinner to the test shortly after you collect it. In the basement's northeast corner chamber, use your new tool to hook onto a track on the wall. You'll ride up to a mid-room treasure chest and the dungeon's second Piece of Heart.

H-21 Fishing Hole When you reach the fishing hole in the northwest section of Lanayru Province, talk to Hena in the south hut to rent a canoe and a reel. Paddle out to the middle of the pond, then send out a line to collect the Piece of Heart on the pond's large rock formation.

H-22 Snowpeak Ruins On the second floor of the foyer, hit the north chandelier with your ball and chain to start it swinging. Hop onto it, then hit and hop onto the two chandeliers to the south. Your goal is to reach the treasure chest on the south ledge.

H-23 Snowpeak Ruins There are cracks in the floor in the southeast corner of the second level. Use a bomb or the ball and chain to blast the floor boards and create a hole. Drop in. You'll find a treasure chest. From there, grapple back to the second level.

H-24 Temple of Time On your way back to the temple's main door, with the Dominion Rod in hand and a statue under your control, you'll advance through a fifth-floor room that has sliding walls, an electric barrier, and a treasure. Guide the statue to a switch to gain access to the Piece of Heart.

H-25 Temple of Time Take a slight detour in your journey back to the main door. On the south end of the fifth floor's south room, use the Dominion Rod to guide two small statues along eastern and western paths. After they both hit switches, a treasure chest will appear.

H-26 Temple of Time When there's power in the Dominion Rod, go to the Temple of Time's main room and use the rod to move a statue that is imbedded in the wall of the southwest corner. You'll reveal a passage that leads to a treasure.

H-27 City in the Sky After you defeat the large plant on the first floor of the east wing, grapple up to the second floor. Head counterclockwise through the room, carefully walking across the narrow path. Grab onto the ledge to our right and shimmy across the gap to find the Piece if Heart.

H-28 City in the Sky There's a Piece of Heart in the chamber filled with flying plants on the east wing's third floor in the City in the Sky. Take the northwest exit from the chamber, then grapple from plant to plant to reach the southern balcony. Go through the door to nab the Piece of Heart.

H-29 Palace of Twilight Once you have the Light Sword, return to the palace's east wing. Use the sword (or the Sol) to cut through the fog on the east wall of the southeast room, the grapple to a treasure chest.

H-30 Palace of Twilight Go to the palace's west wing with the Light Sword in hand. Cut through the fog in the first room to make a platform appear in the southwest corner of the pit. The platform will carry you within reach of the treasure chest in teh west wall's raised alcove.

H-31 Lanayru Province A path in the far eastern section of Lanayru Province (east of Castle Town) is blocked by boulders on both ends. After you blast the rocks, use the Spinner to follow a track on the walls (jumping between walls on the upper reaches) to get to a ledge that holds a treasure.

H-32 Eldin Province In northern Eldin Province, on the east side of the bridge that spans the hidden gulch, use the Spinner on the north wall's track. After you reach a lower ledge, dig into a cave. Destroy three regenerating skeletons inside to make a treasure chest appear.

H-33 Death Mountain You'll discover a Goron while you're on the Death Mountain trail between Kakariko Village and the Goron camp. Use the Goron for a boost and grab a ledge to the east. Climb up, go north, then drop into a cave to the east. You'll end up near a treasure chest.

H-34 Bridge of Eldin After you retrieve the middle of the Bridge of Eldin from the Gerudo Desert. Use the Dominion Rod to guide a statue from the north end to the south end. Drop it into an alcove to the east, then use it as a platform to hop across the gap. Climb the ladder then get the prize.

H-35 Lake Hylia Plumm challenges you to a fruit-balloon-popping challenge on the west side of Lake Hylia. She offers you a mystery prize (its a Piece of Heart) for a 10,000-point score. The trick is to get score-doubling fruit-matching combos. Go for a long line of strawberries.

H-36 Lake Hylia Take Fyer's normal flight to get to Falbie's Flight-by-Fowl challenge. Grab a Cucco and go straight for the floating platforms to the southwest, pressing down on the Control Stick occasionally to decrease your speed. The top stationary platform houses a Piece of Heart.

H-37 Ordon Woods Go north of Coro's shack, blast a giant boulder, then head north to a statue. Use the Dominion Rod to guide the statue into a shallow hole, then turn into a wolf and use Midna's help to hop onto the statue, and follow a path to a treasure chest.

H-38 Kakariko Village Once you've donated 1,000 rupees in Malo's shop to rebuild the west bridge to Castle Town, talk to the elder outside the shop. Accept his challenge to bring springwater to the Goron. Zigzag your way through the enemies and douse the Goron to earn a Piece of Heart.

H-39 Hidden Village Travel south through a cave in Eldin Province's northeast corner to find the hidden village. You'll discover the Cucco leader on the west side. Crash through windows to get to her. Accept her challenge to find a speak to 20 cats. Completion gets you a Piece of Heart.

H-40 Castle Town A man wearing a green robe on the Castle Town east road accepts your donation in 30- and 50-rupee increments. Once you give him a total of 1,000 rupees, he'll summon a Piece of Heart from the heavens and hand it over.

H-42 Sacred Grove Travel east of the temple grounds to one of the places where you faced off with the Skull Kid. Blow up a boulder in the middle of the area, then dig in that place to reach a cave. After you destroy all of the killer plants in the area, you'll discover a Piece of Heart.

H-43 Snowpeak Are you ready to yeti? After you've obtained the second Mirror Shard, return to the top of Snowpeak, where you first met Yeto. Challenge him to a snowboard race; if you win you'll get to race his wife, Yeta. Defeat her (use the overpass shortcut) to get a Piece of Heart.

H-44 Hyrule Field Once you have the Double Clawshots, go to the southeast section of Kakariko Gorge and hit a grappling point in the middle of the large formation. Grapple from there to a point on the south cliff (below the vines), then to the vines on the small formation. Climb to the prize.

H-45 Hyrule Field In the area north of Hyrule Castle, take the northern rocky path until you reach a clearing with a west-facing cave blocked by a boulder. Destroy the boulder then smash the ice with the ball of chain. Beyond three block-pushing puzzles, you'll find a Piece of Heart.

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