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Gratitude Crystals

Total80 Gratitude Crystals: 65 from 12 quests (eleven pay 5, one pays 10) and 15 loose crystals that appear only at night
Hand-inBatreaux, in his house on Skyloft
StartFind Kukiel (Wryna, near the Goddess Statue) once the Ruby Tablet is in the statue
RewardsMedium Wallet Medium Wallet (5), Piece of Heart (10), Big Wallet and Cursed Medal (30), Gold Rupee (40), Giant Wallet (50), 2 Gold Rupees (70), Tycoon Wallet (80)
ToolsFi’s dowsing, the Beetle and the Clawshots for a few loose crystals, the Gust Bellows for two quests

There are 80 Gratitude Crystals in Skyward Sword. Sixty-five come from twelve Skyloft side quests, and the other fifteen sit around Skyloft, Pumpkin Landing and Beedle’s Island, where they are visible only at night. You show them to Batreaux, and every milestone from 5 crystals to 80 pays a wallet, a Piece of Heart, a Cursed Medal or Gold Rupees. Reaching 80 also lets Batreaux finally become human.

Link holds up a glowing Gratitude Crystal at night, and a box says to collect these and show them to Batreaux.

Batreaux’s quest

Batreaux

Meeting Batreaux

Nothing starts until you finish Find Kukiel, which Wryna offers once the Ruby Tablet sits in the Goddess Statue. Orielle points you to Rusta at the Lumpy Pumpkin; following his directions, at night you push the tombstone in the graveyard and find Kukiel together with a gentle, winged demon named Batreaux. He wants to become human, and he explains that crystals of gratitude, created when you solve people’s troubles, can make that happen. Go back to Wryna the next morning for your first five crystals. Every other quest on this page opens from there.

Batreaux in his dark demon mansion explains that Gratitude Crystals form when humans make other humans happy.

Showing him your crystals

Visit Batreaux’s House whenever your running total reaches one of the milestones below. You only show them to him; they are not spent, and each reward is paid once your total reaches its milestone. Once the Goddess Sword has become the Goddess White Sword and you speak to Batreaux, Fi adds Gratitude Crystals to your dowsing list, which makes the loose ones much easier to find.

A spirit in Batreaux's house tells Link she has added Gratitude Crystals to his list of dowsing targets.

Batreaux’s rewards

Seven milestones pay out. The wallets raise your Rupee limit step by step, and the Piece of Heart at 10 is one of the 24 in the game. With the Tycoon Wallet at 80 and three Extra Wallets from Beedle’s Airshop (100 Rupees each, +300 each), you can carry 9,900 Rupees.

Batreaux hands Link a blue bag, and the box says the Medium Wallet stores up to 500 Rupees.
Batreaux holds up a Piece of Heart, and the box says three more are needed to raise heart capacity.
CrystalsRewardNotes
5Medium Wallet Medium WalletHolds 500 Rupees
10Piece of Heart Piece of HeartOne of the 24 pieces
30Big Wallet, Cursed MedalBig Wallet holds 1,000 Rupees; the medal is in a chest
40Gold Rupee Gold RupeeWorth 300 Rupees
50Giant Wallet Giant WalletHolds 5,000 Rupees
702 Gold Rupees600 Rupees in all
80Tycoon Wallet Tycoon WalletHolds 9,000 Rupees; Batreaux becomes human
Cursed Medal

The Cursed Medal

At 30 crystals a chest appears and Batreaux warns you not to open it. Inside is the Cursed Medal. While you carry it, more Rupees and treasure drop, but you cannot open your Adventure Pouch at all. It is optional equipment that you can leave behind.

Batreaux in his candlelit room warning Link never to open the chest, the full message on screen
Link holds up the Cursed Medal, and the box reads You got the Cursed Medal.

What happens at 80

Hand over all 80 and Batreaux gives you the Tycoon Wallet, then steps out of his cloak as a human. From then on he stands in the Bazaar by day and on the bridge at night. The monsters that roam Skyloft after dark disappear, except Remlits, which stop attacking you.

Link holds up the golden Tycoon Wallet, the box noting it stores 9,000 Rupees
Batreaux, now human with no horns or wings, tells Link his appearance has changed so dramatically

The 12 quests (65 crystals)

Each quest pays 5 crystals unless noted. Several need a night visit (sleep in your bed to skip ahead), and several need Scrapper, the Scrap Shop robot, to carry a person or object back to the Sky: say yes when Fi offers to call him, then bring the cargo to whoever asked for it. Entries are in the order they usually open.

Fi asks whether Link wants her to call the Scrap Shop robot, with Yes and No choices on screen
The Scrap Shop robot flies over the desert carrying the colourful Fun Fun Island party wheel
Gratitude Crystal

Find Kukiel

Giver: Wryna, near the Goddess Statue. Opens: once the Ruby Tablet is placed. Reward: 5 crystals. Ask Orielle, then Rusta at the Lumpy Pumpkin; at night push the graveyard tombstone, meet Kukiel and Batreaux, and go back to Wryna in the morning.

At night in the Skyloft graveyard, Link pushes a tombstone, with the Move prompt on screen
In the demon mansion, Batreaux asks Link to gather Gratitude Crystals, with Nope and Sure choices
In a Skyloft house, the box reads You got five Gratitude Crystals as a glowing star appears by Link
Gratitude Crystal

Find Orielle

Giver: Parrow, in the Plaza. Opens: as soon as Find Kukiel is done and you have spoken to Batreaux. Reward: 10 crystals (5 + 5) and a bottle to keep. Parrow’s sister Orielle is stranded on a small island in the Sky after crash-landing her Loftwing, which is hurt. She sends you back to Parrow, who gives you Mushroom Spores in a bottle. Orielle pays the first 5 when you bring them; Parrow pays another 5 when you return, and you keep the bottle.

A woman stands beside her injured brown bird on a grassy Sky island and says they made a crash landing.
A man in a red vest hands Link a glass bottle, and the box reads that he got some Mushroom Spores.
A man in a red vest holds a glowing Gratitude Crystal for Link, and the box says helping people feels good.
Gratitude Crystal

Do You Love Me?

Giver: Peatrice, at the Item Check. Opens: after Find Kukiel. Reward: 5 crystals. Talk to her over several days, sleeping to advance the day, until her lines stop changing. Then talk to her father Peater (at night in Skyloft, or on Bamboo Island), sleep, talk to him again, and meet Peatrice at her house at night. Accept her and she pays; reject her and Peater pays. The reward is the same.

Peatrice, at the Item Check counter, says she was going to ask whether Link wants her to take care of him forever.
Peater, a bald man in a green tunic, stands on Bamboo Island beside the bamboo forest path.
In Peatrice's house, Link raises a glowing Gratitude Crystal while Peatrice looks on from behind him.
Gratitude Crystal

Deliver a Letter

Giver: Cawlin, in the Knight Academy. Opens: after your first fight with the Imprisoned. Reward: 5 crystals. Cawlin gives you his love letter in the daytime and asks you to deliver it to Karane. At night the hand in the Academy restroom asks for paper and takes the letter if you give it to her (Phoeni), which pays you 5 crystals. Or deliver it to Karane and tell Pipit, who steps in and confesses to her, and he pays you. Either ending pays 5.

At night outside a dark restroom door, a voice cries out that it needs any kind of paper at all.
Link holds up Cawlin's Letter in a sunlit room, with a box saying it might contain heartfelt words.
A pale ghostly hand rises from a stone pit and takes the letter Link offers, the voice saying, You kind soul.
Gratitude Crystal

Clean My House

Giver: Mallara, Pipit’s mother. Opens: after the Lanayru Mining Facility, which gives you the Gust Bellows. Reward: 5 crystals and 20 Rupees. Blow all the dust out of her house with the Gust Bellows, then talk to her again. The 20 Rupees are paid every time you clean afterwards; the crystals only the first time.

Link blows a cloud of dust off a wooden shelf with the Gust Bellows in a pink-walled Skyloft house.
A woman in an orange blouse and Link hold up a glowing Gratitude Crystal, and the box reads that he got five.
The woman of the house holds a Red Rupee in the air, and the box says it is worth 20 Rupees.
Gratitude Crystal

I Want to Be Strong

Giver: Fledge, in his room at night. Opens: after the Lanayru Mining Facility. Reward: 5 crystals, and it opens Pumpkin Pull at the Sparring Hall. Buy a Stamina Potion from Luv (50 Rupees) and give it to Fledge at night. After the Ancient Cistern he wants another, and once the Sandship is done he reports his push-up count and pays.

Fledge in his lamp-lit room says he is embarrassed to train, so he does it at night when no one laughs.
A potion shop box announces a Stamina Potion that slows stamina loss for three minutes.
Fledge asks to keep the potion, with Take it! and No way choices on screen.
Gratitude Crystal

Find My Party Wheel

Giver: Dodoh, on Fun Fun Island. Opens: after Scrapper is repaired. Reward: 5 crystals, and Dodoh’s High Dive opens. Dowse for the wheel in the south of Lanayru Desert, near the entrance to the Lanayru Mine: strike the nearby Timeshift Stone, climb the vines and follow the path to the wheel. Call Scrapper to carry it to Dodoh, who also lets you play his High Dive free the first time.

Link dowses across a sandy Lanayru Desert canyon, a purple ring pointing toward the target.
Dodoh tells Link he will be his first customer now that Fun Fun Island is opening.
Gratitude Crystal

Find the Baby’s Rattle

Giver: Bertie, at home at night. Opens: after you get the Clawshots. Reward: 5 crystals. Sleep until night and ask Bertie about the baby. Use the Clawshots on the vines up the waterfall to the top, then glide from the Gossip Stone there to the nest on the windmill roof and blow the dust off with the Gust Bellows to uncover the rattle. Bring it home at night.

Link holds up a blue rattle at night, and a box says it is a baby toy, perhaps dropped.
A baby in a crib holds a colorful rattle while a caregiver says it is time for beddy-bye.
Gratitude Crystal

Find My Crystal Ball

Giver: Sparrot, in his house on the east side. Opens: later in the story, after the Fire Sanctuary, when Sparrot’s crystal ball shatters. Reward: 5 crystals and cheaper fortunes. Say yes, then dowse for the orb above the Earth Temple entrance in Eldin: aim the Clawshots at the target on the left and grab it. Scrapper carries it to the Sky and you deliver it to Sparrot.

The fortune-teller asks whether Link would search for a new crystal ball, with Yes highlighted.
A dowsing prompt asks whether Link wants to calibrate his dowsing to find the crystal ball.
Gratitude Crystal

I Want a Rare Plant

Giver: Owlan, on the Knight Academy’s second floor. Opens: after you beat Bilocyte. Reward: 5 crystals. Owlan has run out of plants and wants a new specimen. Dowse for Oolo the Kikwi in Faron Woods, call Scrapper to carry him to the Sky and bring Oolo to Owlan.

In Owlan's library, a glowing crystal floats over his head while a box praises the bunch of five crystals.
Oolo, the plant creature, sits beside a potted plant in Owlan's room at the Knight Academy.
Gratitude Crystal

The Pumpkin Patch

Giver: Kina, at Pumpkin Landing. Opens: after the Fire Sanctuary and the second Imprisoned fight, once you have done Pumm’s chores at the Lumpy Pumpkin (soup, pumpkins and the harp duet). Reward: 5 crystals. Kina needs someone good at digging to plough her field. Fly to the Volcano East landing in Eldin, enter the steaming cave and dive into the volcano, then drift to the rock pillar where Guld, the Mogma elder, waits. Scrapper carries him to the Sky, and you take him to Pumpkin Landing.

The Mogma elder Guld, with a spinning propeller on its head, drifts through a rocky volcano cave.
On the pumpkin patch, Link and a woman in a teal dress watch a mole with a blue barrel on its back.
Beside a Skyloft pumpkin patch, Link raises a glowing crystal while a box says helping people feels good.
Gratitude Crystal

Find My Beetle

Giver: Beedle, on Beedle’s Island at night. Opens: after Bilocyte is beaten and Levias is free. Reward: 5 crystals and a half-price purchase. Talk to Strich on Bug Rock, then sleep on Beedle’s Island and speak to Beedle: his Horned Colossus Beetle is gone. Strich turns out to have it; get it back from him and return it to Beedle.

A blue-tunic student says the rare bug he holds is all his: I found this bug, and it's all mine!
At night by a campfire, a seated man holds a small wooden crate out to Link beside a wooden house.
Beside a wooden house at night, Link raises a glowing crystal while a box says he got five crystals.

The 15 loose crystals (night only)

Every loose crystal appears only at night. Sleep to skip to the evening, then dowse with Fi. Twelve are on Skyloft, two at Pumpkin Landing and one on Beedle’s Island.

On a cliff at night, Link raises a glowing Gratitude Crystal in front of a blue rock wall.

Skyloft: the Academy

1. Link’s desk. In your room in the Knight Academy, on the desk.

Gratitude Crystal pickup box in a Knight Academy room with a painted portrait and potted flowers

2. Academy entrance. In the Knight Academy, hidden behind a potted plant near an exit.

Link stands beside a flowering potted plant in a Knight Academy hallway, near a stained-glass window.

3. Zelda’s room. Climb onto the Academy roof, Clawshot the little tower near the bell, follow the path above the restroom and drop into Zelda’s room. A Piece of Heart is in the same room.

Link aims the Clawshot at a stone tower under a full moon on the Knight Academy roofs
Link holds up a Piece of Heart, its box reading Three to go, in the Knight Academy

4. Sparring Hall ceiling. Fly the Beetle up to the ceiling.

Link flies the Beetle up among the Sparring Hall rafters toward a glowing Gratitude Crystal.
In the Sparring Hall, a glowing Gratitude Crystal hangs by a pillar while the Beetle hovers nearby.

5. West Skyloft. On a lower platform southwest of the Bazaar, reached by dropping down from the ledge near a small floating island and the windmill.

Link holds up a glowing Gratitude Crystal on a dark Skyloft cliff at night, with the full pickup box on screen.

Skyloft: town and hills

6. Orielle and Parrow’s house. Inside the house under the Bazaar.

Link holds a glowing Gratitude Crystal by a window in a Skyloft house, with the note to show them to Batreaux.

7. Light Tower. At the base of the Light Tower, on the southern tip of Skyloft.

Link holds a glowing Gratitude Crystal at the foot of the Light Tower at night, its green beam rising behind it.

Gratitude Crystal 8. North of the Bazaar. On a small wooden walkway below the ledge on the northwest side of the Bazaar.

Link stands on a grassy ledge beside a wooden walkway on a Skyloft cliff at night.
Link holds up a Gratitude Crystal, and the box says to collect these and show them to Batreaux.

Gratitude Crystal 9. East pumpkin patch. Behind a tree on the east side of Skyloft.

Link holds up a Gratitude Crystal beside a tree in the pumpkin field at night.

Gratitude Crystal 10. Waterfall Cave. Along the cave path, near the Bird Statue.

Link holds up a Gratitude Crystal in a dark cave, with the note to show it to Batreaux.

11. The Loftwing cave. In the pen past the Waterfall Cave where your Loftwing was once trapped.

Link holds up a Gratitude Crystal in a dark blue cave past the Waterfall Cave.

Gratitude Crystal 12. Waterfall Cave islands. Near the Waterfall Cave entrance, Clawshot the vines on the small floating island above you and on the next island, then hit the crystal hanging over the water with the Beetle.

Gratitude Crystal

Pumpkin Landing and Beedle’s Island

13. Lumpy Pumpkin. Inside, on the upper level at the top of the stairs; sleep until night first.

Link holds up a glowing Gratitude Crystal in the Lumpy Pumpkin tavern, the box reading that he got one.

Gratitude Crystal 14. Pumpkin shed. In the shed east of the Lumpy Pumpkin.

Link holds a glowing Gratitude Crystal beside blue pots at night, the box reading that he got one.

15. Beedle’s Island. Above the helix on top of Beedle’s Airshop. Hit it with the Beetle at night, after sleeping in Beedle’s bed.

Link stands below a glowing Gratitude Crystal hovering by the balcony of a wooden house at night.

Quick reference

The rows below add up to 80: 65 from quests and 15 loose.

Link holds up a glowing Gratitude Crystal as the text says it took a lot of gratitude to produce five crystals
#SourceWhereRequirementCrystals
1Gratitude Crystal Find KukielWryna, Goddess StatueRuby Tablet placed5
2Gratitude Crystal Find OrielleParrow, Skyloft plazaFind Kukiel10
3Gratitude Crystal Do You Love Me?Peatrice, Item CheckFind Kukiel5
4Gratitude Crystal Deliver a LetterCawlin, Knight AcademyFirst Imprisoned fight5
5Gratitude Crystal Clean My HouseMallaraGust Bellows5
6Gratitude Crystal I Want to Be StrongFledgeLanayru Mining Facility5
7Gratitude Crystal Find My Party WheelDodoh, Fun Fun IslandScrapper repaired5
8Gratitude Crystal Find the Baby’s RattleBertieClawshots5
9Gratitude Crystal Find My Crystal BallSparrotAfter the Fire Sanctuary5
10Gratitude Crystal I Want a Rare PlantOwlanBilocyte beaten5
11Gratitude Crystal The Pumpkin PatchKinaPumm’s chores, Fire Sanctuary, second Imprisoned fight5
12Gratitude Crystal Find My BeetleBeedleBilocyte beaten5
13Gratitude Crystal 15 loose crystalsSkyloft 12, Pumpkin Landing 2, Beedle’s Island 1Night only15

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