There are 45 heart pieces, and not all of them are easy to find, but this guide will tell you how to get every on of them!
Heart Piece #1
Location: Minish Woods
Requirements: None
In Minish Woods, after you save Ezlo, head down. Ezlo will then teach you how to shrink into Minish size by the tree stump. But, before you do that, head left, then up, then left and take the heart piece.
Heart Piece #2
Location: Minish Woods
Requirements: None
In Minish Village, head all the way up to the north-east corner. In stead of entering the big house with the blue colored roof, take the wooden path on the top-right of the screen. This path will lead you to the heart piece.
Heart Piece #3
Location: Deepwood Shrine
Requirements: Gust Jar
After you beat the mini-boss in Deepwood Shrine, a chest will appear. Open it to get the Gust Jar. Use it at the bottom-right web to reveal a passage. Head through it and claim the heart piece!
Heart Piece #4
Location: Deepwood Shrine
Requirements: Gust Jar
In the room north of the barrel, there is alot of dust on the floor. Use the Gust Jar to suck it all in. Several switches will appear. Step on all of them, and one of them will active a blue portal. First, get the big key and step on the red portal that appears, then step on the blue portal. All you have to do now is to grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #5
Location: South Hyrule Field
Requirements: Kinstone Bag
When you have defeated the Deepwood Shrine, head back to Hyrule Town. In Hyrule-Town you’ll meet the Hurdy-Gurdy man. He is generous and gives you a kinstone bag and a kinstone piece! He will then teach you how to fuse kinstones. After you fuse kintones with him, the thorns on a tree in South Hyrule Field will vanish. The tree is located just outside your house, so enter the tree and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #6
Location: Mt. Crenel
Requirements: Bombs
In Mt.Crenel, fly over the gap between the two whirlwinds, which is located far to the left of Mt. Crenel. Now, head all the way left, then head all the way up. You can’t go any further, but place a bomb against the wall. When it explodes, a cave will be revealed. Enter it and grab the heart piece.
Heart Piece #7
Location: Mt. Crenel
Requirements: Bombs
Use the Mt. Crenel Mineral Water on the vine, so it can grow. Now you can get to the main part of Mt. Crenel. Head up the steps to the left, then, right of the Crenel wall and of the sign, place a bomb between the rocks to reveal a cave. Enter it and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #8
Location: Cave of Flames
Requirements: Bombs
You will pass this heart piece while you’re in minish size, but you’re too small to claim it yet. Later you’ll when enter a room with a upside-down cart, but you cannot ride it yet, so walk across the tracks. Just bomb the wall at the south and a passage will be revealed. Enter and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #9
Location: Veil Falls
Requirements: Cane of Pacci
Use your Cane of Pacci in the hole far north-west of Lon Lon Ranch. Jump into it and head forward to Veil Falls. Now, head up, down the steps and then to the right. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #10
Location: Mt. Crenel
Requirements: Grip Ring, White Sword (Two Elements)
Head back to Mt. Crenel and use the Grip Ring to scale the mountain. Head up as far as you can using the shortcut to the right. When you’re at the top of this path, enter the cave. Now, all you have to do in here is to clone link and step on the switch to open the door. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #11
Location: North Hyrule Field
Requirements: Bombs
Bomb the cracked block that’s in the way in the northwest part of North Hyrule Field. Head down the ladder, and then head down the steps. Several keese are guarding the heart piece. Show them what you’re made of, and then grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #12
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: Cane of Pacci
Head into the house right of the shop in Hyrule Town. There is a dog in this house. There is also a vase in this house, so use the Cane of Pacci to flip it, and then shrink down to minish size. Exit this house through the bottom-left. Head up, and then, just above and to the right of the well there is a small vine. Climb it, and then make your way around to the back of the motel. Head trough the opening made by flowers. Resize into normal size and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #13
Location: Minish Woods
Requirements: Cane of Pacci
From Syrups’s Hut, head all the way down to the bottom-left. Now just grab the heart piece! Also, if you have the flippers you can also get this heart piece by swimming up from the southern part of Minish Woods.
Heart Piece #14
Location: Mt. Crenel
Requirements: Kinstone Bag
Fuse kinstones with Melari. Melari is located inside Melari’s Mine. Fusing kinstones with Melari will make a huge beanstalk appear in the top-left of Mt. Crenel. Climb it, and at the top of this beanstalk, collect all the rupees and then grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #15
Location: Castor Wilds
Requirements: Pegasus Boots
Use your Pegasus Boots in Castor Wilds to get to the land in the far west of Castor Wilds. Push the gravestone located there and head inside. The heart piece is at the bottom-left in this room. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #16
Location: Wind Ruins
Requirements: None
Left of the entrance to the Fortress of Wind there is a tree stump. Shrink down to minish size and head left until you see a small vine. Climb down it, and then climb down the next vine. Here there is three spots to climb down. Choose the middle one. Enter the cave. Head all the way to the end of this cave and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #17
Location: Fortress of Winds
Requirements: None
When you enter this dungeon, enter the door to the far right. Climb all the way to the top and shrink down to minish size. Now, fall down the two holes, and you’ll find yourself in the first floor again. As you might already guessed, head through the hole to the right. Resize and then grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #18
Location: Mt. Crenel
Requirements: Mole Mitts
After climbing the Crenel Wall, head left and then climb down the ladder there. Equip your Mole Mitts and dig yourself a way through the cave on the left. When you’ve reached the end, grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #19
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: None
After you’ve defeated the Fortress of Winds, head back to Hyrule Town. The house with a purple ghost on the roof if finally open! Talk to the man and pay him 10 rupees to play a mini-game. Defeat all the monsters that appear, a chest will appear holding the heart piece!
Heart Piece #20
Location: Hyrule Castle Garden
Requirements: Kinstone Bag
After fusing Kinstone with somebody in Hyrule Town, the pond at the northeast part of Hyrule Castle Garden will drain. Head up to this pond and then head down the steps and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #21
Location: Hyrule Castle Garden
Requirements: None
Head up to the Hyrule Castle Garden. Cut the bushes at the bottom-right, and a hidden ladder will be revealed. Another Swordsman is located here. You cannot train with him unless you have the lantern. But you can still grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #22
Location: Eastern Hills
Requirements: Kinstone Bag
When you have defeated the Fortress of Winds and got the Ocarina Of Wind, head to the far south-west of Eastern Hills. Shrink down to minish size and enter the small house. Fuse kinstones with the minish inside this house and a beanstalk will appear north from your current location. Head outside, resize, and climb up the beanstalk, open the chests and grab your heart piece!
Heart Piece #23
Location: Western Woods
Requirements: Ocarina of Wind
Use your Ocarina of Wind to over to the Wind Crest in Lake Hylia. Shrink down to minish size and enter the cave here. Fuse Kinstones with the Forest Minish. This will open up a tree in Western Wood. All you have to do now is to head over to the tree in Western Wood and head inside, then grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #24
Location: Lon Lon Ranch
Requirements: Pegasus Boots
There is a tree located in the north-west of the farm area in Lon Lon Ranch. Dash into it with your pegasus boots to reveal a tree stump. Shrink down to minish size and then head to the right until you can head up as Minish Link. This is a zoomed area, so head up and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #25
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: Flippers
After you get the flippers head back to Hyrule Town. Head up to the fountain where you got the Power Bracelet. This fountain is south of the two cats guarding their territory. You will have to shrink down to minish size first, then enter the canve along the fountain. When you’ve entered the cave, swim across the river and break the barrels. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #26
Location: Castor Wilds
Requirements: Kinstone Bag, Flippers
After getting the flippers, fuse Kinstones with the Minish located in a house at the far west in Minish Village. Now, head to Castor Wilds and shrink down to minish size at the top-left tree stump. Take the lily pad that was created because of the Kinstone fusion. The lily pad is located at the bottom. Head all the way down to the right until you see a small passage. Make your way to the far south-east of Castor Wilds. Jump into the water, and then swim to the right until you see a Minish Cave. Head inside and up a room using the third passage from the left. All you have to do here is to move the blocks and show the enemies what you’re made of. Now grab the Heart Piece!
Heart Piece #27
Location: Castor Wilds
Requirements: Flippers
First, head to the north-east corner of Castor Wilds. Past the statue, and then swim to the small island at the fr corner, and you’ll notice a cave. Enter it and you’ll see the heart piece. All the blocks in here move toward the heart containers, but not fully sideways, and this allows you to pass to the heart piece. Push the top-right block in, and then push the third block to the top. Then push the middle block. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #28
Location: South Hyrule Field
Requirements: Pegasus Boots, Flippers
Dash into the tree which is located in the far south-west corner of South Hyrule Field with your Pegasus Boots to reveal a tree stump. Shrink down to minish size and then jump into the river to the right. Then swip up, then right and enter the hole in the corner. Enter the cave and swim all the way up, and then grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #29
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: Flippers
Challenge Anju’s chicken game. In the very last round, swim across the river and grab the chicken, and then just throw the chicken over the river. Swim back over and gather this chicken along with the two other chickens to complete the chicken game. As a reward, Anju will give you a heart piece!
Heart Piece #30
Location: Minish Woods
Requirements: Flippers
Left of Minish Village, shrink down to minish size using the tree stump. Head up until you see three minish size tunnels. Head into the left one and make your way to the end of this cave. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #31
Location: Lake Hylia
Requirements: Flippers
Swim down to the small ledge near the bottom of Lake Hylia. It is located west of the Cabin. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #32
Location: Lake Hylia
Requirements: Flippers
Find the tree south of the Temple of Droplets. Enter in and grab the Heart Piece.
Heart Piece #33
Location: Lake Hylia
Requirements: Flippers
Head over to the house in the north-west part of Lake Hylia. Jump into the small area of water to the left and dive in the center of it and you will find a heart piece!
Heart Piece #34
Location: Royal Valley
Requirements: White Sword (Three Elements)
In the graveyard, a tombstone at the top-left corner can be pushed up. Now enter the grave. Split into three links and push the big block to the left. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #35
Location: Veil Falls
Requirements: Flippers
Enter Veil Falls from North Hyrule Field, and then jump into the water and swim to the right until you see a heart piece. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #36
Location: Palace of Winds
Requirements: Roc’s Cape
When you’re in the main room at the top-left corner on the 4th floor, push the blocks to the right so thei will fall to the floor below. Now use your Roc’s Cape and jump over the gap. Then head up a screen and then up the long hallway. Head up again and you’ll be located right next to the heart container.
Heart Piece #37
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: Roc’s Cape
Use Roc’s Cape to jump into the town bell near the center of town. Grab the heart container that falls out.
Heart Piece #38
Location: Lake Hylia
Requirements: Roc’s Cape
Head north-east of the Temple of Droplets and east of the Tingle Replica. Jump from island to island and grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #39
Location: Lake Hylia
Requirements: Roc’s Cape, Mole Mitts, Kinstone Bag
First, fuse kinstones with the minish in the hole at the far right of Lake Hylia. Now use your Roc’s Cape to jump across the island in Lake Hylia to get to the top where there is a cave. Use your Mole Mitts to dig yourself a way into this cave. Now dig your way to the ladder at the top-right of this cave. Climb up the ladder and clibm down the other ladder here. Head to the left until you find another ladder. Head up this ladder and then climb up the beanstalk. Open the two chests here and then grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #40
Location: Lon Lon Ranch
Requirements: Roc’s Cape, Mole Mitts
Once again head into the cave at the top of Lake Hylia by jumping from island to island using Roc’s Cape. Head left when you enter the cave. Now you can choose if you want to go down or left, so head left here. Make your way through here using your Mole Mitts until you can head down. Do so and exit the cave. Now you’ll be located at Lon Lon Ranch. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #41
Location: Veil Falls
Requirements: Flippers, Kinstone Bag
Head to the top of Cloud Tops and fuse kinstones with Gale. This fusion will create a hole in the waterfall at th top of Veil Falls. Jump into the water in Veil Falls and swim into the waterfall. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #42
Location: Veil Falls
Requirements: Flippers, Mole Mitts, Kinstone Bag
First of all, fuse Kinstones with the Minish at the top-right of Minish Village. You have to swim across the water to get to his house. This fusion will open up a platform in Veil Falls so that you can dig. Head all the way there and simply use your mole mitts to dig your way to the heart piece!
Heart Piece #43
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: Four Sword
Head into the school in Hyrule Town and shrink down to Minish Size, then exit through the hole at the bottom-right. Now walk to the area at the top-right corner. Simply head all the way up, split into four Links and push the boulder up. Now grab the heart piece!
Heart Piece #44
Location: Hyrule Town
Requirements: Mysterious Shells
Enter the tree at the bottom-left of Hyrule Town. Trade your Mysterious Shells to the man inside this tree and collect all figurines. A man will show up left of Mama’s Cafe. Speak to him several times and he will open his house, which is located above. Enter the house and grab the heart piece!
Full Heart Container
Location: Lake Hylia
Requirements: Flippers, Kinstone Bag
This one isn’t a heart piece, but a full heart container! But to get is, fuse Kinstones with the Minish at the top-right of Minish Village. You will have to fuse twice with him. Then use your Ocarina of Wind to warp to Lake Hylia. This fusion created a hole at the bottom-left of Lake Hylia. Shrink down to minish size and drop down the hole. Make your way across this area and climb the stairs at the end. Now just head into the minish home and talk with the Minish. He will give you a Full Heart Container!