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While the player can get quite a large health bar size in the Ocarina of Time Remake just from completing the game’s eight dungeons and collecting the Heart Containers within, players who want to make Link as strong as possible will want to gather the Pieces of Heart that are spread around the kingdom of Hyrule, as collecting four of these will permanently increase the size of your health bar by one heart. If you want to maximize your health but are having trouble finding a Piece of Heart, please consider using this guide on where to find every Piece of Heart in the Ocarina of Time Remake.
Every Piece of Heart in the Ocarina of Time Remake
There are 36 Pieces of Heart spread around the land of Hyrule. Many of them can be obtained as both Child Link and Adult Link, but most of them will require you to be either one age or the other. Collecting every Piece of Heart will require you to play every minigame and interact with every major NPC in the game. Below we have written out every Piece of Heart in the game, sorted by area.
Hyrule Field Pieces of Heart
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In Hyrule Field, there is chest hidden underneath two large rock plateaus near the entrance to Gerudo Valley. If you try to open this chest as Child Link, he’ll struggle a bit before giving up. Navi will then advise that you leave the task of opening the chest for later.
So let’s return to this location a few years later as Adult Link. If you go back to the chest you’ll find that it has indeed been unlocked, but unfortunately someone else has already looted it. Hope isn’t lost though, as there is a message from a fairy scribbled on the wall next to the chest.
Read the fairy’s message and you’ll experience one of the most peculiar moments in the game. The fairy will mock you for getting to the chest too late and say that they’ll unlock it seven years in the past for you. It’s a bit hard to understand how they would do that, but let’s see if it’s true.
Return to the past again and make your way back to the locked chest and you’ll see that has indeed been unlocked, much to Navi’s amusement! Inside there will be a piece of heart, a fine reward for a strange new quest.
Piece of Heart 2
To the east of the drawbridge by Hyrule Castle Town you’ll find a grotto that you can enter bombing a rock. Inside of this grotto there were be a Business Scrub. Both Child Link and Adult Link can interact with him upon entering the grotto, but he will not do business with Adult Link as someone bought his entire stock before you arrived.
As for Child Link, he’ll demand that you say a password before you’ll be able to buy the Piece of Heart. Child Link has no way of learning this password, but Adult Link does. As an adult, make your way to the Business Scrub’s grotto, but instead of entering it head for the nearby tree.
On this tree there will be a lingering message left by a fairy who bought the Business Scrub’s items before you arrived. The fairy will brag about how they figured out that the password was “Sell somethin’, will ya?”, a reference to a very famous Zelda 1 quote but with the word buy being replaced with sell.
Once you have learned the password, return to the past and enter the grotto once more as Child Link. Give the Business Scrub the password and then pay him 100 rupees to receive a mostly painless piece of heart.
Hyrule Castle Town Pieces of Heart
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If you visit Hyrule Castle Town again any time after having presented Zelda’s Letter to the guard in Kakariko Village, you’ll find a woman panicking near the center of town. This is Mamamu Yan, and she is in distress as she cannot find someone named Richard anywhere and asks for your help.
However, Richard is not a person but rather a dog. There is a dog that runs around the Castle Town Market during the day, but he’s not the one we need to find. No, instead you must return to Castle Town at night. When visiting the area at night, you’ll see that roughly a dozen dogs running around, but which one is Richard?
Richard is a white dog, there are three identical white dogs running around town and only Mamamu Yan can tell the difference between them. To bring a dog to her, you’ll need to walk up to it and press the A button to “Play” with it. After playing with a dog, it will begin to follow you around until you play with a different dog or speak to Mamamu Yan.
Bring a white dog to Mamamu Yan and she’ll tell you if it’s Richard or not. An easy way to tell if the dog you brought her is Richard or not is the sound of its bark. If the dog growls at you when you play with it, then it isn’t Richard. If it has a high pitched yip though, then he is Richard.
For me, Richard was near the alley but you have a 1/3 shot of getting it right either way if you bring her a white dog and there’s no penalty for bringing her the wrong one. After bringing Richard to her, Mamamu Yan will reward you with a piece of heart.
Piece of Heart 2
The next Piece of Heart is in the home of the internet’s favorite NPC: The Bombchu Bowling Alley Attendant. If you want to win her heart, you’ll need to win all three difficulties of Bombchu bowling. This is a fairly simple minigame where you need to hit three targets before you run out of ten bombchus.
The first target will always be close to you and in the center of the alley. The second target will appear either on the far right, left, or ceiling of the bowling alley at a medium distance away from you. Then the final target will be in the center of the alley but at a great distance away from you.
Each time you win at bombchu bowling the difficulty will increase as obstacles are added. These obstacles come in the form of grass and cuccos. Grass will be permanently destroyed if a bombchu touches it while cuccos will merely be stunned.
To win at this minigame on the highest difficulty you will either need to aim you bombchus at a proper angle on the wall so they will turn and crawl toward the target on their own or launch them straight down the center and hope you get lucky enough to avoid any cuccos.
After winning the minigame for a third time you will be rewarded with a piece of heart.
Piece of Heart 3
In the back alley of Hyrule Castle Town you will find a building called the Treasure Chest Shop. This building is only open at night, but it offers a unique minigame where the player will need to choose one of two treasure chests. One chest will have a green rupee, while the other will have a small key.
If you select the correct chest five time in a row, the owner will reward you with a piece of heart. Seems like a purely luck-based piece of heart, huh? Well, don’t worry, there’s a trick to getting past this without needing to rely on chance.
If you wait until you have the Lens of Truth from the Bottom of the Well mini-dungeon and then start this minigame with them, you’ll be able to see inside of each treasure chest. With this method, you will always know which one has the small key.
Once you’ve opened all five chests, collect your reward.
Lon Lon Ranch Pieces of Heart
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As Child Link, head to the warehouse at the back of Lon Lon Ranch. Here you will find several milk crates that you can push and pull. The goal here to to move the crates away from the wall as there you will find a hole that you can crawl through which will lead to a Piece of Heart.
Kakariko Village Pieces of Heart
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This is actually a Piece of Heart that can be obtained by both Child Link and Adult Link. On the roof of a building in Kakariko Village you will spot a man who you both cannot reach from the ground and cannot Z-Target with Navi. You’ll need to speak to this man to earn a Piece of Heart, but how will we reach him?
There are two methods of reaching this man, one for Child Link and one for Adult Link. As Child Link, you can grab the cucco behind the village windmill to jump off the edge and glide toward the roof. You’ll have more than enough distance to reach the man and speak to him.
The second method is to wait until Adult Link acquires the Hover Boots from the Shadow Temple and run off the side of the watchtower in the center of the village, having just enough distance to land in front of the man.
Personally I find the Child Link method to be much easier as you’ll get a lot more distance with the cucco than with the Hover Boots without the risk of losing health if you fail the jump.
Piece of Heart 2
This Piece of Heart is out in the open, being placed on the roof of a small coop behind the Kakariko Village Inn. To reach it, you’ll need to jump from the roof of the inn onto the roof of that coop. There are two different ways to reach the roof of the inn.
As Child Link, you can speak to Kaepora Gaebora on the summit of Death Mountain and ask him to fly you down to Kakariko Village. When he drops you off, you’ll automatically be placed on the roof of the inn, allowing you to quickly grab the piece of heart. This method of travel will become unavailable after unlocking the Spirit Temple.
If you’re later in the game, you can instead use the hookshot as Adult Link to grab onto some vines near the roof of the inn and climb onto the roof that way. Regardless of the method you use, this is a quick and easy piece of heart to grab.
Piece of Heart 3
After completing Dampe’s Race as Adult Link and earning the hookshot, you’ll exit the area and end up on the second floor of the Kakariko Village windmill. Up here there will be a Piece of Heart that you can pick up, it’s nigh unmissable.
Piece of Heart 4
If you can find 50 of the Gold Skulltula tokens scattered around Hyrule and bring them to the Gold Skulltula house in Kakariko Village, you’ll be rewarded with a Piece of Heart.
Kakariko Graveyard Pieces of Heart
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At night, pull the west-most grave on the outer layer of graves in the graveyard to reveal a hidden grotto hole. Jump down this hole and you’ll find a treasure chest containing a Piece of Heart.
Piece of Heart 2
If you visit the graveyard at night as Child Link, Dampe the Gravedigger will be walking around the area. Speak to him and he’ll offer to let you participate in Dampe’s Grave Keeping Tour. When you do, several mounds of dirt will appear around the graveyard. If you approach one of these mounds of dirt, Dampe will ask if you want him to dig it up in exchange for ten rupees.
One of these mounds of dirt has a piece of heart in it, and unfortunately for you which one is completely randomized. When Dampe encounters a hard patch of dirt, he’ll having trouble digging it up as ask for an extra five rupees. The Piece of Heart will always be in one of these harder patches of dirt.
I would recommend bringing about 60 rupees into the graveyard before you begin the tour in order to give yourself a healthy margin of error if you pick the wrong spot multiple times in a row (Most spots will give you some rupees so you should be able to dig everything up in the worst case scenario). Hopefully you’ll get lucky and dig up the piece of heart within your first few tries
Piece of Heart 3
At the northern edge of the graveyard there will be another mound of dirt. Plant magic beans here as Child Link in order to create a flying leaf that will bring Adult Link to a piece of heart.
Piece of Heart 4
After winning Dampe’s Race and earning the hookshot, return to his tomb and he’ll challenge you to a second race. This one is almost identical to the first but with two key differences: There will be Redeads on the course and the player will have a one minute time limit to reach the end.
As long as you stick close to Dampe and don’t get too close to more than one Redead, you’ll easily beat the course within Dampe’s one minute time trial. As a reward, you’ll be gifted a piece of heart.
Death Mountain Trail Pieces of Heart
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At the entrance of Dodongo Cavern you will find a magic bean mound of dirt. Plant the beans here in order to create a path for Adult Link to reach the piece of heart on top of Dodongo Cavern in the future.
Lost Woods Pieces of Heart
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After learning Saria’s Song, make your way to Skull Kid Room 1 to the left of the Lost Woods’ entrance. Stand on the tree stump parallel to Skull Kid’s and play Saria’s Song on your Ocarina. This will let you befriend the Skull Kid, who will then give you a Piece of Heart.
Piece of Heart 2
Make your way to Skull Kid Room 2 to the right of the Lost Woods entrance and you’ll find another pair of Skull Kids. Pull out your Ocarina and they’ll ask you to play to the same notes that they do. After you do, they will add an extra note to the sequence and ask you to do it again. Completing this once will reward you with a blue rupee, twice will earn you a red rupee, and finally doing it three times in a row will earn you a Piece of Heart.
The notes that they play in all three sequences is completely randomized. However, you can cheese your way past this using the Nintendo Switch 2’s screenshot function. The game will pause while you are looking at your screenshots, giving you are much time as you need to memorize the sequence.
Goron City Pieces of Heart
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Light all of the torches on the first floor of Goron City on fire either with a Deku Stick or by casting the Din’s Fire spell and the gigantic pot in the center of the city will begin to spin. Once it has begun to spin, make your way to the second floor and pull out a bomb.
If you can successfully throw a bomb into the pot while it spins by you, you’ll be rewarded with a piece of heart and ten rupees.
Zora River Pieces of Heart
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Behind the Magic Beans salesman you will find a cucco. Pick up this cucco and begin to make your way down Zora River while carrying it over your head. At one point, you will need to throw the cucco up a ledge in order to continue carrying it up the river.
If you bring the cucco all the way to the waterfall entrance that leads to Zora’s Domain and then turn around, you’ll spot a piece of heart on a ledge that you would normally have no way of reaching. Jump while holding the cucco and Link will begin to glide. Safely glide down to the Piece of Heart and you’ll be able to collect it.
Piece of Heart 2
After speaking to the Bean Seller for the first time he’ll encourage you to plant the beans in the soil next to him. Return to this location as Adult Link and the beans will sprout into a flying leaf that will bring your to a piece of heart.
Piece of Heart 3
As Child Link, you will find five frogs sitting in an outcove on the way to Zora’s Domain. Pull out your Ocarina and play the Song of Storms for these frogs and they’ll reward you with a piece of heart.
Piece of Heart 4
The frogs have another piece of heart to give you, but it takes significantly more work to get. First, you’ll need to make each of the five frogs grow to a large size by playing the following ocarina songs for them
- Zelda’s Lullaby
- Sun’s Song
- Saria’s Song
- Epona’s Song
- Song of Time
Then you’ll need to have played the Song of Storms for them and received the previous heart piece. After you have done all of that, a minigame will unlock where you must help the frogs feed on butterflies by pressing your ocarina buttons corresponding to each frog.
Pressing the wrong button even once will result in you failing the minigame, and the game doesn’t refresh you on which button corresponds to each from. Here are what buttons you’ll need to press on each control scheme
| Frog | Default Button | Classic Controls Button |
|---|---|---|
| Light Blue | L | R |
| Dark Blue | Y | Y |
| Red | A | A |
| Yellow | R | B |
| Grey | X | X |
Zora’s Domain Pieces of Heart
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As Young Link, head to the room that King Zora is sitting in and equip a Deku Stick. Run by the nearby fire to light the stick aflame. Then, head down the steps and light each torch in Zora’s Domain on fire. The final two torches will be behind the waterfall in the area. Once these two torches are lit, a treasure chest with a Piece of Heart will appear.
Lake Hylia Pieces of Heart
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If you head to the Fishing Pond in Lake Hylia in either era, you will be able to pay the owner for the privileged to fish for as long as you want. While Adult Link will be able to trade in a large fish for a Gold Zora Scale, Child Link will instead be able to get a Piece of Heart here.
If Child Link can reel in a fish that is at least 50cm in size, the owner will give you a Piece of Heart. To catch this fish you’ll first need to pay the owner 20 rupees to fish for as long as you want and then it’s going to be mostly up to luck.
While fishing, you will first need to entice nearby fish by slightly moving your lure. The trick is to just slightly nudge your analog stick after a fish that’s paying attention to it stops moving. Eventually, the fish will lunge at it and it’ll be time to start reeling them in.
When reeling a fish in, they will swim around in an attempt to escape you. To prevent them from escaping, move your analog stick in the same direction the fish is swimming while reeling it in. After struggling for a few seconds the fish will get tired and you’ll be able to reel it in again.
You can get a general grasp of how big the fish in the pond are by looking at them, but you won’t know its exact size until you reel it in. I caught a 56cm sized fish in the center of the pond, but it took quite a few tries.
After catching a fish that’s at least 50cm or larger, bring it to the Fishing Pond Owner and he’ll give you the Piece of Heart as a reward.
Piece of Heart 2
Next to the Lakeside Laboratory in Lake Hylia you’ll find a mound of magic bean soil. After Young Link plants beans here, Adult Link will be able to use the leaf that spawns to reach the top of the Laboratory to collect another piece of heart.
Piece of Heart 3
Next we’ll actually be going inside of the Lakeside Laboratory. In the lab there will be a large pool of water. If you can dive to the bottom of this pool, you’ll be gifted a Piece of Heart by the Lake Scientist. This can only be done if you have earned the Golden Zora Scale from the Fishing Pond.
Death Mountain Crater Pieces of Heart
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As Child Link, run into Death mountain Crater from the entrance near Death Mountain’s Great Fairy. Run directly forward and to your left and you’ll find a business scrub. Reflect its projectile back at it and then speak to him, he’ll offer to sell you a piece of heart for 100 rupees.
Piece of Heart 2
As Adult Link, enter the Death Mountain Crater from the entrance near the Death Mountain Fairy Fountain and you’ll find a Piece of Heart on a ledge near the entrance.
Piece of Heart 3
Use the Bonero of Fire to teleport to the center of the Death Mountain Crater as Child Link, here you will spot another mound of magic bean soil. Return here as Adult Link and you’ll be able to use the leaf to reach the top of spectacle rock and collect a piece of heart.
Zora Fountain Pieces of Heart
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On your way to the Ice Cavern mini-dungeon, you’ll spot a piece of heart floating on some ice. Nearly unmissable.
Piece of Heart 2
At the bottom of the lake in Zora Fountain you’ll be able to grab another Piece of Heart. You’ll need the Iron Boots found in the Ice Cavern to reach it.
Gerudo Valley Pieces of Heart
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As Child Link, you will be able to pick up a cucco near the bridge in Gerudo Valley. Use this Cucco to glide across the pit to the large treasure chest on your left. Inside of it you’ll find a Piece of Heart.
Piece of Heart 2
Beneath the bridge in the center of the valley there will be a large ledge that you can reach by gliding with a cucco as Child Link and by jumping with the hover boots as Adult Link. There will be another mound of magic bean soil here. Adult Link can use this flying leaf to go behind the waterfall in the valley to collect another piece of heart.
Evil Desert Colossus Soil
Gerudo Fortress Pieces of Heart
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There is a Piece of Heart on the roof of the Gerudo Fortress. To reach it, you’ll need to play the Scarecrow’s Song and hookshot your way toward the Scarecrow. Once you’re up here, you’ll find the Piece of Heart inside of a large treasure chest.
Piece of Heart 2
After befriending the Gerudo, make your way to the Gerudo Archery Range. Here, you’ll be able to play a short minigame where you ride on Epona shooting targets. To earn a Piece of Heart in this minigame, you’ll need to reach 1,000 points within 15 arrows worth of shots. This is quite an easy number to reach as hitting a bullseye on the large targets or hitting anywhere on the small targets will net you 100 points.
Evil Desert Colossus Piece of Heart
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Outside of the Spirit Temple you’ll find some Magic Bean Soil. Plant the beans here as Child Link and you’ll create a path that Adult Link can use to reach a Piece of Heart and a Gold Skulltula.
