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Piece of Heart Locations
Survival of the fittest also applies in this game, so it would be wise to collect as many of the pieces as early as possible to improve your chances of living through all the dungeons. In total Link can find 24 pieces and for every four pieces he receives a new Heart Container. Thus finding them all increases your energy by 6 hearts, which makes it worthwhile.
Here are the locations of all the pieces ordered by their first possibility to reach them.
Piece of Heart (1/24)
The secret wall in the Kakarikian cave |
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After bombing the back wall in this little cavern. It opens up the super secret back room which has two Blue Rupees & hearts hidden beneath the pots and at the end your very first Piece of Heart inside the chest.
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Piece of Heart (2/24)
Blind's secret treasure |
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Bomb the back wall in this room too in order to collect your second Piece of Heart along with 6 Blue Rupees hidden beneath the pots. Only two more pieces to go, until your health goes up!
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Piece of Heart (3/24)
A race with a secret |
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 Walk into the home on the left to find a lonely guy. He tells you that he sealed the door to his younger brother's place. Bomb the cracked wall to undo free the lad from his solitude. Exit the home via the left entrance to find yourself at the start of a racing area.
Many people think you need the Pegasus Boots to clear this field within the set 15 second time limit, but there's a trick which can earn you this Heart Piece without any effort at all. Just follow the lower path and press down on D-pad at two pebbles as shown below to jump over the fence. This gets you the Piece of Heart in little more than 08 seconds without having to rush! 
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Piece of Heart (4/24)
Drain the pond with the Watergate Switch |
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From Link's home go south as much as possible and then west one screen. Here you'll find a strange structure which looks like the picture below. This is the watergate building.
Inside move the left and right blocks up and the center one horizontally to gain some Bombs from the Chest. Exit and reenter, now move the center block upwards, and either one of the other sideways. Walk up and carefully pull the right switch while avoiding the Anti Faerie (the left lever is a dud and causes 6 bombs to drop!). Go outside again to notice that the water resided. Pick up the Heart Piece which is now reachable to you.
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Piece of Heart (5/24)
Thieves' hideout in the Lost Woods |
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From the Northern exit of Kakariko go past the fortune teller's place and up into the entrance of the forest. Go left a the first branch, avoid the thief (he steals you money and items) and head north again to find 9 grass patches in a square.
Take out the center patch and fall down the gap to find this heart piece lying on the upper ledge of this room.
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Piece of Heart (6/24)
Dashing into a hidden cavern |
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Use the charged run against the rocks to the west of the Sanctuary to end up in a small crevice with a chest out in the open. remove the lid to obtain another Piece of Heart.
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Piece of Heart (7/24)
Treasure in Aginah's cave |
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Enter Aginah's cave located at the top section in the Desert of Mystery. Inside walk to Aginah's room and bomb the southern wall to reveal a new passage. Go down here and open the treasure chest to find the 7th Piece of Heart.
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Piece of Heart (8/24)
Heart hunting during a palace quest |
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Outside the left entrance of the Desert Palace you can find this Piece easily. Just walk down and take out the puny single Vulture whose guarding it. Nuff said.
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Piece of Heart 9/24
An alcove at Zora's waterfall |
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Just after you get the flippers do not leave the waterfall right away. Instead swim down the left side of the waterfall to the south of King Zora and you'll end up on a small patch of grass as shown below.
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Piece of Heart (10/24)
lame... |
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Just enter Spectacle rock from the ledge outside and follow the path.
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Piece of Heart (11/24)
also lame... |
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After warping back from the Dark world you can't really miss this piece, now can you?
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Piece of Heart (12/24)
Right wing of the Pyramid of Power |
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Once Agahnim has send you to the Dark World you start atop the pyramid. From here just follow the path down to the center ledge. Go right, drop down to the bottom ledge and walk up to the Heart Piece which is lying around here.
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Piece of Heart (13/24)
Two for the prize of one |
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After beating Agahnim return to the Light World using the Mirror. Then go to the lumberjacks' place, but they are nowhere to be found. The tree which they were sawing is still there. Charge into it with the Pegasus Boots to reveal a hidden passage down the hollow tree stump.
When you exit the room you are forced to pick up another Piece of Heart along the path.
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Piece of Heart 14/24
Lake Hylia from dark to light |
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Along the path to the Palace of Darkness Link comes across 2 bridges on the east side of the 9 purple pegs (one of them is next to it). Jump in and work your way to the south. Be careful in this area as the green bombing toadstools case 2 hearts damage, maneuver to the west and walk in the shallow water surrounded by a circle of rocks.
Use you Magic Mirror in the center to warp to the Light World's version of Lake Hylia. Once you're here you collecting the Piece of Heart is easy.
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Piece of Heart (15/24)
The flower ring below the Clearing |
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In the Dark world go one screen to the south of the Flute player's clearing. Here there are 10 bushes growing in a peculiar circle formation.
As expected use the Mirror on them to find a secret cave in the Light world. Inside there's a Piece of Heart lying around along with some bottles containing recovery hearts.
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Piece of Heart (16/24)
What's gonna come out? When Link starts digging we'll find out! |
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Again in the Dark world travel to the location where the race was Hyrule. Now it has been replaced by a field where you can dig as much as you can within 30 seconds for 80 Rupees.
There's no telling where the Heart Piece is hidden so you may need to do this mini-game over again. The cost of 80 Rupees is not that much considering that there are many Green/Blue/Red Rupees hidden here, but eventually you will succeed
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Piece of Heart (17/24)
The Gambling Game |
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Go to the leftmost northern resident with a chest banner on its front. Enter the place and play "Open-2-Chests-from-16" the odds are pretty much against you. It doesn't cost that much to play, but 80% of the prizes are crap. You may need to play this game quite a few times to get the desired item.
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Piece of Heart (18/24)
The cemetery's ledge |
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To the west of the 'sanctuary' there is a cemetery in the dark world too. Walk up to the high ledge in the back and use your Magic Mirror once you are at the top.
Enter the cave and throw the pots away, until you hit the top. Bomb the wall here to find another one of those shiny Pieces of Heart in the back.
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Piece of Heart (19/24)
Stomp the pegs |
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There's more going on near the Smithy's shop in the Dark world. Notice those 20 pegs in the bottom area. After you stomp all of them with the Magic Hammer a staircase pops up from nowhere.
Go down it and find the Piece of Heart in the little cavern.
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Piece of Heart (20/24)
Unseen towards the goal |
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In the dark world there's a sign near the entrance to Death Mountain. It reads out that you wearing a cape grants you the Piece of Heart on display.
Enter the cave, go upstairs, use the Hookshot to pull yourself to the other side, then walk down to see a large bumper. There's only one way to pass it. Equip the fresh Magic Cape and activate it.
Outside the Piece of Heart awaits you. Which yields your 5th additional heart container given that you collected the previous 19 as well.
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Piece of Heart (21/24)
Clearing the invisible path |
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Enter the hidden stairway on the top of Death Mountain. Follow the path up to the dead end, then use Ether to reveal the hidden path here.
Walk over to the other side, bomb the back wall, then bomb the wall to the left in the room behind it and go down to reach the exit.
There's nothing here, or is there? All you have to do now is teleporting back to Hyrule using the Magic Mirror. The Piece of Heart awaits on the other side.
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Piece of Heart (22/24)
The chest on the left side of the Mire |
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Warp to the Misery Mire and enter the left structure as shown here:
Push the blocks in such a way that the left chest becomes reachable. The right chest contains 20 Rupees and the left one contains the Piece of Heart you were looking for.
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Piece of Heart (23/24)
The block maze in the Desert of Mystery |
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Warp to the Misery Mire and walk to the upper right corner of the map. Use the Mirror here to return to Hyrule again.
Enter the cave and push the blocks like this. Push the upper block up, then the right block right, the upper block up, and so forth until you hit the corner. That's all there is to it.
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Piece of Heart (24/24)
Light world outside the Mirror Shield entrance |
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After (or just before acquiring the Mirror Shield stand on the ledge outside Turtle Rock then use the Magic Mirror to return to Hyrule.
By doing so you can enter a cave with 4 Goriyas inside (the GBA version has 4 Eyegores for no reason...). Kill them all with arrows to open the gate behind them.
Walk up to the single chest here and remove its lid to find the very last optional item in the game. The 24th Heart Piece which increases your life by 6 Heart Containers in total.
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Faerie Pond Locations
There are numerous Faerie Ponds throughout the game. Most of these contain 3 or 4 Faeries which heal up to 7 Hearts at most. These little faeries can be caught in bottles to save your hide when you loose all your hearts. Other Ponds have Big Faeries in them which cannot be caught, but they can restore all your energy in one go.
Here's a list of all the ponds which contain at least three small Faeries or one Big Faerie. There might be a few more of them out there, but this list should be fairly complete. If you know any other ponds please mail at the mail address given on the main page.
Faerie Pond (1/18)
The big Fairy of the swamp |
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To the northwest of the Watergate there is a weakened wall section. Pull out a bomb and enter the cave after clearing it to meet a faerie who will heal you completely.
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Faerie Pond (2/18)
A nearly frozen pond near the Ice Rod |
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If you wish to have an easier life during the quest of the completing the Eastern Palace this faerie pond may come in handy. Faerie Ponds are little squares of water where four Faeries roam about. You can either touch them to heal for 7 Hearts or catch them with the Bug Catching Net to bottle them. You should have two bottles at the moment so you might as well make use of them now.
To find this pond enter the cavern to the right of the Ice Rod's entrance. Go up and destroy the wall section with a bomb. That's all.
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Faerie Pond (3/18)
Due south of the Eastern Palace |
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You should have two bottles and a net at the moment so you might as well make use of them now.
To find this pond enter the main perimeter of the Eastern Palace (with the green arcs) and head east, until you can go no farther. Then follow the southern path to reach a dead end as shown above. There are some poles around here, but you can't do anything with them right now.
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Faerie Pond (4/18)
Link's private Faeries |
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With your newly acquired boots you can destroy rocks like these with no problem at all. Just charge and run into them. Link will automatically break them apart.
If you do this against the blocks on screen to the west of your home to uncover another secret passage. Go down there to find a little pond with four Faeries. This pond is welcome after resetting from a "Game Over" as it allows you to regenerate all your hearts.
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Faerie Pond (5/18)
The big Faerie of the Desert |
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To the left of the silent middle-aged man there is an entrance in the wall. Inside there is a big Faerie which cannot be caught into a bottle, but will heal all of your hearts instead.
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Faerie Pond (6/18)
back up Faeries in the Desert Palace |
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As you can see in the picture above here you need to push 3rd block from the left upwards to open the path to the Faerie Pond.
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Faerie Pond (7/18)
The pond in Spectacle rock |
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Fall down the single space gap on the left side of the ledge near Spectacle rock and enter the hole to find a diagonal corridor with Mini-Moldorms and a small pond at the end.
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Faerie Pond (8/18)
A dark pond |
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In the most south western part of Death Mountain on the dark side there is Faerie Pond. Regardless of your shape the big Faerie will heal your wounds.
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Faerie Pond (9/18)
The pond in the pond |
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Bomb the eastern wall in the pond of Happiness to locate some small faeries in the room next to it.
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Faerie Pond (10/18)
Two for the prize of one |
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After beating Agahnim return to the Light World using the Mirror. Then go to the lumberjacks' place, but they are nowhere to be found. The tree which they were sawing is still there. Charge into it with the Pegasus Boots to reveal a hidden passage down the hollow tree stump.
Jump down into it and meet some faeries in the pond at the top.
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Faerie Pond (11/18)
The first Pond on the Dark side |
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Little to the east of the entrance to the Palace of Darkness there's a little hole in the wall. Enter it to meet a big Faerie who's hiding in here.
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Faerie Pond (12/18)
The hidden pond in the SE |
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Jump into the water near the previous pond (there are two spots, even before completing the Palace of Darkness) and swim all the way to the far south, then go east and climb up the stairway. Head north and bomb the leftmost section of the northern wall. Inside there's a Big Faerie who will heal you to the max.
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Faerie Pond (13/18)
The Pond of Darkness |
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On the ledge where you find the Map in the Palace of Darkness bomb the right wall to find a pond with three Faeries. Catch them in a bottle if you have some empty ones left.
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Faerie Pond (14/18)
The Bombshop's private pond |
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There is a Faerie Pond in the Dark world on the exact same location as the one near Link's home in Hyrule, which is the Bombshop in Dark Hyrule. Just dash into the rocks to find it.
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Faerie Pond (15/18)
Faerie Pond (16/18)
The other (big) Faeries of Death Mountain |
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Enter the hidden stairway on the top of Death Mountain. Follow the path up to the dead end, then use Ether to reveal the hidden path here.
Walk over to the other side, bomb the back wall, then bomb the wall at the top of this room to find a big Faerie, but that's not all.
Bomb the left wall and, bomb the top wall again to find another hidden pond in this mountain. This time it contains three small Faeries.
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Faerie Pond (17/18)
The pond in the frozen abyss |
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After switching the peg switch to blue you can reach this Faerie Fountain from B5F. Just fall down left or right gaps here next to the Stalfos Knight to find the pond at the bottom.
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Faerie Pond (18/18)
Ganon's Pond |
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Before going up the stairs upon completing the Armos Knights rematch bomb the northern wall to find this last secret 'pond' with four fairies.
As a little trick you can't get to the Faeries, because they're hovering over thin air so use the Boomerang or the Hookshot to draw them near you.
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Shop List
| Bottle Salesman |
| Empty Bottle | 100 Rupees |
| Kakariko Shop |
| Life Medicine | 150 Rupees |
| Recovery Heart | 10 Rupees |
| Bombs (50) | 50 Rupees |
| Lake Hylia Cave |
| Life Medicine | 150 Rupees |
| Recovery Heart | 10 Rupees |
| Bombs (50) | 50 Rupees |
| Potion Hag Shop |
| Life Medicine | 120 Rupees |
| Magic Medicine | 60 Rupees |
| Cure-all Medicine | 160 Rupees |
| Zora Salesman |
| Flippers | 500 Rupees |
| Smithy's Shop |
| Sword upgrade | 10 Rupees |
| Bomb Shop |
| Bombs (30) | 100 Rupees |
| Super Bomb | 100 Rupees |
| Eastern Dark World Shop |
| Life Medicine | 150 Rupees |
| Shield | 50 Rupees |
| Bombs (10) | 50 Rupees |
| Southern Dark World Shop |
| Life Medicine | 150 Rupees |
| Shield | 50 Rupees |
| Bombs (10) | 50 Rupees |
| Village of the Outcasts |
| Life Medicine | 150 Rupees |
| Shield | 50 Rupees |
| Bombs (10) | 50 Rupees |
| Death Mountain Cave |
| Life Medicine | 150 Rupees |
| Shield | 50 Rupees |
| Bombs (10) | 50 Rupees |
Zora Whirlpools
There are three paired Zora Whirlpools in Light Hyrule and 1 set in the Dark World. This small list shows which one connects to which.
Rupee Treasures
If you're running low on Rupees try to explore these hidden secrets to raise large amounts of Rupees. Most of them contain the fabled "300 Rupee" which should solve most of your problems right away.
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