The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess/Heart Containers

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These are the locations of the 45 heart pieces scattered throughout the game, with the strategies to obtain them. The piece locations are listed in approximate order of where you encounter these locations in-game for the first time. However, you may not be able to get every piece in an area the first time through, since you may be missing an item that you receive at a later dungeon.

Ordon Village

1. After you get Epona back in Ordon Village, go to the ranch riding Epona and talk to Fado. He will give you the piece after herding all of the goats.

Note: Make sure you have enough time between herding cows before your trip to Hyrule Castle, memorizing how long you bring your cows into the farm. Ideally five minutes should be the current time and beating that time is recommended.

Faron Woods

2. Burn through the Faron Woods swamp's poisonous fog (there is no fog early in the game) by waving your lantern, enter the cave in the northwestnortheast (by the key to the north woods gate). Light two torches at the dead end to make the piece appear.
3. 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 the path to a chest.

Forest Temple

4. Drop a bomb into a large plant in the killer-plant-filled chamber northeastnorthwest of the temple entrance. The giant bud will explode, giving you access to a ground-level alcove with a chest.
5. Use the Gale Boomerang to put out the torches in the far eastwest chamber. The wood platforms will drop, allowing you a clear path to the piece.

Hyrule Field

6. Venture to the south end of the bridge in the middle of Hyrule Field. Equip the Gale Boomerang to retrieve the piece high up in one of the trees.
7. Look for a tall rock formation that towers over the east end of Kakariko Gorge. You'll find the piece floating above it. Use the Boomerang to retrieve it.
8. Travel north of Kakariko Village and use a bomb to destroy a large block on the path's westeast side. Follow the trail you just revealed, and use a bomb arrow to destroy a rock. Climb a vine and go north to claim your prize.
9. Once you have the double clawshots, go to the southeast section of Kakariko Gorge and hit a grappling point in the middle of a large rock formation. Go from there to a point on the south cliff, then to the vines on the small formation. Climb the vines to reach the heart.
10. In the area north of Hyrule Castle, take the northern rocky path until you reach a clearing with a west-facingeast-facing cave blocked by a boulder. Destroy the boulder then smash the ice with the Ball and Chain. Beyond three block-pushing puzzles, you'll find the piece of heart.
11. In northern Eldin Province, on the eastwest side of the bridge that spans the hidden gulch, use the spinner on the north wall's track. After you reach the lower ledge, dig into a cave. Destroy three Stalfos inside to make a treasure chest appear.
12. Blast boulders on both ends of a path in the far easternwestern section of Lanayru Province (east of Castle Town). Use the spinner to follow a track on the wall to get to a ledge with a piece of heart.
13. Plant an explosive near a giant boulder southwestsoutheast of the Kakariko Gorge bridge to gain entry to a sprawling cavern. Light two torches in the cavern's northwest section to make the chest appear.

Bridge of Eldin

14. Grapple to a ledge on the westeast cliff wall north of the bridge. Go south then westeast into a cavern. The third time you leap off a ledge and use the Iron Boots in midair to stick to a wall, look for a chest.
15. After you retrieve the middle of the bridge from 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 eastwest, then use it as a platform to hop across a gap. Climb a ladder to find the piece.

Kakariko Village

16. After the Goron Mines dungeon, get a boost from a Goron at the north end of Kakariko Village, then climb a tower. Talo will challenge you to an arrow-shooting exercise. If you successfully complete, he will give you the piece.
17. Use a bomb to destroy a huge boulder westeast of the Spirit Spring at the south end of the village. Go to the pool of water inside the cave there, use the Iron Boots to sink to the bottom, then walk to the chest.
18. A cliff above the boulder destroyed to get the previous heart has a grouping of rocks on it. Use a bomb arrow to destroy the rocks (equip the bow and select bombs) and then use the Boomerang to retrieve the heart.
19. Once you've donated 1,000 rupees in Malo's shop to rebuild the westeast 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 receive the piece of heart.

Death Mountain

20. Use the Goron on death mountain trail between Kakariko Village and the Goron camp for a boost (By the 2 metal things that you can climb up). Grab onto a ledge to the eastwest, climb up, go north, then drop into a cave to the eastwest to find a chest.

Goron Mines

21. 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 (the 2nd chamber after meeting Gor Amato). Go to the northwestnortheast corner to find a treasure chest.
22. After you advance to the second-floor room that houses two beamos and a drawbridge, walk up the magnetic track on the eastwest wall. Follow the track's southern branch to reach a chest on a ledge.

Lake Hylia

23. Go to a room at the back of Lanayru's Spirit Spring by grappling to the ivy with the Clawshot. Light the two torches in the room to make a chest appear.
24. There is a rock-blocked cave south of Lake Hylia's Howling Stone. Destroy the barrier and venture into the darkness with a full lantern. Work your way to the last chamber and light two torches to make the chest appear.
25. Accept Plumm's challenge to a fruit-balloon-popping contest on the westeast side of lake Hylia. Get a 10,000 point score to get the piece of heart (go after the long line of strawberries, or focus entirely on oranges to snag over 20,000 points).
26. Get to Falbi's Flight-by-Fowl challenge. Grab a Cucco and go straight for the floating platforms to the southwestsoutheast. The top stationary platform (right under the rotating one) contains a piece of heart.

Fishing Hole

27. Rent the canoe from the lady in the shack, and paddle out to the middle of the pond. Using the Fishing Rod, hook the heart piece sitting on the large rock formation. It is on the rightleft half of the arch. The clawshot may be used instead while swimming to retrieve the heart piece. It will be claimed once Link returns to dry land.

Lakebed Temple

28. After you get the Clawshot, 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 heart in a chest.
29. Make sure the water is flowing westeast in the main chamber, then travel to the westernmosteasternmost room on the first floor. Cross the bridge to the south, then stand on the switch and grapple to the wall where the chest is.

Castle Town

30. A man wearing a green robe on the Castle Town eastwest road accepts donations in 30 and 50 rupee increments. Once you give him 1,000 rupees, he'll give you a piece of heart.

Gerudo Desert

31. There is a boar on a spit in the northwestnortheast corner of the enemy camp. Use a spin attack to destroy the embers, then attack the boar itself to find the piece of heart.

Arbiter's Grounds

32. Travel to the northwestnortheast corner of the Arbiter's Grounds central chamber. Use the Clawshot to fly over a patch of sinking sand and open the chest there.
33. In the basement's northeastnorthwest corner chamber, use the spinner to hook onto a wall track. You'll ride up to a midroom treasure chest.

Snowpeak

34. After you've obtained the second Mirror Shard, return to the top of Snowpeak. Challenge Yeto to a snowboard race. If you win, race his wife Yeta. When you defeat her, you get a piece of heart. Pressing makes you go faster, while jumps tend to slow you down slightly, so don't jump unless you have to. Make sure you are familiar with the shortcut Yeta takes.

Snowpeak Ruins

35. On the second floor of the foyer, hit the north chandelier with the Ball and Chain to start it swinging. Hop onto it, then hit and hop onto the two chandeliers to the south to reach to chest on the south ledge.
36. Use a bomb or the Ball and Chain to blast the cracks in the floor in the southeastsouthwest corner of the second level. There is a chest inside.

Sacred Grove

37. Travel eastwest of the temple grounds to one of the places where you faced off with Skull Kid. Blow up a boulder in the middle of the area, then dig in that place to reach a cave. After clearing the cave of enemies, you will find a piece of heart.

Temple of Time

38. On your way back to the temple's main door, with the Dominion Rod in hand and statue in tow, you'll advance through a fifth-floor room that has sliding walls, an electric barrier and a chest. Guide the statue to a switch to gain access to the chest
39. 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 chest will appear.
40. When there's power in the Dominion Rod, go to the temple's main room and use the rod to move a statue embedded in the wall of the southwestsoutheast corner. You'll reveal a passage leading to a treasure.

Hidden Village

41. Travel south through a cave in Eldin Province's northeastnorthwest corner to find the hidden village. You'll discover the Cucco leader on the westeast side. Crash through windows to get to her. Accept her challenge to find and speak to 20 cats. A piece of heart is awarded to you upon completion.

City in the Sky

42. After you defeat the large plant on the first floor of the eastwest wing, grapple up to the second floor and head counterclockwiseclockwise through the room. Grab onto the ledge to your rightleft and shimmy across the gap to find the heart piece.
43. There is a piece in the chamber filled with Pea Hats on the eastwest wing's third floor. Take the northwestnortheast exit from the chamber, then grapple from Pea Hat to Pea Hat to reach the southern balcony. Go in the door and get the heart.

Palace of Twilight

44. Once you have the Light Sword, return to the palace's eastwest wing. Use the sword (or the Sol) to cut through the fog on the eastwest wall of the southeastsouthwest room, then grapple to a treasure chest.
45. Go to the palace's westeast wing once you have the Light Sword. Cut through the fog in the first room to make a platform appear in the southwestsoutheast corner of the pit. The platform will carry you to within reach of the treasure chest in the westeast wall's raised alcove.