Heart Pieces

    
                               

There are 32 Pieces of Heart in Link's Awakening on Nintendo Switch. Every four you collect adds a heart, so all 32 give you eight extra hearts. Add the eight Heart Containers from the dungeon bosses and one more from Dampé's Shack, and Link goes from 3 hearts to a maximum of 20.

What Changed From the Game Boy Version

  • Changed 32 pieces instead of 12. The familiar spots (the well, the fishing pond, the Kanalet moat, the Yarna Desert cave and so on) are still there, and twenty new pieces were added.
  • New Prize pieces: two in the Trendy Game, a second one at the fishing pond, one in the Mabe Village shop, one at the Seashell Mansion, one for the Rapids Race and two from Dampé's Chamber Dungeon challenges.
  • New A ninth Heart Container comes from Dampé's final challenge.

The pieces are grouped by the point in the story where you can first reach them, with the item that opens each group. A few take a while, so you don't have to grab them the moment they open up.

Pieces of Heart collected: 0 / 32
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From the Start 5

All you need is your sword and some Rupees.

  1. Trendy Game (first prize): the piece is on the crane game's prize belt from the beginning, next to the Yoshi Doll. Each try costs 10 Rupees. Winning it adds more prizes, including the second piece below.
  2. Mabe Village shop: buy it for 200 Rupees. It's there from the start, so it's just a matter of saving up.
  3. Fishing pond, small fish: for 10 Rupees a go, catch one of the small fish near the top of the pond in north Mabe Village.
  4. Fishing pond, big fish: catch one of the bigger green fish that swim lower in the pond. You can get the two fishing pieces in either order.
  5. The well: cut the bushes around the well in northwest Mabe Village (below the path to the Mysterious Forest) and drop down it. The piece is in the little cave at the bottom.

After Tail Cave: Roc's Feather 2

  1. Koholint Prairie: just north of the Witch's Hut, a piece sits in the grass inside a ring of holes. Jump across.
  2. Tabahl Wasteland: go through the graveyard east of the Witch's Hut to the wasteland of dead trees. In the northeast, near Dampé's Shack, a piece is behind a tree on the far side of a line of holes.

After Bottle Grotto: Power Bracelet 5

  1. Mysterious Forest cave: go back to the cave where you found the Sleepy Toadstool. Push the stones out of the way and lift the two skull rocks in the last room to reach the piece.
  2. Ukuku Prairie cave: enter the cave in the northwest corner of Ukuku Prairie, just east of Mabe Village. Push the stones aside and lift the skulls to reach the piece in the bottom right of the room.
  3. Seashell Mansion (5 shells): visit the Seashell Mansion, south of Kanalet Castle, once you have five Secret Seashells.
  4. Pothole Field: after giving Richard the five Golden Leaves from Kanalet Castle, take the tunnel behind his villa to the overgrown field. In the northeast corner, a piece is across a two-hole gap. A running jump with the Pegasus Boots makes it easier, but a normal jump is just enough.
  5. Tal Tal Mountain cave: the cave on the way up to Tal Tal Heights has a block-and-crystal puzzle on its second screen. Push the stones and break the purple crystals with your sword to clear a path. Solve it from the stairs side; it can't be done coming from the west.

After Key Cavern: Pegasus Boots 6

  1. Trendy Game (second prize): after you have won the Yoshi Doll, the first piece, the first seashell and a Chamber Stone, a piece appears on the upper moving platform. Line the claw up with the platform's rail and time its drop so the platform arrives under it.
  2. Dampé: "Fill Up Your Hearts": Dampé opens his shack after the Key Cavern. Finish his first three challenges and the fourth asks for a heart-shaped dungeon, which pays out a piece when you clear it.
  3. Graveyard cave: push the lower right of the four gravestones in the southwest of the graveyard to find stairs. Inside, bomb the cracked block below the steps, then dash-jump to the right and jump up to the piece. (The cave has a second entrance west of the graveyard. Later, the Hookshot works too.)
  4. Ukuku Prairie cave: east of the Ukuku Prairie warp point, north at the tree line, is a cave. Dash through the black barriers, ignore the 50-Rupee chest below and bomb the cracked wall in the upper right.
  5. Behind the houses, Animal Village: just before the entrance to Yarna Desert, head north and follow the path around behind the houses to the piece. (The cracked wall you pass leads to piece 29, which needs the Hookshot.)
  6. Lanmola's lair, Yarna Desert: fall into the quicksand where you fought the Lanmola, or take the stairs east of it. Bomb the cracked wall in the left room.

After Angler's Tunnel: Flippers 5

  1. Tal Tal Heights: swim right from the Angler's Tunnel entrance into a flooded cave and dive for the piece.
  2. Kanalet Castle moat: swim around the moat to the corner west of the castle entrance and dive.
  3. Ukuku Prairie to Animal Village tunnel: in the cave south of the Seashell Mansion, dash through the barriers and dive into the deep water you had to walk around before.
  4. Martha's Bay tunnel: in the southwest of Martha's Bay, past a line of holes and some bushes, stairs lead down to a flooded tunnel. Dive for the piece halfway along. (Keep going for a Chamber Stone.)
  5. Martha's Bay, southern water: dive in the small stretch of water in the south of the bay, below Catfish's Maw.

After Catfish's Maw: Hookshot 8

  1. Dampé: Tier 2 challenges: finish the four Tier 2 challenges (Key Hunter, Bombs Away!, Treasure Vault and Passageway Central) for another piece.
  2. Mysterious Forest log cave: in the northeast of the forest, lift the three rocks in front of the hollow log. The Pegasus Boots get you to the Rupee chest, but you need the Hookshot to reach the piece.
  3. Rapids Ride island: at the Raft Shop in Tal Tal Heights, choose the Rapids Ride. Hookshot as far west as you can, then head south and land on the island with the piece.
  4. Raft Shop return cave: after a ride, say no to going again, float left and follow the owner into the cave he disappears into. At the top, Hookshot across to the piece. Don't drop down first, or you'll have to go round again.
  5. Rapids Race: finish the Rapids Race in under 40 seconds. Use the Hookshot to pull yourself along faster than the current. (Under 35 seconds also wins a Secret Seashell.)
  6. Animal Village cave: take the path behind the houses again and bomb the wall in the northeast corner. In the first room, bomb the cracked wall in the upper right and follow it round to a low wall; throw a bomb over to break the cracked stone. Go back, take the left path to the other side of the gap and Hookshot across to the piece.
  7. Western Tal Tal Mountains: head west across the broken bridge above the Angler's Tunnel. Bomb the cracked wall in a recess at the bottom of the first cave, then go right in the next room.
  8. Western Tal Tal side path: further into the western mountains you drop into a rocky field. Leave it by the southwest path to find a piece above Goponga Swamp.

In Turtle Rock 1

  1. Turtle Rock peak: in the northwest of the final dungeon, a room has stairs that lead outside onto the top of Turtle Rock. The piece is in the grass there.

The Extra Heart Container

Finish all of Dampé's Chamber Dungeon challenges. The twelfth and last one, "Ticking Clock", opens after Turtle Rock and rewards you with a Heart Container. With every piece and every boss container, this is your 20th heart.