Heart Pieces
Link starts The Minish Cap with three hearts and can build up to a maximum of twenty. There are 44 Pieces of Heart hidden around Hyrule; every four you collect add one heart, for eleven extra hearts in total. The remaining six hearts come from Heart Containers. Many Pieces of Heart can't be reached until you have a certain item, so if one is out of reach, come back later.
Heart Containers
- Deepwood Shrine: defeat the Big Green Chuchu.
- Cave of Flames: defeat Gleerok.
- Fortress of Winds: defeat Mazaal.
- Temple of Droplets: defeat the Big Octorok.
- Palace of Winds: defeat the Gyorg Pair.
- After you complete the Four Sword, go to Lake Hylia, shrink, and drop into the crack in the ground. Make your way through the cave (watch for the rolling spiked logs) and up the ladder to a Minish house, where Librari gives you a final Heart Container.
Minish Woods and Minish Village
1. On your first trip through the Minish Woods, right after the scene where Ezlo is attacked, head west along the path to find a Piece of Heart lying out in the open.
2. In Minish Village, cross to the north-east end of the bridge east of Festari's abbey.
3. Requires the Flippers and Mole Mitts. Shrink at the Minish Portal in the north-west of the woods and enter the Minish-sized cave there. Swim through the pool and dig through the passage to reach the Piece of Heart.
4. Requires the Cane of Pacci. From the high ground north of Lon Lon Ranch, follow the water's edge into the north-west corner of the Minish Woods to reach a small island pond.
5. Requires the Pegasus Boots. North-west of Lon Lon Ranch, dash into a tree to knock it over and reveal a stump with a Minish Portal. Shrink, enter the Minish path nearby, and follow it to the end.
Deepwood Shrine
6. After beating Madderpillar and getting the Gust Jar, use the jar to clear the cobweb on the south side of the room, then follow the passage beyond it.
7. Later in the dungeon, use the blue warp pad to reach a ledge you can't get to on foot.
South Hyrule Field
8. Your first Kinstone fusion, the one the game walks you through, opens up a hollow tree in South Hyrule Field. Go inside for the Piece of Heart.
9. Requires the Pegasus Boots and Flippers. Dash into the tree in the south-west to uncover a Minish Portal. Shrink, enter the water, and swim north to a small cave holding the Piece of Heart.
Mt. Crenel
10. Requires bombs. At the base of Mt. Crenel, on the west side, bomb the ground between two trees to open a cave. Bomb the rocks inside to uncover the piece.
11. Requires bombs. Further up the mountain on the west side, bomb the spot between two rocks to the right of a rock wall. The cave behind it has a fairy and a Piece of Heart.
12. Requires the Grip Ring and a White Sword with two Elements. Climb the rock walls on the east side to Grayblade's dojo. Split into two Links to press both switches at once, and the piece is yours.
13. Fuse Kinstones with Melari, the Minish blacksmith. A beanstalk grows near the summit of Mt. Crenel; climb it to find the Piece of Heart at the top.
14. Requires the Mole Mitts. Next to the Crenel Hermit's cave, dig through the soft wall to reach another cave holding the piece.
Cave of Flames
15. Requires bombs. On the basement floor (B1), look for a cracked wall near the minecart track switch. Bomb it to reach a hidden room with the Piece of Heart.
Hyrule Town
16. At Minish size, climb the vine on the back of the inn to reach a Piece of Heart hidden behind the building.
17. Pay 10 Rupees to play Simon's Simulation game in the house in town, and defeat every monster in the arena to win the piece.
18. Requires the Flippers. Beat every round of Anju's Cucco game. In the final round you have 55 seconds to find and bring back three Cuccos.
19. Requires the Four Sword. Enter the Minish path in the schoolyard, split into four Links, and push the block together to reach the piece.
20. Requires the Flippers and Roc's Cape. Shrink and go back into the cave behind the fountain where you found the Power Bracelets. Swim across, then jump and glide from the end of the bridge to the Piece of Heart.
21. Requires the Roc's Cape. Stand under the bell at the town gate, then jump and glide up to ring it. A Piece of Heart drops down.
22. Requires all 136 figurines. Complete Carlov's figurine collection and you'll receive the Carlov Medal. Show it to the man standing outside Mama's Cafe, and he'll let you into the red-roofed house north of the cafe; the last Piece of Heart is on a pedestal inside. Note that the final six figurines only show up after you beat Vaati and save your game, so this is the last piece you'll collect.
North Hyrule Field
23. Requires bombs. In the north-west, near the castle entrance, bomb the cracked rock by the sign. Climb down the ladder and stairs to reach the piece.
Veil Falls
24. Requires the Cane of Pacci. At the north end of Lon Lon Ranch, fire the Cane of Pacci into the hole to make a launch pad. Jump from it to reach the ledge with the Piece of Heart.
25. Requires the Flippers. Near the entrance to Veil Falls, climb down the ladder and swim north to a small dock where the piece is waiting.
26. Requires a Kinstone fusion. A fusion with Gale, one of the cloud people of the Cloud Tops, opens a cave near the top of Veil Falls containing a Piece of Heart.
27. Requires the Mole Mitts and a Kinstone fusion. Fuse Kinstones with the Forest Minish north-east of Minish Village. This opens a cave at the bottom of Veil Falls; dig your way through to the Piece of Heart.
Castor Wilds
28. Requires the Pegasus Boots. In Swiftblade the First's resting place beneath the large tombstone in the south-west of the swamp.
29. Requires the Flippers. In the north-east corner, near the waterfall that hides Scarblade's dojo, swim to the island and push the right-hand blocks aside to reach a cave.
30. Requires the Flippers and a Kinstone fusion. After the right Kinstone fusion opens the way, shrink at a Minish Portal in the Castor Wilds, cross the swamp and swim to the Minish-sized cave that holds the piece.
Fortress of Winds
31. On the first floor, shrink at the Minish Portal and drop through the holes to reach the bottom-right room, where the piece is waiting.
Western Wood
32. A Kinstone fusion with a Forest Minish opens a hollow tree in the Western Wood. Step inside for the piece.
Eastern Hills
33. Shrink and fuse Kinstones with the Forest Minish who lives in the Eastern Hills. A beanstalk grows nearby; climb it for the Piece of Heart.
Lake Hylia
34. Requires the Flippers. Dive into the pond next to Stockwell's House, the red-roofed house at the north end of the lake.
35. West of Mayor Hagen's cabin, climb down the ladder to find a Piece of Heart.
36. Requires the Flippers. In Waveblade's dojo, inside the hollow tree on the south-west shore.
37. Requires the Roc's Cape and Flippers. Jump the gaps along the shore and swim out to the island north of the Temple of Droplets.
38. Requires the Roc's Cape, Mole Mitts and a Kinstone fusion. Fuse Kinstones with the Forest Minish near Mayor Hagen's house, then dig through the nearby cave to reach the beanstalk that grows. Climb it for the piece.
Lon Lon Ranch
39. Requires the Roc's Cape and Mole Mitts. In the Mole Mitts cave at Lake Hylia, dig through the left-hand path. It comes out at Lon Lon Ranch, where the Piece of Heart sits on a pedestal by a stream.
Royal Valley
40. In the graveyard, push the top-left (north-west) tombstone and go down into the grave. Use your sword's ability to split into copies to move the block and reach the piece.
Wind Ruins
41. Shrink at the second Minish Portal, backtrack, and climb down the middle vine into the Minish-sized cave below the cliff.
Palace of Winds
42. Requires the Roc's Cape. On the fourth floor, cross the long walkway that runs beneath a grating.
Hyrule Castle Garden
43. In Grimblade's dojo. Cut the bushes in the south-east corner of the garden to find the hidden ladder that leads there.
44. Requires the Roc's Cape and a Kinstone fusion. After a Kinstone fusion drains the garden's fountain, go down the stairs where the water used to be and glide past the bees to the pots on the far side.