Pieces of Heart

What follows is a list of every piece of heart in the game and a brief description of how to obtain it. They are organized by location, alphabetically. Note that many of these are covered in more detail in the walk-through.

Island Hearts

Angular Island (one)
Create a staircase with the blocks on the island to reach a piece of heart at the top of the stack.

Bomb Island (one)
Enter the cave and use the magtails, when they curl up, to activate switches. Likewise, throw magtails into the holes near the chest to lower flames and grab the heart piece.

Dragon Roost Island (two)
Sort 25 letters or more for the new assistant at the postal counter, then mail the letter he gives you.
Give 20 golden feathers to Medli's guard.

Five-Star Isles (one)
Find the submarine and enter it. Defeat every enemy inside for a heart piece.

Flight Control Platform (one)
Make it to the end of the course to earn a piece of heart.

Forest Haven (two)
The rito leader will send you a piece in the mail automatically.
Fill a bottle with forest water and use it on all eight withered trees in the Great Sea. If you do it in less than 20 minutes, you will be rewarded with a piece of heart. To start this quest, talk to any korok near one of the trees.

Forsaken Fortress (one)
There is a single piece of heart located in a chest on the first floor.

Greatfish Island (one)
Sail to a rock near the island, and climb onto it. Use the deku leaf to glide to a cave on top of Greatfish Island for a piece of heart.

Headstone Island (one)
Use a hyoi pear to control a seagull, then look for the piece of heart at the very top of the island.

Needle Rock Isle (one)
Use a hyoi pear to control a seagull, then hit the crystal switch. This will give you access to a chest previously guarded by a wall of flame.

Outset Island (three)
During Orca's challenge, hit him 500 times before he hits you three times.
Use all-purpose bait to get the large pig to root in the black soil on the shore near the lookout tower.
Descend to the bottom floor of the dungeon where you found the Triforce chart. (Note that all of these pieces are found fairly late in the game.)

Pawprint Isle (one)
Crawl inside the cave once you have access to bombs. The piece of heart is in one of the chests inside.

Rock Spire Isle (three)
Buy a piece of heart from Beedle's shop.
One of the ships in the sea will drop a piece of heart when you sink it. Use the grappling hook to find it.
Use treasure chart 2 to find another piece of heart in this sector.

Seven-Star Island (one)
Defeat the giant octo, then use the grappling hook where it sunk.

Six-Eye Reef (one)
Defeat the enemies in a submarine to access a chest with a heart piece.

Spectacle Island (one)
You will receive a piece of heart as a prize in the cannon-firing minigame.

Star Island (one)
Defeat all of the enemies in the cave.

Stone Watcher Island (one)
Destroy every ship and cannon near the wooden platform for a heart piece.

Tingle Island (one)
Defeat the giant octo in the sector, then use the grappling hook to dredge up a piece of heart.

Windfall Island (nine)
Find all of the killer bees in the hide-and-seek game without entering a building.
Take a color pictograph of the lady near Lenzo's shop and show it to the strolling man.
Win the squid-battle minigame.
Place decorations on all of the pedestals to receive a heart from the man on the bench near Zunari's.
Win a piece of heart in Zunar's auction.
Deliver the love letters for and to the girl in the auction house, after rescuing Aryll.
Ignite the lighthouse with a fire arrow to retrieve two pieces: one from the chest that is revealed and one from the man standing on the second floor of the windmill.
Deliver the items in the correct order during Zunari's deliver quest (see walk-through for details).

Sea Hearts

Additionally, the following treasure charts will lead you to pieces of heart:

Treasure Chart 2
Chart location : Windfall Island
Treasure location: Rock Spire Island
Notes: Exchange 20 skull necklaces with the man near the bomb shop.

Treasure Chart 4
Chart location : Rock Spire Island
Treasure location: Southern Fairy Island
Notes: Buy the chart from Beedle's shop.

Treasure Chart 11
Chart location : Dragon Roost Cavern
Treasure location: Crescent Moon Island
Notes: In a dungeon chest.

Treasure Chart 15
Chart location : Forbidden Woods
Treasure location: Angular Isles
Notes: In a dungeon chest.

Treasure Chart 20
Chart location : Earth Temple
Treasure location: Bomb Island
Notes: In a dungeon chest.

Treasure Chart 23
Chart location : Windfall Island
Treasure location: Diamond Steppe Island
Notes: Get the high score in the squid-battle minigame.

Treasure Chart 30
Chart location : Tower of the Gods
Treasure location: Pawprint Island
Notes: In a dungeon chest.

Treasure Chart 31
Chart location : Windfall Island
Treasure location: Forest Haven
Notes: Show a color pictograph of the full moon to the forlorn man near the auction house.

Treasure Chart 33
Chart location : Windfall Island
Treasure location: Five-Star Isles
Notes: Take a color pictograph of the woman by the Chuchu Jelly Shop sign and show it to her.

Treasure Chart 38
Chart location : Windfall Island Treasure location: Three-Eye Reef Notes: This is the second chart available from Zunari's auction

See the charts section of this guide for more information on charts and their treasure.