Zelda: FAQ and Walkthrough

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V      The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Heart Piece List                V
V                      Author: Invertmylateralus                              V
V                       Contact: See Conclusion                               V
V                          Started: 11/20/06                                  V
V                    Latest Version: 1.00 (12/01/06)                          V
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Table of Contents
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Section 1: Introduction / Legal Crap    {INTR}
Section 2: Version History              {HIST}
Section 3: Heart Pieces                 {HEART}
Section 3: Thanks                       {KSASS}
Section 5: Conclusion & Contact Info    {CONC}


<<<<< Section 1: Introduction / Legal Crap >>>>> {INTR}
This FAQ is intended to guide you to all 45 heart pieces found in The Legend
of Zelda: Twilight Princess. All information, unless otherwise noted, was
gained from my own experience playing the game. There will be spoilers in this
guide. If you ever need more help with heart pieces, you can always pay the
fortune teller in south-east castle town some rupees to have her point you in
the right direction.

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Version 1.0: 12/01/06
     The FAQ is Born.


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Heart Piece #1
Location: Northern Faron Woods, bog area.
Equiptment Requirements: Lantern
Details: There is a cave located in the North-West section of the bog area with
the purple mist. Inside, light two torches to make a chest containing the heart
piece appear

Heart Piece #2
Location: Forest Temple
Equiptment Requirements: N/A
Details: In the tall room with the flower like creatures that try to eat you,
one flower creature on the bottom floor guards a cove. Throw a bombling in its
mouth from above to clear the way, allowing you to get the chest with the heart
piece

Heart Piece #3
Location: Forest Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Gale Boomerang
Details: In the room where you first encounter the centipede like enemies that
hide under the floor tiles, there are four torches. Extinguish the four torches
to reveal a chest containing the heart piece.

Heart Piece #4
Location: Southern Hyrule Field
Equiptment Requirements: Gale Boomerang
Details: In southern Hyrule Field there is a wooden bridge spanning a small
watered area. South of the south end of the bridge there is a grove of trees.
The heart piece is on the brance of the center tree. Use your boomerang to
snag the piece.

Heart Piece #5
Location: South-West Hyrule Field (Kakariko Gorge)
Equiptment Requirements: Gale Boomerang
Details: In Kakariko Gorge there is a tall rock formation to the Northeast with
a heart piece on it. Use your boomerang from the nearest cliffside to aquire
it.

Heart Piece #6
Location: Ordon Village
Equiptment Requirements: Epona (Post-Fire Temple)
Details: Once you aquire epona again after the fire temple, return to the ranch
in ordon village and complet the herding mini-game to be awarded a heart piece.

Heart Piece #7
Location: Goron Mines
Equiptment Requirements: Iron Boots
Details: After meeting one of the goron elder's you are required to walk on the
ceiling of the room with the chain pulling puzzle. Take the path farthest to
the right (Yours not Links) to find a chest containing a heart piece.

Heart Piece #8
Location: Goron Mines
Equiptment Requirements: Iron Boots
Details: There is a room with magnetic beams on the second floor that has a
chest containing a heart piece. Equipt the Iron Boots and navigate the beams to
reach it.

Heart Piece #9
Location: Kakariko Village (Post-Fire Temple)
Equiptment Requirements: Hero's Bow
Details: Use the Gorons and ladders to scale the Northern watchtower. Once
there speak with the young boy to participate in a target practice mini-game.
Upon completion you will recieve a heart piece.

Heart Piece #10
Location: Kakariko Village
Equiptment Requirements: Iron Boots
Details: Bomb the southern cave entrance next to the light spirit spring to
access a pond at the rear of the spring. Sink to the bottom with your boots and
open the chest to claim your heart piece.

Heart Piece #11
Location: Kakariko Village
Equiptment Requirements: Bomb Arrow Combo/Gale Boomerang
Details: High on the cliff directly above a bombable wall in southern Kakariko,
right next to the light spirit spring, there is a group of bombable rocks.
Shoot them with the Bomb Arrow Combo then retrieve the heart piece with your
boomerang.

Heart Piece #12
Location: West Hyrule Field
Equiptment Requirements: Bombs/Clawshot
Details: Just before reaching the main feild area when coming from Kakariko
Village's north exit, you should see a large bombable rock to your right.
Destroy it then follow the path to reach an area where you can drop down to
reach a chest containing the heart piece.

Heart Piece #13
Location: Water Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Clawshot
Details: In the central room with the spinning staircase, clawshot up to the
light in the center to the room for a chest with a heart piece.

Heart Piece #14
Location: Water Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Clawshot
Details: Once you have both water sources flowing, direct the water from the
eastern side of the temple to flow to the lower western sid of the temple using
the spinning staircase in the central room. This will cause a bridge to raise
in the weastern side, allowing you to reach an alcove with the chest containing
the heart piece.

Heart Piece #15
Location: Lake Hylia (Spirit Spring)
Equiptment Requirements: Clawshot
Details: Use your clawshot to reach the upper portion of the spirit spring and
proceed to the rear. Light the torches to get the chest with the heart piece to
appear.

Heart Piece #16
Location: Lake Hylia (Southern Cave)
Equiptment Requirements: Lots of Bombs/Lantern Oil
Details: Just south of the hidden skill stone in lake hylia (located up a cliff
in the southern part) there is a bombable wall concealing a cave. Proceed
through the cave to reach a chest containing a heart piece.

Heart Piece #17
Location: Eastern Hyrule Field (just Past Eldin Bridge)
Equiptment Requirements: Hookshot/Bombs/Arrows/Iron Boots
Details: North of Eldin Bridge, there is a cliff you can hookshot onto. Blow up
any rocks in you way and follow the path until you reach a cave. Once inside
use your boots to navigate the magnetic walls in the lava cave until you reach
the bottom, then claim your prize from the chest.

Heart Piece #18
Location: Gerudo Dessert (Enemy Camp)
Equiptment Requirements: N/A
Details: In the area where you are under attack from a large amount of enemies,
you will eventually come across a pig roasting on a spit. Destroy it with your
sword to claim a heart piece.

Heart Piece #19
Location: Fishing Hole
Equiptment Requirements: N/A
Details: Either use your boomerang or rent a canoe, and snag it from the
central rock archway in the center of the lake.

Heart Piece #20
Location: Sand Dungeon
Equiptment Requirements: Hookshot
Details: In the room with the 4 poes, hookshot to the platform in the northwest
corner to reach the chest with the heart.

Heart Piece #21
Location: Sand Dungeon
Equiptment Requirements: Spinner
Details: During the second half of the dungeon, you will arrive in a room full
of spinner tracks (North-west room of the basement level). Navigate the tracks
to reach the ledge with the chest containing the heart piece.

Heart Piece #22 Northern Hyrule Feild (North-Eastern path)
Location: Northern Hyrule Field (North-Eastern path)
Equiptment Requirements: Bombs/Spinner
Details: Bomb the North-East Exit from North Hyrule Field to find a spinner
track. Navigate it to reach a ledge with the heart piece chest.

Heart Piece #23
Location: Passage north of Eldin Bridge
Equiptment Requirements: Spinner/Control of wolf form
Details: Just past the small wooden bridge covered in enemies, hang a left to
reach a spinner track. Ride it to the small alcove and dig in the middle of the
ring of grass. Once in the cave, vanquish all enemies to get the heart piece.

Heart Piece #24
Location: Death Mountain (Post-Fire Temple)
Equiptment Requirements: N/A
Details: Head down death mountain from the goron warp area until you reach a
lone goron. Take him up on his offer for a boost and launch yourself up to the
cliff behind him. Head back towards the goron village until you see a small
alcove you can enter. Do so and drop down for the heart piece chest.

Heart Piece #25
Location: Lake Hylia
Equiptment Requirements: Wolf Form
Details: Speak to the little bird plumm (located on the little island just
before the cannon ride) to learn of his mini-game. Howl into the bird-grass
nearby to start the game, then score over 10,000 points to receive a heart
piece. Hint: Only go for the Strawberries or Oranges. Only one or the other,
not both.

Heart Piece #26
Location: Lake Hylia
Equiptment Requirements: None
Details: Enter the building to the North-East in upper lake hylia, and speak to
the owner to play a chicken gliding mini-game. Try to land on the highest
non-spinning platform, which holds the chest containing the heart piece.

Heart Piece #27
Location: Kakariko Village (Post-Water Temple)
Equiptment Requirements: None
Details: After Donating 1000 rupees to Kakariko Villages Malo Mart to fix
the western hyrule castle bridge, speak to the elder goron outside the store
to take part in a mini-game where you have to deliver a barrel of hot-spring
water. Upon completion you recieve a heart piece. Hint: Stick to the southern
cliff edge for an easier time.

Heart Piece #28
Location: Castle Town
Equiptment Requirements: N/A
Details: Donate 1000 rupees to the old man near the eastern gate in hyrule
castle town to recieve a heart piece.

Heart Piece #29
Location: Kakariko Gorge
Equiptment Requirements: Bombs/Lantern
Details: There is a wall you can bomb in western Kakariko Gorge. The cave it
conceals has a heart piece in it.

Heart Piece #30
Location: Snow Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Ball & Chain
Details: When you reach the upper portion of the main entrance area, use the
Ball & Chain to swing the chandeleirs, then jump across them to reach southern
alcove that contains the chest with the heart piece.

Heart Piece #31
Location: Snow Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Ball & Chain
Details: At the top of the circular pathway to the second level (the one with
the ice enemies behind the bars) you will see an out of place hookshot target
and some odd looking floorboards on the ground beneath it. Smash the floor with
your Ball & Chain to gain access to the lower room with the heart piece.

Heart Piece #32
Location: North Hyrule Field
Equiptment Requirements: Ball & Chain
Details: In the small, tektite filled alcove located on the southern branch of
the rocky paths to the north, there is a bombable wall that faces west. Enter
the cave it conceals and solve the simple block sliding puzzles to get your
heart Piece.

Heart Piece #33
Location: Snowpeak (Post Ice-Temple)
Equiptment Requirements: N/A
Details: Return to the ice-sliding area and defeat both the Yeti and his Wife
in a race down the mountain to earn a heart piece.

Heart Piece #34
Location: Sacred Grove
Equiptment Requirements: Bombs
Details: After defeating the skull kid bomb the big rock in the center of the
area you battled him in. It conceals a dig spot that leads to a cave. Deafeat
all enemies within the cave to recieve your heart piece.

Heart Piece #35
Location: Temple of Time (Dungeon)
Equiptment Requirements: Dominion Rod
Details: While transporting the statue back to the entrance, have it destroy
all the walls and electric barriers you come across to reveal a path to the
chest with the heart piece.

Heart Piece #36
Location: Temple of Time (Dungeon)
Equiptment Requirements: Dominion Rod
Details: While transporting the statue back to the entrance, make a stop at
southern room on the fifth floor and solve the puzzle involving the two little
statues that must sit on switches at the end of narrow, gated, paths. Doing so
reveals a chest with a heart Piece.

Heart Piece #37
Location: Temple of Time
Equiptment Requirements: Dominion Rod
Details: Immediately after entering the door that leads to the past temple of
time and walking down the steps, walk to your left and face the direction you
entered from. There will be a owl statue you can move to access a chest with a
heart piece.

Heart Piece #38
Location: Ordon Woods
Equiptment Requirements: Dominion Rod
Details: Walk North-East pass the lantern sellers shop and bomb the rocks you
see there to access an alcove with a owl statue. Walk it over to the small
groove in the ground and use midna in wolf form to scale the branches up to an
alcove with the heart piece.

Heart Piece #39
Location: Eldin Bridge
Equiptment Requirements: Dominion Rod
Details: After teleporting the missing piece of the bridge back (It's in
South-Eastern Gerudo Desert), guide the owl statue at the north end of the
bridge to the hole at the south end of the bridge to form a pathway to the
heart piece.

Heart Piece #40
Location: Hidden Village
Equiptment Requirements: Wolf Form
Details: After clearing the Hidden Village of enemies, return and speak to the
cucco leader to play a mini-game. Speak to all 20 cats around the hidden
village to recieve the heart piece.

Heart Piece #41
Location: Sky Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Double Clawshot
Details: In the East wing you will enter a large cylindrical area with a giant
plant enemy. After defeating the plant, scale the walls until you reach a ledge
the you can see an alcove to the right with some bats. Shoot the bats with your
arrows, then grab onto the ledge and shimmy over to claim your heart piece.

Heart Piece #42
Location: Sky Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Double Clawshot
Details: After reaching the second floor of the eastern wing of the temple, you
will have to clawshot across a few flying plants to reach the main wing again.
Instead of dropping once you reach the last one however, turn 90 degrees to the
right and clawshot across the adjacent path of flying plants to reach an alcove
with a heart piece in a chest.

Heart Piece #43
Location: Twilight Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Light Sword (optional), Clawshot
Details: When you first enter the east wing of the temple you will be in a room
with waterfalls made of darkness to the left and right. The farthest one to the
right contains a chest with a heart piece behind it. You can either clear the
darkness with the Sol Orb or come back and clear it with the Light Sword, your
choice.

Heart Piece #44
Location: Twilight Temple
Equiptment Requirements: Light Sword (optional)
Details: When you first enter the west wing of the temple you will be in a room
with a large blanket of darkness you must ride over. In the darkness there is a
chargeable orb that creates a platform to the heart piece. Either use the Sol
Orb of the Light Sword, your choice.

Heart Piece #45
Location: Kakariko Gorge
Equiptment Requirements: Double Clawshots
Details: There is a rock spire in the North-East section of the Gorge. Use the
clawshot targets to reach a small outcropping with the heart piece.



<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Section 4: Thanks {KSASS} >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

As always, I’d like to thank Jeff "CjayC" Veasey for creating this awesome
site. 


<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Section 5: Conclusion & Contact Info {CONC}>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well, I hope this helps. I’ll keep this updated as much as possible with any
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