The Minish Cap Heart Piece guide below covers how to get all 44 heart pieces as well as the single full heart container found in the game.
Containers
Lake Hylia
1) Go to the Minish Village and travel to the island house in the northeast of the village. You need to swim to the house with the Flippers. Fuse Kinstones (it may take several fusions) and a Minish Hole will appear near the Wind Crest in Lake Hylia. Travel to it and traverse the cave to find a Minish house that you otherwise could not reach. Talk with the Elder and he will give you a Full Heart Container.
The Minish Cap Heart Pieces
Mt. Crenel
1) Go all the way west while in Mt. Crenel’s Base and then travel up the land bridge that leads to two trees at a dead end. Place a bomb between the trees to uncover a room. Use either a bomb or the Roc’s Cape to get to the heart piece in the middle of the room.
2) After infusing your sword with at least two elements follow the east trail north and you will find a door. Enter the door to find two switches you need to press. Use the colored tiles to split into 2-4 Link’s and then go up and press the switches. In the next room is the piece of heart.
3) In the southwest part of the area you will find a rocky wall with a sign that says, “Crenel Wall (Watch out for falling rocks).” You must place a bomb in between the small rocks to the right of the wall in order to uncover a room. The heart piece is in the room along with several fairies.
4) Go to the northwest corner and you will find the Crenel Hermit’s door along with a strange greyish door-looking wall to the left of it. Use the Mole Mitts to enter the wall. Now dig north alongside the west wall until you see the piece of heart. Kill or dodge the enemy and grab it.
5) Enter into Melari Mines and fuse Kinstones with Melari, which cause a bean stalk to appear in the northwest of Mt. Crenel. Climb the bean stalk to find the heart piece.
Cave of Flames
1) Follow the path as usual until you find the room with the flipped over mine cart with the tracks going across the lava. Do not ride the mine cart – instead you need to run across the tracks. Bomb the wall behind the three pots to reveal a hidden room with a piece of heart.
Deepword Shrine
1) After defeating the mini-boss Madderpillar take the path to the east. Use the Gust Jar on the dust to uncover several switches. One will activate the dungeons blue portal. Take the blue portal and it will lead to a heart piece.
2) Madderpillar
Fortress of Winds
1) Travel through the dungeon until you reach the room with the two Armos, flying skulls, and a big hole in the floor. Shrink down to Minish size a few rooms away and come back to drop down the hole. After falling a few floors down you will see a Minish door. Enter it – and then grow to normal size to grab the heart piece.
Mt. Crenel’s Base
Castor Wilds
1) In the southeast of Castor Wilds are some shrubs near a small boulder. Cut the shrubs and enter the cave. Inside the cave with be a chest holding a piece of heart.
2) In the northeast corner will be a cave you need to use the flippers to swim over to – inside the cave just move the blocks and get the heart piece.
3) Find the Forest Minish in the southwest corner of the Minish Village and fuse Kinstones with him. A lily pad will appear in the northwest corner of Castor Wilds. Travel there and shrink down. Take the lily pad south and then travel around until you reach a small Minish sized door in the water in the southeast side of the area. Traverse the cave to reach the piece of heart.
Wind Ruins
1) Head to the second tree stump and shrink down. Now head west and climb down the vine – continue backtracking as such until you come across the wall that has 3 vines. Climb down the middle one and enter the cave. Traverse the cave to acquire the piece of heart.
Royal Valley
1) After moving the upper-left gravestone you will find a staircase leading down. Go inside and then use the colored tiles to clone Link so you can move the giant brick blocking the heart piece.
Trilby Highlands
Western Wood
1) Travel to the Lake Hylia Wind Crest and shrink down to Minish size. Enter the Minish house and fuse Kinstones with the inhabitant. This will cause an entrance to appear on a tree in Western Wood. Enter the tree for the heart piece.
Hyrule Castle Garden
1) After the guards have left the southeast area you can travel through to find a patch of bushes. Cut the bushes with your sword to reveal a ladder. Climb down it to find the piece of heart.
2) Perform a Red Kinstone fusion with a Minish in the upper level of the Coffee shop and a fountain on the east side of Hyrule Garden will drain. Climb down the newly revealed ladder to get the heart piece.
North Hyrule Field
1) Find the sign that says Royal Valley (not the one that says Royal Valley plus others) and you will see a spot you can bomb in the middle of the path west of the sign. Bomb it and climb down the ladder. Now climb down the stairs inside here and you will find a piece of heart.
Hyrule Town
1) Use the Roc’s Cape to jump into the Bell in the middle of the town. A heart piece will fall from it.
2) Talk with the Cucco Lady and catch all of her cucco’s each round – after the last round you will get a piece of heart.
3) Go to Simon’s Simulations and pay to try it out. After defeating all of the creatures in the dream state you will awaken to find a chest that contains a piece of heart.
4) Go inside the Purple house on the east side of town – the one with the Minish door – and use the Cane of Pacci to flip over the pot. Shrink down and exit the house. Go north and climb the vine near the hotel. Go inside the rear of the hotel where the flower trail is and inside will be the heart piece.
5) In the southwest corner across the small river us a door in the side of a side. Enter it and go down the stairs – this is where you trade your Shells for Figurines – and start grinding away to collect all the figurines. There are 136 in total and you will get a piece of heart after you acquire them all.
6) Shrink down and follow the path to go to the fountain. Enter the Minish sized door and then swim west across the stream to find the heart piece.
7) Go to the school and use the Cane of Pacci to flip over the pot. Shrink down and exit through the Minish door directly south. Head to the Minish trail and at the end you will have to split up into several Link’s in order to push the boulder to grab the piece of heart.
South Hyrule Field
1) After doing your first Kinstone Fusion a door will open on a tree in the southeast corner of South Hyrule Field. Head inside to claim the piece of heart.
2) Go to the southwest corner of South Hyrule Field and you will find a shiny tree. Run into it with the sword and Pegasus Boots to reveal a Minish portal. Use it to shrink down and then jump into the water to the east of you. Swim all the way north and go slightly east to find a small minish sized cave you can swim into – inside this cave will be the piece of heart.
Veil Falls
1) After entering Veil Falls from North Hyrule Field you should see a heart piece visible in the water below. Once you have the flippers jump into the water and get the piece of heart.
2) Go to the Cloud Tops and find Gale inside the tower on the first floor. Fuse Kinstones with her to reveal a cave inside a waterfall. Travel to the cave and snatch up the heart piece.
3) Enter the area coming from Lon Lon Ranch by using the Cane of Pacci to launch you out of a hole in the ground. The piece of heart is found by simply following the path going east.
4) Go to the Minish Village and head to the house in the northeast where you have to swim to go to it. Fuse Kinstones with the lone Minish (may take 2 fusions) and a patch of land will form near a strange door in Veil Falls. Travel to it and use your Mole Mitts to enter the cave. Now just use the Mole Mitts to dig through to the end of the cave to find the heart piece.
Lon Lon Ranch
1) Go to the area right behind the Ranch and you will find a shiny tree. Run into it with a Dash Attack to reveal a Minish Portal. Shrink down and head to the east to find a Minish trail. At the end of the trail is the piece of heart.
2) Go to Stockwell’s house in Lake Hylia and go down the stairs a little to the east of it. Use the Roc’s Cape to jump across to the small land mass and, keep going, and then head north to find a cave you must use the Mole Mitts to enter. Take the path to the left to find the right exit to Lon Lon Ranch where a heart piece will be located.
Eastern Hills
1) Go to the southwest of the area and shrink. Enter into the Minish House north of you and perform a Kinstone Fusion with him to make a beanstalk sprout. Now just return to normal size and head north to find the beanstalk. Climb it for the piece of heart.
Cloud Tops
Palace of Winds
1) Travel to the fourth floor on the west side of the dungeon. Follow the west wall around until you find a row of blocks beside a gap in the floor. Push the blocks into the gap and then use the Roc’s Cape to jump across. Go into the door and follow the path to the heart piece.
Lake Hylia
1) Go to Stockwell’s house and you will see a small pond on the west side of it. Use the Flippers to dive into the water to find the piece of heart.
2) Go to Stockwell’s house and climb down the small ladder slightly to the east of it. Jump across the small islands to find the heart piece.
3) Swim west from the Mayor’s house and you will find a small ladder leading to a piece of heart.
4) Go north from the last piece of heart and climb up the ladder. Go inside the tree to find a Dojo along with another heart piece.
5) Use the tree stump near the Mayor’s house to shrink down. Swim directly north until you see a vine leading up to a Minish-sized hole. Fuse Kinstones with the Minish who resides inside the hole to make a beanstalk appear. Now grow back to normal and head to Stockwell’s house. Like several other times – travel down the ladder and jump across the land masses until you reach the cave. Use the Mole Mitts and take the right path in the cave. Continue and you will emerge across from another ladder. Take the ladder and continue through the cave and you will emerge at the beanstalk. Climb the beanstalk to find the piece of heart.
Minish Woods
1) Outside of the Deepwood Shrine is the heart piece. Just grab it while normal size.
2) Travel across the bridge west of the Wind Crest and go north to find a small area with 3 Minish sized caves. Go to the cave on the far left. Navigate the cave to find the heart piece.
3) Go inside the Minish Village and travel down the wooden path in the northeast of the village. At the end of the trail will be a piece of heart.
4) Go southwest from Syrup to nab this piece of heart or you can use the flippers to swim across and get it.
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