Ocarina of Time Remake Heart Pieces: All 36 Locations

The Switch 2 Ocarina of Time has the same number of Pieces of Heart as the 1998 game, 36, and that is exactly why an old checklist is dangerous. The count still adds up, so you do not notice that two entries send you to grottos that no longer hold a piece, one sends you into a mini-dungeon that both remake lists leave out, and nothing on it mentions the new Business Scrub in Death Mountain Crater.

This is the remake list, by area. I have not played the remake. Zelda Wiki's remake page is the primary source for what moved, but it has no full list and no total. The full list here is built from two independent remake guides, Game8 and Nintendo Life, which each publish a 36-piece Switch 2 list. A piece goes in the tables only where both name it, and the routes follow Nintendo Life and Zelda Wiki; where the guides disagree, I say so. Our existing Heart Piece guide is the N64 and 3DS list and stays that way. For every other collectible change, see the remake collectibles guide.

The count: 36, and 20 hearts

That icon is how the remake tracks it: Zelda Wiki's gallery has the Collection-screen icon at zero, two, three and four pieces assembled. The remake also supports the Zelda Notes app, which has a live map and tracks your game statistics; our Zelda Notes guide covers it.

What changed from the N64 list

Four entries differ in where the piece is. Everything else is in the same area as before, sometimes with a different route.

The original's 10-Rupee Scrub price is from Zelda Wiki's Business Scrub page, which documents the 3DS wares.

The password Scrub and the time-locked chest

Both are Hyrule Field pieces now, and both are time-travel puzzles that did not exist in 1998.

The password Scrub. Bomb the cracked ground beside the Castle Town gate and drop in as a child. Repel the Scrub's attack with your shield and talk to it: it will not sell without a password. Go back as an adult and read the Fairy Thought on the tree next to the hole. Nintendo Life calls it a "Fairy Note". Navi relays the password. Talking to the Scrub as an adult does not work: Nintendo Life says it calls the item out of stock. Return as a child, give the password, and pay 100 Rupees. Zelda Wiki confirms the move and the Fairy Thought on the tree. Game8 and Nintendo Life give the 100-Rupee price and the child-adult-child order.

The password itself is "Sell something, will ya?" in Nintendo Life's spelling and "Sell somethin', will ya?" in Game8's.

The time-locked chest. It sits in a shaded spot under a cliff near the road to Gerudo Valley; Nintendo Life puts it in the west of Hyrule Field by the Gerudo entrance. Zelda Wiki's rule: interact with it as a child, then as an adult, then as a child again. Nintendo Life says that as an adult you find it already opened, and adds a step Zelda Wiki does not mention: read a Fairy Thought near the chest as an adult before going back.

The Ice Cavern and the Crater Scrub

Neither remake list has an Ice Cavern piece, and Game8's remake page for the Ice Cavern states there are no Heart Pieces there. Nintendo Life's Ice Cavern walkthrough mentions none inside. Zora's Fountain still has its two pieces, an iceberg and the lake bed, so Zora country goes from eight to seven.

The 36 still adds up because Death Mountain Crater gained one. Both guides list a Business Scrub in the Crater, bought as a child for 100 Rupees: stun it with your shield, then talk to it. Nintendo Life says only that you will see it once inside the crater as a child. Neither guide says this Scrub replaced the Ice Cavern piece. That is my reading of the count.

One caveat: Zelda Wiki's Ice Cavern infobox still lists a Piece of Heart, and its Death Mountain Crater infobox lists two, not three. Those infoboxes may still hold the original game's data, but I can't be sure of that. The wiki's remake change list mentions neither change. Two independent remake guides agree against it, so I have gone with them, but check your own in-game area tally if it does not add up.

All 36, by area

Numbers in the tables are this post's own, grouped by area. The game does not number them, and Game8 and Nintendo Life each use a different order. Bold marks a route that differs from the N64 one.

Kakariko and the Graveyard (8)

Kakariko and its graveyard hold eight of the 36, the same as on N64. Our Kakariko Graveyard guide has the N64 routes.

Zora country (7)

The remake guides disagree on how many torches #13 needs, so I've left the number out: light them all, and be quick. Zelda Wiki's remake page confirms the adult Zora's Fountain change: a solid ice bridge now runs to the Ice Cavern, and some icebergs still lead from it to a Piece of Heart, which is #14. Our Zora's River guide has the frog songs.

Death Mountain and Goron City (5)

On #17, the sources split. Zelda Wiki's remake page says the Revolving Vase now always dispenses a Piece of Heart the first time a bomb explodes inside it, and Nintendo Life's step simply says the explosion reveals the piece. Game8 still describes it as depending on the face the vase stops on, which is how it worked on N64. I'm going with Zelda Wiki. The Goron City guide has the torch route.

Castle Town and Hyrule Field (5)

The Treasure-Chest Game and Bombchu Bowling entry fees aren't settled for the remake. Zelda Wiki's Bowling page lists 30 Rupees, but Game8's remake list says 10. Our remake shop prices post tracks that. Bring spare Rupees.

Lake Hylia and the Gerudo side (8)

On #26 the size is not settled: Nintendo Life says the exact threshold isn't clear and that theirs was 59 cm. Our Lake Hylia guide and Gerudo's Fortress guide cover the N64 versions of these routes.

Lon Lon Ranch and the Lost Woods (3)

That is 36, and the per-area totals match between the two guides.

Where the sources disagree

• Ice Cavern and Death Mountain Crater counts. Game8 and Nintendo Life: no Ice Cavern piece and three in the Crater. Zelda Wiki's area infoboxes: one in the Ice Cavern, two in the Crater. I follow the two remake guides.
• The Revolving Vase. Zelda Wiki says the piece is guaranteed the first time; Game8 still describes the old face roll.
• The password's spelling. "Sell something, will ya?" (Nintendo Life) or "Sell somethin', will ya?" (Game8).
• The time-locked chest. Zelda Wiki gives child, adult, child. Nintendo Life adds a Fairy Thought step.
• Small numbers: fish size, the Zora's Domain torch count and the Bowling fee differ between sources, so I left them out.

Quick Action Checklist

• The remake has 36 Pieces of Heart and a 20-heart maximum. Press A to pick a piece up.
• Ignore any N64 list that sends you to the Lake Hylia grotto Scrub, the grotto near Lon Lon Ranch or the Ice Cavern.
• For the password Scrub by the Castle Town walls: meet it as a child, read the Fairy Thought on the tree as an adult, buy as a child for 100 Rupees.
• For the chest under the cliff by the Gerudo Valley road: visit it as a child, adult, then child.
• Bring 100 Rupees for the new Death Mountain Crater Scrub as a child.
• Kakariko and its graveyard hold 8, so sweep there first.
• Bomb the Goron City vase once: per Zelda Wiki the first explosion pays out.