Do not buy anything from Beedle's Shop and try to leave. Beedle will open a trap door and you will fall to the ground below.
Entering Zelda's room
Climb around to the roof over Zelda's room using the ledge by the upper entrance to the Knight Academy. Use the Clawshots on the target on the top of the chimney's reverse side to enter the academy. Note: If done at night, Gaepora will be taking a bath below where you land. Crawl through the passage to enter Zelda's room. Once there you can look at Zelda's Diary by sitting in her chair; get a Gratitude Crystal (at night); get a Heart Piece from the cabinet; and look at the Tingle doll.
Goddess Walls
When you play your harp around a group of butterflies in specific areas of the game, a Goddess Wall sometimes appears nearby. Hold your sword up to the light, then draw various symbols on the wall in order to obtain the related item. For a group of recovery hearts, draw a heart. For a bunch of rupees, draw a rupee. Drawing an arrow grants you arrows. Painting a circle gives you bombs. And if you can manage to draw the Triforce, you'll get some fairies.
Gratitude Crystal bonuses
Collect the indicated number of Gratitude Crystals and bring them to Batreaux to unlock the corresponding bonus.
2 Gold Rupees: 70 Gratitude Crystals
Big Wallet and Cursed Medal (Holds 1,000 Rupees): 30 Gratitude Crystals
Giant Wallet (5,000 Rupee capacity): 50 Gratitude Crystals
Gold Rupee: 40 Gratitude Crystals
Piece of Heart: 10 Gratitude Crystals
The Medium Wallet (500 Rupee capacity): 5 Gratitude Crystals
Tycoon Wallet (9,000 Rupee capacity): 80 Gratitude Crystals
Healing chairs
Occasionally in dungeons you can find small stools or chairs. Sitting on them and waiting a few seconds will start to refill all of your hearts. You can do this anytime and as often as you want.
Heart Piece locations
Search the indicated locations to find the corresponding Heart Piece.
Goddess Cube, Deep Woods: Activate the Goddess Cube outside the Skyview Temple entrance. The chest can be found on a small island south of Skyloft.
Goddess Cube, Temple of Time: There is a mine cart and a robot blocking the path that upgrades your map to have multiple waypoints in the area outside the Temple of Time . The Goddess Cube is east from here, along the mine cart track. Use the Timeshift Stone above the area to push or ride the mine cart to the edge of the Timeshift Stone's effect. There is another stone across the gorge. Activate it with the Hook Beetle and get in the mine cart. Charge a Skyward Strike and hit the Goddess Cube as the mine cart passes it. The chest can be found on Beedle's Island in the northeast of the sky.
Goddess Cube, Faron Woods: Note: This requires the Water Dragon's Scale. Get access to the top of the Great Tree in Faron Woods. Drop off the ledge on the northeast side of the tree. Fall to the platform with the Goddess Cube. Note: This cube can be seen from the viewing platform with the Bird Statue in the north.
Goddess Cube, Pirate Stronghold: Note: This requires the Clawshots. Open the jaws in the Pirate Stronghold and get outside. Turn around and look for a high Clawshots target. This will lead to the Goddess Cube.
Goddess Cube, Volcano Summit: The cave leading to the Fire Sanctuary entrance has an exit that leads to a waterfall. Use the water to put out the frog statue flames. Run off the cliff by this waterfall and fall down. Maneuver around a pillar to land on the platform with the Cube.
Goddess Cube, Eldin Volcano: Note: This requires the Water Dragon's Scale. There is a long sand slide on the eastern side of Eldin Volcano, in the far north. Take the left side and aim for the left platform that has a Dig Spot. Below this is another platform with a Goddess Cube. The chest is in the center of the town of Skyloft. Note: You must swim underwater to reach the area it is in.
Between Sealed Grounds and Faron Woods: Gorko will give you a Heart Piece after you showing him how to draw a heart symbol on the Goddess Wall by the shrine entrance.
Eldin Volcano: The Heart Piece is above the area in the southwest of Eldin Volcano. Send the Beetle past it then run it into a bomb by the shelled Pyrup to take it out. Set a waypoint marker on your map to it, then run all the way around and collect the Heart Piece.
Faron Woods: Note: The Bomb Bag is required. Destroy the bomb-able wall near the entrance to the path to the Sealed Grounds on the west side of Faron Woods proper.
Faron Woods: The central tree in the northern portion of Faron Woods has a root that in the south that leads to a rope. Use it to cross to the Heart Piece.
Fire Sanctuary: Note: The Mogma Mitts is required. Find the dig spot in the northwest corner of the Fire Sanctuary, just before the river of lava. Catch a Mogma in the tunnel to get the Heart Piece.
Fun Fun Island: Fix Fun Fun Island and get a perfect score in the Dodoh's Drop game. To do this, drop through all five rings to get a x10 score multiplier and land on the 50 Rupee multicolored space.
Lanayru Desert: Note: The Clawshots is required. Open the bombable wall found in the northeast of Lanayru Desert proper. Proceed ahead to a long path of Clawshots targets and Chuchus. The Heart Piece is in a chest at the end.
Lanayru Gorge: Revive the Thunder Dragon then play Lightning Round/Boss Rush mode. Defeat four consecutive bosses and quit to collect the Heart Piece.
Pumpkin Landing: Complete all of the tasks for the owner of the Lumpy Pumpkin (Pumpkin Soup delivery, Pumpkin Harvest, and Kina's song).
Pumpkin Landing: Enter the Pumpkin landing pub and run upstairs. Roll into a rafter to bring down the Heart Piece.
Sandship: Note: The Clawshots is required. Make your way through the crow's nests of the Sandship to get access to the rear of the ship. Use the Clawshots to reach a Clawshot Target that allows you drop down the back side of the ship. A chest there has the Heart Piece.
Shipyard: Complete the Sandship and return to the Shipyard. Play the Rickety Coaster game and complete the Expert course in 65 seconds.
Skyloft: Bring ten Gratitude Crystals to Batreaux.
Skyloft: Complete the Fledge's Workout side quest. Find Fledge in the pumpkin patch on Skyloft, then score 600 points in the Pumpkin Pull game.
Skyloft: Note: The Clawshots is required. Enter Zelda's room. You can see the Heart Piece through a crack in Karane's wall. Climb to the roof of the Knight Academy and aim the Clawshot under the roof of the chimney. Release and fall into a room above the bath. Climb through the small hole and drop into Zelda's room. Open her cupboard to find the Heart Piece.
Skyloft: Purchase the Heart Piece in Beedle's Shop for 1,600 rupees after getting a wallet large enough to hold the funds.
Skyview Temple: Get the Beetle and use it to hit a switch above the bottle-like structure to open a gate to the Heart Piece.
Volcano Summit: Note: The Mogma Mitts is required. Find the Gossip Stone with a dig spot in front of it at the entrance to the Fire Sanctuary. A Heart Piece can be found there.
Hero mode
Successfully complete the game. Hero mode is activated when you start a new game session; which will overwrite your saved game. In this mode, hearts last half as long, hearts and heart flowers will not appear unless you are carrying a Heart Medal, you will start with a fully powered up Skyward Strike attack, the Sheikah Stone will let you access all the hints, and you will have your previously collected insects and treasures. Additionally, Boss Rush mode will include the final Boss.
Hylian Shield
Defeat eight Bosses consecutively in the Boss Challenge at Lanayru Gorge in Hero mode.
Item upgrades
Collect the indicated material to have owner of the Scrap Shop in Skyloft upgrade the corresponding item.
At night, go to the Waterfall Cave in Skyloft. Find the three Blessed Butterflies nearby play your harp as if summoning a Gossip Stone. The Moonlight Merchant will appear. The following items can be purchased from him.
Use the Bug Net or Big Bug Net to capture the following bugs in the Overworld. Bring them to the Potion Lady's husband in the Skyloft Bazaar along with the base potion to upgrade it.
Sit on the small stools or chairs that can be found in dungeons. After a few seconds your hearts will begin to refill.
The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time reference
When played backwards, the theme song resembles "Zelda's Lullaby" from The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time.
The Moonlight Merchant
Go to the Waterfall Cave in Skyloft at Night. Search for 3 Blessed Butterflies flying around and play your harp like you would to summon a Gossip Stone. The Moonlight Merchant will be summoned instead. He sells rare treasures, which are expensive, but hard to find any other way.
Item
Location
Blue Bird Feather
200 Rupees
Dusk Relic
100 Rupees
Evil Crystal
100 Rupees
Goddess Plume
200 Rupees
Golden Skull
200 Rupees
Monster Horn
100 Rupees
Thunder Dragon's Lightning Round bonuses
Win the indicated number of battles in the Thunder Dragon's Lightning Round to unlock the corresponding bonus.
