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Spirit Tracks Heart Container Guide
What you Need to Know:
This Spirit Tracks guide is for the additional add-ons Link finds throughout his journey to further increase his health points - Heart Containers - making him prone to handle more hits taken. Collecting these will add extra hearts to Link's health, and as opposed to having to collect four or five Heart Pieces like from games like Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess, collecting just one of these will have the same effect. I wrote them numbered in this guide in the most convenient, quickest order you can obtain them, ranging from around the beginning, to near the end. Link himself starts off with three hearts, and there are eight Heart Containers you can find all around the overworld (stations, villages, and such), which are to be listed first, and there are five Heart Containers you can receive by defeating bosses from dungeons, which I'll place last as they are plot-related, and you can find those Heart Containers most easily. As so it does not appear confusing, I have them categorized for your convenience.
Overworld/Sidequest Hearts
Heart Container #2: Take 'Em All On Challenge in Town
This Heart Container can be obtained as soon as you finish the Forest Temple and beat Stagnox. It lies in Hyrule Town at the purplish house next to the station. Whether or not you visited the woman (who much resembles Jolene from Phantom Hourglass), she stated before that "this place isn't for kids". Return there and she'll now allow you to take on the "Take 'Em All On" challenge, Level 1, for the price of twenty rupees. There are ten floors containing enemies from the Forest Temple, and any more early game enemies. After clearing all nine floors and vanquishing Stagnox at the end, she'll congratulate you, and as a token of her gratitude, you'll receive a Heart Container!
Heart Container #3: A Cold, Abundantly-Priced Purchase
This Heart Container can be gotten as soon as the Forest Temple is complete, the Snow Realm is available, and aaaaaaaaaalotttttttttttt of rupees in your wallet. Over at the Snow Sanctuary (you can't miss it, it is required in the plot to meet the Lokomo, Steem), there's a small shop house right of the station's entrance. Enter inside and the Anouki managing the shop is selling a hefty-priced Heart Container for two-thousand rupees! Further in the game making two-thousand might be manageable, however this early in the game is it rather difficult. Pinch your pennies (or...rupees), and use all the means you know how to collect the necessary amount of money to purchase this fine heart-shaped stone.
Heart Container #5: Rabbitland Rescue Reward
This Heart Container can be obtained after the completion of the Snow Temple. At the entrance to the Snow Realm from the Forest Realm, there's a small station there called Rabbitland Rescue (you've most likely been there by now), and technically as it can be visited fairly early, you cannot receive this Heart Container until you have caught at least five rabbits (which at the earliest time you can visit there, you in fact cannot capture that much). With the Snow Temple out of the way, there should be enough of the restored Spirit Tracks so you can capture enough of them. Return back with five bunnies and the man there will reward you with a Heart Container (did you know there are actually fifty rabbits around the world?).
Heart Container #6: Aim for Hits by the way of the Sword in the Castle
This Heart Container can be earned as soon as you've finished the Snow Temple. Afterwards, you should receive a letter from Russell (the high-ranked guard who gave you your Recruit's Sword at Hyrule Castle) informing you that you are now able to train with his soldier recruits. Go on over to Hyrule Castle's training room, and for a small fee of twenty rupees, you'll enter a mini-game of which you can only use your sword to parry and strike the soldiers. The key here is to try and hit the soldiers at least sixty times or more, and a good method would be to hit the soldiers three, four, or even five times (if you're elusive enough with Link to make him flee away from their spear thrusts), and run away past them. Eventually it may start to get more hectic where you'll find yourself only being able to land two blows safely, but if that's the case just roll away from 'em. Complete this successfully with at least sixty hits and Russell will reward you with a Heart Container (if you thought that was easy, try aiming for nine-hundred ninety-nine times!).
Heart Container #7: 5,000 Rupees Spent worth of 500 Points at Beedle's Air Shop
This Heart Container is probably the most difficult to get in my opinion, it is accessible to get after you've completed the Snow Temple. Whenever you visit Beedle's Air Shop, doesn't it hinder you to see a nice, shiny Heart Container up on his shelf that is inaccessible to buy? Well you can get it, but it may take many days of expensive purchases to get it. You have to be a Gold Member in his shop (a twenty % discount on all of his items), and in order to do so you have to earn five-hundred points...by buying five-thousand rupees worth of his merchandise. Do not fret, as it may be hard to get, and seem impossible, just be a dedicated shopper of his, buying expensive treasure items and all that, and within days he'll reward you with a Gold Membership Card, and the Heart Container, of which you've stuck allot of hard-earned rupees into. Me? If you would like to get some advice of exactly how to make that many rupees, make the path to the Ocean Realm available by playing through some of the plot, play allot of mini-games to get some nice treasure, and take them to Linebeck's Treasure Shop to make some serious money, depending upon what you sell him, of course.
Heart Container #9: Whip Latchin' for Low High Score
This Heart Container can be won after the finish of the Ocean Temple. Now that you've obtained your fourth weapon, the Whip, you can reach certain locations of Whittleton Village you couldn't reach before. By going through the northeast corner of the village, keep heading northeast by latching on to the pole directly to the right, and upwards is one of the men from the village who had ambitions to 'run a shop out back', though really, this is no shop. Pay the fee to enter the Whip Race, and if you finish it in under 1:15 seconds, he'll be very surprised and award you with a fine reward - a Heart Container! As a tip for the race, remember you don't need exact precision when swinging from pole-to-pole, just tap them as fast, and neatly as you can muster, and keep up the effort till you get it!
Heart Container #11: Bow It Forward with your Arrows
This Heart Container can be sought out as soon as the Fire Temple is finished, though not immediately, there are a few things you must do, but if you are patient enough it should go rather swimmingly. Revisit Papuchia Village, and the fish merchant woman there is unsatisfied with her fishes' condition, and she asks of you if you can deliver her at least ten chunks of Mega Ice for them. So set out to the Snow Realm and buy some from the Anouki, return back to her with the ice undeterred, and with an amount of ten or higher, she'll give you a Force Gem out of the goodness of her heart, creating new Spirit Tracks which lead to a new station--the station of which where you'll get your Heart Container, but there is one small task you must perform there. Enter the cave at the Pirates' Hideout, and free the man inside by accomplishing all four stages of the mini-game. He'll want to go back to Papuchia, so give him a ride there. Now what you've done is done, you can go back there and there's a Goron outside. He claims his friend is inside there, so go inside and do the mini-game successfully, and try to score four-thousand points or more, and that hard-earned Heart Container is rightfully yours.
Heart Container #13: Brainteaser Puzzles at the End of the Earth Station
This last Heart Container can be obtained after you've completed the Sand Temple, practically at the end of the game. You must fulfil the Lokomo Rael's request to bring some Cucoos over there, and if you do so new Spirit Tracks will appear. Travel to the new area and there's a station all the way out here! Once you've stopped and you're outside, there are three cave entrances, all leading to different difficulties of sand block puzzles using the Sand Wand. Regardless of which order you complete them in, finish them all and your final reward in the last treasure chest is the last Heart Container in the game! Now how awesome is that?
Plot-related/Dungeon Boss Hearts
Heart Container #1: The First Dungeon Boss and First Heart Container
In order to obtain this Heart Container, beat the plot-related boss Stagnox in the Forest Temple. It will leave a chest behind, and within it lies a Heart Container. With this temple completed, some Heart Containers can now be obtained!
Heart Container #4: Icy-Hot Heart Container
In order to obtain this Heart Container, beat the plot-related boss Fraaz in the Snow Temple. It will leave a chest behind, and within it lies a Heart Container. With this temple completed, some Heart Containers can now be obtained!
Heart Container #8: The One-Eyed Heart Container
In order to obtain this Heart Container, beat the plot-related boss Phytops in the Ocean Temple. It will leave a chest behind, and within it lies a Heart Container. With this temple completed, some Heart Containers can now be obtained!
Heart Container #10: The Heart within the Magma
In order to obtain this Heart Container, beat the plot-related boss Cragma in the Fire Temple. It will leave a chest behind, and within it lies a Heart Container. With this temple completed, some Heart Containers can now be obtained!
Heart Container #12: The Second-to-Last Heart Container full o' Bones
In order to obtain this Heart Container, beat the plot-related boss Skeldritch in the Sand Temple. It will leave a chest behind, and within it lies a Heart Container. With this temple completed, some Heart Containers can now be obtained!
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