Spirit Gem and Heart Container Locations
Heart Containers
There are 16 total Heart Containers in Phantom Hourglass, including the three you start with. There are seven that you'll pick up automatically in each of the seven main dungeons of the game. That leaves six to find in the game world. We're not going to cover these quests in depth (mostly because the game is easily finished with the 10 heart containers you obtain naturally, and because we didn't complete them all ourselves), but if you want to get a hint on where to look for them, here's a list.
- Romano's Shooting Range. After defeating the Temple of Courage, Romano will have a mini-game available in his hut on Molida. Score 2,000 points for the heart.
- Wayfarer on Bannen Island. Complete the Wayfarer's quest to find a Mermaid companion, and he'll grant you a container.
- Beedle's assistant. If you catch Beedle's assistant on his ship, he'll sometimes sell you a container.
- Island shops. Check around at the island item shops. One of them will sell a Bombchu bag for you to carry more bombchus with. If you buy it, then a heart container will replace it at one of the shops.
- Beat the Treasure Maze challenge on Expert difficulty.
- Defeat the Northwestern Adventurer's Ship fighter by hitting him 100 times, and he'll fork over a heart container.
Spirit Gems
There are 20 of each type of spirit gem located around the game. If you find ten of a certain kind of gem, you can take them to the Spirit Island in the southwestern corner of the southwestern map quadrant to power up that spirit with a certain new feature. It's not necessary to power up your spirits if you don't want to. If you do, though, you can change spirits on the Collections menu.
We didn't find all of the spirit gems during our playthrough, so this isn't a complete list, but hopefully will help you track some of the ones that you missed. If you're looking for a complete list, check the Items FAQ at GameFAQs.com.
Power Gems
When upgraded, the power gems allow your red spirit to imbue your sword with fire. Arguably the most useful of the ten-gem upgrades.
- Bomb Garden, Cannon Island.
- Item Seller, Molida.
- Isle of Gust, exterior platform. Dig to reveal an airjet on the western side of the island and jump up.
- B2 Floor Temple of Wind, off on the western side of the large desert room.
- Mercay, small bombable cave on the way to Temple of the King
- 2nd Floor of Temple of Courage.
- 1st Floor of Temple of Courage.
- Power Gem from Oshus after defeating the Diabolical Cubus Sisters.
- Temple of the Ocean King, B3 floor, only accessible after obtaining bow.
- Temple of the Ocean King, B7 Floor, jump onto pedestal in northeastern corner and hit switch to the south.
- Isle of Goron, in the maze to the north before the temple.
- Ice Island, southeastern corner, need a grappling hook.
- Bannen Island, near the dock, requires grappling hook.
- Spirit Island, requires grapple.
- Isle of the Dead, inside the cave you dig to the south of the switch on the pillar.
- Isle of Ruins, after dropping the water, northeastern corner of the southwestern maze.
Courage Gems
The ten-gem powerup allows your sword to shoot a blade of light when you use a slashing attack. Handy enough, but we personally almost always used targeted attacks, thrusts, or spin attacks during combat, so we never found this to be useful. You also have plenty of items that can attack at range.
- Courage Gem, treasure chest on Spirit Island
- Isle of Gust, small cave knocked open by bombs when you first land.
- Temple of Wind, B1, ride an airjet up to it.
- Temple of Courage, 3F
- Temple of the Ocean King, B8, after inserting the triangle crystal.
- Hidden DS-Shaped island in southeastern map quadrant. Drop down on northern side and defeat the Cyclopes to reveal a chest.
- Hidden DS Island. Head to the lower section of the DS and walk around where the touchscreen is located. Dig in the southwestern most square to find the gem.
- Isle of Ember, northwestern corner, need the grappling hook.
- Uncharted Isle, center chamber, need the grappling hook.
- Temple of Ocean King, B1, need grappling hook and bow
- From Gongoron in the mail after the fourth trip to Temple of Ocean King.
- Treasure room in explorer's cave near the dock on Isle of the Dead.
- Mogoh's Temple, B2 Floor, southwestern corner.
- Eastern side of Isle of Ruins, after the water has been drained, near the northeastern temple.
Wisdom
Powering up your Wisdom spirit increases your shield power.
- Beedle's Ship
- Isle of Gust, small cave with jets of wind blowing you off the path.
- Letter from Salvatore, game master of Bannon Island, after you attempt his minigame.
- B1 Temple of Courage, arrow maneuvering minigame near northeastern exit.
- B9 Temple of the Ocean King, kill all of the ghosts on the level and it appears.
- From Goron Chieftan upon answering his questions.
- 3rd Floor, Temple of Ice, treasure chest.
- B1, Temple of Ice, northeastern treasure chest.
- Ice Island, east of Chief's Hut, after obtaining the grappling hook.
- B2 Temple of the Ocean King, need bombchus and bombs.
- From Aroo in the mail, after the fourth trip to the Temple of the Ocean King.
- Isle of Ruins, after unlock the obelisk in Bremeur's Tomb, you'll head to the west, then south, push the boulder into the other boulder to the east.
- Freedle's island, northeastern corner of Mercay. Need the bow and arrow.
- Zauz's island, requires the grappling hook.
