BOTW: How Many Hearts You Need To Get The Master Sword (2024)

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BOTW: How Many Hearts You Need To Get The Master Sword? ›

However, the Master Sword in Breath of the Wild is coveted for being the exception to this rule and, instead, recharges after it becomes broken. Players can pull the Master Sword in BOTW only after obtaining a total of 13 full heart containers.

How many hearts do you need to get the Master Sword? But here's the hitch... you'll need to have 13 full hearts before you can grab it. And temporary hearts won't do the trick, we're afraid. There are a couple of ways to get those hearts: defeating Divine Beasts, or trading four spirit orbs at goddess statues.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

You need 13 hearts to pull out the Master Sword but once you've got it your hearts can go below 13 if you want to swap some heart containers for stamina containers.

Weapon Stats

If Link is inside a dungeon, near Guardians or Malice, the blade of the sword will glow with a light blue aura. While in this state, the Master Sword will deal 60 damage and will only change back to 30 (with exception of the Trial of the Sword DLC) if moved away from malice.

After completing the Trial of the Sword from The Master Trials DLC pack, the Master Sword will be awakened permanently, and using the Sword Beam will no longer affect its Durability.

The Hylian Shield isn't technically unbreakable, but it does have a very high durability of 800. If you haven't mastered the Perfect Guard technique, I'd steer clear of using it against Guardians' laser beams, as they can destroy almost any shield with one blast.

Breath of the Wild

Link can obtain up to 23 Heart Containers from Goddess Statues, allowing him to have a maximum of 30 hearts. If Link instead uses his Spirit Orbs to achieve three full Stamina Wheels from the Goddess Statue, he will only have enough Spirit Orbs left to obtain a total of 27 hearts.

In practice, there are 38 max hearts in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During Tears of the Kingdom's cold open, you'll start out with 40 heart containers, as well as full stamina. Sadly, this doesn't carry over to the actual Tears of the Kingdom experience.

Because Breath of the Wild is open-world, the Stamina Vessels are the better option. Players will spend the majority of their gameplay climbing and paragliding. It's also much easier to activate Sheikah Towers with more Stamina Wheels than it is with more Hearts.

Tough as hell, the guardians are ancient robots created by the Sheikah, now under the control of Calamity Ganon. The armour you'll want in your battle against these machines is the Ancient Armour. With a maximum defense stat of 28 per piece, it will keep you as safe as possible from those strong attacks.

How to pull Master Sword without 13 hearts? ›

Once you have access to Korok Forest, you simple sleep at a campfire on the sword's triangular plinth and hammer the 'A' button when you wake up. You'll grab the Master Sword without the requisite number of hearts and will be free to unleash its awesome power much sooner in the game than you 'should'.

Fake Master Swords can be found in the Lost Woods. They are decoys placed in there to prevent Link from finding the real Master Sword.

Before You Get the Master Sword

You're going to need two full stamina wheels in order to pull out the sword from the dragon's head, so you'll need to find at least 20 Light of Blessings from Shrines -- which are traded in to a Goddess Statue to expand your Stamina wheel.

Players start with three hearts and must obtain 10 more before they can survive pulling out the Master Sword in Breath of the Wild.

You will also need a minimum of 13 heart containers to pull the Master Sword out of the ground.

There are only two requirements to unlock the Master Sword in Tears of the Kingdom: Have two stamina wheels (gold ones don't count) and know where to find the Light Dragon. Getting an additional stamina wheel requires five Stamina Vessels, which means 20 Light of Blessings will be needed.

Once you've found the Light Dragon and mounted it, you'll see the Master Sword is on its head. You are going to need two green stamina wheels in order to pull out the Master Sword. If you don't have enough stamina, the Light Dragon will shake you off.