The max heart container amount in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is actually quite high, which has players asking how many hearts Link can get. There are so many shrines spread all around TotK and full heart upgrades after beating Temple bosses that it’s possible to extend Link’s health bar to legendary levels. And that’s not considering temporary hearts either from Hearty Elixirs and other sources. Here’s how many hearts you can get in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
What’s the maximum number of hearts Link can get?
Link can earn a maximum of 40 hearts in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom after completing all of the shrines, defeating every Temple bosses, and finishing some other side quests as well.
Link starts off with 3 heart containers. Every Temple boss and the Phantom Ganon boss provides 6 heart containers. There are also a whopping 152 shrines in the game, but you’ll only need to complete 124 shrines to earn the remaining 31 heart containers for the maximum total of 40 hearts.
This doesn’t include the extra health or stamina upgrade you can receive from the Trapped Under the Water of the Great Plateau (or A Call From The Depths mission).
We should note that, though, that similar to Breath of the Wild, you will need to sacrifice max stamina for max health. You cannot have both the maximum number of heart containers at 40 and the maximum amount of stamina of 3 full wheels at the same time. We’ll have to see if Tears of the Kingdom DLC will allow Link to max out both in the future.
If you make a misstep somewhere in working out how many health or stamina upgrades you want, you can find the forbidden horned statue to reallocate them.
That said, we recommend that between health and stamina upgrades, you start off bumping up health first until Link as about 8 hearts and then switch to stamina, because it’s more difficult to recover stamina when compared to hearts.
