Improve Link’s health and stamina The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a fairly straightforward process, especially for those who have played breath of the wild. Getting more hearts is a mandatory stat upgrade in DeadKis the tutorial area and is required to get to Hyrule from the Great Sky Island. But how do you improve health and stamina later on? Here’s what you need to know:
How to get more hearts and increase stamina in TotK
There are two main ways to get status upgrades The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom:
- Defeat big bosses.
- Complete Shrines and turn in Lights of Blessing.
Defeat big bosses
A way to win more hearts DeadK consists of defeating some of the big bosses in the game. Defeating a major boss automatically grants you a Link Heart Container.
finish shrines
This way you will get more hearts and increase your stamina Tears of the Kingdom is a bit more involved, but you get far more upgrades. There are 152 shrines DeadK, and if you complete each one, you will get 1 Light of Blessing. You can get Heart and Stamina upgrades by entering 4 Lights of Blessing at a Goddess Statue.
Hearts or Stamina? Where to find goddess statues

Goddess statues are found in major cities and in the temple of time. If you have the necessary Blessing Lights and you find a Goddess Statue, you will notice that it glows.
Pray at the statue to give it a choice: hearts or stamina. Select the status you want to update. While the first upgrade is a mandatory heart to open the Temple of Time door, you can always choose between heart containers and stamina containers after that.
You can bring more than 4 Lights of Blessing to a Goddess Statue and boost multiple stats at once, so you don’t have to keep switching back and forth between statues.
But this is how you can improve heart and stamina The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. If you are looking for more tips about the game, e.g how to travel fast or how to complete specific shrines go to our DeadK Travel guides page.