Where is my Heart?

Where is my Heart?

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Complete Achievements Guide
By K3W3L
A quick guide on how to get all the achievements in this game.
   
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Introduction
Where is my Heart? is a puzzle-platformer video game by Die Gute Fabrik released in 2011 for the Playstation, and just recently on May 29, 2014, for PC and Mac.

The achievements in this game are generally quite easy to obtain, with a few challenging ones requiring a bit more skill than others. This guide will show you how to obtain them.

(Do pardon my wording in some places, it might not necessarily be the best since I also find it a bit hard to explain stuff at times...)

NOTE: While the levels themselves are not given numbers, throughout this guide I have numbered them row by row from left to right. Each row has 6 levels so the first 6 levels in the first row are thusly numbered from left to right, 1 to 6. The 6 levels in the second row are numbered 7 to 12, and so on.
Not afraid to die!

You need to accumulate a total of 10 deaths in one level. Thanks goes to elmuerte for the confirmation!
Conjured Antler Ancestor

The earliest you will get this achievement is in level 5, Antler Ancestor. It's quite simple - you need to stack Brown, Gray and Orange on top of this special block, with Brown being at the very top. He will then change into Antler Ancestor.

Conjured the Rainbow Spirit

Depending on the level that you unlock first, the earliest you can get this achievement is in level 6, Somewhere over the Rainbow (a little bit tricky in that the process to reach the block involves making a leap of faith off the right side of the platform that you start on) or in level 7, Rainbow Spirit.

As with Antler Ancestor, stack up the 3 characters on the special Rainbow Spirit block, this time with Orange at the top.

Level 6:


Level 7:
Conjured the Bat King

The earliest you can get this achievement is in level 14, Bat King. Again, like Antler Ancestor and Rainbow Spirit before it, you have to stack the 3 spirits on the special Bat King block, with Gray at the top.

Family Fight!

You need to headbutt a spirit with another spirit. In the picture below, Orange headbutts Brown.



As pointed out in the comments below, note that you may need to headbutt each spirit with each other once.
Drop Expert!

This achievement is unlocked in level 13, Fall. This is possibly the hardest achievement to obtain in this game. I'm not entirely sure how to describe this, but here goes:

All the 3 spirits are slowly "ejected" out of the starting hole one by one. I believe the goal is to obtain all the hearts on your first 3 spirits (i.e. one Brown, one Orange, then one Gray). It shouldn't matter if they die even once as long as you collect all the hearts after controlling Gray for the first time (or at least that's what I believe, since the achievement popped for me after I completed the level, after accidentally killing Orange and Gray once each).

Though, in actuality, I didn't get all the hearts and got the achievement the first time. Thanks to some commenters, a low of 49 out of 53 has been reported. Therefore, this suggests that there instead is a certain threshold as to how many hearts you require for the achievement.

The best way to guarantee the achievement is to get all the hearts without dying once - that way you get the maximum 53 hearts for the area. To do this, here's zqxinran's video as a guide.

You're a cheater!

This achievement is unlocked in level 18, Beneath the Roots. It unlocks as soon as you unlock the path to the exit, BUT here's the catch - you have to "cheat" and not headbutt all of the blocks until you headbutt the block that opens up the exit.

I've gone a bit overkill here and labelled every single headbutt block as well as the block it affects.


Basically, you need to headbutt block F with Brown without headbutting all the rest. To guarantee the achievement, you hit block F ONLY. It's actually possible!

Special thanks goes to ✪sweetcuppincakes✪ for devising a much simpler method to getting this achievement. This will be described first, and I will leave my original method directly after the safer method for posterity and comparison.

Safer and easier method using all 3 characters
1) Stack Gray and Orange at the spot as shown in the screenshot directly below. Put them as far close to the edge as possible, keep pressing the left arrow key to nudge them, but be careful not to land on the spikes. Put Brown on the upper ledge directly above in preparation for step 2.


2) Walk Brown across the top to the left. That's it. Just do a running walk (stupid as that phrase sounds), don't slow down mid-way, Brown will actually walk directly across!


Initial, more 'risky' method using only 2 characters
1) Park Gray or Orange at the spot shown in the screenshot below. Put them as far close to the edge as possible, keep pressing the left arrow key to nudge them, but be careful not to land on the spikes. During this guide, I will use Orange.

2) Stack Brown on top of Orange (you'll have to approach from the upper ledge).

3) Now the fun part, this part is easier said than done. Use Brown and do a running jump. If you try jumping normally, Brown's jump is high enough such that he will ALWAYS hit the spikes above him from where he jumps. Thus, the trick here is to perform a running jump such that Brown brushes the corner that I've circled and drawn an arrow to in the screenshot below. Don't worry, death won't affect your chance of getting the achievement here. ;)

Video Guide
Ragewortt made a video guide not too long after this one was originally written up. If you need a visual guide on how to achieve some of these, feel free to check it out below!

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=483506398
Conclusion
I hope this guide helped you to get 100%! This is actually a rather easy game to perfect, though you do need a fair bit of skill for two achievements, the rest are very easily manageable.

Thanks goes to all the discussers in the Community Hub for finding the harder achievement mechanics so quickly, without whom this guide would not have been possible.
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Thanks also to any and all commenters below that have corrected any inaccuracies and/or made suggestions.

Do let me know in the comments below if I link anything without permission; I'll remove it as soon as possible.
14 Comments
BadgerMortem 6 Jun, 2017 @ 2:30pm 
I got the drop expert achievment by keeping brown alive and using batking and orange twice. I also only got 50 hearts. As long as all three are not killed it should work? I hope this helps
Oddness 6 Oct, 2015 @ 12:17pm 
Thanks for the cheat.
WilliamNgan 3 Sep, 2015 @ 12:46am 
Thanks!
adleen 21 Aug, 2015 @ 11:51pm 
Thanks for the guide. It's easier than I expected to 100% it. I guess there is no achievement for completing the game with all the hearts? :8bitheart:
elmuerte 19 Aug, 2015 @ 12:17pm 
Not afraid to died = die 10 times in 1 level, I used level 2
RaGoddess 10 Jul, 2015 @ 7:05pm 
Thanks a lot for the guide :offspring:!!!
Parallel Platypus 7 Jul, 2015 @ 11:45pm 
53/53 with one death = 52/53 => Drop Expert! unlocked.

Many thanks for the guide! :KneelingBow:
6y6n096nk 7 Jul, 2015 @ 8:50am 
Blackfyre >Complete stageclear without dying.
Unlock Drop Expert! achievement 51/53.
Blackfyre 27 Jun, 2015 @ 10:45am 
For Drop Expert, I got all the hearts with three deaths (Orange, Grey, Grey) but I didn't get the last heart until the third try with Grey and the achievement unlocked anyway. My score for the level was 50/53. Maybe the rule is that you need to get above a certain score?
100% Hippo 27 Jun, 2015 @ 9:18am 
Thank you for the guide.

While I know it has been a while, I wanted to point out a few things I found. Firstly, I completed drop expert with 49/53. Perhaps the achievement requires you to get all of the hearts, and the deaths don't matter? Also, for the family fight achievement, I found that I had to hit each spirit with each of the other spirits for it to unlock.