Clawshot Before Forest Temple

Written by LogitechSDAZ and Razor7581

Information

Getting the clawshot before the Forest Temple is incredibly helpful in an Any% Individual Level Speed run for it, as having the clawshot allows you to skip rescuing all monkeys in the dungeon (except for the first one which is required to climb the vines). The accompaniment of the bomb arrows allows for extremely quick battles with the enemies the dungeon holds as well.

  • WB: Water Bombs
  • A: Arrows

Route:

  1. Do infinite bombs and arrows (make sure you have three bomb bags)
  2. BiT ( †††- make sure that one of you bomb bags contains water bombs )
  3. Jump off the bridge twice
  4. Save and quit
  5. Rescue Talo
  6. Goat Herding
  7. Sword and Shield Skip
  8. EMS
  9. Clear Faron Twilight
  10. Get Iron Boots
  11. BiTE
  12. Beat King Bulblin
  13. Clear Eldin Twilight
  14. Blow up the Rocks by the Eldin Bridge (14 WB)
  15. Enter Lanayru Twilight and get to Lake Hylia
  16. Use swimming with water bombs to blow up rock and enter Lakebed (13 WB)
  17. Save and Quit
  18. Blow up Stalactites (11 WB)(28 A)
  19. Get Ooccoo
  20. Get small key in hanging platform room (10 WB)(27 A)
  21. Unlock Door
  22. Open Chest (15 WB)
  23. Knock Down stalactite, climb vines (14 WB)(26 A)
  24. Jump on door overhang, jumpslash to door
  25. Get Small Key, warp out
  26. Warp in, blow up rock to deku toad (13 WB)
  27. Beat Deku Toad, get clawshot (10-11 WB)(23-26 A)
  28. Warp Out
  29. Warp to N. Faron Woods
  30. Enter Forest Temple

Notes

†††- It is currently unknown which of the three bomb bags you inventory checks to transfer over into your BiT file's inventory. For the sake of this, it is recommended that you fill all three with water bombs, as the game seems to select a bomb bag at random to transfer. It is absolutely necessary, however, to have all three bomb bags in your inventory, otherwise only the bow will be transferred to your BiT file's inventory.

In the current Forest Temple route for an Any% Individual Level Speed run, 6 bomb arrows are used. For this reason, we collect the water bombs from the treasure chest in step 22. If you only use two water bombs when battling the Deku Toad, you will not necessarily need to open that chest. If you want to be safe, however, it is recommended that you obtain the water bombs from that chest.

Last updated 09/04/2011 – Razor7581