Any%
This is the optimal route of Any%. This is by far the hardest category to learn and is not recommended for beginners
Entering D1
- Talk to Tarin to get the Shield
- Get the Sword from the beach
- Go through the Mysterious Woods to grab the Toadstool
- Make your way to the witch to give her the Toadstool for Magic Powder
- Use the powder on Raccoon Tarin and open the chest containing the Tail Key
- Make your way down to put in the key and enter the dungeon
Tail Cave
- Grab the key in the chest surrounded by a Spark
- Make your way to obtain the Roc's Feather
- Reload the auto save to get back to the beginning of the dungeon
- Grab the key from knocking the beetles into the void
- Grab the key in the chest that spawns from stepping on the button
- Nightmare Key chest
- Rolling Bones
- Moldorm
Bottle Grotto
- Make your way back to Mabe Village
- BowWow Skip to enter the dungeon
- Kill the 2 stalfos to spawn the key, but do not grab it yet
- Open the chest surrounded by color blocks to collect a key
- Make your way to the Hinox
- Hinox Warp to collect the instrument
- Reenter the dungeon
- Collect the key that you left earlier
- Make your way back to the Hinox
- Defeat the Hinox and make your way to collect the Power Bracelet
- Reload the auto save
- Open the chest for 50 rupees and leave the dungeon
Key Cavern
- Make your way back to Mabe Village and enter the shop
- Buy 10 bombs, steal the Shovel and Bow
- Exit Mabe Village to the right and collect the warp point
- Perform Villa Skip to collect the Slime Key
- Put the key in and enter the dungeon
- Kill all the enemies in the next room to collect a key
- Make your way to the basement and use your key on the room to the right
- Make your way to the central area of the dungeon
- Throw a bomb at the cracked wall and enter the mini boss
- Perform Dodongos Skip and obtain the Pegasus Boots
- Collect the Nightmare Key
- Perform the skip again to make your way to the boss
- Slime Eye
Angler's Tunnel 1st Half
- Enter the Dream Shrine and collect both the 100 rupees and Ocarina
- Leave and make your way to Tracy's house to buy medicine
- Leave and continue on towards the Angler Keyhole
- Angler Key Skip
- Perform a Bombloon to collect the Nightmare Key
- Go past the ordered tiles puzzle and collect a key
- Make your way to the mini boss
- Cueball
- Obtain the Flippers
- Reload the auto save and leave the dungeon
Face Shrine
- Exit through the cave
- Early D6
- Open the chest for 100 rupees
- D6 Skip and open the chest containing the Powerful Bracelet
- Exit the room and throw the statue at the door to enter the room
- Open the chest for 100 rupees
- Reload the auto save
- Perform D6 Skip again and collect the instrument
Catfish's Maw
- Make your way down to enter D5
- Collect the key in the room just before the 4th Master Stalfos fight
- Reload the auto save
- Fight Master Stalfos the first 3 times
- Reload the auto save
- Make your way to Master Stalfos 4
- Slime Eel Skip
Turtle Rock
- Swim and run down to the warp below the villa
- Warp back to Mabe Village and enter the Sign Maze
- Learn the Frog's Song of Soul
- Revive the Flying Rooster
- Talk to Marin to learn the Ballad of the Wind Fish
- Head north through the Mysterious Woods
- Flame Cave Skip
- Turtle Rock Fight
- Powder the Vire
- Defeat the 3 ropes
- Hinox Warp to collect the instrument
Eagle's Tower
- Perform a Rooster Ledge Clip to run around the egg
- Clip back into the east side of Tal Tal Mountain Range
- Collect the Bird Key
- Perform airclimbs to make your way to D7
- Put in the key and enter the dungeon
- Collect the key from killing the Like Likes
- Perform a skew to bomb arrow the crystal switch
- Make your way to the Hinox
- Hinox Warp and collect the instrument
Angler's Tunnel 2nd Half
- Avoid falling down the hole and instead perform a coyote airclimb to jump directly into the water (you can land on the ledge and run along it to go even faster)
- Swim to and enter the dungeon
- Take the warp and make your way to the boss
- Angler Fish
Egg
- Leave the dungeon through the cave again
- Run up to the egg, being careful not to go too far south as that will spawn the ghost
- Play the Ballad of the Wind Fish to open the egg and enter it
- Go through the maze to the final boss
- Nightmare
Last updated 06/23/2026
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