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 – Owen_Splat