Any% (No HW/ED6)

This is the optimal route of Any% (No HW/ED6), which bans Hinox Warps and Early D6. This route skips Manbo's Mambo and performs Genie Skip earlier in the run.

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 1st Half

  • Make your way back to Mabe Village
  • BowWow Skip to enter the dungeon
  • Kill the 2 stalfos and collect the key
  • Open the chest surrounded by color blocks to collect another key
  • Jump on the button to collect another key
  • Make your way to obtain the Power Bracelet
  • Reload the auto save and exit the dungeon

Key Cavern

  • Make your way back to Mabe Village and enter the shop
  • 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
  • Break the pots in the beginning to collect 4 Bombs
  • 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 (Only one Heart Container is necessary, this is the optimal one)

Bottle Grotto 2nd Half

  • Enter the Dream Shrine and collect both the 100 rupees and Ocarina
  • Leave and make your way back inside D2. It is a couple seconds faster to airclimb on top of the trees as seen here
  • Collect the Nightmare Key and make your way to the boss
  • Genie Skip

Angler's Tunnel 1st Half

  • Angler Key Skip
  • Perform a Bombloon to collect the Nightmare Key
  • Go pass 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

Catfish's Maw

  • Exit through the cave
  • Make your way down to enter D5. It is 2 seconds faster to warp back to Mabe and perform Villa Skip again
  • Collect the key in the room just before the 4th Master Stalfos fight
  • Master Stalfos 1
  • Collect the 10 bomb refill before entering Master Stalfos 2
  • Master Stalfos 3
  • Reload the auto save
  • Make your way to Master Stalfos 4
  • Slime Eel Skip

Face Shrine

  • Make your way to the Southern Shrine
  • Armos Knight
  • Make your way to put the key in and enter the dungeon
  • Make your way to the Powerful Bracelet, making sure the crystal switch is set to orange up
  • Detour into the room to the right to grab 100 rupees
  • Head to the back exit of the dungeon
  • Collect the final 100 rupees
  • D6 Skip

Turtle Rock

  • Use the Seashell Mansion warp to 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
  • D8 Backdoor and enter the dungeon
  • Collect the bombs, arrows, and health refill
  • Shoot the eye statue and bomb arrow the wall
  • Collect the key in the room to the left
  • Collect the eye statue key and make your way to Blaino
  • D8 Skip

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
  • Pick up the metal ball and break the first pillar
  • Go down a room and break the second pillar
  • Cannonball to get over the fence
  • Defeat the Three Of A Kind to spawn the chest
  • Throw a bomb at the crystal switch and run onto the orange blocks. When they go up, you are able to dash jump back over the fence
  • Perform another Cannonball to get over the fence and break the third pillar
  • Launch the ball over to the fourth pillar
  • Hookshot over and break it
  • Use the ball to clip to the side of the Three Of A Kind and make your way to the mini boss
  • Grim Creeper
  • Collect the Nightmare Key and make your way to the boss
  • Evil Eagle

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 06/28/2026 – Owen_Splat