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
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