Navigation
GCN バグなし (JP Glitchless) Any%
Glitchless Master Sword runs follow this same route aside from skipping the shadow beast fight at Bridge of Eldin after blowing up the rocks leading to Lanayru.
Ordon
- Roll to Ordon Spring
🠋 Epona cutscene
- If you turn around and then roll upwards you can roll to Epona without talking to Ilia.
- Ride to ranch through the grass to try get a blue rupee (3-13R depending on RNG)
- Goats 1 (10 goats)
- Exit house
- If at 6R+, head straight to village.
- If under 6R, sidehop right and pick up rock in grass behind Epona for blue rupee first.
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Climb vines to eagle guy
🠋 Get and deliver crib
- The angle you are facing when you pull the grass for the bird will determine your angle, so being straight on is most optimal
- Fishing Rod
- Mailbox jump onto roof
- Two yellow rupees (~28R)
- Head to dock, collecting freestanding green rupees to reach 30R
- Catch two fish, cat cutscene
- Enter shop
- Speak for Bottle (Milk)
- Buy Slingshot (0R)
- Exit Shop
- Get Wooden Sword
- Tutorials with kids outside Link's house
- Ride Epona to Faron
🠋 Talk to Coro for lantern
- If you target Coro and press A while moving towards him, you do not need to park Epona to begin the text.
- If you carry too much speed into Coro's area, you may jump over his campsite if you fail to talk to him.
- Go through tunnel (put away lantern after 2nd web)
- Small Key in cave
- Exit cave, use small key on gate
- Save Talo
- Goats 2
- Leave Ordon Village, enter crawlspace to Ordon Spring (1R)
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Castle Sewers
- Castle rooftops
- Return to Ordon Village
- Listen to people by dock
- Jump off rock to roof or use Midna jumps
- Scare eagle guy
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Ordon Shield in Pergie's house
- The Midna jump from the table up to the shield can fail depending on Link's position; align his back left paw with the green line on the tablecloth
- Ordon Sword in Rusl's house
- Return to Ordon Spring
- Ordon Spring warp portal
- Enter Faron Twilight
Faron Province
- S. Faron warp portal
- Faron Vessel
- First two bugs (collect tears)
- Bug on Coro's house (collect tear later after exiting Coro's house)
- Bugs inside Coro's house
- Collect tear from outside bug
- Bugs before tunnel (collect tears)
- Bugs on right wall (collect tears)
- Bugs in tree trunk (collect tears)
- Trigger post-mist bug cutscene, then void out to respawn
- Bugs post-mist (collect tears)
- While waiting for tears, dig behind sign to collect a yellow rupee (11R+)
- N. Faron warp portal
- Last two bugs (collect tears)
- Clear twilight
- 1 frame backflip to skip Midna text
- Get key from Coro
- Go through tunnel
- Pull out lantern, follow monkey, and cut grass for rupees (15R+)
- Re-obtain lantern
- Kill bokoblin by Trill's shop and refill lantern
- Running slash the nearer bokoblins so the bokoblin that needs to be killed runs towards Link
- Ending Blow
- Enter Forest Temple
Forest Temple
- Spin attack to break cage and kill bokoblin
- Running slash + quickspin kills bokoblin
- Kill spiders with slingshot
- Kill big spider and light torches
- Rollstab + jump attack autospin
- Exit north and skip bridge cutscene
- Return inside and go through east wing
- Small key on other side of turning bridge
- Jumpslash past hanging spider
- Enter locked door and save monkey 2
- Head back to main room
- Roll around to stairs to skip using monkey
- Burn web and enter west wing
- Deku Like skip
- Enter door behind boulder
- Bonk totem pole for small key
- Light torches and save monkey 3
- Return to previous room
- Slingshot spiders on right and climb vines to door
- Quick Big Baba fight
- Save Monkey 4
- Return to main room
- Roll around to stairs to skip using monkey
- Use monkey bridge to get to Ook
- Ook
- Gale Boomerang
- Exit room
- Use bridges on the right and save monkey 5
- Get on next bridge before boomeranging cage down to skip Midna text
- Go inside and cross to east wing
- Use monkeys to cross main room this time
- Big key with fence jump
- Head north to boss door room
- Use boomerang to turn bridges and kill spiders on left wall
- Enter top room
- Deku Like 2 skip
- Save monkey 6
- Head back to central bridge room
- Enter west door
- Fast 7th monkey
- Exit and go to east door
- Save 8th monkey
- Go back to boss door room
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Diababa
- Heart container recommended
Eldin Twilight
- Roll to Eldin and enter Twilight
- Open Gorge portal
- Warp Gorge bridge from N. Faron
- Open Kakariko portal
- Eldin Vessel
- Midna jump into sanctuary
- Sense to start cutscene
- Light torches and enter basement
- Basement bugs
- Midna jump out to graveyard
- Graveyard bug
- Malo Mart bug
- Elde Inn bugs
- Abandoned house bug
- Break boxes for potential rupees
- Barnes' shop bug
- Exit Barnes and enter bomb house
- Light chimney and bonk wall for blue rupee (20R+)
- Exit bomb house and get tears
- Watchtower bug (bonk wall for misc. rupees) (25R+)
- Death Mountain bugs
- Quick steam cycle
- Final bug
Death Mountain Climb
- Go to Death Mountain
- Lose to goron
- Tame Epona
- Ride to Ordon Village
- Get 100R behind Fishing Rod House (125R+)
- Iron Boots
- Ride back to Eldin
- King Bulblin 1
- Go to Death Mountain Trail (on Epona if playing on GCN)
- Skip first goron
- Get knocked down by 2nd and 3rd gorons while wearing iron boots so Link doesn't fly far
- Sidehop against wall to avoid 4th goron
- Wait for big rock to fall
- Climb Death Mountain using gorons
- Use 2nd to last Goron to boost to ledge on the left
- Sidehop and put on iron boots before hitting cutscene trigger in goron elder cave
- Wrestle Gor Coron
- Enter Goron Mines
Goron Mines
Lanayru Twilight
- Ride Epona to Barnes' shop (call Epona with horse grass if rode to DMT earlier)
- Buy Bomb Bag (5R+)
- Ride Epona to Eldin Bridge
- [Iron Boots / Bomb Arrows]
- Bomb arrow rocks at entrance to Lanayru
- Eldin Bridge warp portal
- Skip the portal fight if running the Master Sword category
- Ride up path to Lanayru
- Enter Lanayru Twilight
- Dash to Lake Hylia bridge via Hyrule Field North and area outside Castle Town
- Jump off Lake Hylia bridge
- Talk to Fyer
- Fight Kargarok
- Kargarok flight
- Ascend frozen Zora's Domain
- Zora's Domain warp portal
- Warp Death Mountain
- Warp rock to Zora's Domain
- Talk to Rutela
- Swim downstream
- Lanayru Vessel in Lake Hylia shrine
- Throughout Lanayru Twilight, cut grass to collect rupees while waiting for tears
- First bug after bridge
- Lake Hylia warp portal
- Bug past stepping stones
- Warp Zora's Domain
- Kill bug on the wall
- Exit on the right
- Drop down right wall and kill bug
- Lilypad bugs
- Bug on cliff
- Listen to Iza for bug
- Down the river to Hyrule Field North
- Castle Town warp portal
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Dash cancel through Castle Town
- Castle Town bug
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Bug behind Fyer's House
- Howl at grass
- Kargarok bugs
- Last small bug
- Boss Bug
Getting to Lakebed Temple
- Roll to Fyer and use cannon (0R+)
- Exit Flight by Fowl and call Epona with horse grass
- Ride Epona to Castle Town
- Enter Telma's Bar to start wagon escort
- King Bulblin 2 with arrows
- [Boomerang / Bomb Arrows]
- Break rock after bridge with bomb arrow for two yellow rupees (20R+)
- Ride through grass patches to collect extra rupees
- Unlock gate and kill bulblin riders
- Kill both bomb kargaroks with boomerang
- Escort wagon to Kakariko
- Zora Armor
- Equip after jumping into the water
- Roll back to Barnes' shop
- Sell normal bombs (60R+)
- Buy 10 water bombs (0R+)
- If you collected enough and have 90R+, buy 15 water bombs
- Roll back to Graveyard
- [Iron Boots / Water Bombs]
- Use shortcut to Lake Hylia [9/14 WB]
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Enter Lakebed Temple [8/13 WB]
Lakebed Temple
- Swim up to Surface
- Get water bomb chest [15/13 WB]
- If you bought 15 WB from Barnes, you can skip this chest
- Unlock gate
- [Iron Boots / Bomb Arrows]
- Shoot down stalactites with bomb arrows [13/11 WB]
- Go downstairs and go left; jump to second lever (1f south)
- Go upstairs and go left; jump to first lever (2f west)
- Go downstairs and enter door (1f east)
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Small key [11/9 WB]
- Return to central room
- Go upstairs and go right to locked door (2f east)
- Shoot down stalactite [10/8 WB]
- Climb vines and pull switch
- Bomb arrow rock blocking the path, then sidehop to door before cutscene begins [9/7 WB]
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Grab ledge and jumpslash down to Deku Toad door
- [Iron Boots / Water Bombs]
- Throw WB over fence to boulder blocking the way [8/6 WB]
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If unable to do the bomb boost, do not open the chest until after getting the clawshot, and jump attack onto fence instead
- Kill chus and grab small key
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Bomb boost onto fence, jump down, swim to Deku Toad [7/5 WB]
- [Iron Boots / Bomb Arrows]
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Deku Toad with bomb arrows [3/1 WB]
- Clawshot
- Exit room
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🠋 Return to central room
- Jumpslashing down then rolling through the tunnel is faster than clawshotting across the vines (video)
- If skipped or missed earlier, get small key after exiting Deku Toad
- Go right (clawshot over wall)
- Go right and use switch that requires clawshot (1f west)
- Go up stairs and enter door (2f east)
- Go past boulder blown up earlier and enter door
- Climb spiral slide (ignore chuworm)
- Pull lever
- Grab water bomb chest [13/11 WB]
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Jump down and pull next lever
- Return to central room
- Swim down stairs and enter door (1f west)
- Clawshot across cogs
- Enter lower door on far side
- [Iron Boots / Water Bombs]
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Maze room with water bombs [11/9 WB]
- Clawshot switch and drop to boss key
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Return to central room
- Grab water bomb chest on the way back [15 WB]
- Go up stairs with boots and clawshot chandelier
- Drop to boss door off left (south) side of chandelier
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Morpheel
- Heart container recommended
Midna's Desperate Hour
- Dash to Castle Town
- Enter Telma's Bar through the door
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Louise Glitch (saves about 1.7s)
- Push box once and dash jump to window
- Ropes in bar or rope skip
- Poe
- Enter sewers
- Burn webs with torches
- Kill keese if they are too nearby to climb
- Dig into hole
- Bulblin archer
- Exit tower
- Early wind cycle
- Zelda cutscene
Master Sword
- Warp N. Faron
- Kill puppets
- Midna Jump to Sacred Grove
- Howl at stone (MUD MUD)
- Skull Kid chase
- Skull Kid fight
🠋 Master Sword puzzle (LD UUU RR DDD LU)
- Master Sword
Gerudo Desert
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Auru's Memo
- Re-equip Zora Armor and swim to Fyer
- Show Memo to Fyer and enter desert
- Mesa portal
- Dash down to lower level of desert
- Shoot bulblin archer on left with bow
- Dash to boar
- Ride boar through barricades to Bulblin Camp
- Small key
- King Bulblin 3
- Enter Arbiter's Grounds
Arbiter's Grounds
- First room as human
- Pull chain
- Small key
- Light torches, transform wolf before central room
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Poe 1 + Poe Scent
- Pull chain + enter downstairs door
- Kill redead with (bomb arrow or Midna charge) + stab
- Small key behind redead
- Get redead rupee if uncomfortable with getting snowboarding treetop rupees
- Guaranteed arrows in pot
- Poe 2
- Return to main room
- If doing speed rat, do not leave room until it finishes turning (still saves ~2s over no speed rat)
- Enter door directly above
- Pull block once
- Pull chain x12 to raise chandelier with fast chain pulls (required if you only pulled the block once)
- Rotate room
- Small key (ignore the redead)
- Enter locked door
- Kill both redeads with bomb arrow + stab [13 WB]
- Get redead rupees if uncomfortable with getting snowboarding treetop rupees
- Poe 3
- Guaranteed arrows in pot by dig spot
- Exit via other door
- Small key in chest
- Enter central chamber, avoiding ghost rats
- Cross chandelier into west wing
- [Water Bombs / Boomerang]
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Chandelier bomb boost [12 WB]
- Alternatively, push block 8 times, pull chandelier chain with fast chain pulls, and roll under
- Enter door
- Kill stalfos with bomb in boomerang [11 WB]
- If you didn't do the chandelier bomb boost, use a bomb arrow here
- [Water Bombs / Lantern]
- Light torches (front, back left)
- Poe 4
- Return to central room
- Go through poe door
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Boss key early (wolf method - it's allowed)
- Ignore Boss Key chest, enter next room
- Cross room as wolf
- B attack across sand
- Kill Stalfos with bombs [9 WB]
- Enter Death Sword room
- Death Sword 1 Cycle
- Spinner
- Exit
- Head to big spinner room
- Use spinner tracks to get back to Boss Key
- Get Boss Key
- Head to boss door
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Stallord
- Heart container recommended if at low enough health that you'd want hearts before Snowpeak Ruins
Snowpeak
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Open Mirror Chamber warp portal (bomb strategy) [8 WB]
- Raise Mirror
- Warp Zora's Domain
- Get Ashei's Sketch
- Warp Kakariko
- [Ashei's Sketch / Fishing Rod]
- Go to graveyard and show sketch to Ralis
- Warp Zora's Domain and fish for Reekfish
- Climb Snowpeak
- Snowpeak portal
- Snowboarding with treetop rupees (85R+)
- There are plenty of backups later
- Enter SPR
Snowpeak Ruins
This route uses Ladder Freezard Cancel (LFC) and the spinner bomb boost, which are allowed in this ruleset and save several minutes. For a route that does not use these tricks, see this page.
- Talk to Yeta for map
- Enter next room and talk to Yeto
- Block puzzle
- Enter courtyard and dig under wall
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Spinner bomb boost [7 WB]
- Push cannon to aim at freezard
- Get small key under snow
- Unlock door and take cannon ball to cannon
- Kill freezard [6 WB]
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Darkhammer 1-Cycle with bomb (towards courtyard) [5 WB]
- Ball & Chain
- [Ball & Chain / Bomb Arrows]
- Return to courtyard
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Ladder Freezard Cancel to reach chapel
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Defeat chilfos for boss key (use all remaining water bombs to empty bag) [0 WB]
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Blizzeta
- Heart container recommended if at low health; no heart containers needed after this
Getting to Temple of Time
- Warp N. Faron
- Use golden cucco to get to Sacred Grove
- [Ball & Chain / Boomerang]
- Skull Kid 2 (chase as human)
- Light torches to get bomb chest [30 B]
- Sacred Grove portal
- Enter Temple of Time
Temple of Time
- Break left pot for guaranteed 20 arrows
- Pot on pressure plate
- Small Key with lantern
- Gate Skip 1
- Gate Skip 2
- Head upstairs with spinner
- Skip second statue
- Kill armos with bomb arrows for small key [28 B]
- Return to previous room
- Cross to opposite door
- Slash crystal switch
- Skip shooting crystal again
- Bomb arrow crystal switch 3 times to traverse walled room [25 B]
- Bomb arrow all enemies that have grouped up in the last section if needed [24 B]
- Boss Key Early with clawshot from the edge of the scales
- [Spinner / Bomb Arrows]
- [Clawshot / Bomb Arrows]
- Boss Key
- L-target to shoot bomb arrow straight ahead to kill armos [23 B]
- Clawshot each helmasaur’s shell, then spin attack to kill both
- Complete switch puzzle for boss key
- Return to scales room
- Jump down and enter door
- Small Key
- Bomb arrow lizalfos so they are gone on the return trip [22 B]
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Electric gate skip with clawshot or spinner bomb boost [21 B]
- [Spinner / Bombs]
- Alternatively, place statue or pot on switch
- [Ball & Chain / Bomb Arrows]
- Kill both armos with bomb arrows [19 B]
- Darknut
- Dominion Rod
- [Dominion Rod / Clawshot]
- Bring statue out of Darknut room
- Smash rolling spikes with statue if needed
- Blade trap room
- Scales skip
- Break movable walls with statue
- Circle room
- Put statue in bell
- Exit room
- Clawshot over gate
- [Dominion Rod / Bomb Arrows]
- Smash next gate with statue
- Unlock Door of Time
- Room before Armogohma
- Break pot before boss door for 20A if needed
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Armogohma [18 B]
- Collect arrows and hearts while waiting for cycles
Getting to City in the Sky
- Exit Temple of Time
- Warp to Kakariko
- Get Renado's Letter
- Warp to Mesa
- Enter Arbiter's Grounds
- Enter Stallord's room
- Enter Mirror Chamber to set time to night
- Warp Castle Town
- Give Letter to Telma
- Show Invoice to Doctor
- Get Medicine Scent
- Talk to Louise outside bar
- Kill stalhounds in South Field (83R+)
- Wooden Statue with animation skip
- Warp Kakariko and show Ilia the statue
- [Wooden Statue / Spinner]
- Warp Mesa
- Warp bridge to Bridge of Eldin
- Enter Hidden Village
- Bulblin archery
- Show Dominion Rod to Impa for Ancient Sky Book
- Use special spot to warp to Kakariko
- [Ancient Sky Book / Bomb Arrows]
- Get silver rupee (283R+) [17 B]
- Show Shad the book to restore Dominion Rod
- [Dominion Rod / Clawshot]
- Warp Eldin Bridge for 1st sky character
- Warp Gorge for 2nd sky character
- Warp Castle Town for 3rd sky character
- Dash to Lake Hylia bridge for 4th sky character
- Warp to Mesa for 5th sky character
- Dash jump to statue platform as wolf
- Warp to South Faron for 6th sky character behind boulder
- [Dominion Rod / Ball & Chain]
- Get up to 17 rupees from boulder if <300R
- [Dominion Rod / Ancient Sky Book]
- Warp to Kakariko and show Shad the finished book
- Warp Sky Cannon to Lake Hylia
- Fix Sky Cannon (0R)
- Enter City in the Sky
City in the Sky
- Shoot crystal switch with clawshot
- Skip using clawshot in second room
- Exit central room through west window
- Spinner to extend bridge
- Small key in west wing
- Argorok Cutscene Skip
- Enter east wing
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Spinner to extend bridge
- Roll past two fans then use Boots and sidehop across blue blocks
- Mix jumps and jumpslashes to cross block room (no boomerang LJAs)
- Throw boomerang to get rid of final tileworm
- Quick dynalfos fight
- Ooccoo Jump
- Jump down or use Ooccoo to get to door to Aeralfos
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Aeralfos 1-cycle
- [Clawshot / Boomerang]
- [Clawshot / Ball & Chain]
- Double Clawshots
- Clawshot the target on the left near the inner corner, move down, then clawshot the hanging switch
- Grab arrows from pot if needed
- Exit the room
- Clawshot around the room up to the switch
- Clawshot to the door behind the open gate and enter it
- Clawshot across the targets and enter door
- Clawshot the baba serpents to knock them down, then clawshot across
- Enter central room
- Exit central room through west window again (saves ~4s over using door)
- Cross the bridge and enter the door
- Stand by the vines and clawshot down and across
- Clawshots up to left ledge
- Drop down to the lower area
- Clawshot crystal switch
- Clawshot to knock baba serpents down
- Clawshot up to Big Baba room
- Ignore Big Baba and clawshot up to target
- Clawshot to vines and walk across thin platforms
- Clawshot up pillars
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Clawshot cancel to get to door
- Fast peahat cycle
- Peahat LJA
- Enter door
- Clawshot across peahats
- Clawshot up to vines
- Transform wolf and walk across the ropes
- Possible to LJA off kargaroks to skip a small amount of rope walking
- Go to door, transform before entering
- Sidehop and put on boots, then clawshot pull switch
- Boss Key
- Jump down the hole and clawshot the grate on the north side, then lower downwards
- Clawshot pull switch to activate the fan
- Head outside and cross the fans
- Enter fan tower
- [Clawshots / Bomb Arrows]
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Fan tower with bomb arrow [16 B]
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Argorok
Palace of Twilight
- Exit City in the Sky
- Put iron boots on before entering cannon and mash B to land on bridge
- Warp Mirror Chamber
- Enter Palace of Twilight
- West Wing
- Phantom Zant 1
- Skip Midna Sol text
- Staircase Timesaver 1
- Exit West Wing
- Place Sol 1
- Ride platform to east wing
- Clawshot to door after small key in fog room
- Phantom Zant 2
- Staircase Timesaver 2
- Place Sol 2
- Light Sword
- Enter north wing
- Place sols
- Ride platforms and get small key
- Head outside
- Platform to Zant head
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Void out after Zant head explodes
- Boss Key shortcut
- Kill both sets of 3 Zant heads
- Small key
- Early Platform
- Enter the door at the top
- [Boomerang / Bomb Arrows]
- Kill the shadow beasts [15 B]
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Zant
- [Clawshots / Iron Boots] at Morpheel phase
- [Ball & Chain / Bomb Arrows] at Ook phase
Hyrule Castle
- Transform wolf immediately
- Leave Palace of Twilight
- Warp Castle Town
- Postman then enter Castle Town
- Squidna cutscene
- Enter Hyrule Courtyard
- Barrier 1 with bomb arrow [14 B]
- Barrier 2 with bomb arrows [11 B]
- Clank sword on barrier shortly before gate opens to aggro all bokos
- Beat KB4 for small key
- Roll back to the entrance and enter the castle
- Barrier 3 with bomb arrows [8 B]
- Clank sword on barrier to aggro all lizalfos
- [Ball & Chain / Clawshots]
- Clawshot up and enter the door
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Darknut
- Enter puzzle room (right door)
🠋 Torch puzzle (NE, SW, NW, SE)
🠋 SW, NE, NW, SE (1s slower but safer)
- [Clawshots / Bomb Arrows]
- Bomb arrow dynalfos [6 B]
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Aeralfos [5 B]
- [Clawshots / Ball & Chain]
- Use arrow instead of bomb arrow if it will leave enough bombs for tower climb
- Small key
- Link gets “rescued” cutscene
- Boss key
- Enter final tower
- Equip BA over B&C if available and using them for final tower
- Block room shortcut
- Bomb arrow lizalfos [2 B]
- [Clawshots / Spinner]
- [Ball & Chain / Bow]
- Fight darknut
- Ganondorf
Last updated 05/20/2026
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