GCN All Mirror Shards

Begin from the premade file:

Note: Grove 2 enables Early Boss Fights, which is not cleared during Temple of Time. EBF will need to be cleared between runs.

Note: The Hyrule Field area banner must be present after starting the run, or else the run won't be valid for leaderboards. This is because loads that include area banners take longer, and also because you can't pull the map to warp until an area banner is cleared. Under normal circumstances, this area banner is always present when loading the file. However, if you load the file and then reset before warping away, the area banner won't be present once you start a new run. To fix this, simply warp to somewhere that isn't Hyrule Field, and then reset once control of Link is gained (this will make the area banner appear for the next run).

Note: It's optimal to start with Zora Armor equipped for this category (editing the file to have it equipped is acceptable for leaderboards). If you start with ZA, be careful of the increased elemental damage.

Peak Province

Damaging down for the deathwarp after Death Sword Skip begins at the beginning of the run. See Addenda for notes.

  • Optimally, file has ZA equipped and (6 hearts) filled
  • Open and close item wheel to clear area banner
  • Warp Zora's Domain
  • Enter Peak Province
  • Map Glitch
  • Climb Snowpeak Mountain
    • Get hit by wolfos (5.5 hearts)
    • If you don't get hit by wolfos, take extra damage from Blizzeta or a moldorm
  • Howl at Howling Stone (exit after howling once)
  • Cave
  • Snowpeak Messenger Skip (4.5 hearts)
  • Blind Snowboarding
  • Enter Snowpeak Ruins

Snowpeak Ruins

See Addenda for an alternative Snowpeak Ruins route that does Ladder Freezard Cancel again instead of doing the bomb boost to 2F (~6.7s slower).

  • Enter room on left
  • Early HP 2 (don't need the heart piece)
  • Clawshot through ceiling
    • [Clawshot / Bombs]
  • Floor Clip
  • Clip under door
  • Freezard Skip (4 hearts)
  • Darkhammer 1-cycle with a bomb
  • Ball and Chain
  • Exit to Courtyard through left door
  • After getting hit by freezard, get unfrozen quickly (1.5 hearts)
  • Clip back under door
    • Make the camera face away from the south end of the courtyard while approaching the doors to prevent the wolfos from spawning
    • This clip's setup does not work at critical health (1 heart or less)
    • [Ball & Chain / Bomb Arrows]
  • Boss Key Room
    • Avoid blue rupee text if you plan to do Poe Gate Clip in Arbiter's Grounds
  • Boss Key
  • Enter Blizzeta's room
  • Blizzeta
    • Get hit by one of the last icicles as they fall one by one in phase 2 (1 heart)
    • Required damage from icicle for Blizzeta one-cycle (0.5 heart)
  • Skip Heart Container and exit Snowpeak Ruins

Desert Province

  • Warp Lake Hylia
  • Auru's Memo
    • [Ball & Chain / Auru's Memo]
  • Swim with Zora Armor to Fyer
  • Cannon to Desert
  • Show Memo and go to Desert Province
    • If over 0.5 hearts, get hit by one moldorm
  • Enter Bulblin Camp with Ball and Chain
    • [Clawshot / Boomerang]
  • Skip Bulblin Camp
  • King Bulblin 3
  • Enter Arbiter's Grounds as Human

Arbiter's Grounds

See Addenda for Arbiter's Grounds route without poe gate skip.

  • Human entrance
  • Pull chain
    • [Lantern / Boomerang] between clawshotting chain and pulling it to automatically put clawshot away
  • Small Key
  • Torch room
    • [Clawshot / Boomerang] between lighting torch and door to automatically put lantern away
  • Poe door cutscene
  • Poe gate clip
  • Boss key early (don't get boss key yet)
  • Backwards spinner room as wolf
  • Triple Stalfos Skip
    • [Bombs / Boomerang]
      🠋Skip or fight Death Sword
      • Skipping Death Sword and deathwarping is 18s faster than killing Death Sword and exiting the room (comparison)
      • Deathwarping after Spinner is about 1s faster than exiting the room normally if you kill Death Sword and are on 0.5 hearts for some reason.
  • Spinner
  • Deathwarp with bomb and spinner
    • [Clawshot / Spinner]
    • Die to Death Sword if low on bombs or high on health
  • Spinner to door
  • Epic spinner room
  • Open boss key chest
  • Spinner to socket
  • Enter boss room
  • Skip or fight Stallord
  • Can skip Heart Container
  • Exit Arbiter's Grounds

Getting to City in the Sky

  • Mirror Chamber warp portal with bomb
    • [Clawshot / Spinner]
  • Raise the mirror (required for category)
  • Warp Kakariko Village
  • Early City in the Sky
  • Press Z to talk to Midna about cannon
    • Press B to say 'No' to Midna
    • Map warp to Lake Hylia
  • Pay Fyer 300R to fix cannon
    • [Clawshot / Boomerang]
  • Clawshot cannon to enter City in the Sky

City in the Sky

Getting to Temple of Time

  • Jump attack right away to land on bridge
  • Warp N. Faron
    • [Boomerang / Bombs]
  • Bomb Boost to Lost Woods
    • [Bow / Lantern]
  • Skull Kid 2
  • 1-frame sidehop to skip Midna text after pushing block
  • Strike Master Sword pedestal
  • Sacred Grove warp portal
  • Enter Temple of Time

Temple of Time

  • Place pot on switch
  • Small Key
    • [Clawshots / Boomerang]
  • Skip Ooccoo
  • Gate Skips using clawshot
    • [Bomb Arrows / Spinner]
  • Up stairs using Spinner
  • Skip using block
  • Kill Armoses with Bomb Arrows
  • Small Key
  • Across circle room and through locked door
  • Slash crystal switch
    • [Bomb Arrows / Clawshots]
  • Skip shooting crystal again
  • Crystal Switch room with bomb arrows
    • [Spinner / Clawshots]
  • Boss Key early
    • [Clawshots / Bomb Arrows]
  • Boss Key
  • Jump down to the left and enter door
  • Small Key
    • [Boomerang / Bomb Arrows]
  • LJA last barrier
  • Bomb-arrow both armoses
    • Arrows from pots on the right if needed while waiting for armoses to explode
  • Darknut (Use bomb arrow to start fight)
  • Dominion Rod
    • [Dominion Rod / Bomb Arrows]
  • Savewarp
  • Door of Time Skip
  • Room Before Boss
    • Arrows in pot if less than 3 arrows
  • Armogohma
  • Exit Portal (end on 'Yes' to Midna)

Addenda

Alternative Snowpeak Ruins route

After doing Ladder Freezard Cancel:

  • Dig up and open small key chest from snow dig spot in courtyard
  • Freezard skip and continue as normal until obtaining Ball & Chain
  • After getting Ball & Chain, exit to courtyard through the right door
  • Unfreeze quickly, then head right and open the locked door
  • Ladder Freezard Cancel again
  • Enter boss key room, and routes merge (⮤ return to route)

Damage routing

It's optimal to deathwarp after Poe Gate Skip, and it's required if doing Death Sword Skip. In preparation for deathwarping, the damage route specified above is:

  • 6 hearts at beginning of run
  • 5 hearts after Snowpeak messenger skip
  • 4.5 hearts after freezard skip
  • 2 hearts after exiting Darkhammer (assuming ZA equipped)
  • 1.5 hearts after bomb boost to 2F
  • 1 heart after damage from icicle for Blizzeta one-cycle
  • 0.5 hearts after getting hit by a moldorm in desert

However, it's easy to accidentally take additional damage, so it's a good idea to adjust this route to fit your preferences. Some other damage and health sources that may intentionally or unintentionally be involved are:

  • SPR chilfos / wolfos (0.25 per hit as human)
  • Heart pots before/after SPR
  • Auru's tower jump without autoroll (1)
  • Moldorms in desert (0.5 per hit as wolf)
  • Bulblin Camp enemies (0.5 per hit as wolf)
  • King Bulblin 3 (3 hearts, ideal fight is JA + autospin, ccw spin x1, cw spin x2, get hit, rollstab from standstill)
  • Stalkin in first room of AG (0.25 per hit as human)
  • Stalfos after poe gate skip (1 per hit as wolf)
  • Death Sword (1 per hit as wolf)

Arbiter's Grounds route without poe gate skip

After the poe gate cutscene:

  • Enter left room
  • Poe 1 Skip
  • LJA to the door
    • [Lantern / Ball & Chain]
  • Stalfos with Ball & Chain
    • Can use bomb + boomerang instead
  • Light front and left torches
  • Poe 4
  • Poe Scent
    • If you forget the poe scent and realize in the next room, void out to respawn at the poe 4 room exit; if you realize later than that, kill poe 1 in the main room for the poe scent
  • Leave room
  • Jump to the other side using chandelier
  • Push the large metal box 4 times
  • Main room
  • Pull chain, enter downstairs door
  • Small Key
  • Redead 1
    • [Clawshot / Ball & Chain] (or equip Bombs over Ball & Chain if using bombs for triple stalfos before Death Sword)
  • Poe 2
  • Return to main room
  • Enter left room
  • Climb the destroyed stairs past the large metal box
  • Cross upper floor of main room on chandelier
    • Drown in the sand if you accidentally fall down to respawn by the upper door
  • Enter ghost rat room backwards (don't get the key)
  • Poe 3 room backwards
  • Return to main room and enter second half of dungeon
  • Get the boss key on the way to Death Sword
  • After Death Sword, savewarp and backtrack to Stallord (⮤ return to route)
Last updated 04/23/2026 – bewildebeest