100% Glitchless

See Addenda for notes on beginner-friendly route variations.

This route is designed for Eng Switch NSO/Wii VC. The route also works (and may even be slightly faster) on JP Wii VC, but because the Oceanside Spider House mask code must be guessed and the JP version has no nearby arrow refills, Eng is recommended. 100% requires completing the game after collecting everything that doesn't get erased by Song of Time:

  • All unique Hearts Pieces and Heart Containers
  • All Items
  • All Masks
  • All Songs
  • All Fairy rewards
  • All Max Upgrades
  • All Dungeon maps and compasses
  • All Tingle maps
  • All Owls
  • All Happiness Seals

Although glitchless categories do not allow many of the techniques listed on the sidebar, the movement techniques and general tips pages are still relevant and helpful.

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

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Bomb, bombchu, and rupee counts and health are notated as [b, c, r, h] where relevant. See Common Terms and Abbreviations for other acronyms.

First cycle

  • Intro cutscene
  • Slash grass for 9r+ [9r]
  • Backwalk and roll through Lost Woods
  • Deku transformation cutscene
  • Spin through grass for 3r+ [12r]
  • Take lower flower to next room
  • Tatl text skip on final flower
  • Happy Mask Salesman cutscene
  • Enter Clock Town
  • Reset the console after the "South Clock Town" area banner disappears completely (faster than watching the cutscene on Eng)
  • Load file

  • Enter ECT and take flower to inn upper door
  • Listen to Granny's overnight story twice (bottom text option) to advance to Day 3
  • Go to WCT (via SCT south load zone)
  • Enter trading post and speak to scarecrow (bottom text option) to advance to Night 3
  • Backflip onto stump and break pot for 1r [13r]
  • Go to ECT (via SCT south load zone)
  • Use flower to catch stray fairy
  • Get 1r from near box [14r]
  • Go to NCT
  • Break all keaton grass for 9r [23r]
  • Get magic from fairy fountain
  • Return to NCT and break all keaton grass for 9r [32r]
  • Pop bomber balloon with bubble
  • Get both NCT bombers and break all keaton grass for 9r [41r]
  • Go to ECT
  • Chase cucco bomber down from upstairs
  • Scare inn bomber off roof and knock down with bubble
  • Break other box for 1r [42r]
  • Shoot bubbles at all three parts of Honey & Darling sign for 5-9r [47r+]
  • Go to SCT and gainer or twisted backflip to Clock Tower door
  • Shoot bubble at center of clock for 3r [50r+]
  • Go to WCT and buy bomb bag [0r]
    • Only talk to salesman once he reaches counter to spend IGT
  • WCT bomber to finish minigame
  • Learn bomber code (write this down)
  • Go to SCT and gainer or twisted backflip to Clock Tower door
  • HP #1 (3 1/4)
  • Enter Clock Tower after midnight cutscene

  • Shoot Skull Kid with a bubble
  • Pick up Ocarina of Time and learn SoT
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  • Play SoT in Clock Tower and console reset after pressing A to confirm (top text option)
  • Load file
  • Play ISoT to invert time
    • May want to delay this if you expect to play so quickly that you'll get back to Clock Town too early to set the midnight meeting (4:15pm)
  • Enter lower Clock Tower doors
  • Speak to Happy Mask Salesman to get Deku Mask (1/24) and learn SoH
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  • Exit Clock Tower

─── Second cycle ───

Must get Epona's Song before Night 1 and later reach the ranch on time for Aliens. Ideally, invert time near the beginning of Cycle 2 and uninvert sometime before Aliens to get there just in time. Exact ISoT placement will be entirely dependent on your gameplay expectations and any mistakes you make. In-game time management is just as important as gameplay, as accounting for poorly managed in-game time by playing ISoT extra times or having to wait for Aliens can end up costing significant time.

Sonata of Awakening

  • Remember to play ISoT soon if you haven't already
  • Hit Clock Town owl statue
  • Backwalk to Laundry Pool for stray fairy
  • Exit to TF
  • Backwalk as Deku towards Swamp
    • Break grass along the way for RNG bomb drop (get any free rupees) [5b, 0r]
  • Swamp entrance cutscene
  • Backwalk to Southern Swamp
  • Hit Southern Swamp owl statue as human
  • Cross lilypads to WoM as Deku
  • Spin and backwalk through WoM (Day 1)
  • Talk to Koume as human and exit WoM
  • Enter potion shop and talk to Kotake for bottle with red potion (1/6)
  • Return to Koume (still human)
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  • Talk to Koume and give the red potion
  • Exit WoM and return to Swamp Tourist Center as Deku
  • Speak to Koume for Picto Box
  • Ride boat to Deku Palace
  • Enter Deku Palace

  • Backflip over guards as human
  • Enter West wing
  • Bomb boost fence and backflip twice onto moving platform [4b, 0r]
  • Jump over tall fence to HP #2 (3 2/4)
  • Head to doorframe, avoiding guards
    • Get blue rupees if guard pattern allows; want to be around 15r [4b, 15r]
    • Can bomb boost over low fence between leaf walls if final guard is in a bad position
  • Doorframe jump to Sonata
  • Learn Sonata of Awakening
    • ETA: 8:15am

Woodfall Temple 1

  • Exit Deku Palace
  • Ledge popup and learn Song of Soaring
  • Enter Woodfall
  • Cross platforms with deku flowers
  • Hit Woodfall owl statue as human
  • Break pots for nuts and stick
  • Play Sonata as Deku to raise WFT
  • Enter dungeon with deku flower

  • Kazooie flip and fly to central room
  • Break pots for bomb and fairy 1 and enter small key room [9b, 15r]
  • Deku flower to small key in chest
  • Go to block room (across central room)
    • Get bomb drop from pot again on the way if low - important to leave Woodfall 1 with at least 1 bomb remaining
  • Blockless strategy to get to compass room
    • || || after transforming human
  • Kill both dragonflies with a bomb and get compass [8b, 15r]
  • Bring flame upstairs and burn web to enter dark room
  • Light all 3 torches to open door
  • Kill all boes with sword/nuts for fairy 2 in chest
  • Go through door to upstairs dragonfly room
  • Jumpslash recoil to upper level of first floor [8b, 15r, 2h]
  • Enter upper level of small key room (door by floor switch)
  • Enter next door to dinofols
    • Preparing for deathwarp after map, so only get health before dinofols if necessary
  • Dinofols as human with deku stick for Hero's Bow
    • Can stun with deku nut
  • Return to small key room
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  • Jump to map room door [7b, 15r, 2h]
  • Snappers with 1.5h damage [3b, 15r, 0.5h]
  • Dungeon map and fast deathwarp [2b, 15r, 0h]
    • Important to leave with at least 1 bomb remaining
    • If too low on bombs or high on health, soar to entrance instead of deathwarping
    • If you accidentally die between getting the bow and the map, get the map along with the boss key on the second trip to Woodfall Temple
  • Exit dungeon
    • ETA 10:00am

Getting to Snowhead Temple

  • Soar to CT
  • Go to NCT fairy fountain for Great Fairy Mask (2/24)
  • Exit to TF via NCT
    • If completely out of bombs, get a bomb drop from grass
  • Shoot down icicle
  • Traverse path to Mountain Village [1b, 15r]
  • Hit Mountain Village owl statue
  • Cross Twin Islands
    • If not confident in making hot springwater timer after Goron Mask, talk to the goron now to open Goron Shrine, enter and talk to the goron baby, and then come back out (costs ~15s)
  • Roll through small snowballs for bomb, stick, and arrow drops [6b, 15r]
  • Jump blindly to lens cave (Day 1)
  • Throw bomb to rock on Link's left
  • Break grass to fill bomb bag [20b, 15r]
  • Get Lens of Truth
  • Get purple rupee from chest [20b, 65r]

  • Soar to Mountain Village
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  • Climb ladder to Goron Graveyard
    • 6 right, 1 left, 8 right (with good starting position)
    • Repeatedly turn Lens on and off to avoid spending magic
  • Play SoH as human with Lens on for Goron Mask (3/24)
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    • ETA 11:30am
  • Transform Deku, then Goron
  • Pull headstone and bottle hot springwater
    • Making it to the goron elder before the hot springwater cools requires good movement; if you make significant mistakes prior to crossing Twin Islands and didn't talk to the goron baby earlier, use the hot springwater to open the Twin Islands hot spring grotto and refill on the way to Goron Village
  • Goron roll to Goron Village with wall bounce exiting graveyard
  • Pound to open shrine door, talk to goron baby, and exit shrine
  • Roll up icy slope to Twin Islands
  • Drop hot springwater at goron elder snowball, then punch right away to reveal and unfreeze elder
  • Talk twice to learn Lullaby Intro
  • Return to Goron Shrine
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  • Roll through pots for magic and deku stick drops
  • Play Lullaby Intro for goron baby to learn Goron Lullaby
  • Use deku stick to light torch and start chandelier
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  • Spike roll to knock sirloin down
    • Sirloin is always in the same pot, so you can always hit the right one with consistent movement and timing
  • Carry sirloin to hungry goron for Don Gero's Mask (4/24)
    • Out of shrine
    • Back around icy paths (not the steep one)
    • Jump down in Twin Islands instead of taking bridges
    • Across Mountain Village
  • Roll to path to Snowhead through small snowball for magic drop
  • Ascend to Snowhead (skip second ramp)
  • Play Goron Lullaby
  • Hit Snowhead owl statue
  • Enter Snowhead Temple
    • ETA 1:00pm

Snowhead Temple

Bomb refills are available if needed. The two pots just inside the pillar puzzle room have 50% chances of dropping bombs. The grass at the bottom of the bridge room and central room contains a guaranteed bomb drop; after getting either of these, transform Deku and void out in the lava to respawn at your latest entrance.

  • Break icicles with goron roll
  • Push block and enter right door
    • Sidehop between second block push and block falling to get a little closer to the door
  • Spike roll across bridge to central room
    • Roll or run before central room cutscene begins; don't fall off
  • Goron roll across to block stack room (gold door)
  • Pull blocks twice
  • Get small key as human
  • Push blocks to socket to spawn chest
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  • Goron bomb boost to chest for fairy 1 [19b, 65r]
  • Cross to door to compass room
  • Get compass
  • Press switch without melting ice
  • Goron bomb boost to chest for fairy 2 [18b, 65r]
  • Put on GFM and blow up wall for fairy 3 [17b, 65r]
  • Ascend to snowball room
  • Blow up snowball [16b, 65r]
    • Snowball must be on screen when the bomb explodes to get blown up
  • Climb and jump past fake wall to fairy 4 in chest
  • Jump across platforms to small key and snowball rupees [16b, 70r]
  • Take key door to pillar puzzle room
  • Goron bomb boost to skip puzzle [15b, 70r]
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  • Put on GFM and shoot fairy bubble through false ceiling for fairy 5
  • Goron roll to left ramp
  • Wizzrobe as goron for Fire Arrow
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  • Drop to freezard room
  • Freezard room without hookshot for fairy 6
  • Goron roll back to bridge room (blue door across central room)
  • Fire arrow both fairy bubbles and put on GFM for fairies 7 and 8
  • Take stairs up to map room with GFM on for fairy 9
  • Get dungeon map
  • Shoot iced eye switch behind freezard and get on platform before the cutscene begins
  • Get to fairy chest without lens for fairy 10
  • Go to central room via upper door as human
  • Fire arrow ice block on the right
  • Goron roll right to stairs and right to eeno room
  • Put on GFM and fire arrow fairy bubble through fake wall
  • Fire arrow ice block (fairy 11 after cutscene)
  • Goron roll to stairs
  • Kill dinofols with Goron pounds/punches for fairies 12 and 13
  • Drop to flower fairy (fairies 14)
  • Drop to lowest level and press big switch as Goron
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  • Fairy 15 in chest
  • Void in lava as Deku
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  • Tunnel jump and enter stairs as Goron [14b, 73r]
    • If the bomb leaves 3 snowballs, spike roll through them; if it leaves 2, pound each
  • Goron roll down to second wizzrobe
  • Wizzrobe as goron for boss key
  • Tunnel jump (tunnel is on the left now) and enter stairs as Goron [13b, 76r]
  • Spike roll to boss door
  • Goht with arrows
    • || || after unfreezing Goht
  • Get HC #1 (4 2/4) and Goht's Remains
  • Learn Oath to Order
    • ETA 3:30pm

Garo Mask

Begin Gorman race before Night 1 begins.

  • Goron roll to keg shop (via Twin Islands) [13b, 80r]
  • Carry keg to Goron Racetrack entrance and blow up boulder (hit keg with arrow)
    • If it is ~4:30pm or later when you open the racetrack, skip the race and go straight back to the keg shop - see beginner route variations for good times to back up the race
    • Each Goron race attempt takes about 30m IGT (inverted)
  • Goron race for gold dust bottle (2/6)
  • Goron roll back to keg shop for keg license

  • Soar to CT
    • Consider uninverting time starting around this point - see note above
  • Enter bomber code in ECT
  • Enter and exit shortcut to Astral Observatory
  • Receive Bombers' Notebook from Jim
  • Kafei's Mask (5/24) from Madame Aroma in Mayor's Residence (right door)
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  • Set midnight meeting in Stock Pot Inn
    • Talk to Anju while wearing Kafei's Mask
    • This is only possible after 4:15pm; if you're early, consider inverting time later at the beginning of cycle 2 next time
  • Goron roll to peahat grotto (ECT -> SCT -> TF) [13b, 85r]
  • Kill peahat with 4 fire arrows for HP #3 (4 3/4)
  • Goron roll to Milk Road
  • Hit Milk Road owl statue
    • Get magic and arrow drops from grass nearby
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  • Blow up boulder (hit keg with arrow and backflip to damage boost during cutscene)
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  • Goron roll to Romani
  • Speak to Romani as human for aliens cutscene
  • Epona archery for Epona's Song
  • Ride Epona to Gorman Racetrack
    • If very tight on time, soar to Milk Road, enter racetrack, then play Epona's Song; saves 5m IGT at the cost of 12s
    • If it is impossible to reach the racetrack on time, delay the race until Day 2 after Bunny Hood
  • Speak to blue Gorman brother
  • Gorman race for Garo Mask (6/24) [13b, 75r]
    • ETA 5:30pm

Zora Mask and Hookshot

  • Ride Epona to Great Bay Coast
  • Goron roll to shore, then push Mikau to shore as human
  • Play SoH for Zora Mask (6/24)
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  • Goron roll to shore
  • Zora swim and dolphin dive onto Marine Lab platform
  • Hit Great Bay Coast owl statue as human from behind to recoil into water during cutscene
  • Dolphin dive to Pirates' Fortress

  • Take picture of pirate
    • Stand on the edge of the platform and take the photo when the boat is around its nearest point
  • Dolphin dive to land on far side (don't get caught)
  • Goron pound switch
  • Swim underwater to sewers entrance
  • Pull first block once and push second block once
    • Release A just before bonking into each breakable wooden plank to be able to start swimming again immediately
  • Dolphin dive to door
  • Swim to ramp
  • Goron roll up stairs, punch barrels, and backwalk onto switch
  • Roll to HP #4 (5 0/4) in jail
  • Hit crystal switch with Zora fins from stairs and sidehop while fins are out
  • Dolphin dive to ladder
  • Step on ground switch
  • Hit both crystal switches with Zora fins
    • Using bow is easier but costs a transformation
  • Goron roll to main fortress entrance
  • Shoot guard at base of ladder
  • Climb ladder, shoot other guard, and enter upper door to hookshot room
  • Shoot beehive without hitting cutscene trigger
  • Goron roll back out and through lower door to get hookshot
  • Zora roll jump from chest to tank
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  • Get Zora egg from tank
    • ETA 7:45pm

Oceanside Spider House

  • Soar to Great Bay
  • [Deposit Zora egg] in lab as Zora, then exit (1/7)
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  • Break pot behind lab for magic and arrow drops if needed (want full quiver for mask code)
  • Dive to void out
  • Goron roll to Fisherman's Hut
  • Speak to seahorse (not fisherman) and give picture for seahorse
  • Enter Oceanside Spider House

  • Transform human
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  • Blow up wall [12b, 75r]
  • Slide down slope
  • Hookshot both slope skulltulas ( 2)
  • Hookshot ceiling skulltula from right side of slope base without burning web ( 3)
  • Hookshot to door
  • Light deku stick and burn web on left to library
  • Hookshot rafter skulltula (turn right) ( 4)
  • Pull middle dresser and hookshot skulltula in wall hole ( 5)
  • Jump to bookcase
  • Hookshot painting and skulltula behind it ( 6)
  • Jump to next bookcase
  • Hookshot skulltula through painting ( 7)
  • Sidehop down and push bookcase for two hidden skulltulas ( 9)
  • Roll near stalchild to hookshot skulltula on bookcase ( 10)
  • Exit library
  • Bonk nearest big pot to reveal skulltula
  • Hookshot skulltula behind mask, then rafter skulltula ( 12)
  • Slash skulltula on ground ( 13)
  • Backflip onto big pot
  • Bonk wall at web to reveal skulltula
  • Jumpslash skulltula ( 14)
  • Hookshot skulltula between floors from halfway down the stairs ( 15)
  • Enter heart piece room
  • Bonk table to reveal three skulltulas
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  • Guess mask code
    • Code is 6 colors long and the same color never appears twice in a row
    • Anytime you shoot an incorrect mask, the entry resets
    • Get arrows from the pot by the door if you run out
  • Slash both skulltulas on the right ( 17)
  • Bonk wall by pot on the left to reveal skulltula
  • Kill all three skulltulas with a bomb ( 20) [11b, 75r]
  • Hookshot chest for HP #5 (5 1/4)
  • Shield normal skulltula damage and return to mask area
  • Hookshot skulltula in ceiling from table ( 21)
  • Exit mask room
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  • Burn web in corner with a fire arrow
  • Throw a bomb towards the corner to kill pot skulltula after cutscene
  • Bonk pot on right to reveal skulltula
  • Slash floor skulltula
  • Hookshot pot skulltula token and walk into floor skulltula token ( 23)
  • Burn other web over wall hole with a fire arrow
  • Hookshot skulltula behind mask while waiting on web ( 24)
  • Hookshot skulltula in wall hole ( 25)
  • Burn door web with fire arrow
  • Enter box room
  • Bonk box on right to reveal skulltula ( 26)
  • Damage down to 3h on skulltula before killing it [11b, 75r, 3h] ( 27)
  • Blow up back wall skulltula with a bomb and take bomb damage [10b, 75r, 2.5h]
  • Hookshot token ( 28)
  • Burn ceiling web with fire arrow and hookshot skulltula ( 28)
  • Blow up other box with a bomb and shield bomb damage [9b, 75r, 2.5h]
  • Hookshot skulltula in hidden room ( 29)
  • Hookshot upstairs from hidden room entrance
  • [Get final token with quick deathwarp] [8b, 75r, 0h] ( 30)
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  • Get Adult Wallet as Goron
    • Roll forwards after deathwarp; be careful not to exit the spider house before getting the wallet, as this makes the guy disappear and locks you out of the wallet upgrade for this cycle
    • ETA 9:15pm

Midnight Meeting

  • Goron roll to Zora Cape
  • Hookshot up to Waterfall Rapids with red rupee chest [8b, 95r]
  • Four beaver races for bottle (3/6) and HP #6 (5 2/4)
  • Exit to Zora Cape
  • Dive and kill like-like for HP #7 (5 3/4) and rupees [8b, 110r]
  • Dive onto land and transform human
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    • ETA midnight

  • Soar to Milk Road
  • Slash grass for arrows
  • Shoot Tingle's balloon
  • Take picture of Tingle
    • The tip of his hat must be in the picture
  • Buy Romani Ranch and Great Bay maps from Tingle (2/6) [8b, 50r]
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Swamp Gossips grotto and play Goron Lullaby
    • Get wallet to 60r from grass between here and tree rupees; try for bomb drop as well [13b, 60r]
  • Bonk into tree by Astral Observatory for two red rupees [13b, 100r]
  • Goron bomb boost over fence to enter observatory [12b, 100r]
  • Gaze into the telescope
    • Look left to activate business scrub and guay
    • Zoom in on Clock Tower and watch Moon's Tear cutscene
    • Watch business scrub enter grotto
    • Watch guay drop red rupee
  • Exit observatory for Moon's Tear
  • Goron bomb boost over fence [11b, 100r]
  • Enter grotto
  • Pay business scrub 100r for HP #8 (6 0/4) (say no on first prompt and yes on second) [11b, 0r]
  • Goron roll to Canyon Gossips grotto and play Goron Lullaby
  • Goron roll to CT and collect grass rupees and guay rupee on the way [11b, 26r]
    • || ||
  • Zora gainer into Stock Pot Inn
  • Midnight meeting for Letter to Kafei (speak to Anju as human)
    • The midnight meeting is available at all times between midnight and the beginning of Day 2
    • ETA 1am

Swamp Spider House

  • Exit inn as Zora
  • Zora gainer to 100r chest [11b, 126r]
  • Goron roll to CT business scrub
  • Give Moon's Tear for Land Title Deed
    • || ||
  • Mail Letter to Kafei
  • Talk to Guru-Guru in Laundry Pool for Bremen Mask (7/24)

  • Soar to Southern Swamp
    • || ||
  • Give Land Title Deed for Swamp Title Deed as Goron
  • Give Tingle picture to man in Swamp Tourist Center for HP #9 (6 1/4) (talk as human)
  • Goron pound to HP #10 (6 2/4) on roof
  • Goron roll past big octo from roof
    • If failed, try again or equip Zora Mask to kill big octo with fins
  • Climb to Swamp Spider House entrance
    • || ||
  • Burn web with deku stick to enter spider house

  • Catch bugs from under the rock
  • Enter central room
  • Sidehop left and spin attack pot skulltula ( 1)
  • Enter slab room
  • Bonk second box on the right
  • Hookshot wall skulltula, then slash box skulltula ( 3)
  • Bonk box on left for skulltula ( 4)
  • Climb ladder
  • Jump to slab skulltula ( 5)
  • Jumpslash to upper level and slash torch skulltula ( 6)
  • Enter central room (upper)
  • Slash pillar skulltula through pillar and hookshot wall skulltula ( 8)
  • Jump to flower and across to other side
  • Drop bugs in front of soil patch for skulltula ( 9)
  • Enter Sonata room (upper)
  • Hookshot near left and near right beehives
  • Jump or sidehop down to big pots
  • Jump across big pots to opposite side [11b, 153r]
  • Catch bugs from under the rock
  • Slash or hookshot wall skulltula ( 10)
  • Drop down and slash grass wall for hidden skulltula ( 11)
  • Bonk nearest big pot for skulltula ( 12)
  • Bonk second to last pot for skulltula ( 13)
  • Spin attack to kill both ground skulltulas and small pot skulltula at once ( 16)
  • Enter central room (lower)
  • Slash pillar skulltula ( 17)
  • Drop bugs in front of soil patch for skulltula ( 18)
  • Skulltula in water nearby ( 19)
  • Enter gold room
  • Hookshot far beehive and kill both ground skulltulas and the left wall skulltula ( 22)
  • Hookshot up to crate and jump to enter tree room
  • Bonk tree, then hookshot back right beehive to knock down all skulltulas
    • Bonking the tree immediately makes the skulltulas always land in the same places
  • Catch bugs near gossip stone
  • Kill all skulltulas ( 28)
  • Return to gold room
  • Hookshot skulltula on pillar ( 29)
  • Drop bugs in front of soil patch on the right for skulltula ( 30)
    • || ||
    • If it is around 2am, play ISoT to uninvert time immediately
  • Return to first room as Goron for Mask of Truth (8/24)
    • ETA 2:00-3:00am (see next section)

Romani Ranch

As long as you get Mask of Truth by around 3:15am, it is possible to make it to aliens without skipping anything. Play ISoT to uninvert time as early as you are comfortable with to avoid waiting longer than necessary.

  • Soar to Mountain Village
  • Enter smithy as Goron [11b, 173r]
  • Deposit Kokiri sword as human [11b, 73r]
  • Goron roll to Twin Islands
  • HP #11 (6 3/4) in underwater chest
  • Goron roll to Goron Village business scrub
    • || ||
  • Give Swamp Title Deed for Mountain Title Deed as Deku
  • Use flower to fly to HP #12 (7 0/4)
  • Transform Goron
    • || ||

  • Soar to Milk Road
  • Aliens for milk bottle (4/6)
    • Shoot first wave by 3:49am
    • After shooting the first wave, play ISoT to uninvert time if you haven't already
    • After shooting the second wave at/after 4am, break the box for an arrow refill and go get rupees from the entry archway [11b, 80r+]
  • SoDT to Day 2 and ISoT to invert time
    • If backing up goron race here, do not SoDT, and only ISoT after the race
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  • Goron roll to Doggy Racetrack
  • Win dog race for HP #13 (7 1/4) [11b, 200r/160r]
    • If you are low on rupees, get them from pots or chest near the back of the racetrack
    • Bet 80r to win 240r (first place) or 160r (second place); the Night 2 route will depend on how many rupees you end up with - see below
    • If you bet 90r, the route is the same whether you win first or second place - see below
  • Goron roll to Cucco Shack
  • Bremen march for Bunny Hood (9/24)
  • Exit as Goron
    • If you skipped Garo Mask earlier, race Gorman Brothers now
  • SoDT to Night 2
  • Goron roll to Cremia
    • || ||
  • Wagon escort for Romani's Mask (10/24)

Captain's Hat

Get the Pendant of Memories to Anju by 8:30pm. After that, IGT is not a concern until the SoDT to Day 3 to get the gilded sword.

  • If you are under 180r, see the reroute in the addenda; otherwise, follow the route here and roll through bushes to reach 200r
  • Goron roll to Mountain Gossips grotto
    • Play Lullaby at gossip stone
  • Goron roll to Ocean Gossips grotto (enter with reverse punch)
    • Play Lullaby at gossip stone for HP #14 (7 2/4)
  • Goron roll into CT
  • Deposit 200r for Giant Wallet, then withdraw 120r [11b, 120r, 76r bank]
  • Buy powder keg and 10 bombchus in bomb shop [11b, 10c, 30r]
  • Learn scarecrow's song and buy red potion in Trading Post [11b, 10c, 0r]
  • Get Pendant of Memories from Kafei in Laundry Pool hideout
  • Get 60r underwater [11b, 10c, 60r, 76r bank]
  • Put on Don Gero's Mask and speak to frog (1/4)
  • Goron roll to Stock Pot Inn
    • || ||
  • Give Pendant to Anju as human

  • Goron roll to Ikana
    • || ||
  • Use blue bubbles to damage boost over fences and enter Ikana Graveyard
    • Alternatively, play Epona's Song and ride to Ikana Graveyard
  • Quick Keeta fight (goron method) [10b, 10c, 60r]
  • Jump to Captain's Hat (11/24)
    • || ||

Returning to Woodfall Temple

  • Goron roll to Day 2 grave
  • Speak to stalchild while wearing Captain's Hat to open grave (bottom text option)
  • Goron roll to door [10b, 10c, 83r, 76r bank]
  • Roll across invisible platforms and blow up wall [9b, 10c, 83r]
  • Iron knuckle as Goron for HP #15 (7 3/4)
  • Return across invisible platforms
    • || ||
  • Stalagmite jump to Day 1 grave
  • Light torches to open door
  • Iron knuckle as Goron
  • Target headstone to learn Song of Storms
    • || ||
  • Exit grave as Goron
  • Goron roll to Road to Ikana
  • Talk to Shiro with Lens on to give red potion for Stone Mask (12/24)
    • || ||
  • Put on Garo Mask to spawn tree
  • Hookshot up
  • Goron roll to Ikana Canyon
    • || ||
  • Ice arrow skip (slash to edge with stick)
  • Hit Ikana Canyon owl statue with stick
  • Goron roll to Sharp and play Song of Storms

  • Soar to Snowhead
  • Jump across invisible platforms
  • Play scarecrow's song
  • Hookshot scarecrow for HP #16 (8 0/4)
  • Void out
  • Goron roll to Snowhead fairy fountain for Double Magic

  • Soar to Mountain Village
  • Enter smithy as Goron
    • || ||
  • Collect razor sword
  • Deposit razor sword and give gold dust
  • SoDT to Day 3
  • Collect gilded sword

  • Soar to Woodfall
  • Re-enter Woodfall Temple

Woodfall Temple 2

Manage in-game time to reach Sakon's Hideout by 7pm. This is very lenient: Without very major mistakes, this will involve a SoDT inside Great Bay Temple.

  • Transform human
    • || ||
  • Put on GFM and hookshot to chest for fairy 3
  • Jump down and hookshot torch by door to central room (fairy 4 while aiming)
  • Hookshot to torch by switch and press switch
  • Jump down, put on GFM, and enter block puzzle room
  • Throw bomb in front of block to blow up underwater fairy bubble [8b, 10c, 83r]
    • || ||
  • Shoot skulltula and nearest beehive to release fairies
  • Collect fairies 5-7 and exit (backflip if fairies are stuck on fences)
  • Kill baba for fairy 8
  • Open chest (spawned earlier with switch) for fairy 9
  • Hookshot recessed torch and jump to door to small key room
  • Hookshot beehive on left to release fairy
  • Jump to flower and wait to collect fairy 10
  • Shoot eye switch with fire arrow
    • || ||
  • Fly to Gekko
  • Fight Gekko (gilded sword strategy or casual fight with bombs & fire arrows) [5b, 10c, 83r]
    • || ||
  • Get boss key and speak to frog while wearing Don Gero's Mask (2/4)
  • Return to central room
  • Light torch by north door with fire arrow
  • Fairy 11 in bubble
  • Enter boss door room
    • || ||
  • Put on GFM
  • Shoot two fairy bubbles on left with fire arrows
  • Jump to upper right fairy bubble for fairy 12
  • Drop and jumpslash recoil (or jump twice) to lower right fairy bubble for fairies 13-15
  • Hookshot to boss door [5b, 10c, 88r]
  • Odolwa with gilded sword (JA, spin, spin)
    • || ||
  • Get HC #2 (9 0/4) and Odolwa's Remains

New Wave Bossa Nova

  • Slash grass and watch Deku Princess cutscene
  • Catch Deku Princess in bottle and exit
    • || ||
  • Hookshot to HP #17 (9 1/4) in chest
  • Goron roll to bottom of ramp outside fairy fountain
  • Transform Deku and take flowers to fairy fountain for Great Spin
    • Do not pop up through the ramp
  • Goron roll to Deku Palace guards
  • Enter Deku King's chamber as Deku
  • Dump Deku Princess on platform in front of Deku King
  • Exit chamber and transform human in left passageway
    • || ||
  • Goron bomb boost to rupees and bean salesman grotto [3b, 10c, 113r]
  • Buy 6 beans [3b, 10c, 63r]
  • Exit grotto and get caught
  • Butler Race for Mask of Scents (13/24) [3b, 10c, 108r]
    • || ||

  • Soar to Great Bay Coast
  • Dolphin dive to Pinnacle Rock
  • Dolphin dive to deep pythons
  • Get 3 eggs and seahorse HP #18 (9 2/4)
    • Start below entrance and go clockwise downwards
    • Cross at the bottom and go counterclockwise upwards
    • Eggs on eels 2, 4, and 8
    • || || after first egg
  • Swim over top lip to void out
  • Exit Pinnacle Rock
  • Dolphin dive to Marine Lab
  • Jump to tank
  • Dump both Zora eggs (3/7)
    • || ||
  • Dump third Zora egg (4/7)

  • Dolphin dive to Pirates' Fortress
  • Boat jump or re-enter PF normally
  • Hookshot target at stairs
  • Hookshot to roof on right
  • Jumpslash recoil to skip pirate fight
  • Hookshot into tank, transform Zora, and collect 5th egg
  • Exit as Zora
  • Hookshot target at stairs again
  • Curved jump past roof
  • Hookshot into tank, transform Zora, and collect 6th egg
    • || ||
  • Exit as Zora
  • Head right and hookshot up (skip lower hookshot target)
  • Skip guard or hookshot guard
  • [Fight pirate]
  • Hookshot into tank, transform Zora
    • || || after collecting egg
  • Collect 7th egg
  • Get out and soar to Great Bay Coast
  • Deposit Zora egg in lab as Zora (5/7)
    • || ||
  • Deposit both Zora eggs (7/7)
    • || ||
  • Drop off tank to learn New Wave Bossa Nova

Getting to Great Bay Temple

  • Dolphin dive to Zora Cape and Zora Hall front entrance
  • Cross to Lulu's room (leftmost door)
    • || ||
  • Give Mountain Title Deed for Ocean Title Deed as Goron
  • Goron pound popup to HP #19 (9 3/4)
  • Goron roll to Evan's room (next door)
  • Talk as Zora, then enter as Goron
    • || ||
  • Play song for Evan's HP #20 (10 0/4)
    • XXZA AZXA, YYXZ ZXYZ
  • Goron roll to back exit of Zora Hall
  • Break pots for bombs, magic, and arrows [8b, 10c, 108r]
  • Play New Wave Bossa Nova as Zora to raise turtle
    • || ||
  • Hookshot tree to enter Great Bay Temple

Great Bay Temple

  • Fire arrow all four torches for fairy 1 in chest
  • Enter second room
  • Skip underwater turnkey and get fairies 2 & 3 [8b, 9c, 108r]
    • || || after shooting skulltula
  • Swim to map room
  • Dolphin dive onto platform and break pot for fairy 4
  • Zora rebound to upper red turnkey room (see "backup" video)
  • Gainer onto platform and turn turnkey
    • Gainering from the side next to a pipe gives the trick a 2f window instead of 1f
  • Get dungeon map
  • Swim through tunnel underwater
  • Biobabas for fairy 5 in chest
  • Cross lilypads to compass
  • Small key from underwater chest
  • Dive out and swim to lower red turnkey room
  • [Bonk onto red pipe] and open locked door
  • Roll through pots for bombs [18b, 9c, 108r]
  • Enter Wart as human
    • || || if using bombs
  • Wart gilded sword or bombs for phase 1, Great Spin for phase 2 [15b, 9c, 108r]
  • Ice Arrow from chest

  • Backtrack to lower red turnkey as Zora
    • || ||
  • Dive to left platform, ice arrow octorok, and turn turnkey
  • Take tunnel to central room for fairy 6 in pot
  • Freeze waterfall and climb ladder during cutscene
  • Break barrel for fairy 7
  • Enter upper green turnkey room
  • Hookshot up to fairy 8 in chest (jumpslash method; bombchu recoil is banned) [15b, 9c, 128r]
  • Jumpslash recoil down and turn green turnkey [15b, 9c, 148r]
  • Return to first waterwheel via main room
  • Hookshot right to water spout
  • Push left side of final red turnkey
  • Dive to yellow turnkey, then turn it
    • || ||
  • Void as Goron
  • Zora dive right and take upper green tunnel
  • Early boss key (Zora jump method; long jumping is banned)
  • Gekko with gilded sword and ice arrows
    • || ||
  • Put on Don Gero's Mask and speak to frog (3/4)
  • Return to compass room
  • Fairy 9 in underwater pot
  • Dive onto second waterwheel and navigate to door
  • Leave and re-enter second water wheel room
  • Ice arrow waterfall
    • || ||
  • Jump and hookshot to fairies 10 & 11 in chests
  • Void as Goron
  • Bombchu underwater barrel for fairy 12 [15b, 8c, 148r]
    • || || (equip Fire Arrow if needed)
  • Skip one or both seesaws
  • Turn green turnkey
  • Navigate to chest for fairy 13
    • Run into real bombchu to get rid of it before climbing
  • Jump from chest to fence to exit room
  • Play SoDT to advance to Night 3
    • This is to time reaching Sakon's Hideout at 7pm. However, since time is already inverted, there isn't a good backup for losing a significant amount of time here. If you are not confident in reaching Sakon's Hideout by 7pm, delay SoDT until just before entering Gyorg's room or, at the latest, immediately after the giant cutscene after Gyorg.
  • Swim to boss door room (bottom level green tunnel)
  • Break fairy bubble in tunnel with Zora fins
  • Dolphin dive to break other fairy bubble
  • [Bonk onto green pipe]
  • Transform human and put on GFM for fairies 14 & 15
  • Transform Zora and turn turnkey
  • Immediately jump to boss door as Zora
    • Be sure not to hold A for either jump to avoid diving
  • [Gyorg] with fins (faster) or bow (slower) and Zora barrier
  • Get HC #3 (11 0/4) and Gyorg's Remains
    • ETA 6:30pm

Sakon's Hideout

Make it to Sakon's Hideout by 7pm.

  • Great Spin for Zora Hall owl statue and magic, bombs, and arrows [20b, 8c, 148r]
    • || ||
  • High ledge grab
  • Hookshot to fairy fountain and bombchu rocks
    • || ||
  • Get Double Magic as Goron
  • Soar to Clock Town
  • Goron roll to Laundry Pool
  • Enter Kafei's Hideout with Bunny Hood
  • Speak to Curiosity Shop man for Priority Mail and Keaton Mask (14/24)
  • Soar to Ikana Canyon
  • Goron roll to lower area
  • Pass black load plane before 7pm to be able to enter Sakon's Hideout
    • Do not get caught
  • Complete Sakon's Hideout with Bunny Hood

End Cycle 2

Must get Postman's Hat by 1 hour remaining. Ikana Castle can be moved to next cycle if needed – see beginner route variations. Most of the other collection in this section cannot be moved to the next cycle without major inconvenience.

  • Run to business scrub with Bunny Hood, then remove it
    • || ||
  • Give Ocean Title Deed for huge rupee as Zora [20b, 8c, 348r]
  • Fly to HP #21 (11 1/4)
    • || ||
  • Void as Goron
  • Goron roll to Ikana Graveyard
  • Open and enter Dampe's grave
  • Dampe
    • Get 50r from pot and 15r from wallmaster while Dampe rides platform [20b, 8c, 413r]
    • || ||
  • Big poe with hookshot and gilded sword Great Spins
  • Bottle big poe and open chest for empty bottle (5/6) (order depends on Dampe RNG)

For the remainder of this cycle, this route assumes bad Dampe. With good Dampe, you can either (faster) complete Ikana Castle between Mirror Shield and Postman's Hat or (slower) uninvert + reinvert before Couple's Mask to waste IGT.

  • Soar to Clock Town
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Post Office
  • Give Priority Mail to Postman
  • Buy Big Bomb Bag from Curiosity Shop as human [30b, 8c, 313r]

  • Soar to Southern Swamp
  • Talk to Koume in Swamp Tourist Center to begin witch archery minigame for HP #22 (11 2/4)
    • Get 20 points and then aim down for lag reduction
  • Buy Biggest Bomb Bag from business scrub as Goron [40b, 8c, 113r]
  • Goron roll to swamp frog
    • || ||
  • Put on Don Gero's Mask and speak to frog (4/4)

  • Soar to Mountain Village
  • Speak to frog while wearing Don Gero's Mask for HP #23 (11 3/4)

  • Soar to Great Bay Coast
  • Dolphin dive to canoe
    • || ||
  • Shoot ice arrow to spawn platform near torch minigame
  • Dolphin dive to ice platform and jump to central platform to start minigame [40b, 8c, 93r]
  • Torch minigame for HP #24 (12 0/4)
  • Dolphin dive to shore
    • || ||
  • Catch fish
  • Hookshot to target
    • || ||
  • Plant magic bean and play Song of Storms
  • Ride magic bean and jump to next platform
  • Zora jump and jumpslash to HP #25 (12 1/4)

  • Soar to Ikana Canyon
    • || ||
  • Enter Music Box House with Stone Mask
  • Play Song of Healing as human for Pamela's father for Gibdo Mask (15/24)
    • || ||
  • Exit as human
  • Shoot Tingle's balloon
  • Buy Clock Town and Stone Tower maps from Tingle (4/6) [40b, 8c, 33r]
  • Goron roll to the well
    • || ||
  • Right door, give beans
  • Left door, give fish
    • || ||
  • Straight door, give big poe
  • Right door, give milk
    • || ||
  • Light torches with fire arrow and stick for Mirror Shield

If you had good Dampe and are confident in IGT management, complete Ikana Castle before Clock Town.

  • Soar to Clock Town
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Postman in ECT for Postman's Hat (16/24)
  • Goron roll to Stock Pot Inn upstairs room
  • Watch cutscene for Couple's Mask (17/24)

  • Soar to Ikana Canyon
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to Ikana Castle with magic drop from grass
  • Zora gainer to skip sun block and enter castle
  • Fire arrow ice switch and enter left room
  • Zora jumpslash onto red platform
  • Sidehop to pop up to switch and enter next room
  • Jump to switch on left
  • Fire arrow both skulltulas and enter next room
  • Go upstairs as Goron
    • || ||
  • Throw keg left over fence (do not miss)
    • || ||
  • Goron bomb boost to HP #26 (12 2/4) [39b, 8c, 33r]
  • Goron roll down to main castle entrance
  • Use mirror shield to get rid of sun block
  • Burn curtain with fire arrow
    • || ||
  • Defeat Igos for Elegy of Emptiness
  • Play Song of Time
    • If you still need Postman's Hat and Couple's Mask, exit to the main room of the castle and soar CT to get them before playing Song of Time

─── Third Cycle ───

Blast Mask

Must get to North Clock Town by 12:20am for Blast Mask. Nothing else up to Stone Tower Temple is IGT-dependent, so delay anything necessary to avoid being late for Blast Mask.

  • Play SoDT to advance to Night 1
    • If you want to play IGT safe, do this at the door to the Mayor's Residence
    • || ||
  • Goron roll to the Mayor's Residence
  • Put on Couple's Mask and talk to the mayor for HP #27 (12 3/4)
  • Goron roll to Stock Pot Inn
    • || ||
  • Put on Kafei's Mask and talk to Anju
  • Zora gainer to 100r chest [100r]
  • Enter Town Shooting Gallery
  • Win twice for Big Quiver and HP #28 (13 0/4) [60r]
  • Goron roll to Post Office
  • Win Postman's minigame for HP #29 (13 1/4)
  • Sword School expert course for HP #30 (13 2/4) [50r]
  • Goron roll to biobaba grotto (by Great Bay entrance) and enter with reverse punch
  • Break beehive with Zora fins for HP #31 (13 3/4)
  • Goron roll to North Clock Town
    • If low on IGT, void as Goron instead, then go through WCT and SCT to get to NCT; this is slower but saves IGT
    • || ||
  • Slash Sakon
  • Postbox HP #32 (14 0/4) with Postman's Hat
    • || ||
  • Slash grass while wearing Keaton Mask
  • Climb tree for HP #33 (14 1/4)
  • Keaton Quiz for HP #34 (14 2/4)
    • Can speak to Keaton from tree branch
    • Leave HP text up
  • Receive Blast Mask (18/24) from Mommy

Getting to Stone Tower Temple

IGT is no longer a concern until after playing SoDT in the dungeon.

  • Goron roll to ECT
  • Zora gainer into Stock Pot Inn
  • Talk to Anju in the kitchen as human for Letter to Kafei
    • || ||
  • Give letter to toilet hand for HP #35 (14 3/4)
    • || ||

  • Soar to Ikana Canyon
  • Goron roll to Stone Tower
    • Get bomb drop from grass [5b, 50r]
  • Ascend Stone Tower
    • Zora Elegy on first switch
    • || ||
    • Hookshot up two targets
    • Goron Elegy on second switch
    • Jump to second block
    • Hookshot target
    • Human Elegy on switch
    • Hookshot beamos
    • Step on switch (no Elegy)
    • Hookshot target
    • Human Elegy on block
    • Jump to upper level
    • Hookshot final target
    • Hit owl statue and get bombs, magic, and arrows from pots if needed
    • Human Elegy on left switch (if facing owl statue)
    • Human Elegy on block
    • Goron roll into Stone Tower Temple

Stone Tower Temple

  • Goron roll to left door
  • Elegy room
    • Use real bombchu to break wall
    • Punch big boxes
    • Bring first small box to nearby switch
    • Bring second small box to far central switch
    • Goron Elegy on big switch
    • Human Elegy on final switch
  • Lure real bombchu to blow up false floor
    • If this isn't possible, use a bomb instead
  • Shield light onto the sun block
  • Hookshot to chest for fairy 1
    • || || between hookshotting and opening the chest
  • Throw bombs to kill all 4 armos [1b, 50r]
  • Open dungeon map chest as Goron
  • Open small key chest
  • Goron roll to locked door upstairs
    • Get bomb drop from grass [6b, 50r]
  • Dive to small key chest
  • Throw bomb at switch and get small key during chest spawn animation [5b, 50r]
  • Dive back to other side
  • Zora gainer onto sun block
  • Open chest for fairy 2 (get red rupee) [5b, 70r]
  • Gainer back onto sun block
  • Swim through tunnel to underwater switch
  • Swim to locked door and transform human
    • || ||
  • Shoot icy eye switch with fire arrow
  • Transform Goron and enter locked door after chest spawn animation
  • Punch all 3 slabs
  • Put on Stone Mask and shield light to left mirrors and sun block
  • Shield light on far right sun switch to spawn chest
  • Shield light on right mirror and sun block
  • Open both chests for fairies 3 & 4
  • Enter updraft room as Goron
    • || ||
  • Pound switch and roll to other switch
  • Void as Deku
  • Fly to close chest for fairy 5 and rupees [5b, 100r]
  • Fly to far chest for fairy 6
  • Garo Master with ice arrows and gilded sword
    • || || and wear Bunny Hood whenever human
  • Get Light Arrow

  • Enter hiploop room
  • Hit crystal switch with a bomb [4b, 100r]
  • Open chest for fairy 7
  • Hookshot up to eyegore room
  • Eyegore with two bombs for fairy 8 in chest [2b, 100r]
  • Exit to first room
  • Run into real bombchu
    • || ||
  • Light arrow both eye switches to spawn chests
  • Open chest for fairy 9
  • Exit dungeon
  • Human Elegy on right switch
  • Invert Stone Tower Temple with a light arrow
  • Enter Inverted Stone Tower Temple

Inverted Stone Tower Temple

Get to Kamaro after midnight and to the Curiosity Shop before 1 hour remaining. Play ISoT to invert time at any point if needed.

  • Get magic from boxes on left if needed
  • Open chest for fairy 10
  • Enter updraft room (right door)
  • Shoot sun block with light arrow
  • Ride updraft to switch and play Elegy
  • SoDT x3 to Night 3
  • Shoot sun switch with light arrow
  • Jump down to hiploop platform
    • || ||
  • Curved jump to alcove chest for fairy 11
  • Take far updraft as Deku to upper chest for fairy 12
  • Go through tunnel (avoid switch)
  • Jumpslash down and kill eyegore from below
  • Enter door
  • Kill blue bubbles with light arrows for rupees [2b, 200r]
    • Play Song of Storms if cursed
  • Slash boxes for magic
  • Gomess
  • Get boss key (stay human)
  • Farm up to 500r with light arrows on blue bubbles [2b, 500r]
    • Get magic and arrows from boxes when needed
  • Return to eyegore room
    • || ||
  • Hookshot to Giant's Mask chest
  • Goron roll to lower door on other side
    • || ||
  • Fly to wizzrobe
  • Wizzrobe with light arrows for fairy 13
  • Return to eyegore room
  • Go to door on right
  • Step on switch to spawn chest
  • Return to eyegore room
    • || ||
  • Hookshot to Giant's Mask chest again
  • Open chest for Giant's Mask (19/24)
  • Enter door behind chest
  • Hookshot to boss door
    • Get magic, arrows, and bombs from pots on the way [7b, 500r]
  • Twinmold with fire arrows for blue and ice arrows for red
    • || || after killing blue
  • Get HC #4 (15 3/4) and Twinmold's Remains
    • ETA 11:30pm

End Cycle 3

  • Run back to Stone Tower
    • || ||
  • Shoot light arrow to uninvert Stone Tower Temple
  • Human Elegy on left switch (if facing owl statue)
  • Human Elegy on block
  • Run into Stone Tower Temple
  • Open bottom chest for fairy 14
  • Enter compass room (right door)
  • Light arrow sun block
  • Open chest for compass
    • || ||
  • Swim to chest for fairy 15
  • Goron roll out of dungeon
    • Get magic and arrows from boxes before leaving
  • Jump down to Ikana Canyon
  • Get Great Fairy Sword from fairy fountain

  • Soar to Clock Town
    • || ||
  • Deposit 500r in the bank [576r bank]
  • Goron roll to Kamaro (north of WCT exit)
    • Try to get arrows and magic from grass on the way
  • Play Song of Healing for Kamaro's Mask (20/24)
  • Farm 500r by shooting eenos with light arrows [500r]
    • If you won't be able to make it to the Curiosity Shop before 1 hour remaining, play ISoT to invert time
  • Goron roll to Curiosity Shop
    • || ||
  • Buy All Night Mask (21/24) as human [0r]
  • Play Song of Time

─── Fourth cycle ───

Circus Leader's Mask

Get to the Milk Bar before 5am Night 1. Play ISoT to invert time if needed.

Grandma HP

Get to Grandma for the overnight story before 6pm Day 2. Play ISoT to invert time if needed.

Moon

─── Addenda ───

Beginner route variations

Most IGT-intensive portions of the route can be made easier by inverting time, but some may require more significant reroutes for beginners.

To make it easier to reach Garo Mask before Night 1 of Cycle 2:

  • Goron Race can be moved
    • (1) between depositing Kokiri Sword and Twin Islands underwater HP; this does not add a soar but requires having enough IGT before aliens
    • (2) between aliens and dog race; night-day transition during Goron Race avoids a day transition cutscene and playing SoDT
    • (3) between double magic and gilded sword; double magic makes Goron Race easier
  • A cycle can be added. SoT after hitting the Woodfall owl statue; invert immediately, obtain the CT stray fairy in the laundry pool, soar Woodfall, and proceed with the route. This necessitates saving Koume a second time before the witch archery minigame, which can be done between double magic and gilded sword. The path for Woods of Mystery day 2 is RLSLLR. If this reroute is planned, inverting and getting the CT stray fairy in the laundry pool can be skipped at the beginning of Cycle 2.
  • Peahat grotto can be moved to Day 2 of Cycle 2. This saves a small amount of IGT and costs a lot of real time, but it can be done if IGT is very tight right before reaching the ranch.
  • Horse race for Garo Mask can be moved to Day 2 of Cycle 2. It costs 10 rupees that would need to be made up.
  • Further reroutes are possible but require far more significant deviations from the fastest route.

To make Night 3 of Cycle 2 easier, Ikana Castle (HP, Elegy of Emptiness) can be moved to Night 1 of Cycle 3 between toilet hand and ascending Stone Tower. This requires farming rupees for a keg in Cycle 3 and obtaining bombs and arrows from Ikana grass before entering Ikana Castle. After Elegy, return to Ikana Castle main room, soar to Ikana Canyon, and proceed with the route. If this reroute is planned, buying the keg during Night 2 of Cycle 2 can be skipped.

Cycle 2, Night 2 reroute for <180r

After Romani's Mask:

  • Goron roll into CT
  • Get Pendant of Memories from Kafei in Laundry Pool hideout
  • Get 60r underwater (full wallet)
  • Put on Don Gero's Mask and speak to frog (1/4)
  • Deposit 200r for Giant Wallet, then withdraw 120r [11b, 120r, 76r bank]
  • Learn scarecrow's song and buy red potion in Trading Post [11b, 90r, 76r bank]
  • Buy powder keg and 10 bombchus in bomb shop [11b, 10c, 00r, 76r bank]
  • Goron roll to Ocean Gossips grotto (enter with reverse punch)
    • Play Lullaby at gossip stone
  • Goron roll to Mountain Gossips grotto
    • Play Lullaby at gossip stone for HP #14 (7 2/4)
  • Goron roll to Stock Pot Inn
    • || ||
  • Give Pendant to Anju as human
  • Goron roll to Ikana and converge with main route (⮤ return to route)
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