Salubra's Blessing% ICO route

Salubra's Blessing% Intended Charm Order route (for any 1.2+ patch, assumes 1.4+)

Note: The "intended" charm order is the order in which the charms are numbered in the game's code.
Another note: You can equip literally whatever charms you want throughout the entire run; the charms I write are less suggestions and more... random thoughts

[Geo]
{Essence}
(Grubs)


Gathering Swarm
•This split is ridiculously long
•No Fury
•Collect early geo for the Crossroads stag (rock and husk under well, Aspid arena, rock and husk in first Goam room) [50]
•Open the Crossroads stag [0]
•Fight False Knight
•Collect the City Crest and geo chest [200]
•Collect Vengeful Spirit
•No Soul Catcher
•Head through Greenpath like normal [340]
•Open the Greenpath stag [200]
•Fight Hornet and collect Mothwing Cloak
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound
•Fight the Shrumal Ogres and collect the charm notch [290]
•Head through Fungal Wastes like normal
•Pick up Mantis Claw
•Probably don't open the Mantis Lords lever for later?
•Rescue the bouncy grub (1) and hit the lever to the left of it for later
•Head to the City Crest entrance to City
•Grab the Rafters seal and sell it to Lemm [740]
•Head through the DLC rooms to Sanctum
•Rescue the grub outside Sanctum (2)
•Kill the Soul Warrior [940]
•Hit the levers for later
•No Spell Twister
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive
•Grab the geo chest [1320] and Hallownest seal
•Rescue the fake dive grub (3)
•Exit Sanctum and head to Storerooms
•Stag to Crossroads [1120] and bench
•Rescue the Aspid wall grub (4)
•Rescue the guarded grub (5)
•Enter Peak through the dive entrance
•Rescue the spike conveyor grub (6)
•Pogo skip to the Cornifer idol
•Grab the Shopkeeper's key
•Head to and collect Crystal Heart (make sure to hit the lever for later)
•Rescue the cdash grub (7)
•Rescue the crusher grubs (9)
•Head through the dark room to Crystallized Mound
•Rescue the Mound grub (10)
•Collect Descending Dark
•Drop down into Resting Grounds and collect Dream Nail
•Open the Resting Grounds stag
•No Dreamshield
•Dive into the crypts
•Rescue the crypts grub (11)
•Collect the geo chest [~1320]
•No Soul Eater
•Head back past the elevator
•Cdash across Blue Lake to Salubra
•No Shaman Stone (or any Salubra charm)
•Rescue Sly
•Make sure to open the shortcut, then S&Q to the stag (no Gruz Mother)
•Stag to Dirtmouth and bench
•Buy Elegant Key and Gathering Swarm [220]

Wayward Compass
•Buy Wayward Compass from Iselda [0]

Grubsong
•Drop down the well and grab the well seal
•Head to Grubfather
•Collect the first eleven rewards (including Grubsong) [450]

Stalwart Shell
•S&Q to Dirtmouth (equip Gathering Swarm and Grubsong because why not; Gathering Swarm might even save time) and buy Stalwart Shell [250]

Baldur Shell
•Stag to Greenpath and bench (you might as well equip Stalwart Shell as well)
•Rescue the Moss Knight grub (12) [~300]
•Head into Howling Cliffs, kill the right Baldur (using ddark) [350], and collect Baldur Shell

Fury of the Fallen
•Rescue the Baldur Shell grub (13) and grab the Cliffs idol
•S&Q to Greenpath, stag to Storerooms, and bench
•Head back to Sanctum
•Fight the Soul Warrior [550] and collect Shade Soul
•Head down, fight the short arena, and sell to Lemm (Sanctum seal, Peak idol, well seal, & Cliffs idol) [3050]
•S&Q to Storerooms and stag to Dirtmouth
•Head into King's Pass and collect Fury of the Fallen

Quick Focus
•Head into Howling Cliffs
•Learn Cyclone Slash
•Kill Gorb {100}
•S&Q to Storerooms and stag to Crossroads
•Head to Salubra and buy Quick Focus [2250]

Lifeblood Heart
•Buy Lifeblood Heart and a charm notch [1880]

Lifeblood Core
•This split is so cursed
•Cdash across Blue Lake
•Hit the lever underneath Xero and head down the elevator to King's Station
•Open King's Station [1580] and grab the Hallownest seal
•Head down the broken elevator shaft
•Do the skips to Isma's Tear and rescue the Grove grub (14)
•Head down the rest of the elevator shaft to Ancient Basin
•Sit at the toll bench [1430] (equip whatever you want for Lost Kin, like Quick Focus + Baldur Shell if you want to heal or Grubsong + Stalwart Shell + Lifeblood Heart if you plan on damage tanking heavily and not healing; do whatever on earth you want it literally does not matter) and head through the Mawlurks
•Grab the Simple Key
•Fight Broken Vessel and collect Monarch Wings
•Fight Lost Kin {500}
•Rescue the Wings grub (15) and S&Q to the toll bench
•Head to Hidden Station and stag to Dirtmouth [1130]
•Head down the well and rescue the Vengefly grub (16)
•Head down and rescue the acid grub (17)
•Enter Fog Canyon
•Head down and rescue the grub outside of Archives (18)
•Exit into lower Fog Canyon and head to Overgrown Mound
•Fight the arena and collect Howling Wraiths
•Head back and down and open Queen's Station [1010]
•Stag to King's Station
•Enter Kingdom's Edge through the tunnel and head to Hornet 2
•Bench at the camp bench and head down to Oro
•Buy Dash Slash [210] and S&Q to the camp bench (you could swap to Lifeblood Heart + Quick Focus if you want?)
•Fight Hornet 2 (without Shaman monkaS) and collect the King's Brand
•Bench at the camp bench again and equip Lifeblood Heart (2/14 lifeblood; equip Gathering Swarm and, like, Baldur Shell as well? Literally all of the rest except Compass require damage)
•This section really cursed (you can't get hit at all; if you do, just S&Q to the camp bench and try again)
•Head to and collect the KE cocoon (5/14 lifeblood)
•Head down through the Tower of Love back to King's Station (do not bench)
•Stag to Dirtmouth (do not bench)
•Head down the well and go through infected Gruzzer room to Ancestral Mound (it's really cursed; use ddark well and, if possible, try to kill as many of the Volatile Gruzzers on your way down as possible)
•Collect the Ancestral Mound cocoon (7/14 lifeblood) and head back up through infected Gruzzer room to Dirtmouth (do not bench)
•Collect the King's Pass cocoon (9/14 lifeblood)
•Stag from Dirtmouth to Queen's Station (do not bench — you get the idea, right?)
•Head up and collect the Fog Canyon cocoon (12/14 lifeblood) and grab the Hallownest seal
•Head back down to Queen's Station and stag to Greenpath
•Head to the room with the first Moss Knight and collect the Greenpath cocoon (14/14 lifeblood)
•Head back to the stag and stag to Hidden Station
•Enter the Abyss and open the Lifeblood Core door (whew)
•Grab the arcane egg and collect Lifeblood Core

Defender's Crest
•Drop the rest of the way down and collect Abyss Shriek
•Head through Sibling climb and collect Shade Cloak
•S&Q, grab the arcane egg, and head back to Hidden Station (right-side Abyss climb???)
•Stag to Storerooms and bench (might as well swap to, like, Stalwart Shell + Lifeblood Core)
•Head down and sell to Lemm (KS seal, lifeblood seal, Lifeblood Core egg, & Shade Cloak egg) [3510]
•Enter Waterways and head to Dung Defender
•Fight Dung Defender and collect Defender's Crest

Flukenest
•Grab the Dung Defender idol and head back through Waterways, past the bench (don't sit at it) to Flukemarm (it's super awkward but there isn't really any good solution)
•Fight Flukemarm and collect Flukenest

Thorns of Agony
•S&Q to Storerooms (you can use Flukenest whenever throughout this run; I do not recommend it for No Eyes however)
•Stag to Dirtmouth and buy Lumafly Lantern [1710]
•Stag to Greenpath and bench
•Head down and right
•Collect Thorns of Agony

Mark of Pride
•Rescue the Hunter grub (19)
•Rescue the Cornifer grub (20)
•Head to Stone Sanctuary and fight No Eyes (without Shaman monkaS) {700}
•Exit Stone Sanctuary and head past MMC to the vessel fragment room
•Rescue the MMC grub (21) and S&Q to the stag
•Stag to Queen's Station and bench
•Head through the room with the bouncy grub to Mantis Village
•Hit the Mantis Lords lever and head down
•Fight the Mantis Lords
•Collect Mark of Pride and the geo chest [~2390]

Steady Body
•S&Q to Queen's Station and stag to Crossroads
•Head to Salubra through the room outside the tram
•Rescue the spike pogo grub (22)
•Buy Steady Body and a charm notch [1770]

Heavy Blow
•S&Q to Queen's Station (you can swap to something like Lifeblood Core + Mark of Pride; idk, do whatever you want, you could use Steady Body if that's what you like) and stag to Dirtmouth
•Buy Heavy Blow [1420] and S&Q to Queen's Station

Sharp Shadow
•Head to the drop entrance to Deepnest (you have to go right past Spore Shroom lmao)
•Rescue the Spore Shroom grub (23) and drop into Deepnest
•Rescue the non-mimic grub (24) and head to the hot spring (don't bench)
•Head right and collect Sharp Shadow

Spore Shroom
•Go back left (still don't bench) and rescue the Nosk grub (25)
•Rescue the spike grub (26) and head to Failed Tramway
•Pick up Tram Pass and S&Q to Queen's Station
•Head back to the Deepnest entrance
•Grab Spore Shroom (I'm sorry that we ignored you last time) and S&Q to Queen's Station

Longnail
•Stag to Resting Grounds and bench
•Drop down and kill Xero {800}
•Cdash across Blue Lake to Salubra
•Buy Longnail [1120]

Shaman Stone
•Buy Shaman Stone (finally) and a charm notch [0]

Soul Catcher
•S&Q to Resting Grounds (swap either charm for Shaman Stone and equip Grubsong or something) and stag to Dirtmouth
•Drop down the well and head to Grubfather
•Collect the 12th through 26th Grubfather rewards [2020]
•Drop down and head to Ancestral Mound
•Grab Soul Catcher and S&Q to Resting Grounds

Soul Eater
•Head down into crypts and collect Soul Eater

Glowing Womb
•S&Q to the stag (equip Shaman Stone + Soul Eater?)
•Stag to Crossroads and bench
•Head to and fight the Glowing Womb arena
•Collect Glowing Womb

Fragile Heart
•Head to and fight Failed Champion {1100}
•S&Q to the stag and stag to Dirtmouth
•Drop down through Crossroads into Fungal Wastes
•Buy Fragile Heart from Leg Eater [~1600]

Fragile Greed
•Buy Fragile Greed [1350]

Fragile Strength
•Buy Fragile Strength [750] and S&Q to Crossroads (no Elder Hu)

Nailmaster's Glory
•Stag to Greenpath and bench
•Head to Sheo
•Learn Great Slash (you can't do this on the Thorns of Agony split without being locked out of Heavy Blow sadly)
•S&Q to the stag and stag to Dirtmouth
•Collect Nailmaster's Glory and S&Q to Greenpath

Joni's Blessing
•Head up into Howling Cliffs (you can do the skip above the chest)
•Light the Nightmare Lantern
•Head through the not-dark room and collect Joni's Blessing

Shape of Unn
•S&Q to Greenpath and head to the Lake of Unn
•Kill the Aluba
•Collect Shape of Unn

Hiveblood
•S&Q to the stag and stag to Hidden Station
•Head up to the tram
•Take the tram to Kingdom's Edge and bench (it might be comfiest to use something like Shaman Stone + Lifeblood Core + Nailmaster's Glory, or keep Shaman Stone + Soul Eater)
•Head through the Hive and rescue the grub (27)
•Fight Hive Knight and collect Hiveblood

Dream Wielder
•S&Q to the tram
•Head back and rescue the Hwurmp and external Hive grubs (29)
•S&Q to the tram and take it back to Basin
•Rescue the Basin dive grub (30) and S&Q to the tram
•Head back to Hidden Station and stag to Resting Grounds
•Collect Dreamgate (including Dream Wielder)

Dashmaster
•Stag to King's Station and bench
•Rescue the City guarded grub (31)
•Head to Spire and set a DG at its base
•Kill the Great Husk Sentry using Shriek
•Head up and rescue the Spire grub (32)
•DG back and head to the Waterways entrance
•Enter Waterways (no selling to Lemm) and rescue the center Waterways grub (33)
•Head left and fight the Hwurmp arena
•Exit into Fungal Wastes and grab Dashmaster

Quick Slash
•S&Q to King's Station (equip something like Shaman Stone + Dashmaster + Dream Wielder + Nailmaster's Glory) and stag to Queen's Station
•Head through "QGA" into Queen's Gardens
•Fight the Petra arena and set a DG in the whispering root room
•Grab the Love Key and DG back (no need for the whispering root, also optimally this DG may not be worth it)
•Sit at the toll bench [600]
•Head up and fight the upper QG arena
•Rescue the grub under the stag (34)
•Head up to upper QG (no Marmu)
•Set a DG in the room next to Traitor Lord and head up
•Rescue the upper QG grub (35) and DG back
•Fight Traitor Lord
•Dash slash the frogs grub through the wall (36) and kill the Aluba
•Collect the White Fragment and S&Q to the toll bench
•Head down into Deepnest and set a DG in the whispering root room
•Head right and rescue the grub outside Weaver's Den (37)
•Head to and kill Galien {1300}
•DG back and head to Distant Village
•Skip Beast's Den and sit at the bench
•Head past the center Devout and rescue the grub (38)
•S&Q and exit Beast's Den
•Stag to King's Station [350] and bench
•Dash Slash (the water + Belfly can make it annoying) the tunnel grub through the wall (39)
•Set a DG underneath the transition to the Tower of Love
•Head right, past the acid skip room
•Rescue the center KE grub (40)
•Kill Markoth {1550}
•Head past Oro (don't bench) and rescue the Oro grub (41)
•Grab Quick Slash and DG back

Spell Twister
•Head up into the Tower of Love (the lever is already hit)
•Fight the Collector
•Rescue the Collector grubs (44) and S&Q to King's Station
•Stag to Storerooms and bench
•Head to Sanctum
•Head back through Sanctum and grab Spell Twister

Deep Focus
•Fight Soul Tyrant {1850} and S&Q to Storerooms
•Stag to Dirtmouth and bench
•Elevator skip to Peak and rescue the non-mimic grub (45)
•Set a DG at the top of the cycle room
•Head to and collect Deep Focus

Grubberfly's Elegy
•DG back
•Head past Crystal Guardian (remember that cdash wakes them up) to Hallownest's Crown
•Rescue the Crown grub (46, it may be faster to get this grub during the first Peak trip, before Crystal Heart) and S&Q to Dirtmouth
•Head down the well to Grubfather
•Collect the rest of Grubfather's rewards, including Grubberfly's Elegy [way more than enough for the rest of the run]

Kingsoul
•Stag to Resting Grounds and set a DG
•Collect Awoken Dream Nail and stag to Hidden Station
•Enter and complete White Palace
•Collect Kingsoul

Sprintmaster
•Stag to Dirtmouth and bench
•Buy Sprintmaster

Dreamshield
•DG to Resting Grounds (don't bench) and collect Dreamshield

Weaversong
•Stag to Distant Village
•Head to Weaver's Den (the movement here feels so weird)
•Collect Weaversong

Grimmchild
•S&Q to Dirtmouth and collect Grimmchild

Salubra's Blessing
•DG to Resting Grounds and head across Blue Lake to Salubra
•Buy Salubra's last charm notch
•Buy Salubra's Blessing
•Done
•Sit at the bench outside and listen to the luscious peals of laughter, and revel in the absolute ridiculousness of the category you just ran