Majora's Mask Glitchless - Standard Route

2017 Update: Save/Reset is now allowed under the Glitchless rules.

This is the latest version of the Glitchless route, updated to fit the new ruleset. Gainers and Damage Boosts are now allowed (strictly midair damage boosts, Long Jumps and Recoil Flips remain banned).

There are two variations of the Glitchless route. This is the "Standard" version of the route, which is ~20 seconds faster overall. For the "Early Hookshot" version of the route, see - http://pastebin.com/FG53KFEq

For a rough comparison between the two route variations, see - http://youtu.be/IJ5Td0kPCh4

2017 Update: This comparison does not include the newest route change, which is getting Woodfall Boss Key after the Bow. This saves close to 20 seconds, and only works in the "Standard" route, making it faster.

If you are new to the category, I strongly recommend you use the old route at -http://pastebin.com/7zKmd4bm
The old route is less advanced and written to be more beginner friendly. Use this route until you get a stronger grasp of how in-game time works in this run.



Cycle 1:
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- Grandma Stories to Day 3
- Scarecrow to Night 3
- Inn 100 Rupee chest
- Fairy + Magic
- Buy Bomb Bag
- Backflip to Clock Tower
- Ocarina
- Song of Time, Save/Reset


Cycle 2:
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** Things labelled with a ** are the most optimal way to do specific things, I have written them for most of the new strats that have come with this route.


- Inverted Song of Time immediately (delay inverting if you are very fast)
- Hit Clock Town Owl
- Exit towards swamp, get a bomb drop from bushes

Early bomb strats -

- As Human Link, try to get a bomb drop from the first set of bushes directly in front of you. If you do not get a bomb drop, go to the set of bushes to the right, and try for another. If you get a bomb drop from either set of bushes, continue to the Swamp.
- If you do not get a bomb drop, continue towards the ranch, and try to get a bomb from the 3rd set of bushes outside the Ranch. After this, go hit the Ranch Owl, then go to the Swamp, farming a bomb drop if still necessary.
- If you hit the Ranch Owl, you will soar directly to the Ranch after Snowhead/blowing up the Goron Race.

- Lost Woods
	* Note: While heading through Lost Woods, make an effort to spin through bushes to collect a small amount of rupees.
	Preferably, you have at least 4 after saving the witch.

- Potion
- Witch
- Boat ride
- Sonata

** Deku Palace changes: Deku Palace has been made significantly easier due to the discovery that going around the back of the Palace is only ~1 second slower than the previously very difficult left side damage boost.

* Rupee Count notes:
	Try to enter Deku Palace with a minimum of 4 rupees.
	From there, you can get up to 36 on the right side of the palace before buying the beans.
	Red Rupee + 6 Green surrounding it, 2 Blue Rupees before the bean grotto.
	If for whatever reason you're short rupees, there are some on the left side of the palace, you should get them
	before doing the right side.

- Right side palace, collect rupees (have at least 30) and damage boost over the wall
- Gainer to the bean grotto, and get both blue rupees

- Buy 5 beans, exit the grotto
- Gainer onto the top level and enter the grotto. Exit the other side.
- Damage Boost over the fence and do the doorframe jump to reach the exit.

- Song of Soaring
- Open Woodfall + 1 stick + 10 deku nuts from pots + Woodfall Owl



-------- Woodfall 1 --------

- Backflip onto tree, to main room
- Go right, bomb from pots, small key, go back to main room and open door on other side
- Light stick, go upstairs with stick and burn web (get 1 stick + deku nut from babas here)
- Upstairs, light torches to next room
- JS Recoil downstairs
- Bow

- Exit the room, jump to the platform in the water and hit the eye switch
- Boss Key
- Exit Temple via deathwarp or Song of Soaring (fast deathwarp is possible)
- Song of Soaring to Clock Town


-------- Goron Lullaby --------

- Go to Mountain Village

** A slightly faster route for this section (saves 2 sec, but riskier):
	Village Owl, Deku Nut drop + Lens, Goron Mask + Hot Spring Water, Goron Baby, Elder
	You can make a few seconds of mistakes and still reach the Goron Elder before the HSW fades.

Normal Route:
- Village Owl
- Go talk to Goron Baby, exit
- When you exit, go right and break the small snowball for 10 Deku Nuts (you should now have 20)
- Lens of Truth

- Soar to MV, Goron Mask
- Lullaby Intro
- Learn Lullaby from baby
- Soar MV
- Open Snowhead

-------- Snowhead Temple --------

- Go right, cross room, enter door
- Yellow door for small key
- Goron Boost onto the stackable blocks then jump to the door
- Blow up wall
- Jump to chest in next room (snowball) for small key
- Goron boost to skip the Goron pound puzzle
- Roll to Wizrobe for Fire Arrows

- Melt ice to the left, then roll there and go upstairs
- Roll to the next door and unlock
- Progress through next rooms back to main room
- Shoot snowball and jump into the tunnel
- Roll to Wizrobe 2 for Boss Key
- Jump into the tunnel again
- Goht


 -------- Ranch Stuff --------

- Go get keg, blow up Goron Race
- Do the Goron race if it is before 4:00
- Get Real Keg
- Soar to Clock Town
	Note: If you hit the Milk Road Owl earlier in the run, soar there now.

- Roll to Milk Road, hit Milk Road Owl
- Blow up boulder
- Talk to Romani, archery + Epona’s Song
	Note: If you do not have at least 10 rupees, get some from the bushes on Milk Road before Garo Mask
- Garo Mask (10 rupees required)

 ** From now on, you want to get to the curiosity shop at 10:30, uninvert accordingly. This will take practice to get the timing down, as it varies based on your skill level.

- Head to Great Bay, Zora Mask
- Great Bay Owl, go to Pirate’s Fortress
- Go through underground part
- Pirate’s CS Skip
- Hookshot + first Egg

IF YOU DID NOT DO THE GORON RACE, SOAR TO MOUNTAIN VILLAGE AND DO IT NOW.

- Soar to Clock Town
- Sell dust (Curiosity shop opens at 10:00)
- Catch fish from next shop. Buy keg+chus in bomb shop.


-------- Ikana 1 ---------

- Exit Clock Town, roll to Ikana
- Call Epona, go to Graveyard
- Kill Keeta for Captain’s Mask
- Open grave, get Song of Storms
- Exit grave, show Garo Mask to the cliff guy
- Hookshot up to the tree, go to Ikana
- Precise hookshot to skip Ice Arrows, hit Ikana Owl
- Song of Storms in the cave
- Gibdo Mask
- Soar to Milk Road, Aliens (you lose at 3:50, recommended to enter the ranch before 3:15 if you are relatively new)


-------- Ikana 2/Woodfall/NWBN --------

- Soar to Ikana
- Bottom of the Well:
	1. Right - Beans, enter door
	2. Left - Fish, do not enter. Right - Deku Nuts, enter door
	3. Left - Bombs, enter door, Big Poe
	4. Backtrack to fish door
	5. Straight - Big Poe, enter door
	6. Straight - Milk, enter door

- Mirror Shield

- Soar to Woodfall, get 10 deku nuts and a stick from pots if you want
- Hookshot to main room, hookshot across to the torch on the right to get onto the 2nd floor
- Light torch outside the locked door at the end of the path
- Hookshot to boss door
- Odolwa

- Soar to Great Bay
- Deposit first egg, go get 3 eggs from either Pinnacle Rock or Pirate’s Fortress (doesn’t matter which)
- NWBN
- Grab a fairy if you're scared of dying to Wart
- Open GBT


-------- Great Bay Temple --------

** Advanced strat in first room: jumping to/rolling across the waterwheel (watching a video for this is recommended)
** Normal strat: Yellow switch underwater, to main room

** Advanced route - Early Red Turnkey -> Boss key jump -> Small Key -> Ice Arrows (probably saves 20-30 seconds)

** Normal Route:
- Top entrance, swim through first room to Boss Key room
- Get small key underwater, swim out to bottom entrance
- Wart for Ice Arrows
- Exit, freeze Octorok for red turnkey

** Advanced route - After turnkey, go immediately to the "waterfall" room and finish the temple as normal from there

** Normal route:
- Swim out, go to top entrance and freeze water in the first room to get to 2nd turnkey
- Exit, back to boss key room and freeze water for Boss Key early
- Back to main room, go to the “waterfall” room first

( The advanced and normal routes are the same from here until the end )

- Get the turnkey in there, exit
- Go back to first room of dungeon, turn red turnkey then yellow
- Jump in the water as Goron to void out back to the “waterfall” room
- Swim into the top entrance in middle room
- Get through the waterwheel room + next room, get green turnkey
- Gainer onto the green pipe, walk to the end, sidehop right and exit the room
- Exit the room, swim back to main room, go into bottom entrance
- Last turnkey, enter boss door
- Gyorg


-------- Ikana 3 --------

- Soar to Ikana
- Enter Ikana Castle

** Set up a deathwarp in the castle if you want. It saves a lot of time, but it can be scary to fight Igos with low hearts.

- Gainer over sun block, climb over fence and enter castle (if you do not climb over the fence you won't skip the castle CS, wastes like 10 seconds)

- Hit left switch in first room, enter door
- Zora JS onto ceiling, climb onto switch platform
- Hit switch in next room + cross it. Go upstairs
- Throw keg over fence to blow up the floor
** Goron boost over the fence or the main entrance again
- Equip Garo/Gibdo Mask, Mirror Shield the block
- Go to boss room
- Elegy

** Deathwarp
- If you didn't set up the deathwarp, exit the Elegy room and then soar to Ikana Owl.


-------- Stone Tower Temple --------

- Exit Castle
- Roll to Stone Tower
- STT Climb

Part 1: Elegy on bottom switch as Goron. Elegy on 3rd switch as Human. Jump to 2nd platform, hookshot across
Part 2: Elegy on bottom switch as Human. Hookshot up once to beamos platform. Step on switch, step off. Hookshot up once more. Elegy on the moving platform.
Part 3: Hookshot up twice. Elegy on the LEFT switch if looking at the owl. Jump to moving platform, elegy on it to enter the temple.

- Enter STT. If it is not Night 3 yet, play Song of Double Time to Night 3.

- Go to left room first
- Blow up wall, solve puzzle using boxes behind the wall + elegy on switches
- Go downstairs
- Use chus to kill all the armos for small key, go upstairs
- Unlock door
- Get small key in water room, swim through tunnel
- Unlock door
- Mirror room puzzle
- Fly across updraft room as Deku
- Garo Master for Light Arrows


-------- Inverted Stone Tower --------

- Soar/deathwarp to entrance
- Exit Temple, step on right switch and Elegy on it to move the platform in front of switch
- Shoot switch with Light Arrow to invert Temple
- Enter Temple, go right
- Shoot block with Light Arrow
- Updrafts as Deku to central bridge, step on switch in tunnel
- Get small key, go back in tunnel
- Gomess early w/ jump

** Advanced Route: Early Eyegore, Boss Key, Giant's Mask (optional), Twinmold

Normal Route:
- Gomess for Boss Key
- Exit back to Eyegore room, fly across and enter left door
- Switch by Death Armos, hookshot chest on the ceiling
- Unlock door, kill Eyegore w/ bombs
- Giant's Mask if you prefer to use it
	Note: It is not certain whether Giant's Mask or Arrows are faster for fighting Twinmold, do whichever you prefer
- Hookshot switch in next room, then hookshot across the room to boss door
- Twinmold with stick PCS + Giant's Mask


-------- Majora --------

- Song of Soaring to Clock Town
- Enter Clock Tower
- Oath to Order
- Cutscenes
- Majora