0 Geo TE route

0 Geo TE route (for any patch, assumes 1.4+)

{Essence}

Note: I'm not going to write "avoid geo" anywhere, because that seems pretty obvious


Vengeful Spirit
•Head through Crossroads like normal
•Fight False Knight (no City Crest)
•Collect Vengeful Spirit
•Soul Catcher is probably worth it

Mothwing Cloak
•Head through Greenpath like normal
•Fight Hornet and collect Mothwing Cloak
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound

Mantis Claw & Howling Wraiths
•Head through Fungal Wastes like normal
•Grab Mantis Claw
•Collect the Mantis Village whispering root {18}
•Head up through Fog Canyon to Overgrown Mound (like Shriek%)
•Fight the arena and collect Howling Wraiths
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound

Dream Nail
•Head across Crossroads and kill Gruz Mother
•Shade skip to Blue Lake (no Shaman Stone or Sly)
•Collect Dream Nail

Soul Sanctum
•Head down the elevator to King's Station (no point in opening the RG stag now)
•Head to Spire and kill the Great Husk Sentry (possibly through the floor using Wraiths? but no Shaman means that you need to cast it 5 times)
•Head across to Sanctum
•Kill the Soul Warrior
•Grab Spell Twister
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive
•Exit and re-enter the room to fight Soul Tyrant {318} (save at least one cast of soul after the fight)

Elder Hu & Crystal Peak
•Head by Storerooms and across the City Crest entrance into Fungal Wastes
•Head up and fight Elder Hu {418}
•Head all the way up through Crossroads to the Peak dive entrance
•Head through Peak like normal
•Collect Crystal Heart
•Head through the dark room to Crystallized Mound and collect Descending Dark

Dreamgate
•Drop into Resting Grounds and fight Xero {518}
•Collect Dream Wielder from the Seer for Failed Champion (it probably saves time to get it now)
•Open the Resting Grounds stag and bench (swap Soul Catcher for/equip Spell Twister + Dream Wielder)
•Head across Blue Lake (probably not through crypts) and through Crossroads to Failed Champion
•Fight Failed Champion {818} and S&Q to Resting Grounds
•Note: It may be faster to do Failed Champion when you pass by it on the way to Peak earlier, but it's much comfier here, with Descending Dark and Dream Wielder
•Stag to Dirtmouth and head through King's Pass to Howling Cliffs
•Fight Gorb {918} and S&Q to Resting Grounds
•Collect Dreamgate from the Seer

King's Brand
•Collect the whispering root under the Seer {938}
•Head through crypts and down the elevator to King's Station
•Set a DG on the upper platform of King's Station
•Head through the tunnel to Kingdom's Edge
•Do ACN skip and the Aspid pogo to Hornet 2
•Fight Hornet 2 and collect the King's Brand

Ancient Basin & The Abyss
•DG back to King's Station and head down the broken elevator shaft
•Collect part of the whispering root until you have at least 957 essence {950}
•Continue down to Basin
•Head through the Mawlurks and fight Broken Vessel
•Collect Monarch Wings and fight Lost Kin {1350}
•Head back across and down into the Abyss
•Collect Abyss Shriek
•Head through Sibling climb and collect Shade Cloak
•S&Q and DG back to King's Station

Lurien
•Head to and up through Spire
•Fight the Watcher Knights
•Absorb Lurien & DG back to King's Station

Monomon
•Head back up to Resting Grounds, through crypts to the stag
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Head through Crossroads and acid skip into Fog Canyon
•Set a DG outside Archives and fight Uumuu
•Absorb Monomon and DG back
•Head through QGA into Queen's Gardens

Queen's Gardens
•Head through Queen's Gardens like normal
•Set a DG in the room outside the toll bench and fight the upper QG arena
•Head to and fight Traitor Lord (no Marmu)
•Collect the White Fragment and DG back

Deepnest
•Head down into (dark) Deepnest and set a DG in the whispering root room
•Head to Distant Village
•Skip Beast's Den and absorb Herrah
•Exit Beast's Den and DG back
•Note: If you really want to, you can get part of the dark Deepnest root here and skip the Mantis Village and broken elevator roots earlier
•Set a DG in the right-most dark room (like 106%) and head up
•Fight Galien {1550} and head up to the Failed Tramway
•Grab Tram Pass and DG back
•Head past the hot spring and take the tram to Kingdom's Edge

Awoken Dream Nail
•Set a DG somewhere in the big room in KE and head to Markoth (probably through the lower route)
•Fight Markoth {1800} and DG back
•Head through the tunnel to King's Station and bench
•Head up to Resting Grounds (through crypts) and set a DG outside of the stag
•Collect Awoken Dream Nail and S&Q to King's Station

White Palace & Void Heart
•Head down the broken elevator shaft to Basin
•Head to the Palace Grounds and enter White Palace
•Complete White Palace and collect Kingsoul
•Equip (overcharm) Kingsoul in Hidden Station and head to the Abyss
•Complete the Birthplace cutscene and collect Void Heart
•DG back to Resting Grounds

Dream No More
•Stag to Dirtmouth and head to the Temple of the Black Egg
•Enter the Black Egg and fight the Hollow Knight
•Fight the Radiance
•Done