glitchless any% route

Glitchless OoT Route as of January 2016
[brackets] mean equip
by dannyb21892

EMERALD
-Sword, 40 rupee route and shield
-Talk to mido, one stick, enter tree
-5 nuts on the right, [sticks nuts] navi vine text skip, hop on map chest, jump to vines, b1 skip
-downright and stab the baba near the web for nuts, kill the vertical baba near the torch for a stick, backflip jumpslash with stick for fire, then burn the web
-231
-gohma + HC

RUBY
-After mido leave forest via pokey to get ocarina
-Owl skip and backwalk to castle
-All 60 rupees if you want shieldless DC (8 seconds faster), otherwise 40, reload then 40 more
-Buy shield if you got 80, otherwise straight to castle
-Backflip, backflip, slash to enter market at 0 speed (minimizes time spent in places where time of day doesnt advance) then return to castle to spawn malon
-Take one heart dmg from skulltula in tree, get egg [sticks ocarina egg] and head toward talon. pull block as far as you can before daytime then wake him up. enter guards
-Zelda’s Letter + Lullaby
-Head to kak and show letter to guard. Go up DMT to goron city
-Jump down, play ZL to open the door, light stick (dont talk to daruna) and light torches until you can use the fire to blow up the lost woods warp.
-Owl skip right away then head to sacred forest meadow
-Take dmg down to half heart, learn sarias song
-Die on the first scrub to deathwarp to start of SFM
Leave, hold shield to stop before owl trigger, then owl skip. Go to Goron City  NOTE THAT IF YOU SKIPPED THE OWL BEFORE SARIAS SONG, IT IS STILL THERE SO YOULL HAVE TO LEAVE THE LOST WOODS TO KOKIRI FOREST AND RE-ENTER TO GET BACK TO GORON CITY FROM THE FRONT.
-Play sarias song for darunia for the bracelet, leave GC via the top exit to DMT, throw the bomb flower down to blow up DC. Enter DC
-DC entrance cs skip by leaving at the same time as you blow up the wall, re-enter and take the platforms to the right side of the room.  If you dont cs skip, you need to use the back ladder not the platforms.
-Bomb flower to blow up the wall past the beamos. Store 2 damage with a deku stick swing here
-backwalk past the bomb wall, push armos onto switch
-Kill first lizalfos with 2 dmg stab, then 4 dmg stab (deku JS). then just two 4 dmg stabs for the second one. this pattern prevents the first one from being able to run away like he usually does at 3 dmg.
-Light torches, then step on floor switch. Cross the room and blow up the stairs through the far door.  IF YOU SKIPPED THE SHIELD AND ONLY HAVE 60 RUPEES BE SURE TO GET 20 FROM THE POT ATOP THE STAIRS NOW.
-[Stick nuts letter] Your favorite strat to get on the central pillar with the switch.  There are a lot of them.
-Cross the bridge (use nuts on keese), backflip over the navi text near the floor spike, bomb the wall with a bomb flower. then do slingshot skip fire jumps.
-These lizalfos same as the first
-Slingshot skip v2.0
-Bombs [stick nuts bombs hylian shield if you have it]
-bomb the eyes, enter the mouth.  proceed through the rooms using deku nuts liberally if you dont have the hylian shield.
-Use a bomb flower for the second hit on king dodongo to save a bomb. Pluck it while he’s rolling.
-Get the HC, then blue warp

SAPPHIRE
-DMT->kak->hyrule field->zoras river
-Throw a bomb at the boulders just outside owl text trigger, then talk to owl.  You can try to skip this owl but its not worth because failing often makes the camera follow him for like 5 extra seconds when he flies away
-Grab cucco, use it to skip waterfall
-Diving game for silver scale, get 5 nuts from the pot between collecting the rupees and climbing back up for the scale. Dive to lake hylia, get letter in a bottle.
-Return to ZD, get more nuts (you should have 10-15 nuts here and 2 sticks) show letter to King zora
-Head down stairs, sidehop to shallow water on the right and catch fish. Head up to jabu and show fish to enter.
-Backwalk, pull bomb and throw to hit ceiling switch, then do the escort quest until boomerang
-Go back to elevator room, damage boost across. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIML5nws780
-[stick, nuts, boomerang] during pause buffers
-blue switch skip, then hit the ceiling switch with the boomerang.
-barinade+HC
-after barinade savewarp [sticks, ocarina, bombs]
-Leave kokiri, be aware if you skipped the field owl earlier it not there now, you're free to walk through.
-Buy shield now if you didnt before

ADULT 1
-MS
-Graveyard for hookshot
-[hookshot, nuts, bombs] head up DMT for magic, then enter the crater.
-Jump down to the ladder and damage boost across for bolero
-Enter darunias room, then hookshot up to the lost woods exit and dive to aqua escape
-ZL for waterfall, head to fountain. Get FW first then enter IC
-Kill freezards with a greatspin on the first 3, then JS the 4th when it spawns. If bombs drop get them.
-5 silver rupees then climb to exit.
-In blue fire room hookshot up to freezard [hookshot ocarina bottle] and get blue fire. Leave to spinning blade room.
-Melt red ice to the silver rupee block room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68c7Zgwht08
-Melt red ice and quickspin pots for hearts. Have at least 5 hearts here for fire temple
-Quick kill wolfos, get iron boots, play bolero and enter fire temple

FIRE
-Darunia cs, key from goron
-big fire room, left side key from goron, cross the center with the moving blocks [hookshot, bombs, FW]
-blow up the wall for right side goron key
-enter far end and do the block geyser room, paying close attention to timer and using FW to timer stop if you need
-Block skip, then climb up to boulder maze
-Right side for goron key, then head left from the goron until the door for a second goron key
-Enter the locked perimeter door and cross the narrow floor to the fire wall room. Exit to the far side on top of the boulder maze
-Drop a bomb on the floor and set FW so you fall during the cs.  Get the goron key and FW back up.
-Exit fire wall room to the fire wall maze.
-Skip the right half of the maze then either floor switch to lower fire wall, or use bomb damage to invincibility frame through (faster)
-Refill hearts and bombs.  Get both bombs. You want like 15 here at least.
-Kill flare dancer, climb block as it dies to ride up during cs
-Climb up and get hammer
-Jump down the left side of the hole to land near SoT block [hammer bombs FW]
-JS with hammer through block to open the cage. get key and savewarp
-Enter right door behind column, kill enemies, be sure to have at least 4 hearts after this for volvagia.  Fill on magic too.
-Kill flare dancer.  Hammer stab center platform to earthquake them to the ground instead of hookshot
-BK, then head to boss door. Get on the low platform to the left of the door. Get in corner, face the boss door platform, forward and then roll on the same frame or one frame later to get to the door.
-Volvagia.  Only need to get HC if you have <1.5 hearts so you dont die when you spawn in the crater.

FOREST
There is a new option here.  I re-routed forest temple and came up with something 8-10 seconds faster.  The old route is highlighted in red and should be skipped in favor of the green section. See this video for a route comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuUIxt7nvc

-[hookshot FW nuts] crater->GC->LW->SFM backflip over mido
-Maze skip, then enter forest
-Key atop vines
-Cross main room, stalfos key, back to main room
-Enter locked room ahead on the right with the block puzzle
-Complete block puzzle, enter twisted hallway at the top and Set FW
-Backtrack and do the jumpslash recoil as seen in the above video.
-Floormaster key, the jump down to the well
-hookshot halfway down the vines in the well [iron boots]
-hookshot chest when you land, then open it.  hookshot vines to get back out [kokiri boots]
-Drop off vines and warp back to twisted hallway
-Cross twisted hallway, dont worry about avoiding first navi text, you need to hit it because we come back this way.  Down through painting room to bow room.
-Stalfos using deku nuts, cast FW during cs of platform falling. get bow and enter red door (where FW marker is)
-[bow nuts FW] kill red poe and get key, go back and untwist hallway. get bk and warp back to bow room.
-[hookshot ocarina bombs] crater->GC->LW->SFM backflip over mido
-Maze skip, then enter forest
-Key atop vines
-Cross main room, stalfos key, back to main room, song of time on block
-hookshot halfway down the vines in the well [hookshot nuts FW iron boots]
-hookshot chest when you land, then open it.  hookshot vines to get back out [kokiri boots]
-Locked door in main room, block puzzle to the top.  Cross twisted hallway, dont worry about avoiding first navi text, you need to hit it because we come back this way.  Down through painting room to bow room.
-Stalfos using deku nuts, cast FW during cs of platform falling. get bow and enter red door (where FW marker is)
-[bow nuts FW] kill red poe and get key, go back and untwist hallway. get bk and jump down the hole.  nut then stab bubbles.
-Right after the door, sidehop left and JS to instakill big baba.  Fill on nuts.  Enter right door and kill floormaster for key.  FW back to bow room
-Blue door, kill blue poe, exit via the top. navi text skip by jumping upright to ladder platform.  Shoot frozen eye and return through hallway.  Jump down to falling ceiling room and proceed to block puzzle
-Kill poe, enter door back to main room, kill purple poe, elevator down.  counterclockwise, floor switch, counterclockwise, floor switch, clockwise x2, floor switch, straight across to boss door.
-When reflecting hits on PG be as close as you can to prevent the shots from going random directions.  Only get HC if you have less than 1.75 hearts to prevent drowning in WT.

WATER

-[hookshot ocarina bombs iron boots] play serenade, enter water
-swim down to the right with iron boots to talk to ruto, float up ZL to lower water, [bow, bombs, FW] then do the skip to get the key on the 2nd floor early behind the bomb wall.  Set FW while bomb is waiting to explode.  Jump to lower level, arrows through torches to open door, get key from killing the clams. FW back to entrance.
-[hookshot ocarina FW] Do the setup to get back to the third floor on the tower, then jump up to the ZL platform on the left to raise the water.  Enter the left locked door on the perimeter to the waterfall room.  Cross right away for the best cycle and then set FW before leaving.
-Statue room, get at least one magic drop from pots outside dark link room, then dark link for longshot.  play song of time, fall down then climb on the little platform near the eye switch.  [hookshot bow fw] shoot the eye then hookshot or jumpslash to the chest for a key.
-Stand on the left edge of the opening, look down and shoot crystal.  After you hit it, turn right, sidehop left into water, hold target and keep swimming left to get into the side hallway.  Float up for key and FW back to the waterfall room.
-leave to main room, set FW right away, swim with iron boots down to the left, and cross to the big current room with the tektites.  Do the setup for the jump to the early boulder hallway.  Go under waterfall for BK. FW back to entrance.
-Longshot to statue and enter morpha.  Only get this HC if you feel like you wont survive fortress and wasteland because guard fights and leevers.
PRE-CHILD 2

-Leave lake hylia via the bridges and head to gerudo.  Longshot across the bridge and go to fortress. Enter the bottom level left most door for guard 1.  Guard fight strat is store JS, get in corner behind torch, hookshot bait her in with you then stab corner away from her to  kill her while shes trapped.
-Leave opposite of where you came, then re-enter fortress in the ground floor door nearest the GTG entrance.  Guard fight 2.  Leave opposite of where you came in.
-Longshot up vines, enter the door straight ahead from the vines, not on the left. Guard fight 3.  Exit the same way you came in.
-Jump to the high ledge on your right if the vines are behind you. Turn left and jump to that far ledge across the way from as far right as you can be. Turn left and enter the fortress via the door nestled in the second floor in the middle.
-When you enter either wait and snipe guard when she passes or go left as soon as you can, go to the back wall, then turn and shoot her.  SOME OF YOU MIGHT THINK YOU DONT HAVE TO GO TO THE BACK WALL.  IT’S DAYTIME IN GLITCHLESS AND THEY HAVE BETTER VISION, EVEN INDOORS.  YOU NEED TO GO TO THE BACK WALL OR YOU’LL BE CAUGHT.
-Final guard fight then leave the way you came in.  Longshot up the guard tower ladder and open the gate. Do wasteland without lens and enter colossus.  Enter spirit temple and exit again for requiem.  Savewarp after requiem [hookshot ocarina bombs].  Learn prelude and go child.

CHILD 2

-Go get dins from castle.  Then play requiem and enter spirit.  Talk to nabooru. Choose text option 3, then 2 then mash.
-NOTE CHILD SPIRIT HAS LOTS OF BOMB DROPS.  YOU WILL NEED 4 BOMBS IN THE DUNGEON AND WILL WANT BARE MINIMUM 5 BOMBS WHEN IT’S OVER.
-[boomerang nuts dins] crawlspace, nuts to stun flying keese and second nut for armos.  kill those, stun two wall keese and spin those.  open unlocked door.
-nut stalfos as he falls, then boomerang switch to lower bridge. enter door
-Stand about ⅔ along the length of the skinny middle walkway along the left edge. turn to face crystal switch and throw boomerang at it.  Backflip into the void right before it hits.  The anubis will die.
-Enter next door, roll straight to the middle of the fence and cast dins to light torches.  The keese should hit you in the cs.  If your shield burns though you can just get one in the chest in the room with the stalfos and green bubble.  Get the key and return to the first room.
-Crawlspace. the box on the right if you face the door has bombs.  Get them if youre low, you’ll need at least 4 before the dungeon is over.
-Enter door, boomerang first ‘tula and climb wall along the left edge. [sticks bombs dins]
-Hit the crystal switch with a bomb, then throw a bomb at the left skulltula to blow up the wall.  Get the chus from the dropped chest and then leave.
-Push armos down, then climb up and enter the door.
-Bomb the two beamos on the left then dins to hit both left side torches.  Get bomb drops from beamos if you dont have at least 5 bombs. Light a stick and carry fire to the final torch.  Pull the sun block to the light, then get the key chest.  Leave through the door.
-Fight knuckle, leave, owl [ocarina, doesnt matter what else] then get gauntlets

ADULT 2
-prelude to ToT and return adult
-Run to kak to learn nocturne
-Play requiem and enter spirit

SPIRIT TEMPLE

-Fill on magic from the right pot (press ocarina mid-sidehop to clear white text and pick up drops sooner), push silver gauntlet block.  hookshot ceiling switch, enter right door.
-Silver rupees, get the key in the next room then return to the beamos.  Enter the locked door.
-Push the mirror 3x clockwise and leave the room.  Play ZL on the statue hand, longshot across to get the key.  Target chest, sidehop right twice, then longshot torch near the top exit door from that spot.
-Enter the door.  If you have <5 bombs, get bombs from the pot here near the beamos.
-Enter floor grid room.  [hookshot bombs dins] Bomb beamos, then dins the 3 anubis all at once.
-Bomb the back left armos and run to the door to bait the floor switch.  Enter the door, kill the armos and get mirror shield [hookhshot bombs ocarina]
-Return to armos room, mirror shield the sun, get the key. Return to floor grid room, unlock the door and longshot to the top.  ZL to open the door, invincibility frames off the torch slug to open the BK chest.
-Leave and enter the right door. Slash the crystal switch and enter the door.  Bomb the wall and do the mirror puzzle.  Return to the main room and shine on the sun.  Go down, mirror shield the statue’s face and enter the boss door.
-Nabooru and twinrova.  Skip HC.

SHADOW
-play nocturne, [hookshot bombs dins] dins the torches to open shadow
-Get hover boots if you want (lame)
-Truth spinner (sidehop from the outside of the grabbable part without hover boots to survive an incorrect push.  Put down a bomb for the double damage boost, [hookshot, nuts, chus] then do the boost
-Silver rupee room, get the key and return to beamos.  Put a chu down toward the bomb wall, nut to explode it.  Enter the skulltula hallway.
-Stun with nuts and run through to the bottom.  Get the silver rupees by the beamos and enter the falling spikes
-Backflip through the first one as it falls, ride it up and hit the switch on the left.  Get the key (and health from pots if you need)
-Go past the beamos and cross the moving invisible platform using the red hookshot dot to tell you when its close.
-Get silver rupees, set FW and then enter the open door.  Chu from the bottom of the big pot, stab through the pot wall to explode it in the bottom. Get the key, FW out.
-Enter the fans room.  Skip iron boots if you know how, proceed through the fake wall.
-Enter the door turn right blow up the dirt with a chu, get the invisible key, exit the far door.
-Wheel jump [bow, ocarina, dins] and ZL on the boat
-At the end enter the door.  In the maze, enter the left door, kill floormaster, get the key. leave and cross 180 to the other door.  Dins to kill the fire walls, get BK. Fill to at least half magic from the pot or the redead.
-Return to boat room, snipe the bomb flower and void before the cs starts to skip it.
-Arrows from pot near bridge if you need, magic near exit door pot if you dont have full magic
-[arrows bombs chus] if you skipped boots otherwise keep [arrows ocarina dins]
-double damage boost if no boots, walk across if you have them (lame)
-bongo and get HC if you have low health for fire trial

GANONS CASTLE

-[hookshot ocarina dins] prelude to lacs
Trials are explained as if you dont have hovers:
-Forest trial: dins fire from the edge of the carpet so the wolfos doesnt die (unneeded chest) then arrow through a torch at the top unlit torch.  [hookshot nuts light arrows] get all silver rupees, using the fan to get the first one on the left if you dont have hovers.
-Water: [bottle hammer light arrows] get blue fire, melt red ice, charge greatspin for freezards when they get to you.  In the next room push block left, and jump up to red ice. Jumpslash with hammer from the right to hit switch through the ice.
-Shadow: swing hammer before the trial starts to store PCS.  [longshot dins light arrows] longshot to right torch, edge close toward the likelike, aim at it then cast dins.  Longshot the likelike, get magic pot on the corner and jump down to the switch.  Longshot the chest and get gold gauntlets.  Target the middle of the chest, stab it, sidehop left x6 and then go forward and stab the rusty switch.  Longshot to torch and leave.
-Fire: self explanatory, just jump and cut corners so shit doesnt sink.  Longshot to the end.
-Light: [longshot ocarina dins] kill invisible enemies, get key, enter door, play ZL and get the key, enter door and get the silver rupees starting on the left and ending on top.
-spirit:  silver rupees. exit the door. [arrows chus hammer] target the door you came in, turn right, sidehop right twice, shield drop chu then quickspin slugs for magic while the chu travels.  Fill up to at least half magic. Stand between left torch and crystal switch, and shoot an arrow at the bit of the ceiling web you can see.  Reflect at the bottom left sun (relative to how you entered this room) and exit.  [hammer bottle light arrows]
-Enter central tower, kill all the things.  Reflect dorf’s energy balls with bottle, stun lock him with 10 stabs to kill.
-JS with sword before ganon fight, hammer PCS for first phase.