All King's Idols route

All King's Idols route (only possible on 1.4+)

[Geo]
(Grubs)
<Idols>


Vengeful Spirit
•Head through Crossroads like normal
•Rescue the aspid wall grub (1)
•Kill False Knight
•Collect the City Crest and the geo chest [200]
•Collect Vengeful Spirit
•Soul Catcher is probably worth it

Mothwing Cloak
•Head through Greenpath like normal [340]
•Open the Greenpath stag [200]
•Fight Hornet for Mothwing Cloak
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound

Mantis Claw
•Head through Fungal Wastes like normal
•Pick up Mantis Claw
•Rescue the bouncy grub (2)
•Head to the City Crest entrance

City of Tears
•Pick up the rafters seal but don't sell it to Lemm
•Head through DLC rooms to Sanctum
•Rescue the grub outside Sanctum (3)
•Kill the Soul Warrior [400]
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive
•Grab the geo chest [780] and the Hallownest seal
•Rescue the fake dive grub (4)
•Exit Sanctum and head to Storerooms
•Grab the Simple Key
•Bench and stag to Dirtmouth [580]

Crystal Peak
•Head to the Peak dive entrance
•Rescue the guarded grub (5)
•Rescue the spike conveyor grub (6)
•Grab the Cornifer idol <1>
•Collect Crystal Heart
•Rescue the cdash grub (7)
•Rescue the crusher grubs (9)
•Rescue the Crystallized Mound grub (10)
•Collect Descending Dark
•Drop into Resting Grounds

Shaman Stone
•Collect Dream Nail
•Open the Resting Grounds stag (bench)
•Rescue the crypts grub (11)
•Pick up the crypts seal
•Head across Blue Lake to Salubra
•Buy Shaman Stone [360]
•Rescue Sly
•Rescue the spike pogo grub (12)
•S&Q to Resting Grounds

Dung Defender
•Head down through crypts and down the elevator to King's Station
•Rescue the guarded grub in the big room (13) [410]
•Head up through Spire and kill the Great Husk Sentry [460]
•Kill the other Great Husk Sentry [510] and rescue the grub (14)
•Head back down and left, towards Lemm like any%
•Sell to Lemm (rafters seal, Sanctum seal, crypts seal) [1860]
•Enter Waterways through the manhole
•Rescue the Waterways grub (15)
•Dive down to the bench (don't sit at it) and head to Dung Defender
•Kill Dung Defender (save a cast of soul)
•Collect the Defender idol <2>
•Do Isma's skips (or go around) and rescue the Isma's Grove grub (16)
•Optionally pick Isma's Tear (to avoid five acid skips later)
•S&Q to Resting Grounds and stag to Greenpath

Cliffs idol
•Rescue the Moss Knight grub (17) [1900]
•Head through the Baldur Shell baldurs [1950]
•Rescue the grub (18)
•Grab the Cliffs idol <3>
•S&Q to Greenpath

Greenpath
•Head down and then right, past the room with the Grimmkin
•Rescue the Hunter grub (19)
•Rescue the Cornifer grub (20)
•Head down and past MMC
•Rescue the MMC grub (21)
•S&Q to the stag

Various grubs
•Stag to Dirtmouth and buy Lumafly Lantern [150] (technically optimal to skip but there's a lot of dark Deepnest and geo is fairly free)
•Head down the well into Crossroads
•Rescue the Vengefly grub (22)
•Rescue the acid grub (23)
•Enter Fog Canyon
•Rescue the grub outside Archives (24)
•Bench in Archives
•Head through Queen's Station to Fungal Wastes
•Rescue the Spore Shroom grub (25)
•Rescue the Deepnest mimic grub (26)
•S&Q to Archives
•Enter Queen's Gardens through "QGA"

Queen's Gardens
•Fight Petra arena
•Grab Love Key
•Head to the toll bench and bench at it [0]
•Fight the arena and rescue the grub (27)
•Head through the frog rooms and rescue the grub (28)
•S&Q to the toll bench

Deepnest
•Drop down into Deepnest
•Rescue the grub in the whispering root room (29)
•Head to and kill Galien
•Head up to Failed Tramway
•Grab the Tram Pass
•Head right and down to the Zote arena
•Fight the arena and grab the king's idol <4>
•Head down and rescue the spike grub (30)
•Rescue the grub outside Nosk (31)
•Head to the tram
•Take the tram to Ancient Basin and bench
•Rescue the Basin dive grub (32) and S&Q to the tram
•Take the tram to Kingdom's Edge

Kingdom's Edge
•Rescue the external Hive grub (33)
•There might be a world where you do the cursed Hwurmp pogo for the grub and skip, like, Spire grub
•Head up through Kingdom's Edge and (optimally) do the acid skip
•Rescue the grub near-ish Markoth (34)
•Head to upper Kingdom's Edge
•Head left to the Tower of Love
•Rescue the grub in the tunnel beneath the Tower of Love (35)
•Bench in King's Station
•Head back to the Tower of Love and fight the Collector
•Rescue the Collector grubs (38)
•Head back down and exit back into upper Kingdom's Edge
•Keep climbing up to the Colosseum of Fools
•Grab the Great Hopper idol <5>
•Enter the Colosseum of Fools and go through it
•Grab the Pale Lurker idol <6>
•S&Q to King's Station

Last two idols
•Stag to Resting Grounds and bench
•Talk to the Seer to open Spirits' Glade
•Grab the Glade idol <7>
•S&Q to the stag
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Head down the well to Grubfather
•Pick up the Rancid Egg
•Pick up the Grubfather idol <8>
•Done
•Open your inventory to make sure that you have all 8 king's idols