Dark Cloud Any% NCW Route

Dark Cloud - Any% No Credits Warp Route
This was copied from Closetowar's 4:45:57 World Record.

== Notes ==

• Once you get to the final state of a weapon, don't upgrade it.
• Safety Saving loses time, but if you need to do it, it doesn't hurt.
• Both Toan and Xiao need to upgrade their weapons to max.

== Weapons ==
Toan can start with any base weapon other than a crysknife, bone rapier, buster sword, or small sword

• Baselard -> Shamshir -> Dusack -> 7 Branch Sword -> Atlamillia Sword -> Chronicle Sword
• Shamshir -> Dusack -> 7 Branch Sword -> Atlamillia Sword -> Chronicle Sword (Shortest Path)
• Gladius -> Chopper -> Dusack -> 7 Branch Sword -> Atlamilla Sword -> Chronicle Sword
• Kitchen Knife -> Sax -> Dusack -> 7 Branch Sword -> Atlamilla Sword -> Chronicle Sword

Xiao can start with any base weapon except Steve

• It is literally impossible not to upgrade to the best slingshot as long as you're upgrading.

Goro, Ruby, Ungaga, and Osmond will need nothing more than their main weapons.

DBC1 (Floors 1-8 - Leave after getting Stray Cat)

Look for a Shamshir, sax, baselard, or kitchen knife for Toan
Parts Needed (13):

• Gaffer's Buggy
  • Odd Gaffer
  • Sign
  • Supplies
  • Lamp
• My House
  • Renee
  • Llama
  • Chimney
  • Upstairs Storage
  • Stray Cat [Floor 8]
• Paige's House
  • Pike

Gaffer

Restore My Home

• Get Xiao

Restore Gaffer

• Place down Paige's House with Pike first
• Place down Gaffer's Buggy next to the town exit
• Fluffy Doughnut behind Gaffer

Shopping

• 10 Glitch Daggers (9th row) [11 if weapon other than Shamshir or Sax]
• Sell whatever isn't necessary
• Buy:
  • 5 Repair Powder
  • 5 Revival Powder
  • 5 Dran's Feather
  • Antidote, Bread if you need it
  • 10 Bombs
• Equip 2 Dran's Feathers, 1 Revival Powder
• Eat Fluffy Doughnut
• Equip Broken Daggers to Dagger (1st slot), Toan's 2nd weapon, and Xiao's Slingshot.
• Enter DBC

DBC2 (Floors 8-14 - Exit after unlocking Floor 15)

• Parts Needed (6):
  • Dran's Windmill
    • Dran's Blades
    • Sign
    • Torch
    • Dran's Horn
    • Hag's House

End of Norune

• Go to Mayor's House
  • Fruit of Eden on table, open door, chest in door, gourd on top floor
• Exit, restore Dran's Windmill
  • Horned Key, Fruit of Eden inside
  • Fluffy Doughnut outside
• Make sure you're stocked up on repair powder, revival powder, bombs, and Dran's Feathers
• Warp to DBC
  • Fight Dran
    • Shoot down with Xiao
    • Deliver Final Blows with Toan

WOF1 (Territories 1-9 - Leave after unlocking Territory 9)

• Sun Dew is required to enter boss
• Parts Needed (5 River + 6 extra)
  • River x25 (5 sets of 5)
  • Cacao's House
    • Cacao
    • Torch
    • Sign
    • Stairway
    • Laundry
    • Cabin
  • Mushroom House
    • Annie
    • Torch (can be found past floor 9)
    • Sign (can be found past floor 9)

Serpent Sword

• Restore Cacao's House, event
• Guide river to tree
  • Get Serpent Sword
  • Fruit of Eden, Gourd Chests
• Return to WOF

WOF2 (Territory 9 - Exit immediately after fight)

• Fight Serpent
  • Make sure serpent sword is equipped first
• Leave
• Get Goro

WOF2 (Territories 9-16 - Exit after unlocking territory 17)

• Switch back to Toan's main weapon
• Put a broken dagger on Goro's Weapon
• Sun Dew Required for Boss Entry
• Parts Needed (7):
  • Mushroom House
    • Annie
    • Torch (most likely multiple in first half)
    • Sign
    • Ro
    • Second Floor
    • Balcony
• Restore Mushroom House, watch CS
• Warp to Wise Owl Forest
  • Fight Utan
    • Stun as Goro
    • Final Blow is a charge attack by Toan
• Brownboo cutscenes
• If you don't have enough supplies for Shipwreck now, warp to Norune and do the stuff in the 'Getting to the Desert' part.
• Warp Queens
• Move to the Docks with edit menu.
• Talk to merchant
• Enter Shipwreck

Shipwreck 1 (Floors 1-8 - Leave after unlocking floor 9)

• Parts Needed (7)
  • King's Hideout
    • King
    • Jake
    • Stew
    • Lamp
    • Sunshade
    • Car (Called Fountain in the dungeon)

King's Hideout

• Warp Queens
• Restore King's Hideout
• Fluffy Doughnut in wall outside
• Get Ruby
• Return to Shipwreck

== Note ==

• From this point on, Ruby will have doors to open. The attributes that correspond to each crystal color are:
  • Red: Fire
  • Blue: Ice
  • Yellow: Thunder
  • Green: Wind
  • Pink: Holy.

Shipwreck 2 (Floors 9-16 - Leave after unlocking floor 17)

• Put a Broken Dagger on Ruby's Weapon
• Parts Needed (9)
  • Divining House
    • Yaya
    • Sign
    • Snake
  • Cathedral
    • Phil
    • Torch
    • Hat Shaped Roof
    • Mark

End of Queens

• Warp to Queens
• Restore Divining House and Cathedral
  • Pocket in Cathedral
• Cathedral Event
• Divining House Event
  • Miracle Chests in Divining House
  • Tell Fortune
    • Third Option (Where is the man whom the queen loved?)
• To the Docks
• Fluffy Doughnut in miracle chest by boxes
• Fruit of Eden outside of building
• Pick up Music Box Key in building
• Warp back to Shipwreck
  • Music Box
  • Fight Saia
    • Throw Bombs, transform to Ruby to deal damage

Getting to the Desert

• Return to Norune Village
• Go to Gaffer
• Sell and buy normal stuff
• 5/6 more Glitch Attachments (6 to be safe)
• Place Hag's House, get Powerup Powder inside
• Upgrade Xiao's weapon as much as you can
• Warp Brownboo Village
  • Cutscene
• Enter Sun and Moon Temple

S&MT1 (Floors 1-8 - Leave after unlocking floor 9)

• Parts Needed (7):
  • 3SistersHouse
    • Nagita
    • Mikara [Always on floor 8]
    • Devia
    • Mini Totem Pole
    • Odds & Ends
    • Cabin
• Possible Parts (# needed / # possible)
  • Cabin (2/2)
  • Hay (1/2)
  • Stairway (1/2)
  • Mini Totem Pole (4/4)

Ungaga

• Warp Muska Lacka
• Fluffy Doughnut by gate
• Restore 3SistersHouse
  • Cutscene (get Ungaga)
• Warp Sun and Moon Temple (Inside)

S&MT2 (Floors 9-17 - Leave after unlocking level 18)

• Put a broken dagger on Ungaga's Weapon
• Parts Needed (18)
  • Chief's House
    • Chief Bonka
    • Cabin
    • Cabin
    • Mini Totem Pole
  • Zabo's House
    • Zabo
    • Odds & Ends
    • Hay
    • Mini Totem Pole
    • Roof
  • Enga's House
    • Enga
    • Odds & Ends
    • Stairway
    • Stairway Roof
    • Mini Totem Pole
    • Roof

End of Muska Rakka

• Restore Chief's, Zabo's, Enga's houses
  • Watch CS's in Chief -> Enga -> Zabo
• Warp back to Sun and Moon Temple (Inside)
  • Fight Curse
    • Change Toan's Sword's Attribute to Lightning
    • Dispel Darkness with Unganga
    • Shoot Coffin with Xiao
• Enter Airship
  • Cutscene
• Enter Workshop
  • Cutscene
• Warp to Moon Sea (Skip cannon cutscene)

Moon Sea 1 (Floor 1)

• Get all atla on floor 1
  • No need to fight enemies
• Warp out

Glitch Menu Shenanigans

• Might be wise to safety save
• Warp to Norune
• Make sure dagger isn't equipped, isn't broken, and has a broken dagger attached.
• Place a glitch dagger in slot one of your attachments
• Edit menu -> Manual -> Walking in a georama
• Open Gaffer's
  • 11th row in weapon inventory
  • Get Glitch Menu Item, place right 3
    • To Get Glitch Menu Item: Press left, then Right + X + R1 at the same time
    • Buffer this by unplugging your controller, holding those three, then plugging it back in.
      • Sorry if you're on PS4.
  • L1 (Weapon Menu), X (Should set Default Weapons)
  • Go to Inventory, tab to Items
  • Pull down one invisible row
  • Tab to Attachments
  • Place a glitch dagger in slot one
  • Exit Gaffer's, open Triangle Menu, close, Open Gaffer's Again
  • Grab Bread
  • Up 1, right 10, up 8
  • Left, go to Check!
  • Get into shop by spamming left + up
  • Place bread 6 to the right of where it started
  • Exit Gaffer's
  • Open Gaffer's immediately
  • Go to inventory, grab glitch dagger from Attachments menu
  • Left five, up, right 10
  • Weapons menu
  • Down for 12s until you find a stone breaker (Close when you see a plant buster)
  • Down 5, R1, place it
• Warp to Moon Sea

Osmond

• Go to Floor 8
• Get Osmond
• Safety Save
• Open Inventory
  • Go to items, R1, right 3, X, L1, bring down a row
  • Grab Dagger
  • Put on slot 1 of the empty row
  • Right 3
  • Place Dagger (Should be in active items)
  • Take Broken Dagger, put it in attachment inventory.
  • Re-equip weapons for Toan and Xiao
• Buy two Dran's Feathers, one Auto-Repair Powder
  • Equip at your convenience.
• Leave Building
• Safety Save
• Warp to Moon Sea

Moon Sea 2 (Floors 2-End)

• Osmond doesn't need a broken dagger.
• Go to Options, re-enable map
• Go through and collect all atla, don't fight enemies
  • Warp out each floor, warp back
• Safety Save after each floor in case of possible crash with gate keys
• Osmond is faster to move around with, but it isn't worth it to switch just for the movement.

End of Yellow Drops

• Once you have all of the parts, return to workshop
• Restore Everything
  • Build Robot
• Warp to Moon Sea
  • Have to go up in floor select
  • Possible crash when handing in ticket, maybe safety save before
  • Fight Joe
    • Two sword hits.

Dark Heaven Castle

• Add People to Robot
  • Cutscene
• Talk to Osmond
  • Cutscene
  • Mash X for five years
• Enter Dark Heaven Castle
  • More Text Mashing
• Enter Gallery of Time
  • Cursor will be on final boss floor
  • More Text Mashing
  • Fight Dark Genie
    • Attribute Toan's Sword with the color of the eye
    • After hands are dead, switch to Xiao and shoot at its head.
      • Might want to give Xiao's weapon an attribute
    • Toan's Sword Attribute Holy
    • Attack mouth, go back, return (three times)

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