Spelless TE Dreamshield route

Spelless TE Dreamshield route (for 1.4+)

Note: This route is slow af, but more accessible, and it's fun! Here are links to the other routes:
•https://pastebin.com/1LMzanxi (optimal; TAS-only adjacent)
•https://pastebin.com/xShXaS4e (Longnail)


[Geo]
{Essence}


False Knight
•Optionally grab Fury of the Fallen (if want to overcharm Fury + Strength later?)
•I guess get some geo rocks? It has to be worth it (underneath well, before Aspid arena, near the entrance to Fungal Wastes, in first Goam room)
•Bench in the Crossroads stag
•Kill Gruz Mother, rescue Sly, and S&Q to the stag
•Head to False Knight, killing the Husk Guard along the way
•Kill False Knight, grab the geo chest, and S&Q to the stag

Dreamshield
•Open the Crossroads stag
•Start geo grinding — kill the Aspids by the wall grub (you sadly cannot free the grub or only one Aspid will respawn), kill the Husk Guard in the next room, then S&Q after collecting the geo
•Repeat until you have ~1886 geo [1886] (it's okay if you're a tiny bit under; also, free the grub on the last trip or else)
•Stag to Dirtmouth (bench) and buy Lumafly Lantern [86]
•Stag to Crossroads
•Enter Crystal Peak through the dark room [36] and head through it to Resting Grounds
•Collect Dream Nail
•Open the Resting Grounds stag
•Grab Dreamshield and S&Q to Dirtmouth

Mothwing Cloak
•Drop down the well and head to the Baldur
•Kill it using Dreamshield — stand at the exact distance it closes at, then quickly move right and left and press nail when Dreamshield is around 10 o'clock (I posted a video in #misc if you want to see what that looks like) [86]
•Bench at the waterfall bench (optionally unequip Dreamshield to not mess with Squit skip and Moss Chargers)
•Do squit skip (and optionally dudepogo)
•Get the Moss Knights and geo rocks [296] (advice: don't try to fight both Moss Knights at the same time)
•Fight Hornet and collect Mothwing Cloak
•S&Q to the waterfall bench

Mantis Claw
•Unequip Dreamshield (unless you want Fog Canyon to be mega cursed)
•Drop down to lower Greenpath
•Kill MMC [596] — if you don't have 596 geo, get the nearby geo rock
•Head down through Fog Canyon to Fungal Wastes
•Kill the Shrumal Ogres [686] and collect the charm notch
•Head up to Leg Eater and bench
•Buy and equip Fragile Strength [0] (be warned that it makes Mantis pogo backups more cursed)
•Fight Elder Hu {100}
•Head to Mantis Village
•Optionally do a spelless epogo
•Collect Mantis Claw
•S&Q to Leg Eater

Crystal Heart
•Walk back up into Crossroads
•Bench in the Crossroads stag and head up to the Lantern entrance to Crystal Peak
•Head through Crystal Peak
•Collect Crystal Heart
•S&Q to the Crossroads stag

Channeled Nail
•Stag to Dirtmouth and head to Howling Cliffs
•Fight Gorb {200}
•Learn Cyclone Slash (it's actually useful for combat purposes, ikr?)
•S&Q to Crossroads
•Head to and bench at Salubra
•Cdash across Blue Lake
•Fight Xero {300}
•Head up and collect the Seer seal and pale ore (opening Spirits' Glade in the process)
•Collect the Glade idol and S&Q to Salubra
•Head back across Blue Lake and down the elevator to King's Station
•Grab the Hallownest seal and bench
•Head to Spire
•Kill the Great Husk Sentry [50] (it may be faster to go through the fountain for now as to have Nail 2 for the GHS later?)
•Go around and sell to Lemm (Seer seal, Glade idol, & KS seal) [1750]
•Head to the Nailsmith and upgrade to Nail 2 [700]
•S&Q to King's Station and open it [400]

Monarch Wings
•Head down the broken elevator shaft to Ancient Basin (you need a total of ~50 incidental geo by now) [450]
•Buy the Basin toll bench [300]
•Head through the Mawlurks to Broken Vessel
•Fight Broken Vessel
•Fight Lost Kin {700}
•Collect Monarch Wings

Failed Champion & Dreamgate
•S&Q to the toll bench and head to Hidden Station
•Stag to Crossroads [0] and bench
•Head to and fight Failed Champion {1000}
•S&Q to the stag and stag to King's Station
•Bench and stag to Resting Grounds
•Collect Dreamgate

King's Brand & Shade Cloak
•S&Q to King's Station (equip Dream Wielder) and set a DG
•Head through the tunnel into Kingdom's Edge
•Acid skip and head to Hornet 2 (you can safety bench but dying means breaking Strength so just try not to die lol; you could also safety bench and S&Q if you're about to die)
•Fight Hornet 2 and collect the King's Brand
•DG back to King's Station and stag to Hidden Station
•Head into the Abyss
•Head through Sibling climb and collect Shade Cloak
•S&Q and DG back to King's Station

Markoth & Lurien
•Bench and head back into Kingdom's Edge
•Take the lower route to and fight Markoth {1250}
•S&Q to King's Station
•Head back to Spire
•Head up (the lever is already hit) and fight the Watcher Knights
•Collect the geo chest [enough for the rest of the run]
•Absorb Lurien and DG back to King's Station

Monomon & No Eyes
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Head through Crossroads and acid skip into Fog Canyon
•Set a DG outside Archives
•Fight Uumuu (optimally 2-cycle)
•Absorb Monomon and DG back
•Head up into Greenpath (set a DG outside of Overgrown Mound if you want to avoid QGA)
•Fight No Eyes {1450} and DG back
•Do QGA (or go through the shade gate by Overgrown Mound) to enter Queen's Gardens

Queen's Gardens
•Fight Petra arena and sit at the toll bench
•Fight the upper QG arena and set a DG outside of the frog rooms
•Head through the frog rooms and fight Marmu {1600}
•DG back and head to Traitor Lord
•Fight Traitor Lord and collect the White Fragment
•S&Q to the toll bench and head down into Deepnest

Galien & Herrah
•Set a DG in the whispering root room
•Head to and fight Galien {1800}
•DG back and head to Distant Village
•Skip Beast's Den and absorb Herrah
•Exit Beast's Den and stag to Resting Grounds

White Palace & Void Heart
•Collect Awoken Dream Nail
•Stag to Hidden Station and enter White Palace
•Complete White Palace and collect Kingsoul
•Bench in Hidden Station and overcharm Kingsoul (swap Strength; or Dream Wielder if you want to oneshot Siblings, just don't die)
•Head down into the Abyss
•Complete the Birthplace cutscene and collect Void Heart

Dream No More
•S&Q to Hidden Station (remember to re-equip Strength)
•Stag to Dirtmouth and head to the Temple of the Black Egg
•Fight the Hollow Knight
•Kill the Radiance
•Done

Note: There are variants of the Dreamshield route that shade skip to Resting Grounds instead of grinding geo for Lantern, but since the point of this route is to avoid the stupid trick and to not do a different one instead, I'm ignoring them.