Laika: Aged through Blood speedrun route

Laika: Aged Through Blood route
Total required candles: 17-18

Relevant recipes:
flavor                  parry
flavor+filler           magnet
flavor+vending+filler   combo mult 1.5x
flavor+vending+military combo mult 2x
filler                  10% viscera
vending+filler          20% viscera
Vending+Flavor          25% resources
filler+military         40% resources

Quest rewards:
Old warfare (showing the shotgun to Maya): 5 recycleable scraps (use this if you get too few to upgrade shotgun)

Finish start area (collect resources to the right of stairway, backflip up rock to collect refined metal)

Hold left while cutscene is playing (you can walk during it), visit Maya, talk to Puppy
Upgrade revolver (8 shale excess, 4 wood excess)
Get quest (Jacob's Ashes)
Cook magnet and go to ancestors
Complete where our ancestors rest (use nitro pops to hop left from the log), and teleport back (1 candle)

Hand in puppy quest, and get quests, (Elder, Primo, Shaza, you can delay shaza quest until you walk past it)
Cook magnet and extra resource food (cook it in where doom fell if you didn't get vending juice, trying to get it from the gas station), teleport to where ancestors rest -> where doom fell -> where rust weaves (go upper route and use the memorial to fall down to the lower route and die in the acid, getting recycleable scraps while falling) -> where rock bleeds
Get 30 bones, start quest, open heart, get spring, teleport back (2 candles)

Craft shotgun, start shaza quest if delayed
Cook magnet, get rocket launcher blueprint (do a wheelie for a second or so, starting about halfway up the slope, go into bullet time and mash accelerate just before your head gets obstructed by the foreground objects, if you get enough height, use the shotgun to aim for the ledge. If you don't get enough height, use the shotgun to shoot yourself back to reload and try again. If you have to use the shotgun early and hit the ledge with a lot of horizontal speed, make sure your back wheel hits the ledge first so that your bike rotates around that point and remains in contact with the wall. Go into bullet time with the revolver again to mash accelerate against the wall and then swap to shotgun to reload and aim to get onto the ledge. Reload the weapons, then, if going from the left side of the hump, turn around when you're at the mid-way point of it and accelerate until the back wheel of the bike has passed the mid-way point, go into bullet time with revolver, tilt backwards and mash accelerate. After getting airborne, swap to shotgun and go into shotgun bullet time as you get close to the wall, have your back wheel hit the wall first, mash accelerate, then before you get too far away from the wall or at the highest point if you don't get too far away from the wall, shoot the shotgun diagonally to launch yourself into the wall and mash accelerate with revolver bullet time, and if you get enough height, shoot the box.)
Go back to home (cook extra resource food) to go to where doom fell and towards where water glistened for missile (nitro pop from middle tower and shotgun for extra height reaches fairly easily), before dropping down to the area containing the missile, grabbing the rusty scraps from the ledge with a well-placed shotgun jump is a beneficial if you've gotten few of them due to lack of vending juice or such, to the left you can also go up to get an extra rusty scrap crate if needed. Then go to the teleporter and teleport back to where doom fell to scale where iron caresse the sky and teleport home (3 candles)

Do not upgrade shotgun
get rocket launcher (50 rusty scraps needed, 500 viscera)
get weapon bag upgrade (1500 viscera needed) (if you cannot afford, swap shotgun to rocket launcher and craft after diplomancy)

Diplomacy quest:
Go to the upper left of heart to trigger wheel (interact, not shoot)
Go to the lower left of heart, up towards the missile shooting guy to get to the first caterpillar (kill all caterpillars with rockets to one-hit, same for crab later)
Go to the lower right of heart for the second caterpillar (nitro pops and shotgun can get over the vertical platforms but dropping down to get the recycleable scraps and using rocket launcher to get up again might be better since I think you might need those)
Go below the heart for the third caterpillar, then go backwards up the same route using some well-placed rockets and shotgun shots to realign.
Go to the top right of heart for the last caterpillar.
Afterwards upgrade shotgun (1 candle)

Big Tree:
Go to catacombs
Go back up (nitro up the first bend, missile launcher up the next two, then shotgun to get up to the memorial) to the left to scale 2 walls (alternatively scale 1 wall, go in to grab teleporter, the scale the next wall), grab bishop, scale third wall
Scaling walls: first one needs shotgun, so preferrably you want a good rocket launcher angle to not have to use shotgun to get onto the wall. If you get too much downwards speed, nitro pops can help, but otherwise you can use rocket launcher to arrest your descent, trying to aim it downwards enough to get two reloads and then use one aimed more to the left to not get height (make sure your dodge is delayed a bit for this one, as it will hit the ground later).
Second wall is pretty free, with a well placed rocket launcher you can get over the ledge without shotgun so you can use shotgun if need be to get up the wall
Third wall you again want to avoid using shotgun to get up, as it is much easier to get up the last ledge by using the shotgun (as it is a bit cramped for the rocket launcher)
Destroy top pillars (get to the right one using a two rocket jumps and shotgun to get over the ledge and show the bishop to the scanner on the right side), then rocket jump back to the left to go down to catacombs.
Leave the catacombs by rocket jumping over the primary pillar (hitbox extends to a bit under the bridge) to the left, skip the scanner cutscene by rocket jumping up instead of driving up, and go to the right before the last slope upwards to the left. After getting up, head directly left to the outside.
scale all three walls again (alternatively teleport up if you grabbed the teleporter and then scale two walls, or climb normally if not good enough at rocket jumps) (1-2 candles)

Radars:
During this section, don't grab any memorials unless specified, and die after reaching the objective of every island.
After getting control on the boat, rocket jump directly upwards to shoot the upper left wheel
Go to lighthouse, and death reset to respawn at the boat
Go to the first stop after the control tower, destoy the radar and rocket jump from it over to the right island, and death reset after destroying the next radar.
Go right to rope then die
Go right to hook then die, then jump out of the boat and back in to get teleported to the place you get put after completing the harpoon
Rocket jump to the stop that is immediately left to destroy radar, (trigger wheel by doing a small rocket jump, shotgun to jam your head into the ceiling, then shotgun through the ceiling, then jump over the other gate), rocket jump up to the place with the radar onto the lower path to not have to deal with the gattling gun
Then afterwards go to the immediate right (make sure to grab the first memorial as otherwise you will spawn in-between two enemies when dying after taking down the radar) to get the last radar and just go straight right until you reach magic map man and rocket jump up that place to reach the radar.
Go to lighthouse and kill it with a well placed missile
(1 candle)

Hand in quests (shaza, primo, elder) and teleport out of the city, then in again to get childless quest. (2 candles)
Teleport to where iron caresses the sky to go to where all was lost, and complete childless (1 candle)

Talk to shaza, then go to where doom fell to go to gas station to buy the thingystuff -> where rust weaves -> where birds lurk to get the other thingystuff
Go to Jacob's grave to teleport to where iron caresses the sky again, and head left to floating city landing point (2 candles)

Teleport in and out of the city again to spawn floating city and then talk to shaza (2 candles)

Go to floating city control room (you can dodge and then shoot to not explode in the gas fyi),
Go to bottom right, if you can do it deathless, don't activate any memorials and then die to get back to the start after activating the wheel, otherwise just do it normally, then either top right or top left then the other
Top right: Go to the right to the gate and jam your head into the top right gate to shoot the shotgun through it, then go to the bottom right room, queue a dash in the elevator before activating it, then head to the right below the elevator to activate the wheel
Top left: Again, if you can do it deathless, don't activate any memorials and then die to get back to the start after activating the wheel, otherwise just do it normally (very risky strategy would be trying to go backwards by shooting the gate wheel through the gate with a well-placed dash into the upper part of the gate and shotgun at a precise angle, to make sure that the outermost spray hits the wheel)
Go to the boss and absolutely shred it with shotgun (it suspends you in the air if you spam it, rocket jumping into the air is beneficial to be able to still dodge with dash if you need to) (1 candle)