Death's Door 100% NMG Routenotes (Old)

Death's Door 100% NMG Route (Outdated)

A lot of this route is dependent on the Any% NMG Route - in fact, the first half till credits traces pretty much the same path. It is recommended for any runner to study the route and watch videos of Any% NMG as well to get a handle on the strats.
Any% NMG route is available here: https://www.speedrun.com/deaths_door/guides

- Demonic forest spirit

- Lost Cemetery
	SEED visible in entrance area (detour to left)
	Door
	Bow upgrade bldg - get SOUL inside
	POT across Door through baby arenas
	Undying Blossom from green building
	SOUL under bridge
	Don't plant in pot in arena 1 - no seed anyway
	Steadhone
	SEED from chasm dead end
	Bridges and down elevator to turn-cam Vitality Shrine
	Switchbacks SEED
	Mage arena POT
	Guardian of Doors
	Tunnel to SOUL and POT on staircase
	Grey Crow cutscene
	Incense
	Kronk lever before mausoleum (to open path back for Jefferson quest)
	Mausoleum SOUL

- Estate
	SEED right outside Mausoleum
	Door (don't plant seed in pot - this is done later)
	Pothead cutscene skip
	Garden of Peace - Down-right from Crossroads
		POT in first of 2 arenas
		SEED after lighting flame, across the way through gap in hedge (this is NECESSARY to plant in next pot - don't forget)
	Garden of Joy - Up-left from Crossroads
		POT on plinth
		SEED left after hookshot pillars
	POT after Pothead cutscene bridge
	Archers SOUL

- Manor
	Door - upgrade Str1 + 2
	Crow 1 - bottom right from Avarice room (Armchair exit)
		SEED in room with yellow key
		POT before soul arena
		S/Q
	Crow 2 - through lower left key door
		SEED in first spinnies arena
		SEED from boxes after ladder from yellow key room
		Big spinny pot arena
		Dark room - POT
	Crow 3 - no S/Q after soul 2, leave through dark room
		Chandelier SOUL
		Walk planks for SEED, POT, Old Engagement Ring
		Drop down on the left side to ballroom SEED
		Magic Shrine left from long corridor (mirror image puzzle)
		POT before soul arena
		S/Q
	Crow 4 - top yellow key door
		POT and SEED on Avarice balcony
		Room 1 - SOUL on left, SEED on right
		POT before soul arena
		S/Q
	Avarice

- Hall of Doors
	2 SOUL mass on the way
	Discarded Umbrella

- Lost Cemetery
	SOUL near tree after falling off bridge
	Gondola

- Overgrown Ruins
	Door
	SEED behind crates next to Malformed Seed
	Open bomb wall shortcut back to Door
	POT in green key arena
	SOUL under tree root path to left
	SEED and POT in flame plant corridor
	Bomb wall skip
	Kronk the long ladder down (for Owl access later)
	Plant arena SOUL
	Past big tree to SEED visible down-left
	Arena with POT
	Turn-cam SOUL
	Bomb wall after fountain, then bow other bomb plant to get SEED below
	Up to POT (don't go to bomb plant arena just yet)
	Sewer to Vitality Shrine
	Bomb plant arena
	Forest Horn
	Go right to POT, and kronk ladder (for Owl access)
	Tree stump SOUL
	Break into forest settlement, kronk to open the broken archway gate BEFORE delivering Horn (for Owl access later)
	Up settlement ladder on left to SEED, Magic Shrine
	S/Q

- Dungeon
	Door - Str3 upgrade
	Avarice door room SEED on walkway
	Crow 1
		POT, Cobweb SOUL
		Break wall to Crow 2 on the way out instead of walking on the wall (needed later)
	Crow 2
		SEED in Green key room
		POT and SEED after soul arena
	Crow 3
	Crow 4
		POT left of bridge
		SEED from left exit after soul arena
	Thunder Hammer
		Long ladder on extreme left of big dungeon room
		SOUL on ground outside
		[Optional] Up ladder and fall through roof to shelf SOUL (this is extra in case you miss a soul earlier)
		Up ladder again, to right -> kronk -> Hammer.
		Exit bottom right to Avarice (no S/Q)
	Avarice

- Hall of Doors
	SOUL and Ancient Door Scale Model
	Entering main area, go across to bomb wall for SOUL and Surveillance Device

- Lost Cemetery
	SEED above spider lair building
	Bomb wall to thicc knight Magic Shrine (make sure to have 2 mana before going down ladders as there's no source of mana below)
	Stranded Sailor cave entrance SEED in crates

- Stranded Sailor
	Captain's Log - below stairs
	Door
	1/4 Greatsword behind steps
	Barb bomb wall
	2/4 Greatsword (across big face)
	SEED on ground
	3/4 Greatsword (below gargoyle) to right behind icicles
	Drop down twice to SOUL behind icicles
	Kronk and climb 1 ladder -> sewer Magic Shrine
	4/4 Greatsword (between pillars) on way to castle

- Castle Lockstone
	POT and Door - Str4
	Crow 1 - left, then S/Q
	Crow 2 - top-left
		SEED in crates after ladder
		Kronk for right gate in main room
		Sewer to SOUL, then POT before crow arena
		S/Q
	Crow 3 - right gate in main room
		SEED in tracking laser room
		POT in parallel laser room before crow arena
		Exit out left and get SEED from crates BEFORE JUMPING OFF PARAPET
		Pink key puzzle
		Sewer to SOUL, then  then long sewer to Ancient Crown and SEED in crate
		S/Q
	Crow 4 - pink key gate in top-left exit room
		POT before arena
		S/Q
	Avarice

- Hall of Doors
	Hookshot to SOUL

- Castle Lockstone
	Brazier 1 - bottom-left exit from main room - S/Q
	Brazier 2 - top-left exit from main room, up ice ladder and left
		Light brazier
		Hookshot through keyhole for kronk -> SEED -> Magic Shrine
		No S/Q - walk back to ice ladder room
	Brazier 3
		Hookshot for pink key, then 2nd floor puzzles and pink key gate - no S/Q
	Brazier 4 - Back to pink key gate room, go bottom right
		Light brazier, drop down the grate for Death Contract
		S/Q

- Hall of Doors
	Go right and do many hookshots to SOUL and Modern Door Scale Model
	S/Q back to Lockstone, take elevator to Camp

- Camp of Free Crows
	Icicles SOUL
	Exterior POT
	Crates SEED
	Cave SEED
	Door
	Camp SEED, then pink key
	Left, to Frozen Canyon Vitality Shrine, S/Q
	Right, then bomb keyhole behind big elevator for Shiny Medallion

- Watchtowers
	Door
	POT near hammerbro and 2 archers
	Elevator POT (don't need shortcut back, also don't do any% hookshot skip)
	Archer hook shot SEED
	POT after parallel lasers arena
	Kronk on ice roof -> windmill -> ice skating section
	Pickup SEED next to precipice, then POT
	Ice arena
	POT
	Door
	Betty

- Mushroom Dungeon
	Avarice room top left exit to room with bomb wall
	Get SEED, then green key, then POT
	Vitality Shrine behind next room breakable wall
	S/Q
	Free Grunt (don't talk to them)
	Avarice room bottom right exit to bomb wall - Corrupted Antler
	S/Q

- Overgrown Ruins
	Bomb wall SOUL and shortcut to Flooded Fortress
	Another SOUL on the way

- Flooded Fortress approach
	Crates SEED
	Double arches -> arrow faraway switch to Magic Shrine
	Pink switch across water to tower with archer guarding SEED in crate
	Frog king mace statue - SEED in crate right of kronk, SEED to left of statue
	Door

- Flooded Fortress
	Go right first to single boomeranger arena - POT
	Go back and do hookshot boomeranger skip
	U-shaped island - POT - no mage hook, exit down right
	Follow path to pink mace switches and water platforms
	POT on left, then right to kronk and POT above
	Bomb wall to elite archer SEED
	POT in final water platform arena
	Door
	Frog King
	Giant Arrowhead, then S/Q
	Upgrade Str5, Dex1 in Hall of Doors on way to Manor

- Manor
	Old Photograph - through armchair room to light brazier
	S/Q then take elevator to furnace

- Furnace entrance
	Second room - SEED in crates
	Room with 4 bull platforms (1 missing to top right) - Vitality Shrine and SEED

- Inner Furnace
	Door
	POT in arena with big bird shooting from above
	Detour SEED above 6 conjoined pistons, then POT (ignore the pot beforehand)
	SEED on right side of long canyon room behind big bird
	POT after 2 rollers
	SEED in room with conveyor and 3 flames to light (near big bird on right)
	POT in 2nd floor of Door room after lighting brazier
	POT before Grandma
	Door
	Grandma
	S/Q

- Grove of Ancient Spirits
	Hookshot to Makeshift Soul Key
	S/Q

- Lost Cemetery
	Spider lair/Bow Upgrade building
		3 Souls available, and POT before arena
		Bow upgrade
		Back a room - DON'T fall off parapet - through spiders to Old Compass
		S/Q
	POT in arena 1 on way to Grey Crow (had been skipped earlier)

- Boss rush
	Grey Crow fight
	S/Q - upgrade Dex2 in Hall of Doors
	Lord of Doors
	Credits - quick pee break but be back to speed up credits roll
	Get last upgrades in Camp of Free Crows (consider Magic for Steadhone, Haste for Jefferson quest)

- Lost Cemetery
	Rusty Belltower
	Make it night
	S/Q

- Old Watchtowers
	Brazier 1 - down the 2 ladders
	Brazier 2 - back up before 1st hookshot
	Brazier 3 - crevasse after drop down - get SEED in crates
	Brazier 4 - right side next to pot
	S/Q

- Betty's Lair
	Moon door to Mysterious Locket, S/Q
	Owl - through ice arena -> ice roof -> windmill -> elevator -> ice skating section
	Brazier 5 - back to windmill -> hookshot down right
	Brazier 6 - hookshot across and top-left
	More hookshots to SEED and Braziers Ancient Tablet
	S/Q

- Stranded Sailor
	Grunt's Mask
	Left to Greatsword, boomerang + big bird arena to Vitality Shrine
	S/Q
	Right to thicc knight guarding Ink-stained Teddy Bear
	S/Q
	Collect Jefferson and leave - NO S/Qs TILL YOU FINISH THE QUEST
	Hookshot Upgrade and POT
	Hookshot after 1 ladder to Token of Death

- Lost Cemetery
	Down arch to "twin building"
	Ghost 1 - on bridge right after entering (take it down left)
	Ghost 2 - above ladder near Steadhone
	Gravedigger Tablet (if you die and decide to continue, ignore the ghost near the Door for later)
	Detour left to Flame Upgrade and POT in mausoleum
	Ghost 3 - detour to Guardian of Doors arena and escort ghost back up
	Bomb Upgrade and POT behind bomb wall under bridge to gondola

- Overgrown Ruins
	Hookshot to thicc Green Knight arena - Magic Shrine
	Death warp to door using flame plants (or just walk)
	Avarice Tablet
	Owl - up the long ladder behind Door (kronked earlier) -> Forest Horn area -> down left -> up ladder through bomb wall
	SEED around frog head statue (Lord of Doors arena)
	Right from long ladder to turn-cam soul (picked up earlier)
	Hookshots to Malformed Seed
	Fall down and take earlier opened shortcut to Flooded Fortress

- Flooded Fortress
	Moon path to Jefferson Tablet
	S/Q

- Lost Cemetery
	Ghost 4 - by door, take it up left
	Ghosts 5 and 6 - by long ladder near start of game
	Go back to start of level (white Door leading to Grove)
	Hookshot to Vitality Shrine
	Ghost 7 - Go right from tablet door and up switchbacks, escort it back down
	Ghosts Ancient Tablet
	S/Q

- Estate of the Urn Witch
	POT next to Door
	Top left from fountain - gap in hedge to hookshots to Sludge Filled Urn
	S/Q

- Manor
	Exit manor and go down right - bomb wall to skip thicc knight arena
	POT in  4 braziers arena, also kronk to drop ladder
	Island with Vitality Shrine
	Up kronked ladder, across bridge to Owl Ancient Tablet
	Continue to Rogue Daggers
	Kronk to drop gate, then go across (top left) to Pothead's puzzle
	Get SEED next to puzzle while tunnel opens
	Rusty Trowel, 2 POTS and Pothead's Tablet
	Back to Pothead's puzzle area -> up right to lone tree and gap in hedge to Magic Shrine
	S/Q

- Camp of Free Crows
	Discover the Truth