Elegy% dnail skip route

Elegy% dnail skip route (for any patch, assumes 1.4+)

Note: Dnail skip is a major glitch; this route exists mainly for funsies

[Geo]
(Grubs)


Vengeful Spirit
•Collect early geo for the Crossroads stag [50] and open it [0]
•Fight False Knight and collect the City Crest and geo chest [200]
•Collect Vengeful Spirit
•Soul Catcher is probably worth it

Mothwing Cloak
•Head through Greenpath like normal [~350]
•Rescue the Moss Knight grub (1) [390]
•Open the Greenpath stag [250]
•Fight Hornet and collect Mothwing Cloak
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound

Mantis Claw
•Head through Fungal Wastes like normal
•Grab Mantis Claw

Desolate Dive
•Enter City of Tears through the City Crest entrance (no bouncy grub yet)
•Open the Lemm lever for later (apparently this saves time?)
•Head through DLC rooms to Sanctum
•Fight the Soul Warrior [450]
•Grab Spell Twister
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive

City Storerooms
•Rescue the Sanctum grub (2, no geo chest or Hallownest seal)
•Exit Sanctum and bench at the toll bench [300]
•Head to Storerooms and grab the Simple Key
•Stag to Crossroads [100] (do not bench)

Crystal Heart
•Rescue the Aspid wall grub (3)
•Head up and rescue the guarded grub (4)
•Enter Peak through the dive entrance
•Rescue the spike conveyor grub (5)
•Head through Peak and pogo up to the whispering root room
•Rescue the Crown grub (6) and head back down
•Collect Crystal Heart

Descending Dark
•Rescue the cdash grub (7)
•Rescue the crusher grubs (9)
•Head through the dark room to Crystallized Mound
•Rescue the Mound grub (10)
•Collect Descending Dark and S&Q (out of the pickup cutscene! as long as it splits first) to the Sanctum toll bench

Isma's Tear
•Fight the arena and rescue the grub outside Sanctum (11)
•Head down past Lemm and enter Waterways
•Rescue the Waterways center grub (12)
•Dive above the bench (do not sit!) and head around to Isma's Grove
•Do Isma's skips and collect Isma's Tear (unless you want to do a lot of acid skips later)
•Rescue the Grove grub (13) and S&Q to the Sanctum toll bench

Tram Pass
•Head left to Storerooms and across the City Crest entrance (dive floor above the door)
•Head across Fungal Wastes and rescue the bouncy grub (14)
•Rescue the Spore Shroom grub (15) and drop into Deepnest
•Rescue the non-mimic grub (16)
•Head to the hot spring and bench
•Rescue the Nosk grub (17)
•Head up and rescue the spike grub (18)
•Head to the Failed Tramway and grab Tram Pass

Monarch Wings & The Hive
•S&Q to the hot spring and head to the tram
•Take the tram to Basin and bench
•Rescue the dive grub (19) and S&Q to the tram
•Head through the Mawlurks to Broken Vessel (no toll bench)
•Fight Broken Vessel and collect Monarch Wings
•Rescue the Wings grub (20) and S&Q to the tram
•Take the tram to Kingdom's Edge and enter the Hive
•Head through the Hive and rescue the internal Hive grub (21)
•S&Q to the tram

Kingdom's Edge & City of Tears
•Head up and rescue the Hwurmp grub (22)
•Rescue the external Hive grub (23)
•Head to Oro (kill some Hoppers if you're very low on geo) and bench
•Rescue the Oro grub (24) and S&Q
•Head back left (collect the geo rock above the Great Hopper% skip if you don't have 300 geo yet) [300]
•Rescue the KE center grub (25)
•Head up and around through the Tower of Love
•Rescue the tunnel grub (26)
•Open King's Station [0] and bench
•Rescue the guarded grub (27) [50] and head to Spire
•Kill the Great Husk Sentry [100] and head up
•Rescue the Spire grub (28) [150] and S&Q to King's Station

Enter Queen's Gardens
•Stag to Dirtmouth and bench
•Elevator skip to Peak and rescue the non-mimic grub (29)
•S&Q to the bench and head down the well into Crossroads
•Rescue the Vengefly grub (30)
•Rescue the acid grub (31) and head into Fog Canyon
•Head down and rescue the Archives grub (32)
•Head through "QGA" into Queen's Gardens

Queen's Gardens & Deepnest
•Fight the Petra arena and grab the Love Key
•Head back left and sit at the toll bench [0]
•Head down into (dark) Deepnest and rescue the grub in the whispering root room (33)
•Dunk into the spikes and head to Distant Village
•Skip Beast's Den, rescue the grub (34), and S&Q to Queen's Gardens
•Fight the upper QG arena [~200, hopefully] and rescue the grub below the stag (35)
•Head through the frog rooms and rescue the White Lady grub (36)
•Head to and open the QG stag [0]
•Bench and climb up to the upper grub
•Rescue the upper grub (37) and S&Q to the stag

Upper Tram & Greenpath
•Stag to Greenpath and bench
•Stag to Crossroads and head around to the room outside the tram
•Rescue the spike pogo grub (38) and take the tram to Resting Grounds (do not bench)
•Skip Dream Nail using wings
•Dive into the crypts and rescue the crypts grub (39)
•S&Q to Greenpath (call the stag)
•Head up into Howling Cliffs and skip the Baldurs with wings
•Rescue the Baldur Shell grub (40) and S&Q to the stag
•Head to and rescue the Hunter grub (41)
•Rescue the Cornifer grub (42)
•Head back and rescue the MMC grub (43)
•S&Q to the stag

The Collector
•Stag to King's Station and bench
•Head to the Tower of Love and fight the Collector
•Rescue the final three grubs (46) and S&Q to the stag

Grubberfly's Elegy
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Head down the well to Grubfather
•Wait for a long time
•Collect Grubberfly's Elegy
•Done