Venture to the Vile Preliminary Any% Route

[Route notes for Venture to the Vile Any%]
[Routing and notes by mathulu]
[Last updated 5/24/2024]

[Compatible with splitguides, headers are splits]

[VttV is a 2.5D game, you can move between layers at certain points - I will use "in" to refer to going deeper into the area (pressing up at one of the transition points) and "out" to refer to moving up a layer (pressing down at one of the transition points)]

### Prologue
* Wake up and inspect the mask to your right (ignore your mom)
* Leave the house and walk left, ignoring every villager until stopped by Ella
* Continue left with Ella until she moves the bush
* Follow her in a layer, then continue to the right
* When prompted, attack Walrus Jr
* After the cutscene, move to the right and follow adult Ella
* Check the 4 traps (1 left, 1 far left, 1 far left and in, one close to Ella and in) then talk to Ella again
* Follow her in and right to the final trap, then toward the bridge
* After the bridge cutscene, move all the way to the right until collapsing

### Enter Gracious Anne's Infirmary
* After waking, heal and then attack when prompted
* Speak with Dr Crow again, then leave the manor and head right
* Head out a layer to the shop section of the city and head right to exit to the Lanes
* Go right through the lanes, going in at the second opportunity (next to the infirmary sign)
* Continue right into the house #30
* **Safety**: Inside house #30, collect the bloom to the right on the second floor for 2 reeking pelts and 1 small claw
* Go up to the second floor, then right and down to exit the houses
* Continue right until you see another infirmary sign, then go in a layer
* Head left (optinonal safety tent) and enter the Infirmary

### Mr Hare
* Head right inside the infirmary, until you can ascend to the second floor
* **Saftey**: grab the bloom here for 2 rotten feathers
* On the second floor, go left, then in and right until you fall down
* Pick up the ward key
* Unlock the door to the left, go out a layer then head right and unlock the door
* Continue right until reaching the battery (optional safety tent)
* Take the battery left near the entrance and place it in the slot a layer in from the start
* Go left and up the elevator after the cutscene
* Head right (optional saftey tent) and fight Mr Hare

### Act 1 End
* After the boss fight, exit through the right side of the arena
* Pick up the Medical supplies on the way out
* Head left back through the infirmary, then **past the entrance** and further left
* Go across the electrified water until you reach the second tent
* Go in and down to enter the sewers
* In the sewers, go left, up, out 2 layers, and left to reach the Rainybrook sewer exit
* Exit the sewers and head right and up the stairs to return to the Crow Manor
* Speak with Dr Crow to the left, then upgrade to gain the wall climb ability
* Climb out of the trap area and speak with Dr Crow again
* Place the pure vile in the apparatus to gain an additional heart

### Dash
* Head out of the manor, then right and in to the police station
* Speak with Lieutenant Beagle and get a map of the world
* Exit the police station, then head out to the shop section of the city
* Exit the city to the left to Stanley Road
* Optional safety tent at the start of Stanley Road
* Head left all the way through the zone to enter the Winding Creek Gardens
* Head straight left all the way through the gardens (safety tents optional)
* Fight the Grasshopper boss and get dash

### Enter Mines
* Collect the rewards from the Grasshopper boss
**Optional safety for damage upgrades: Take the tent after the boss and re-enter the arena for a bloom containing 3 small claws!**
    * Upgrade damage here if you have the materials
* Continue left into the Lost Thicket
* Proceed left across the creek and larger river (saftey tents optional)
* At the far left end, go in and right, then in and right again to the corrupted log
* Hit the log, then retrace your steps out 1 layer, and head right to cross the river
* Head right across the river, then in toward the water mill (safety tent optional)
* Go past the locked door, then in the open door and head left through the saws
* Wind around through the interior, taking every layer transition you can, and drop through the floor
* Pick up the watermill key to the left, then go out a layer and out the door
* Climb back up and enter the locked watermill door
* Go through the interior of the watermill, then exit out to the dock
* Break the vile blocking the water wheel above you, then cross the river using the water wheel
* Continue right (safety tent optional), then in, right and in another layer
* Go left and in when possible from this layer, until you meet Walrus Sr
* Get the mines key from Walrus Sr, then retrace your steps back 1 layer and go right
* Open the mines with the Mines Key and enter

### Floor 2:
* Use the dynamite switch to blow up the first bit of dynamite, then take the cart to the right
* Start the power (optionally take safety tent) and head down the elevator to floor 2 (second switch)
* Take the cart all the way left, then head in and right until you can go out again
* Head left (optional: hit the dynamite switch for a shortcut in case of death)
* Go in then alllll the way right until you reach the power switch
* Exit to the right, return to the elevator and hit the third switch for floor 3

### Floor 3:
* Go left, start the dynamite switch, then block the water with your body to protect the fuse as it goes left
* Continue left through the platforming gauntlets, then in and snake around when possible
* Continue going in, then go left and out and call the mine cart
* Take the mine cart to the right, then go up and right to activate the switch
* Continue right and out, then back to the elevator and take it to Floor 4

### Floor 4:
* Go left through the platforming and take the mine cart to the left
* Go all the way left and collect the battery, then go back right and place it into the empty slot
* Go in a layer to the now-lit cave and call the next mine cart
    * DO NOT jump at the first opportunity on this cart!
* After the cart ride, continue right and activate the power switch
* Continue right and out, back to the elevator, and hit the fifth switch

### Floor 5:
* Activate the dynamite and head to the left
* Summon the mine cart and take it to the left
* Continue left and then in a layer
* Summon the mine cart to the left (ignore the dynamite) and take it right
* Continue right (don't go in) and activate the final switch
* Go right and return to the elevator and return to the first floor (first switch)
    * Alternatively go back left to deathwarp to the top if you're at low HP

### Mines Abomination
* Go back two layers on Floor 1 and take the rear elevator to the bottom (second switch)
* Go right and in (optional saftey tent) to the boss arena
* Survive the escape portion, then defeat the Mines Abomination

### Kraken
* **OPTIONAL SAFETY: Upgrade to the second level of damage upgrades for the Vicious Claw here, the Kraken gives you the necessary materials**
* Exit the boss arena, break the yellow barriers and head back up to the first floor foreground elevator
* Cross the elevator to the right and enter the sewers
* In the sewers, go to the right and cross to the harbor side by skipping over the spikes with the grapple point
* Enter the harbor, immediately go in a layer and then right past Derek Mouse (optional safety tent)
* Continue right, then in a layer to the docks
* Continue left and in when possible until the platforming gauntlet to the left
* Complete the gauntlet and gather the keys to the quarantine dock
* Go to the right and back a layer, then right over to the locked ship
* Unlock the gate and enter the ship (optional safety tent)
* On the ship, wrap around to the entrance in the middle of the ship
* Go to the bottom and attack the kraken tentacle to start the boss fight
* Exit the ship and fight the boss (autoscroller)

### Enter Mausoleum
* After the cutscene, head to the left with grapple and return to the main harbor area (optional safety bench)
* Head left and into the sewers
* Take the bottom-right exit in the sewers to enter the infirmary
* Head right through the infirmary past the electricity
* Exit the infirmary back into the Lanes
* Head right and out a layer, then all the way left to the cemetery
* Head left through the first layer, and go in when possible
* Head right and in until reaching Layer IV
* Head all the way left on Layer IV, past the sewer, and enter the Mausoleum

### Mutated Angler
* In the Mausoleum, go right until you can go in
* Go left on the back layer, then up to the second floor, and continue left
* Come out to the foreground, then head to the right across the rafters until you can go in again
* Go in and head right (optional safety tent), then hit the first and third wheels to set up the chandeliers on the lower settings
* Go back left and out a layer, then cross the chandeliers to the right
* Continue right (ignore the inward transition) and stay on the upper level as far right as you can go
* Go in a layer, then head left through the gate and drop through a gap in the bridge to the lower level
* Go right, then out a layer and right again
* Use the grapple points to continue right (optional safety tent) and enter the boss arena
* Fight the Mutated Angler and survive the escape sequence

### Enter Vile Roots
* Head right into the crypt past the boss
* Head down then right, and finally up and right to exit the crypt and re-enter the cemetery proper
* Head left past the breakable wall and optional safety tent, then head out a layer and left to the sewers
* Go right and out a layer, then left to the rainybrook sewer exit
* Head back to Crow Manor, and left to talk to Dr Crow again
* **Optional Safety**: Use 2 or 3 pure vile to upgrade to 7 or 8 health
* Exit Crow manor and re-enter the sewers, take the Mines exit
* Head left through the mines (optional safety tent) and exit to the lost thicket
* Head out and left 2 layers, then go in and across the river
* Enter the mill house again past the yellow breakable wall, then go left and across the saws to the second breakable wall
* Continue left across the river, then wind out several layers to the breakable shortcut tree
* Continue heading out layers and left until you enter the Vile Roots

### Venture to the Vile
* Go left upon entering (optional safety tent) and then in
* Go right and in another layer, then snake back to the left
* Go through the platforming gauntlet, then head in another layer
* Head right through more platforming and then in toward the sewer entrance
* Head left from sewer entrance, enter the vile roots interior (optional safety tent)
* In the interior, hit the block right (with the heavy attack) then snake through the platforming
* At the next block puzzle just climb the right wall then damage tank to skip the puzzle
* Break the last breakable yellow wall, then drop down and go in a layer
* Head up and right through the next platforming section to the next block puzzle
* Actually do this puzzle then continue right and down
* Jump off the wall and grapple to skip the next puzzle section, then continue down and left
* Continue down and snake to the end, then go in a layer
* Optional safety bench before the final boss
* Talk to the final boss

### Any%
* Hit the final boss once to start the fight
* Beat the boss
* GG