112% APB (10 notch) route

112% All Pantheon Bosses (10 notch) route

Note: All Pantheon Bosses means that you must fight every boss that appears in the Pantheons, but not necessarily in the overworld (which means that we can skip Soul Tyrant and banish NKG).
Another note: This is the variant of the route that ends up with 10 charm notches (all but one) for the Pantheons — here is the link to the pastebin for the 11 notch route: https://pastebin.com/9LzcvewF

{Essence}
(Grubs)


Vengeful Spirit
•Grab Fury of the Fallen (and the geo rock before it) and S&Q out of King's Pass
•Get the geo rock and husk underneath the well
•Collect Aspid arena geo until you have 50 geo total
•Open the Crossroads stag (bench and equip Fury)
•Fight False Knight
•Collect the City Crest and geo chest
•Collect Vengeful Spirit
•Grab Soul Catcher (bench and either swap Fury for Soul Catcher or overcharm to use both)

Mothwing Cloak
•Head through Greenpath like normal
•Kill the Vengefly King (do some variant that lets you leave with some soul)
•Rescue the Moss Knight grub (1)
•Open the Greenpath stag
•Fight Hornet and collect Mothwing Cloak
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound

Fungal Wastes
•Head down into Fungal Wastes
•Fight the Shrumal Ogres and grab the charm notch (removes overcharm)
•Head to and collect Mantis Claw (no Mantis Lords lever yet!)
•Head right and down towards Bretta
•Bench and grab Dashmaster
•Rescue Bretta and S&Q to the bench (swap Fury for/equip Dashmaster)
•Head back up through the epogo room to the City Crest entrance (no bouncy grub yet)
•Enter City of Tears

City of Tears
•Quirrel bench is optional
•Grab the rafters seal and sell to Lemm
•Head through the DLC rooms to Sanctum
•Don't rescue the grub underneath Sanctum (yet)
•Fight the Soul Twister arena and enter Sanctum
•Fight the Soul Warrior
•Grab Spell Twister
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive
•Grab the Hallownest seal (no geo chest) and rescue the fake dive grub (2)
•Exit Sanctum and head to Storerooms
•Grab the Simple Key
•Open the Storerooms stag and stag to Crossroads

Crystal Peak
•Bench (optionally swap Soul Catcher for Spell Twister)
•Rescue the Aspid wall grub (3)
•Rescue the guarded grub (4)
•Enter Peak through the Dive entrance
•Rescue the spike conveyor grub (5)
•Pogo skip to the Cornifer idol
•Grab the Shopkeeper's Key
•Hit the levers above and below the conveyors
•Collect Crystal Heart

Dream Nail
•Rescue the grub in the Crystal Heart room (6)
•Do NOT rescue the crushers grub (yet)
•Head down and rescue the grub below the crushers/All Skills grub (7)
•Head through the dark room to Crystallized Mound
•Rescue the Mound grub (8)
•Collect Descending Dark
•Drop down into Resting Grounds
•Collect Dream Nail

Shade Soul
•Open the Resting Grounds stag (don't bench)
•Dive into the crypts
•Grab the geo chest (no crypts grub)
•Grab Soul Eater and S&Q to Crossroads
•Head up and around to the room by the tram
•Rescue the spike pogo grub (9)
•Kill Gruz Mother
•Buy Shaman Stone and a charm notch
•Rescue Sly and S&Q to the stag (swap to Dashmaster + Shaman Stone)
•Stag to Storerooms and bench
•Stag to Dirtmouth and buy Elegant Key
•S&Q to Storerooms and head back to Sanctum
•Fight the Soul Warrior and collect Shade Soul

Royal Waterways
•Head down (through the Sanctum entrance to skip the arena) and rescue the grub (10)
•Sell to Lemm (Sanctum seal & Peak idol)
•Head into Waterways and sit at the bench
•Head up and rescue the Waterways center grub (11)
•Head left and collect the mask shard
•S&Q to the bench (swap Dashmaster for Spell Twister)
•Head down to and fight Flukemarm (with Shade Soul)
•Collect Flukenest and S&Q to the bench (optionally swap Shaman Stone for Flukenest)
•Head to and fight Dung Defender
•Collect Defender's Crest and the king's idol under the valve (save a cast of soul after the fight, otherwise hit the sentry in the broken elevator shaft)
•Exit into the broken elevator shaft and head down into Ancient Basin (no Isma's yet)

Monarch Wings & Lost Kin
•Sit at the Basin toll bench (swap Flukenest back to Shaman Stone if you swapped them earlier)
•Head through the Mawlurks and grab the Simple Key
•Fight Broken Vessel
•Exit and re-enter the room to fight Lost Kin {400}
•Collect Monarch Wings and S&Q to the toll bench
•Cdash back across and rescue the wings grub (12)
•S&Q to the toll bench
•Head to Hidden Station, stag to Dirtmouth, and bench

Howling Cliffs
•Head through King's Pass to Howling Cliffs
•Learn Cyclone Slash
•Fight Gorb (collect the essence after Stag Nest if you aren't doing early control) {500}
•Wings skip to the Stag Nest vessel fragment
•Light the Nightmare Lantern (no wanderer's journal)
•Head through dark Joni's and grab Joni's Blessing (alternatively, S&Q from the Nightmare Lantern and grab Joni's after Banishment if you want to avoid the dark room)
•S&Q to Dirtmouth and collect Grimmchild

Crystal Peak
•Swap Spell Twister for Grimmchild (optionally also swap Shaman Stone for Flukenest)
•Elevator skip to Peak
•Rescue the non-mimic grub (13)
•Kill the Grimmkin
•Head to Crystal Guardian (no DG or Deep Focus)
•Kill Crystal Guardian
•Fight Enraged Guardian and collect the mask shard
•Hit the lever in the room to the right and head up to Hallownest's Crown
•Rescue the Crown grub (14)
•Head to and collect the pale ore (do not S&Q)
•Cdash left and head back right and drop down through the tall room
•Head left and rescue the crushers grub (15)
•Exit the crushers room to the left and grab Deep Focus
•S&Q to Dirtmouth (optimally swap to Flukenest + Spell Twister)

Failed Champion, City Storerooms, & Dreamgate
•Stag to Resting Grounds and bench
•Stag to Crossroads
•Fight the arena and collect Glowing Womb
•Head to and fight Failed Champion {800}
•S&Q to Resting Grounds
•Call the stag, head down, and kill Xero {900}
•S&Q to the stag (swap charms to Grimmchild + Dashmaster + overcharm Shaman Stone)
•Stag to Storerooms (don't bench)
•Kill the Grimmkin
•Take the elevator up and collect the vessel fragment
•S&Q to Resting Grounds and call the stag
•Collect the Seer's rewards up to Dreamgate

Greenpath
•Stag to Greenpath (don't bench)
•Head down through the room outside of the stag and set a DG in the room below
•Head left to and learn Great Slash
•DG back and head right
•Collect Thorns of Agony
•Kill the Grimmkin
•Rescue the Hunter grub (16)
•Rescue the Cornifer grub (17)
•Set a DG in the room outside of Stone Sanctuary
•Kill Massive Moss Charger
•Rescue the MMC grub (18)
•Collect the vessel fragment and S&Q to Resting Grounds (call the stag)
•Swap Dashmaster + Shaman Stone for Dream Wielder + re-overcharm Shaman Stone (or just unequip Dashmaster if you don't want to overcharm)
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Buy Lumafly Lantern from Sly
•Upgrade Grimmchild and kill the Grimmkin in King's Pass
•DG back to Greenpath and head down through Fog Canyon to Overgrown Mound
•Fight the arena, collect Howling Wraiths, and DG back
•Head to Stone Sanctuary and fight No Eyes {1100}
•Grab the mask shard and S&Q to Resting Grounds (unequip Dream Wielder if you're overcharmed)

King's Brand & Shade Cloak
•Head through the crypts, past the elevator, and kill the Grimmkin
•Take the elevator down to King's Station
•Fight the arena and collect the vessel fragment
•Open King's Station and set a DG
•Head through the tunnel to Kingdom's Edge
•Kill the Grimmkin and acid skip (the wings version) to Hornet 2
•Optionally safety bench (and swap Grimmchild for Spell Twister if you do)
•Fight Hornet 2 and collect the King's Brand
•DG back to King's Station (bench and swap to Spell Twister + Dream Wielder; or Shaman Stone + Dream Wielder if you aren't overcharming Grimm) and stag to Hidden Station
•Head down into the Abyss and collect Abyss Shriek
•Head through the Sibling climb and collect Shade Cloak
•S&Q and grab the Arcane egg
•DG to King's Station

Isma's Tear & Troupe Master Grimm
•Head to the broken elevator shaft and do the skips to Isma's Tear (with wings); collect soul for Grimm
•Collect Isma's Tear and rescue the grub (19, in that order; if you do early control, try not to major glitch by jumping while swimming in the acid)
•DG to King's Station and stag to Dirtmouth
•Bench and swap Dream Wielder for Grimmchild + overcharm Shaman Stone; or just Grimmchild if you don't want to overcharm)
•Fight Troupe Master Grimm and collect the charm notch
•S&Q and swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dream Wielder

Infected Crossroads & Fungal Wastes
•Head into Crossroads to Grubfather and collect the first 19 rewards (3 geo tosses after the rancid egg)
•Rescue the Vengefly grub (20)
•Fight Brooding Mawlek and collect the mask shard
•Head into Fungal Wastes through the normal entrance
•Bench and buy all of Leg Eater's charms
•Head down and fight Elder Hu {1200}
•Head to and rescue the bouncy grub (21)
•Head down to Mantis Village and set a DG in the whispering root room
•Open the Mantis Lords lever and head down to fight the Mantis Lords
•Collect Mark of Pride and the geo chest (no Hallownest seal; don't bench)
•DG back to the whispering root room
•Head through Fungal Core to Deepnest
•Grab the mask shard and S&Q to Leg Eater (swap Spell Twister for Dashmaster optimally, or use whatever other charm combination you want)

Fog Canyon
•Head through the whispering root room to Fog Canyon
•Grab the Fog Canyon charm notch (no DG)
•Head to and set a DG outside Archives (no grub yet)
•Fight Uumuu (1-cycle with Shriek)
•Absorb Monomon and DG back
•Head down and grab the Queen's Station mask shard
•Head back up, through "QGA" into Queen's Gardens

Queen's Gardens
•Fight the Petra arena
•Set a DG by the right-most entrance in the whispering root room
•Grab the Love Key and head past Moss Prophet and the Deepnest drop entrance
•Rescue the Spore Shroom grub (22) and pick up Spore Shroom
•Drop into Deepnest and rescue the non-mimic grub (23)
•DG back and collect part of the whispering root in this room (assuming you don't do any extra DGs and don't get any RNG essence drops, you need exactly 1208 essence here) {1208}
•Head to the room above Deepnest and set a DG there (no toll bench)
•Fight the upper QG arena and rescue the grub (24)
•Hit the lever for flower quest (make sure the door opens before you exit the room! you can heal while you wait or something)
•Head through the frog rooms (no DG)
•Don't rescue the frogs grub (yet)
•Kill Marmu {1350} and DG back

Deepnest
•Head down into Deepnest
•Set a DG in the whispering root room and head to Distant Village
•Skip Beast's Den and absorb Herrah
•Rescue the grub (25) and head out of Beast's Den
•Bench and overcharm Grimmchild, or swap Shaman Stone for Spell Twister + Grimmchild if you don't want to overcharm
•Exit Beast's Den and collect the Brumm flame
•DG back and rescue the grub outside of Weaver's Den (26)
•Grab Weaversong
•Head to and kill Galien {1550}
•Head up to Failed Tramway and set a DG where you emerge inside of it
•Grab Tram Pass and DG back
•Head right and down to fight the Corpse Crawler arena
•Rescue Zote and grab the king's idol
•Rescue the spike grub (27)
•Bench in the hot spring (swap all charms except Dream Wielder for Shaman Stone + Flukenest; optionally overcharm with Spell Twister as well)
•Rescue the Nosk grub (28)
•Fight Nosk (using Flukenest)
•Collect the pale ore and S&Q to the hot spring (swap to Shaman Stone + Dashmaster + Spell Twister)
•Grab Sharp Shadow and walk back to the Garpede room
•Grab the vessel fragment and S&Q to the hot spring

Ancient Basin & Kingdom's Edge
•Swap Spell Twister for Sharp Shadow (or optionally just don't change charms if that's more comfortable) and head back to the Garpede room
•Take the tram to Ancient Basin and bench
•Rescue the Basin dive grub (29)
•Kill the Mawleks and grab the pale ore
•S&Q to the tram and take it to Kingdom's Edge
•Head up and rescue the Hwurmp grub (30)
•Rescue the external Hive grub (31)
•Exit into Kingdom's Edge and set a DG in the acid skip room
•Head down and rescue the KE center grub (32)
•Fight Markoth {1800}
•Head to Oro and buy Dash Slash (don't bench)
•Head through the dive rooms and rescue the Oro grub (33)
•Grab Quick Slash and S&Q to the tram

The Hive & The Collector
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Dream Wielder + Flukenest (optionally overcharm Spell Twister)
•Enter and head through the Hive (use shriek to break the walls)
•Rescue the grub (34) and grab the mask shard
•Fight Hive Knight (with Flukenest) and collect Hiveblood
•DG back to Kingdom's Edge
•Head up and around to the Tower of Love
•Set a DG next to the door
•Fight the Collector (there's a consistent and fairly easy quick kill with Flukenest)
•Rescue the Collector grubs (37) and DG back

City of Tears
•Rescue the tunnel grub using Dash Slash through the wall (38)
•Rescue the City guarded grub (39)
•Set a DG at base of Watcher's Spire and head up (use Abyss Shriek to kill the Great Husk Sentry)
•Rescue the Spire grub (40)
•Fight the Watcher Knights (using Flukenest, you can even skip the chandelier optimally)
•Collect the geo chest and Hallownest seal
•Absorb Lurien and DG back
•Head through the fountain and talk to Lemm
•Sell to Lemm (DD idol, Seer seal, Shade Cloak egg, Zote idol, & WK seal) and head to the Nailsmith
•Buy the first three nail upgrades and DG back
•Head down the elevator shaft to White Defender
•Fight White Defender (using Flukenest) {2100}

Colosseum of Fools
•Head back to and set a DG in King's Station
•Bench and swap charms to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dream Wielder + overcharm Soul Eater
•Head through the Tower of Love to the Colosseum
•Do all three Trials (overcharmed; you can S&Q from Trial 2 and swap Soul Eater to Soul Catcher if you don't want to overcharm Trial 3)

Banishment
•After collecting Trial 3's geo, DG back to King's Station
•Stag to Greenpath and bench (probably just unequip Soul Eater to unovercharm)
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Buy Wayward Compass from Iselda
•Fight Grey Prince Zote {2400} (before the mask shard)
•Grab Bretta's mask shard and S&Q to Greenpath (swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dashmaster + overcharm Sharp Shadow optimally)
•Head up into Howling Cliffs
•Kill the right Baldur (you can dream nail the one on the left for soul if necessary) and grab Baldur Shell
•Rescue the grub above Baldur Shell (41)
•Head to the Nightmare Lantern and banish the Grimm Troupe
•Head to and grab Joni's Blessing if not collected earlier
•S&Q to the stag and head to the Lake of Unn
•Collect Shape of Unn and S&Q to the stag

Flower Quest & Queen's Gardens
•Stag to Resting Grounds
•If you don't have at least 2400 essence, collect part of the whispering root underneath the Seer (if you got enough essence at the QG root, you should have at least 2400)
•Grab Dreamshield
•Collect Awoken Dream Nail and ascend the Seer
•Rescue the crypts grub (42)
•Talk to the Grey Mourner and begin the flower quest (I'm assuming you know the route)
•Buy all of Salubra's charms and only two charm notches (removes overcharm)
•Grab the Crossroads goam mask shard
•Rescue the acid grub (43)
•Rescue the Archives grub (44)
•Deliver the flower but do not S&Q
•Head up and rescue the top of QG grub (45; do not set a DG, which is faster anyway)
•Fight Traitor Lord
•Dash slash the frogs grub through the wall (46)
•Collect the White Fragment from the White Lady and S&Q to Resting Grounds
•Collect the Grey Mourner mask shard and DG to King's Station

Shopping
•Stag to Dirtmouth and bench
•Collect Carefree Melody from Nymm
•Head down the well to Grubfather and collect the rest of the rewards (no bathroom break ):
•S&Q to Dirtmouth (optimally keep the same charms/equip just Dream Wielder for White Palace; optionally swap to whatever you want for comfiness, e.g. Hiveblood)
•Collect Nailmaster's Glory from Sly
•Exit and re-enter the shop to buy all of Sly's mask shards, charms, & vessel fragments (ending on a vessel fragment to shoptimize)

White Palace & Void Heart
•Stag to Hidden Station
•Enter White Palace
•Complete White Palace and collect Kingsoul
•Buy the fountain vessel fragment
•Bench at the toll bench and swap all charms (except for Dream Wielder if you have it on) for Fragile Heart + Lifeblood Heart + Joni's Blessing + overcharm Kingsoul
•Head down into the Abyss and collect Lifeblood Core
•Head into Birthplace and grab the arcane egg
•Complete the Void Heart cutscene
•Collect Void Heart and DG to King's Station

Pure Nail & Godtuner
•Head past the fountain and set a DG by the Waterways entrance
•Sell to Lemm (Seer egg, Grubfather seal, Grubfather idol, & Birthplace egg)
•Head to the Nailsmith and upgrade to Pure Nail
•DG back and enter Waterways
•Bench and swap to Shaman Stone + Fragile Strength + Quick Slash + Grubsong (there are many other charm builds that you can do as well)
•Head to Junk Pit (no Flukemarm) and open the Godseeker's cocoon
•Collect the Godtuner and enter Godhome

Embrace the Void
•Complete Pantheons 1–4
•Hit the lever above Pantheon 4 and head up to Pantheon 5
•Complete Pantheon 5
•Done
•Make sure that you have 112% at the end of the credits