Death's Door Restricted Low Strength with Haste Route Notes

Death's Door - Any% NMG, Current Patch, Low STR route
Original Notes by Vorime. Updated by TheDancingGrad, then Uppercasserole. Updated for new route by TFT.
Route crafting by shreshthanigans, kipoints, Uppercasserole, TFT
Last update: 2024-06-14

CEMETERY
First Door
	S&Q after Chandler

Demonic Forest Spirit
	Enter Grove
	Shoot button through wall
	DFS

Guardian of the Door
	Grab Lost Cemetery Door
	SOUL: spider room (doorway down left from Cemetery Door)
	SOUL: to the right up ladder after first arenas
	Pre-Steadhone Arena
	Charged then roll attack on Steadhone (skip regular swipe)
	Go down left and around
	Lever, then left
	Guardian of the Door

Cemetery
	Go right after elevator and up to Grey Crow
	SOUL: Unlock shortcut and grab sewer soul
	Grey Crow cutscene
	SOUL: Bottom crypt room

FIREBALL
Estate
	SOUL: Hidden orb in wall
	Grab Estate Door
	*** Pothead skip to right side (don't fall into bushes) OR meet Pothead
	after lever, down and left to big fire puzzle
	Seed to left if desired

Crow 1
	Grab Manor Door
	Upgrade to strength 1, haste 1
	Head to right-side room
	Key, seed if desired
	Right-side birb (S&Q)

Crow 2
	S&Q -> Manor
	Left-side key door
	Viennese waltz mini-boss (big spinny pot)
	Imp loft
	Non-combat birb (no S&Q)

Crow 3
	SOUL: chandelier
	back through hallway then up right door
	grunt arena birb (S&Q)

Crow 4
	S&Q -> Manor
	SOUL: ledge orb
	Top-side key door
	Key
	wizard arena birb (S&Q)

Avarice 1 Start
	S&Q -> Manor
	Walk to Ava1

Avarice

BOMB
Gondola
	SOUL x2: post-Avarice
	Upgrade Str 2
	Take Cemetery door
	go through Guardian arena
	SOUL: near hookshot anchors (fall from bridge after first fire brazier gate)
	Gondola

Horn
	Grab Ruins door (open bomb shortcut from other side)
	SOUL: left after key
	Roll skip before Mother's camp (or go around)
	SOUL: three plant area
	Grab Horn

Crow 1
	SOUL: on stump
	Head through double bomb wall to Mother's camp
	after returning horn, S&Q -> Ruins
	Grab Mushroom Dungeon Door
	Seed on bridge if desired
	Corner roll near fire plant
	SOUL: behind cobweb
	spider arena (no S&Q)

Crow 2
	Roll on breakable walls to down left (or bomb them)
	Use key on bottom right door (no S&Q)

Crow 3
	Walk to outside arena (no S&Q)

Crow 4
	Fire puzzle for key
	die multiple times to hammer bro water arena mathulS (S&Q)

Avarice 2 Start
	S&Q -> Mushroom Dungeon
	Walk to Ava2

Avarice 2

HOOKSHOT
Stranded Sailor
	Soul check: 800
	Upgrade Str 3
	Ladder up near spiders, seed if desired
	Head to Stranded Sailor
	Bomb wall before Barb sees you (saves one text box)

Crow 1
	Grab Castle door
	Left exit (open air), up ladder
	Left to light torch 1
	Arena top right (no S&Q)

Crow 2
	Seed in boxes if desired
	Top path to grab lever, then S&Q
	Through newly opened gate (right)
	Theodoor arena (no S&Q)

Crow 3
	Left ladder to key
	Walk to locked door (top left path from lockstone hub)
	If health needed, S&Q when key icon appears instead
	Crow 4 arena (S&Q)

Crow 4
	Close left path to arena (No S&Q)

Avarice 3 Start
	No S&Q -> Walk to Ava3

Avarice

BETTY
Elevator
	after acquiring Hookshot, die by falling off platform 4 times (Yeet%)
	fast door back into Castle Lockstone
	close left exit from main room to block elevators
	light torch 2 (S&Q on hit)
	far left path from main room, hookshot to key then top right
	key path first, torch 3 (no S&Q)
	other path, torch 4 (S&Q on hit)

Camp
	seed in camp key room if desired

Watchtowers
	Grab Watchtowers door
	safety lever if needed
	rampart hookshot skip after Bard
	safety lever by runners and hammer bro (before ice arena)
	die multiple times to ice arena

Betty
	Grab Betty door (or not)
	Betty (S&Q)

FROG KING
Enter Fortress
	after LoD, Upgrade to Str 4
	Ruins door to Dungeon bomb entrance (down right)
	SOUL: after plant and inner bomb entrance

Fortress
	seed near mace button if needed
	optional final gate kronk skip (before Fortress door)
	safety door at Fortress
	after runners and fire plant, shoot arrow up/left to aggro boomerang
	hookshot to boomer, bomb wall
	elite archer hookshot if you're lucky
	either:
		- magehookn't
		- magehook (after seed pot, wait in window for mage to appear, cry)
	hard to describe via text

Frog King
	Grab Frog King door
	Frog King (S&Q)

GRANDMA
Observation
	Head to Manor door
	first room after elevator, roll skip to left on railing
	fire furnace before Grandma sees you (stand far right in the middle on the stairs before Grandma, aim fire to just left of her)

Furnace
	Grab Furnace door
	optional hookshot skips in square platforms with pits to skip geometry

Grandma
	Grab Grandma door
	Grandma (S&Q)

BOSS RUSH
Grey Crow
	Cemetery to Summit via first arena and sewer ladder
	Die multiple times

Gauntlet
	after Death cutscene, S&Q
	Upgrade Str 5, then S&Q
	Parkour

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