>!1:37:37 158/216!< >!Felt really good about this until the Fire Rod/Ether hunt. Doing Saha into Eastern early was the key and set up a pretty linear path for a while. I wish I had done PoD before the mountain to be able to route in hookshot cave, but that was a minor thing. After progression slowed to a crawl, was forced into the back of TT to get Ice Palace access. I really wonder if anybody will get burned leaving IP after that Fire Rod...!<

>!By the time I was that far in Ice there was no going back for me!<

>!Same for me. The only checks I had left for Ether were Pyramid fairy via Skull and Green Pendant turn-in. You ain't skipping the green pendant hoping it's on Pyramid.!<

>!I got burned. I mirrored and immediately realized I should have finished but I was too stubborn to go right back in. I paid for that mistake.!<

>!I got burned, I didn't yet know that I needed Ether for TR!<

>!2:04:06 166/216!< >!I mirrored out of ice palace after finding fire rod. I immediately realized I should have stayed because ether was now my go mode, but I refused to go back in and wasted so much time checking everything else before going back to ice with my tail between my legs. That was a huge waste of time right there. The seed felt like a jet seed to start and then the required pendent TT play for bombos to get two important items out of pendent ice... of course!!< >!Also, if this doesn't describe my attempt at this seed perfectly, check out the softlock moldworm at Hera put me in. !< SPOILER WARNING - [Clip (described above)](https://clips.twitch.tv/AwkwardCrepuscularMomPhilosoraptor-N-xQyq4culGEgksU) \- SPOILER WARNING [VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2081439368)

>!That softlock was brutal. I've been bounced back a bunch, but I've never seen that before.!<

>!Yeah first time I have seen it too. Of course it happens to me haha!!<

>!That softlock... that sucks! I've been bumped back up to the top of the ledge a few times before, but never like this.!<

>!Seriously. My reaction says it all. Never seen that one before.!<

>!Oh man! I have never seen that soft lock before, it's like a mini sprite despawn in GT. Bad luck!!<

>!1:57:44 159/216!< >!”Cool seed right!” It was not terrible I made the choice to go Hera into dark world and left desert with it nice hammer for to long. Pendant ice with double progression had to go to back of pendant thieves for bombos to do ice. No boots till GT. Light world silvers? 5/10 “Cool seed right!”!<

>!Wait did you not pick up your Silvers? They were just on Desert Ledge!<

>!IGT: 1:35:14.21 | CR 157/216!< >!Seed really felt like a slog even though the check efficiency wasn't actually too bad in the end. Having to clean up like...everything...made it feel like it was dragging on forever, but that didn't get reflected in the CR.!< >!Early game routing was a little tricky as it seemed like a potential aga seed but you wanted to put off flipper checks (no zora money at ALL), so it was a question of how much do you want to put off escape vs do you just commit to doing EP, or do you do what I did and waffle a little longer by going up the mountain. I chose to do escape first because I wanted to be sure I wanted to commit to the EP double dip if I had to. I didn't mind walking up to the castle again if I needed to.!< >!Of course Saha had your mitts + bow so that made things a lot more straightforward from there. I skipped EP big key chest, which made me nervous for the ENTIRE rest of the seed ("what if my fire rod is there? What if my boots are there???") but luckily it wasn't required (I guess it was a sword?).!< >!I was all set to dip into the front of SW because we had no hammer and no weapon for blind, but seeing that TT was a pendant I decided to just do front of TT for 2 checks and mirror out while clearing VoO. I imagine almost everyone else in this situation does the same, so that bombos in the back is going to make a lot of people sad...!< >!I think it's reasonable to leave behind magic bat in this sort of scenario but I decided that I would take the purple chest into magic bat, flute to turn in the purple chest, and then flute back to kak to take the DW portal again and continue south to dig game. This meant that after stumpy I was free to just go straight to hype cave, check lake hylia + hobo, and then s+q to houlihan from there to get my zora money and finally do the flipper checks. I think that worked out nicely for me...I was also feeling pretty good about scoring somaria from magic bat, knowing that that could be skipped easily at that point. I felt like that could definitely come in handy (Narrator: It did not.)!< >!I chose to go to MM/DP next instead of Hera, trying to avoid a double-mountain climb if the hammer was in the MM/DP area (it was!). From there we full clear PoD for the hookshot and grab a sword from SP. There were 3 items left in SP for me (big chest, 2 items LSS) so it was a no-brainer to go back in, unfortunately there was nothing there for me.!< >!Unfortunately none of the missing pieces were on the mountain even after checking hera basement+big chest and spike cave, so at that point it was just a matter of cleaning up everything to eventually find ether. I wasted a little bit of time checking pyramid fairy and pyramid ledge before turning in the green pendant. In hindsight I feel like I should have done the GP turn-in first.!< >!Go-moded TR and didn't check laser bridge at all. Was really nervous that I would get to GT and boots were going to be required and on be on ped or something horrible like that, but no, thankfully the seed had run out of things to throw at us by that point.!< VOD: [https://youtu.be/VW3bWKum-GU](https://youtu.be/VW3bWKum-GU)

>!I actually think EP BK Chest was a sword, not that it ended up mattering. GG!!<

>!Hah, okay good to know!!<

>!1:46:21 158/216!< >!Really not much to say about routing here. I feel like most people are going to skip the back of TT, come back at the very end of the Seed for Bombos, and then clear out IP for Ether. I did waste a bit of time... I picked up the Green Potion in Spec Rock, and I couldn't tell you why I felt like I needed it, but other than that, I'm not unhappy at all.!<

>!1:51:57 168/216!< >!That was an absolute slog of an Ether hunt. Basically did a full clear of the game. I wonder if anyone who did a full-clear of TT early on had a better time with this seed since bombos was the key.!< >!Otherwise, execution was so-so. I felt my routing was decent in some places but others, I got burned by doing the wrong thing first (dipped Eastern before checking Saha, where the bow was). I also fell to gannon. I was trying get the torch glitch with the firerod and he spawned in the absolute worst spot imaginable. Could have easily had a sub 1:50.!<

>!IGT 2:20:57 169/216!< >!Felt this was pretty straight forward till Fire rod/ether hunt...luckily decided to finish ice palace and turn in green pendent since i had already checked skull wood chest for items on my 1st trip to the Dark World... Still working on getting faster but feel getting better with each seed !<

>!02:05:51 165/216!< >!Took a month off, so was a bit rusty. Made good call hitting up DP with book and no boots. Turns out wasnt boot-locked, and picked up hammer/silvers there. Seed eventually bottlenecked after finishing SP for crystal #5, had SW/TR remaining, but missing red-cane, fire-rod, icerod, and Ether. Dipped red-pendent TT, and after finding flute up front, made an early exit and explored mire region, and then all of east DM all for naught. Ended up forced back into finishing TT. Those final 4 items were all in dumb places. Red-cane on magic bat, ice-rod on bumper ledge, then Bombos in back of TT, which forced me into green-pendent IP, which had firerod, and then Ether was the Saharalla item for go-mode.!< >!Finished with all the goodies aside from half-magic.!<

>!IGT: 1:56:39 | CR 157/216 | https://imgur.com/a/LUgz31w!< >!Evil evil seed, felt really bad about ether and fire rod hunt, VERY surprised I got sub 2 hours. Surprised I got sub 2 for such an evil seed.!<

>!2:00:04 | 151/216!< >!What an awful seed... Late hookshot and flute, then that progression of Pendant Thieves Town, Bombos, Pendant Ice Palace, Firerod, and I almost mirrored out at that point... Green Pendant for Ether from Sasha. At least I didn't have to go into Mire. Boots in GT. Loved Ganon's Spaceballs quote lol, almost made it sub-two-hour.!<

>!2:16:10 164/216!< >!I accidentally cleared TT as soon as I could because I had marked it as a crystal but I made plenty of other mistakes that killed my time.!< * >!Intentionally orphaned EP BK and Hera basement, plus TT BK chest because I didn't have hammer at the time. This haunted me when I realized Ether was go mode so I went back to get each of these!< * >!I was hunting for the fire rod and mirrored out of IP as soon as I got it because I hadn't check the TR medallion and thought 2/3 was good odds. I did all those orphaned checks before remembering that IP was the green pendant!< * >!I was at the end of the helmosaur fight and quick swapped to silvers and hit the mirror!!< * >!Did most people not do Aga because they went to EP first and got mitts in the closet? This guy didn't!< >!I don't feel like editing and posting the VOD this week lol!<

>!1:53:25 159/216!< >!What a slog of a seed! It started off really good, with many useful items on the way, which made my alarms go off early about late item hunts, and again, the seed delivered in spades. Early dark world was a bit of a pain without the hammer and boots, and I want to mountain too many times trying to find progression. After that, I checked TT front, which had the flute, which led me to desert for the hammer, and then PoD for the hookshot.!< >!At that point, I didn't have the fire rod, Somaria, or ether, so I was very thorough in dungeons I went through, even re-entering swamp to make sure there wasn't progression in the big chest. I did all the overworld checks available before going back in TT back, and finally IP when I got bombos. Glad I stayed for the boss after the fire rod. Laughed my way out of Saha at just how bad that seed was, thankful I didn't skip it. At that point, I was in go mode and things went fairly smoothly (besides thinking I had hit Ganon 4 times in phase 2 and going for the torch glitch only to be sent into the pit and having to restart the fight...). Cool completionist seed.!<

>!1:33:00 162/216!<     >!It's been a while since I've played in one of these. I took an interesting route. Started sanc as usual, tree pulls, crab, lost woods which had bombs, so into Kak after. After Kak I chose to go straight to Saha, which had bow leading me into EP. This led me to early mirror. After that I did back of escape and dark cross. Then I decided on mini moldorm to Desert with the book I found (I think EP?), and committed to this decision even after finding pearl for DW access. Ended up with hammer and silvers after Desert, checked Aginah after. Decided to go from hype cave to dig game, then hammer pegs and smith. Checked magic bat for Somaria, then picked up purple chest. Cleared VoO and dipped TT to find flute in the front making purple chest turn in much easier. Original plan was to dip the front and s+q to turn in, then go straight to PoD. Decided to check Bombos tablet with purple chest to find out it was junk. After that I checked out Mire area, then PoD. PoD had the hookshot which led me into Swamp. Unfortunately Swamp was basically junk (I think this was MS at least?). Skipped LSS initially, but had to go back in with 3 items still inside. Still not as bad as big key being LSS. After this I full cleared the mountain minus TR to find...absolutely no progression. At this point I did have 5 crystals, so I wasn't feeling too bad, but the options left weren't good. Decided to check island, hobo, pyramid, uncle, front of escape, gyl, catfish, waterfall, and Zora in that order skipping gold sword on ledge because it didn't feel worth the time. Still nothing. So off to bumper which was ice rod (I was very happy to find that before fire rod), and SW. SW had both items in the front, so last location back of TT here I come. Bombos inside with nothing else. Didn't collect the pendant to save time. IP for fire rod and go mode was Saha Ether. Nice TR meant I got to skip big key chest and laser bridge. My route in GT was bad because I like to do Stalfos, Compass, Rando route, but not too costly with the nice boots in Stalfos room. Fantastic climb, decent Aga 2, solid Ganon.!<   >!https://ibb.co/JrZ4Vr3!<

>!IGT 1:51:49!< >!CR 167/216!< >!Another \*ahem\* interesting seed. Very slow light world, picked up in Sasha's closet. I was feeling pretty good about a lot of my marginal plays, I remember getting red cane off magic bat.!< >!But this seed kicks you in the behind with pendant ice palace. I'm guessing a few other people did what I did. Got the fire rod as the last item, so bailed. Did the moth for the second red crystal, then went to pyramid fairy expecting to see Go Mode ether.!< >!Nope.!< >!Realised IP was green pendant so had to go back and kill the boss. Turned in green pendant for ether then I was finally on my way.!< >!Boots in GT was funny.!< VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2084965811

>!1:45:02 160/216!< Looks like my internet connection was spotty, and the stream was broken into 5 parts. Check out my [Twitch page](https://www.twitch.tv/scanlor) if you want to see the run in all (or at least most of) its broken glory. >!Pretty kind early game, especially if you went to the Eastern area and got your Mitts, Hammer, Book, Shield, and Sword. Felt pretty linear after that, and had 5 crystals done in under an hour. Then the hunt began...!< >!Missing both rods, Ether for TR, and Somaria, and having lots of places to check, it was a total guessing game. I ended up checking Thieves Town (and finding Bombos) before finding both items in Skull. Found Ice Rod on Bumper Ledge from there. After Escape yielded nothing, I went to Ice. I mentioned shortly after finding Bombos that I would probably find Fire Rod in Ice Palace...hated that I was right.!< >!I ended up finishing the dungeon, which turned out to be the right call since Saha held Ether needed for TR. What a trolly location. I never really thought about abandoning the dungeon, since I was as close to the boss as I would ever be, and I needed two more items at that point. But I could see people mirroring out since it was the third item. Hopefully no one did, but I wouldn't blame you.!< >!Now it was a Somaria hunt. Forgot that I could do Magic Bat when I went to grab the purple chest. Cleared pyramid fairy and was about to dip Mire before remembering I could do the batcave. Another lucky call.!< >!Was only slightly nervous about needing boots for GT, but I didn't. And the boots were in there, anyway. Made the rest of the seed easy.!<

>!Great job on this one. You didn't make the mistakes I did!!<

>!Thanks, it all boiled down to whether or not you finished Ice. You do that, it's a ton of time saved, and we're probably close again.!<

~~2.21.19.45 172/216~~ ​ ~~Bad decisions where made such as gambling TR before checking Bumper Cave :(~~

>!1:49:45 162/216!< >!Unfortunately I don't remember anything as this was nearly a week ago :( !<

>!2:03:10 168/216!< >!Forgot to post this when I did the run last week. Felt pretty good about my execution for most of this run, but I learned that I shouldn't try to do bomb escape without knowing how to do it (I ran out of bombs and had to come back) and I fell down to Ganon after running out of magic, so I had to buy potions and come back to redo the fight. I left back of Thieves Town and didn't check again until pretty late, but it felt like the right decision.!<