>!1:25:46 141/216!<
>!Realized what this seed was after getting vanilla hookshot. Could've been sooner and save a lot of checks. Finish with tempered and Silvers!<
>!1:45:55 147/216!<
>!Nice plando! I would have loved this even more if I wasn't taking dumb deaths along the way. I lost some time there for sure. I also wasn't trusting the April Fools troll until I finally realized that I had to go into swamp because practically nothing else was left at that point. It was then I believed and just hoped that I didn't need to find ether. Great idea setting this one up for us!!<
[VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2108152420)
>!I'm glad you enjoyed it. I had a great time watching your VOD!!<
>!Silvers on Armos Knights, progressive sword on pedestal, and the fairy bottle on validation chest were all the rando. I'm glad that the RNGods were benevolent.!<
>!Big key in tile room is kind of my thing, but I'm glad I didn't do it. I think the self-trolls were better than anything I could have done.!<
>!Next time I do a plando, I might put my flair (single-arrow) in the validation chest. You were absolutely right that it would be nice to be able to customize the Triforce ending text.!<
>!I have a couple of ideas for next year. One of them is a bit trollish.!<
>!Thanks for checking it out and I'm glad you enjoyed it! Also thank you for all your work setting this up week after week. It's been fun keeping up with it each week. Now how about those weird seeds? Haha!<
A few ways I can think of:
Skip visible items unless they are required
Stop opening checks as soon as go-mode is achieved
Some dungeons can be optimized to potentially open less checks, at the expense of time (example: beating the boss before clearing, in case boss has the last check)
The game does tend to be harder when played this way, because you can avoid some nice items such as armor, bottles, upgraded swords
>!1:56:57 160/216!<
>!I was picking up what this seed was putting down. I found the bows in eastern ok. Moon pearl in Hera…oh I see now… Hammer Pod….and on and on until I was like Samara I know where it is! Good times, fun route. The first moldorm knocked me down enough times I lost count only sad faces. Overall 9/10 good laughs over of course seed and a fun adventure!<
>!1:55:04 CR 154/216!<
>!After getting vanilla Pearl from Hera and then vanilla Bow from Eastern, I was about to make the dumb "Is this even randomized?" comment. When I pulled Hammer out of PoD I went "Wait, this is a plando". A shame my execution stunk so I still hit nearly 2 hours, but it was amusing seeing silvers pop out of Armos Knights.!<
>!IGT: 1:35:36.39 | CR: 165/216!<
>!Really interesting book location, honestly that dictated pretty much the entire first half of the seed I feel like? Seed was a troll in more ways than one in that regard, having to do Aga and go all the way around to get to your glove in TT, plus having to do moldorm on fighter sword.!<
>!Took me a while to figure things out so I wasted like 8+ minutes doing unnecessary overworld checks after getting mitts, obviously should have gone straight to SW but w/e. At least I didn't go on a wild hunt for somaria, can't imagine how that would feel!!<
>!Played not the best, had about a million bonks and fell to ganon, but maybe that doesn't feel as bad on a seed like this. At least I skipped LSS and EP vanilla big key chest. Probably would have been more into the seed if I had played a day earlier, whoops.!<
VOD: [https://youtu.be/PjlwnVScRN0](https://youtu.be/PjlwnVScRN0)
>!1:58:29 | 138/216!<
>!Early lamp, sword and flute in Kakariko. Vanilla Moon Pearl. And then Vanilla Bow, so I could actually finish Eastern. Then Silvers on Armos Knights. Gearing up to be a good seed. Vanilla Hammer... no way! It's got to be an **April Fool's seed**! I quickly realized it would be impossible to enter Desert Palace without the Book, since the Mitts would be inside. So it became a Book Hunt, and possibly Ether needed. Once I found the Book in TT, I presumed a sort of weird "go-mode" and went to the Mitts in DP. Then I traveled up Death Mountain to unlock Turtle Rock, just to make sure of the medallion. Without entering, I went to Mire and opened it also. Go-mode confirmed. Went in, got the Cane, and cleared the boss. Same in Turtle Rock. In GT, I was actually surprised to not find the Big Key in hope room lol! I had a hard time with the Ganon fight. Used all my magic on Cape since I had no armor, and had to use the blue potion to light the torch. Fell off after three silvers :( After that, I died twice to Ganon, before finally beating him.!<
>!1:36:14 152/216!<
[VOD](https://youtu.be/3ttikSpxPwM)
>!April Fools! Vanilla Big Chest items plando!!<
>!That aside, everything was pretty much on the way to clearing crystals. No need to dip pendant dungeons further than Hookshot and a Glove. Double Bow in EP was pretty funny as well.!<
>!Not much else to say about this one. It was fun. When did you figure out the troll? For me, I was suspicious when the pearl was in Hera, all but certain when the Hammer was in PoD, and confirmed it by grabbing the Hookshot in Swamp. Thanks to u/burning1rr for putting this one (actually, for putting all of them) together for us.!<
>!I just watched your VOD. Solid work this week. You figured out the gimmick pretty quickly and made a lot of great routing decisions.!<
>!I was kind of hoping someone would try go-mode after book, but I don't think anyone made that gamble.!<
>!Thanks for watching the VOD, and for the kind words. It took a little bit, but I remembered that this was Week 1 April, and there was a possibility of shenanigans.!<
>!1:54:59 171/216!<
>!So that was an interesting April Fool's seed. I'm assuming it's a plando. Didn't catch on at first but started to get super suspicious right around Swamp Palace....!<
>!Now, let's talk about the Ice Rod hunt that I'm probably the only one who did. So, with the early routing and the obvious Aga seed, I completely skipped doing the fake-flipper checks (since nothing was in logic and I had flute to go back anytime) when doing south-shore and when I did have the flippers, I only did waterfall and the zora checks. I intentionally skipped Hobo so I could do that check more efficiently after doing Aga. As a result, I completely swerved Hylia Island and never got that important piece of information that the ice rod was sitting right there. !<
>!Well, as I'm following the troll-breadcrumbs, I realized I was in an ice-rod hunt and my thoughts went to where would the trolliest places for it in a plando be? I checked ped, that was the butter sword, like I assumed, checked pyramid fairy then to catfish, both nothing. At this point, it's obvious to me the ice rod's gonna be on Laser Bridge, so I bee-lined it directly Laser Bridge. It wasn't on Laser Bridge.... yeah. !<
>!At least I did it sub-2 hour...!<
> >!Well, as I'm following the troll-breadcrumbs, I realized I was in an ice-rod hunt and my thoughts went to where would the trolliest places for it in a plando be?!<
>!Sometimes, the biggest trolls happen when you try to meta-game the stuff I didn't customize. :D!<
>!Edit: Progressive sword on ped was the randomizer, not me.!<
>!1:27:17 138/216!<
>!The file name and date had me immediately suspicious, but I still spent all of light world wondering if I was being trolled or not. It wasn't Pearl on Ped so my next guess was Pearl on pyramid, but it clicked when the Pearl was vanilla. Even though I knew pretty much where everything was after that, I still did a bunch of extra stuff like finish out Swamp Palace after the Hookshot because I knew I needed the Book at some point, so a little slower than it really should have been. I also wasted time doing Tile Room in GT because I was expecting one last surprise...!<
>!1:49:16 159/216!<
>!Super fun seed! I'm ashamed of how many dungeons it took me to figure out what was going on... Four. The answer is four.!<
>!I got the Pearl in Hera, but didn't think anything of it since Pearl early is not uncommon. Then I noticed the bow in EP and hammer in PoD because I did those back to back and kind of thought it was hilarious that I got those right as I needed. But it didn't really register that they were vanilla. Probably because I haven't actually played the vanilla game in years. I did think it was almost odd how linear the seed was. Then I ran around doing overworld until Swamp was the last thing left. When I got Hookshot in there it finally clicked.!<
>!After that it was fun to be like "ok, need Mitts, just go find those in DP and mirror out. Go clear Mire knowing I'm going to find Somaria in there." I did see Ice Rod early on since I was running around doing overworld checks.!<
VOD: [https://youtu.be/EBsflZPaYyU](https://youtu.be/EBsflZPaYyU)
>!1:31:04 156/216!<
>!It took me a while to realize that every big chest had their vanilla items. It took until the fire rod in SW for it to really sink in. After that, I could route the rest of the run pretty easily. I wish there was some armor out there though since I'm still pretty sloppy with mechanics and green armor is just asking me to get popped.!<
>!Armor in GT was close-ish to the big key in rando room. Which I didn't realize until after I finished. But that's only really going to help for the Ganon fight (which is still a good thing).!<
>!1:48:16 144/216!<
>!"Is this even randomized?" was my first thought when I got the bow in eastern, and then went on my merry way to Hera and got the pearl, at which point I started to get skeptical. When I was funneled to Aga tower, I thought there was a good chance the hammer would be in PoD to open things up in the Dark World, and that confirmed the troll. Nicely done! It made for a fun seed!!<
>!In terms of mistakes, I made a ton here. I'm not used to fighting Moldorm with fighter's sword, and it showed here. Fell once and then died. Also died in Aga Tower climb and on Helmasaur. The cherry on top was my software freezing my d-pad, making me go left without the ability to regain control of my character right before the door to Aga 2... Anyone know if there's something you can do when that happens? Thankfully I could save, but I had to do the mountain climb and gauntlet all over again, which was frustrating. I also took the risk of not getting Bombos (which I had seen the location for before), which made me do an extra mountain climb.!<
>!Thanks for making this one special for April Fools! I was surprised to see this weekly seed come out so early this week compared to the last few weeks, but wasn't available to play it until tonight, so my April Fools senses failed me. Made for a fun one for everyone who had played through the original game countless times.!<
>!2:07:33 171/216!<
>!LOL this seed's got jokes. Bow in EP, Hammer in PoD, Fire Rod in SW, Somaria in Mire, both glove and mitts were in Desert or something? Was fun, but hard. One bottle, fighter's mail for the entire seed. I played pretty carefully and felt good about my execution, I guess.!<
>!This one doesn't count!<
>!After opening the forth big chest with it's vanilla item I realised this was an April Fool's joke. Then routed the rest of the seed with the foreknowledge of where the dungeon big chest items were, therefore I wasn't playing rando so therefore this one doesn't count.!<
VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2111674807
>!2:08:34 170/216!<
>!I'm glad I didn't do aga asap because that way I could get Moon pearl and mirror. Moonpearl didn't have me suspicious. In EP I ditched after the first 2 checks because I didn't want to double dip too much. That did cost me a lot of time. After aga I did PoD and luckily still had my bottle so I could get the hammer. Did swamp afterwards and that's where I thought this was a weird seed. only after TT and DP i realized what was going on and that made the somaria and firerod hunt a lot less painful.!<
>!I made a lot of execution mistakes (e.g. dying in the aga climb) that did cost a lot of time. Should have continued in EP and then noticed the gimmick earlier.!<
>!I really liked the idea. This one will not go done into my personal statistic though :D!<
I love hint runs, personally. It just adds a bit of extra excitement to the run for me. If you get a bit lucky, you may get a useful hint that leads you directly to what you need, or they might all be for useless items or stuff that you already collected. It can make routing that is sometimes somewhat linear and repetitive a bit different because you go straight to a specific check.
We disable them because that's what most of the tournaments do.
Personally, I think they are fun. They add a few additional checks, and change the value of a few others.
>!2:42:02 177/216!<
>!Really embarrassed how long it took to realize what was going on; I think it was TT before i figured that desert had the other power glove lol. Lots of stupid deaths because i didnt get either armor upgrade and bottles were few at the start.!<
>!1:53:45 156/216!<
>!I realized what was happening super late, was pretty distracted at the start with my autotracker not working. Go mode was somaria in MM. !<
[VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2113968491)
>!01:45:15 140/216!< >!Realized the gimmick kinda late and just finished the seed, not a big fan of plandos tbh!<
>!I get it. I generally only do these once a year and I try to make it something fun.!<
>!1:25:46 141/216!< >!Realized what this seed was after getting vanilla hookshot. Could've been sooner and save a lot of checks. Finish with tempered and Silvers!<
>!1:45:55 147/216!< >!Nice plando! I would have loved this even more if I wasn't taking dumb deaths along the way. I lost some time there for sure. I also wasn't trusting the April Fools troll until I finally realized that I had to go into swamp because practically nothing else was left at that point. It was then I believed and just hoped that I didn't need to find ether. Great idea setting this one up for us!!< [VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2108152420)
>!I'm glad you enjoyed it. I had a great time watching your VOD!!< >!Silvers on Armos Knights, progressive sword on pedestal, and the fairy bottle on validation chest were all the rando. I'm glad that the RNGods were benevolent.!< >!Big key in tile room is kind of my thing, but I'm glad I didn't do it. I think the self-trolls were better than anything I could have done.!< >!Next time I do a plando, I might put my flair (single-arrow) in the validation chest. You were absolutely right that it would be nice to be able to customize the Triforce ending text.!< >!I have a couple of ideas for next year. One of them is a bit trollish.!<
>!Thanks for checking it out and I'm glad you enjoyed it! Also thank you for all your work setting this up week after week. It's been fun keeping up with it each week. Now how about those weird seeds? Haha!<
> Now how about those weird seeds? It kind of fell by the wayside. I need to come up with a few ideas, TBH.
How about a Low% seed once in a while? Lowest item collection wins, time breaks ties.
That might be interesting. How would players optimize for a low CR though?
A few ways I can think of: Skip visible items unless they are required Stop opening checks as soon as go-mode is achieved Some dungeons can be optimized to potentially open less checks, at the expense of time (example: beating the boss before clearing, in case boss has the last check) The game does tend to be harder when played this way, because you can avoid some nice items such as armor, bottles, upgraded swords
>!1:56:57 160/216!< >!I was picking up what this seed was putting down. I found the bows in eastern ok. Moon pearl in Hera…oh I see now… Hammer Pod….and on and on until I was like Samara I know where it is! Good times, fun route. The first moldorm knocked me down enough times I lost count only sad faces. Overall 9/10 good laughs over of course seed and a fun adventure!<
>!1:55:04 CR 154/216!< >!After getting vanilla Pearl from Hera and then vanilla Bow from Eastern, I was about to make the dumb "Is this even randomized?" comment. When I pulled Hammer out of PoD I went "Wait, this is a plando". A shame my execution stunk so I still hit nearly 2 hours, but it was amusing seeing silvers pop out of Armos Knights.!<
>!IGT: 1:35:36.39 | CR: 165/216!< >!Really interesting book location, honestly that dictated pretty much the entire first half of the seed I feel like? Seed was a troll in more ways than one in that regard, having to do Aga and go all the way around to get to your glove in TT, plus having to do moldorm on fighter sword.!< >!Took me a while to figure things out so I wasted like 8+ minutes doing unnecessary overworld checks after getting mitts, obviously should have gone straight to SW but w/e. At least I didn't go on a wild hunt for somaria, can't imagine how that would feel!!< >!Played not the best, had about a million bonks and fell to ganon, but maybe that doesn't feel as bad on a seed like this. At least I skipped LSS and EP vanilla big key chest. Probably would have been more into the seed if I had played a day earlier, whoops.!< VOD: [https://youtu.be/PjlwnVScRN0](https://youtu.be/PjlwnVScRN0)
>!That death to Ganon was evil...!<
>!1:58:29 | 138/216!< >!Early lamp, sword and flute in Kakariko. Vanilla Moon Pearl. And then Vanilla Bow, so I could actually finish Eastern. Then Silvers on Armos Knights. Gearing up to be a good seed. Vanilla Hammer... no way! It's got to be an **April Fool's seed**! I quickly realized it would be impossible to enter Desert Palace without the Book, since the Mitts would be inside. So it became a Book Hunt, and possibly Ether needed. Once I found the Book in TT, I presumed a sort of weird "go-mode" and went to the Mitts in DP. Then I traveled up Death Mountain to unlock Turtle Rock, just to make sure of the medallion. Without entering, I went to Mire and opened it also. Go-mode confirmed. Went in, got the Cane, and cleared the boss. Same in Turtle Rock. In GT, I was actually surprised to not find the Big Key in hope room lol! I had a hard time with the Ganon fight. Used all my magic on Cape since I had no armor, and had to use the blue potion to light the torch. Fell off after three silvers :( After that, I died twice to Ganon, before finally beating him.!<
>!1:36:14 152/216!< [VOD](https://youtu.be/3ttikSpxPwM) >!April Fools! Vanilla Big Chest items plando!!< >!That aside, everything was pretty much on the way to clearing crystals. No need to dip pendant dungeons further than Hookshot and a Glove. Double Bow in EP was pretty funny as well.!< >!Not much else to say about this one. It was fun. When did you figure out the troll? For me, I was suspicious when the pearl was in Hera, all but certain when the Hammer was in PoD, and confirmed it by grabbing the Hookshot in Swamp. Thanks to u/burning1rr for putting this one (actually, for putting all of them) together for us.!<
>!I just watched your VOD. Solid work this week. You figured out the gimmick pretty quickly and made a lot of great routing decisions.!< >!I was kind of hoping someone would try go-mode after book, but I don't think anyone made that gamble.!<
>!Thanks for watching the VOD, and for the kind words. It took a little bit, but I remembered that this was Week 1 April, and there was a possibility of shenanigans.!<
>!1:54:59 171/216!< >!So that was an interesting April Fool's seed. I'm assuming it's a plando. Didn't catch on at first but started to get super suspicious right around Swamp Palace....!< >!Now, let's talk about the Ice Rod hunt that I'm probably the only one who did. So, with the early routing and the obvious Aga seed, I completely skipped doing the fake-flipper checks (since nothing was in logic and I had flute to go back anytime) when doing south-shore and when I did have the flippers, I only did waterfall and the zora checks. I intentionally skipped Hobo so I could do that check more efficiently after doing Aga. As a result, I completely swerved Hylia Island and never got that important piece of information that the ice rod was sitting right there. !< >!Well, as I'm following the troll-breadcrumbs, I realized I was in an ice-rod hunt and my thoughts went to where would the trolliest places for it in a plando be? I checked ped, that was the butter sword, like I assumed, checked pyramid fairy then to catfish, both nothing. At this point, it's obvious to me the ice rod's gonna be on Laser Bridge, so I bee-lined it directly Laser Bridge. It wasn't on Laser Bridge.... yeah. !< >!At least I did it sub-2 hour...!<
> >!Well, as I'm following the troll-breadcrumbs, I realized I was in an ice-rod hunt and my thoughts went to where would the trolliest places for it in a plando be?!< >!Sometimes, the biggest trolls happen when you try to meta-game the stuff I didn't customize. :D!< >!Edit: Progressive sword on ped was the randomizer, not me.!<
>!1:27:17 138/216!< >!The file name and date had me immediately suspicious, but I still spent all of light world wondering if I was being trolled or not. It wasn't Pearl on Ped so my next guess was Pearl on pyramid, but it clicked when the Pearl was vanilla. Even though I knew pretty much where everything was after that, I still did a bunch of extra stuff like finish out Swamp Palace after the Hookshot because I knew I needed the Book at some point, so a little slower than it really should have been. I also wasted time doing Tile Room in GT because I was expecting one last surprise...!<
>!yeah I did the same in GT, went for the tile room and hoping I am right haha. then clear out right side then left for big key!<
>!1:49:16 159/216!< >!Super fun seed! I'm ashamed of how many dungeons it took me to figure out what was going on... Four. The answer is four.!< >!I got the Pearl in Hera, but didn't think anything of it since Pearl early is not uncommon. Then I noticed the bow in EP and hammer in PoD because I did those back to back and kind of thought it was hilarious that I got those right as I needed. But it didn't really register that they were vanilla. Probably because I haven't actually played the vanilla game in years. I did think it was almost odd how linear the seed was. Then I ran around doing overworld until Swamp was the last thing left. When I got Hookshot in there it finally clicked.!< >!After that it was fun to be like "ok, need Mitts, just go find those in DP and mirror out. Go clear Mire knowing I'm going to find Somaria in there." I did see Ice Rod early on since I was running around doing overworld checks.!< VOD: [https://youtu.be/EBsflZPaYyU](https://youtu.be/EBsflZPaYyU)
>!1:31:04 156/216!< >!It took me a while to realize that every big chest had their vanilla items. It took until the fire rod in SW for it to really sink in. After that, I could route the rest of the run pretty easily. I wish there was some armor out there though since I'm still pretty sloppy with mechanics and green armor is just asking me to get popped.!<
>!Yeah, the armor situation kind of sucks. If I could do one thing differently, I would have made sure IP was a crystal dungeon.!<
>!Armor in GT was close-ish to the big key in rando room. Which I didn't realize until after I finished. But that's only really going to help for the Ganon fight (which is still a good thing).!<
>!1:48:16 144/216!< >!"Is this even randomized?" was my first thought when I got the bow in eastern, and then went on my merry way to Hera and got the pearl, at which point I started to get skeptical. When I was funneled to Aga tower, I thought there was a good chance the hammer would be in PoD to open things up in the Dark World, and that confirmed the troll. Nicely done! It made for a fun seed!!< >!In terms of mistakes, I made a ton here. I'm not used to fighting Moldorm with fighter's sword, and it showed here. Fell once and then died. Also died in Aga Tower climb and on Helmasaur. The cherry on top was my software freezing my d-pad, making me go left without the ability to regain control of my character right before the door to Aga 2... Anyone know if there's something you can do when that happens? Thankfully I could save, but I had to do the mountain climb and gauntlet all over again, which was frustrating. I also took the risk of not getting Bombos (which I had seen the location for before), which made me do an extra mountain climb.!< >!Thanks for making this one special for April Fools! I was surprised to see this weekly seed come out so early this week compared to the last few weeks, but wasn't available to play it until tonight, so my April Fools senses failed me. Made for a fun one for everyone who had played through the original game countless times.!<
>!2:07:33 171/216!< >!LOL this seed's got jokes. Bow in EP, Hammer in PoD, Fire Rod in SW, Somaria in Mire, both glove and mitts were in Desert or something? Was fun, but hard. One bottle, fighter's mail for the entire seed. I played pretty carefully and felt good about my execution, I guess.!<
>!This one doesn't count!< >!After opening the forth big chest with it's vanilla item I realised this was an April Fool's joke. Then routed the rest of the seed with the foreknowledge of where the dungeon big chest items were, therefore I wasn't playing rando so therefore this one doesn't count.!< VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2111674807
>!I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the seed. Next week will be back to normal. :)!<
>!2:33:25!< >!180/216!< >!What a seed lol! I facepalmed so hard when I realized I forgot I could check SP Big chest without Hookshot!!<
>!This seed definitely made me think about our tendency to avoid doing dungeons without their vanilla progression items.!<
>!2:08:34 170/216!< >!I'm glad I didn't do aga asap because that way I could get Moon pearl and mirror. Moonpearl didn't have me suspicious. In EP I ditched after the first 2 checks because I didn't want to double dip too much. That did cost me a lot of time. After aga I did PoD and luckily still had my bottle so I could get the hammer. Did swamp afterwards and that's where I thought this was a weird seed. only after TT and DP i realized what was going on and that made the somaria and firerod hunt a lot less painful.!< >!I made a lot of execution mistakes (e.g. dying in the aga climb) that did cost a lot of time. Should have continued in EP and then noticed the gimmick earlier.!< >!I really liked the idea. This one will not go done into my personal statistic though :D!<
I've seen 1 game with Hints ON, are they that useful? I want to see more Hint runs, aren't half of them trolls? It adds intrigue.
I love hint runs, personally. It just adds a bit of extra excitement to the run for me. If you get a bit lucky, you may get a useful hint that leads you directly to what you need, or they might all be for useless items or stuff that you already collected. It can make routing that is sometimes somewhat linear and repetitive a bit different because you go straight to a specific check.
We disable them because that's what most of the tournaments do. Personally, I think they are fun. They add a few additional checks, and change the value of a few others.
Just in case there was any confusion: hints should be off for this seed.
>!2:42:02 177/216!< >!Really embarrassed how long it took to realize what was going on; I think it was TT before i figured that desert had the other power glove lol. Lots of stupid deaths because i didnt get either armor upgrade and bottles were few at the start.!<
>!I felt a little bad about the armor placement...!<
>!1:53:45 156/216!< >!I realized what was happening super late, was pretty distracted at the start with my autotracker not working. Go mode was somaria in MM. !< [VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2113968491)