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Ocarina of Time

Reverse Dungeon Order

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This is a challenge category that completes all 8 main dungeons in reverse order and collects their Spiritual Stone or Medallion from the blue warp, then completes the game. SRM, RBA, BA, and GIM are banned. Entering a dungeon before the preceding dungeons are completed is banned. The reverse dungeon order is defined as follows:

  • Spirit → Shadow → Water → Fire → Forest → Jabu → DC → Deku

The rules and requirements can be referenced on Speedrun.com as always.

This is a difficult route for beginners, due to the limited equipment and items.

This route will work on any version that can either use stick as Adult or perform an empty jumpslash (a 1.0-exclusive glitch). This includes most common versions of the game, but excludes the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 version.

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

  • oot hookshot || oot bombchu || oot fish - for C-buttons

In this route, which C-button each item is not important. They are your preference.

Rupee, heart, bombchu, nut, counts are notated in-line as [ oot rupee | oot heart container | oot bombchu | oot nut ] where relevant. This route conserves Bombchus as much as possible because they are required explosives before getting to Dodongo's Cavern.

See Common Terms and Abbreviations. See the Appendix for the current world record run to use as a reference.

Route

Child

  • Exit Link's house, backflip/backwalk angle to first stepping stone
  • Stepping stones blue rupee [ 5 oot rupee ]
  • Shop hidden blue rupee [ 10 oot rupee ]
  • Buy Deku Stick [ 0 oot rupee ]
    • oot stick || - || -
  • Climb to Lost Woods
  • Child aqua escape with stick

  • Swim down Zora's River
  • Sidehop FWESS to Kakariko to skip owl
  • Collect cuccos for bottle
    • If you're worried about taking too long and losing the Navi prompt, complete BotW between collecting the first four cuccos and collecting the last three
    • Alternatively, dip into the grotto behind the potion shop
  • Navi dive to enter BotW
    • If you take too long collecting cuccos and the Navi prompt disappears: Go to graveyard, catch bugs, dump them on the soil patch to spawn the gold skulltula, and die to it to get the Navi prompt back 30 seconds after area load

  • Skull push (with deku stick), open Bombchu chest [ 10 oot bombchu ]
    • On N64, savewarp and leave Bottom of the Well after the bombchu chest
  • Climb up from Bombchu chest, grab Stick pot
  • Walk into center room to get grabbed by Wallmaster
  • Exit BotW

  • Backwalk to Hyrule Field
  • Skip owl with sign
  • Enter Market at night
  • Door of Time skip
  • Pick up Master Sword

Adult Setup

  • Equips and savewarp
    • Must leave bomb slot on C-buttons, to dupe over later
    • oot bombchu || oot bomb || oot bottle
  • Exit Temple of Time and market to Hyrule Field
  • Backwalk to Kakariko
  • Go to Graveyard
  • Open shield grave and get Hylian Shield
  • Open Dampe grave and race for Hookshot
  • Void out after Dampe and leave Graveyard
  • Jump to Windmill hill and down to open grotto in Kakariko
  • Swing bottle at fish, equip Hookshot dupe fish over Bombs
    • Swap Bomb icon to the C-button you swung the bottle with
    • oot bombchu || oot hookshot || oot fish

  • Climb ladder and acute jumpslash clip into Potion shop
  • Jump to the other side of the Potion shop
  • Exit to Death Mountain Trail
  • Climb DMT to Goron City
  • Megasidehop clip into Darunia's room [ 9 oot bombchu ]
  • Enter Death Mountain Crater
  • Death Bolero cutscene skip
  • Save & No Continue after dying

Spirit Temple

  • Exit Temple of Time and market to Hyrule Field
  • HESS to Gerudo Valley [ 8 oot bombchu ]
    • Can skip this HESS for more spare chus
  • Hookshot across Gerudo Valley bridge
  • Get caught in Gerudo Fortress
  • Bombchu megasidehop Gate Skip [ 7 oot bombchu ]
  • Wasteland HESS [ 6 oot bombchu ]
    • Can skip this HESS for more spare chus
  • Backwalk to Spirit Temple

  • Triple slash clip to skip Spirit silver block
  • Hit crystal switch
  • Collect silver rupees and get key chest
  • Backtrack and go up Adult side
  • Push mirror to third sun
  • Cross over to Child side in statue room
  • Enter lower Child side, bombchu wall rock and hit crystal switch [ 5 oot bombchu ]
  • Open Bombchu chest [ 15 oot bombchu ]
  • Return to statue room and push armos onto switch
  • Light torches in upper Child side
    • VC: equip stick, get flame storage in statue room, carry it to torch room, revert equips after lighting
    • N64: get empty jumpslash on white pushable blocks, then ISG to light torches (can use nuts to stun Beamos for safety)
  • Pull white sun block into light to open barred doors
  • Open key chest and backtrack to statue room
  • Go to upper Adult side
  • Bombchu the beamos and circle the room for the Anubis kills [ 14 oot bombchu ]
  • Lure armos onto blue switch, go through door
  • Defeat Iron Knuckle miniboss
    • For safety and a small timeloss, you can clip through door and fight the knuckle after getting Mirror Shield (you will respawn at this door if you die on the fight)
  • Exit and get Mirror Shield

  • Backtrack to statue room
  • Statue climb and head clip BK skip without explosives/Hover Boots
    • oot mirror shield (equip while buffering)
  • Nabooru Knuckle cutscene skip with Bombchu [ 13 oot bombchu ]
  • Twinrova
  • Spirit Medallion cutscene skip with Bombchu [ 12 oot bombchu ]

Shadow & Water

Fire & Forest

Jabu-Jabu

Dodongo's Cavern

Deku Tree & Collapse

Appendix

Reference video

Last updated September 12, 2026 by Blue