MST

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Version Note: Most platforms can be used for this route. It requires either stick as Adult (crashes on Nintendo 64/iQue and often on Nintendo Switch) or empty jumpslash (only works on Nintendo 64 version 1.0). Version 1.2 can save time by using Bomb OI at times where Ocarina Items is required; this optimal route assumes those bombs are used.

MST stands for Medallions, Stones, Trials. This category must complete all child and adult dungeons as well as all six trials in Ganon's Castle. It bans RBA, GIM, and SRM. Full rules can be referenced on ⁠Speedrun.com as always.

This is a difficult route/category. It calls for a high density of difficult tricks and a low amount of downtime after the child section. There is currently no recommended "beginner route".

A spreadsheet format of this route can be found ⁠here, although it does not include the Fire Temple zombie jump (lava leap).

Equips are notated as (e.g.)

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Parentheses following an item indicates it is equipped over a different inventory slot (e.g. by duping or equip swap); in the above example, Zelda's Letter was equip-swapped using the Farore's Wind slot.

In this route, which C-button each item is equipped to is important once. Other than that, they are your preference.

Hearts, Bomb, Bombchu, Deku Nut, and rupee counts are notated as [ x ][ x ][ x ][ x ][ x ] where relevant.

See Common Terminology. See the Appendix for the current world record run to use as a reference.

Route

Child

• Exit Link's house, backflip/backwalk angle to stepping stones
• Stepping stone blue rupee, enter shop, shop blue rupee [ 10 ]
• Buy Deku Stick and equip [ 0 ]
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• Leave shop, go to Lost Woods (get blue rupee behind Mido's house) [ 5 ]
• Aqua Escape from Lost Woods
  
  
• Take 1 hit from Octorok in Zora's River then get river rupees including red [ 42 | 2.5 ]
• Sidehop FWESS to Kakariko
• Collect Cuccos for bottle
• Navi Dive into Bottom of the Well
• Corpse push to Well chu chest [ 42 | 1h | 10 ]
• Bombchu vine clip to void out [ 42 | 1h | 9 ]
  • || || -- equip on vine clip buffer
    
    
• Leave Bottom of the Well
• Backwalk from Well to Hyrule Field exit
• Skip Owl using sign outside Kakariko
• Night drawbridge chains, get all 3 red rupees [ 99 | 1 ]
• Clip into Bazaar
• Buy Hylian Shield and 1 Deku Stick [ 9 | 1 ]
• Enter outside Castle area
• Owl skip
• Seamwalk to castle
• Jump in moat and get at least 1 rupee [ 10 | 1 ]
• Bombchu damage boost to crawlspace [ 10 | 0.5 | 8 ]
  
  
• Guards
• Talk to Zelda
• Zelda's Lullaby cutscene skip, continue, talk to Impa [ 10 | 7 ]
• 2 red rupees from drawbridge chains [ 50 ]
• Go to Temple of Time
• Door of Time skip, grab Master Sword

Shadow Temple

• Savewarp
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  • Equip note: You must equip an item over Bombs (C-down) to leave one of the C-buttons blank
• Single chu HESS to Kakariko Village [ 6 ]
• HESS off sign to Graveyard [ 5 ]
• Dupe rock bugs over empty C-button
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  • Swing bottle at bugs, then swap the bottle to the empty C-button
  • Don't equip over the fake bugs until after Magic
• Enter Dampe's grave with Poe damage [ 2.5 ]
• Get Hookshot and equip over empty bottle
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• Void out, leave grave [ 1.5 ]
• Hookshot jump to Shadow Temple [ 1 ]
  
  
• Get Deku Nut and heart pots prior to Deadhand [ 2 | 5 ]
  • Need more than 1.5 to survive Boat Skip + BK skip
• Deadhand, get Hover Boots chest
• TSC boat skip [ 1 ]
• Chu + nut boss key skip [ 0.5 | 4 | 4 ]
  • Equip nuts over chus when unequipping Hover Boots
  • Equip chus over nuts when buffering ledge clip
• Bongo Bongo
• Shadow Medallion cutscene skip

Bombs / Magic / Bolero

• Leave Shadow Temple, HESS from torches to pedestal [ 3 ]
• Leave Graveyard
• HESS in Kakariko to Potion Shop [ 2 ]
• Buy Fairy [ 0 ]
• Enter Death Mountain Trail
• HESS off sign in DMT to Dodongo's Cavern [ 1 ]
• Open DC mud wall with chu (ideally take damage from it) [ 0 | 2.5 ]
• Take lava damage on the way to Doom jump spot [ 0.5 ]
• Doom jump to 2nd floor
• Get Bombs [ 20 ]
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  • Equip note: put empty bottle where you want Fish later and the fake Bugs where you want Hookshot later
• Jump down and bomb HESS out of DC [ 19 ]
  
  
• HESS up DMT upper path [ 18 ]
• Blow up boulder blocking the way [ 17 ]
• HESS up DMT to climbable wall, pull a bomb midway through the HESS [ 15 ]
• Throw bomb at the lowest wall skulltula
• Climb wall and blow up fountain entrance [ 14 ]
• Ocarina Items - play Zelda's Lullaby for Magic [ 13 ]
  
  
• Pull bomb and take damage while leaving fountain [ 2.5 | 12 ]
• Enter Death Mountain Crater
• Bomb open the upper grotto (take damage from it) and enter grotto [ 2 | 11 ]
• Drop bomb near fish, dupe fish over Bombchu inventory slot [ 2 | 10 ]
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• Open grotto 20 Bombs chest [2h, 20b]
• Backwalk from chest and take damage from bomb, leave grotto [1.5h, 20b]
• Megaflip from upper DMC to Bolero pedestal [19b]
• Bolero cutscene skip using timer from pedestal side

Water Temple + FW

• Respawn and megaflip down to Goron City
• Goron City HESS to Lost Woods, blow up boulders
• Adult aqua escape
• Megaflip behind waterfall to Zora's Domain
• Ladder clip to enter Lake Hylia warp
• HESS up mountain to Serenade pedestal
• Clip into Water Temple
• HESS to Morpha
• Water Boss Key skip
• Morpha
• [Water Medallion cutscene skip]
  
  
• Leave Water Temple
• HESS up towards Zora's Domain warp
• Megaflip ground clip to Zora's Domain
• HESS King Zora skip to Zora's Fountain
• HESS to Fairy Fountain, blow up wall
• Ocarina Items - play Zelda's Lullaby to get Farore's Wind
• Ocarina Items - play Bolero of Fire
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Fire Temple

• Enter Fire Temple
• ISG from Keese, take a hit from it
  • Avoid damage if you want safer health for the zombie jump setup
• Darunia cutscene skip with Zelda's Letter
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• Activate and gain control during Darunia cutscene
• 2 bomb pots and catch fairy while facing away from Darunia
• Keep Darunia on camera until he's fully gone, leave room
• Kill closest Keese, get ledge cancel
• (optional) Get Return A with equip on the buffer
• Enter Darunia's room
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• Reach Hookshot target without losing ledge cancel
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• Lava Leap Hookshot jump
  
  
• Fire maze skips
  • Walk (don't roll) into fire wall for 1⁄4 heart damage & switch skip at end
• Both bomb pots before Flare Dancer fight
• Flare Dancer fight + set up 1 + 1⁄16 heart during fight
• Go up elevator
• Bomb crystal switch and climb vines during cutscene
• Get Megaton Hammer chest
• Fall down to Song of Time block to damage to 1⁄16
  • If your health is too low, set up 1⁄16 in the Hammer room and BK skip from above
• Ledge clip BK skip by Song of Time block
  • Defer Hammer equip until Volvagia if doing the Volvagia superslide, otherwise:
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• Volvagia
  • Bomb count in this route assumes Weirdshot Volvagia or Superslide Volvagia, see Addenda § Early Fire Temple for extra bombs if using more than 1-2 bombs on Volvagia
• Fire to Forest wrong warp
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Forest Temple + Lost Woods RI

• Watch Poe elevator cutscene
• Forest Boss Key skip
  • Voiding before reaching Phantom Ganon's room will spawn you in Fire Temple, do not do this
• Phantom Ganon with double damage to damage down
  • If doing bottle OI for CS skip, get ISG from bomb during the fight and damage down from the bomb too
• Forest Medallion cutscene skip with empty bottle
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• Straight forward to Stalfos room
• Damage down from Bubble + Stalfos to half a heart
• Defeat Stalfos and catch fairy in pot
• Jungle Jump
  • || || -- equip during Jungle Jump buffering
• After jump, cast FW and immediately warp to it to reload upper room
• Both Stalfos fights
• Open Fairy Bow chest
• Weirdshot to hook fairy pot in lower room, catch fairy in empty bottle
  • Can alternatively get the pot fairy in Jabu-Jabu basement and skip this weirdshot (slower)
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• Ocarina Items - play Bolero of Fire
  
  
• Enter Goron City
• Goron City HESS to Lost Woods
• Exit right to Kokiri Forest, re-enter Lost Woods
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  • Kokiri Forest grass is an opportunity for bomb farming
• [Restricted Items FW with Gossip Stone text storage]
  • FW will be equipped over previous Fish C-button to perform RI and you can move the now-empty bottle over Hookshot
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• Grab the ledge/ladder after setting FW and re-catch fish
• HESS to Zora's River warp and aqua escape
  • Navi dive is available if you beat Navi during the restricted items section

Jabu-Jabu + Dodongo's Cavern

• Hover Boots rolls behind waterfall into Zora's Domain
• [Hover Boots HESS to King Zora skip], enter Zora's Fountain
• Enter Jabu-Jabu as Adult
  • || || -- equip while buffering
• Shoot ceiling switch in first room
• Watch Ruto cutscene
• Follow Ruto down and bring her back up
  • If you need a fairy still, get the pot on the way by the Gold Skulltula on the vines
• Boomerang fight (with Bow)
• Open Boomerang chest
• Equip Hover Boots and equip swap Boomerang over Bow
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• Jabu "BK skip" with HESS
  • Alternatively blue switch without Ruto and go through normally, slightly slower
• Barinade with kill position for WW setup
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• [Jabu Wrong Warp (to King Dodongo)] + grab Heart Container for Fire Trial
  • Do not have FW equipped when doing the Wrong Warp, otherwise you can't use it in King Dodongo's room
  • You can also grab King Dodongo's Heart Container if you prefer, or both for 5 heart Fire Trial
    
    
• Bomb floor and get 5 Bomb chest
• King Dodongo
• Equip FW and Hook and do [FW Wrong Warp] to Silver Gauntlets
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Spirit Temple

• Silver Gauntlets cutscene
• HESS (or superslide) to the other hand
• Mirror Shield, immediately equip along with Kokiri Boots
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• Enter Spirit Temple from the hand
• Defeat the Iron Knuckle and go through the doors
• Kill the 4 Armos for bomb drops
• Mirror Shield the sun spot and open the door
  • Don't open the door until the Armos explode
• Key chest
• Return to collect bomb drops and go to next room
• Jump to switch, bomb Beamos, circle the room to hit the Anubis
• Enter next room (not the key door), farm the bomb pot for 16+ bombs
  • Farm by breaking the pot then reloading the room
• Statue climb + head clip BK skip
  • Ground clip backup for BK skip
    
    
• Nabooru fight + cutscene skip
• Twinrova
• Bomb OI cutscene skip (continue)
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• Return to FW point after magic meter fills up
• Mash to pause ASAP after warping
  • Savewarping while the FW "orb" is still onscreen keeps your warp point intact for later
• Savewarp
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• Light Arrows cutscene

Trials

• Go to Ganon's Castle
• Forest Trial: Get Quick Put-Away with a bomb before entering the trial, enter it then get broken deku stick to trigger the QPA effects, then get ISG using the hammer and equip hookshot on C-Left and Light Arrows on C-Right
• Light the torches and go to the next room, collect the rupees, complete the trial and head to Water Trial
• Water Trial: Clip through the ice using a Freezard, then hit the rusty floor switch with the hammer, complete the trial and head to Shadow Trial
• Shadow Trial: Equip bombs on C-Left then enter the trial (you can beat the Like-Like with a Light Arrows to be safer) then HESS to get on its platform
• Hit the rusty switch with the hammer, complete the trial and head to Fire Trial
• Fire Trial: Collect the rupees do the sidehop jumplash after torchslug
• HESS to the end of the trial after voiding out, unequip hover boots and equip fish, complete the trial and head to Light Trial
• Light Trial: Superslide through the golden gauntlets block and enter the trial (equip hookshot on C-Left)
• Beat every enemies and take the small key, head to the next room and OI to get the second key then head to the next room
• Collect every rupee then complete the trial and head to Spirit Trial
• Spirit Trial: Collect the rupees, use the LA to shoot an arrow through the torch in the next room (you shouldn't have enough magic to shoot a LA)
• Use the Mirror Shield on the correct sun switch then head to the final room, take the left pot then complete the trial and head to Ganon's Tower (take the right pot if you didn't get a lucky deku nuts drop earlier)
• Ganon's Tower: Equip Farore's Wind on C-Right, equip bombs on C-Down, warp back to LW then go to Kokiri Forest

Deku Tree & Collapse

• HESS to clip into the Deku Tree
• Hookshot the vine, equip nuts on C-Left and chu fish on C-Right before landing
• 231 skip, Gohma
• Use the door to reload the room (equip hookshot)
• Bomb OI on the blue warp to perform the Ganondoor (equip the hammer on C-Left on the correct bomb OI frame)
• Collapse skip, HESS to Zelda, double kiss (use the rock to superslide)
• Ganon Fight (use the hammer)
• Beat Ganon, restore peace in Hyrule, GG

Addenda

Early Fire Temple for extra bombs

This route assumes you do [Weirdshot Volvagia] or [Superslide Volvagia] both of which can be done with only 1 Bomb. Other strats, such as the 1-3-3 Bomb method, use more Bombs and do not leave enough for the next few segments.

In this route, you could take a detour just before the Lost Woods Restricted Items: enter Kokiri Forest and use the large grass patch near Saria's House to farm for more bombs. However, you can also do a minor re-route if you know that you will be using many bombs on Volvagia or Forest Temple:

• After Bolero cutscene skip, enter Fire Temple immediately. Because you can't equip swap Zelda's Letter, perform the [timestop method of Darunia cutscene skip] instead. Proceed as normal through Forest Medallion cutscene skip, then play Bolero of Fire and proceed with the Water Temple + FW segment, farming bombs in Lake Hylia grass patches before or after Water Temple. After Farore's Wind, play Bolero of Fire and continue as normal with the Lost Woods Restricted Items.

Appendix

Reference video

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