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Experimental Rando Race Rules

These are the latest experimental rules for the races hosted by isaac (usually on Sunday). They are currently used with a fork of the generator website while Hints are being developed and refined.

  • Generator site: http://trackerp.net
  • Settings string: f3s22Y2luv_yPJK6HA6BfTBfTBfTA4UV_7gk7w1F8S8ke6sAlrxVKmJt1We1DVPCwDiBlPpk2EY3KM9TjmwEugOf4IZGEIzZ3AnDi7V2eMlHJJJCacBeTX0BVoZG1AZrGxKjSJQi2XDHJsp43so2ktK5h33HvBqKt3Gofgl_

Rules and Settings​

Main Rules​

  • Take note of the following!
    • Item Pool - EVERYTHING
    • Small Keys - Keysy (all small keys doors automatically unlocked, including Snowpeak Ruins cheese and pumpkin)
    • Big Keys - KEYSANITY (can be found anywhere)
  • Standard
    • Hyrule Castle Requirements - 3 Fused Shadows
      • Rewarded for completing 3 dungeons (one from each dungeon). Check the sign outside Link's house at the start to see which 3 dungeons are required.
    • Palace of Twilight - never required
    • Faron Woods Logic - Open
    • Maps and Compasses - Start With

Excluded Checks (important)​

  • Take note of the following exclusions!
    • All Hyrule Castle checks
    • 8 Agitha checks (bugs for excluded checks not in item pool, so you can find 16 bugs)
    • Sphere 0 Poes (any you can logically access at the very start of the seed, 24 total)
    • All Desert area small chests (12 total)
  • Other exclusions:
    • Cave of Ordeals
    • Hidden Village
    • Trade Quest (Ilia Memory Quest)
    • Golden Wolves
    • Jovani 60 Poe Soul Reward
    • Iza "shoot the pots" minigame (Iza2)

Starting Inventory​

  • Take note of the following!
    • Zora Armor
    • 1 Progressive_Fishing_Rod
    • Only missing 1 Sky Character
  • Standard
    • Shadow Crystal
    • Horse Call
    • Gate Keys

Other​

  • Timesavers - everything but Increase Spinner Speed, Hyrule Castle Keysy, and Magic Armor costs 100 rupees
  • Additional Settings - everything but Trap (Foolish) Items
  • Dungeon Entrances:
    • Goron Mines - Open
    • Lakebed Temple requires Water Bombs to enter normally. You can clip into it without using Water Bombs if you want to though.
    • Arbiter's does NOT require Bulblin Camp.
    • Snowpeak requires Reekfish scent. Using map glitch to go through Snowpeak is BANNED.
    • Temple of Time - Open
    • City in the Sky requires you find 1 Sky Character.

Glitches/Tricks​

All allowed unless specifically banned.

  • Banned:
    • Back in Time
    • Big Key Skips
    • Iza Item Manipulation
    • Early Monkey Chain Room (entering room before Forest Temple boss without boomerang)
    • Hyrule Castle Required Item Skips (double clawshots, boomerang, spinner)
    • Skipping Reekfish Scent

Hints​

  • More info available on the Hints page.
  • View the hints on the Seed page in a tab next to Shared Settings.
  • For simulated in-game hints, you CANNOT view the hints before the race.
  • Hint distribution:
    • 2 Spirit of Light (zones you must visit to find a required item)
    • 2 Barren (zones you can skip)
    • 4 Always
      • Tells you the exact reward for certain checks.
      • Checks: Goron Springwater Rush, Iza Helping Hand, Lanayru Ice Block Puzzle Cave Chest, Snowpeak Icy Summit Poe
    • AgithaRewards
      • List of anything potentially useful which Agitha can give you.
    • Hinted Barren areas have junk hints.
    • The rest is filled with Sometimes hints.
    • First SpoL and Barren hint given to Midna. Remaining SpoL, Barren, and Always hints have 3 copies. Sometimes hints have 2 copies.

Rulings​

  • You are allowed to use Magic Armor with 0 rupees where you might use Iron Boots.
  • In Hyrule Castle, any method of hitting the switch in the room before the double Darknuts is allowed.

For a more detailed explanation, see the Detailed page.