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    Useful Links


detailed notes on locations of checks
map of the game
movement tech

STS Rules

seed settings:

Defeat All Evil
Key Items Anywhere
Save/Warp Rooms Unchanged
Retain Type
Enemy Drops: Chaos
Crafting / Shops / Quests: Shuffled
Glitchless

additional rules:

Wait at "press any button" screen for time start (miriam idling on the boat after loading game)
No suspending/quitting to title unless you softlocked (can't die/or get out of room etc)
No crafting Dimension shift
"No Glitches"

No kung fu climb (the one that gains infinite height)
No gale crawler iron maidens
No samurai slides
No out of bounds (in-bounds clips like gears or breakable walls is fine)


The Shape Of The Game

The bloodstained same-type-shuffle rando can be roughly broken into 7 chunks:

left side  (road to craftwork)
upstairs   (gebel)
right side (tower, library)
train      (choo chooooo)
downstairs (caverns, desert, inferno)
oriental   (pls no)
end        (giant, ice)

Typical Flow Of The Game

The flow of a run is roughly like this:


early game

do the left side starter loop to craftwork

farm purples for Dimension Shift (DS) and damage (aqua, tiz, rood...)
pick up key items and whites along the way for movement + zangetsuo


go to town

check crafting/shop/quests
on first visit, buy and plant a rice seed -- rice + hallite unlocks cheap 99 riceballs in shop
on last visit, sell crafting stuff and junk
buy as much hp/mp healing as you can for survivability and damage


midgame (very maleable, do what you like)

if you can go upstairs, do it

several key item checks are on the way, often zangetsuo
once you have zangetsuo, beat gebel


if you can't, go right side

tower has purples + keys
library has movement + books


or go train to hunt for DS
or go downstairs to hunt for DS
or go oriental for DS or zangetsuo


end game

ideal to put this off until DS, as you can skip the first boss with it
...but DS can be after the boss, and you need to traverse the area anyway
need decent build for final boss, doing more midgame to beef up can be faster than trying to force the final bosses


Primary Checklist

The following ""checklist"" uses the above chunking, and presents things in
roughly chronological order. Your main focus is 💜purples and 🗝️keys to
beat the game.
💙Blues are usually just trying to spike accelerator. Everyone seems to agree
to go for craftwork since it's on the path, gives levels + loot, and could technically
be a required vanilla craftwork shard to go right side. The two right side blues
are popular farms. Yellows are similarly nice to spike but not worth farming for.
🤍Whites are trying to get a form of flight for upstairs and endgame. Technically
completely skippable with early dimension shift, although having more jumps is
always good.
Along the way random checks for gear are worthwhile, especially to spike busted
accessories like gebel glasses. Don't worry about learning all the locations early,
that will come with experience.
The checklist has two columns. On the left is what you'd usually be going for on your
first visit (if you're doing that type of check still). On the right is stuff that
is technically there but isn't the focus, because it's slow (revenant) or other places are
better farms (why farm blood grinder knight in garden when it's faster in entrance).
💜 = purple shard (dimension shift, damage, aqua stream, reflector)

💙 = blue shard   (accelerator, craftwork)

🤍 = white shard  (jump, fly, swim)

🗝️ = key item     (zangetsuo, bromide, superboss keys)

✅ = required
⚔️ = boss

☠️ = deadly (save for later / desperation)

🔧 = crafting (johannes)
         normally going for                    technically also there

⬅️ left side (starter loop)
    🚢 galleon minerva
        🗝️ starter gear (first chest)
        💜 cannon morte
        🗝️ bottom of boat chest
    🏠 arvantville
        🗝️ talk to johanas                   💜🔧 tis raiff + diamond  
        💜 bone morte (5 tries)              💜🔧 fald ciu + dark matter
                                              💜🔧 riga storaema + ruby                                  
    🏰 (pre-garden) entrance
        💜 bone morte
    🪴 (left) garden of silence
        💜 plume parma (flying pig)          💜 barbatos (archer)
        💜 toad                              💜 blood grinder knight
                                              💜☠️ revenant (superboss)
    🏰 (post-garden) entrance
        💜 blood grinder knight
        💜 barbatos (archer)
    ⛪ (lower) dian cecht cathedral
        🤍 shortcut 1 (climbing to witch)
        🤍 shortcut 2 (if randomly red!)
        💜 ordog (red dog)
        💜 gargoyle
        💙⚔️ craftwork
        🗝️ safety zangetsuo (breakable floor in the path below craftwork)

⬆️ upstairs [flight or reflector]
    ⛪ (upper) dian cecht cathedral
        💜 leraje (elite archer)
        💜 shield outsider
        🗝️ chest before entrance to hall of termination (guarded by archdemon)
    🌙 hall of termination (top floor)
        🗝️ attic chests (before nightmare)
        💜 eight bit skull (☠️ to keep without waystone, but can suicide-check)
        ✅⚔️ [zangetsuo] kill gebel's wife

➡️ right side [flight or craftwork]
    🪴 (right) garden of silence
                                              💜 ordog (red dog)
    🐉 towers of the twin dragons
        💜 shield outsider                    💙 wolfman
        💜 celaeno (purple bird)
        💜⚔️ valac
        🗝️ bromide (gold chest)
    📖 livre ex machina
        🤍⚔️ andrealphus (double jump)       💙 rul'sha (whip demon) 
                                              💜⚔️ abyssal guardian (not guaranteed)

🎟️ train ride [bromide + library card]
    🚂 bridge of evil (train)          
        💜 assassin (ninja)                   💙 lili 
        💜⚔️ glutton train                    💜 celaeno (purple bird)
    🧪 underground sorcery lab
        💜 bomber morte                       💙 sidhe (fairy)
        💜⚔️ bathin
        
⬇️ downstairs ["swimming"]
    🌊 forbidden underground waterway
        💜 decabria (chained praying circle monster)
        💜 deeseama (squid)
    🐫 hidden desert
        💜 amy (ghost)                        🤍⚔️ alfred (deep sinker)
    🔮 secret sorcery lab
        💙⚔️ doppleganger
    🔥 inferno cave [invert, deep sinker + reflector, or dimension shift]
        💜 volcano morte                      🤍⚔️ probas (invert)

🏯 oriental sorcery lab
        💜 haagenti (golden cow)             💜☠️ master carpenter (superboss)
        💜 kamikaze (white cat)              💜 demon lord (carpenter summons)
        🗝️⚔️ zangetsu 2

🌕 end game [kill gebel with zangetsuo]
    🆙 den of giants
        🗝️ chest atop first big room (can't be zangetsuo)
        💜 abyssal guardian (dragon)          💙 silver wolfman
        💜⚔️ valefar                          💙 harrier (race)
    ❄️ glacial tomb
        🗝️ chest guarded by gusion canon (can't be zangetsuo)
        💜 demon lord                         💙☠️ orlok dracule (superboss)
        💜⚔️ gremory
        ✅⚔️ [dimension shift] FINAL BOSS