Hey, good post and holy batman, you did some research. Reminder that I've updated the route a little bit, but not ginourmous ever since the PB. My PB is actually 8 seconds faster, but no vid no did :(

Few things to note about it: All dodo's disappear when you turn in the kill the dodo's quest. That's why it's routed like it is now. I've never tried the inverse, however.

I'm purposefully not getting the hourglass at the start, because the bookcase is really crammed into that space. So if you mess up, good luck finding the hourglass. So I'm just waiting until it's highlighted by accepting the quest. Doing the soda quest later though is something I should do instead. I totally didn't think about the starting barrel. Big dumdum FrankerZ

I actually tried routing in 1 visit to Twistram, but the DEMONMASTERLORDOFDESTRUCTIONKILLER item doesn't spawn if you don't have the quest active, so 2 visits are needed. It does fit in with a mandatory 2 visits to the elf-city. There definitely is some truth in not getting the rest. I think this is a remnant of early routing.

Rich guy in money talks is soething I started doing already, just not in the vid.

I'll check out the butter spawn later, but seems interesting.

The route for Wizard Ascension is changed a little bit, since there's so many stuff in the bank. Because you need to accept the quest first, I feel like ending with him is hard to do fast. So going back after the pet ant is not too bad IMO.

I saw that you joined the discord, we could continue there. I Might actually boot the game up and see what's what.

Whoops, I just accidentally deleted the post... hrm.. welp... don't suppose there's a way to recover it on your end?

Was coming back in to say what you mentioned about the demon horn. Didn't realize it required the quest to spawn. Definitely throws off my "one Twistram visit", sadly.

The inverse dodo setup does seem to work, but it's going to make the route pretty different. I'll have to test some stuff out before going into detail again.

As for the butter: I mistakenly said it was in the first treehouse, but it's the 2nd.. where the dirge is. The downside is going to be that that room is already a glitchfest with lots of potential to lose the dirge or the hourglass.

EDIT Oh and it looks like "The Mermaid" sort of needs to be picked up first. I say sort of because you can just drop Ariel and pick her back up, but that wastes quite a bit of time.

Here's the current WIP route: https://pastebin.com/s50caGFr