In recent developments, the Starbound Speedrunning Community has discovered a series of glitches relating to the buggy behavior of the Barrier ability on the Ferozium Staff. Specifically, this glitch involves breaking the collision of doors designed to stay closed until completing a certain action or activating a trigger. As a brief disclaimer, the Individual Run speedruns rely on you getting to the teleporter at the end of the mission as fast as possible. That said, this only works in very selective areas, so here's a list of notable locations where this can be used effectively to bypass much of the level or save time in a speedrun...

The video below is to help you understand how this glitch works, while the text and the guide itself is for reading in-game.

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-===-===-===-===-===-===- TYPES OF BARRIER CLIPS:

• (Default) Barrier Clip - Allows you to bypass all one block wide doors and walls when your character is on flat, solid ground. This is the clip that will be mentioned unless the other advanced methods are explicitly named.
• Advanced Barrier Clip - Allows you to bypass most two block wide doors given the conditions of terrain around the door. The "Blink Explosion" special ability for Spears and Broadswords is used after specific placement of the barrier. A jump is required to make it through the door after blink explosion is activated.
• Erchius Barrier Clip - This unique clip is used just for the final door in the Erchius Mining Facility that divides the Erchius Horror from the teleporter. You have to position the barrier high, use a broadsword with "Rising Slash" to get stuck in the barrier, and then utilize the blink explosion to get through the door. This is hard to explain, so be sure to see the video at 2:45 for a better visualization. -===-===-===-===-===-===- The Great Sovereign Temple:

Come to the first one-block wide portcullis. The trigger to open it is actually up and to the right of the door. To reach it, you must move up and through the tunnel switchbacks before finally reaching it. We can skip this entirely. Move up against the door and position the cursor a little below the middle of your character model and to the left a few blocks. This is better seen on camera or in video as a reference, so go check it out if you need a bit of help with positioning. Once you get the first barrier clip successful, don't move your mouse, and perform it two more times on the adjacent doors. You will find yourself in the next room without having to wait for Tonauac to open the tunnels or the doors manually.

The following skip is for a bit of lore that you can obtain rather quickly without any real consequences. A single-wide portcullis is found right above the first appearing laser maze. Clip through it, and you'll find the tomb where the lore book lies.

When you eventually get to the room with scorpion spawners on both sides of a Kluex Sentry, don't even bother destroying the Kluex Sentry. Doing so would initiate Tonauac's next set of dialogue in the mission, but we don't care about him because... oh wait, there's a single-wide portcullis right under his dropdown zone. Perform the clip, except this time on the left side instead of the right.

-===-===-===-===-===-===- The Miniknog Stronghold:

Spoilers, this mission gets destroyed by the barrier clip.

When you approach the beginning of the mission, you receive some dialogue from Lana Blake in the tower gate. Reading through this is completely optional, however, as the two doors right below her can be clipped through. Although getting through them puts you on the front lines, you avoid the entire sewer part of the mission, effectively skipping three quarters of the mission. The other quarter is the boss.

After the boss, you will be in this underground room with the teleporter behind a door to the right. Lana Blake normally will go through some dialogue as you get the artifact, but if you aren't there for the artifact, then get out of there! Easy as that. The door to the teleporter is just as easy to clip through.

-===-===-===-===-===-===- The Baron's Keep:

This ENTIRE mission revolves on what little stage there is being used as a battleground for fending off waves of cultists, and just when you think it's over, a bone dragon comes to ruin your day.

Well, you would experience that if you cared about the glitch artifact.

The two doors to the left where the teleporter is can simply be clipped through. I personally have achieved a time of less than ten seconds. This mission is the only one that can be completed in less than ten seconds with the exception of the minibosses.

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Play the mission until you reach the first Moontant with a hammer and the checkpoint off to the left in the bunker building. Open the latch, defeat the Moontant, and only one door remains. Use an Advanced Barrier Clip as mentioned before, and it should save you time, especially if you don't have a great deal of speed items equipped.

Once you inevitably reach the boss room, don't jump through the platforms in the room. Instead, travel a little ways right and the final door will stand in the way of the teleporter. Perform the "Erchius Barrier Clip" to reach the other side. This is done because the Advanced Barrier Clip will not work on platforms as you will just trap yourself. By performing the glitch in a raised position, you are eliminating the platform variable, and you're free to clip through the door because of this. See the video at 2:45 for a better idea of what you need to do to accomplish this clip. Essentially, you will be skipping the Erchius Horror boss fight.

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This glitch doesn't concern the rest of the missions not mentioned. I will gladly update this guide if new evidence shows that there are new skips and clips in the aforementioned missions.

Huge thanks to Octopoda for finding this glitch, and SpeediestMoon1 for taking it to the limit.