All Quests Route Guide

[center]**[big][big]Jade Empire[/big]
 
All Quests Guide v1.0[/big]**[/center]
 
[center]Route by R4NG3 and Thirstywraith[/center]
 
[center]Guide by R4NG3[/center]

[Section=Guide Overview]

***Introduction to AQ
---------------------------***
This game is good and there's a lot of fun sidequests that never get completed in the any% route. This game is a nostalgia blast for me and I've always enjoyed long speedruns, so decided to give it a go. So in this route we'll do all the sidequests, most of which are located in chapter 2 and 3. 

***Guide Key
---------------------------***
- A dash will represent any basic gameplay action, deemed as important enough to be written about.
--- Three dashes will serve to explain about the line previous in more detail
¤ This symbol will represent a trick/glitch/or skip to be performed
--¤ More information about the previous glitch
> A greater than sign will represent a level up
--> More info about previous level up
} This symbol will be used to express a Gem equip
--} More detail about previous Gem equip

[Section=Route Overview]
The quests with alignment requirements are huge in shaping the decision making in this route. We end up going closed fist because it's faster than open palm. 

[Section=Detailed Route]
[Section=Chapter 1]

***Chapter 1
---------------------------***


**Two Rivers:**
- Jing Woo training
-- Clear popup
- Enter Master Li's House
- Mash Master Li
- Destroy the Lion Statue Altar: 1,2
-- Completes "The Lions of Two Rivers"
- Open School Gate
- Mash Gao/Dawn Star
- Enter Town

**Town:**
- Mash bandits
- Kill bandits
- Run to Gujin
-- Fortune's Favorite
- Switch to FF after combat starts
- Kill bandits in town
- Mash townsperson
- Run to beach
- Mash cutscene
- FF on first and second bandit groups
- WD on ghosts
- Mash cutscene
- Clear popup
> Level up
-> Mana 5, Chi 9
--> WD 2 dmg/1 sp. FF 2 dmg/2FCR
- Dawn Star: 3
- Run back to school

**School 2:**
- Kia Min: 1,1,1,4,4
-- Adds: "Kia Min"
- Run back to town

**Town 2:**
- Run to beach
- Give Villager in debt a talking to: 1,1,3,1
-- Completes "An Unfortunate Debt"
- Ni'joh: ???
-- Alignment to 125
- Talk to Old Man Ling: 2,2,1,1,2,5
-- Alignment to 123
- Merchant Fen Do: 3,1,2,2,1,4

**School 3:**
- Kia Min: 1,2,4
-- Alignment to 121
- Smiling Mountain: 2,1
-- Fight the students
-- Completes: "Kia Min"
-- Alignment to 119
- Taunt Kia: 2
-- Alignment to 117
- Master Li: 1,1,2
- Fight Gao
- Master Li

**Spirit Cave:**
- Open gate
- Interact with Pillar
} Equip Gem
- Fight Ghosts WD
- Open gate
- Mash Water Dragon
- Ghosts
- Loot Chest
-- Adds "Iron Palm"
- Enter Portal

**School 4:**
- Master Li: 1,1,1,1,3,1
-- Alignment to 115
- Run to Town

**Town 4:**
- Be rude to townspeople: 3,3
-- Alignment to 113
- Run up stairs
- Intimidate Gao's Thugs to run away: 3
- Guard yung for evil: 2,1,1 ???
- Enter Swamp

**Swamp:**
- Fight bandits
- Merchant Hing: 2
-- Alignment to 111
-- Adds "Flower of the Fields"
> Level up to 3
-> Attributes ???
--> FF dmg, spd
- Recruit Sagacious Zu
- Toggle Zu to Support
- Run to the right path Northeast
- Kill Bandits
- Hing/Fen/Wife: 3,1
-- Alignment to 111
-- Completes "Flower of the Fields"
- Continue north and around
- Fight Gao's thugs near Flyer
- Gao's thug: 1,1,1,1,2
-- Alignment to 107
- Enter Cave

**Cave:**
- Run forward
- Mash cutscene
- Run in middle and avoid the Ogres
- FF on Toad Demon
- Mash Gao/Dawn Star
- Kill Gao
--194 silver
- Dawn Star: 3
-- Alignment to 105
- Exit cave: 1,3
- Mash followers
- Fail mini-game and disengage

**School 5:**
- Mash
-- Adds "The Burning Town"
- Gems when? probably next level up???
- Gao's thugs
- Kia Min dies
-- Alignment to 101
- Mash
- Kill the rest of Gao's Men
- RIP Jing Woo
- Followers
- Evade flyers

[Section=Chapter 2]

***Chapter 2
---------------------------***

**Crash Site:**
- Followers
-- Recieve: "Picking up the Pieces"
> Level to 4
-> Balanced???
--> WD Dmg/Spd?
¤ Skip Ghosts
- Cutscene
- Run up hill
- Fight Bandits - FF
- Silk Fox - FF
- Mash Silk Fox
-- Recieve: "A Woman in Black"
- Enter Tien's Landing

**Tien's Landing 1:**
- Followers
- Fiyao/Daughter: 1,1,1,5
-- Recieve: "The Great Dam"
-- Recieve: "Find a New Flyer"
-- Completes: "Picking Up the Pieces"
- Fight Sailors outside Teahouse
- Hui
-- Recieve: "Hui the Brave"
- Seamstress Lan: 1,2
-- Recieve: "The Beaten Baker"
- Shake down Gufu: 1,2,4,1,3
-- Alignment to 97
- Merchant Cheung: 1,1,3
-- Recieve: "Stolen Momento"
- Minister Sheng
- Wine Merchant: 1,1,1,1,4
- Baker Bei: 1,1,1,1,5
- Captain Ing: 1,2,2,1
-- Recieved: "Trapped"
- Go to the Dam
- Followers at camp site

**Dam Site:**
- Fight Guards
- Guard: 1,3
-- Alignment to 94
- Loot "Zither of Discord" quest item from Guard hut
- Enter Ruin Gate

**Ruins:**
- Cutscene Mash
- FF Guards
- Loot Chest for Dragon Powder
- Rat Demon: 1,2,2,2
-- Alignment: 92
-- Recieve: "Gems in the Quarry"
- Blow up Soldiers
¤ Skip ghost fight
- Enter Quarry

**Quarry:**
- WD Ghosts
- Strangler Jizou: 3
- Ghost after: 1,1,1,3
-- Alignment 90
-- Completes: "Gems in the Quarry"
- Ghost Girl: 1,3,3
-- Alignment to 88
- Ghost Girl: 2,2
- Break Pillars
-- Alignment to 94
-- Completes "Stranded Orphan Girl"
- Exit

**Ruins 2:**
- Rat Demons
- Ghost Orphans: 1,1,1,1,1,1,4
-- Recieved: "The Drowned Orphans"
- Exit

**Tien's Landing 2:"
- Enter Teahouse
- Sailor fight
- Hui: 1,1,1,4
-- Completes: "Hui the Brave"
- Old Mother Kwan: 1,1,2
-- Recieve: "Old Mother Kwan"
- Steeper Yanru: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,1,4
- Three Sheets Dutong: 1,2,1,2
-- Completes: "Old Mother Kwan"
-- Alignment to 92
- Ru Cutscene: 1,1,1,1,1,3
- Dong Ping: 1,1,1
- Zhong: 3,3,3,4
-- "Completes: Zhong the Ox Carrier"
-- Alignment to 90
- Murder Chef: 1,2,1,1,3,1,2,1,1,2,
-- Alignment to 87
- Loot Chef
-- Alignment to 85
- Kindly Yushan

**Ruins:**
- Orphans: 2
-- Completes "The Drowned Orphans"
-- Alignment to 82
- Kill Guard
- Lower bridge
- Water Dragon: 3

**Dam Site:**
- Chai Ka after fight: 1x9,2
- Golems: 2
- Destroy Dam: 2,1 
-- Completes: "The Great Dam"
-- Alignment to 79
- Kill Lotus Assassin/Guards
- Lower Bridge
- Silk Fox
- Enter Tien's Landing

**Tien's Landing 3:**
- Run to Beggar's Pier
- Captain Ing cutscene
-- Completes: "Trapped"
- Talk to Merchant Jiang: 1,1,3
-- Completes: "The Great Dam"
- Ru the Boatswain: 2

**Pirate Camp**
- Cutscene
- Pirate Cheung
- Pull Rope| 4
-- Alignment to 76
¤ Skip pirate fight
- Sky fight
- Sky
- Yifong
-- Recieved: "Yifong and Fuyao"
- Open the door
¤ Skip pirate fight
-¤ Note: Probably don't skip on console
- Mash Cutscene
- Pirates: FF
- Kang: 1,1,1,1,1,2
- Run up ramp
- Fight Pirates
- Fight Slave Breaker and Guards
- Fuyao
-- Completes: "Yifong and Fuyao"
-- Alignment to 82
- Continue up the base
- Mash Pirates then fight
- Enter Workshop
- Fight Demons
- Fight Pirates
- Continue up
- Gao the Greater
- Sky
- Loot Zither Case from right chest
- Kang: 1,2
- Evade

**Tien's Landing 4:**
- Followers: 1,1,3
- Scholar Six Heavens: 1,1,1,4
- Tong: 2,3
- Merchant Cheung
-- Completes: "A Stolen Momento"
-- Alignment to 86
- Exit to forest

**Forest 1:**
- Don't Skip the first fight
- Lord Yun
¤ Skip fight
- Bladed Theses: 1,1,1,1,1,4
- Ghosts: 1,1,2
- Bladed Theses: 1,1,2,1spam
¤ Glitch complete twice for extra closed fist
-- Completes: "The Zither of Discord"
-- Completes: "The Test of the Closed Fist"
-- Alignment to 76
- Bridge cutscene
¤ Skip fight
¤ Skip fight
- Enter Inn

**Pilgrim's Rest Inn:**
- Fight Ghosts
} Equip Gem of Purpose / Bronze Tongue / Good Fortune
- Innkeeper: 1,1,1,1,1,2,1spam
-- Recieved: "Fox Hunt"
- Exit Inn

**Forest 2:**
- Run to Temple
- Black Whirlwind: Leave Zu in party
- Pedestal
- Switch 1
- Switch 2
- Blue switch
- Red Switch
- Pedestal
- Enter Heaven

**Heaven:**
- Zin Bu
- Fight Demons as you run up hill
- Fox Spirit: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1 | Water Dragon Cutscene
- Fox: 1,4,2,
-- Alignment to 74
- Kill Forest Shadow
-- Completes: "Fox Hunt"
-- Alignment to 71

**Forest 3:**
- Innkeeper: 1,1,1,3,1spam
-- Completes: "Cannibals in the Inn"
- Drunken Style Training
- Return to Tien's Landing
- Lim Fight
} Superior Monk Gem / Gem of Earth Power ???
- Lord Yun: 1,1,3,1,1
-- Completes: "The Sickened Forest"
-- Alignment to 68
- Buy items ???
- Exit Forest

**Tien's Landing 5:**
- Jian/Vo
- Jian: 1,2 | Fight | 1spam
-- Completes: "An Ancient Game"
- Boathouse Guard
- Ai Ling
- Ai Ling/Lan/Bei
-- Completes: "The Beaten Baker"
- Ai Ling: 1,1,1,4
-- Recieved: "Matchmaker"
- Exit
- Big Tian
- Ai Ling: 1,3,1
-- Completes: "Matchmaker"
- Followers
- Kang
- Evade

[Section=Chapter 3]
***Chapter 3
---------------------------***

**Market District 1:""
- Guards/Silk Fox
- Mash Lotus Assassin
- Captain Sen: 1,1,1,1,3,4
-- Adds "Creative Yukong's Bounty"
-- Adds "Fading Moon's Bounty"
- Enter the Golden Way

**The Golden Way 1:**
- Guard: 1,4
- Enter The Necropolis

**The Necropolis 1:**
- Use Dawn Star Support
- Cutscene - fight
- Shen: 1,1,5
-- Adds "The First Gravedigger"
- Run South
- Ren Chan: 3 | Fight
¤ Lost Spirit fight skip
- Merchant Bai: 3
- Run up stairs to East
- Fading Moon
- Miss Chan: 3,3
- Mad Wen Chi
-- Adds "The Mad Scientist"
- Ghost fight/skip if you can
- Gravekeeper Shen
- Kill Ghost
- Shen
- Shen: 2,1,1,3
-- Completes "The First Gravekeeper"
-- Completes "Vengeful/Mournful/Fearful Ghost"
-- Adds "The Tanner's Fong"
- Leave

**The Golden Way 2:**
- Peasant insults you
-- Adds "The Outlander"
- Enter the Scholar's Garden

**The Scholar's Garden 1:**
- Silk Fox
-- Adds "The Inquisitors"
-- Adds "The Executioners"
- Scholar Dongow
- Outlander Cutscene: 3
- Sir Roderick
- Debate: 1,3,4, spam
- Fight
- Sir Roderick
- Minister of Culture: 1 for gold, 3 for quick
-- Completes: "The Outlander"
- Add Skye
- Scholar Kongyu

**Market District 2:**
- Captain Sen: 2,1,3
-- Completes "Creative Yukong's Bounty"
-- Completes "Fading Moon's Bounty"
- Old Guy: 2,1,4
-- Adds "Aishi The Mournful Blade"
- Return to Flyer
- Lotus Assassin/Party dialogue
- Mechanic Hin Goon
- Fail mini game
-- Completes "Mechanic Hin Goon"
- Y. Tanner Fong: 3
- O. Tanner Fong
- Blacksmith Shop: get sword
- Prefect Jitong: 1,1,5
-- Adds "The Slave Traders"


**BLS TEST:**
- Students bicker
- Student fight
- First Brother Kai Mash
-- Adds "The Black Leapord School"
- Aishi: 1,1,2
- 6th Brother Gaoshan
- 5th Brother Shangjin
- 4th Brother Yu
- 3rd Brother
- Master Smiling Hawk: 1,1,1,3,3
- 1st Brother
- Mash->Kill Students->Mash->WD Master Radiant
- Master Smiling Hawk
-- Completes: "The Black Leapord School"
- Leave
- Enter the Arena

**Imperial Arena 1:**
- Lucky Cho cutscene mash
- Lotus Executioner mash
- Gentle Breezes
- Promoter Qui
- QF1: Ogre | Mash
- QF2: 4 students | Walk backwards strat
- QF3: Dragon Statue | Mash
- QF4: Hapless Han 
- Qui: 1,2,1SPAM
- BF1: Cannibals | Mash
- BF2: Autoscroller | Mash
- BF3: Toad Demon
- Lucky Cho
-- Adds "A Bronzed Opportunity"
- Lucky Cho: 1,1,1,1,1,4
- Promoter Qui
- BF4: Crimson Khana 
-- Completes: "A Bronzed Opportunity"
- SF1: Elephant Demon
- Guard
- The Serpent
- Black Whirlwind/Fight/BW
- SF2: 4 humans
- SF3: 3 Golems
-- Adds "Soldier's Offer"
- Guards
- Fang
- Doashan: 1,1,1,1,3
-- Adds "The Gambler's Fortune"
- Zi Bao: 1,2,3
- Fight/Mash/Fight
- Iron Soldier: 1,1,4
-- Completes "Soldier's Offer"
- Sweet Poison Lyn: 1,1,3
- SF4: Iron Soldier
- GF1: Phoenix Unity
- GF2: 3 Sung Brothers
- Qui: 1,3,1
- GF3: Imp Engagement
- Qui: 1,1,2
- GF4: Ravager
- Kai Lan: 1,2,2
- Qui
- Final Fight: Kai Lan
- Qui/Guild representative: ends in 2,1
-- Completes: "The Imperial Arena"
- Iron Palm Scroll added
-- Completes: "Iron Palm"
- Lotus Executioner
-- Completes "The Executioners"
- Doashan: 1,3
-- Completes "The Gambler's Favour"
- Exit Arena / Teleport to Market District

**Market District 3:**
- Lotus Inquisitor/Party
-- Completes "The Inquisitors"
-- Adds "Infiltrate the LA Fortress"
-- Adds "The Emperor and the Assassins"
- Captain Sen
-- Completes "Aishi the Mournful Blade"
- Jinlin: 1,1,2,1,2
-- Adds "Jinlin"
- Prefect Ji Tong
-- Completes "The Slave Traders"
- Enter The Golden Way

**Golden Way 2:**
- Incisive Chorus: 1,1,1,1,3
-- Adds "The Play's the Thing"
- Producer
- Play 1spam
- Incisive Chorus
-- Completes "The Play's the Thing"
- Enter The Necropolis

**Necropolis 2:**
- Run south
- Gravekeeper Shen: 2,1spam
-- Completes "The Tanner Fong"
- Jinlin
¤ Skip both mummy fights
- Big Ghost fight
-- Use focus liberally
¤ Skip both fights on way out
- Jinlin
-- Completes "Jinlin"
- Go to Tomb of Ji Xin: Mash
- Mad Wen Zhi
-- Completes "The Scientist"
¤ Lost Spirit skip/fight
- Run to LA Fortress (North East)
- Enter Trap Door

**Lotus Assassin Fortress 1:**
- The Watcher: 2
- Acolyte fight
- Master Gang
- Descend to Lower Chamber Door
- Gang
- Run West and fight the ghosts
- Gang: ends in 2
-- Adds "Kill Master Shin"
-- Adds "Create a Spirit Shard"
- Zu Cutscene
- Go Rin: 1,3
- Soul Extractor Controller: 4
- Zeng Fai
- Loot Coffin near Zeng Fai
- Kill LA Go Rin
- Golem Spirit Shard
-- Completes "Create a Spirit Shard"
- Use Terminal again
- Exit North to cutscene
- Fortune's Favorite on Acolytes
- Run East to Golem Press Room/Cutscene
- Run North to bridge
- Lotus Acolyte Shi
- Gang: 1,1,1,3
- Lotus Acolyte Shi
- Run south to upper chamber
- Mold Master Gi
- Merchiant Kia Jong
- Acolyte cutscene
- FF Acolytes
- Run south up stairs and return to Necropolis

**Necropolis 3:**
- Run south to cutscene
- Slave Drivers: 1,2,1
- Return to Lotus Assassin Fortress

**Lotus Assasin Fortress 2:**
- Master Shin Fight
- Golem Press Room
- Master Gang
-- Completes "Kill Master Shin"
- Zu
- Gang
- Jia
- Gang/Golem Fight
- Jia fight
- Sword the humanoids/golems
- Run SE up out of the Lair
- Continue running south and out of the Fortress
-- Completes "Infilitrate the Lotus Assassin's Fortress"

**Necropolis 4:**
- Fight your way out of the necropolis

**Market District:**
- Party: 1,1,1,2
- Evade flyers

[Section=Chapter 4]

**Imperial Palace:**
-- Adds "The Height of Power"
- FF Imperial Soldiers
- Enter elevator thing
- Exit East
- Run SE using FF on Guards
- Enter the Palace room
- FF all the humanoids
- Horse demon Lotus Assassin Masters
- HD Emperor 1
- WD Emperor 2
- THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL POGGERS

[Section=Chapter 5]

Spirit World:
- Move North and loot skeleton
> Level Up
--- Balanced/Done
--- Horse Demon
- HD Ghost Lord
- WD Lost Spirit
- Ghost cutscene
- Run SW
- DS Demons
- Spirit Monk Ghost CS Mash
- Run across bridge and mash
- HD the betrayers/Xian Wu/WD when out of mana
- Mash Spirit/Close Gem
- Interact with Jade fountain/Cutscene plays/Mash Spirit Monk
- Run to temple/Mash more Dialogues
**Dirge-Inner Temple**
- Spirit Monk Cutscene
- Run East
- DS on Horse Demons
- Run up stairs/Sword on demons
- HD the Minion of Suffering
- Run backwards before cutscene triggers or something
- Spirit monk mash
- Run backwards

**Dirge-Outer Temple**

- Run back down stairs
- DS Horse Demons
- Water Dragon Mash
- Run to Dirge - Temple Courtyard
**Dirge - Temple Courtyard**
- Spirit Monk
- Run NW to get Gem of Power
- Fight Red Minister/Lost Spirits
-- Completes "Gem of Power"
- Run past fighting north to temple doors
**Dirge - Temple:**
- Cutscene
- HD on your clones
- Get resurrected

[Section=Chapter 6]

**Chapter 6:**

**Imperial Palace:**
- Run south
- Cutscene
- Heavenly Wave the crystal thing
- Run East and then south down the stairs
- WD on Imp. City Ghosts
- New Chapter Begins
- Run south then west to your party members
- Party member conversation
- Go retire at tent
- Sword on student spirits/ghosts 
- Snowy cutscene/Sky returns
- Run to the bridge minigame
- Bridge autoscroller
- Bridge Explodes
- Run NW as Silk Fox to the Inner Courtyard

**Dirge - Inner Courtyard:**

- Kill the golem/lotus assassins as Black Whirlwind
- Run up the stairs
- Mash Sky/Deahth's Hand cutscene
- Horse Demon Death's Hand 
- Difficulty to max and die from death's hand
- Cutscenes/Mashing

[Section=Chapter 7]

**Chapter 7:**

- Talk to Kang

**Imperial Palace:**

- Run North
- Sword on Lotus Elite
- Run North
- Cutscene/Mash on elevator
- Run NW to LZ
- Water Dragon cutscene
- NE to door
- Dragon sword on humanoids
- Party member mashing
- Water Spirit cutscene
- Run back SW to party member mash
- Run East to throne room
- Master Li fight
--- HD Elephant Constructs
- Select the option to side with Master Li. 
-- If you accidentally fight him, use horse demon to finish him off.

JadeEmpire.ini Reference

# JadeEmpire.ini Reference

On PC, there are some customizations which are useful to players but are not
adjustable within the game itself. Some distributions of Jade Empire (e.g.
Steam, GOG) come with the JadeEmpireConfig.exe tool which lets you adjust
(some) of these parameters. It's just a GUI for the actual configuration file,
which is a plain text file called JadeEmpire.ini.

The following modifications are permitted to be active during your speedrun,
which may require manually editing JadeEmpire.ini directly.

```
[Render]
NoIntros=1
NoMovies=1
Windowed=1
```

'NoIntros' brings you to the main menu quicker when launching Jade Empire.
This is purely a convenience for the player; it should not affect normal
gameplay.

'NoMovies' skips the FMV sequences entirely. Ordinarily, these are not
skippable unless you have already completed the game at least once.

You may change 'Windowed' to suit your preference: set it to '1' to play in a
window, or '0' to play fullscreen.

Name	Author
All Quests Route Guide	R4NG3 2 years ago
JadeEmpire.ini Reference	dressupgeekout 1 year ago