Definitely should be a separate category. The way it's being taken advantage of, that would make the biggest difference between the separate categories, is checking if you have enough base materials(like dirt etc.) to craft items that you didn't have time to collect. In almost all my runs, maybe all of them, at some point I opened my crafting menu and calculated whether I have enough base materials to craft extra stuff. It's especially noticeable at the end of the runs, where I need to make sure I have enough screws, gold and diamonds to complete the game as it takes extremely long per trip down to the depths.

The only issue that I see, is that because it's a flash game that hasn't been ported to HTML5, the speed of the game is dependent on fps(Game gets slower than 100% speed if fps is low. Doesn't speed up if fps is high), which is a big issue because it's a flash game. Unfortunately it doesn't matter what hardware you have, there will always be issues with fps. You can somewhat see it on my runs, how it's choppy and jumpy, even though I'm running it on a 980Ti gpu and Ryzen 3600 cpu. I've tried searching for way to fix it, but to no avail. The only way to run the game is on an emulator, and there are (I think?) only 2 commonly available. I've tried both, and same performance issues. And ofc I tried turning on hardware acceleration in the games settings haha.

And while there is a discussion about stuff lol, maybe you noticed or not, there is a glitch being used in the top glitchless runs. It's when you take off your helmet underwater while in the menu, to die/respawn at the ship quicker. The game starts slowly killing you like usual if you're deep enough, but the in game timer is not running. (You can check the top glitchless run at 19:52)When I took over as moderator because the other person was inactive, the top run was using this technique already, so I used it in all my runs too. Should this be allowed??

And lmk if you're interesting in doing some runs, I can make a guide on my runs and how I improved on the previous best strats.