Ladder Storage (LS)
Unrestricted

Allows you to ignore any boundaries and gravity.

How To LS

  1. Face a ladder so that it is interactable.
  2. Press your interact key and your stick/sword at the same time.
  3. Immediately mash roll (direction + A) while the attack animation is playing.
  4. If done correctly, you'll roll away and be able to walk off edges.

Important to Know

  • When you transition to a new scene, you MUST pause, quit, and continue.
  • If you let go of run at any time, you will snap back to the ladder, UNLESS
  • You can maintain LS by constantly mashing attack.
  • If you are damaged during LS, you will fall out of it.
NOTE: It may be easier to bind your interact and item keys to a single input. This is allowed and is usually done in Steam's controller settings.

Free Bomb
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

One (1) free firecracker per save.

Free Fire Bomb
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

One (1) free fire bomb per save.

Free Ice Bomb
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

One (1) free ice bomb per save.

Magic Heal
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

Heal a good bit of health for 16 mana.

Best Friend
Unrestricted NMG

Presents your best friend to the camera. Cancels animations.

Ice Beam / Ice Rod Cancel (IRC)
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

Fires the wand and dagger simultaneously to get an ice beam.

NOTE: It is basically required to bind two item keys to a single input, as this tech will be used repeatedly. This is allowed and is usually done in Steam's controller settings.
While the ice beam is allowed in Restricted for combat, it is NOT ALLOWED for any instances of skipping cutscenes in that ruleset.

How To Ice Beam

  1. For most cases, you want the dagger on the middle item slot and the wand on the right item slot.
  2. Without a keybind, your window is 1/15th of a second to press both.

Important to Know

  • This is a normal in-game mechanic; however, it also cancels all animations, allowing you to start moving again much sooner than you would otherwise.
  • It can also move you through the air during a freefall.

Ice Grapple
Unrestricted NMG

Travel in style and clip through objects.

Ice-grappling is just freezing an enemy (typically with ice beam) and immediately grappling to them with the orb. This uses a lot of mana, so be sure to activate the speedrunner code first.

You can queue the orb while the ice-beam is activating; give it a try!
This is not allowed in the Restricted ruleset, except in the 100% category for a single required treasure.

Speedrunner Code
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

Reduce the cost of ice beam from 4 mana to just 1

RULDDRULU

Ice Combo
Unrestricted NMG Restricted

Juggle an enemy for as long as you have mana

Fighting

  1. Ice-beam the enemy, do a quick 1-2 combo with the sword.
  2. Repeat step 2 until enemy is dead or you are running out of mana.

Refueling

  1. Ice-beam the enemy.
  2. Quickly open your menu, swap an item with a mana berry, and close the menu.
  3. Eat the mana berry.
  4. Open menu, swap back, close menu.
  5. Wait until the enemy is vibrating slightly (about to break out of freeze) and begin the fighting combo again.

Wake-Up Dash Sequence
Restricted

Using Laurels to start moving during the opening cutscene of the Dark World.

Note: I use the D-Pad, mapped to WASD, exclusively for movement, unless otherwise stated.

  1. As the opening scene is playing, start the next series of inputs when you see the Overworld save statue.
  2. Dashes: Up, Up, Left, Right, Up, Up, Left, Up
  3. These should be input in a slightly-slow manner, slightly faster than once a second.
  4. View the video below: an input viewer is displayed in the bottom-right corner. You may see extra dash inputs, but you should reply on the sound of the dashing (sometimes the dashes don't trigger).
  5. If done at a reasonable pace, you should be able to angle NNW with the analog stick and warp or continue dashing.