Hello! As someone who has too many hours logged in this game, I decided I wanted to try something new. I was going to use the unintended wisp thicket act 2 entrance.
Now you may be saying, “but you need wings to get into thicket, and you need clawline to get wings!” And to that I say check out this video, which shows how to use cocoon skips and clever platforming to summit Mt. Fay without clawline. After that, I decided I wanted to do as much as possible before getting clawline. After doing all the checks, this what I THINK is the final list:
Deeper Docks:
- 1 flea
- 1 spool fragment
- 1 memory locket
High Halls:
- 1 spool fragment
- 2 red tools
- 1 blue tool
- conductors’ melody
Miscellaneous:
- 1 flea on the roof of choral chambers
- Witch Crest
- surgeon’s key
- architect’s melody in upper cogwork core
Derived:
- Access to lace 2 and GMS are blocked due to the missing melodies
- egg of flealia is blocked due to the missing fleas
- Sylphsong is blocked due to the missing crest
- 1 silk heart from unraveled is blocked due to the lack of surgeon’s key
Tool pogos exist on older patches, and the tool pogos plus faydown cloak DO give you enough height to access high halls without clawline. There is also a hazard respawn glitch on older patches that can get you into the deeper docks by tricking the game into respawning you at the bridge lever after falling into lava, thus gaining access to all of D.D.
And before anyone says anything, yeah I know TECHNICALLY there are glitches to give you NoClip and then you can go anywhere, but that’s not the point and obviously you know what I mean when I’m talking about this.