Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

I managed a respectable time for 7 crystal fast ganon with... random enemy damage. They were not kidding with the warning:

> Random
> The damage dealt by enemies are entirely random. A value is chosen for each Mail Upgrade so they therefore do not work to reduce damage. No mapping exists between different enemy types. All enemies could deal massive damage.

... nearly everything swung for 8-12 hearts. Looooots of awkward combat. @..@

It then put both gloves, flute, hammer, flippers, and boots (read: just about every item that unlocks easier access to the overworld) all deep into this required path, then stacked *six* of the game’s main dungeons into death mountain.

Go Mode was a Swamp Palace small key.

I... don’t know if I have the fortitude to try one of these again, but it certainly was fun to puzzle out.

This seed generated a required walk that went:

1. Exit Sanctuary from pyramid left door.
2. Enter dark peg fairy cave (South of PoD), which is now spiral cave.
3. Exit spiral cave connector from MM closet.
4. Enter dark Agina cave, which is now paradox cave.
5. Exit either from bomb shop or top of bumper cave.

Or for those that have no idea what I’m on about: the randomizer made me walk the entire length of the game’s overworld. Twice. On every save reload.

So I tried another crosskeys seed, this time with random swords and with a note-taking device handy.

The previous time, it gave me early boots, early flute, early gold gloves, and easy connectors to dark world. Nooooot this time.

Hell seeds in crosskeys are apparently *amazing*.

Also, I’m never running a crossworld/entrance rando seed again without having a tracker up or taking notes. It was fun, but chest checks seems to be the limits of what I can do in memory.

Spent some time with the daily challenge seed yesterday, since I’ve been pairing that with exercise bike time. It had swordless enabled, but all of the stuff you need for swordless rando (tiles to use the medallions in Ice Palace, book + hammer for tablets, pre-opened sword doors) wasn’t enabled for some reason?

It was fun proving I couldn’t solve it, then taking it as far as I could in logic. But either something radically changed, or hope it’s fixed soon.

This seed really liked the color blue.

The master sword, blue mail, blue pendant, flippers, and magic mirror were also very early on. The random bottle fill was blue potion (x2). So it literally did try to give me every blue item in the game as early as possible.

.... and then made me pull pedestal for a required mushroom. >..>)

This has led to an entire metagame where folks, deliberately, set out for the wrong thing only to stumble onto the right thing. And it is kind of hilarious.

Within the monhun community, they call this the “desire sensor”. Ie, the thing you want is exactly what the game will not spawn.

It is very strong in this one.

Me: “Welp, there’s no rare spawn here. Time to leave.”
Me: *hits the leave trigger*
Rare spawn, during the outro cinematic: “‘sup”

Someone over on birdhellsite mentioned that they mentally replace “civility” with “obedience” to better gauge intent. Seems both accurate and useful.

Source: https://twitter.com/dtmainz/status/1171526785671954438