#Archipelago Multiworld Multi-game Randomizer
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the only item left in a shop that's not for me is one of Flitter's Hallownest Seals for 46 grubs, which obv is not important at this point
now to visit some dark rooms
the super down spell in crystal mound had one of yay's small fire keys
Nice
the crossroads->peak entrance had a piece of heart for artiks
stone sanctuary had my super up spell in the back, No Eyes herself only had 15 geo as is apparently the rule for bosses lol
It might be fun to have a rule that certain checks are marked difficult and difficult checks are guaranteed to have important rewards
But by Archipelago's relationship with the hollow knight randomizer, Archipelago can't touch the randomizer logic.
beat traitor lord by the skin of my teeth
So any such change will have to come from the randomizer
Traitor Lord is surprisingly easier when I don't have cloth around.
lol
So I sometimes go for Traitor Lord before rescuing Cloth
That way she doesn't have to die
White Lady had a Witchtree Branch
and now for Deepnest, the only area with more than just one room blocked by the lantern
oh and apparently on shade dash in this room
ah this is the nosk area
Galien down
By the time I face Galien I've always been overequipped to fight him, so it's silly to see the three mask coccoon above him
and in my case, my build has had cheap lifeblood charms since almsot the start so any masks out in the world are redundant 
I believe that's it for deepnest, I found mask maker and midwife
let's do white palace, abyss, radiance
I just realized godhome doesn't require the awoken dream nail to access
implying the godseeker doesn't have or didn't bother with whatever protection this palace has
disables minions
White palace is intentionally optional
Godhome does indeed not require the awoken dream nail. The only requirements are swim or left crystal dash, two simple keys and access to the city of tears (and regular dream nail)
hm
oh yeah I guess that is the only way into the waterways, these exits were all one-way I think
Go for your rightslash
at this point I'm tempted to do Radiance without right slash
You know where it is, and it's very easy to get to it
both dashes are clearly required to dodge everything, but slash not so much
Correct! I usually do radiance with pogos and quickslash
But for the final phase you want at least one right slash hit to make it easier
oh right, I have the brand already so the NPCs here bow to me
if I intended to do a lot more of this that would be a nice change
It'll make it a lot easier and more convenient to find the secret lore tablet in the hidden workshop room
sawblade time
Unlike other places, most white palace skips are easier to do than the intended part
I think the extra distance of shade cloak is throwing me off
I don't have dashmaster on
sharp shadow was free so I do, but I don't think it affects distance?
As usual I recommend deep focus, grubsong and grubberfly's elegy for infinite healing (it's faster than hiveblood)
Sharp shadow increases dash length by 40% but dashmaster only affects timing
oh
Dashmaster also allows you to do the objectively bad down dash
The game is not very good about secret charm synergies
But it's good this way because they don't have to implement a spoiler-free description that changes when you unlock shadow dash
I guess you can't get sharp shadow without a shadow dash so maybe that's not a valid problem
final bench reached
That's half the battle
the most heavily guarded Item Scrap in all of Hallownest
evidently I missed the workshop
another skulltula token, lol
yeah I wanna try Radiance without rightslash

died in phase 2
apparently I am only capable of dying in phase 2 lol
and it's dead
I think that was 5 tries?
I like how I technically get rightslash back in that last little quicktime event
101% 20h apparently
now I will actually grab rightslash, it just feels incomplete if I don't go down to Birthplace at least once
well that's the most fitting possible ending for this run isn't it 
there we go
I am complete now
my tracker says 615/734 = 83%
if I understand !remaining correctly, the only things left of value in my world are three OoT keys
I'm gonna hold off releasing my items for now since half the point of all this is that running around to get other people's key items in my game should be fun, and now that I have every major area unlocked now I should be able to get anything
long list of miscellaneous thoughts:
- first, thank you Flitter for organizing all this
- this was a great way to shake up my second playthrough of Hollow Knight, I'm definitely down for replaying more games this way
- on splitting/removing abilities, I think the rule for me is I'd rather not split/remove starter combat stuff, but most everything else is a win. For HK, that means I'd prefer to start with all nail directions, but removing swimming was good and splitting dashes was good and so on.
- on shops, my main problem is that if someone's important item is in my shop and I can't buy it with standard money or items in my own world, then I can't do anything to get them that item. IMO it misses the entire point of a multiplayer randomizer if "I need X" can't be followed up with "gotcha, I'll go get X" (or "I can go get X after they get Y"). In particular, when there's a multiworld shop chain with "X needs Y", then some other player does the fun task of getting Y, and all I do is press a button to turn Y into X. So I think I'd rather all these special shop barriers were either left unrandomized, or (I assume this isn't a thing but) applied only to my own world's items.
- on high checks / geo rocks, in retrospect I think Flitter's right that having a bazillion checks is good overall, but I would prefer some weighting/priority/??? system that makes it so most bosses or platforming gauntlets give me something a little more valuable than 15 geo or 5 rupees, like a charm or a small key at least
- I believe I was right to play a game that other people were also playing for this, but now that I know Archipelago a bit better I'd be comfortable doing this with a game like Blasphemous that AFAIK no one here but me knows
- if we do this again, I'd likely be debating between Super Mario 64 (if I want chill
), Blasphemous (if I want hardcore
), or in the unlikely but still possible event that I play Link to the Past for the first time this year, maybe that
Look at all these nerds finishing before me despite me being the one on summer break..
tbf I am on two weeks of PTO
Thank you so much for playing. I had a lot of fun.
Artiks, don't worry about it taking a while. OoT is a bigger game, and ||The spoiler log says you get your endgame items last.|| (Spoilers, do not read before finishing.)
yep, this is inherently not a race since the randomizer isn't even trying to balance our games for letting everyone reach the end at the same time
the downside is that its quite demotivating to have, lets see
I'm pretty sure I got blocked harder on day one than Wcct and Flitter by random item luck as much as by not having their skip skill and map memorization
4 unfinished dungeons, but everything in them is mostly useless because 5/7 people have finished
oof
We could have made the Hollow Knight games stricter and more reliant on items found in other games, but it is a three hour game compared to a ten hour game
Do you need to finish every dungeon to finish the game?
which games are how many hours? I thought we both took ~20 hours for our HKs
(did Wcct post theirs?)
It was about 6 hours when I first fought AR and lost, then I sticked around for 100%
Hollow Knight normally takes three hours. I took a lot longer but most of the time was looking at the map to see where players are or grinding
I was blocked by something or other to get all 3 dreamers
I counted Ganons castle which I can iirc skip outside of the climb up to the boss, but I potentially have to do forest, spirit and shadow
What I'm referring to is the length of a normal solo randomizer playthrough
I might have your shadow boss key
does "normal" here mean essentially any%?
Oh I figured out what "focus" meant in the logs
i.e. not what any of us were doing for this
It's not the focus item. It's the focus lore tablet.
any idea what a normal solo randomizer 100% playthrough takes?
I never saw anyone do a 100% randomizer because a big part of the appeal is cleverly bypassing parts of the game
makes sense
I guess that's part of why I ended up doing this despite never doing a solo randomizer; every random item on the map being potentially useful to someone else requires playing HK "normally", or at least the high-but-not-necessarily-strictly-100% way I normally play Metroidvanias
I should probably let people know what keys I don't need any more of. I can skip two keys in fire pretty easy so I was good on those.
Also I should be in go mode if Chip released so I'll be finishing up today. And I would be down to do this again, although maybe we make a server to organize better
that would also help not getting 12 year olds in vc asking us what our favorite MLP song is 
its fine they will never read this thread..
I feel the same way and just didn't want to say it lol
Well to say it in a nicer way it would be nice to not be disturbed by random people who don't know whats going on while we're doing our thing 
For real
We could set up a private channel like a DM or a different server, but I figured people would not be interested in joining Archipelago if I made too many requirements
Probably a server just because it makes voice more drop in and out than a group DM does.
And that's a fair point but I feel like it mostly applies to initially forming the group. And the group is mostly formed at this point.
effort
A guy on the archipelago server has a $300 bounty for a Majora's Mask implementation
a server like petra could be useful
Petra?
theres a discord called petra on a single desert tile that was used for among us
2 years ago
what a reference
I think using one of the gated VCs would solve that problem
I've never had weird/disruptive joins whenever I stream random games there, including my last few HK sessions
(admittedly I rarely get any joins at all, but that's better than a disruptive one)
Yeah you kept playing at weird times
i.e. British mid-afternoon
I joined once to stream the eight minutes of item drops at the start of my run, and there were a few people. They weren't disruptive but it is kinda stressful hanging out with people I don't know.
That might be a me thing though. I'm basically only coming to this server for this and don't use it outside of it
You joined in one of the "open" voice channels
nah they were annoying
We have ones hidden behind a role
but yes in the future we should always use one of the bottom two VCs, which require the Voice Party role, specifically to keep randoms out
Oooh
I think Wcct gave us all the role when this all started
I assumed those two were general chats.
I should probably rename the voice channels at this point, it's pretty obvious that calling one of them "Game Streaming" did not have the desired effect
Manechat does a poor job of explaining this
I mean I haven't read announcements in years so it is a little on me
And also the Voice Party role is pingable for some reason despite the fact that it's a functional role instead of a group role
the role-gated VCs were an experiment we weren't sure we'd stick to, so we didn't think super hard about VC names at the time, but it's proven itself to the point I really should come up with clear names
now what is a good pony-themed name for a secret/exclusive club...
Nah I wouldn't try to make it feel exclusive. That's stressful and creates an out group
Crusaders Treehouse
true, it is an opt-in role for everyone, the goal is only to exclude the oddly prevalent kind of random join who has no idea what server they're on and apparently can't even tell that anyone's streaming a game
Why do people do this? They see a voice channel with people and then join and say "What are you doing?" and regardless of your answer they will make noise about something unrelated
I have no idea!
Like library rooms you book in college
Yeah I have no idea why people do that either lol
ok that's the best I can think of including suggestions
Book club implies a purpose.
Ooh
game streaming is by far our most common purpose for a VC
Just call it the Golden Oaks Library and then make it a no shouting room
Oh shit that works
there's probably no way to truly convey "top 2 fully public, bottom 2 require clicking a button elsewhere to exclude only the most weirdly clueless randos" in just a few channel names, but I think this gets as close to that vibe as is feasible
Two categories
what would the category name be?
Private Voice Channels, Voice Party Channels, or Hidden Voice Channels
Public and VIP obviously
derp, that would make sense
I'll suggest it to the mods, a new category is just a bit too much to do completely on my own
Yeah that's fair
anyway that's all a win whether or not we do this through Manechat next time
personally I'd rather we do since it makes it easier to recruit more people through #1032716748887179434, but I also have no idea what non-Manechat servers all of you are on
I'm with everyone in other servers except Ixrec, Jay, Solar Wave.
Isn't the only other server I share with you the DND one?
Correct. My words were precise but intentionally misleading
Yeah that tracks lol. Very like you
We used to share more servers but I left most of them a long time ago
at least you're still on the yes, what is it? server
I'd like to talk with you more, so if there's anywhere you feel comfortable inviting me, I'm up for it
Oh shit I forgot I was in that server.
And honestly I don't really know what servers I'd invite you to. I'm basically only in tiny friend group servers these days

What ever happened to dog's server with thousands of channels?
thats yes, what is it?
covid
It's really sad the channels all caught covid and died
Truly tragic
I want to play more Archipelago already but my game is done
you can write a battle plan for me when im playing later
Oh good idea
I have to make my pride month art first (its june 28th already)
This is your tracker
It looks like you have yet to get the ganon castle key, the forest and shadow temple keys.
You did half of forest temple, none of shadow temple, most of spirit temple and little of ganon's castle.
What do you need in order to finish the game?
Beat Ganon?
thats right I must defeat Ganon and save Hyrule
In order to do that I must collect all of the medallions to bring forth the rainbow bridge (happy pride)
Are you missing any medallions?
I have no clue which items on the tracker are medallions, but you definitely don't look like you're missing anything
I need the forest and spirit medallion!
They can be at the end of the forest, spirit, and shadow temple
Yes you definitely need to finish forest temple first
From the looks of it, you are pretty exhaustively covering the map. If you weren't, I would recommend you use your remaining hints to look for exactly the items you need
The actual requirements for finishing the game are Boss Key (Ganons Castle), Fire Medallion, Forest Medallion if you want to hint for them.
Am I missing anything?
i thought I might have ticked open ganon door in the settings but i dont remember
I'm assuming that you did not randomize the triforce and it's locked by beating ganon who is locked by the boss key, but I never played the game
Oh, I could check your settings!
This is what the spoiler log says your settings are. Don't look because it might have actual spoilers. I'll read the relevant part for you
It says Ganon's Boss Key: Medallions
So you do not need the boss key! You need only the medallions.
But maybe getting the medallions awards you the boss key?
Your other Ganon's Boss Key settings are Medallions Required for Ganon's BK:6 Spiritual Stones Required for Ganon's BK:3 Dungeon Rewards Required for Ganon's BK:9 Tokens Required for Ganon's BK: 40 Hearts Required for Ganon's BK: 20
That makes sense. The other ones are probably ignored
other mods agreed and there was much name bikeshedding:
I'm glad you had fun
SHIT WAIT IT'S YOUR SERVER?
yeah
Yeah if ganon bk requirement is 6 medallions you'll get it at 6 medalions
What's your bridge requirement?
Also 6 medalions?
Ye!
Also read the plaque in the temple of time as adult to get hints for what dungeons your medallions are in
As child for stones but you don't need those with your settings
Looks like you're not missing anything for go mode, so you just need to beat the bosses in those dungeons and you're good
which means you can just do checks until you get the boss keys and then make a beeline for the boss door
ye ill probably finish the game tomorrow
Have fun
Want to watch me fail ganon speed strats?
sure
Yeah
I know none of these strats
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HZvn4wSjb633Uxu2o8oHambwP0aAax4XnADidn3xs3g/edit#gid=450876694 @fresh hill
Proposed
Engine/Platform,Genre,Planned Contributors,Items to Receive,Check Locations,Notes
A Hat in Time,Unreal Engine 3,Platformer,Timepieces, Yarn, Relics, Rift Tokens, Badges, Weapons(Umbrella, Baseball bat),Timepieces, Yarn, Relics, Rift Tokens, Badges, Weapons(Umbrella, Baseball bat),There...
Also, Ultrakill is supported but it's got a rating of 18+ so Archipelago only supports it if you have the .apworld file? It's a really stupid system
That makes sense
This game list does not include officially supported or completed games. It's mostly what's planned
to be clear, the supported games list is https://archipelago.gg/games
Some games have been rejected but have an apworld file https://i.imgur.com/iOXUArV.png
Minecraft...?
yeah, i know it aint in yet, if i was better at riftworld i mighta done the that
Locks a bunch of recipies and checks unlock recipies.
Checks are completing achievements.
Goal is beating ender dragon
looks like the dungeon I can skip is the one I havent started, lucky
forest temple with longshot and hoverboots should be fun
I think you can do it backwards with that
Although maybe that's only possible with keysanity
bleh
I think I have to do all of the shadow temple to get the song just to do child part of spirit
100% run yay 
Thanks!
what sucks about !release is that I dont even get to see what I got
I got an important item for wcctnoam but god knows what
I know hes done but still would have been nice to see
Do you not see everything in the logs?
nah
because I sent him all of my items when he did !release
so now I only see people who havent done !release
He may have done !collect
!collect takes all his items from other worlds and !release sends items in his world to others.
What !collect does is it lets you play the game with no more BK mode (but you're only allowed to do it after you finish)
Yeah I thought I was supposed to do both
happy pride
Doing either is a tradeoff
!release will allow you to stop playing without making things difficult for other players by leaving their items in your world and !collect allows you to keep playing. In practice you usually want to do one or the other
That's totally canon
time
I didnt meet Darunia once and he still shows up to seal Ganon massive MVP
wow..
i dont even know what that is
Congratulations!
we did it gamers
(I did !release after 98%)
After I come home I'll write a little lost talking about it
i defo didn't, i collected everything legit, dont check the chat or logs
I intentionally never did collect/release, since I was in a position where I didn't need every item to do all the stuff I wanted (i.e. a lot more than merely reach credits), and I was still up for running around more if someone needed one of my remaining items
of course it depends a lot on the game and on the randomizer luck and on where other players end up
i mainly released because i thought everyone essentially had all their key items already
in retrospect it looks like that was true
(I don't know DS3, RoR2, or what remains key in these maximally randomized OoTs, so I couldn't predict that)
it was only the oot runs that weren't completed when i'd finished
yeah the OoTs were the last two to finish
I'm not sure how much of that was player availability and how much was randomizer luck (like Artiks' bow)
I'll talk about that
its a much bigger game than hollow knight
clearing 10 dungeons takes longer than getting the 3 dreamers with and without randomizer
Yeah
Thanks, everyone, for playing with me in this Archipelago game. Here's the spoiler file for the seed:
The spoiler includes settings for each player, randomized entrances, charm notch costs, shop prices. The list of which locations contain what, The "Playthrough" which is the intended order of who receives what items from who, and the "paths" which shows how to get from start to end.
As you can see from the playthrough section, The order of putting down the controller was supposed to be (From last to first) Artiks, Flitter, Ixrec, Yay899, Jay, Chip, Wcctnoam.
50: {
Town[door_jiji] (Flitter): Room_Ouiji[left1] (Flitter)
}
51: {
Egg_Shop_15 (Flitter): Boomerang (Artiks)
}
52: {
Jabu Jabus Belly Floor Lowered from Jabu Jabus Belly Past Big Octo (Artiks): Jabu Jabus Belly Floor Lowered (Artiks)
}
53: {
Barinade (Artiks): Fire Medallion (Artiks)
}
54: {
Gift from Sages (Artiks): Boss Key (Ganons Castle) (Artiks)
}
55: {
Ganon (Artiks): Triforce (Artiks)
}
Apparently the game expected me to open Jiji's shop last, not first.
Jay was only supposed to get the Aqueduct level very late in the game.
The endgame terms to look for are Triforce for OoT, Opened_Black_Egg_Temple for Hollow Knight, Victory for Risk of Rain 2, and none for Chip (but you can instead look for the final Cinders of a Lord -
Who wins The Hollow Knight or Ganondorf with the triforce of power?
Ganondorf
between those two it's definitely Ganondorf
The game lasted five days https://i.imgur.com/agDvhmu.png
the player Knight with Void Heart... that's less clear
Or 89 hours in total.
You have to keep in mind they are all insects, so I assume they are also insect sized.
well, sure, but size doesn't mean much for power level in these games
Now, considering I have a week and a half before I go for vacation to Japan (which will last a month), how do you all feel about starting another, purely asynchronous game? This one won't have any time requirements except that you should be able to finish your game in ten days.
probably too soon for me, I need to do something more chill for a little while
I understand.
i'd consider it, a chill vanilla factorio save w/o biters could be nice just spamming blueprints
i can play again with some new settings
I'm going to play Timespinner and Rogue Legacy or Hollow Knight
i'd also conisder hollow knight but i'm bad at it and have poor map memory
so probably couldn't do it in 10 days
eh you'll be fine
There's a map mod!
ixrec hadnt played it in forever and finished in 3 days
and I was going out of my way to do tons of stuff that's not required for the ending
Hollow Knight randomizer specifically allows you to randomize charm notch cost in a way that makes the game much easier if you needed to, but of course it's up to what makes you most comfortable
part of the fun was that made me do charm builds I'd never normally consider
You still had my light arrows lol. Pinged you the hint
oops
wait, how did i miss that item
i looked into the pings and the last ping before that was 2018 telling me to make you a copy of my ffxiv drip irl
Shit maybe I pinged the wrong person
is this the ping in question?
Yes
ye, i saw the ping, the one before that
Every archipelago PC game is on sale right now except for Factorio and Kingdom Hearts, so if you have your eyes on a new one for the next game we run, it's time to look at it.
Oh lol fair. I haven't really been active on this server in years so
neither have i tbf
We are united in being invited to this by Flitter via DMs lol
i post here like 1 message a day in 1 thread
ye that counts as being active
oh right the GtG thread
you have 1/6 as many messages as me in 2023 and im SUPER ACTIVE
probably the most talkative person in the entire server
Gerudu Training Grounds?
#1048910682927673396 lol
hmm, thats more than i thought, but i still wouldn't really call me active in here, as i only really look if someone else in another server points at something
all that matters is that i created the dumb shitpost that is izzystuck in that time
almost 7 months 
Im probably gonna start a majoras mask rando tomorrow if we dont go again
I'm going again!
Is anyone else interested? This time the intent is to have a ten day time limit and you can play whenever.
Chip is also interested.
I'm interested in OoT rando but I'm not interested in setting it up just yet
Okay, so what do you propose?
If we go again I would like less hints since you could kinda just hint every big item last time. This removes the whole aspect of exploration and looking for stuff that I was interested in.
Okay. How many hints would you prefer? https://i.imgur.com/swDyk2C.png
20 or 25 would probably be good
how many hints would I have used if high charm gates weren't an issue...
did I hint left and up?
Let's find out
this thread's backlog shows I hinted the last four charms, lantern, rightslash, monomon (after the other two were found), left dash and double jump
You did a hint for leftslash, monarch wings, right crystal dash, left mothwing cloak, monomon, rightslash, king's brand, lumafly lantern, pale ore.
One of the hints is mine by accident
You also hinted for six charms
huh, what were the other two
king and queen fragments
I remember the brand and the last pale ore, that was more out of curiosity than anything else
oh
fair
All these hints and you lose those pog moments like when chip found my bow
That's 15 hints total, but you could probably do with half of them
or when I found ixrecs left slash
(how was that hinted? I randomly stumbled upon it)
remember many of these were right at the end when half the players had already finished and I was just curious if those were even in my world or not, which is why some of them I didn't even post here
[root at 2023-06-25 10:43:26,602]: Notice (all): Ixrec: !hint leftslash [root at 2023-06-25 10:43:26,605]: Notice (Player Ixrec in team 1): You can't afford the hint. You have 25 points and need at least 36.
now, if the charm shop gates weren't a problem, and if I hadn't been trying for the true ending... I think only one of those hints would be necessary
Then it sounds like 20% is fair
it feels tight to me, but then I probably won't be in this one anyway
and remember people gave me upslash, right dash, left crystal dash, all the charms I actually equipped, etc without hints, those were still pog moments
I agree that if you think the number of hints is too many then don't use them, but the idea is to push people to explore systematically, so it makes sense to have a tight number of hints used sparingly to avoid frustration.
there was at least one time you suggested I use a hint and I did not
even if I dont use hints I still have a log that says "X's dash is there, Y's right swing is there, Z's lord of cinder is there" in my world 
hints are ok I just htink 5% is too many
yeah they clearly can't be zero or unlimited
the right range is gonna depend on the game, and if this next one mostly has more hardcore players than me 25% is likely fine
I'm considering running Timespinner, Hollow Knight and Link to the Past all at once
Does this sound insane?
not for you
I never finished Link to the Past, so I might run into issues, but I'm going to use generous settings.
lol
Then again
What do you think, @sage dawn? Up for another game concluding before July 7th?
Okay
Ah fuck, A Link to the Past only works for the Japanese version of the game
I'm not playing that
Ocarina of Time it is!
you're going to play oot AND two other games? 
It'll be fun
Maybe just one other game. I think I'll have enough time since it's vacation
I decided to leave Zelda for another time
I'll be running Hollow Knight and Timespinner.
I'd like to start as soon as possible, so @sage dawn and @fierce vale, if you're joining I'd like your YAML files! We'll play at your convenience, but I have to stop playing at July 8 so I'll release my games if we don't finish by then.
If anyone else would like to join, you are free to do so as well!
Most important settings for me: I turned randomized Geo Rocks and Randomized Lore off so there are fewer checks to keep items players find for me interesting.
I also turned off stags to keep the game from going wide too soon.
We'll start a few hours after I have the YAML files from whoever wants to play.
The text is patched to be English. It just enables JP exclusive glitches.
I played it and mine was not patched properly, I guess?
I know that the independent version is patched properly
Oh maybe archipelago is missing something the standalone has?
Yeah
Either way I don't want to figure it out
Maybe after my vacation or separate from archipelago time
Fair.
Either give me like 10 hours to sleep and I will get back to you or use the one for the last one for me, as I'm about to go to bed.
thinking about it, i'm busy for like 1/2 of those days so i should probably sit this one out
Okay
you didnt ping me but im joining too
Gonna make a new yaml file
@fierce vale you can still join! 3 is so few
it'll feel real bad if i get someones important key item though, since i will probably only have like a couple of hours untill wednesday
Oh yeah I did not ping you because I thought you said it was too soon
My bad!
Anyone else is absolutely welcome to join but I didn't want to bother anyone since we're starting very soon after the first
I can cheat and keep generating games until it seems you're not blocking anyone at the start.
Personally speaking, I'm making sure my games can't be blocked too hard by people not finding enough items by means of setting manipulation
i just took a peek at the setup for factorio which would also take me a tad probably, since you essentially have to setup a local server for it
Factorio would probably take longer than a normal factorio satellite launch
yeah, i think i'll defo sit this one out and just join next and look into stuff between then and now
hmm maybe someone outside of the thread wants to join
Do you have anyone in mind specifically?
naah
Recruit from #1032716748887179434 it is, I suppose
if you think 3 people is fine it probably is too
@shy oyster seemed vaguely interested so she may wanna join
oh, yeah, i forgot they play things on switch
I'm doing Mario 64 this time
Nice!
Progression balancing 0. Will that disable balancing or just make it very frontloaded?
Okay. That's everyone. I'm going to just make sure everyone who expressed interest is informed we're starting again just in case they want to play again.
(I'm aware, as expected I've still got too much other stuff I want to do for now)
I mean other than you
lol
@ancient harness and @clear summit
We're starting an asynchronous game that will last until July 7th or 8th. The players are me with Hollow Knight and Timespinner, Artiks with Ocarina of Time and Yay899 with Mario 64. Interested in joining?
(I can help you set up OoT and provide the ROM)
I am slightly interested about Minecraft but not confident enough about it
I'm definitely hesitant about Minecraft too. It sounds like the sort of game you can get stuck forever playing, rather than just finish in a weekish
Archipelago Multiworld Multi-game Randomizer
You start tomorrow?
If you're not going to join we start right now, otherwise tomorrow
I'll join with OoT. I have to sit down and fully install everything so my start will be delayed but I can set up the yaml right now at least.
I'm not joining this run, I don't have a good game to join with
That makes sense! Good luck
I leave for Japan on the 8th, so if we don't finish by then I can manually release my games.
Shopsanity fixed_number means half the shop is random right?
if you set it to 4 yeah
Right, yeah
you're using https://archipelago.gg/games/Ocarina of Time/player-settings right? much better than manually doing it
It randomizes a specific number of items for each shop
Yes
Nice!
keysanity on first run very brave
Fast bunny hood is so convenient. I can't believe Artiks didn't pick it
its not in the real game..
True but neither are any of the other features
There's no merit in being slower
Is DiscoHawk or EmuHawk the file I'm running for BizHawk
Sure
This is the file I'm going to use to generate the game
The rules will be as before, but with stricter hint limits -- only five instead of twenty!
!hint recovery heart
I'm going to edit the pinned message with the current game
Done. Here's the tracker https://archipelago.gg/tracker/u51ZIDgGR3e4rBKLlorObQ
In case you need a copy of the ROM
The port this time is 62472
I forgot what power stars are
the 120 stars you need in super mario 64
Oh just stars
yay will only need 70 of them to finish the game for this seed
Oh uh
I read earlier that you might want to set up Emuhawk so that it doesn't pause when you alt tab
That might be what causes disconnects
Oh, all right
Ah, already a boss key
Max aura is good! Aura is basically MP and I've started with a garbage-ass weapon
Ok, this looks right. I just start any of the Files?
ye
I need to fix these controls though. Keyboard and mouse makes this awkward
Yeah, the setup guide has a section on configuring Bizhawk, but one trick they don't mention is you can start it through steam as a non-steam game to get controllers to be detected as Xbox controllers
P1 A is the joystick right? What does that do in OoT?
Do you play with keyboard or controller?
I'll figure it out. I don't even own a controller
milk pog
I can't decide if SM64 is amazing or meh for multi-randomizer games. On the one hoof, all the gates being N power stars makes it basically impossible to get blocked on any single item, so BK mode would require being far ahead of the other players. On the other hoof, IIRC not a single item changes how you play the game, the way dashes and double jumps would.
What's that?
That's what I was asking Artiks. Just a fairy, but not even in a bottle
The settings allow you to make a couple of extra key items.
Additionally, you may have to unlock specific methods to get stars?
In any case, thanks so much for playing with me. I'm going to bed!
I don't know
Maybe it's giving me the item that's been replaced by Water Temple small key in my world?
I guess you need the bombag to play the bomchu minigame?
That's it for me for today
good work everyone!
Good morning! Time for some Hollow Knight
For this run I'm already off to a good start thanks to you all!
Right mantis claw, elevator pass, swim, king's brand, dream nail, great slash, one dreamer and five grubs
All right. I found Mineut of the Forest (Wcctnoam), Biggoron Sword (Artiks), a few power stars and so many 1 rupee drops
Got a few more checks.
Not sure if Timespinner Gear 2 is good but it was marked important
Need all gears for go mode
never in my life done the deku theater so that was a nice find
looks like no one has played since yesterday so I'm a bit limited, but maybe i'll find some skulltulas
i meant since this morning
Who does the horned mask go to
the skull?
Yeah
Ah
google's telling me that cucco gliding is enough to get to that hole in the wall
but damn I do not remember this room at all
8 pounds!
managed to get 4 more checks but I am quite stuck now
What do you need?
I guess I'll get working on Timespinner then
Hollow Knight got a lot harder since I started with a dreamer
I love finding 200 rupees in a shop instead of as a regular item
Makes it possible to coordinate and buy it at the best possible time instead of filling up someone's wallet
I'm restarting the game because it turns out Dream difficulty is way too easy
There's zero danger
Do you need a greed brooch
No it's just cosmetic
I can't do the second diving mini game without the actual silver scale, right? @weary lagoon
But it's a kickstarter cosmetic
theres a second diving game?
no check for that in my tracker
I need a tracker
Oh
Have an ice trap. You're welcome!
Thanks for the ice trap
The tracker is in the pins!
You can click on anyone's number to see their individual tracker
I feel bad for the ice trap, here's some healing
Lens of truth for Wcctnoam!
Thanks now I can cheat at the chest minigame4
Oh
You can't use the lens without magic
you got trolled..
thank you for the iron boots
I'm almost done with the whole map and I'm finding nothing useful yet https://i.imgur.com/sDcmPlE.png
Time for Hollow Knight, then
Who is your favorite hollow knight character?
Good question
mine is Elderbug
Quirrel
It was a bad idea to put two metroidvanias in the same archipelago game
Now I keep trying to press R1 to Dash and L1 to high jump in Hollow Knight
@ancient harness do you want double defense or Goron Tunic?
Yes
wow I can play the game now
Deku shield for Wcctnoam
Already run out of them
Each time I have to visit the nailsmith I need to set up a pogo with two vengeflies
Good thing there's only four upgrades
Oh that didn't show up in the log
You found your own slingshot? Maybe you disconnected
Yeah I don't know what's going on wit hthat. It says I'm connected, both console and tracker
There we go
My tracker says you're disconnected https://i.imgur.com/qjB2mOA.png
Oh you're connected again
I think I broke Hornet https://i.imgur.com/v16HsZ6.png
Even after leaving, her string is in here https://i.imgur.com/3VxsLj6.png
A 550 geo cache. Thanks! I set it so small geo rocks don't get randomized so you don't have to find a bunch of small amounts
I might be in BK mode, so maybe that's it for today.
I have most of the shop items I can buy with geo, and the rest needs charms and grubs and stuff, so I guess tomorrow I'll play Timespinner and see if I can break my Hollow Knight game out, or maybe I'll have to wait for items.
yay899 still hasn't played so it's likely she might be able to find something
Oh wait, I can probably get to the Gorb area with right mantis
Holy boomeran batman
First bosss defeated
Nice work!
I should be able to get a lot done now that I have bombs
Nice
I wonder where the warp song will take me
IT's convenient that the one I have takes to the Market
to the market or the temple of time
you know I think I can complete all of dodongos cavern now
dont know how you do that part where you have to light torches though 
as an adult i mean, cant use sticks
found your wallet
so they teleport you to any random location? Not just the song locations?
I assume one still goes to shadow temple since that can only be entered by playing the song
I can get to temple of fire with hookshot right, I don't need Bolero?
Right probably
Spirit temple is gonna be really annoying without warp too....
impossible to get there as child without the warp
Can't do the desert as a child?
you cant enter gerudo fortress as a child
You may be interested in this page and the links leading from it
https://wiki.ootrandomizer.com/index.php?title=Logic
kinda surprised that king dodongo survived a jump attack with biggoron sword
Oh, in Timespinner I have access to the endgame level
I can't even beat a single enemy there before dying
Alright let's see what we can do
Serenade of Water takes me to where Bolero should 
No way I can kill the dragon without the hammer right
Yo, Timespinner Spindle!
Pretty sure that's useful. I don't think I can use it right now
Thanks for focus!
Artiks's double defense

Time to bomb some dodongos
do it as adult you need bow/slingshot to complete it
Fragile heart. Thanks!
You only play the bomchu minigame once right
I think the first reward gives you the check
After that you get money or something?
Either way, I broke out of BK mode by googling the crystal peak lantern skip
Of all the dark rooms it's the easiest ones
bombchu minigame has 2 checks
Holy heavy boots
No no
On second thought, maybe it is the easiest one (aside from the other Crystal Peaks room which is so easy it doesn't count)
6000 geo for a gold skulltula token https://i.imgur.com/u0HCN3V.png
Worth
im going to the deku tree since the logic page says you're supposed to go to floor 3 without the slingshot
It's funny how in the randomizer the most costly shop is the Ancient Basin (Map, fountain, bench)
ye that would have been good to do earlier..
Nice!
Even though I have the King's Brand and can access the abyss, I don't have enough abilities to reach any checks there
Thanks for hiveblood. Here's an ice trap for your trouble
I guess there's not actually that much I can do now with heavy boots
holy smokes
Hover boots for Artiks
Thanks for sharp shadow
Now if only I could dash to actually use it
Mido skip achieved
finally got a new song and its the most useless warp 
guess ill see how far I get in fire
on 2 keys
I think I can do that if I buy the zora tunic
only got 1 key here
it lets you move the big blocks in forest and water
as well as the obvious bomb flowers
thats all I can do in water
I got you sunglasses
Sunglasses are good because I'm chilling right now
Damn, I was hoping the shortcut from goron city to lost woods put you past mido
I can lift grey rocks too right
not big ones i think
the only thing I can think of doing now is catching a big poe thats so annoying
especially without epona
I don't remember if I randomised tose
the reward for a big poe is always randomized
@sage dawn Can you play a little bit so I can keep playing? I'm in BK mode in both games!
Sorry, been a little overwhelmed. Will get to it after work
Sorry to hear that you've been struggling!
found you a grub if that helps
I love grubs! Right now I think I only need charms
id like to hint rutos letter but i think ill wait until yay has played a bit
I managed to find a few more checks
Okay, I'm playing now
Alright, I'm in BK mode, but I think I got some good stuff
Oh wait, I missed one one up box
Nice
How's SM64 with archipelago?
How does getting items work? Do you think it works out? What sort of keys are there?
I know you can collect stars and 1-up boxes, and areas are locked by stars. Some stars are locked behind cannons and hats.
It was a recovery heart.
SM64 seems alright. Somewhere between OoT and RoR2 in terms of how feast or famine it is I think.
But that could just be me not knowing speed tech like I know with OoT
So I'm not as good at doing things out of logic
Honestly though, it's pretty chill.
I'm playing with non-stop mode which has been nice
Don't have to plan out 100 coins as hard
Oh yeah, I hate it so much when I have to leave after getting one star
Yeah honestly it's kinda chill
I have to think WAY less than I do with OoT
No thoughts head empty grab star
ooooh there's a mod that lets you stay in the level after each star?
Yeah
definitely getting that if I ever replay SM64
It's one of the patches you can turn on when building the PC version
Nice
I got
Left slash, simple key, grimmchild, pale ore, charm notch, charms, grubs
Definitely can keep playing now. Thanks!
I need 3 more grubs for left dash, and 4 for right dash
But where do I use the simple key first?
Ah, and for timespinner I got more keys
As well as the ability to warp to the modern world, where the majority of the game is held
Without a left mantis claw, I need a triple pogo to get up to the part of sewers where the map is
This sucks
What a scam
I sent myself a soul refill
And then when I logged on to Hollow Knight it gave me the item but did not refill my soul
I finally have enough grubs, but it turns out I read the shop wrong
Now I have left dash and left shade cloak
Still helpful. Means I can get to the area after Soul Master
Oh and Mantis Village!
Progressive Wallet for Wcctnoam, Mirror shield for Artiks
Left Mantis claw was in my world!
Turns out you can get to this spot with a shadow dash if you have sharp shadow https://i.imgur.com/s2VlvLI.png
Second ice trap for Wcctnoam
Ice traps are much more exciting than 1 rupee finds. Maybe there should be a setting to convert all 1 and 5 rupee drops to ice traps
Hover boots for Wcctnoam
Spirit Temple boss key for Artiks
Hylian shield for Wcctnoam
Deku shield for Wcctnoam
A simple key for me! This one will go to Jiji
Jiji had a tram pass! That means I get to do the hive and lower kingdom's edge
I think I'm done. I still need two dreamers, crystal dash, right dash, monarch wings, and upslash
FINALLY the wallet upgrade 
What's a wallet upgrade get you?
wccts giga wallet
and some power stars i think
ohh magic beans
magic!
not really any big items, some keys that will let me go a bit deeper into fire and water
will continue after breakfast
Thanks for the Rancid Egg. I don't think I'll need any more this seed
Fire temple boss key for Artiks
thats great news
fire temple is the dungeon im closest to complete
and I can probably just do the boss right away because of hover boots
Looks like White Palace has a star for yay899
I sure hope she doesn't need that one
maybe there are some important checks on top of the castle she needs all 120 for!
on 2nd thought probably cant beat Volvagia without the hammer
The hammer skip seems difficult
As soon as the fight begins, align Link so he is facing the lavapit closest to him and shielddrop a Bombchu. Use a Deku Nut shortly after to cause the Bombchu to explode on the hole, damaging Volvagia. Repeat this action for a total of 9 times, which is enough to 1 cycle Volvagia.
im not doing any glitches
200 rupees for this
ah thanks
ah, can't progress in fire without goron bracelet

Now finish the game
just missing 5 medallions
Can't do secrets without the item that lets you see secrets
I found Lurien in the water temple
and I believe thats all I can do here without the longshot
time for my first hint!!
@ancient harness
Zora's fountain
Did I not already get him Ruto's letter?
I think I did
If not then I need more charms or grubs
if thats green rupee 14 that means he has at least 14 checks at the bottom of zoras fountain lol
rupee randomizer is stupid 
back to dampe with you
all the rupee checks are gathered at the bottom of the tracker thats nice
I'll play in a moment
Biggest wallet caps at 500? I thought it would be 999
Wait there's 4 wallets
Yeah I just got one for 500 then one for 999
On top of the 200 I had and the initial 99
Okay that should be every item in Dempe at least
And I finally won the race for 1 rupee 

to go to to ZF you have to hand in the letter as a kid first
then you can go there as an adult too
I need zora's tunic I can't breathe at the bottom of that lake
I guess
and you can just buy the tunic right
It's okay I bought it
I found that the cave at the start of the death mountain trail has a red rupee that respawns every exit and entry
@midnight depot Mind Refresh ULTRA? Icicle Ring?
so you just get like 23 rupees every 5 sec
Now that I think about it
You're lucky I know how to get into Zora's domain without zelda's lullaby
zeldas lullaby is probably one of the 100 green rupees you haven't picked up 
that might be worth hinting its so important
It will come
Flitter aside we've barely played a third of our games
Wait where do I get blue fire as an adult
Isn't that in Zora's Fountain
ye
Behind the check for blue fire
I told you to give him the letter as a kid
Don't I need blue fire to unfreeze the hylia shortcut
Yeah but how do I et to Zora's domain bro
the normal way?
I don't have zelda's lullaby
entrance right next to kakariko
I thought you jumped past the waterfall or something..
I don't know there's a chicken as an adult. Also does adult link float with a chicken?
he does but idk if theres a chicken
I'll check but I'm doing Jabu Jabu first, could be good
why..
I bombed this guy and he didnt give me anything
I wasnt on the right spot I guess 
I also threw 3 bombs into the spinning pot and only got rupees
but my check says I havent done it
oh it has to land on the happy face..
very cool
guess im not in bk mode I got 2 goron city checks
Lon lon ranch deku scrub grotto (the left scrub)
Was this grotto always here? I can't believe I just found this after nearly 20 years!
just put a bomb where he is on his map
Alright
For myself later:
2 checks in goron city (child)
Graveyard Royal Familys Tomb Chest
Potential ZR skulltulas
Buy song in shop
I think I saw a blue fire in a shop
Stupid big goron, I'm sure it's been 3 days take the fucking claim
randomizer removes that wait you can give him the claim instantly
Then I don't know what he gave me, must have not been important
ye youve done it
you keep the claim check
have you checked out the goron city shop?
I just noticed that you havent bought anything there
There's nothing good there
I used this yesterday to find all the grottos in hyrule field
I could do all of them except for a gold skulltula that needs boomerang
Hyrule field I looked them up yeah, was only missing 2
I think when I manage to get 3 more % ill hint boomerang. So many skulltulas I cant pick up without it
It was the night shop
The trip would've been quick if it hadn't been the last shop I checked
oh if you're trying to melt the ice in lake hylia i dont think thats a thing
Oh?
yeah pretty sure thats always frozen
Yep that doesn't work
do you have a source of fire as kid
No I don't have magic
Despite having lense, ice arrows, fire arrowes and nauru's love
so no goron city pot
guess you could just go over your tracker if you dont have any ideas. I saw you had checks in deku tree and dodongos cavern
Great, a second jewel. If it had been the water medallion...
all stones is 2 checks though 
Maybe I can finish fire soon, though it having the third jewel would be a miracle
Everything I get is for Flitter
double defense is a godsend
Mind refresh is a regular consumable. Don't need it. Icicle ring is nice
Time to find out if I can kill the dragon without the hammer
Volvagia?
Answer is no
You can but you need bombchus and it's tricky
May need to practice with save states
I didn't even notice
i heck yeh i'd join on a hat in time
