Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A few things bled out a lot of time and killed this pace from being potential pb but still a really good run. The first thing was the soul sand valley losing a lot of time due to soulsand and trying to conserve my few building blocks (wood) for the bastion then needed a grand total of 7 blocks throughout the route.
My bastion route wasn't great, but not a real timeloss either.
Next, the bastion to fort travel was kind of slow due to not wanting to risk a blind pearl due to sketchy terrain then still missing the pearl anyway immediately after that. This cost me like 15 seconds on its own but combined with the bad food situation it cost me an additional 5 seconds at least.
I have literally no clue how my fort pearl didn't make it up onto the ledge and that cost me a fair amount of food as well as a blaze cycle since I got fire interference.
Having to do 3 eye throws on the blind was a stupid waste of time and essentially out of my control as the blind was very far at an unlucky angle AND I ran far between the first 2 throws. This is likely why I had a 7 second retime instead of like 3 or 4 seconds.
My postblind terrain was lowkey kinda bad, but I played it smart albeit slow until the end. I definitely should have pearled to the coords instead of bridging. Bridging cost me no less than 15 seconds and cost me the Zero cycle entirely. (t97) Combined, this small mistake lost me roughly a minute 30 or so which is an insane punish.
In the end, despite not having the blocks for the zero anyway since I needed to speed bridge, I lost any shot at the zero being doable to a brutally limp pearl in the spawn lag.
Overall, I would say this was one of my smartest played runs of all time, but I just kept getting brutally punished for small mechanics issues and safe decisions. The biggest takeaway would be to not be afraid to pearl to the 2nd portal coords in that situation as I could have easily chained it to a PR hunger reset. Keeping the balance of health and pearls is something to work on as I blatantly had another freebie 0 timeloss pearl with my current health.
A few things bled out a lot of time and killed this pace from being potential pb but still a really good run. The first thing was the soul sand valley losing a lot of time due to soulsand and trying to conserve my few building blocks (wood) for the bastion then needed a grand total of 7 blocks throughout the route.
My bastion route wasn't great, but not a real timeloss either.
Next, the bastion to fort travel was kind of slow due to not wanting to risk a blind pearl due to sketchy terrain then still missing the pearl anyway immediately after that. This cost me like 15 seconds on its own but combined with the bad food situation it cost me an additional 5 seconds at least.
I have literally no clue how my fort pearl didn't make it up onto the ledge and that cost me a fair amount of food as well as a blaze cycle since I got fire interference.
Having to do 3 eye throws on the blind was a stupid waste of time and essentially out of my control as the blind was very far at an unlucky angle AND I ran far between the first 2 throws. This is likely why I had a 7 second retime instead of like 3 or 4 seconds.
My postblind terrain was lowkey kinda bad, but I played it smart albeit slow until the end. I definitely should have pearled to the coords instead of bridging. Bridging cost me no less than 15 seconds and cost me the Zero cycle entirely. (t97) Combined, this small mistake lost me roughly a minute 30 or so which is an insane punish.
In the end, despite not having the blocks for the zero anyway since I needed to speed bridge, I lost any shot at the zero being doable to a brutally limp pearl in the spawn lag.
Overall, I would say this was one of my smartest played runs of all time, but I just kept getting brutally punished for small mechanics issues and safe decisions. The biggest takeaway would be to not be afraid to pearl to the 2nd portal coords in that situation as I could have easily chained it to a PR hunger reset. Keeping the balance of health and pearls is something to work on as I blatantly had another freebie 0 timeloss pearl with my current health.
