Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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I've known for a long time that the poison pots in the triple gate room actually exist even before you use Sunrise to grow the mushrooms, but are invisible and immune to Power Slash. Interestingly, they can still be destroyed by other sources of damage such as Cherry Bomb and (in this case) Fireburst. By doing a short Brush Adventure, we can place a single small Fireburst to hit all 5 invisible pots at once, so they are destroyed before being loaded.

If you do this, when you use Sunrise to grow the mushrooms, the cutscenes that play after destroying the pots will start simultaneously with the mushroom growing cutscenes, which makes it possible to skip all of them quickly. Moreover, you can get Ammy to spawn near the mushrooms rather than near the pots, which saves time when leaving the room on the way to Vine. This doesn't work every time though, and I'm still not sure why Ammy sometimes spawns by the mushrooms and sometimes by the pots.

Overall, compared with slashing the Pots normally (using double jump to set it up faster), this strategy saves roughly 17s, though it is riskier due to the somewhat precise placement required for the Fireburst.

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