Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Every day up until Christmas, I will be running a silly category that has something to do with the number of the date. Today's category was 7 Beast Shards. This is a pretty neat category that requires going to weird locations you won't see in most other runs. My run itself was not great as I had several deaths (oops) and had to check the wiki mid run (lmao) but it was still a (mostly) fun time. My route is probably not optimal either; key route might be faster than getting fleas for earlygame, bells route might be faster than mist route for getting to act 2, and beast boosts might be better than wings for memorium and the blasted steps shard.
The reason why 7 was chosen for Beast Shards is because it's how many you can obtained before Act 3 on the latest patch of the game. On older patches, it is possible to get the Sprintmaster Swift Beast Shard in Act 2 (and even Act 1) with tool pogos, but I didn't want to have to put up with those skips and this seems like a better fit for 7 than anything else.
I don't have a full list of all the days figured out (oops!) but I do know a good chunk and tomorrow's will be 8 Craftmetals, then 9 non-Styx Silkeaters after that, and then maybe 10 achievements? I have a few more down the line figured out and I'm going to be borrowing some ideas from Lost Wisps's idea of February% (docs.google.com/document/d/14KCvsyn2kN6VrcGn_mRzNI0G03u7QoNPWd1RcbKtJV4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.xz3u746xarbr) but I'm probably going to modify or change a few things here or there.
Every day up until Christmas, I will be running a silly category that has something to do with the number of the date. Today's category was 7 Beast Shards. This is a pretty neat category that requires going to weird locations you won't see in most other runs. My run itself was not great as I had several deaths (oops) and had to check the wiki mid run (lmao) but it was still a (mostly) fun time. My route is probably not optimal either; key route might be faster than getting fleas for earlygame, bells route might be faster than mist route for getting to act 2, and beast boosts might be better than wings for memorium and the blasted steps shard.
The reason why 7 was chosen for Beast Shards is because it's how many you can obtained before Act 3 on the latest patch of the game. On older patches, it is possible to get the Sprintmaster Swift Beast Shard in Act 2 (and even Act 1) with tool pogos, but I didn't want to have to put up with those skips and this seems like a better fit for 7 than anything else.
I don't have a full list of all the days figured out (oops!) but I do know a good chunk and tomorrow's will be 8 Craftmetals, then 9 non-Styx Silkeaters after that, and then maybe 10 achievements? I have a few more down the line figured out and I'm going to be borrowing some ideas from Lost Wisps's idea of February% (docs.google.com/document/d/14KCvsyn2kN6VrcGn_mRzNI0G03u7QoNPWd1RcbKtJV4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.xz3u746xarbr) but I'm probably going to modify or change a few things here or there.
