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Lost Woods

Escape bridge as Adult

Getting off the Lost Woods Bridge allows you to go directly to the Lost Woods without having to waste time taking a detour through Kokiri Forest. The fastest way is to use the Longshot to hook onto the ladder.

Megaflip

Coming from Hyrule Field, you can line up a megaflip.

  1. Hold upleft when entering with full speed
  2. Pull bomb
  3. When Link hits the fence, turn 180 degrees down
  4. Walk into the hallway you came from
  5. Megaflip from the edge of the hallway and the bridge (where they meet)
  6. Drop from the ledge or sidehop right if you land on top of the fence
    • You can consistently land on top if you stop holding up left just before Link hits the fence

Pressure jump

If you have Bombs, you can perform a Pressure Jump to hop over the rails.

From the Hyrule Field entrance, you want to get into the corner that forms between the hollowed out tree entrance and the bridge rail on the left side, closest to you, then Z-Target the little wall of the hallway. It's easier to get into position if you use rolls and sidehops rather than walking, as Link will tend to do odd small hops in this corner.

Once in position, place a bomb. The slope of the hollowed tree should push it to the side. Then, around when the bomb begins to flash faster, hold right to cause Link to perform a small jump just as the bomb explodes, pushing Link on top of the railing, allowing you jump down below. With perfect timing, it's possible to completely miss the ledge altogether and land below.

Hookshot Quick-Grab Ladders

To hookshot to the top of the ladders in the Lost Woods more efficiently, target the right or left (depending on your position) tip of the rail of the ladder and hook on. If you are more towards the left of the ladder, aim at the right rail, else do the opposite. When done perfectly, you should clip behind the ladder, and grab on to the ledge instead.

Duplicate Actors

With hovering, it is possible to hover over the walls around the Lost Woods into an "unloaded" portion of the Lost Woods. If you walk back into the "loaded" portion, you will cause the loaded area to reload, resulting in the duplication of all actors in that section.

This can be used to duplicate the Skull Kid heart piece multiple times. You can also duplicate Gold Skulltulas and the Deku Stick uppgrade to buy it twice

Adult Mido Skip

Instead of playing Saria's Song, you can skip Mido in Lost Woods as Adult. From the Sacred Forest Meadow side, you can easily hess through him. From the Goron City / Kokiri Forest / Zora's River side, you must do something a bit more specific.

Backflip

You can backflip over Mido. The easiest setup, from a non-initial position, uses hookshot. The angle has an easy setup but can also be manually aligned (both shown in video).

  1. Target the wall on the right side of Mido (the side close to the water)
  2. Turn 90 degrees right
  3. ESS turn 1 more frame right
  4. Backlip with third person Hookshot or pause buffered
    • You can't talk to NPCs the frame you unpause, so you can backflip itemless if you do this

You can backflip itemless without a pause buffer using specific setups, below (they also work with hookshot and guarantee a first try backflip over Mido). After targeting you backflip within 5 frames:

Megaflip

A bit more difficult, but faster than backflipping if you pull the bomb early. The angle/position for the megaflip aren't overly precise, but see the video below for examples. You can also use the angle from targeting the tree trunk hallway before Mido.

Kill Skull Kid as Adult

The Skull Kid will only be there as Adult under certain conditions: you must not have an Adult trade quest item in your inventory OR you must have the Poacher's Saw onward.

Do forward thrusts at him just as he prepares to attack with his blowpipe. You can land 3 with good timing, then he jumps away. Repeat the same just as he prepares to attack again.

Kill Skull Kid as Child

You can kill Skull Kid as Child, even though he won't fight you, by doing a slash extension to reach him.

──── Forest Escape ────

Discovered by Typhingblade

Nowadays this is the near-universal forest escape method from Lost Woods.

Child Deku Stick setupless ("Yolo escape")

The position and angle required for the clip are lenient enough that they can be eyeballed. This can be a few seconds faster than using the more consistent setup below. This video covers in detail a partial setup to approximate the necessary angle.

Child ESS setup

  1. Target the wall between the dark and light splotches as shown
  2. 1x ESS or 2x ESS turn right (facing angle 0x3bca or 0x34c2)
  3. Sidehop left
  4. Backflip and draw the stick
  5. Slash the stick once if 1 ESS turn, twice if 2 ESS turns
    • Each slash must be interrupted, usually with the next sidehop, but can be with shield
  6. Interrupt slash with sidehop right
  7. Jumpslash midair (frame perfect) to clip into the stone
  8. Swim up-right to hit the load zone

Child ESS-less setup

Works with sword or stick, and is fairly beginner friendly. Video below has great explanations and detail, showing many alternatives for the angle and corner position. See which one you prefer.

  1. Get the cardinal East angle (0x4000)
    • There are several ways to do this as demonstrated in the video
  2. Get fully into left corner past the stone in the water
    • As shown in video, usually a sidehop+sideroll or by walking at a slight angle to the wall
  3. Sidehop left, backflip and draw sword or stick
  4. Sidehop right and jumpslash on the correct frame
    • Keep holding target the whole time; if you fail you still have the angle and can get back in the corner easily
  5. Swim up-right to hit the loading zone

Slower setup with sword

Requires: Kokiri Sword or Deku Stick
Skips: Deku Shield, Fairy Ocarina

This method allows you to escape the forest by "cutscene" diving off of Navi's dialog into the shortcut to Zora's River without needing the Silver Scale or better. The downside is that if you fail you essentially have to reset the console to try again since Navi will not appear again for approximately 19.5 minutes.

Go through the Lost Woods to the small pond where you can enter Zora's River. Roll from the bank of the pond and grab the top of the gray box. Wait for the Navi icon to appear. You can time this to correspond with the Lost Woods music like in the video. Now press B twice--once to pull Link back off the box, then a second time to jumpslash--then immediately talk to Navi in order to dive off the text as your second jumpslash pulls you back off the ledge.

Adult Aqua Escape

  1. Climb near the left edge of the right side of the stone, as shown, and target (facing angle 0x8000)
  2. Hold ESS right (continue holding through step 4)
  3. Once Link stops turning, press B to slash the sword so Link falls
  4. Begin holding A while Link falls so that he grabs the ledge and immediately drops
  5. On the first or second frame after Link drops from the ledge, press B to jumpslash
  6. Between Link dropping from the ledge and the jumpslash landing in the water, release the control stick to neutral
  7. After Link clips and stays out of bounds, hold up to swim to the load zone

The video below shows an alternative that is only slightly slower. Follow the instructions above through step 3, but don't hold A while Link falls, instead making him hang from the ledge. From here, once the water settles, press A to drop, then press B to jumpslash 1 frame afterward. The frame data may differ depending on certain things, it has not been fully fleshed out yet.