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* Ocarina of Time - necessary. You have to pick this up in order to learn the Song of Time.

* Ocarina of Time - necessary. You have to pick this up in order to learn the Song of Time.

* Boomerang - necessary. Used to defeat several tentacles Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly.

* Boomerang - necessary. Used to defeat several tentacles Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly.

* Fairy Slingshot - necessary. First really needed for an eye switch Inside The Deku Tree.

* Fairy Slingshot - Unnecessary. Can be skipped using sword glitch off the skullwalltula in the Deku Tree, and off the green bubble in Child Spirit. (A bombchu can then be used in jabu)

* Hookshot - necessary. For entering the Forest Temple, if nothing else.

* Hookshot - Unnecessary. You can enter using sword glitch.

* Longshot - necessary. Needed to reach the boss room in the Water Temple, and for numerous puzzles afterwards.

* Longshot - Unnecessary. This is completely unnecessary. Ganon's Tower Skip and sword glitch make this item usless.

* Megaton Hammer - necessary. This is the only way to hurt Volvagia.

* Megaton Hammer - Unnecessary. Shadow Temple and Spirit Temple are the only necessary requirements for Light arrows... and technicallym they aren't even necessary if you use the Light arrows on B trick so... Megaton is completely useless.

* '''Lens Of Truth - unnecessary.''' Okay, this is a crazy one. The first time through the game, you NEED this. Here are the main locations where the Lens of truth is necessary and how to get around using it...

* '''Lens Of Truth - unnecessary.''' Okay, this is a crazy one. The first time through the game, you NEED this. Here are the main locations where the Lens of truth is necessary and how to get around using it...

** There is enough invisible stuff in the Shadow Temple to make it practically impossible to do blindly. Invisible Hookshot targets, invisible platforms, invisible bad guys. However, it's easy to remember where the targets and platforms you need are located. And you can Z-target invisible enemies to avoid losing track of them.

** There is enough invisible stuff in the Shadow Temple to make it practically impossible to do blindly. Invisible Hookshot targets, invisible platforms, invisible bad guys. However, it's easy to remember where the targets and platforms you need are located. And you can Z-target invisible enemies to avoid losing track of them.

** Bongo Bongo's vulnerable spot - the red eye you need to shoot with an arrow - is invisible. But it's pretty easy to shoot it blindly. Shoot both hands, and Bongo Bongo will clench his fists before racing across the drum towards you. Aim squarely exactly between the two fists - where the boss's invisible body is - and as soon as the fists vanish off the sides of your screen, fire. You'll hit the eye and Bongo Bongo will drop, stunned and now visible, right in front of you. Easy.

** Bongo Bongo's vulnerable spot - the red eye you need to shoot with an arrow - is invisible. But it's pretty easy to shoot it blindly. Shoot both hands, and Bongo Bongo will clench his fists before racing across the drum towards you. Aim squarely exactly between the two fists - where the boss's invisible body is - and as soon as the fists vanish off the sides of your screen, fire. You'll hit the eye and Bongo Bongo will drop, stunned and now visible, right in front of you. Easy. If you use Light Arrow B then you don't even have to fight Bongo Bongo at all.

** The Haunted Wasteland is difficult. Watch existing videos of this feat and learn to match up a route with the very few geographical features in the area.

** The Haunted Wasteland is difficult. Watch existing videos of this feat and learn to match up a route with the very few geographical features in the area.

** The Shadow Barrier portion of Ganon's Castle contains some invisible platforms and tracks in mid-air. You can get away without knowing where these are pretty easily if you have the Hover Boots enabled. Do a double rolling attack off the edge of the first platform - that is, roll off the edge and roll a second time before the Hover Boots cut out, to maximize your distance - to reach the next platform. Do the same again to drop down to the switch on the right, and trigger the Gold Gauntlets chest. Longshot back to it. Hover to the switch on the left and then Longshot to the torch at the exit. By this method, you never end up walking on invisible platforms. Tricky, but doable.

** The Shadow Barrier portion of Ganon's Castle contains some invisible platforms and tracks in mid-air. You can get away without knowing where these are pretty easily if you have the Hover Boots enabled. Do a double rolling attack off the edge of the first platform - that is, roll off the edge and roll a second time before the Hover Boots cut out, to maximize your distance - to reach the next platform. Do the same again to drop down to the switch on the right, and trigger the Gold Gauntlets chest. Longshot back to it. Hover to the switch on the left and then Longshot to the torch at the exit. By this method, you never end up walking on invisible platforms. Tricky, but doable. If you choose to use Ganon's Tower skip however, this is skipped entirely.

===Arrows===

===Arrows===

* Fairy Bow - necessary. Used earliest to shoot Poe paintings in the Forest Temple, but necessary for uncountable other puzzles.

* Fairy Bow - necessary. You don't need to shoot poe paintings anymore because you don't need to complete forest at all. You only need to play up till the bow. But, the bow is necessary for Ganondorf since we have to stun him w/ a light arrow

* '''Fire Arrows - unnecessary.''' This is quite important. There are several locations in the game after the Water Temple, where you might think that it was impossible to do without the Fire Arrows. However, a little thought reveals an alternate solution in all cases. Usually you can use Din's Fire, or shoot an ordinary arrow through an existing flame; for the cavernous gap protecting the Shadow Barrier in Ganon's Castle, you can get across by simply using your Longshot on the unlit torch on the right, and again on the Like Like at the far side.

* '''Fire Arrows - unnecessary.''' This is quite important. There are several locations in the game after the Water Temple, where you might think that it was impossible to do without the Fire Arrows. However, a little thought reveals an alternate solution in all cases. Usually you can use Din's Fire, or shoot an ordinary arrow through an existing flame; for the cavernous gap protecting the Shadow Barrier in Ganon's Castle, you can get across by simply using your Longshot on the unlit torch on the right, and again on the Like Like at the far side.

* Ice Arrows - unnecessary. What the hell use are these anyway?

* Ice Arrows - unnecessary. What the hell use are these anyway?

* Light Arrows - necessary. This is the only way to destroy the Barriers in Ganon's Castle.

* Light Arrows - necessary. The Barriers in Ganon's Castle are skipped entirely, but we do need them to stun Ganondorf.

===Magic===

===Magic===

* Din's Fire - necessary. Used in two places - to enter the Shadow Temple, and for one puzzle within the Shadow Temple.

* Din's Fire - unnecessary. Skipped using A sidehop over the loading area for the door in the beginning of Shadow, and is also skipped in the skipped in the Boss Key room of the Shadow Temple by having the zombie freeze you and then having the wall pass through you.

* [[Farore's Wind]] - unnecessary. Used only for warping.

* [[Farore's Wind]] - unnecessary. Used only for warping.

* Nayru's Love - unnecessary. Shields you from attack.

* Nayru's Love - unnecessary. Shields you from attack.

===Bottles and bottlable items===

===Bottles and bottlable items===

* Bottles - except for the first, unnecessary. While it's technically possible to get your first bottle by winning the Super Cucco Game at Lon Lon Ranch, the first bottle you find is usually found at Lake Hylia. It contains Princess Ruto's plea for help and is necessary to get King Zora to shift his lazy rear out of your path to Zora's Fountain. This bottle is used several more times in the game. There are, however, no occasions when you need a second, third or fourth bottle.

* Bottles - ALL OF THEM including the first are unnecessary. Use the Sword Glitch to skip King Zora and you can skip both the bottle, and the gold/silver scale entirely.

* Poes - unnecessary.

* Poes - unnecessary.

* Big Poes - unnecessary. These are caught and sold to the Poe Dealer in exchange for an equally unnecessary extra Bottle.

* Big Poes - unnecessary. These are caught and sold to the Poe Dealer in exchange for an equally unnecessary extra Bottle.

* Blue Fire - necessary. Carried in a Bottle and used to melt certain pink ice barriers in the Ice Cavern.

* Blue Fire - unnecessary. Firstoff, even if we did complete water temple, we would still skip the iron boots using FW dive, Ocarina Dive, Bottle Dive, etc... so, even then we skip Ice caverns. In a min% run we would skip Water Temple too so it is absolutely unnecessary.

* Bugs - unnecessary. Only used for finding Gold Skulltulas.

* Bugs - unnecessary. Only used for finding Gold Skulltulas.

* Fish - necessary. Used to get Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly.

* Fish - unecessary. Technically we can enter Jabu w/out one so they aren't necessary... but to get light arrows on B we need to get one and that skips alot more stuff, so that is technically an item you wouldn't skip.

* Lon Lon Milk - unnecessary. Replenishes health.

* Lon Lon Milk - unnecessary. Replenishes health.

* Red Potion - unnecessary. Recovers your health.

* Red Potion - unnecessary. Recovers your health.

The Mask Of Truth trading sequence actually extends all the way back to the Weird Egg that Malon Gives you.

The Mask Of Truth trading sequence actually extends all the way back to the Weird Egg that Malon Gives you.

* Weird Egg - necessary. After it hatches you need it to wake Talon.

* Weird Egg - unnecessary. Skipped using either sword glitch or using bombchu boosts.

* Cucco - necessary. Hatches from the Weird Egg that Malon gives you at Hyrule Castle; used to wake Talon and move him out of your way.

* Cucco - unnecessary. Hatches from the Weird Egg that Malon gives you at Hyrule Castle; used to wake Talon and move him out of your way.

* Zelda's Letter - necessary. You need to use it to gain access to Death Mountain.

* Zelda's Letter - unnecessary. Just grab the Bombchus in Child Spirit and then go through the Lost Woods -> Goron City way to get to Dodongo's Cavern.

 

However, everything after this is as unnecessary as the Mask Of Truth itself:

However, everything after this is as unnecessary as the Mask Of Truth itself:

* Adult Wallet - unnecessary. No quest-critical object costs more than your default wallet capacity of 99 rupees.

* Adult Wallet - unnecessary. No quest-critical object costs more than your default wallet capacity of 99 rupees.

* Giant's Wallet - unnecessary. No quest-critical object costs more than your default wallet capacity of 99 rupees.

* Giant's Wallet - unnecessary. No quest-critical object costs more than your default wallet capacity of 99 rupees.

* Bomb Bag - necessary. First used in Dodongo's Cavern to open up Giant Dodongo's mouth and proceed further into the dungeon, but has myriad other uses. Unnecessary, however, are the two Bomb Bag upgrades.

* Bomb Bag - unnecessary. You can use the Bombchus instead and can light dodongo's eyes w/ them. The only issue is that it is faster to get both.

* Deku Seeds Bullet Bag - necessary. Comes bundled with the Fairy Slingshot. Both upgrades to its size, however, are unnecessary.

* Deku Seeds Bullet Bag - unnecessary. If you skip the slingshot then you can skip this too.

* Quiver - necessary. Comes bundled with the Fairy Bow. Both of the available upgrades to its capacity are of course unnecessary.

* Quiver - necessary. Comes bundled with the Fairy Bow. Both of the available upgrades to its capacity are of course unnecessary.

* Goron's Bracelet - necessary. The only way to open Dodongo's Cavern is to get a bomb from the bomb flower above it; you need the Goron Bracelet to do that.

* Goron's Bracelet - unnecessary. You can open up Dodongo's Cavern using the Bombchus

* Silver Gauntlets - necessary. Needed to reach the adult part of the Spirit Temple.

* Silver Gauntlets - unnecessary. Skipped using hover trick off the statue to climb up onto the top of the block in Spirit Temple.

* Golden Gauntlets - necessary; used to break the Fire Barrier in Ganon's Castle.

* Golden Gauntlets - unnecessary; You can use Ganon's Tower Skip to go straight past the stuff you need these for.

* Silver Scale - necessary. Needed to dive down and reach Ruto's bottle.

* Silver Scale - unnecessary. If you skip past King Zora using the sword glitch and bomb hover then you can skip the bottle and thusly, can skip this as well.

* Golden Scale - unnecessary. Only helps you with your diving, and you have Iron Boots.

* Golden Scale - unnecessary.

===Swords===

===Swords===

* Kokiri Sword - necessary. Used to convince Mido into letting you through to see the Great Deku Tree. (Note: you "borrow" this sword at the start of the game, but never actually return it.)

* Kokiri Sword - '''unnecessary'''. Used to convince Mido into letting you through to see the Great Deku Tree. (Note: you "borrow" this sword at the start of the game, but never actually return it.)

 

 

* Master Sword - necessary. Needed to deal the final blow to Ganon... among many other things.

* Master Sword - necessary. Needed to deal the final blow to Ganon... among many other things.

* Giant's Knife - unnecessary; breaks after 100 uses in any case.

* Giant's Knife - unnecessary; breaks after 100 uses in any case.

===Shields===

===Shields===

* Deku Shield - necessary. Used to convince Mido to let you through to see the Great Deku Tree.

* Deku Shield - necessary. Used to convince Mido to let you through to see the Great Deku Tree.  

* '''Hylian Shield - unnecessary.''' While extremely useful for defence, a skilful player can play as far as the Mirror Shield without dying, simply by avoiding enemy attacks.

* '''Hylian Shield - unnecessary.''' While extremely useful for defence, a skilful player can play as far as the Mirror Shield without dying, simply by avoiding enemy attacks.

* Mirror Shield - necessary. This is the only way to hurt Twinrova.

* Mirror Shield - unnecessary. While this is the only way to hurt Twinrova, you can skip it using the Light arrow B glitch since you don't need to beat the temple at all when you use that.

===Tunics===

===Tunics===

====Goron Tunic - unnecessary====

====Goron Tunic - unnecessary====

Right. This is going to take a bit of explaining. There are several reasons you need the Goron Tunic.

Right. This is going to take a bit of explaining. There are several reasons you need the Goron Tunic.

* Kokiri Boots - necessary. You start the game with these boots.

* Kokiri Boots - necessary. You start the game with these boots.

* Iron Boots - necessary. First needed to get into the Water Temple.

* Iron Boots - unnecessary. You don't even beat water, and if you did there are numerous other diving techniques with which are at your disposal that don't include these.

* Hover Boots - necessary. Used to enter the main part of the Shadow Temple.

* Hover Boots - unnecessary. Everything you use them for is skippable w/ bomb hover. The issue is that it is way slower. Also, you can't do the Ganon's Tower Early (For the light arrow B trick) w/out Hover boots unless you have an extensive supply of bombs and use bombhover. So it is probably not worth it, but in a min% you really don't have a choice. You must collect the minimal amount of items regardless if it is slower.

==Quest Status Subscreen items==

==Quest Status Subscreen items==

* Gold Skulltula Tokens - unnecessary. These can be traded in for several different rewards at the House of Skulltula; all of them unnecessary.

* Gold Skulltula Tokens - unnecessary. These can be traded in for several different rewards at the House of Skulltula; all of them unnecessary.

* Gerudo's Card - necessary. It's the only way to get the Gerudo to open the gate to the Haunted Wasteland.

* Gerudo's Card - unnecessary. Early Chile spirit skips it and when you learn the requiem that skips it too... unfortunately, if you aren't doing Light arrow B and have to complete the adult spirit you will have to skip the requiem and use another method to skip the fence.

* Stone Of Agony - unnecessary. Alerts you to nearby secrets by activating your Rumble Pak.

* Stone Of Agony - unnecessary. Alerts you to nearby secrets by activating your Rumble Pak.

* Piece of Heart - unnecessary. Used to extend your health meter.

* Piece of Heart - unnecessary. Used to extend your health meter.

* Epona's Song - unnecessary, as is Epona. She's just a quick way to get around.

* Epona's Song - unnecessary, as is Epona. She's just a quick way to get around.

* Saria's Song - necessary. You need to play this to Darunia to get the Goron's Bracelet.

* Saria's Song - unnecessary. Can be skipped by backflipping over mido w/ the proper angle.

* Scarecrow's Song - unnecessary.

* Scarecrow's Song - unnecessary.

* Song of Storms - unnecessary. Its main purpose is to drain the well as child Link, so that you can get the equally unnecessary Lens of Truth.

* Song of Storms - unnecessary. Its main purpose is to drain the well as child Link, so that you can get the equally unnecessary Lens of Truth.

* Song of Time - necessary. Needed to open the Door Of Time.

* Song of Time - necessary. Needed to open the Door Of Time.

* Sun's Song - unnecessary. Zombies can be beaten by other means.

* Sun's Song - unnecessary. Zombies can be beaten by other means.

* Zelda's Lullaby - necessary. Used to complete a large number of puzzles.

* Zelda's Lullaby - necessary. When using Light arrow B, we can skip shadow and spirit, but we need magic for the arrows which requires lullaby to get.

 

* Minuet of Forest - unnecessary. A min% run can enter forest temple and get the bow as a kid and thusly skips that cutscene entirely. Though it is slower than beating Forest up till the bow as an adult.

* Minuet of Forest - necessary. There is no way to enter the Forest Temple without enduring this cutscene.

* '''Bolero of Fire - unnecessary.''' See the entry for Goron Tunic to find out how to circumvent the area of Death Mountain Crater which triggers the Bolero Of Fire sequence.

* '''Bolero of Fire - unnecessary.''' See the entry for Goron Tunic to find out how to circumvent the area of Death Mountain Crater which triggers the Bolero Of Fire sequence.

* Serenade of Water - necessary. After you get the Iron Boots you have to sit through this cutscene.

* Serenade of Water - unnecessary. Water is skipped, and iron boots are skipped regardless of whether you skip water or not.

* Prelude of Light - necessary. It is impossible to beat the game without going back to being child Link at least once... to do this, you must return to the Master Sword section of the Temple of Time... and if you do that, you'll be exposed to the Prelude of Light cutscene.

* Prelude of Light - unnecessary. You can beat the game w/out going back in time... you can also beat it w/out beating forest too. But in a Mion% in order to skip other things you will see it because you have to go back to do light arrow B.

* Nocturne of Shadow - necessary. This is the only way to reach the entrance to the Shadow Temple.

* Nocturne of Shadow - unnecessary. Using bombhover or using bombchu boosts you can get into shadow w/out having the Nocturne.

* Requiem of Spirit - necessary. There is no other way for child Link to reach the Desert Colossus.

* Requiem of Spirit - unnecessary. Early Child spirit gets the bombchus and adult spirit can be skipped...

===Stones and Medallions===

===Stones and Medallions===

You need all three Spiritual Stones and all six Medallions to beat the game, so the following are all necessary:

To beat the game you need all 3 spiritual stones, and you need 2/3 Medallions. Here are the 2 options:

 

 

* Kokiri Emerald

* Kokiri Emerald

* Light Medallion

* Light Medallion

* Shadow Medallion

* Shadow Medallion

* Spirit Medallion

* Spirit Medallion

* Arrows - necessary. Used earliest to shoot Poe paintings in the Forest Temple, but necessary for uncountable other puzzles.

* Arrows - necessary. Used earliest to shoot Poe paintings in the Forest Temple, but necessary for uncountable other puzzles.

* Bombchu - necessary. There is exactly one location in the game where you absolutely need to use a Bombchu. That is in Ganon's Castle, on the path to destroy the Spirit Barrier. You use a Bombchu to hit a distant switch which is unreachable by any other means. There's a crate of them right nearby which is handy.

* Bombchu - unnecessary. But... due to the need for either these or bombs, you can skip more w/ these than without them.

* Bombs - necessary. Lots of things in this game need bombing.

* Bombs - unnecessary. Can be skipped w/ bombchus, but more can be skipped w/ these than w/out them.

* Deku Nut - technically unnecessary, although the fact that it may fall from any dead enemy or destroyed pot or plant means that you will almost certainly collect some of these accidentally during your quest.

* Deku Nut - technically unnecessary, although if you skip them you can't skip the slingshot since you need to stun ghoma and there are only 2 items that can do that.

* Deku Seeds - necessary to use your Fairy Slingshot. First really needed for an eye switch Inside The Deku Tree.

* Deku Seeds - unnecessary if you skip the slingshot.

* Deku Stick - necessary. Used to light torches to solve various puzzles as child Link.

* Deku Stick - necessary. Used to light torches to solve various puzzles as child Link.

* Magic Beans - unnecessary.

* Magic Beans - unnecessary.

* '''Small Key - almost always necessary, with some important exceptions.''' In the Water Temple, it is possible to skip any single Small Key due to a level design oversight which enables you to cunningly bypass one of the locked doors. Also, in the Shadow Temple, the Farore's Wind trick can be used to skip four of them. Since they don't show up in your inventory, however, Small Keys aren't usually considered to be "items" as such.

* '''Small Key - almost always necessary, with some important exceptions.''' In the Water Temple, it is possible to skip any single Small Key due to a level design oversight which enables you to cunningly bypass one of the locked doors. Also, in the Shadow Temple, the Farore's Wind trick can be used to skip four of them. Since they don't show up in your inventory, however, Small Keys aren't usually considered to be "items" as such.

* Heart Container - unnecessary. A number of people have beaten the whole game on just the original three hearts you receive, and with no deaths.

* Heart Container - unnecessary. A number of people have beaten the whole game on just the original three hearts you receive, and with no deaths.

* Fishing Pole - unnecessary. Who needs fish?

* Fishing Pole - unnecessary. But you can skip alot more w/ one then w/out one since you can use light arrow B.

* Sinking Lure - unnecessary. Fishing? FISHING?!

* Sinking Lure - unnecessary. Fishing? FISHING?!

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