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Ice Palace

Boss	Kholdstare
Dungeon item	Blue Mail
Previous dungeon	Thieves' Town
Next dungeon	Misery Mire

Any% NMG

Spooky action

When you flute from outside of Skull Woods to Link's House, the duck exiting the screen sets an ancilla value that will mess with the Fire Rod shot in the first room of Ice Palace. In order to fix this variable, you should activate the flute and then transition the screen prior to the duck appearing on screen. This is most commonly done on the Link's House overworld screen, where you would activate the flute just prior to transitioning the screen north to the castle gate.

Castle Gate

It is possible to dash directly into the quick warp inside the castle gate (Link needs to be 1 or 2 pixels away from the right wall) by lining up with the signpost when you enter the screen, but it is a bad idea for two reasons:

1. If you dash from that position, both the red and blue soldier can randomly hit you out of your dash. Damage will be taken, lag and chaos will ensue, seconds will be lost.
2. Dashing into this warp causes around 20 extra frames of lag during the transition. Always cancel your dash before entering the warp.

A safe way to get across the bridge is to just dash a little further to the right, cancel your dash in front of the wall and then walk into the quick warp. After the transition hold down when you start your dash, otherwise you will dash at an awkward height where your sword does not cut the grass in front of you and you'll run at reduced speed. You can be fancy and block a spear that might be coming your way while you charge the last dash or just dash a few pixels lower. After you get to the next screen turn Link up before starting the next dash or you'll pick up the signpost in your way.

Ropa Lottery

If Link is at least 2 pixels away from the wall when entering the screen, you can just walk past the first Ropa and never get hit. Alternatively you can dash through and kill it.

The second Ropa is a total crapshoot. Walk diagonally when you pass Ropa #1 and don't nudge against the tree when you start the dash. Get hit roughly 10-20% of the time. Consider grabbing some of the upcoming backup-hearts.

Quake

There is a very simple setup for the quick warp on this screen. Bonk into the right wall immediately after you throw something into the water and the camera will be in the correct position. Just don't touch left or right on the D-pad until after the mirror warp.

Minimize the time Link spends walking in the water and carrying objects. After mirroring cancel the east dash with up once you hit the mini-slope, then start the next dash with up-right against the wall. Cancel this last dash before you hit the transition to Zora's Domain to mitigate a significant amount of lag.

If you use the bush from up on the hill, you get a 50% chance of a heart drop and barely waste any time. The stone next to Link after you use the mirror has the same 50% chance for a heart. On top of that the crabs' drops are almost always hearts, but hunting them down can be dangerous as well. You can get some relatively quick health refills on this screen, but none of them are guaranteed drops and you have to be careful to not get hit again in the process.

"Quickfish"

There is a 5x9 pixel window from which you can throw an object where it will land outside the circle of rocks, but still spawn the Catfish. The range of coordinates are shown below.

First Room

The Freezor wakes up once you move half a tile to the left - only your horizontal position matters. If you clearly hit him with the Fire Rod and he still didn't take damage, you shot too early. Sometimes you can hit him very early, but it's pure luck. To be safe walk at least as far into the room as shown in the picture before you shoot the rod.

If you performed the ancilla correction mentioned earlier in the article, then this Fire Rod shot is much easier. Simply shoot the Fire Rod into the wall as the Freezor is waking up, and the splash damage will damage him.

Ice 02

In this room we want to avoid killing all the enemies to prevent the door from re-opening (which pauses the game for a moment). It's possible to abuse the long death animation, that happens when you kill something with the Fire Rod to get a jelly out of your way and still make it out of the room before the door opens. Watch your magic meter! Optimally you don't want to use the Fire Rod more than twice throughout the whole dungeon, because that way there is just enough magic refills in the pots before Kholdstare. You also want to avoid leaving the room on the same frame that the last enemy dies. Doing this can cause the sprites in the remainder of the dungeon to spawn incorrectly or not at all, preventing you from progressing.

There is plenty of RNG at work in this room and no single strat will work every time. Time to improvise again.

Walkthrough for the beam-strat:

1. Hold < for a little bit when you step onto the ice.
2. Change to <v to get some vertical momentum.
3. Hold < again during the slashes. Space them out enough to fire two beams.
4. Start holding <^ before collecting the key. Hold only diagonals from here.
5. Press A to lock Link in place on top of the key while it's spawning.
6. While holding A, change to ^> and hold it until you're off the ice.
7. Fire Rod the last jelly if it's in the way.

Pengator Switch Room

This room can be extremely laggy. Try not to touch diagonals and don't slash at enemies, especially with beams and when all of them are still alive.

Bombable Floor

How early you can drop the second bomb entirely depends on the random movement of the jellies in the upper half of the room. Keep an eye on them and try to find the earliest safe opportunity to place the bomb. To be as safe as possible, you can take your time and slash the jellies out of the way first. In the end the most important thing is to not waste bombs or take damage.

• You can hold right coming out of this door.
• The timing of the first bomb determines when the orange pegs rise from the floor. If that switch activation causes you trouble when you try to throw the bomb, try dropping the first bomb earlier or later.
• Slash at the first switch from far enough right to avoid the jelly next to it.
• Link can get stuck in the tight corner when you walk diagonally for some reason. Hold up until you made it past the wall to avoid that.
• If you get hit by the explosion of the second bomb, it will push you off the orange pegs and force you to hit the switch again. To be completely safe you can start pushing down during the pause that happens when the pegs switch.

Stalfos Knights

If you enter the room with only one bomb, you need to delay dropping the bomb until you collected the new one from under the pot or the game will auto-switch you to the next item and you have to menu again.

Moving Floor

When you enter this room your eyes need to be set on the two jellies and the direction the floor is moving in. With sword beams you can kill the key-jelly early and take intentional damage from the spikes to set up a dash through the entire room. The jellies' movement is random and aiming beams to hit the correct jelly can be tricky on the moving floor. Depending on the direction the floor is moving in and the positioning of the jellies, you'll have to decide on the fly if you want to take damage or try maneuvering through the room manually. Improvise!

• Even without beams it can still be a good idea to walk into the spike and dash when the floor is moving right, because walking against the conveyor is just so slow.
• The black Babusu enemies deal two hearts of damage, so sometimes it might be a better idea to walk into a spike or jelly to take less damage and avoid getting hit by them.
• The exit door and moving floor don't work too well together. Prepare to get stuck and wiggle your way outta there.
• If you messed up the jelly room earlier, remember that the crystal switch needs to be set to blue.
• The floor starts moving when you enter the previous room, so if you savestate in front of the door you will always get the same initial floor movement. Practice both rooms together for best results.

Ice Palace Bomb Jump

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Pengator Spin Room

It's useful to get in the habit of slashing down when you enter the room (just press B without any D-pad input), because sometimes you will have beams and you don't want to accidentally hit a Pengator and mess up the line. Missing one guy can quickly cost something like three seconds.

Lonely Firebar

These are the two extremes in terms of safety and speed. Of course you can come up with any number of compromises inbetween.

Block Switch

There are two ways to catastrophically mess this room up, resulting in a locked door in front of you. The only way to open it then is to go back upstairs and return to reset the room completely.

Pushing the block in the wrong direction and putting it out of range of the switch.

You can only push the block once. Trying to never press left on the D-pad in this room can be a good idea. Only tap up, then push down until the block moves, then right immediately and start a dash down.

Toggling the switch twice with the block in position on the switch.

There are three ways to toggle this switch: 1. Link steps onto it 2. Link steps off it 3. The block is moved onto it. On top of that the switch is no longer toggleable once the block is on it.

Since you land on top of the block you can sometimes accidentally step onto the switch with Link while you are pushing the block down, resulting in an extra toggle (Link hits switch: door opens -> block hits switch: door closes -> switch blocked). To avoid this, make sure to push the block for as short as possible and walk right immediately when it starts moving. You can also walk up far enough that Link is not standing on top of the block any more before you start to push, if you want to be extra safe.

If you already walked onto the switch, there is still enough time to get off it (which toggles it a third time and opens the door back up) before the block arrives in position - if you react fast enough. If you want to be optimal, tap up-right instead of up before pushing. You can also have Link face down in the previous room before falling into the hole to mitigate human error and maybe save some frames.

Magic Refill

Make extra sure not to touch the statue when you walk past it, because it will slow Link down immensely.

Collected Items

You pick up Quake Medallion and Zora's Flippers in this segment.

Boss

Main article: Kholdstare

100% NMG

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