ALttPDoorRandomizer

This is a door randomizer for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES based on the Entrance Randomizer found at KevinCathcart's Github Project. See https://alttpr.com/ for more details on the normal randomizer.

Documentation

1. Setup and Installation
2. Commonly Missed Things (** Read This If New **)
3. Settings
   1. Dungeon Randomization
      1. Dungeon Door Shuffle
      2. Intensity Level
      3. Key Drop Shuffle (Legacy)
      4. Door Type Shuffle
      5. Trap Door Removal
      6. Key Logic Algorithm
      7. Dungeon Items
      8. Decouple Doors
      9. Allow Self-Looping Spiral Stairs
      10. Experimental Features
      11. Crossed Dungeon Specific Settings
   2. Pool Expansions
      1. Pottery
      2. Small Key Shuffle
      3. Shuffle Enemy Drops
      4. Take Any Caves
   3. Item Randomization Changes
      1. New "Items"
      2. Shopsanity
      3. Logic Level
      4. Goal
      5. Item Sorting
      6. Forbidden Boss Items
   4. Customizer
   5. Entrance Randomization
      1. Shuffle Links House
      2. Overworld Map
   6. Enemizer
   7. Glitched Logic
   8. Retro Changes
   9. Standard Changes
   10. Game Options
   11. Generation Setup & Miscellaneous

Setup and Installation

Feedback and Bug Reports

You can use the #bug-reports or #door-rando channel at the ALTTP Randomizer discord to provide feedback or bug reports.

Installation

Click on

https://github.com/aerinon/ALttPDoorRandomizer/releases

Go down to Assets and find a build for your system (Windows, Mac, or Linux)

Download and unzip. Find the DungeonRandomizer.exe or equivalent

Installation from source

See these instructions.

https://github.com/aerinon/ALttPDoorRandomizer/blob/DoorDev/docs/BUILDING.md

When installing platform specific dependencies, don't forget to run the appropriate command from the bottom of the page! Those will install missing pip dependencies.

Running the MultiServer and MultiClient for multiworld should run resources/ci/common/local_install.py for those dependencies as well.

To use the CLI, run DungeonRandomizer.py.

Alternatively, run Gui.py for a simple graphical user interface.

Commonly Missed Things

and Differences from other Randomizers

Most of these apply only when the door shuffle is not vanilla.

Starting Item

You start with a “Mirror Scroll” (it looks like a map), a dumbed-down mirror that only works in dungeons, not the overworld, and can’t erase blocks like the Mirror.

Navigation

• Holes in Mire Torches Top and Mire Torches Bottom fall through to rooms below (you only need fire to get the chest)
• You can Hookshot from the left Mire wooden Bridge to the right one.
• In the PoD Arena, you can bonk with Boots between the two blue crystal barriers against the ladder to reach the Arena Bridge chest and door. (Bomb Jump also possible but not in logic - Boots are required)
• Flooded Rooms in Swamp can be traversed backward and may be required. The flippers are needed to get out of the water.

Other Logic

• The chest in southeast Skull Woods that is traditionally a guaranteed Small Key in ER is not guaranteed here.
• Fire Rod is not in logic for dark rooms. (Hard enough to figure out which dark room you are in.) This is different from Advanced mode on the VT randomizer. Otherwise Advanced logic is always used. (There is no basic logic.)
• The hammerjump (and some other skips) are not in logic by default (see the mixed_travel setting for details). Doing so in a crossed dungeon seed can put you into another dungeon with the wrong dungeon id. (Much like EG)

Boss Differences

• You have to find the attic floor and bomb it open and bring the maiden to the light to fight Blind. In cross dungeon door shuffle, the attic can be in any dungeon. If you bring the maiden to the boss arena, she will hint were the cracked floor can be found. If hints are on, there is a special one about the cracked floor.
• GT Bosses do not respawn after killing them in this mode.
• Enemizer change: The attic/maiden sequence is now active and required when Blind is the boss of Theives' Town even when bosses are shuffled.

Crystal Switches

• You can hit the PoD crystal switch in the Sexy Statue room with a bomb from the balcony above without jumping down.
• GT Crystal Conveyor room (it has gibdos) - You can hit the crystal switch with a bomb when the blue barrier is up from the far side so you can leave the room to the left with blue barriers down.
• PoD Arena Bridge. If entering from the bridge, you can circle round and hit the switch, then fall into the hole to respawn at the bridge again with the crystal barriers different (if you don’t have a proper ranged weapon that can hit it)

Misc

• Compass counts no longer function after you get the Triforce (this is actually true in all randomizers)

Settings

Dungeon Settings

Only extra settings are found here. All entrance randomizer settings are supported. See their readme

Door Shuffle

• Vanilla - Doors are not shuffled
• Basic - Doors are shuffled only within a single dungeon.
• Paritioned - Dungeons are shuffled in 3 pools: Light World, Early Dark World, Late Dark World. (Late Dark are the four dungeons that require Mitts in vanilla, including Ganons Tower)
• Crossed - Doors are shuffled between dungeons as well.

CLI: --doorShuffle [vanilla|basic|partitioned|crossed]

Intensity (--intensity number)

• Level 1 - Normal door and spiral staircases are shuffled
• Level 2 - Same as Level 1 plus open edges and both types of straight staircases are shuffled.
• Level 3 - Same as Level 2 plus Dungeon Lobbies are shuffled

Door Type Shuffle

Four options here, and all of them only take effect if Dungeon Door Shuffle is not vanilla:

• Small Key Doors, Bomb Doors, Dash Doors: This is what was normally shuffled previously
• Adds Big Keys Doors: Big key doors are now shuffled in addition to those above, and Big Key doors are enabled to be on in both vertical directions thanks to a graphic that ended up on the cutting room floor. This does change
• Adds Trap Doors: All trap doors that are permanently shut in vanilla are shuffled, excluding those by bosses.
• Increases all Door Types: This is a chaos mode where each door type per dungeon is randomized between 1 less and 4 more.

CLI: --door_type_mode [original|big|all|chaos]

Trap Door Removal

Options here for making dungeon traversal nicer. Only applies if door shuffle is not vanilla.

• No Removal: This does not remove any trap doors.
• Removed If Blocking Path: Dungeon generation is relaxed to allow annoying trap doors to be removed if necessary. Note that boss trap doors are never shuffled in this mode.
• Remove Boss Traps: Boss traps are removed, this includes the one near Mothula.
• Remove All Annoying Traps: This removes all trap doors that are annoying, including boss traps.

If trap doors are shuffled the first two option behave the same. The last option overrides the shuffle because there is nothing left to shuffle. Boss traps are never shuffled.

In all cases, that the trap door near the mire cutscene chest (Mire Warping Pool ES) is left alone because it enforces the use of fire to get to the chest.

CLI: --trap_door_mode [vanilla|optional|boss|oneway]

Dungeon Items

Small Keys

• In Dungeon: Small keys are restricted to their own dungeon
• Randomized: Small keys to dungeon can be found anywhere
• Universal: Small keys are not specific to their own dungeon, can be found anywhere, and there will be at least one shop that sells keys. Hearkens back to the original Legend of Zelda.

CLI: --keyshuffle [none|wild|universal]

All other dungeon items can be restricted to their own dungeon or shuffled in the general pool. This includes maps, compasses and Big Keys.

Key Logic Algorithm

Determines how small key door logic works.

• Partial Protection: Assumes you always have full inventory and worse case usage. This should account for dark room and bunny revival glitches.
• Strict: For those would like to glitch and be protected from yourselves. Small keys door require all small keys to be available to be in logic.
• Dangerous: Assumes you never use keys out of logic. This is the most dangerous setting and not recommend for use.

CLI: --key_logic [partial|strict|dangerous]

Decouple Doors

This is similar to insanity mode in ER where door entrances and exits are not paired anymore. Tends to remove more logic from dungeons as many rooms will not be required to traverse to explore. Hope you like transitions.

CLI: --decoupledoors

Allow Self-Looping Spiral Stairs

If enabled, spiral stairs are allowed to lead to themselves.

CLI: --door_self_loops

Experimental Features

You will start as a bunny if your spawn point is in the dark world. CLI: --experimental

Crossed Dungeon Specific Settings

Dungeon Chest Counters

• Auto - picks an appropriate setting based on other settings. Generally will be pickup if the number of item in a dungeon changes.
• On - Dungeon counters on hud always displayed
• Off - Dungeon counters on hud never displayer
• On Compass Pickup - Dungeons with a compass item will display the counter once the compass is found. Dungeons without a compass item will display always unless the number of items in the dungeon is completely vanilla.

CLI: --dungeon_counters from auto, on, off, pickup

Mixed Travel (--mixed_travel value)

Due to Hammerjump, Hovering in PoD Arena, and the Mire Big Key Chest bomb jump, two sections of a supertile that are otherwise unconnected logically can be reached using these glitches. To prevent the player from unintentionally changing dungeons while doing these tricks, you may use one of the following options:

• Prevent (default): Rails are added the 3 spots to prevent these tricks. This setting is recommend for those learning crossed dungeon mode to learn what is dangerous and what is not. No logic seeds ignore this setting.
• Allow: The rooms are left alone and it is up to the discretion of the player whether to use these tricks or not.
• Force: The two disjointed sections are forced to be in the same dungeon but the glitches are never logically required to complete that game.

Standardize Palettes (--standardize_palettes)

No effect if door shuffle is not on crossed

• Standardize (default): Rooms in the same dungeon have their palettes changed to match. Hyrule Castle is split between Sewer and HC palette. Rooms adjacent to sanctuary get their coloring to match the Sanctuary's original palette.
• Original: Rooms/supertiles keep their original palettes.

Pool Expansions

Pottery

New pottery option that control which pots (and large blocks) are in the locations pool:

• None: No pots are in the pool, like normal randomizer
• Key Pots: The pots that have keys are in the pool. This is about half of the old keydropshuffle option
• Cave Pots: The pots that are not found in dungeons are in the pool. (Includes the large block in Spike Cave). Does not include key pots.
• Cave + Keys Pots: Both non-dungeon pots and pots that used to have keys are in the pool.
• Reduced Dungeon Pots: Same as Cave+Keys but also roughly a quarter of dungeon pots are added to the location pool picked at random. This is a dynamic mode so pots in the pool will be colored. Pots out of the pool will have vanilla contents.
• Clustered Dungeon Pots: Like reduced but pots are grouped by logical sets and roughly 50% of pots are chosen from those groups. This is a dynamic mode like the above.
• Excludes Empty Pots: All pots that had some sort of objects under them are chosen to be in the location pool. This excludes most large blocks and some pots out of dungeons.
• Dungeon Pots: The pots that are in dungeons are in the pool. (Includes several large blocks)
• Lottery: All pots and large blocks are in the pool.

By default, switches remain in their vanilla location (unless you turn on the legacy option below)

CLI --pottery <option> from none, keys, cave, cavekeys, reduced, clustered, nonempty, dungeon, lottery

Note for multiworld: due to the design of the pottery lottery, only 256 items for other players can be under pots in your world.

Colorize Pots

If the pottery mode is dynamic, this option is forced to be on (clustered and reduced). It is allowed to be on in all other pottery modes. Exceptions include "none" where no pots would be colored, and "lottery" where all pots would be. This option colors the pots differently that have been chosen to be part of the location pool. If not specified, you are expected to remember the pottery setting you chose. Note that Mystery will colorize all pots if lottery is chosen randomly.

CLI --colorizepots

Pot Shuffle (Legacy)

This continues to works the same by shuffling all pots on a supertile. It works with the lottery option as well to move the switches to any valid pot on the supertile regardless of the pots chosen in the pottery mode. This may increase the number of pot locations slightly depending on the mode.

Shuffle Enemy Drops

Option that controls whether enemies that drop items are randomized or not.

• None: Special enemies drop keys normally
• Keys: Enemies that drop keys are added to the randomization pool. Includes the Hyrule Castle Big Key. Universal adds generic keys to the pool instead.
• Underworld: Enemies in the underworld are added to the randomization pool. Vanilla drops from the various drop tables are added to the item pool. In caves and in dungeons while you have the compass, a blue square will indicate if there are any enemies on the supertile that still have an available drop in the dungeon. Certain enemies do have logical requirements. In particular, the Red Bari requires Fire Rod or Bombos to collect its drop. More information in the Enemizer section.

CLI: --dropshuffle [none|keys|underworld]

Enable Key Drop Shuffle (Legacy)

This sets Pottery to "Key Pots" and Shuffle Enemy Drop to "Keys" unless those option have already been changed.

Take Any Caves

These are now independent of retro mode and have three options: None, Random, and Fixed. None disables the caves. Random works as take-any caves did before. Fixed means that the take any caves replace specific fairy caves in the pool and will be at those entrances unless ER is turned on (then they can be shuffled wherever). The fixed entrances are:

• Desert Healer Fairy
• Swamp Healer Fairy (aka Light Hype Cave)
• Dark Death Mountain Healer Fairy
• Dark Lake Hylia Ledge Healer Fairy (aka Shopping Mall Bomb)
• Bonk Fairy (Dark)

Item Randomization

New "Items"

Bombbag

Two bomb bags are added to the item pool (They look like +10 Capacity upgrades). Bombs are unable to be used until one is found. Bomb capacity upgrades are otherwise unavailable.

CLI --bombbag

Pseudo Boots

Dashing is allowed without the boots item however doors and certain rocks remain un-openable until boots are found. Items that require boots are still unattainable. Specific sequence breaks like hovering and water-walking are not allowed until boots are found. Bonk distance is shortened to prevent certain pits from being crossed. Finding boots restores all normal behavior.

CLI --pseudoboots

Mirror Scroll

Mirror is usable inside dungeons. Locations that require the mirror are still unattainable.

CLI --mirrorscroll

Flute Mode

Normal mode for flute means you need to activate it at the village statue after finding it like usual. Activated flute mode mean you can use it immediately upon finding it. The flute SFX plays to let you know this is the case.

CLI:--flute_mode

Bow Mode

Four options here :

• Progressive. Standard progressive bows.
• Silvers separate. One bow in the pool and silvers are a separate item.
• Retro (progressive). Arrows cost rupees. You need to purchase the single arrow item at a shop and there are two progressive bows places.
• Retro + Silvers. Arrows cost rupees. You need to purchase the single arrow item or find the silvers, there is only one bow, and silvers are a separate item (but count for the quiver if found).

CLI: --bow_mode [progressive|silvers|retro|retro_silvers]

Shopsanity

This adds 32 shop locations (9 more in retro) to the general location pool.

Multi-world supported. Thanks go to Pepper and CaitSith2 for figuring out several items related to this major feature.

Shop locations:

• Lake Hylia Cave Shop (3 items)
• Kakariko Village Shop (3 items)
• Potion Shop (3 new items)
• Paradox Cave Shop (3 items)
• Capacity Upgrade Fairy (2 items)
• Dark Lake Hylia Shop (3 items)
• Curiosity/Red Shield Shop (3 items)
• Dark Lumberjack Shop (3 items)
• Dark Potion Shop (3 items)
• Village of Outcast Hammer Peg Shop (3 items)
• Dark Death Mountain Shop (3 items)

Item Pool changes: To accommodate the new locations, new items are added to the pool, as follows:

• 10 - Red Potion Refills
• 9 - Ten Bombs
• 4 - Small Hearts
• 4 - Blue Shields
• 1 - Red Shield
• 1 - Bee
• 1 - Ten Arrows
• 1 - Green Potion Refill
• 1 - Blue Potion Refill
• 1 - +5 Bomb Capacity
• 1 - +5 Arrow Capacity

1. Initially, 1 of each type of potion refill is shuffled to the shops. (the Capacity Fairy is excluded from this, see step 4). This ensures that potions can be bought somewhere.
2. The rest of the shop pool is shuffled with the rest of the item pool.
3. At this time, only Ten Bombs, Ten Arrows, Capacity upgrades, Small Hearts, and the non-progressive shields can appear outside of shops. Any other shop items are replaced with rupees of various amounts. This is because of one reason: potion refills and the Bee are indistinguishable from Bottles with that item in them. Receiving those items without a bottle or empty bottle is essentially a nothing item but looks like a bottle. Note, the non-progressive Shields interact fine with Progressive Shields (you never get downgraded) but are usually also a nothing item most of the time.
4. The Capacity Fairy cannot sell Potion Refills because the graphics are incompatible. 300 Rupees will replace any potion refill that ends up there.
5. For capacity upgrades, if any shop sells capacity upgrades, then it will sell all seven of that type. Otherwise, if plain bombs or arrows are sold somewhere, then the other six capacity upgrades will be purchasable first at those locations and then replaced by the underlying ammo. If no suitable spot is found, then no more capacity upgrades will be available for that seed. (There is always one somewhere in the pool.)
6. Any shop item that is originally sold by shops can be bought indefinitely, but only the first purchase counts toward total checks on the credits screen & item counter. All other items can be bought only once.

All items in the general item pool may appear in shops. This includes normal progression items and dungeon items in the appropriate keysanity settings.

Pricing Guide

Sphere effects

Design goal: Shops in early spheres may be discounted below the base price while shops in later spheres will likely exceed the base price range. This is an attempt to balance out the rupees in the item pool vs. the prices the shops charges. Poorer item pools like Triforce Hunt may have early shop prices be adjusted downward while rupee rich item pools will have prices increased, but later in the game.

Detailed explanation: It is calculated how much money is available in the item pool and various rupee sources. If this amount exceeds the total amount of money needed for shop prices for items, then shops that are not in sphere 1 will raise their prices by a calculated amount to help balance out the money. Conversely, if the amount is below the money needed, then shops in sphere 1 will be discounted by a calculated amount to help ensure everything is purchase-able with minimal grinding.

Base prices

All prices range approx. from half the base price to twice the base price (as a max) in increments of 5, the exact price is chosen randomly within the range subject to adjustments by the sphere effects above.

Category	Items	Base Price	Typical Range
Major Progression	Hammer, Hookshot, Mirror, Ocarina, Boots, Somaria, Fire Rod, Ice Rod	250	125-500
	Moon Pearl	200	100-400
	Lamp, Progressive Bows, Gloves, & Swords	150	75-300
	Triforce Piece	100	50-200
Medallions	Bombos, Ether, Quake	100	50-200
Safety/Fetch	Cape, Mushroom, Shovel, Powder, Bug Net, Byrna, Progressive Armor & Shields, Half Magic	50	25-100
Bottles	Empty Bottle or Bee Bottle	50	25-100
	Green Goo or Good Bee	60	30-120
	Red Goo or Fairy	70	35-140
	Blue Goo	80	40-160
Health	Heart Container	40	20-80
	Sanctuary Heart	50	25-100
	Piece of Heart	10	5-20
Dungeon	Big Keys	60	30-120
	Small Keys	40	20-80
	Info Maps	20	10-40
	Other Maps & Compasses	10	5-20
Rupees	Green	Free	Free
	Blue	2	2-4
	Red	10	5-20
	Fifty	25	15-50
	One Hundred	50	25-100
	Three Hundred	150	75-300
Ammo	Three Bombs	15	10-30
	Single Arrow	3	3-6
Original Shop Items	Other Ammo, Refills, Non-Progressive Shields, Capacity Upgrades, Small Hearts, Retro Quiver, Universal Key	Original	.5 - 2 * Original

Rupee Balancing Algorithm

To prevent needed to grind for rupees to buy things in Sphere 1 and later, a money balancing algorithm has been developed to counteract the need for rupees. Basic logic: it assumes you buy nothing until you are blocked by a shop, a check that requires money, or blocked by Kiki. Then you must have enough to make all purchases. If not, any free rupees encountered may be swapped with higher denominations that have not been encountered. Ammo may also be swapped, if necessary.

(Checks that require money: Bottle Merchant, King Zora, Digging Game, Chest Game, Blacksmith, anything blocked by Kiki e.g. all of Palace of Darkness when ER is vanilla)

The Houlihan room is not in logic but the five dungeon rooms that provide rupees are. Pots with rupees, the arrow game, and all other gambling games are not counted for determining income.

Currently this is applied to seeds without shopsanity on so early money is slightly more likely if progression is on a check that requires money even if Shopsanity is not turned on.

Retro and Shopsanity

9 new locations are added.

The four "Take Any" caves are converted into "Take Both" caves. Those and the old man cave are included in the shuffle. The sword is returned to the pool, and the 4 heart containers and 4 blue potion refills are also added to the general item pool. All items found in the retro caves are free to take once. Potion refills will disappear after use.

Arrow Capacity upgrades are now replaced by Rupees wherever it might end up.

The Ten Arrows and 5 randomly selected Small Hearts or Blue Shields are replaced by the quiver item (represented by the Single Arrow in game.) 5 Red Potion refills are replaced by the Universal small key. It is assured that at least one shop sells Universal Small Keys. The quiver may thus not be found in shops. The quiver and small keys retain their original base price, but may be discounted.

Goal

New supported goals:

• Trinity: Find one of 3 triforces to win. One is at pedestal. One is with Ganon. One is with Murahdahla who wants you to find 8 of 10 triforce pieces to complete.
• Ganonhunt: Collect the requisite triforce pieces, then defeat Ganon. (Aga2 not required). Use ganonhunt on CLI
• Completionist: All dungeons not enough for you? You have to obtain every item in the game too. This option turns on the collection rate counter and forces accessibility to be 100% locations. Finish by defeating Ganon.

Item Sorting

The "Item Sorting" option or --algorithm has been updated with new placement algorithms. Older algorithms have been removed.

When referenced below, Major Items include all Y items, all A items, all equipment (swords, shields, & armor) and Heart Containers. Dungeon items are considered major if shuffled outside of dungeons. Bomb and arrows upgrades are Major if shopsanity is turned on. The arrow quiver and universal small keys are Major if retro is turned on. Triforce Pieces are Major if that is the goal, and the Bomb Bag is Major if that is enabled.

Here are the current fill options:

Balanced

This one stays the same as before and is recommended for the most random distribution of items.

Vanilla Fill

This fill attempts to place all items in their vanilla locations when possible. Obviously shuffling entrances or the dungeon interiors will often prevent items from being placed in their vanilla location. If the vanilla fill is not possible, then other locations are tried in sequence preferring "major" locations (see below), then heart piece locations, then the rest except for GT locations which are preferred last. Note the PoD small key that is normally found in the dark maze in vanilla is move to Harmless Hellway due to the placement algorithm limitation.

Major Location Restriction

This fill attempts to place major items in major locations. Major locations are where the major items are found in the vanilla game. This includes the spot next to Uncle in the Sewers, and the Boomerang chest in Hyrule Castle.

The location pool expands to where dungeon items are located if those dungeon items are shuffled. The Capacity Fairy locations are included if Shopsanity is on. If retro is enabled in addition to shopsanity, then the major locations will include the Old Man Sword Cave and one location in each retro cave. When the various enemy and pots keys are in the location pool, then those are included if small or big key shuffle is on.

THe location pool will be expanded to include visible heart pieces locations if the number of major items exceeds the number of locations that are considered major. This mainly affects Trinity goal, Triforce Pieces hunts, Bomb Bag shuffle, and other settings that may not have perfect 1-to-1 correspondence with major locations and items.

This algorithm generally gives a good balance between overworld and underworld locations. Seeds do become more linear but usually easier to figure out.

Dungeon Restriction

The fill attempts to place all major items in dungeons. It will overflow to the overworld if there are more items than locations (e.g. Triforce hunt.) This fill does attempt to run the GT trash fill when possible. Seeds are typically very linear but tend to be more difficult.

District Restriction

The world is divided up into different regions or districts. Each dungeon is its own district. The overworld consists of the following districts:

Light world:

• Kakariko (The main screen, blacksmith screen, and library/maze race screens)
• Northwest Hyrule (The lost woods and fortune teller screens all the way to the river west of the potion shop)
• Central Hyrule (Hyrule castle, Link's House, the marsh, and the haunted grove)
• Desert (From the thief to the main desert screen)
• Lake Hylia (Around the lake)
• Eastern Hyrule (The eastern wild, the potion shop, and Zora's Domain)
• Death Mountain

Dark world:

• East Dark World (The pyramid, Palace of darkness, and Catfish)
• South Dark World (The dark lake, swamp area, to the dig game)
• Northwest Dark World (Village of Outcasts, to the Dark Sanctuary and screens in between)
• The Mire
• Dark Death Mountain

These districts are chosen at random and then filled with major items. If a location is part of a chosen district, but there are no more major items to place, a single green rupee is placed in the extra to indicate that as a placeholder. All other single green rupees are changed to be a blue rupee in order to not give false positives.

In entrance shuffle, what is shuffled to the entrances is considered instead of where the interior was originally. For example, if Blind's Hut is shuffled to the Dam, then the 5 chests in Blind's Hut are part of Central Hyrule instead of Kakariko.

Note: Bombos Tablet, Lake Hylia Island, Bumper Cave Ledge, the Floating Island, Cave 45, the Graveyard Cave, Checkerboard Cave and Mimic Cave are considered part of the light world region rather than the dark world region you mirror from.

In multiworld, the districts chosen apply to all players.

CLI values:

balanced, vanilla_fill, major_only, dungeon_only, district

New Hints

Based on the district algorithm above (whether it is enabled or not), new hints can appear about that district or dungeon. For each district and dungeon, it is evaluated whether it contains vital items and how many. If it has not any vital item, items then it moves onto useful items. Useful items are generally safeties or convenience items: shields, mails, half magic, bottles, medallions that aren't required, etc. If it contains none of those and is an overworld district, then it checks for a couple more things. First, if dungeons are shuffled, it looks to see if any are in the district, if so, one of those dungeons is picked for the hint. Then, if connectors are shuffled, it checks to see if you can get to unique region through a connector in that district. If none of the above apply, the district or dungeon is considered completely foolish.

Forbidden Boss Items

You may now restrict the items that can appear on the boss, like the popular ambrosia preset does.

CLI: --restrict_boss_items <option>

Options

• none: As before, the boss may have any item including any dungeon item that could occur there.
• mapcompass: The map and compass are logically required to defeat a boss. This prevents both of those from appearing on the dungeon boss. Note that this does affect item placement logic and the placement algorithm as maps and compasses are considered as required items to beat a boss. Currently bugged, not recommended for use.
• dungeon: Same as above but both small keys and bigs keys of the dungeon are not allowed on a boss. (Note: this does not affect universal keys as they are not dungeon-specific)

Customizer

Please see Customizer documentation on how to create custom seeds.

Entrance Randomization

New Modes

• Lite: Non item entrances are vanilla.
  • Dungeon and multi-entrance caves can only lead to dungeon and multi-entrance caves
  • Dropdowns can only lead to dropdowns, with them staying coupled to their appropriate exits
  • Cave entrances that normally lead to items can only lead to caves that have items (this includes Potion Shop and Big Bomb Shop)
  • All remaining entrances remain vanilla
  • Multi-entrance caves are connected same-world only
  • LW is guaranteed to have HC/EP/DP/ToH/AT and DW: IP/MM/TR/GT
  • Shop locations are included in the Item Cave pool if Shopsanity is enabled
  • Caves with pots are included in the Item Cave pool if Pottery is enabled
  • Caves with enemies/fairies are included in the Item Cave pool if Shuffle Enemy Drops is enabled
• Lean
  • Same grouping/pooling mechanism as in Lite ER
  • Both dungeons and connectors can be cross-world connections
  • No dungeon guarantees like in Lite ER
• Swapped: Entrances are swapped with each other

Shuffle Links House

In certain ER shuffles, (not dungeonssimple or dungeonsfulls), you can now control whether Links House is shuffled or remains vanilla. Previously, inverted seeds had this behavior and would shuffle links house, but now if will only do so if this is specified. Now, also works for open modes, but links house is never shuffled in standard mode.

Shuffle Back of Tavern

You may shuffle the back of tavern entrance in ER modes when Experimental Features are turned on.

Skull Woods Shuffle

In an effort to reduce annoying Skull Woods layouts, several new options have been created.

• Original: Skull woods shuffles classically amongst itself unless insanity is the mode. This should mimic prior behavior.
• Restricted (Vanilla Drops, Entrances Restricted): Skull woods drops are vanilla. Skull woods entrances stay in skull woods and are shuffled.
• Loose (Vanilla Drops, Entrances use Shuffle): Skull woods drops are vanilla. The main ER mode's pool determines how to handle.
• Followlinked (Follow Linked Drops Setting): This looks at the new linked drop settings. If linked drops are turned on, then two new pairs of linked drop down and holes are formed. Skull front and the hole near the big chest form a pair. The east entrance to Skull 2 and th hole in the back of skull woods form another pair. If the mode is not a cross-world shuffle, then these 2 new drop-down pairs are limited to the dark world. The other drop-down in skull woods, the front two holes will be vanilla. If linked drops are off, then the mode determines how to handle the holes and entrances.

Linked Drops Override

This controls whether drops should be linked to nearby entrances or not.

• Unset: This uses the mode's default which is considered linked for all modes except insanity
• Linked: Forces drops to be linked to their entrances.
• Independent: Decouples drops from their entrances. In same-world shuffles, holes & entrances may be restricted to a singe world depending on settings and placement to prevent cross-world connection through holes and/or entrances in dungeons.

Brief Explanations

Loose Skull Woods Shuffle:

• Simple dungeons modes will attempt to fix the layout of skull woods to be more vanilla. This includes dungeonssimple, simple, and restricted ER modes.
• The dungeonsfull mode allows skull woods to be used as a connector but attempt to maintain same-world connectivity.
• Same world modes like lite & full will generally keep skull woods entrances to a single world to prevent cross-world connections. If not inverted, this is not guaranteed to be the dark world though.
• Cross-world modes will be eaiser to comprehend due to fewer restrictions like crossed, lean and swapped.

Followdrops with Linked Drops:

• Some modes don't care much about linked drops: simple, dungeonssimple, dungeonsfull
• Same-world modes like restricted, full, & lite will often keep skull woods drop pairs in the dark world and there are only 3 options there: pyramid, and the vanilla locations
• Cross-world modes will benefit the most from the changes as the drop pool expands by two new options for drop placement and guarantees a way out from skull woods west, though the connector must be located.
• Insanity with linked drops will kind of allow a player to scout holes, at the cost of not being to get back to the hole immediately.

Followdrops with Independent Drops:

• dungeonssimple will place holes vanilla anyway
• dungeonsfull will shuffle the holes
• Same-world modes like simple, restricted, full, & lite will likely pull all skull woods entrances to a single world. (It'll likely be the light world if a single hole is in the light world, unless inverted, then the reverse.)
• Cross-world modes like swapped, lean, and crossed will mean drops are no longer scoutable. Enjoy your coin flips!
• This is insanity's default anyway, no change.

Overworld Map

Option to move indicators on overworld map to reference dungeon location. The non-default options include indicators for Hyrule Castle, Agahnim's Tower, and Ganon's Tower.

• Default: Status quo. Showing only the prize markers on the vanilla dungeon locations.
• Compass: The compass item controls whether the marker is moved to the dungeons locations. If you possess the compass but not the map, only a glowing X will be present regardless of dungeon prize type, if you only possess the map, the prizes will be shown in predicable locations at the bottom of the overworld map instead of the vanilla location. Light world dungeons on the light world map and dark world dungeons on the dark world map. If you posses both map and compass, then the prize of the dungeon and the location will be on the map.
• Map: The map item plays double duty in this mode and only possession of the map will show both prize and location of the dungeon. If you do not shuffle maps or the dungeon does not have a map, the information will be displayed without needing to find any items.

If you do not shuffle the compass or map outside of the dungeon, the non-shuffled items are not needed to display the information. If a dungeon does not have a map or compass, it is not needed for the information. Talking to the bomb shop or Sahasrahla furnishes you with complete information as well as map information.

CLI --overworld_map [default|compass|map]

Enemizer

Enemizer has been incorporated into the generator and no longer requires an external program. However, there are differences.

Please see this document for extensive details: Enemizer in DR

Notable differences:

• Several sprites added to the pool. Most notable is how enemies behave on shallow water. They work now.
• Clearing rooms, spawnable chests, and enemy keys drops can now have enemies with specific logic in the room. This logic is controlled by the new Enemy Logic option
• New system for banning enemies that cause issues is in place. If you see an enemy in a place that would cause issue, please report it and it can be banned to never happen again. Current bans can be found in the code for the curious
• Thieves are always unkillable, but banned from the entire underworld. We can selectively ban them from problematic places in the overworld, and if someone wants to figure out where they could be safe in the underworld, I'll allow them there once the major problems have been banned.
• Tile room patterns are currently shuffled with enemies.

Enemy Shuffle

Shuffling enemies is different as there are places that certain enemies are not allowed to go. This is known as the enemy ban list, and is updated regularly as reports of poor enemy placement occurs. Poor enemy placement included Bumpers, Statues, Beamos or other enemies that block your path with or without certain items. Other disallowed placements include unavoidable damage and glitches. Thieves are unkillable, but restricted to the overworld and even then, are banned from narrow locations.

Enemy Damage

The shuffled setting actually shuffled the damage table unlike the process from the enemizer that simply randomizes values and lowers damage for armor upgrades.

Boss Shuffle: Unique

Same as before, with some exceptions:

• Trinexx is not allowed on the GT basement when DR is enabled to avoid certain low percentage kills. Future work on health logic should make this reasonable.
• In general, some of the harder bosses in the GT basement now have some concessions in the logic to make low precentage requirements less likely and onerous.

New variant Unique: At least one boss each of the prize bosses will be present guarding the prizes. GT bosses can be anything.

Blind Note: If bosses are shuffled and Blind is chosen to be the boss of Thieves Town, then bombing the attic and delivering the maiden is still required.

Enemy Health

Same as beofre but health is taken into account for challenge rooms if magic or ammo is required

Enemy Logic

This version of the enemizer can account for logical access to both challenge room and item or key drops when enemies are shuffled. (See Enemy Drop Shuffle). The enemies with particularly special logic are: Red Mimics, Red Eyegores, Terrorpins, Deadrocks, & Lynels. When bombbag is enabled Stalfos Knights, and Buzzblobs have advanced logic. For enemy drops, in particular, Red Baris must be killed with either the Fire Rod or Bombos to acquire the drop. These are in effect unless a different option is chosen:

• Forbid special enemies: These special enemies are disallowed from drops and challenge rooms.
• Item drops may have special enemies: Challenge rooms will not have these special enemies, but item drops may.
• Allow special enemies anywhere: Both challenge rooms and enemy drops can have these special requirements occur.

Standard Changes

When dungeon door shuffle is on, the Sanctuary is guaranteed to be behind the Throne Room and the Mirror Scroll works like death warping instead of the mirror during the escape sequence.

Retro Changes

Retro can be partially enabled: see Small Key Shuffle, Bow Mode, and Take Any Caves. Enable Retro button enables all 3 options.

Glitched Logic

Overworld glitches, Hybrid Major Glitches (HMG) and No Logic are currently supported.

CLI: --logic [noglitches|owglitches|hybridglitches|nologic]

Overworld Glitches

Support added by qadan and compiling

Overworld Glitches logic includes (but is not limited to) the following:

• Overworld teleports and clips to reach various items/entrances
• Use of superbunny to obtain items and/or bonk open entrances
• Use of mirror to access Desert Palace East Entrance
• Use of bunny pocket to access the Back of Skull Woods and VOO Hammer house entrances

Hybrid Major Glitches

Support added by Muffins (ported from work by Espeon).

Not currently compatible with Door Shuffle

Hybrid Major Glitches logic includes the following:

• All Overworld Glitches logic
• Kikiskip to access PoD wihtout MP or DW access
• IP Lobby clip to skip fire requirement
• Traversal between TT -> Desert
• Traversal between Spec rock upper -> Spec rock mid
• Traversal between Paradox lower -> Paradox mid + upper
• Traversal between Mire -> Hera -> Swamp
• Stealing SK from Mire to open SP
• Using the Mire big key to open Hera doors and big chest

All traversals mentioned are considered connectors in entrance shuffle

Game Options

MSU Resume

Turns on msu resume support. Found on "Game Options" tab, the "Adjust/Patch" tab, or use the --msu_resume CLI option.

Collection Rate

Display the collection rate unless the triforce piece counter is needed. If the game was generated as a mystery, then the total count is not displayed. --collection_rate

Reduce Flashing

Accessibility option to reducing some flashing animations in the game. --reduce_flashing

Shuffle Sound Effects (--shuffle_sfx)

Shuffles a large portion of the sounds effects. Can be used with the adjuster.

Generation Setup & Miscellaneous

Create BPS Patches

Create bps patch(es) instead of generating rom(s) for distribution. --bps

Triforce Hunt Settings

A collection of settings to control the triforce piece pool if not specified through --triforce_goal and --triforce_pool

• --triforce_goal_min: Minimum number of pieces to collect to win
• --triforce_goal_max: Maximum number of pieces to collect to win
• --triforce_pool_min: Minimum number of pieces in item pool
• --triforce_pool_max: Maximum number of pieces in item pool
• --triforce_min_difference: Minimum difference between pool and goal to win
• --triforce_max_difference: Maximum difference between pool and goal to win

Seed

Can be used to set a seed number to generate. Using the same seed with same settings on the same version of the entrance randomizer will always yield an identical output.

Count

Use to batch generate multiple seeds with same settings. If a seed number is provided, it will be used for the first seed, then used to derive the next seed (i.e. generating 10 seeds with the same seed number given will produce the same 10 (different) roms each time).