4.0
New Features
- Quick boot equips
- Use D-pad left to equip Iron Boots if they’re in the inventory, or D-pad right to equip Hover Boots if they’re in the inventory.
- Press the button again to equip Kokiri Boots.
- Quck Ocarina
- Use D-pad down to pull out the Ocarina
- Freestanding models
- All freestanding item locations now display the model of the item you will receive.
- Ice traps now work from any location
- In freestanding locations, appears as a random major item
- In shops, appears as a random major item with a misspelling.
- Various speedups
- No Talon cutscene when he runs away.
- Skip “Caught By Gerudo” cutscene.
- Shorten cutscene when getting Bullet Bag from the Deku Scrub in Lost Woods.
- Fast pushing and pulling.
- All types of blocks.
- Spinnable mirrors in Spirit Temple.
- Truth spinner in Shadow Temple.
- Puzzle in basement of Forest Temple.
- Ocarina minigame shortened to the first round.
- 5 notes instead of 8.
- Jabu-Jabu’s Belly elevator spawns in a more convenient position
- Kakariko carpenter position is offset so he is no longer in your way during the cucco route.
- Warp songs now have a normal transition with no cutscene.
- Gold Skulltula textbox displays current number obtained
- Poe salesman tells point limit without needing to sell
- Patch files added so that generated seeds can be distributed legally
New Options
- Master Quest dungeon slider
- Selects a number of Master Quest dungeons to appear in the game.
- Ex: 0 - All dungeons will have their default designs.
- Ex: 6 - Half of all dungeons will have Master Quest redesigns.
- Ex: 12 - All dungeons will have Master Quest redesigns.
- Selects a number of Master Quest dungeons to appear in the game.
- Damage multiplier
- Changes the amount of damage taken.
- OHKO: Link dies in one hit.
- Item pool
- Replaces difficulty.
- Changes the number of bonus items that are available in the game.
- Plentiful: Extra major items are added.
- Balanced: The original item pool.
- Scarce: Some excess items are removed, including health upgrades.
- Minimal: Most excess items are removed.
- Start with max rupees
- The player begins the game with 99 rupees.
- Start with Deku equipment
- The player begins the game with 10 Deku sticks and 20 Deku nuts.
- If playing without shopsanity, the player begins with a Deku shield equipped.
- Start with fast travel
- The player begins the game with the Prelude of Light and Serenade of Water songs learned and the Farore’s Wind spell in the inventory
- These three items increase Link’s mobility around the map, but don’t actually unlock any new items or areas.
- Start with Tycoon wallet
- Open Zora’s Fountain
- King Zora is moved to the side from the start of the game.
- Ruto’s Letter is removed from the item pool and replaced with an Empty Bottle.
- Randomize starting time of day
- Ice traps setting
- Off: All ice traps are removed.
- Normal: Only ice traps from base pool are placed.
- Extra ice traps: Chance to add extra ice traps when junk items are added to the item pool
- Ice trap mayhem: All junk items added will be ice traps.
- Ice trap onslaught: All junk items will be ice traps, including ones in the base pool.
- New Cosmetics
- Added options for Sword Trail colors
- Can set the length of the trails
- Can set the inner and outer colors
- Can set color to “Rainbow”
- Additional SFX options
- Added options for Sword Trail colors
Updated Features
- Hints distribution.
- Changes how many useful hints are available in the game.
- Useless: Has nothing but junk hints.
- Balanced: Gives you a mix of useless and useful hints. Hints will not be repeated.
- Strong: Has some duplicate hints and no junk hints.
- Very Strong: Has only very useful hints.
- Tournament: Similar to strong but has no variation in hint types.
- Frogs Ocarina Game added to always hints.
- Hints are only in logic once you are able to reach the location of the gossip stone by logic
- Hints ignore logic if inaccessible.
- Foolish choice hint added.
- Regions that are a foolish choice will not have any required items no matter what route is taken in logic
- Big Poes location does not require a hint if count set to 3 or less.
- Add medallion icons to the Temple of Time altar hint.
- Add a hint for 0/6 trials if trial count is random.
- Scrub Shuffle now updates the Business Scrubs’ textboxes with the updated price for buying their item.
Updated Options
- Chest size matches contents updated
- Boss keys will be in gold chests
- Small keys appear in small gold chests
- Free Scarecrow’s Song changes
- Pulling out ocarina near a spot where Pierre can spawn will do so.
- Rainbow Bridge changes
- Spiritual Stones added as bridge requirement
- 100 Gold Skulltula tokens added as bridge requirement
- Any location can now be excluded from being required
- Various advanced tricks has been split into individual tricks to be selected
- Choose sound effects ocarina uses when played
Bug Fixes
- Deku and Hylian shields from chests no longer become blue rupees.
- Force game language to be English even if a Japanese rom is supplied.
- Door of Time now opens when entering Temple of Time from all spawns.
- Fix empty bomb glitch.
- Move item cost to after Player in the spoiler log.
- Add Wasteland Bombchu Salesman to spoiler log when required for first Bombchus.
- Fix message text table is too long error when using settings that add a lot of text to the ROM.
- Kokiri Sword no longer required for fishing as child.
- Fix Biggoron Sword collection delay.
- Twinrova phase 2 textbox fix.
- Switches in Forest and Fire Temple lowered by 1 unit to make it easier to press them.
- Equipment menu will now show the name of the item you have in the first column.
- Hover Boots will no longer show up as adult in the first equipment menu slot if a slingshot was not gotten before becoming adult.
- Ammo items now use the correct item fanfare.
- Fix chest size matches contents to work for all chests.
- Removed key for key logic.
- Removed unused locked door in Water Temple.
- Scarecrow’s Song should no longer cause softlocks when played in laggy areas.
- Text error messages no longer display the Pocket Egg text.
- Ice traps added back to OHKO as the softlock appears fixed.
- Ganon now says “my castle” instead of “Ganon’s Castle” for light arrow hint.
- Fix various typos in text
- Gerudo’s Fortress
- Zora’s River
- Red Rupee
- “Ganon’s Tower” is now just “Ganon’s Castle”.
- Dampe’s Gravediggin reward correctly flags collection on pickup.
- Castle Moat Bridge no longer closes when playing the Zelda Escape cutscene
- Various logic fixes.
Multiworld Changes
- Maximum player count increased from 31 to 255.
- Ice traps can now be sent to other worlds.
- Ganon now tells you the location of your Light Arrows, not the location of some Light Arrows that may exist in your world.
- Item placement rebalanced so that an item for another player can only be placed on a location that both players can reach in logic.
Development Version Changes
- Output patch file
- Creates a binary patch file instead of a ROM. Allows sharing a seed without sharing copyright protected material.
- Patch ROM from file
- Applies a generated patch file to the base ROM and creates a randomizer ROM. Allows sharing a seed without sharing copyright protected material.
- Settings presets
- Adds a functionality to save settings strings for future use.
- Several presets are already provided.
- Create settings log if spoiler log is disabled
- File names no longer include a settings string
- Instead display a shortened SHA-1 hash of the settings string.
- Add option for converting settings to a string and back
- Only convert the specified settings to a settings string.
- If a settings string is specified output the used settings instead.
- Python 3.5 is no longer supported
- You must have Python 3.6 or higher installed to run the randomizer code.
- Add option to only apply cosmetic patch without generating world data
- CLI uses a specified settings file instead of taking in each option
- Uses settings.sav as default if it exists
- Uses default settings if no settings file is provided and no settings.sav exists.
- Version check is no longer a dialog
- Appears in a frame in the main randomizer window.
- Copy settings string button
- Cosmetic versioning added to rom. Some cosmetics are only applied if they are safe to do so.
- Major refactor of code