Randomizer Info
Things you should know about the randomizer.
A door has been added to allow access to the old Spring in the Sky shop after transforming it. Additional doors have been added at the entrances to Shrine of the Mother in Endless Corridor and Chamber of Extinction, allowing access to the original Shrine of the Mother after defeating all 8 guardians (still requires doing the puzzle to enter the Shrine).
You can use the Cog of the Soul in front of the tablet in Gate of Illusion at any time, but you'll still need to solve the fairy's puzzles to unlock the chest.
Xelpud has conversations based on collecting Talisman and Diary, but you are no longer required to equip the item. Xelpud will no longer disappear from his tent after having the conversation for the Diary puzzle.
Mulbruk will give you whatever item replaces the Book of the Dead after you've both awakened her and visited Anubis's room. You can still get the item after defeating Anubis.
If your Mulana Talisman is replaced by Talisman or Diary, you can get Mulana Talisman back at any time by saving and reloading your game.
Only one of these is visible in your inventory at a time, but collecting one doesn't overwrite the other, so you can still pick up your Treasures-reward.
It's possible to purchase actual subweapons from shops. They look the same as ammo for the subweapon, but are not sold out.
The Shrine of the Mother map is the only map necessary to solve a puzzle in the randomizer. If you find this item in a shop, it will be called Shrine Map instead of just Map, and if you pick it up elsewhere, a shell horn sound will play (regardless of whether or not you've collected Shell Horn).
The randomizer will not expect you to seek progress in a location you cannot escape from. Make sure not to overwrite your save in places like Tower of the Goddess (from Gate of Time), Chamber of Extinction (from Shrine of the Mother), upper Twin Labyrinths (without activating the elevator), or Tower of Ruin (after falling in from the upper sections) without making sure you have a way out.
If you fail the Chain Whip or Flail Whip puzzles, you should be granted another chance to solve them correctly if you leave the area and come back. The same applies for the passage between Temple of Moonlight and Twin Labyrinths.
The ability to buy the Angel Shield from the shop in Graveyard of the Giants has been disabled. Instead, if all of Tiamat's children are dead, both weights can be placed, ensuring the puzzle can still be solved.
The best whip and shield are always the ones you keep. You won't lose your Flail Whip by picking up Chain Whip, and the fake Silver Shield can't replace your real one.
If you can't reach a shop to purchase ammo for your subweapon, the randomizer will not expect you to be able to use that subweapon. The exception to this is if you can bring an attack fairy and have it use a subweapon for you, but this is not a common requirement.
Due to the high price for Pistol Ammo, the randomizer will not expect you to purchase it before you have access to fairies, unless it was your starting weapon or you are playing with main weapons removed (both of which will reduce the price to 0).
All mantra tablets can spawn as soon as you've spoken to Philosopher Giltoriyo of Spring in the Sky. For VIY, the snake statue becomes breakable, and placing a weight on the pedestal behind it will unlock the mantra tablet as usual. You'll still need to learn La-Mulanese before you can read the tablets. Mantras can be recited in any order, so you can get an early start on mantras if you find the necessary items.
You can record the inventory of a shop using TextTrax, and the recorded text should match the randomized inventory.
Rather than try to pick a preferred path or ensure that progress is available from neither or both solutions, the randomizer simply assumes that you'll hold off on choosing a puzzle solution until you have Feather and can access both the chest and the grail tablet path.