I've added the Seabound Soul category and will be posting my own run to it soon, I'm excited to see your crew smash it!

I've just looked at the final tale's runs. In the category just called Shores of Gold you may use glitches, so Anemion uses a peter pan glitch to get his 24:48. In the glitchless category (Shores of Gold Glitchless), you don't use glitches and he achieved a 47:50, the glitchless category is the normal category. I know it's a bit confusing, because I had to double check a few times, but it's all correct. The Peter pan glitch isn't possible anymore, so submit your runs to glitchless. If you'd prefer, I can change the names so the glitch run is called Shores of Gold (Peter Pan) and the normal run is just called shores of gold.

I already intend to add the seabound soul tale later today. I'm willing to add the full shores of gold 1-9 run, but I can imagine it'll be a really long one, mainly because woth individual runs you'd typically reset if you get bad islands. Here you'd potentially be getting bad islands 9 times. But I'll definitely look into it, especially if other members of the community show interest.

Thanks guys, I'll be adding Maiden voyage and seabound soul categories really soon, as well as potentially a run for the sea dog tavern parkour after it's been tested a bit. I intend to try and get runs verified within 24 hours of them being submitted. With any luck Smoosh will be in a better state soon, but until then thank you smoosh for the opportunity.

Doing tests during level 6 and the apocalypse ive found 2 optimal routes for some landmarks. There is one small volcano in level 6 that has a meteor strike the side of it allowing you to go in through the side (This is the magno egg landmark). It's usually much quicker to go through this entrance the meteor creates and damage boost of the central hot stone than to try and jump that hole, climb the small volcano and then try and jump the mouth of the volcano. I've also found that at the point where a meteor can hit causing you to fall down into a cave its always faster to jump over the hole created (This is the area you can find the pixeljam mascot easter egg). You can usually see its coming because the ground will have an orange part before the meteor strikes to show where the entrance to the cave will be.

I'd wondered this myself and was always unsure about the T-rex cave, but going over takes too much vertical distance and going under leads to too many bumps that cause resistance. The only challenge with this optimal route is making the jump for the last part. I'm also pretty certain going straight through the bottom of the waterfall is the fastest route, its straight, flat and full of lizards, but it might still warrant a test.

For a more clear example of what im saying, if you watch the top 4 submitted runs of challenge%, you can see everyone uses the same seed. Yet on level 4 each run is different. I encounter the rock pit with an ankylosaurus, then a waterfall. Scypher encounters this as well, however DomToblerone gets the meteor striking the lake, the downhill boulder roll, then the ankylosaurus pit, then the diplodocus in tar, then the waterfall. Finally Renusek get's the akylosaurus pit, then the meteor striking the lake, then the downhill boulder roll but never sees the waterfall, not once in the run. So it doesn't seem like entering the seed actually does anything

I was running challenge% and naturally using the 555612 seed when i thought id do sub-splits for each level, so i looked at my pb to make ones such as '3 jump canyon, diplo tarpit, long tarpit, t-rex egg mountain'. But as soon as I ran i realised that the only level that seems to stay the same with this seed is level 1. Sometimes I can encounter 2 tar-pits with a diplo in a single run and sometimes not at all. Each time i'm definitely using the 555612 seed so what purpose do they serve if it doesn't make each run identical?