Not sure if this has been found before. I'm sure I read something about it somewhere but I was just messing around and this happened.

Haha, nice!

How did you do it? I tried on both 1409 and 5021 and even with cheats I couldn't get it to work?

Honestly, no idea. I was just jumping at the corner, spent about 20 minutes trying to replicate but have had no luck yet. Will try and find a proper set-up.

What version were you on?

Steam-US-5021

Ok

Played around a little, I can reproduce.

Best way I found so far is to look towards the dark corner of the pillar starting from the center section of the table and as you jump into it, strafe right so you can dig deep. Don't look around, don't crouch jump. I can make a video if you guys still can't reproduce.

We can reproduce it just fine, but it's not very reliable. If you have a reliable strat, please go ahead and post it ;)

Btw, you can find us on discord.

I don't really know how much time this would save, though. If you just crouchjump onto those short balcony shelves jump into lobby/entry-stairs, it only takes a few seconds.

If someone can get this more reliable then it'll be a half decent skip.

I've done it a couple times using Kyusuke's method and it isn't very reliable like Ewil says but I believe it, if it can be reproduced correctly and reliably, it can cut the total time of the run by at least a minute because crawling in that vent and climbing that ladder takes a while and it would really be beneficial if it could actually be incorporated into a run as a legitimate strat.

What do you mean by crawling in that vent? LIbrary skip only skips going out of the library when it's on fire and it saves just a few seconds.

I guess I don't know that other strat then but I'm talking about how you jump down and crawl through the vent then walk through the dark hallway and jump over the dogs then climb the ladder. I think glitching through the wall rather than doing all that would save more time than just a couple seconds but I may be wrong.

Maybe you mean the vent skip is a couple seconds faster than the normal way. I'm sorry, I haven't done the normal way in a long time. I'm talking about how doing the glitch Koalarific found would be much faster than the skip we use now.

What vent skip? Sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about :(

I'm talking about using the hidden vent behind the staircase to escape the library. I haven't watched other speedruns so I don't know if that's the strat everyone uses. Correct me if I'm wrong. How do you get out of the library?

Edit: I did it in my video at 9:55

Edit 2: ok I'm stupid I'm sorry lmao I completely forgot that the entrance to the library is open. I thought it was blocked off. I completely forgot so I guess the "skip" I did just lost me time. I told you I haven't watched anyone else do this lmao. Sorry for confusing you. I just remembered it was a secret location so I assumed it was faster.

That is way slower than simply going to the exit :D

haha yeah I realize that now. I completely forgot that you could just walk out the front door. Thanks I'll get better at running this game eventually. I still think that doing what Koalarific found is slightly faster, though bu, since it's not reliable and easy, it shouldn't be implemented in runs just yet.

I found out that it can be pretty reliable if you do 180 and don't crouch when landing also try looking up rather than down. Hope it works for you guys ;p

I guess I only shared my method with the Discord, my bad you guys:

I can re-record this if anyone needs me to show what keys I'm pressing. I can do this method every time but others have voiced difficulties in executing it even once so just let me know if that is the case.