100% Speedrun Guide

Dino Run DX's longest speedrun the 100% run is quite a gruelling challenge for anyone who is brave enough to attempt it, potentially lasting multiple hours. With that in mind it is good to approach the run with a specific plan in mind beforehand in order to achieve everything in the fastest way possible while limiting any time wasted. As such I have decided to share my current plan for the catagory for anyone that is interested in potentially running it. I have only done two complete runs of this catagory myself though (With my best time being around 2 hours and 20 minutes, which I will hopefully submit soon) so this plan likely has room for further optimisation.

Before we begin I need to mention something right away. This catagory includes one particular achievement that stands far above all of the others. The achievement to collect 2000 eggs. Currently in the times I've run this catagory I have completed everything else and found myself over 500 eggs short, making the last half hour of this run being purely focused on collecting these eggs. This isn't fun. I'll talk about how I do this later, however if you do attempt this run it is in your best interests to collect as many eggs as you can at every oppertunity as this is what the run ultimately comes down to. 

Now onto the plan! As this run has a lot of different tasks to cover the goal should be to upgrade your dino as quickly as possible. One effective way to do this is by using seeds on speedrun maps and collecting all of the super eggs imediately. This is the first step of the run. My current path involves using the seeds and levels shown below, with all levels being completed on easy difficuly:

Out to Pasture: 922434 --> Alien egg
Circus Tryouts: 803971 --> 10 second bolder ride
Ptero Storm: 363800 --> Oloro egg and Iguano egg
Rainin' Lizards: 556659 --> Giga egg and Rinch egg
Rainin' Lizards: 314776 --> T-rex egg
Death Crater: 111000 --> Mango egg
Medium Challenge: (Don't use seeds) --> Spino egg, Diplo egg and pixlejam mascot.

Some things to note. Firstly the circus tryouts map is included in order to get enough bones to unlock Ptero Storm, which requires 250 bones. This mightn't be required however if you complete another achievement, such as 3 worms slurped which gives the required 50 extra bones (30 DNA too!). Secondly getting the Rinch egg can be rather difficult and it is advised that you upgrade your jumping and acceleration stats in order to get it. If you miss it however, an alternative seed for Rainin' Lizards that includes the Rinch egg right at the beginning is 456789. Also an alternative for the Spino egg is Up and Down with the seed 928246 in case it doesn't show up in the medium challenge.

After these super eggs have been collected your dino should be upgraded enough to take on all of the speedrun levels on Insane! difficulty. This is the second step of the run. Do all of the speedruns using the seed 111000. Start of with the easy levels and work your way up, upgrading your dino further as you go while also trying to get various achievements and collect eggs along the way. When you feel ready you can attempt the Insane! challenge mode. Do this with the seed 111000 for shorter levels and collect the Bronto egg. Then complete the Planet D speedrun to finish those off. 

After this comes step 3, getting all of the rest of the achievements. This is generally straight forward, however there are a few things to note. Firstly, for the achievement for saving 50 dinos you need to complete speedrun levels on Insane! difficulty, otherwise the counter won't increase. For the fish achievement you can use the Ptero Storm seed from before. Use Rainin' Lizards for the lizards. Salty Flats for runners with the seed 777777. Other achievements should be pretty straight forward. 

Then however comes the slog. Getting the 2000 eggs. There isn't really an easy way of going about this. The method I use however is playing Salty Flats with the seed 777777 repeatedly on easy difficulty. This provides multiple eggs each time and they are consistantly easy to get. An alternative that I haven't tried out is using either Ptero Storm or The Hitchhiker and catching dactyl eggs. As each of these count as 10 eggs each this could potentially be a faster however much harder route. Overall though I have not found any easy or quick way of completing this task yet. This however will likely be the last achievement that will need to be completed! 

So that is my guide for completing 100%. If anyone else has any potential improvements then be sure to make a post about it. Especially if it involves a quick way of obtaining eggs. Be sure to look at this steam guide on all of the collectables too: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=527294269 Hopefully this was helpful for people though!

How to easily beat Halloween Hellrun Doombringer

On the final stage of the Halloween Hellrun you're likely to lose a run and potentially game over very easily. What you may not know is that you are NOT being chased and timed by the doomwall, it's tied to you. You can go as slow as you like or even backtrack and you will be safe, you can only be killed by touching dinos. So on harder runs where getting there takes at least 7 minutes and you only need to touch one dino to die it is usually way better to just slow down when you see a stego.

How To play Dino Run web version (post Flash-pocalypse)

Pixeljam has recently announced on their twitter ( https://twitter.com/pixeljamgames/status/1346133209080360960?s=20 ) that the web version of the game has been converted to HTML5/Javascript by Poki.com and can be played at: https://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/index2.html and as this is an official release of the game it is a perfectly acceptable version for speedrunning.

Max Stats Save File and How To Load It (Windows)

WARNING : Doing this method will wipe and saves you have for Dino Run on your computer, this is only here for people who want to start speed running the game but don't have a max stats save file (necessary for good times.)

Save File Archive : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P8-VXvLEx3a0PXo3tuu4TSAtQSeqP8KS/view?usp=sharing

Step 1 - Download the max stats save file from the link above.
Step 2 - Locate your %appdata% Roaming folder (C:\Users\(Computer Name)\AppData\Roaming) which can be found by typing %appdata% into the windows search bar and pressing enter.
Step 3 - Open the folder entitled "com.pixeljam.dinorundx" and open up the archive downloaded earlier.
Step 4 - Drag the "Local Store" file from the archive into the "com.pixeljam.dinorundx" folder, and replace any files in destination if prompted to.

Once you open Dino Run DX there should be a fully maxed out dino that you can run with.

Use the secret sanctuary.

Many run categories allow finishing the game using the secret sanctuary ending in the apocalypse level. This ending is much faster then completing the level in full, so it should be used whenever possible.

Nome	Autor
100% Speedrun Guide	DomToblerone27 4 years ago
How to easily beat Halloween Hellrun Doombringer	Toastiewaffles 4 years ago
How To play Dino Run web version (post Flash-pocalypse)	Scypher 3 years ago
Max Stats Save File and How To Load It (Windows)	FruitNationalist 3 years ago
Use the secret sanctuary.	DomToblerone27 5 years ago