Map the cave. Some exits are one-way, and some rooms do not behave like a normal grid.

Carry only what you need for the current puzzle. Deposit treasures in the building when you can.

Use score or points to check progress. Treasure credit is split between finding an item and leaving it safely in the building.

The cave entrance is not inside the building.

Explore from the road through the valley and streambed.

Take the keys and lamp from the building, go to the grate, unlock it, open it, and go down.

The bird is useful, but nervous.

The cage lets you carry the bird. The rod scares it if the bird is still caged.

Take the cage, capture the bird, and drop the bird in the Hall of the Mountain King to chase away the snake.

The rod reacts to more than one place.

Try it near the fissure, and try it near the steps with the bird in the right state.

wave rod at the fissure creates the bridge. At the represented steps, drop the uncaged bird and wave the rod to create the jade necklace.

The bird eventually has something important to say.

You need to understand the bird first, and that depends on the dragon route.

Resolve the dragon, drink the dragon blood, return the bird to a represented forest room, and listen. The bird discloses the current reservoir word.

The reservoir is not crossed by swimming.

Use the word learned from the bird. Carry a lucky object before the cliff route.

Use F'UNJ at the reservoir in this deterministic port build. Carry the rabbit foot through the north-reservoir cliff route to reach the ebony statuette.

Some magic words work only in specific places.

The Plover region has strict carry constraints.

Use PLOVER between Y2 and the Plover Room. The emerald is beyond the Plover Room in the Dark Room.

The plant is thirsty more than once.

Water changes the plant. Oil changes the rusty door.

Water the plant enough to climb it. Fill the bottle with oil in the east pit, oil the rusty door, take the trident, and use the trident to open the clam. The pearl rolls away and must be recovered from its destination.

Some treasures are useful before they are deposited.

The troll wants payment. The bear wants food and then freedom.

Throw a treasure, often the eggs, to the troll. Later use FEE/FIE/FOE/FOO to recover the eggs. Feed the bear, unlock the chain, take the chain, and lead the bear through the bridge outcome.

Coins have a second use.

Spending the coins solves a lamp problem but sacrifices their deposit value.

Drop the coins at the vending machine to create fresh batteries. This removes the coins from play for building-deposit scoring.

If treasure vanishes, it is not necessarily gone forever.

The pirate's stash is in the all-alike maze region.

In this port, carrying an eligible treasure into the represented west Hall of Mists approach triggers pirate theft. Recover the stolen treasure and chest from the pirate dead end.

The first dwarf encounter gives you something useful.

The axe matters for dwarf combat and the ogre route.

Take the axe after the represented first dwarf encounter. Use throw axe at dwarf when the dwarf blocks your way. The ogre/ruby route depends on resolving that dwarf encounter.

When the cave starts closing, ordinary exits are no longer reliable.

The repository is a special endgame space. The rusty-mark rod matters.

Some test transcripts use testclose helpers to reach closing states quickly; those are not normal player commands. In the repository victory route, move the rusty-mark rod away from the southwest side, return southwest, and blast.