"Hunt for food." It should say "You cannot go hunting because you have no bullets." Spam 8, spacebar, and enter all at the same time. Entering the game menu before this will cause the options to stay as they were at Independence. "Continue the trail", and wait until the wagon has started moving OR the day ticks over. When you get in the game menu, press 1.I have a superstition that the “extreme months” (March and July) kill people faster, but I have no significant evidence to prove that this is faster. Leave in any month, it doesn’t matter here.Travel the trail (1), and choose any job, it doesn’t matter here.Do this for all 4 rivers (Kansas, Blue, Green, and Snake).Press “1” to continue on the trail and congratulations! You’ve just skipped a river! Mash space to get out of 2 menus and bring you back to the game menu.This will bring you to a view of whichever river you just skipped. Press “1” to travel the trail and say “y” to continue a saved game.In the first screen, where it tells you the width and depth of the river, press escape twice.When you get to a river, say “n” when asked to look around.Buffering an enter after an "n" (or buffering both) also works.Ī new strategy discovered by Surdo (that’s me!) on December 7, 2021, allows us to skip all 4 rivers in Any% by saving and loading. Then, a well-timed ENTER will close the menu option on the first frame, saving maximum time. Certain menus will only allow certain characters to be entered (some will be numeric only, some alphabet, etc.) You can use this to your advantage by mashing another key before the menu pops up. You lose nothing by trying, especially if you have no spares. NOTE: Holding space when you’re getting close to a landmark can cause your inputs to fail until all the buffered spaces are “used up.” I recommend spamming space when you get close as opposed to holding it. It will be in your best interest to consistently be pressing/holding space when not menuing. You will need to hit or hold space to close these. Frequently, pop-up messages will occur.Set your pace (4) to grueling (3) in the game menu.All these quantities (except for Banker) aren’t set in stone, and you can substitute more oxen for less food or vice versa.īanker: 9 yoke of oxen, 2000 pounds of foodĬarpenter: 8 yoke of oxen, 2000 pounds of foodįarmer: 4 yoke of oxen, 1000 pounds of food Hopefully, you will find spare parts in an abandoned wagon. A perfect run will not rely on spare parts, clothing, or bullets.Most runners leave in April, but May or June could be faster with more testing. March will freeze you alive, and July will cause too much heat for adequate grass. You can fill in the rest of the names with stock names by pressing an extra "enter" after entering the wagon leader’s name. Name your first party member "y", so you will already be able to buffer a "y" for "Are you sure with these names" later.Travel the trail (1), and choose your job depending on which category you are running.Clear any existing saved games/gravestones beforehand.You can press "escape" to exit to the main menu faster than it takes to refresh the webpage. Currently, there exists little tech to remediate bad RNG. PLEASE make sure that we can see the clock AND the full game screen! Download any “speedrun split” application (like LiveSplit) for timing/splits and a screen recording application (like OBS) for video recording/streaming.The version number is near the bottom of the screen. You can check the version on the opening MECC splash screen after DOSBox boots up. This version has a quirk that we exploit for Death% ) NOTE: For strategies that we use in the Any% categories, I recommend ’s emulator, as the version is earlier (2.0) and makes saving the game much easier (and faster).įOR DEATH% RUNS: I recommend using Version 2.1, like the one from MyAbandonWare (linked previously). FOR ANY% RUNS: Either use 's online emulator ( ) or download a copy of DOSBox ( ) and grab a copy of the game ( or similar).A quick note, I refer to the "main menu" as the menu with "Travel the trail", etc., whereas the "game menu" is where you can adjust your pace, food rations, attempt to trade, etc. The Death% guide is copied from lemoncoughdrop's recent guide, but I wanted to compile all runs into one document. Here’s an updated guide (December 2022) to running all categories on The Oregon Trail (DOS) leaderboards! Much of this information is ripped straight from Doowi’s previous guide.
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