Minit Second Run Guide | 40-Second Routes, Changed Items, and Collection Notes

Select Second Run from New Game+. Check the 40-second timer and Broken Sword, and avoid reusing normal mode's 60-second collection notes unchanged.

If your goal is simply to finish, you can aim for the toilet before rebuilding the factory sword. For full collection, plan this shortcut ending separately from the additional island, temple, and Grinder routes.

1. Keep your existing normal save and check the starting state for Second Run.
2. Before each departure, check your home, inventory, and next entrance.
3. When a row changes your home, enter the building and confirm the registration message before returning.

This route specifies entrances and forks. If enemies stop you in the mine, avoid rushing and taking hits just to move faster; continue on your next departure.

Second Run also changes crab locations. The last one is in a hidden cave beneath a pot, so avoid searching only above ground.

The cave west 1, south 1, west 1 from Caravan has more trees than in normal mode. Rather than trying to cut trees before obtaining the glove, use the open paths between them to reach Gardening Glove.

1. Go around between the trees, choosing gaps you can pass through to reach the glove.
2. After picking up Gardening Glove, cut trees to open the exit.
3. Return home via the bridge west 1 and south 1, then update your home inside the house.
4. On your next departure, throw your sword at the enemies across the water and head to the Press Pass building.

Moved locations are distinguished from unchanged locations made harder by the 40-second limit. The table below is not presented as a complete Second Run location list for all 19 coins, six hearts, or fixed items.

These eleven locations have collection descriptions in Second Run play records. With nine coins needed for the shoes, you can switch locations if the waiting room or bandits prove difficult. This is not a complete dedicated solution for all 19 coins.

Separately from the toilet shortcut ending, you can shut down the factory and proceed to the final boss. On this route, use Fast Shoes to shorten return trips and stop the lines within 40 seconds.

The west uses the same three-box process as normal mode. Even if time expires after placing a box on the final belt, its movement toward the machine can still be observed. The east has more switches than normal, so do not count only the usual seven and assume it has stopped.

1. Enter the western Grinder room, avoid scorpions, and move three boxes to the intake.
2. Hit every switch lined up along the eastern belt and confirm the machine has stopped.
3. Lodge your sword in the southern gears, then return with the watering can on your next departure.
4. Destroy the central machine with Mega Sword to shorten the journey to the boss.
5. When dealing with each stage's swords, aim to finish within one 40-second life without damage. Confirm a stage is complete before proceeding.

The exact total of eastern switches and whether all swords in the boss's second stage must be handled in one life remain unconfirmed. Play-record guesses such as "about twice as many" and "the second stage should be the same" are not stated as fixed conditions.

This is optional collection after stopping the Grinder. With Fast Shoes, run from the Hotel via the bridge, southern pipe, eastern underground area, and northern Grinder room. Another route returns from Caravan through the drill passage.

Learn where to position the three boxes as stepping stones beforehand. Move the upper box down and the left and remaining boxes into the water to form a horizontal crossing, then move the fourth box left across it into the Grinder. When dealing with scorpions, reassess your remaining time and the stretch you must run again.

1. Stop the main-route Grinder and prepare Fast Shoes before departing.
2. Hotel → eastern bridge → southern pipe → eastern underground area → northern Grinder room.
3. Move the upper box down and make a three-box crossing in the same horizontal row as the fourth box.
4. Move the fourth box left across the stepping stones and push it into the Grinder to collect Grinder.

This describes the boxes' roles without reproducing the normal-mode box diagram. The route is based on a PC completion record; 40-second input tests have not been performed on every platform.

Hearts can still be collected in Second Run, but each pickup does not necessarily increase health as it does in normal mode. Guidance saying ordinary pickups leave you at one heart is distinguished from multiple completed PC play records where only the shop's final heart persists, giving two hearts.

Cross the poisonous water on the Trophy route only after collecting that shop heart and confirming the display shows two hearts. Prepare by discovering 19 coins and collecting the final heart at the shop behind Sneaker Hut. This guide does not use a shortcut into poisonous water with only one heart.

1. With 19 coins discovered, collect the final heart behind Sneaker Hut.
2. Confirm the health display shows two hearts. If your version's display does not change, do not continue along this poisonous-water route.
3. Cross right from the mine's horizontal moving platform without stopping, then enter the tent near the pipe to register it as your home.
4. From the tent, aim for the pipe maze's right-hand exit and choose the unlit Trophy.

The shop exception has been cross-checked against PC reports. The full set of south-temple shortcuts, receiving the mine coin in Second Run, and mode-specific acquisition checks for all 17 items remain incomplete.

Treat Mary's Mode's lack of a time limit separately from invulnerability to enemies. PC records describe losing health and increasing the death count, while PlayStation guidance says death occurs only through manual retries.

Whichever guidance you read, check the displayed health and mode name in a safe place immediately after starting. For an unverified version, this guide does not recommend rushing into poisonous water or enemies on the assumption of invulnerability. ANOTHER MINIT requires finishing Second Run, rather than finishing this mode.