Minit – Minimalist Achievement Guide

by Falagar / Articles, Misc. Guides / 15 Apr 2018

How to achieve the minimalist achievement in Minit, which requires less than 25 runs.

Run 1: Sword, Coffee, Key and Flashlight

This run is definitely tough, you’ll end up picking the Flashlight at 2 seconds max.

Pick the Sword

Kill the two crabs on the right

Kill the three crabs above the bar

Enter the bar to pick the Coffee

Pick the Lighthouse Key

Go to the lighthouse to pick the Flashlight

Run 2: Watering can and Adventurer

This run is also pretty tough, you’ll end up with 2-3 seconds left, if not less.

Get the Watering Can and pick back your Sword

Go past the snake hideout (killing one can make it shorter)

Ignore the bull and go straight to the next house

Take the Watering Can next to the house

Run three screens down to find the Adventurer and water it

Run 3: Sword Thrower and Gardening Gloves

You must find the oasis the fastest way possible, but it’s ok to do all this with seconds to spare.

Find the oasis (Go to the secret temple and then go up/down in screens 5-6 times)

Kill the ghost and pick the Sword Thrower

Pick the Gardening Gloves

Go back to your first house (Important to not have to backtrack again)

Run 4: Camera, Hotel, Resident 1 and 2

This is one is one of the toughest, requires really good execution to get to your room at 0-1 second:

Go pick the Camera

Go up to the hotel, skip the hotel and go right

Find the resident under the crate

Go back to the pond to find the scuba resident

Go back to your hotel room (careful to go up to your room, to save)

Run 5: Resident 3, 4 and 5

It can be tough depending of your skill and the RNG, but if you use the mouse trick, you’ll have up to 10 seconds to spare.

Kill the mob of goons up the hotel (start with the rightmost plant)

Go left and help the girafe in the crate

Find the mouse behind the tree by detroying all but one tree

For the mouse I found two tricks:

You don’t have to fully destroy each tree, the mouse cannot hide behind branches

Once you’re done to two trees, you can lower the mouse tree from under and the mouse won’t hide to the last one for some reasons

Run 6: Resident 6, Flippers and Journalist

This one is easy enough.

Repair the bridge to unlock the last resident

Take the Flippers

Take the Camera

Go to the room with the bodyguard

Run 7: Left Machine and Right Machine

It will be tricky but definitely possible

Go in the mines

Use the shortcut with the flippers to the puzzle

Solve the left puzzle (3 boxes inside the machines)

Solve the right puzzle (hit the switch using the treadmill)

Run 8: Middle Machine, Drill shortcut and Stuck your sword

Almost the end, need the drill shortcut to water the sword after, this step has the most back and forth but it is actually easy to do.

Go though the factory up to the water fountain

Destroy the Middle Machine downstairs

Go back up and unlock the shortcut and save at the desert house

Go back to the factory and stuck your sword

Run 9: Mega Sword and Boss 1/3

From there on, one thing to know is that in the First Run, you save every progress you do on the boss, so even if you die stupidly, you can still make it in 12 runs (maybe not in 9-10 runs though).

Go back to where you stuck your Sword (by default you should have the Watering Can on you)

Water the Sword to get the Mega Sword

Fight the boss and kill its first phase

Start killing its second phase

Run 10: Boss 2/3 and 3/3

Same as before, to do both phase in one go, try to advance the second phase in the previous run.

Kill Boss second phase

Kill Boss third phase

Throw the broken sword into the cabinet

Enjoy the credits

Epilogue

You’ve done it!

If you’ve done it perfectly you’ll have 10 runs only, which is way lower than the 25 required!

It also means that you can fail several step of that guide if you’re just aiming for the achievement.

Do note that the game save your best number of run in the secret basement.

If you want to aim for the 9 runs, here is what you need to change in your runs.

Run1: Don’t do this run ! Yes it means no Flashlight for the rest of the game

Run2-3: Same

Run4: Don’t pick the camera, instead kill the crabs like in old run 1 to get the Coffee

Run5-7: Same

Run8: Since you don’t have the camera anymore, go through the mines. Don’t open the shortcut (you don’t have the time) and just stuck the sword right after

Run9: Same as Run8, go through the mines to go fight the boss

Run10: Same

This way you’ll be able to skip one run, going to 9 runs. The main disadvantage of doing that is that you won’t have the flashlight to orient yourself in the snake cave, the mines and the final boss.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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