I have been trying to get a halfway-decent time in the No Gold Low% category (don't pick up any gold, health, items1, mounts) for well over a month and it has been driving me insane. It's so easy to land on a completely-concealed piece of gold in the crab levels or have a gem fired into you in the final stages. I believe at one point I said "once I get an ok run don't let me ever run this again".
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but I saw you pick up x item. Yeah, the rules are weird. Rocks/Arrows/Pots don't count. I feel like the land mine should clearly count but it doesn't
