These vases are on every floor, except boss floors, so if you want to get its diamond, your best bet is to bring them near the exit before breaking them. Breaking them will drop a valuable ghost diamond but will also immediately summon the ghost that normally arrives at the 3 min mark on a floor. Another type of vase is cursed vases with a ghost symbol on them.One item you canвЂ™t whip off the edge, are vases that break on impact and will either contain gold or enemies, so itвЂ™s best to throw them away from you, throw at enemies, throw something else at them, or use them to trigger arrow traps.You can also whip most items like rocks, bodies, and even gems and gold of an edge, so keep this in mind before you collect any treasure.When you lay down near an edge, you can drop a rope down, and you can drop items off the edge to move them down lower, drop them on an enemy, or set off arrow traps.So to stop this from happening, you need to stop the animation by either moving a bit away from the edge or laying down. If you move too close to the end of an edge/precipice like in the above 1st picture, youвЂ™ll go into a balancing animation as if youвЂ™re trying to keep yourself from falling off, and if youвЂ™re holding an item and stay in this animation too long, youвЂ™ll drop the item.For example, you can use this method in order to get items like crates embedded in the dirt above you. This will allow you to bomb areas and enemies as if you had sticky bombs.

Furthermore, you can вЂњcookвЂќ bombs since you can pick them up and throw them like any other throw-able item.Laying down allows you to place bombs more precisely.Holding down while on the ground also makes your character lay down, and if you also move left or right, youвЂ™ll crawl.Holding up allows you to look and aim your throws above you, and holding down allows you to look and aim your throws below you.When youвЂ™re holding an item in your hands, you can throw it by pressing the attack. You can pick up and drop items by standing over them and pressing down + attack, and you can drop backpack-style items like the Jetpack and Powerpack with down + RB/R1(the same button you use to enter doors and buy items in the shop).You can even grab them as youвЂ™re attacking in the air. In order to get on ropes, vines, or ladders, you overlap them with your character and hold them up or down, but when youвЂ™re in the air you can only grab them by holding up.You can even run through gaps like these as if the gaps were never there:

Holding run allows you to move faster on the ground and in the air.

Straying off this path usually WILL require resources, so if you do, make sure you have enough to avoid getting soft-locked.

Your main goal for every floor is to get to the exit and thereвЂ™s normally a direct path to the exit that usually doesnвЂ™t use any resources(bombs/rope).

Next, go to gameplay options and turn on вЂInstant Restart.вЂ™ ItвЂ™ll save you time.

Go to controls in options, and change default movement to вЂwalk.вЂ™ This will give you better control of your character.

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