Speed Knave is an achievement for DungeonUp with the following objective;


Speed Knave
Finished Zone 1 in 5 minutes.


In other words, you have to defeat the boss on floor 40 within five minutes of appearing on floor 50.

This miniguide is focused on getting the Speed Knave achievement in the easiest way possible. There are some preparations that you need to make before you start your run.

1. You obviously need to start a new game and not load a saved game.
2. You need to have at least two SoulStones so that you can purchase a Magic Mattock () on floor 45. It is preferable to have 10 SoulStones, so that you can also purchase a Water of Life to ensure that your health will be high enough to take out the Skeleton King on floor 40.

If you can fulfil these conditions, you can attempt to start the Speed Knave run.

The basic idea behind this tactic is to just skip as much content and fights as possible. In other words, you want to rush to the Skeleton King on level 40 as quick as you can, skipping most of the items on the floors between 50 and 40 as to not waste time. This entire tactic rests upon two things:

1. Having at least two SoulStones so that you can purchase the Magic Mattock () on floor 45, as stated in the preparation phase.
2. A little luck, if you cannot feasibly attain both the Bronze Sword and Shield without wasting all of your yellow keys and/or health, you need to restart the game. Sometimes you will find both the Bronze Sword and Shield on floor 49 and 48, sometimes they won't spawn until floor 43 and 41. So if you don't see them on the first couple of floors (preferably before floor 45), reset.



Walkthrough
1. As soon as you spawn, rush to get the keys and the health potions on floor 50, do not talk to the elder, skip him completely and run to floor 49.
2. Make your way up to floor 45, hopefully encountering the Bronze Sword and Shield before reaching floor 45. If you do not have to fight a Skeleton to get the Bronze Shield before having the Bronze Sword, pick it up. If you do have to fight a Skeleton (or have to waste too many yellow keys) to get the Bronze Shield, get the Bronze Sword first, even if it's on a different level (you will take too much damage otherwise). Skip all loot that is not essential for your run (essential being extra yellow keys to open doors to the next floor, or health/gems when they are on your path to the ladder).
3. When you reach floor 45, rush through the conversation with the Thief, and purchase the Magic Mattock (), then rush on towards floor 40.
4. When you reach floor 40 (hopefully still having over 1000 health, and at the very least both the Bronze Sword and Shield, but preferably at least 22 or 23 in both stats), kill the rightmost skeleton that is guarding the red gem. After you kill the skeleton pick up the red gem, and then demolish the wall towards the Skeleton King with the Magic Mattock.
5. The game will not trigger the Skeleton King's guardians, and you can immediately run up to the Skeleton King and attack him. This saves you very valuable time.
6. Kill him and unlock the achievement (the achievement triggers after the conversation with the Thief is over).


Here is what the final floor 40 map should look like:


Afterwards, just start a new game, because you are a little gimped to continue on with the game.