< add this info about the Rope going out of sync >
Paulmall discovered you can (barely) jump this gap without cutting down the tree
In the final room, the iceblock piston elevator doesn’t start going up until Croc is above it
limbus discovered that when exiting the final room, you can jump before the iceblock chopping cutscene starts, which may allow you to make it further (video) < does it? wait, do you just have full control before the cutscene starts? can you front flip off the edge and die?? >
Cutscene breaks
All three cutscenes in this level can be CSB’d with Binos. Two of them were found by Turbomošt and are described below < the third has been known for a while — find the original source and write it up… wait what what even is the third one??? when the gobbo stops the rotating gear bridge? on hd that’s trivial now, but yea it’s kinda tricky on og iirc >
Tree cutting
Carry your momentum into the trigger zone while using Binos. Let Croc’s residual momentum carry you in, the same as the Keith CSBs and the Inca Hub burp minigame
Ashen Deimos PS1 Any% guide has a good visual of where the trigger is
Originally done with a sidestep into the trigger (2026-05-27), but that turned out to be unnecessary
Ice block carving
If you can break out of the ice block carving cutscene, you are free to clip into the iceblock and grab the barrel early!
However, normally when you run through this door, Croc keeps some momentum on the other side and walks himself into the cutscene trigger area. This prevents you from doing a CSB.
A consistent setup was found (2026-07-20) to prevent Croc from walking himself into the cutscene trigger, allowing for CSB
- Jump high, so you are pushing forward against the invisible wall at the top of the door
- Triple jump without moving forward
- You are now on the other side of the door, just short of the cutscene trigger — tap forward and hold Binos to CSB
- You can now take the barrel during the cutscene
Here is a video of the full skip being performed on HD:
Alternatively, you can do a sidestep instead of a triple jump. See this guide by Ashen Deimos for addl info (this was before we knew about the triple stomp setup)
< the triple jump setup does not work for the Roger CSB — worth a note there>