In-Game-Time Speedrun

The goal of a speedrun of FARA is to complete the key as fast as possible.

Current Strats
This run heavily relies on save scumming. Save scumming is reloading a save until a desired outcome is reached.

First, pick Swiftshade and collect the breastplate and quest to go to Relica from the body and weapon at the campfire. You want the body to spawn as close to the campfire as possible, then save after you collect them. Ideally, there will also be 2 trees very close to the body and/or campfire.

Save scum harvesting 2 trees until both trees give a wooden log. /craft wooden block. /craft workbench.

If Relica is further than 5km away, reset; otherwise, go to Relica and enter it.

Weapon Scumming
Save scum the weapon chest until you get a copper weapon that has a weight of 3 or more and costs three or less copper to craft. A club is ideal for this. /exit Relica and walk 13 tiles diagonally in a direction that will not make you end up on or near a water tile in the direction you moved.

Castle Scumming
Save scum until you get a castle spawn that you can see after moving one more tile in the direction you were moving before. Save on its tile, but before entering the castle. Enter the castle and go to the noble's room.

Safe Strat: [Turn out all 6 braziers in the room, close the door, and inspect the noble. Not going for this safe strat may be the only way to get sub 17 with current strats.]

Save scum until they're an Illusionist. Save adjacent to them. Save scum salvaging their throne until you get enough iron to craft 3 of the weapon you got from Relica's weapon chest. /craft iron [Relica weapon]. z. z. Hold two of the iron weapons and wear the third.

Shift+s. Target the noble. Shift+a. Take the fragment. /exit. If your exit gets interrupted, reload, move to the closest corner that's at least 5 tiles away from the nearest enemy and try again. Save scum until this either works or shows that it will refuse to work. If it refuses to work, stealth as close to the exit as possible and try to exit normally without dying.

Move 4 tiles in a diagonal direction, save, then move another tile in the same direction. Save scum until you get another castle spawn adjacent to the tile you move into after reloading, then repeat this section, other than the weapon crafting part, until you complete the key.

Additionally, don't do the safe strat on the 10th castle, even if you were doing the safe strat in other castles.