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Basic Information

At this moment, it can be achieved only with disc version of the game and no patch installed so version 1.0. You will have to use Iosefka's Clinic Backdoor Skip into Forbidden Woods [patched v1.03] allowing you to jump from Central Yharnam into backyard of the Clinic closed behind the door which will give you instant access to Iosefka's Clinic back entrance and Forbidden Woods in Day time. This page will document all oddities and triggers encountered with this sequence breaking of the timezones.

UPDATE 02/03/20: Iosefka's Clinic new skip discovered by GiantCookieJar, functional on the latest Bloodborne patch (v1.09). This skip takes advantage of the forward momentum of the Scourge Beast's grab attack - the player is locked into an animation that can clip their character's body through walls. The skip will take you to the back of Iosefka's Clinic and allows you to visit the Forbidden Woods early or perform Timezone Manipulation. How to perform the skip: 1. Since the Scourge Beast in Iosefka's Clinic doesn't respawn, it's essential that you don't kill it; 2. Get the Scourge Beast's attention and lure it all the way upstairs near the room where your character first wakes up; 3. Position yourself in the left corner and bait the beast's grab attack. Once it grabs you, rapidly mash the R2 and L2 buttons; 4. If done correctly, you will clip through the wall and out of bounds. Hug the wall on your left and run forward as if going downstairs. Turn right just as you reach the bottom of the stairs. You'll see that you are now in the back area of the clinic. Continue walking on top of the wall until you can safely drop on the ground nearby the well and Brainsucker. Demonstration: [Demonstration by GiantCookieJar]

Progression route was Day ► Iosefka's Clinic Skip ► Blood Moon ► Evening ► Nighttime; alternatively ending game with Evening. (now possible on current patch)

Another progression route was Day ► Evening ► Vicar Amelia Skip ► Blood Moon ► Nighttime (possible on current patch)

[reddit] Reversing the Blood Moon Stream Discoveries by NovaTheLoneHunter, (current patch)

[reddit] Glitched Yahar'gul, Upper Cathedral Ward, Hunter's Dream (Pre-Blood Moon) by Daemonian, (current patch)

Notes

New Iosefka's Clinic Skip: Hunter's Dream Workshop will stay closed until you light up the Central Yharnam lamp. One could feasibly use the Clinic skip, progress through Forbidden Woods, Moonside Lake, Yahar'gul, and the Nightmare of Mensis without being able to access the Workshop.

If you sequence break the buying cost at Bath Messengers in Hunter's Dream will reflect the timezone you are currently in, therefore you can be at the end game and still buy consumables with Evening prices.

All NPC triggers will forward to Blood Moon state when this timezone is triggered and will not move back when you reverse to the Evening.

When triggering Blood Moon timezone you need to kill The One Reborn in Yahar'gul, Unseen Village and activating Advent Plaza lamp before reversing back to Evening because gate on the Main Street will be closed, preventing you access to the Advent Plaza. Only way to access this boss without doing that is to use Yahar'gul One Reborn Skip.

Due to sequence breaking you can see that Eileen and Patches have different triggers to progress their quest lines despite both have essentially enter the Forbidden Woods trigger. It's irrelevant unless you're sequence breaking, the trigger for Eileen to disappear / go blood drunk is you "entering forbidden woods", as in, the "Forbidden Woods" title card comes up but Patches can be triggered before that if you just go down the ladder and then come up again, he'll be at the window and Eileen will still be in Central Yharnam if you go all the way out of the cave, Eileen disappears.

Yharnam's Residents are tied to each location timezone and does not act as normal NPCs, which mean they will have dialogue corresponding to the current timezone even if you reversed it from the Blood Moon.

Areas with no change of skyboxes: Altar of Despair, Byrgenwerth, Forbidden Woods, Moonside Lake, Forsaken Cainhurst Castle, Nightmare Frontier, Lecture Building, Nightmare of Mensis

Reversing timezones can break lighting in some areas, erasing particle effects or light beams from the moon alongside with some graphical glitches in the skyboxes.

Iosefka's Clinic | Entrance Door [DAY]	Hunter's Dream | Workshop [BLOOD MOON]
New Clinic Skip: Main Clinic door from the other side and cannot be interacted with.	New Clinic Skip: If you didn't light the Central Yharnam lamp, Workshop will stay closed. If you open it during the end game when Gehrman is at the foot of the great tree, Workshop will be empty.

Hunter's Dream | Stairs [BLOOD MOON]	Cathedral Ward | Stairs [EVENING]
New Clinic Skip: Even if you skipped Nighttime by not touching the Laurence's Skull in Grand Cathedral, Eye of a Blood-drunk Hunter will spawn in Hunter's Dream when Blood Moon is triggered.	New Clinic Skip: You can complete the Eileen's quest line in front of Grand Cathedral even before you have encountered Vicar Amelia in Cathedral Ward.

Cathedral Ward | Stairs [NIGHT]	Forbidden Woods | Gate [EVENING]
New Clinic Skip: You can complete the Eileen's quest line in front of Grand Cathedral even before you have encountered Vicar Amelia in Cathedral Ward.	New Clinic Skip: Gatekeeper dialogue is available from the other side of the gate before you touched the Laurence's Skull in Grant Cathedral to learn the password, as well as the dialogue prompt when you did. At last, being able to talk to the Gatekeeper face to face.

Forbidden Woods | Gate [NIGHT]
New Clinic Skip: Gatekeeper dialogue is available from the other side of the gate before you touched the Laurence's Skull in Grant Cathedral to learn the password, as well as the dialogue prompt when you did. At last, being able to talk to the Gatekeeper face to face.

Iosefka's Clinic | Courtyard [DAY]	Iosefka's Clinic | Back Entrance Rooftops [DAY]
Second portion of the courtyard, Iosefka's Clinic, behind the locked gate during the day time. Normally it is only accessible since nighttime.	Path to back entrance to the Clinic Building, lit rooftops in daylight.

Clinic | Upstairs Operating Room [DAY]	Clinic | Operating Room [DAY]
Impostor Iosefka spawns when you enter the Iosefka's Clinic through back entrance. Located in the Upstairs Operating Room on the table, you can attack her although she is unkillable, it doesn't display her HP and she has insane amount of it but eventually will die and drop One Third of Umbilical Cord.	Cainhurst Summons will spawn when you enter the Iosefka's Clinic through back entrance.

Clinic | Operating Room [DAY]	Forbidden Woods | Clinic Route [DAY]
You can interact with Iosefka although she will only offer the same dialogue. You can open the main door and access the 1st Floor Sickroom lamp but they will close everytime you reload the area.	Tonsil Stone is available even in this day time since trigger for Patches the Spider is entering the Forbidden Woods.

Forbidden Woods | Cathedral Ward Route [DAY]	Cathedral Ward | Oedon Chapel [BLOOD MOON]
You can interact with Watchman of Byrgenwerth and he will offer the same dialogue, only option available is "Keep Quiet".	Chapel's door leading back to Tomb of Oedon are shut and cannot be interacted with.

Cathedral Ward | Oedon Chapel [BLOOD MOON]	Central Yharnam | Gilbert's House [EVENING]
Text prompt says "Shut fast". Not due to sequence breaking but version 1.00, includes doors leading to Healing Church Workshop, one at the end of Yharnam Path connecting Great Bridge behind Cleric Beast and Cathedral Ward, also gate in Hunter's Dream leading to The Great Tree.	Reversing Blood Moon back to Evening, by triggering Oedon Chapel cutscene, will create situation that you can fight transformed Gilbert in front of his house in this timezone.

Cathedral Ward | Oedon Chapel Courtyard [EVENING]	Cathedral Ward | Church Giants [EVENING]
When Blood Moon is reversed back to the Evening by entering Cathedral Ward you can see Amygdalae even without enough Insight, when area is reloaded Amygdalae will disappear again.	When Blood Moon is reversed back to the Evening by entering Cathedral Ward, Church Giants will be in sleeping position, when area is reloaded they will be actively roaming once again.

Hemwick Charnel Lane | Crossing [EVENING]	Hemwick Charnel Lane | Crossing [EVENING]
With Cainhurst Summons in the inventory and Witch of Hemwick killed you can trigger Carriage to Cainhurst in the Evening (previously got from Iosefka's Clinic skip).	Both arrival and departure cutscenes will display Evening lighting as well.

Yahar'gul | Cathedral Path [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Cathedral Path [EVENING]
Yahar'gul, Unseen Village after reversing from Blood Moon into Evening is at state where you can be kidnapped into Hypogean Gaol.	There are no Amygdalae on the buildings.

Yahar'gul | Main Lamp [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Sacrifice Square [EVENING]
There are no enemies as well, only ones present are on the main street, storeroom and prison areas. All in state as if you would get kidnapped into Hypogean Gaol.	With different lighting you can see buildings in the distance have lower quality textures usually hidden in darker setting.

Yahar'gul | Sacrifice Square [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Holding Cell [EVENING]
Yahar'gul, Unseen Village in the Evening provides different atmosphere, with no enemies and unsettling music playing in the background.	You can access the Holding Cell after Sacrifice Square to obtain the Upper Cathedral Key.

Yahar'gul | Hypogean Gaol [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Cathedral Path [EVENING]
Hypogean Gaol lamp is active and interactible but upon lighting lamp the text prompts only says "*" and it has no other functionality.	Door leading back to Cathedral Ward are closed and cannot be interacted with.

Yahar'gul | Advent Plaza [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Main Street Overlook [EVENING]
If you kill The One Reborn before reversing Blood Moon back to Evening, the Advent Plaza lamp is active and you can access the second part of the Yahar'gul, Unseen Village.	Scenery shot taken from Main Street Overlook looking at the first portion of the area.

Yahar'gul | Main Street [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Main Street Gate [EVENING]
Main Street is accessible with unfunctional small baths which cannot teleport you at this time.	Gate on the Main Street which grants access to second portion of the game and opens only when Blood Moon is reached is shut and interactible with text prompt "Shut fast".

Yahar'gul | Advent Plaza [EVENING]	Yahar'gul | Advent Plaza [EVENING]
There is one way to fight The One Reborn in the Evening, it requires Yahar'gul One Reborn Skip to bypass the main gate which prevents you to access this boss.	The One Reborn Intro (Evening), during the entirety of your visit you can hear the background chanting which would normally stop in the Blood Moon.

Forbidden Woods | Cathedral Path [NIGHT]	Yahar'gul | Advent Plaza [NIGHT]
During Nighttime you can interact with Watchman of Byrgenwerth and use the password to open the Cathedral Path.	If you kill The One Reborn before reversing Blood Moon back to Night, the Advent Plaza lamp is active and you can access the second part of the Yahar'gul, Unseen Village.

Yahar'gul | Main Street [NIGHT]	Yahar'gul | Sacrifice Square [NIGHT]
Main Street is accessible with unfunctional small baths which cannot teleport you at this time.	With less lighting there are less visible lower quality textures compared to when this area is visited during the Evening.

Yahar'gul | Main Street Overlook [NIGHT]	Yahar'gul | Main Lamp [NIGHT]
Scenery shot taken from Main Street Overlook looking at the first portion of the area.	There are no enemies, only ones present are on the main street, storeroom and prison areas. All in state as if you would get kidnapped into Hypogean Gaol.

Yahar'gul | Main Lamp [NIGHT]	Yahar'gul | Cathedral Path [NIGHT]
There are no Amygdalae on the buildings.	Yahar'gul, Unseen Village after reversing from Blood Moon/Evening into Nighttime is at state where you can be kidnapped into Hypogean Gaol.

Yahar'gul | Advent Plaza [NIGHT]	Yahar'gul | Advent Plaza [NIGHT]
There is one way to fight The One Reborn in the Nighttime, it requires Yahar'gul One Reborn Skip to bypass the main gate which prevents you to access this boss.	The One Reborn Intro (Nighttime), during the entirety of your visit you can hear the background chanting which would normally stop in the Blood Moon.

Yahar'gul | Elevator [EVENING/NIGHT]	Nightmare Frontier | Chamber [EVENING/NIGHT]
Elevator's button and lever (shortcut) will be disabled when timezone is reversed from the Blood Moon.	Amygdala drops Lower Loran Chalice, item is Ailing Loran Chalice with Lower Loran name and description.

Cathedral Ward | Grand Cathedral [EVENING/BM]	Cathedral Ward | Grand Cathedral [EVENING/BM]
When timezone is changed from Day to Blood Moon it will advance Eileen's quest to its ending part, this will happen if you talked to her in Central Yharnam and since you couldn't help Eileen with Henryk, she will spawn at the Grand Cathedral as your enemy (instead of Bloody Crow of Cainhurst).	If you proceed further you will trigger Vicar Amelia boss sequence and will have to fight them both, they can hurt each other but they will attack only you.

Cathedral Ward | Grand Cathedral [BLOOD MOON]	Cathedral Ward | Grand Cathedral [BLOOD MOON]
When timezone is changed from Evening to Blood Moon it will advance Eileen's quest to its ending part, this will happen if you talked to her in Cathedral Ward and helped her with Henryk in Tomb of Oedon. Then you will find her in front of Grand Cathedral injured and her prey Bloody Crow of Cainhurst waiting for you with Vicar Amelia.	If you proceed further you will trigger Vicar Amelia boss sequence and will have to fight them both, they can't hurt each other and gruesome fight awaits you.

Upper Cathedral Ward | Entrance [EVENING/NIGHT]	Upper Cathedral Ward | Bridge [EVENING/NIGHT]
Upper Cathedral Ward is accessible in the Evening/Nighttime, with no skyboxes, creating its own foggy atmosphere.	Closer look at the Clocktower.

Upper Cathedral Ward | Bridge [EVENING/NIGHT]	Upper Cathedral Ward | Scenery [EVENING/NIGHT]
Scenery shot of the bridge and Orphanage in the distance.	Scenery shot of the Yharnam below Upper Cathedral Ward taken from sideway of the Orphanage.

Hunter's Dream | The Great Tree [EVENING/NIGHT]	Hunter's Dream | The Great Tree [EVENING/NIGHT]
The Great Tree scenery shot in the Evening/Night which is only accessible during late Blood Moon.	Different timezone changes Gehrman's cutscene lighting.

Hunter's Dream | The Great Tree [EVENING/NIGHT]	Hunter's Dream | The Great Tree [EVENING/NIGHT]
Different timezone changes Gehrman's cutscene lighting.	Different timezone changes Moon Presence's cutscene lighting.

Hunter's Dream | The Great Tree [EVENING/NIGHT]	Hunter's Dream | The Great Tree [EVENING/NIGHT]
Different timezone changes Moon Presence's cutscene lighting.	Changes in lighting after Moon Presence triggers are creating unique darker skyboxes.