I still haven't beaten kolmi, so I'm sticking to the standard route until I do

I generally take the standard route until about the jungle or so. I keep my eyes open for wands+spells able to dig through holy mountains, teleport wands, and wands capable of bringing down bosses like Squidward and others. If I find them, I jump the rails and go do other things, if not I focus on just beating Kolmi. I generally can take the first option 1 time out of every 5-6 tries, though I am sure I could do it more often if I was better!

I often do the normal path and when i reach the boss if i have good digging i'll go back up. But i do that less and less these days since i would like to get the 4 achievements i'm missing and i'll need to learn to play the game differently to get them.