Level

Level-scoped tools for automation, freezing, proof helpers, visual suppression, and hitbox display.

The Level tab focuses on the current level scene. Several rows are useful for routing and review, but state-changing rows can mark the attempt as Cheat.

Option	Control	What it does	Classification
Core Mode	Action	Apply the configured Hot or Cold Core Mode override, or cycle Hot, Cold, and off. The override covers the room it was applied in and ends when the room changes or a StartPos slot is restored.	Cheat
Freeze Gameplay	Action	Freeze gameplay updates until toggled off or advanced by the frame stepper.	Cheat
Confirm Actions	Action	Open the confirmation prompts for actions that restart, reload, or overwrite state.	None
Skip Intro	Toggle	Hold confirm on repeated B-side intro title screens to enter the map.	Normal clear
Skip Postcards	Toggle	Hold confirm on level-entry postcards to jump straight into the map.	Normal clear
Auto Kill	Toggle	Automatically kill the player after a configured time on the current attempt, or inside selected regions.	Cheat
Respawn Time	Toggle	Open respawn timing controls, including whether speedhack affects the delay.	Normal clear
Pause Timer	Toggle	Delay resumed gameplay after unpausing and show a center countdown.	Cheat
Pause Tracker	Toggle	Record pause count, rapid pauses, and paused time.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Toggle	Pause after a detected frame-time spike.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Freeze Timer While Paused	Toggle	Halt level and journal timer accumulation while paused.	Cheat
Hide Pause Menu	Toggle	Hide Celeste’s pause menu while the game remains paused.	Normal clear
Hide Vanilla HUD	Toggle	Hide Celeste’s own HUD, such as the speedrun timer and strawberry tracker, without changing gameplay.	Normal clear
Hide Akron HUD	Toggle	Hide every Akron label and indicator while keeping their settings.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Toggle	Press the configured Discord Toggle Deafen hotkey after entering a selected region until death or reset. Areas belong to the map they were drawn on.	Normal clear
Deload Spinners	Action	Simulate spinner deload timing with the configured delay.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Toggle	Open live hitbox controls for collision boxes, filters, colors, opacity, thickness, and style.	Cheat
Fix Hitbox Pixels	Toggle	Render circular hitboxes as sampled collision pixels instead of a smooth approximate outline.	None
Show Hitbox Trail	Toggle	Draw recent player collision boxes behind Madeline.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes On Death	Toggle	Show the death-object hitbox after dying without enabling live hitboxes.	Normal clear
Show Triggers	Toggle	Draw invisible Celeste trigger regions without turning on all hitboxes, aligned with their native colliders even when the window is letterboxed.	Cheat
Refill Clarity	Toggle	Highlight already-visible one-use refills with a configurable outline.	Normal clear
Screenshake	Toggle	Override native Celeste screenshake. Intensity 0 disables shake.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Light Level	Toggle	Adjust light presentation for the current level; switching it off releases its lighting override independently of Bloom or Tint.	Normal clear
Bloom Level	Toggle	Adjust bloom presentation for the current level; switching it off releases its bloom overrides independently of Light or Tint.	Normal clear
Screen Tint	Toggle	Apply a configurable screen tint.	Normal clear
Reduced Visual Noise	Toggle	Apply Akron’s reduced visual-noise presentation settings.	Normal clear
No Particles	Toggle	Suppress particle presentation.	Normal clear
No Glitch	Toggle	Suppress glitch-style visual effects.	Normal clear
No Anxiety	Toggle	Suppress anxiety-style visual effects.	Normal clear
No Distortion	Toggle	Suppress distortion-style visual effects.	Normal clear
Hide Snow	Toggle	Hide snow presentation.	Normal clear
Hide Wind Snow	Toggle	Hide wind-snow presentation.	Normal clear
Hide Waterfalls	Toggle	Hide waterfall presentation.	Normal clear
Hide Tentacles	Toggle	Hide tentacle presentation.	Normal clear
Disable Playback	Toggle	Hide map-placed playback tutorial ghosts and suppress their movement, audio, and trails during gameplay.	Normal clear
Hide Heat Distortion	Toggle	Hide heat-distortion presentation.	Normal clear
No Death Wipe	Toggle	Suppress black screen wipes while preserving completion callbacks when configured.	Normal clear
No Freeze Frames	Toggle	Suppress native hitstop/freeze-frame pauses. This changes gameplay timing.	Cheat

Auto Deafen hotkey injection is available on Windows and Linux, not macOS. On Linux, it needs an X display with XTest support or an available xdotool fallback, including flatpak-spawn when applicable.

Option menus

Rows with a triangle expose the controls listed below.

Option	Menu control	What it changes	Classification
Confirm Actions	Confirm Restart	Require a confirmation prompt before restarting the current room attempt.	None
Confirm Actions	Confirm Full Reset	Require a confirmation prompt before fully reloading the current chapter.	None
Confirm Actions	Reload room	Require a confirmation prompt before reloading the current room.	None
Confirm Actions	Restore Speedrun Tool State	Require a confirmation prompt before restoring a Speedrun Tool slot from Akron’s binding.	None
Core Mode	Mode	Choose the Hot or Cold override.	Cheat
Core Mode	Click	Choose whether clicking the row toggles the configured override or cycles through Hot, Cold, and off.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Method	Choose Timer or Area mode.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Seconds	Kill the attempt when it has run for the configured time. Timer mode fires once per attempt and re-arms on the next one.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Show area	Draw the selected Auto Kill rectangle in the game viewport.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Show on death hitboxes	Show Auto Kill rectangles during Show Hitboxes On Death.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Default conditions for new areas	Configure the conditions copied into each new Auto Kill area.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Select Area	Enter rectangle selection for Auto Kill areas.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Clear	Remove this map’s Auto Kill rectangles. It does not change the Method or turn Auto Kill off.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Previous	Select the previous Auto Kill area for editing.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Next	Select the next Auto Kill area for editing.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Clear Selected	Remove only the selected Auto Kill area.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Use Selected as Default	Copy the selected area’s conditions into the default for new areas.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Conditions for Area	Expand the optional filters for the selected Auto Kill area.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Require speed range	Require Madeline’s absolute speed to be inside the configured range.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Min speed	Set the minimum absolute speed for an area trigger.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Max speed	Set the maximum absolute speed for an area trigger.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Require horizontal speed	Require Madeline’s absolute horizontal speed to be inside the configured range.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Min H speed	Set the minimum absolute horizontal speed for an area trigger.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Max H speed	Set the maximum absolute horizontal speed for an area trigger.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Require vertical speed	Require Madeline’s absolute vertical speed to be inside the configured range.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Min V speed	Set the minimum absolute vertical speed for an area trigger.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Max V speed	Set the maximum absolute vertical speed for an area trigger.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Require dash count	Require the configured current dash count.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Dash count	Only trigger selected-area kills while Madeline has the configured current dash count.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Ground	Choose Any, Grounded, or Airborne.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Horizontal	Choose Any, Left, Right, or Still.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Vertical	Choose Any, Up, Down, or Still.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Require player state	Require Madeline’s internal player state to match the configured state id.	Cheat
Auto Kill	State id	Set the required internal player state id.	Cheat
Auto Kill	Invert conditions	Trigger selected-area kills when enabled conditions fail instead of when they pass.	Cheat
Auto Deafen	Hotkey	Set the Discord Toggle Deafen hotkey Akron will press.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Set Hotkey / Press Hotkey…	Capture the Discord Toggle Deafen hotkey Akron will press.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Test Toggle	Press the configured hotkey immediately.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Clear Hotkey	Clear the configured hotkey and restore Discord audio if needed.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Area deafen	Trigger deafen when Madeline enters a selected rectangle.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Show area	Draw selected Auto Deafen rectangles in the game viewport.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Select Area	Enter rectangle selection for Auto Deafen areas.	Normal clear
Auto Deafen	Clear	Remove all selected Auto Deafen rectangles and restore the Discord audio state if Akron believes Discord is deafened.	Normal clear
Respawn Time	Seconds	Configure the post-death respawn delay.	Normal clear
Respawn Time	Ignore speedhack	Use real elapsed time so Akron’s timescale does not stretch or shrink the delay.	Normal clear
Pause Timer	Seconds	Configure how long gameplay is held after unpausing.	Cheat
Pause Timer	Hide pause tint	Remove Celeste’s leftover pause darkening during the countdown.	Cheat
Lag Pauser	Threshold ms	Set the frame-time spike threshold that triggers the pause.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Recovery grace ms	Ignore frame-time spikes briefly after respawning or entering a room.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Repeat cooldown ms	Prevent repeated automatic pauses immediately after a lag pause.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Ignore SRT	When Speedrun Tool is loaded, ignore spikes during a brief grace window after Speedrun Tool load-state hooks so intentional load-state hitches do not count as Lag Pauser spikes.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Triggers	Show how many frame-time spikes triggered Lag Pauser.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Last spike	Show the duration of the most recent frame-time spike.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Lag Pauser	Reset threshold	Restore the default spike threshold.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Light Level	Percent	Set the lighting override percentage while Light Level is enabled.	Normal clear
Bloom Level	Percent	Set bloom suppression or amplification while Bloom Level is enabled.	Normal clear
Screen Tint	Opacity	Set screen tint opacity.	Normal clear
Screen Tint	Tint	Choose the screen tint color.	Normal clear
Deload Spinners	Deload now	Simulate spinner deloading with the configured delay.	Cheat
Deload Spinners	Before	Set the number of seconds before the deload to simulate from.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Active only	Hide inactive entities from live hitbox rendering.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Hide player	Hide the player collider from live hitbox rendering.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Player hazard box	Draw Madeline’s hazard/death hitbox separately from her solid collision box.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Hazards	Draw spike, blade, and death-object hitboxes.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Solids	Draw solid collision boxes.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Triggers	Draw trigger areas.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Sync Hitboxes	Clear cached hitbox draw state and rebuild live hitboxes on the next frame.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Line	Set live hitbox outline thickness.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Fill %	Set interior opacity for drawn hitboxes.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Player	Set Madeline/player hitbox color.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Player hazard	Set Madeline/player hazard hitbox color.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Solids	Set solid collision grid color.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Hazards	Set spike, blade, and death-object color.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Triggers	Set trigger area color.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Other	Set fallback color for other collidable entities.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes	Reset style	Restore Akron’s default hitbox style.	Cheat
Show Hitbox Trail	Show Hitbox Trail	Draw recent player collision boxes behind Madeline.	Cheat
Show Hitbox Trail	Length	Set how many recent player collision boxes are kept.	Cheat
Show Hitbox Trail	Trail %	Set the maximum opacity for older hitbox trail samples.	Cheat
Show Hitboxes On Death	All hitboxes	During the death window, draw the regular hitbox set using Show Hitboxes settings.	Normal clear
Show Hitboxes On Death	Player marker	Mark Madeline’s recorded death position even when All hitboxes is active or Hide player is enabled.	Normal clear
Show Hitboxes On Death	Death object	Set the last recorded death-object hitbox color.	Normal clear
Show Hitboxes On Death	Player marker	Set the last recorded player-position marker color.	Normal clear
Refill Clarity	Opacity	Set the outline opacity for visible one-use refills.	Normal clear
Refill Clarity	Outline	Set the outline color for visible one-use refills.	Normal clear
Screenshake	Intensity	Set the screenshake override intensity from 0 to 90. Zero disables native Celeste camera shake while Screenshake is on.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
No Death Wipe	Death only	Suppress wipes only while a level is in the death-body or dead-player window.	Normal clear
No Death Wipe	All wipes	Suppress every area screen wipe while No Death Wipe is on.	Normal clear
No Death Wipe	Run callbacks	Run the wipe completion action even when Akron suppresses the visual wipe.	Normal clear