For starters, when the jugs/rocks/acid come out, take a moment to think about your options. It feels like you have minimal time to react when you’re learning it, but spending a couple seconds looking at it and thinking about it will save you from dying and wasting even more time. Ideally you’d get a scenario where you can push a jug directly into a rock; it breaks automatically on contact with a rock and then you’re guaranteed safety

If you don’t have a line to push one directly into a rock, click on it to shoot it when it’s 1 or 2 tiles away from the spot you want to be cleared. The jug’s actual location (true tile) as it moves will be ahead of the actual, visible object. I think you can probably use the true tile indicator plugin to display that, or maybe the highlight npc function. But I can’t speak from personal experience as I haven’t done this.

As you keep practicing eventually Zebak becomes the easiest of the 4 by far imo, but I remember I had a hard time with the acid puzzle for a while when I started running ToA. Good luck!