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In casual Minecraft, players will typically purchase a diamond pickaxe, mine 10 obsidian, and use that to construct a nether portal. In a speedrun, however, this is quite slow because getting diamonds is unpredictable and each obsidian takes about 10 seconds to mine. A much faster method that only needs a water bucket and some lava is available. The primary goal is to add water so that lava can be added to create obisidian in a cast portal. Building a nether portal can be done in either an above- or below-ground lava pool or a magma ravine that frequently has lava.
This is the technique you want to use to create a portal and enter the nether if you’re on land and searching for or digging up a lava pool.
The most basic nether portal setup is explained in this straightforward guide by former world record holder Cscuile.
You might want to enter the nether through an ocean ravine if you have looted a shipwreck or buried treasure and are in the water. Magma blocks with lava underneath them can be found at the bottom of some ocean gorges, and if you’re crafty, you can use them to construct a nether portal, though doing so can be difficult given the way swimming mechanics work.
T_Wag has provided a lengthy guide to several different techniques for creating a portal in an ocean ravine.
The most crucial and hazardous part of your speedrun is the nether. To get the resources you need to win the game, you’ll have to navigate some structures and battle dangerous mobs. The two main items you’ll need to buy are blaze rods and ender pearls. Either traditional bartering or bastion strats are two ways to get ender pearls. You must visit a fortress and kill blazes there in order to obtain blaze rods.
A beginner’s method for getting ender pearls is classic bartering, which is typically slower than bastion routing.
All that is required is to mine nether gold ore for gold ingots, trade them for stray piglins, and wait for two ender pearl trades to happen. In the version 1. 16. 1, there is around a 4. 73% of gold ingots yield four to eight pearls, and since you prefer to have 12 or more pearls, you will typically need two ender pearl barters to have enough to win the game. Only spawning in the nether biomes of Crimson Forests and Nether Wastes, stray piglins have a tendency to wander, making it useful to build a pit or put them in boats so they stay put while bartering, allowing you to mine more gold or look for a fortress. When mining nether gold ore, be careful because piglins will attack you even if you are wearing gold armour. You can either run away and kill them or you can distract them with gold ingots.
It should be noted that using this strategy, you will primarily obtain pearls rather than many potions of useful materials that you would find using a bastion strategy, such as fire res, obsidian, string, crying obsidian, glowstone, and others. This means it is generally slower and more linear.
One of the most crucial abilities in Minecraft Speedrunning is the ability to obtain resources from a bastion. There are four different types of bastions, and each one spawns randomly. Depending on how they spawn, how the terrain generates, and how you approach them, each one can be routed in a variety of ways. Be aware that every nether biome—with the exception of the Basalt Delta biome—will produce bastions.
You should aim to get at least 10 obsidian, one fire resistance potion, and 16 ender pearls from a bastion. Additionally, looking for string can be used to make wool, which can be made into beds, or crying obsidian and glowstone, which can be made into respawn anchors. Beds and respawn anchors are useful for the end fight.
When you break a gold block or chest, all piglins within 16 blocks of you will be aggroed on you and move towards you, but they will still be diverted by gold. This is one of many helpful ways to gather piglins for quick bartering. It should be noted that simply opening a chest will make piglins that have line of sight on you more hostile, and that attacking one will make all nearby piglins more hostile and cause it to ignore any gold you throw. Understanding piglin mechanics is very useful for efficiently routing bastions.
Be aware that these videos’ guides are out-of-date and lack newer, faster routes and techniques, but they are frequently more appropriate for beginners than the fastest but riskiest routes used by experienced runners. Find out what you are comfortable with in runs by practicing them and using guides to various bastions.
If you closely followed the ender eye, you would dig down to the stronghold’s entrance staircase. This staircase leads to a room from which five additional rooms can be reached. Mostly, you just want to browse rooms in search of the end portal room. Stronghold chests with up to four slots can spawn and typically contain bread, apples, and ender pearls. The main rule for locating the end portal room is that it must spawn at least five rooms from the beginning staircase, but it usually does so within seven or eight rooms, so you should avoid exploring too far into the stronghold in search of it and instead go back to the beginning staircase and take a different path. Finding the portal can involve a lot of variation and randomness.
There will be 12 end portal frames when you locate the end portal. There is a 10% chance that each of these frames will come with an eye pre-filled. This means that in order to fill the end portal, you will need a minimum of 12 eyes of ender, and it is very unreliable to rely on more than two eyes because of how the probabilities work.
At some point during the run, you must have gathered some resources. You can use a few beds as minimal resources to complete the dragon’s “one cycle.” This works because, in the end, when you try to sleep on a bed, it explodes. This means that when the dragon flies to the center, you put a bed on the bedrock and time its explosion to cause damage and push the dragon upward so you can use another bed to deal more damage and raise the dragon once more. The best runners can consistently kill the dragon in 4-5 beds, but it can take a lot of practice.
Having a bow and at least 32 arrows will likely make killing the dragon the simplest option. You can then use arrows to destroy the end crystals, being careful not to look at the endermen and to flee if the dragon breathes dragon breath at you. When the dragon alights, you can maneuver to its side or back, enter the fountain beneath it, and slash it with an axe or sword until it takes off. Be careful if you are outside the fountain when it takes off because it will fly in your direction and could lift you into the air. The dragon won’t heal until all of the crystals have been destroyed. Keep in mind that when attacking the dragon with a weapon or an axe or sword, hitting its head causes significantly more damage than hitting its body.
Timing stops once you pass through the end portal and kill the dragon, marking the end of your speedrun.
Many, many additional sophisticated, intricate, and diverse tactics remain unmentioned in this article. For information on these, visit other guides, resources, streams, runs, and discord servers.
- Gather Basic Supplies. Chop some trees and mine some stone. …
- Find the Village. …
- Gather Iron Ingots. …
- Craft a Bucket and Find a Lava Pool. …
- Create a Nether Portal. …
- Gather Gold. …
- Find a Nether Fortress and Gather Blaze Rods. …
- Trade for Ender Pearls.
General tips[]
A glitchless speedrun can be a fun challenge that is marred by a small green pearl, similar to how golf can be described as a nice walk marred by a white ball. The longest part of any speedrun is almost always going to be getting the ender pearls. Therefore, eliminating endermen should always be a top priority, and obtaining your first ender pearl is never too early. Listen for endermen in any caves you explore after getting a weapon. Look around for endermen, especially after entering the nether, as you look for the fortress. Ender pearls are much more accessible in the new 1 Since Piglin trading has a propensity to drop many at once, 16 Nether Update As a result, it’s crucial to mine any gold you find in the nether and create gold armor. Because there are fewer other mobs to fight, there are frequently a lot of easy places to fight without getting hit (like standing in a 2 block high space), and they can be found in abundance within warped forests, hunting endermen in the nether can be simpler. You can begin moving in the direction of a stronghold as soon as you leave the nether with the aid of your blaze rods and ender pearls.
After version 1, finding a village early in your speedrun gives you access to a quick source of food from the hay bales scattered around. 14, or the crops, in earlier versions. If you don’t immediately see a village, widen your render distance and move to higher ground to search the area. If a village has a blacksmith building, it can also provide easy access to wood and cobblestone, a crafting table, beds for killing the ender dragon quickly, and loot. You might want to keep trying random worlds for your first few speedrun attempts until you locate a well-stocked village, or look up seeds with a village close to the spawn location.
If you have a lot of iron ingots, you can make shears and cut leaves with them to quickly obtain blocks for pillaring up or other types of movement.
To enter the nether, you typically need a flint and steel. But if you have a flint and steel, you can also start a fire before killing a mob. Without having to wait for a furnace, this is a quick way to get cooked meat.
Many players believe that digging straight down during a speedrun is normal, especially early in the run, despite the fact that doing so is often referred to as the number one unwritten rule of Minecraft. If you are playing set seed and dig somewhere you know is risk-free, you won’t die, which can save a lot of time. This same idea holds true for other risky decisions. Most speedrunners believe that taking chances, such as entering the nether without armor, is acceptable if it results in significant time savings. In the event that you perish during the speedrun, you can simply start over in a new world.
Consider the items you’ll need along the way, and gather them because many resources can suddenly become scarce just when you’ll need them. For example, lava and water are required to create a nether portal, gravel is required to make flint, wool and wood are required to make beds, and snowballs or arrows are required to use against the end crystals. These things can be difficult to locate when you need them, so grab them or make a note of where they are.
Travel east or west to increase your X coordinate if you must travel in the overworld before creating your nether portal. Finding a nether fortress can be found more quickly by beginning further east or west in the nether.
Turn up the volume and enable subtitles, especially when searching for significant items like water and lava to create a nether portal, blazes or other nether fortress enemies, or silverfish to locate the end portal. This lets you know when you are nearby and gives you a clue as to their general direction. [Java Edition only]
To activate the debug screen and always know where you are, press the F3 key on your keyboard. This also makes it simpler to locate any specific block or generated structure you previously found when playing set seed. More advanced speedrunning tips also rely on the debug screen.
Using two or three golden apples will be very beneficial when battling the dragon. When mining or looting, look for apples and keep an eye out for some gold ores while cutting down oak/dark oak trees. Golden apples or enchanted golden apples can also be obtained as loot. Advanced speedrunners can, however, defeat the Ender Dragon with almost no supplies. Therefore, some people might think that this is a waste of time.
TNT can be used to quickly destroy both the end crystal’s cage and the end crystal itself. Put some water on the ground, build a pillar to the cage, put the TNT on it, light it up, and then let it fall into the water. TNT can also be used to quickly gather various types of blocks, such as wood, hay bales, and gold blocks.
Luck, agility, and planning are crucial components that will assist you in achieving this. Most speedrunners can typically complete Minecraft in under an hour.
A Minecraft speedrun isn’t a walk in the park, though. So, in order to teach the fundamentals of speedrunning in Minecraft to those who are interested in beating the game quickly, we have created this article.
Let’s now go over a quick tutorial on how to use the aforementioned techniques to speedrun in Minecraft.
In addition, many players go for medals and online certifications by submitting their speedruns to speedrun.com. This site analyzes user-submitted speedruns from almost any game. For Minecraft, this site requires that the submission follows a few rules beforehand.
Speedrunning in Minecraft is a worldwide “sport.” Pro gamers see this challenge as an opportunity to break records and hop into the game’s speedrun ranking and championships. Minecraft even partakes in charity speedrun championships for Summer Games Done Quick.
Woodland Mansions[edit | edit source]
Woodland mansions are actually quite useful but they are so rare as to not really be worth investing time into. They also can take a lot of time to navigate because of how large they are. There are many different rooms and lots of loot from chests. Here is a semi-serious guide to mansions made by T_Wagz.
As with most underground structures, dungeons can contain iron, buckets, and some food in their chests, making them useful but somewhat difficult to locate.
In casual Minecraft, players will typically purchase a diamond pickaxe, mine 10 obsidian, and use that to construct a nether portal. In a speedrun, however, this is quite slow because getting diamonds is unpredictable and each obsidian takes about 10 seconds to mine. A much faster method that only needs a water bucket and some lava is available. The primary goal is to add water so that lava can be added to create obisidian in a cast portal. Building a nether portal can be done in either an above- or below-ground lava pool or a magma ravine that frequently has lava.
This is the technique you want to use to create a portal and enter the nether if you’re on land and searching for or digging up a lava pool.
Here is a simple guide to the most basic nether portal setup, created by former world record holder Cscuile.
You might want to enter the nether through an ocean ravine if you have looted a shipwreck or buried treasure and are in the water. Magma blocks with lava underneath them can be found at the bottom of some ocean gorges, and if you’re crafty, you can use them to construct a nether portal, though doing so can be difficult given the way swimming mechanics work.
Here is quite a lengthy guide to a few different methods of building a portal in an ocean ravine by T_Wag
You will enter the Nether once your nether portal has been constructed.
The most crucial and hazardous part of your speedrun is the nether. To get the resources you need to win the game, you’ll have to navigate some structures and battle dangerous mobs. The two main items you’ll need to buy are blaze rods and ender pearls. Either traditional bartering or bastion strats are two ways to get ender pearls. You must visit a fortress and kill blazes there in order to obtain blaze rods.
A beginner’s method for getting ender pearls is classic bartering, which is typically slower than bastion routing.
All that is required is to mine nether gold ore for gold ingots, trade them for stray piglins, and wait for two ender pearl trades to happen. In the version 1. 16. 1, there is around a 4. 73% of gold ingots yield four to eight pearls, and since you prefer to have 12 or more pearls, you will typically need two ender pearl barters to have enough to win the game. Only spawning in the nether biomes of Crimson Forests and Nether Wastes, stray piglins have a tendency to wander, making it useful to build a pit or put them in boats so they stay put while bartering, allowing you to mine more gold or look for a fortress. When mining nether gold ore, be careful because piglins will attack you even if you are wearing gold armour. You can either run away and kill them or you can distract them with gold ingots.
It should be noted that using this strategy, you will primarily obtain pearls rather than many potions of useful materials that you would find using a bastion strategy, such as fire res, obsidian, string, crying obsidian, glowstone, and others. This means it is generally slower and more linear.
One of the most crucial abilities in Minecraft Speedrunning is the ability to obtain resources from a bastion. There are four different types of bastions, and each one spawns randomly. Depending on how they spawn, how the terrain generates, and how you approach them, each one can be routed in a variety of ways. Be aware that every nether biome—with the exception of the Basalt Delta biome—will produce bastions.
You should aim to get at least 10 obsidian, one fire resistance potion, and 16 ender pearls from a bastion. Additionally, looking for string can be used to make wool, which can be made into beds, or crying obsidian and glowstone, which can be made into respawn anchors. Beds and respawn anchors are useful for the end fight.
When you break a gold block or chest, all piglins within 16 blocks of you will be aggroed on you and move towards you, but they will still be diverted by gold. This is one of many helpful ways to gather piglins for quick bartering. It should be noted that simply opening a chest will make piglins that have line of sight on you more hostile, and that attacking one will make all nearby piglins more hostile and cause it to ignore any gold you throw. Understanding piglin mechanics is very useful for efficiently routing bastions.
Be aware that these videos’ guides are out-of-date and lack newer, faster routes and techniques, but they are frequently more appropriate for beginners than the fastest but riskiest routes used by experienced runners. Find out what you are comfortable with in runs by practicing them and using guides to various bastions.
BEGINNERS guide to SPEEDRUNNING MINECRAFT!!
FAQ
What is the fastest way to speedrun Minecraft?
The quickest speedruns require you to travel through the nether and put out several fires with little equipment because they build a nether portal using lava on or near the surface, a bucket, and water. Gathering some essentials may be a good idea before digging to the lava level or lower in search of additional iron, diamonds, gold, etc.
How do you activate a speedrun in Minecraft?
Create a new world using a seed without any active cheats if you want to perform a legitimate speed run in Minecraft. Additionally, you must have the difficulty set to at least Easy mode; however, if you want a challenge, you can increase the difficulty. Most official speed run times were recorded on Easy, though.
Is Minecraft speedrun on easy?
Runs are typically done on Easy difficulty on 1. 16. 1, and many users of the performance mod CaffeineMC, which improves the game’s performance, use it. The official speedrun website, where players must submit recorded proof, lists the top ten fastest runs under the previous conditions.
Who has the 1 speedrun record Minecraft?
Rayoh currently holds the record for the fastest Minecraft completion in the world, clocking in at a blistering 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
