So, recently I watched a video called “Minecraft's
Great Speedrunning War” about Minecraft’s
great speedrunning war. This got me thinking:
What will be the fastest possible Minecraft
speedrun on a random seed? Just how fast can
it truly be? I knew that calculating this
is not going to be easy, but I just needed
to know… and I also have a lot of free time.
Hello, I’m GamingBots and I love doing Minecraft
challenges and theories just like this one.
Before we actually start, we are going to
be using 1.9+ as the version we are going
to be calculating and only random seeds with
no glitches. In 1.9+ the current world record
is 22 minutes and 4 seconds, held by the player
DreamWasTaken, which is absolutely nuts.
So I did some research and could not find
a single video or article on this topic. The
reason that nobody had ever even tried to
calculate this is that Minecraft is a game
with endless possibilities, it’s literally
in the trailer, this means that it will be
nearly impossible to find the best way, but
it is still possible. Here is how to find
it out.
Firstly, I had to watch hours worth of speedrunning
to see the strategy, I needed to figure out
how do speedruns work which will help me understand
what can be optimized. I realized that speedrunning
consists of 3 main parts: getting to the Nether,
getting pearls and finding a stronghold, and
beating the ender dragon. But, those parts
actually each split into more parts, such
as going to the nether consists of making
the portal and finding the fortress. Also,
what about getting food and gearing up for
the end fight. Now, to figure out how fast
we can speedrun we need to find out how fast
we can do each and add it up. To begin with,
I attempted to find out what will be the fastest
possible way to get a bucket of water, and
also from having a bucket of water to having
the nether portal made which are very important
in the progression of the game. Let’s start
with the bucket. The fastest way to get your
hands on a bucket is to find it in a chest.
Sadly, the only structure that can contain
a chest with a bucket is a dungeon. Those
things that have a spawner which when you
find you are both excited and irritated. The
chances of the chunk you spawned in to have
a dungeon are about 2.3%. Dungeons can spawn
at a max y level of 42. After taking 10 trials
I concluded that the player spawns at an average
y level of about 67. This means with great
luck you can be only 25 blocks away from a
dungeon. I knew that it takes ¾ of a second
to break dirt I multiplied ¾ by 25 and got
18.75 seconds. With the extra time to find
the chest and take the bucket out of it, I
think it would take about 20 seconds. Lastly,
the player will need to get up to the surface
and find water which is already another 7
seconds at least. This means that with the
absolute best luck, you will be able to get
your bucket in 27 seconds! With the best luck,
which is what we are looking for, I calculated
that with the amazing speed of the top speedrunners
only 28 seconds later you will be able to
have a portal built. I hope what I just said
made any sense and also showed you guys how
complicated this project really is.
Now, all we gotta do is take the exact same
steps on finding the fastest way to finish
each of the other steps in a speedrun and
this is where things become interesting. I
feel like I spend more time on Minecraft math
than any other time I do math. I realized
that only me trying to find the fastest way
to do each of the dozens of steps will take
months. So that’s why I want your help.
Yes, yours. Because I think almost all of
us have a lot of free time, If you want to
take part in this crazy task, all you gotta
do is do some research that is similar to
what I did in this video about a different
step in speedrunning and message me on any
of my social platforms, even the comment section
of this video, all the links will be in the
description. Also, share this video with someone
that might also be able to help. If you can’t
help, don’t worry because I will update
you guys frequently on this channel, so make
sure to subscribe and turn on all notifications
to not miss any, if this does go somewhere.
I will actually still work on this daily and
make a video about my final result in the
future, but I know that with your help we
can probably finish this 10 times faster if
not much more.
Thank you guys so much for watching, don’t
forget to subscribe and like the video only
if you enjoyed it, it’s free and really
why not? Don’t forget to try and contribute
to the project only if you can and want. Lastly,
I just created a twitter so if you want to
see the best tweets you have ever seen, then
check it out. Again link in the description.
I will see you next time… stay bots!
