On August 7th, 2019, history was made in Minecraft
speedrunning.
A player named Lide broke an almost 3 year
world record in the Any% Glitchless Random
Seed category, with a time of 25 minutes and
36 seconds, a full 1 minute and 12 second
improvement over the previous World Record.
This category involves starting a new world
with a blank seed, and progressing through
the game to beat the Ender Dragon as fast
as possible, without using any glitches.
When viewing the leaderboards, you can see
that the category has been dominated by the
Japanese community.
Japanese runners on Nicolive showed interest
in speedrunning the game when Minecraft was
first released, and when the Ender Dragon
was put into the game.
They love how the Random Seed category is
nothing but an RNG-fest.
Japanese runner Tarokitchen has held the World
Record in this category for over five years
(dating back to 2014), but his World Record
reign dates as far back as 2012.
So the question is, how did Lide beat his
time by over 1 minute?
Well, I reached out to him through Discord,
and I’ll be talking about his run, as well
as how insane his luck was.
So sit back and relax, this is “The Luckiest
Minecraft Speedrun Ever”.
Let’s start off with the beginning of the
run.
Lide shared with me that on average, it takes
about 30 random seeds of worlds until he finds
one that’s worth speedrunning.
The first thing that he looks for is a desert
biome, and desert temple.
The desert biome is necessary because Endermen
spawn best there.
Endermen drop Ender Pearls, and they are also
crafted with Blaze Powder to create Eyes of
Ender, which are used to locate the Stronghold,
and activate The End portal.
The Desert Temples that speedrunners look
for must include at least 6 Iron Ingots.
They are used to craft shears, a bucket, and
flint.
The shears are used to break the wool from
the temple, which are used to craft beds.
I’ll get to the purpose of beds later.
The chests from the temple can also include
Gold Ingots and Diamonds, which can be used
to craft armor and weapons, and are super
beneficial in the early game of the speedrun.
After navigating out of the temple, he uses
the shears to break leaf blocks from trees.
Shears can break these blocks at an extremely
fast rate, and they’re mostly used for building,
as you will see throughout the run.
Now when speedrunning this category, you can’t
just survive on Rotten Flesh the entire time.
A protip is to use the combination of Flint
and Steel and your weapon to slay cows, pigs,
and chickens.
When you light them on fire and they die,
their meat will drop as cooked instead of
raw, saving the time of having to cook it
yourself.
After 6 minutes into the run, the next step
is to find lava, because it’s needed to
create Obsidian, which is needed to access
the Nether.
Lide digs out the ground a specific way, places
a few leaf blocks, uses his bucket of water,
and can now fill his lava bucket to create
the Nether portal.
Doing it this way saves so much time compared
to creating Obsidian, and then having to mine
it out to create the portal.
Also, Obsidian can only be successfully mined
with a Diamond Pickaxe, which is never really
obtained in this category of speedrunning.
Once in the Nether, the goal is find Blazes.
As mentioned earlier, Blaze Powder is used
with Ender Pearls to create Eyes of Ender.
In this run, Lide has a near perfect Nether
fortress location.
He does arrive a bit late, however he manages
to get there in just 20 seconds.
He proceeds to build Netherrack around him
to shield himself from everything, in order
to manage his inventory for a little bit and
replenish his health.
This is efficient in the fact that he’s
forced to wait for additional Blazes to spawn.
He builds a furnace and crafting table, and
begins to cook the rest of his food from earlier.
He crafts additional armor; specifically a
Leather Helmet and Leggings.
He uses the remainder of his gravel with a
Diamond Shovel in an effort to obtain Flint.
When you break Gravel, there is a 10% chance
that it turns into Flint, so he repeats the
process until he has a desirable amount.
Flint, sticks, and feathers are used to create
arrows, which will be needed against the Ender
Dragon.
He does not craft that many though, since
there was a lack of chickens earlier in the
run, and the chickens drop feathers.
He then crafts all of the beds he will need
for later.
He leaves the Nether with 5 Blaze Rods, which
will be used to create 10 Blaze Powder.
The safer approach to this speedrun is to
obtain 6 or 7 of them, to create additional
Blaze Powder; however Lide was banking on
a 2 eyed portal.
The way the End portal works is that there
are 12 frame blocks.
Each individual frame block has a 10% chance
of containing an Eye of Ender.
There is roughly a 23% chance that the portal
contains exactly 2 Eyes of Ender, or almost
a 1 in 4 chance.
There is a 28.2% chance that the portal contains
no Eyes of Ender, and given that one Eye of
Ender requires 1 Blaze Powder and 1 Ender
Pearl, that would mean Lide can only craft
up to 10 Eyes of Ender.
Given this, if the portal contains no Eyes
of Ender, the run would be dead, since there
are 12 frame blocks, and he would only have
10 Eyes.
Also, when using Eyes of Ender, there is a
20% chance that it shatters after being used.
The way it works is that once used, it can
become a collectible again after it travels
in the air for a few seconds.
As night-time approaches, the Endermen hunt
begins.
The strategy for fighting them is to dig out
one block from the ground and place the leaf
blocks in a way that the Endermen cannot reach
you.
They’ll simply run into the leaves as you
attack them.
As you might have expected, the Endermen provided
extreme luck.
Endermen spawn at a much lesser percent rate
than other mobs; however Lide found 13 of
them in 15 minutes, which is almost unheard
of.
To add to this, 10 out of 13 of them dropped
Ender Pearls.
Upon killing the last Endermen, he begins
to kill Skeletons for arrows.
Like I mentioned previously, this is because
there was a lack of chickens, and since he
was not able to craft a decent amount of arrows,
he had to manually grind them.
Once he receives a decent amount of them,
he proceeds to use the Eyes of Ender to locate
the Stronghold.
He uses one Eye of Ender, and unfortunately
it shatters.
He’s left with 9 of them, and the chances
of a 3 eyed portal is 8.52%.
On his second attempt, he luckily happens
to be right above it.
He digs all the way down only to realize that he
did not pick up the Eye.
This mistake costs him some time but he retrieves
it, and finally activates the portal.
He sets up his inventory and hotbar, and is
ready to fight the Ender Dragon.
Right off the bat, he ALMOST dies, twice.
When the Ender Dragon first attacked, he used
water on the Obsidian in a way to “catch”
himself.
When building towards the main platform, he
places a leaf block on top of one, instead
of in a path.
His quick reflexes prevents him from falling
into the void.
He finally arrives on the main platform, and
now the objective is to destroy the end crystals
on the tops of pillars.
Once they are destroyed, you can finally kill
the Ender Dragon.
The speedrun strategy is to wait for the dragon
to charge at you, and then to place down a
bed alongside a block in front of you.
This will damage the dragon, and prevents
you from dying from explosive damage.
On the first charge, Lide almost dies again.
He’s lit on fire, but quickly uses the bucket
of water to remove fire damage.
After a few more charges, he defeats the Ender
Dragon and the run is over.
This is the first 25 minute time in this category’s
history.
Although some big mistakes were made in the
run, Lide’s time is insanely impressive.
Decisions like going for 5 Blaze Rods and
hoping the Stronghold would have enough pre-filled
eyes is crazy.
In general, his run had average luck.
However, things such as Endermen frequency
and their drops, and finding an almost perfect
Nether fortress location is hardly seen at
all in other Any% Random Seed Glitchless speedruns.
Like I mentioned earlier, he banked on a 2
eyed portal, and since one of his Eyes of
Ender shattered, he banked on a 3 eyed portal,
instead of getting an additional Blaze Rod
and more Ender Pearls.
Given that the previous World Record stood
for 3 years, this speedrun is going to be
incredibly difficult to beat.
The biggest time improvement in this run would
be a faster entry into the End.
He lost two minutes on this alone.
But to be able to top this run, you will need
to share the same amount of luck that he had,
if not better.
However, this run seems one-of-a-kind.
This category has seen thousands of attempts,
and Lide just so happened to find the craziest
random seed.
This record will most likely stay at the top
for quite some time.
This marks the end of the video, and I hope
you all enjoyed.
I want to give a big thank you to Lide and
Illumina for helping me with this video.
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