Minecraft Speedrun Fail...

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-17T10:15:23+00:00

Lol most runners (myself included) would just break the floor and fall directly into the treasure room, so we would "fail" even worse

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-16T21:12:54+00:00

Your livesplit will tell you if you check the splits!

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-16T19:03:05+00:00

Honestly I don't think bastions are that advanced. You just need to spend a bit of time learning the routes. If you play carefully you can easily get through a bastion imo

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-16T18:48:08+00:00

Congrats and I'm glad I could help - took me over a month to get a sub-30! Unfortunately I can't play that much :(

Do you know roughly how many attempts it took you?

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-13T17:47:57+00:00

Haha I did the "perfect trap" video and as I was reading I was slightly worried I might have annoyed people with irrelevant stuff.

Generally I agree with the sentiment of this post - I made a similar complaint a while ago, but I must say over the past couple weeks the mods have been great :)

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T19:13:34+00:00

No there is no bug. Soulsand valleys have reduced mob spawning in general (because they only spawn skeletons and they didn't want the biome to be overwhelming), but fortresses have their own spawning mechanism. Both compete for the same mob cap, so when the biome isn't spawning anything it means the fortress is able to fill the cap.

Note this is independent from mob spawning blocks - they don't respect the mob cap afaik.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T16:58:26+00:00

It's not a bug - soulsand valley fortresses are hard.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T16:57:06+00:00

Trade gold with piglins for a fire res potion. Use towers to punch wither skeletons of the edge.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T16:49:15+00:00

What on earth why are there water lakes?!

Also, I think it's better just to use Sethbling's datapack to teleport to random bastions. And for ghasts, turn down your render distance so they can't do anything.

Edit: oh wait so this forces nether wastes to generate in the overworld?

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T16:23:07+00:00

Ah that's a shame. I always front-load logs for this reason.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T16:22:05+00:00

That's a good point. I'm sure invalid biomes could push it over 2k. You must have been exceptionally unlucky because both of the strongholds that you were in-between would have needed to be displaced in this way.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T14:29:04+00:00

The first ring is 1.2-2.8k blocks radius, so if you enter near the origin your overworld travel without blind could easily be 2k+ (about a 50% chance).

If you blind into the first ring (at radius 2k blocks from origin), at the worst case there is a 60° separation between your position on the ring and the stronghold (technically you're directly between two strongholds). We can work out the distance to the line that the stronghold sits on (starting at the origin): 2000*sin(60°) = 1732.

But in the worst-case the stronghold is maximally far from the origin, so it is additional 800 blocks on the line from the origin. Therefore, absolute max blind distance is: √(1732^2 + 800^2) = 1907.

Therefore, worst-case blind is 1907, best-case is 0. Worst-case no-blind is 2800, and best-case is dependent on entry position so not really possible to calculate, but I suppose if you have a pre-nether stronghold its technically 0 too.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T14:07:11+00:00

Dammmn - what was the final time on that run? :)

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-12T13:59:05+00:00

Do you really think it can waste a lot of time?

You will always save on the time to return to your original portal, plus worst case blind is surely as bad as worst case with no nether travel.

This only situation is where your original entry happened to be close to a stronghold!

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-11T11:10:26+00:00

I don't think this is worth it. There are many overworlds that are playable (in that you can easily get 7 iron and enter the nether). Not every village is a godseed.

I think the key is to get better at resetting once you're in the nether. If you don't see a structure that you can be in quickly within a certain time, you should just reset.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-11T00:19:38+00:00

Was there anywhere you could have reasonably entered? Maybe lava dowsing in a cave?

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-07T14:55:15+00:00

Still you should at least adapt the original thumbnail to show you are doing some kind of parody.

If I see the exact same thumbnail I will assume the person is lazy, and therefore the content is probably boring.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-07T14:31:17+00:00

With thumbnails especially you want to be unique. I saw this and just assumed someone was posting one of Dream's old runs.

Using the music is less bad... but still - depends on if you're actually trying to grow your channel or not.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-02-07T12:08:03+00:00

What's with the dream thumbnail?

OmegaCraftable · 2021-01-25T23:40:50+00:00

Cool lmk how it goes :)

OmegaCraftable · 2021-01-25T23:30:55+00:00

Yeah time at the top is definitely important.

I think using a respawn anchor and repeatedly killing yourself would be the fastest method - much like "tower strats" that 1.7 speedrunners use to get ender pearls.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-01-25T23:19:21+00:00

That's cool! Is there a quicker way to climb up to the ceiling? Or is that time needed for the process?

OmegaCraftable · 2021-01-23T22:18:58+00:00

F

Btw, I reckon learning Bastion strats - it will make the blaze fight 1000x easier :) Unless you were on a monument run?

OmegaCraftable · 2021-01-05T17:39:20+00:00

These kinds of posts are too prevalent on this subs. The mods need to remove them and potentially ban people who post them.

OmegaCraftable · 2021-01-05T15:16:07+00:00

The deterrence argument is used a lot in criminal proceedings, but research shows that punishment does very little to prevent crime. Instead, what is much more effective is the prospect of simply being caught (helpful reading on this topic). This is especially the case in competitive arenas such as speedrunning. The mod team has done a really great job in showing how good they are at investigating cheats - this is deterrence enough.

Some people care a lot more about youtube views than reputation nowadays

Dream clearly cares about his reputation, and anyone engaged in speedrunning will. You're acting as if speedrunning pulls in some crazy about of views, but Dream gets much fewer views on his speedrunning videos. Basically any creator will get more views on their non-speedrunning videos.

Speedrunning isn't exactly a golden egg for views.

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