CRAZY! Minecraft Pre-1.9 Speedruns Analyzed

On june 27th infume beat minecraft 1.7 with an in-game time of 20 minutes and 50 seconds this was so close to max’s world record of 20 minutes and 56 seconds that it was impossible to know in the moment whether infume had just set a new world record but the weight to find out

Became obsolete within 24 hours as whatever marco destroyed both of those runs this is how it happened if you end up enjoying this video please consider subscribing the majority of our viewers haven’t subscribed and we make tons of minecraft speedrunning content also be sure to check out infume and marco for these

Amazing runs their links are in the description enjoy the video when max set his former world record of 2056 on may 1st it represented the biggest time cut to the pre 1.9 rsg world record in 5 years normally a world record that cuts more time than usual

Precedes a longer wait for the next world record and to be fair max’s world record did stand for almost two months but at no point was there doubt that it would be beaten soon and that two-month wait culminated in one of the craziest stretches in the version’s history

After standing for two months the former world record was beaten three times in four days largely due to the dedication of a handful of very skilled pre-1.9 runners one such runner was infume who was relatively new to minecraft speedrunning he started speedrunning in december of 2020

Quickly shot to the top by early june he had gotten the second place run of 2210 in version 1.8 by his own description he wasn’t grinding for world record at that point but after getting second place and realizing he had a shot at world record the grind began and after a few weeks

He might have gotten it let’s take a quick look at how infume got a time so close to the world record that we still don’t know for sure whether he beat it just as a disclaimer infum’s run has a lower resolution than most due to hardware discrepancies but we’ll

Move through it relatively quickly infume is playing on 1.8 as opposed to 1.7 which you’re probably more familiar with on 1.8 when killing enderman you use a tower called the zen tower which unlike 1.7 doesn’t even require a desert spawn to get enough pearls besides that the biggest difference in

Strategy is that the player doesn’t need chickens for feathers because the zen tower will get them arrows for the end fight infume spawns next to a desert a forest and a savannah he digs down and quickly hits a huge vein of iron saving him a lot of time

After the standard process of getting tools blocks food and finding a lava pool he’s able to enter the nether at five minutes about 20 seconds later than max infume actually loses a lot of time in the nether with bad nether fortress proximity and bad blade spawn rates

Leading to him leaving the nether 90 seconds later than max the zen tower makes up for it though as he’s able to get 11 pearls from 19 enderman kills in 10 death cycles with a 16 minute tower leave he’s back to even with max at that point

But max’s stronghold is much closer with infume 40 seconds behind when he digs down at 19 minutes because he front loaded inventory management the runs are back to even when infume enters the end and 1935 in fumes and fight is difficult with hard dragon angles but

He times his beds very well and manages to finish the dragon off at 21 22 rta which according to his in-game timer was 20 minutes and 50 seconds in in-game time the rta ended up being adjusted to 2112 due to infum’s game freezing for about 10 seconds in the end

But still it was very unclear what had just happened had infumed just set the world record or not in the moment his first reaction was laughter knowing how close the runs were and just how unlikely the situation was then his heart rate started to rise as he realized he may have just gotten

World record but had no way to know for sure this reaction was justified after a great run by a great runner but the run that comes next elicited even stronger emotions this is marco’s 2003. marcos 2003 is significant just in that it’s a world record but

To fully understand why it means as much to marco as it does we have to look back at his story marco first started speedrunning minecraft on bedrock edition about a year ago getting his first world record in june of 2020 he would continue to be a top runner and be the first

Player to ever beat the game in under 20 minutes on a random seed on bedrock edition getting a 1907 on august 31st it was at this point that he made the transition to java edition with his first ever 1.7 stream on twitch coming on september 28th exactly nine months before he would finally

Get world record he quickly improved at the version getting his first sub 40 with a 33 minute run on october 23rd over the next couple of months he would consistently improve and start to set his sights on the world record getting a third place run of 25-11 on january 11

2021 the first time he came very close to getting the world record was on february 16th when he entered the end on world record pace but didn’t quite get the dragon charges he needed fast enough the run was still good enough for his first sub 25

But after that he hit a wall not able to pb for several months and losing several potential world record runs to various reasons in the late stages still he kept grinding finally getting a new pb of 22 minutes 52 seconds on june 6th after this he was able to shift his

Focus to getting the brazilian national record in other categories getting a 2024 in 1.14 and a 1633 in 1.16 even considering going for combined rsg world record before growing tired of 1.16 while his sub-hour combined rsg time still left him in the top 10 in the world

His interests were still centered on 1.7 so on june 28th he was playing some 1.7 runs as he had spent countless hours doing over the past nine months but this time the outcome was different this time he would make history let’s get into the run marco spawns in a

Savannah next to a desert with sheep for beds chicken for feathers and gravel for flint all very close by after running to a nearby cave marco does have to fight off mobs but he also gets a rare time save of finding a dungeon which has two iron and a bucket his

Friend mentions that marco should make a 1.7 speedrunning guide to which marco points out dude i don’t even know how to run this version myself fitting that he would say that during his world record run but i digress he smelts the rest of his iron while he collects wood leaves

And wool also spotting a lava pool across the river his hunger stops him from sprinting right as he reaches and cooks some pigs and after grabbing some more woolen blocks he heads back to kill the chickens he saw near spawn now he’s entering the nether at 5 55

Over a minute slower than infume and max’s runs his blaze fight though is insane his blaze amounts and rod drop rates are decently above average but the time in between blaze spawns is about as fast as you’re gonna see marco doesn’t have to wait for even a second

Between fighting blazes that means he doesn’t get to farm his gravel into flint but luckily he’s very smooth at doing that on the move with an 8 30 netherleaf he’s still behind max but about 40 seconds ahead of infume basically meaning he could be on pace if the rest of the

Run goes right and once his tower is complete things really do start to go right as he gets an insane 16 enderman in his first four death cycles after getting two more on the fifth cycle he drops down to check how many pearls he has with above average drop rates he could

Be leaving his towers sub 15 which would easily be sub 20 pace unfortunately his drops at this point are actually below average going eight for 18. of course he’s still on great pace he’s just gonna have to kill enderman for a while longer the spawn rates go down at this point

But the drop rates shoot up after getting four more endermen in four more cycles all four of them drop pearls meaning he has 12 pearls at 15 30. well there’s a risky strategy you can use that pushes your items up through the ground when you’re leaving the tower that saves around 20 seconds

Marco has opted to just tower up he’s now leaving his tower at 16 1610 on an essentially equal pace to both infume and max this is where things start to get really tense after throwing his first eye of ender marco runs for about 40 seconds he’s frustrated knowing that the path leads straight

Into a jungle which slows down movement by a lot but then holy oh my god it just went to my side knowing the stronghold is close marco is now on world record pace after three more eye throws and zero breaks he’s digging for the stronghold with 12 eyes

At 18 minutes 20 seconds ahead of max and a whole minute ahead of enfield upon entering the end marco pauses one of the only time pauses are allowed without it being added to your time i’m gonna drink some water sorry you got it from his voice you can hear how much

This means to him this is his chance to finally get world record and he’s not gonna let it slip past after collecting himself he starts the end fight where the tower formation is favorable however he’s only got four beds meaning he’s gonna have to play it smart to avoid

Losing the chance to kill the dragon at all he gets good damage on the first charge after taking out another crystal the dragon perches at an inconvenient angle but weighing the risk of waiting for another charge marco decides to bite getting really good damage considering the difficulty of the charge

With the dragon at half health and two beds left the fight could easily spiral out of marco’s control but he’s determined to finish what he started after doing some critical damage and taking out key crystals the dragon charges again and marco gets great damage now marco’s on the cusp of his greatest achievement

In all his time playing the game and it all comes down to one last charge it’s charged no wonder you know what i can victory Thanks the emotion marco felt when getting that world record is really the reason so many people feel the way they do about minecraft speedrunning it takes a dedication that people often underestimate and it pushes players to do the best they can the game can be very frustrating but when it finally gives in

And gives you the chance to prove that you’re one of the best well that’s a truly unique feeling congratulations to infume and marco for continuing to push this category further and further past the limits of the past please go show them some support on their platforms they’ve earned

It going forward infum’s going to be grinding for sub 20 and marco is going to be playing a mix of pre 1.9 for sub 20 and 1.16 for sub 15. everybody in the community agrees that sub 20 and pre 1.9 will be here any day now it’s just a

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