How a Ruined Portal REVOLUTIONIZED Minecraft Speedrunning

This is how a ruined portal revolutionized minecraft speedrunning d-max was streaming a run in the 1.16 rsg category where the record at the time was his own 1937 run after getting seven blaze rods from the fortress he was actually way behind his world record until he discovered a ruined portal in

The direction he was running towards normally he’d have to run back to his first nether portal to exit but this one was completable with the chest too obsidian after using the portal’s gold to trade with piglets for ender pearls to make the eyes of ender he took the

Risk and went through the new portal a decision that would put his run on an insane pace this is because that portal was aligned in such a way that with one block in the nether equaling eight in the overworld he not only entered the overworld in the first stronghold ring

But at an absurd 100 block distance from the randomly generated stronghold a full 1300 blocks closer than his original portal would have put him he finished with a new record of 1726 and the idea of using a second portal stuck around with players beginning to incorporate bastions into their speed runs they were

Able to reliably get 10 obsidian to make portals that end up closer to the stronghold proving d-max to be an accidental visionary