Minecraft’s History Of Fake World Records…

From beating the game in under 8 minutes to  having the world’s longest winstreak in bedwars,   Minecraft world records have continued to stretch  the limits of the game and prove what’s really   possible. However, like any other competitive  game, Minecraft has seen more than its fair share  

Of cheaters over the years. Cheating scandals in  the Minecraft competitive scene are nothing new,   in fact they have been so common now, that exposed  videos don’t even feel surprising nowadays. By far   the most infamous speedrunning cheating incident  in the game’s history was pulled off by Dream  

But at one point there was another runner with a  super similar name ‘Drem’ who also found himself   in heavy crossfire after being exposed for faking  a 1.16 RSG speedrun world record. back in June   of 2020 the YouTuber married with the in-game  username dram was discovered to be cheating in  

His Minecraft speedrun submission according to  speedrun.com’s moderators drum had been caught   splicing his run you see when you normally load  into a brand new world a random loading screen is   generated for that specific seed but when drum  loaded into the world for supposedly the first  

Time his loading screen started in the middle  but on the seat he supposedly ran the loading   screen always starts in the bottom left everything  single time without fail there were many other odd   behaviors throughout drem’s run such as spotting  a shipwreck after it was on the screen for the  

Tiniest fraction of a second in a situation where  a normal top level Runner wouldn’t even be looking   at the water at all as they would instead be  aiming to find a village in the very visible   Savannah Biome that drem was running to this of  course heavily suggested that drum was not playing  

His seed for the first time as his movement and  Route in the game seemed to already be planned   out it was very quickly apparent to both the  moderators and speeder in a community that the Run  

Was a bit too lucky to be true it was at this time  that a YouTuber named zyphon would make two very   famous videos about the incident breaking down  the run and exposing drums cheating to million due   to drem and dreams names being extremely similar  there was a lot of confusion among the community  

And xiphon himself was under very heavy fire  initially by the fans of dream who thought xiphon   was accusing dream of cheating something which  at this time he wasn’t even really suspected of   zyphon also used a very confusing thumbnail which  plays dream as a big focus in it making the entire  

Situation even more confusing drum himself at this  time was also flamed for copying dream’s username   but in reality drem had made the username well  dream was still under 1 000 subscribers according   to him of course the zyphon’s video would go on  to gather well over 10 million views many weren’t  

Exactly happy with drem but at this point he had  just tried to move on and continue with his own   content attempting to move away from the drama  and focus on making YouTube videos but things   would suddenly take a turn a few months later when  without any warning despite them having talked  

Previously as well siphon would go on to upload a  second video about the gem situation which would   also go on to do exceptionally well getting over  one and a half million views it seems some of the  

Viewers on this video began to start siding with  drum a bit more as they felt it was unnecessary to   bring up the situation again after the fact as it  had once again sparked up the controversy causing  

Even more hate to be sent in drem’s direction drem  also stated that he as well as some of his friends   named Python and Zenith all receive death threats  of course it goes without saying that it’s already  

Crazy that he would receive death threats over a  video game but it truly is even crazier that his   friends were caught in the fire as they weren’t  even associated with the fake run whatsoever   throughout the whole incident dream played a big  role commenting and providing a great reference  

To the speedrunning moderators as a speedrunner  himself yet as we now know dream would ironically   find himself on the other end of this story just  a few years later eventually drem would make a now   unlisted video Simply titled dream that attempted  to address some of the backlash and threats he had  

Faced as a result of Dreams involvement in the  situation in this video he also stated multiple   times that dream’s run was fake something which  dreams seemingly did not appreciate Us in his   reply to the video he stated that drem shouldn’t  have spoke as if he was proven to be a cheater  

Which to be fair at this time he wasn’t well  not publicly anyway but while drumsfix speedrun   gathered a lot of attention from outside sources  like siphon’s video only very recently did it come   to light that the most viewed Minecraft Spirit  on all of YouTube was also fake the Run was a  

Set seed speedrun by a player named nicocraft  HD in 2019. Nico spiron fell in a very niche   category of set seed speedrunning the pre 1.9 set  seed any percent glitchless on peaceful mode now   despite this speedrun Gathering an eight-figure  view count and having been public on YouTube for  

Over four years it wasn’t until very recently  that the speedrunning community would finally   catch Nico and expose him for faking this famous  run it wasn’t even this run however that led to   Nico being exposed as a cheater as entire years  later in 2022 he would post a second world record  

With a time of 2 minutes and 49 seconds this run  was verified on the speedrun.com leaderboard is   the new world record but not too long after the  players start to become suspicious of Nico’s run   you see clouds in Minecraft don’t exactly move  too fast which makes it particularly weird that  

In Nico’s run a cloud that on this set C doesn’t  show up for over 25 minutes manages to find its   way into a run that’s under three minutes in  total adding to the evidence against him a TNT  

Block that Nico can clearly be seen placing early  on in his run seemed to have magically disappeared   after he had completed the run as well as the now  being an f-shaped cloud in the sky the exact Cloud  

That can be spotted on the sea directly after  loading into the world for the very first time   of course after realizing that Nico had cheated  this run speedrunners were quick to go back to his   original and most famous video analyzing it for  any mistakes which were incredibly hard to spot  

As the video itself had no sound whatsoever and  it was also the first ever video on Nico’s Channel   and despite the run’s lack of credibility at the  time the speedrunning community of Minecraft was   rather Young and the standards approved were  generally low especially in such an obscure  

Category for these reasons Nico’s record would  be accepted by the speed running mods at the   time making its way to official leaderboards and  Gathering him 11 million views along the way and   despite this record Being incredibly hard to prove  is fake eventually speedrunners noticed that in  

Nico’s run his hunger bar was inconsistent with  the regular time it takes for Minecraft’s in-game   saturation feature to make the hunger bar shake  which according to a speedrunning YouTuber named   Pika J happens every 3.05 seconds in Nico’s  run however when he gets to the end fight the  

Bar suddenly stops moving for far longer than  that staying completely still for 34 seconds   during the end fight over 10 times longer than  it should normally take of course initially after   posting this video Nico’s run went completely  undetected for years and after he had continued  

To post speedrunning videos on his channel briefly  starting a series where he would break Minecraft’s   supposedly official World Records you see apart  from speedrunning World Records isn’t entirely   separate scene in competitive Minecraft which is  the Minecraft world records hosted by Guinness  

World records themselves of course Guinness  World Records are usually for crazy achievements   in real life such as the oldest person to climb  Mount Everest or the youngest person within the   Nobel Prize but over the years they have gotten  progressively more strange such as the largest  

Gathering and people dressed up as Einstein or  the longest duration spinning a basketball on   a toothbrush and if that wasn’t enough these  records have now also stretched into the world   of video game like many other weirdly specific  records in the Guinness World Records book the  

Minecraft records are oddly specific as well  the Minecraft record specifically consists of   over 150 world record titles which can be divided  into three main categories the first category are   the records achieved by Minecraft itself such as  being the best-selling video game of all time or  

Other records that are related to the game itself  such as the strongest mob in Minecraft the second   category is the first timers such as the oldest  Minecraft multiplayer server which was actually   held by notch himself back in 2009 when he created  the four minute video of him playing in a private  

Multiplayer server with several of his friends  however it’s the third and final category where   things start to get suspicious consisting of  many very strange and still ongoing Minecraft   world records that can be very easily cheated my  favorite example of this is the record for the  

Longest Redstone Trail in Minecraft on Guinness  World Records official website it only showed a   simple screenshot of a player standing in front  of a Redstone Trail with absolutely zero context   alright if I beat this you have to subscribe let’s  see how long it takes me to beat it and just to do  

This and let’s go even upon researching the record  holder’s name on search engines there’s no proof   that this record was ever in a video format or any  way to prove it whatsoever after manually digging   through countless YouTube videos I did find  in the previous world record held by a player  

Named BF Raymond apart from this there are also  many other suspicious and possibly fake records   such as massive builds like the largest national  flag ever built which once again could be super   easily faked with world edit I think it’s only  fair that everyone watching this video should go  

And attempt to break one for real yeah I already  know all of you are just gonna fake it anyway