In may 2009 while on a rock floating in space notch made a game about a player on a world floating in code it was beautiful revolutionary and it was going to be called cave game until he decided that was a terrible name notch kept working on this project oh he kept Working and working and working in diamonds that edition gave sf17k an idea to obtain diamonds as fast as possible on october 17 2010 a 259 was obtained with some good rng on october 17 2010 a 256 was obtained with some better rng the competition was kicking off and also Completely absent of any other competitors but not for long because n4p gamer was about to make a move one minute and 51 seconds but hold up did you catch that the footage is sped up while the timer isn’t quite an open and shut case of faking a run for clout and That concludes minecraft speedrunning’s first cheating scandal in late 2011 runners started getting more and more creative just look at daniel out here entering the nether in 946 a true pioneer how about villanema making a wooden pickaxe in two minutes still not impressed well just take a gander at djs Reaching bedrock in two minutes ah who cares because that’s the past and the future is now because the day is november 18 2011 minecraft was just officially released and the enderdragon was added i wonder if this will have a major impact on speedrunning the game spoiler alert it had a major impact on Speedrunning the game fun fact you can have a major impact on my subscriber count by subscribing to help me reach 100k just four months after the release ceto sorcerer killed the dragon on a random seed in 1 hour and 26 minutes while the earliest run on youtube may Have come from the united states the true pioneers of the random sea glitches category rsg for short came over from the house of the rising sun i’m sorry the land of the rising sun aka japan over there things worked a bit differently do you see the option to Play on the easy normal and hard difficulties no you don’t because you should be tunnel visioned on the only true gamemode hardcore everyone from uh was trying to kill the ender dragon as fast as possible on hardcore and the times were dropping first it was a 10841 from harim then Shaved off a minute and a half and for a bit it appeared that nobody wanted to contest that time that is of course until terror kitchen came out of absolutely nowhere and casually knocked 22 minutes off the record to bring it down to 4507. hold on a second i’m Getting word that a new competitor stepped into the arena that’s right on april 6 2014 made the time to beat a 43-23 a seriously difficult task for tarot kitsch hold on i’m getting a call i see terror kitchen beated under a week later to shreds you say Want to know how long tara kitchen’s name was on the top of that leaderboard for after that day 1944 days which is almost five and a half years yeah the best part is while all this was happening speedrunners from the west had their sights set on a completely different category set c Ssg for short invisigoth led the way with a 4528 on september 27 2014 which was seven minutes lower than the random seed glitches record but it wouldn’t stay that way for too long yes illumina did drop the time to 2736 but the person who truly stole the show was stronger Please tarot kitchen yes you see on top of being godlike on random seeds he was also lucky as because instead of optimizing the seed that illumina used he just went out and found his own i’ll do it myself that’s not all because the seat he found absolutely revolutionized the category by just Loading into worlds and looking around he managed to pull the 1 in 292 952 chance of the end portal having eight eyes already in their frames and on top of that the stronghold chests provided four ender pearls and the structures replaced in quite convenient locations the first one he submitted on this new Seed absolutely put illumina’s run to shame literally halving his time with a 1418 unlike his other records however this one didn’t last for particularly long because word spread fast between march 10th and march 21st of 2015 the time to beat dropped from 1318 to 937 with thunderful having achieved that hey Hold on can we improve the terrain on that seed while keeping the exact same structures said absolutely nobody except for the people that figured out how to do that and discovered a more optimized seed just like that there was way more room for world record improvement and These sizzler got right to work on august 9 2015 he got a 908 six days later he broke the record by 16 seconds two days after that he shaved off another 31 seconds alright here’s some trivia what do you think happened on the very day after the scissors new world Record of 8 21 was it a nothing b another marginal improvement c tarot kitchen broke his record or d a run so perfect that it stood uncontested for 588 days following it if you guess c congratulations but you’re still wrong because on august 18th sizzler dropped His record by 53 seconds to a 728 honestly his opening statement in the video kinda speaks for itself welcome to one of the best runs there will ever be with an absurd sexy glitches record and tarot kitchen still dominating the random sea glitches leaderboards not too Much happened over the next few years so now seems like a good time as any to take a quick nap wake up tara kitchen just got the first ever sub 30 and knocked the time down to 2645 a few months after i wonder how close the competition is oh well good night Okay okay this is not a drill after a year and a half of no new ssg records sizzler just beat his time by one second and then the day after dropped it by another 16. i wonder how long this one will stay on top for 753 days that’s right with optimized Movement endless grinding and most importantly a new significantly better seed being discovered sizzler was finally dethroned by illumina on april 19 2019 four days later a tiny little minecraft update was released also known as version 1.14 but i’ll get to that in a bit alright let’s check in on tarot Kitchen’s record ah yes still on top and oh look at that it’s been nearly a thousand days since it happened surely nothing will get in the way of this massive milestone this just in leide got in the way of that massive milestone with a 77 second improvement after 985 Days of no one else being able to do that unsatisfied with one world record lyde got another world record three and a half months later and get this he utilized a tower to get more enderman spawns towers require death resetting and since you can’t exactly die on hardcore mode this development marked The end of the hardcore era at the same time the setsi glucose record was inching closer and closer to five minutes and it was anyone’s guess who would be the one to do it and illumina got a 456. in classic illumina fashion he also broke the random seed glucose Record three days later with a 2353. hey remember version 1.14 well nobody gave a about it yet you see illumina along with everyone else primarily played rsg runs in version 1.7 but as it turns out 1.14 villager trading strats where acacia villages are blown up for their Wood crafted into sticks and traded for emeralds which are traded for pearls could yield a faster time it would truly be impossible to rank a 1.7 tower stress run against the 1.14 trading stress run so the leaderboard mods needed to make a decisive choice there were two versions In the arena but only one could live on it was truly gonna be a battle for the ages and 1.7 just landed a clean right hook oh it doesn’t seem like 1.14 is getting up and just like that 1.14 was banished to the shadow realm never to be Speed ran again oh they split the leaderboards into pre 1.9 and 1.9 plus that also works i guess as you would expect this change gave more incentive to grind 1.14 so some new faces started appearing one of them was a random minecraft twitch streamer named real bennex and the other one Needs no introduction on march 24th less than two months after the split dream got the first ever sub 30 in 1.14 random c glitches but a month later real bennex and illumina did something so unfathomably absurd that i can say with confidence that it will never happen Again on may 5th 2020 both of them were streaming runs and they loaded into different worlds 10 seconds apart they completed these runs within 3 seconds of each other and get this the final times were both over 2 minutes faster than dream’s now former record if you want to Learn more about this check out my video about it but anyways aluminum managed to finish his run ever so slightly faster than benx that is until hardware differences were accounted for you see thenx spent 15 seconds waiting for dimensions to load while lumina only spent six meaning that the actual times Of the runs looked like this at around the same time somebody named matthew bolan released a video titled first one cycle it appears that he was able to kill the ender dragon on its first perch at the center fountain in version 1.14. nope can’t possibly see how that could Be useful hey remember when i said that 1.14 trading strats could yield a faster time than 1.7 well on may 29th they yielded a faster time than 1.7 with bennex acquiring a 22-18 while that was a two-minute improvement over the former world record the green man lurked in the Shadows ready to pounce at a moment’s notice so yeah dream got a 2203 no big deal right except for the fact that this run is an absolute anomaly for multiple reasons it was played on version 1.15 and it utilized a looting 3 book from a desert temple which meant that endermen Were killed in order to acquire pearls how in the hell was dream able to pull this off is he super lucky yes was the run fake nah tree would never fake a run anyways while the 1.14 random seed glucose craze was happening there was not a lot of leaderboard movement in Other categories illumina’s 1.7 rsg record stood strong but the same can’t be said about the ssg-1 since sizzler came back and did sizzler things the 1.9 plus setse glitches record had long since dropped below its pre 1.9 counterpart and in june of 2020 more and more people started putting in runs soon Enough the time to beat was fast approaching 3 minutes but soon after world record progress started to slow perhaps runners were just hitting a wall but more likely it had something to do with the update that changed minecraft speedrunning forever aka the nether update but first a word from our sponsor Oh there’s no sponsor ah anyways here is a google trends graph for the term minecraft speedrunning hold on one second wait for it there we go this spike directly coincides with the release of version 1.16 not only did it introduce a completely new way of obtaining ender pearls forcing a third Category split but it pushed minecraft speedrunning into the mainstream during the first month and a half of its existence the 1.16 random seagull just category had three different records each of those videos getting hundreds of thousands of views but it would be the more nefarious speedruns which stole the Spotlight on july 9th zyphen posted a video exposing a player by the name of drem for blatantly faking a record and that video absolutely exploded into the stratosphere it also sent a message to any troublemakers out there if you were gonna fake a minecraft speedrun you Weren’t gonna get away with it hold on i’m being told that i read the wrong line one second alright here we go if you were gonna fake a minecraft speedrun you were gonna get an absolute ton of cloud and so the cloud chasers arrived in droves they were belligerent And numerous there was no end in sight but at least the runs were blatantly fake so there was no chance that one of them could slip through the cracks until one of them slipped through the cracks on august 29th odis got a 1.16 rhee time Of 1859 which was a world record and on the surface everything seemed ordinary enough for the time to get verified on the leaderboards when analyzed further however it was found that the original uncut footage of the run was deleted and on top of that one of odis’s friends had Faked a record so the time was promptly removed from the leaderboards as of today this run sits in limbo since only one person truly knows if it’s real a month later the complete opposite thing happened corbanos the world record holder for 1.14 rsg achieved a monumental time in 1.16 getting a 1456 That beat the former record by over two and a half minutes there however was a discrepancy that was discovered by none other than dream he reported to the mods they investigated it and while corbanos was streaming one of the mods went into his chat and told him this the mods just Told me i faked it oh my god soon after he was banned from the leaderboards and all of his records were removed but a few hours later corbanos proved his innocence beyond a reasonable doubt my point in telling you this was that late 2020 was pure chaos and all that reached A boiling point when the most high profile cheating scandal took place i didn’t even have to say anything further and you know exactly what i’m talking about this topic has already been covered to death so i’ll just give you a quick overview over the course of six streams dream got ender pearl trains From piglens and blaze rod drops at unusually high rates on december 11th after about two months of work the moderator analysis was released to the world in the form of a 14 minute video accompanied by a 29-page report which calculated dream’s rates to have had a 1 In 7.5 trillion chance of occurring yeah the internet kind of lost its but that’s all i’ve got to say about the topic since at the same time some massive developments were happening in 1.16 random state glitchless which had quickly become the most speed ran category in speedrunning around july Runners started to realize that hey killing the dragon super fast could help the final time of my run so as it turns out that matthew boland video might have been on to something on november 3rd 2020 curryway beat corbano’s record but he utilized a bastion to trade with Piglens due to the increased amount of trades that could be completed in a short time bastions could provide ender pearls fire resistance string to make beds and enough obsidian to leave the nether through a new portal also known as blind traveling up until that point runners would just my nether goldor and Find stray piglens which is about as consistent as my sleep schedule so bastard strats were a massive game changer curryway’s record stood for about three months but when it was broken by rainx on january 30th 2021 the dominoes started falling not just in 1.16 rsg i’m talking about how over the Course of february the shortest month in the year every single any percent glitches category with the exception of 1.9 to 1.15 set seed saw a new world record galactic afro managed to drop the pre 1.9 ssg time to 3.53 the rsg counterpart saw c school finally beating Illumina’s 23-53 with a 2304 then he got a 22-48 two weeks later in 1.9 to 1.15 with the growing popularity of ocean strats which is where golden emeralds are acquired from shipwrecks and monuments johann’s ended january by getting in 1917. at the end of february doi pengu shaved over two minutes off That time achieving a 17-13 1.16 ssg saw the emergence of a new seed which allowed for faster times so the record traded hands a lot but the category that truly stole the show was 1.16 random seed glitchless on the 15th xylennox tied reynex’s world record and a week Later illumina was able to get a 1353 as of today this run has 4.3 million views but funnily enough it was only the record for a single day since two letter name was able to marginally beat that time not comfortable with being in striking distance tln decided to get a 1209 the day after to reiterate that is three records in three days and on top of that some guy named k4 showed everyone how to know exactly where bastions were located i wonder if this strategy will lead to faster times well there were none for the rest of february But that wasn’t the case with march with this new strategy fe 666 got the first sub 12 on march 16th and sizzler dropped that down to an 1107 four days later now is probably a good time to remind you that not even a month prior to this time The world record was three minutes slower seeing that kind of improvement in the most heavily contested category in speedrunning was unprecedented and somebody had to put a stop to this madness enter brentilda into the scene on april 19th he dropped the record by just a tiny little bit that is if you’re Viewing it on an astronomical scale because he got a 9 36. i will now refer to this date as bruntilda day this was by far the most optimized 1.16 rsg speedrun but that’s not to say it didn’t come without its controversy you see the real time of the run was over 11 minutes Which means that bruntilda was paused for over 90 seconds at the time there were no rules against doing this but pause abuse was banned a short time later after this run happened they tried to beat it oh how they tried but they couldn’t no no bring tilde would not let Them pass and it wasn’t particularly close even with 90 seconds of pausing the real time of the run was still faster than any other runs in game time basically he used another fossil to know the general idea of where to exit the nether in order to be close to the Stronghold and upon exiting he found himself directly in front of the portal room yeah this is known as divine travel and it was discovered by none other than matthew boland anyways with all of this insanity and minecraft speedrunning the european speedrunner assembly hosted a break the record live tournament for 1.16 rsg and believe it or not the record was broken live the all logs record that is but still that’s gotta count for something as 2021 was flying by with no new records in 1.16 rsg an opportunity opened for other categories to shine on june 25th corbanos broke the 17-minute barrier in 1.15 and just under a month later in fume got the first ever sub 20 in pre 1.9 the release of version 1.17 made a faster seed viable for set seed runs and on july 5th rayo became the first person to break the two-minute barrier on august 26 four months after Brent hilda day illumina got within a minute and a half of brent tilda but that one actually entered the end faster than the record and he just got screwed by terrible rng while unfortunate this definitely provided a glimmer of hope that faded away as fast as it arrived But still a ton of people were grinding for that sub subgrand tilda in november there was still no new record but a crucial decision was about to be made regarding 1.16 random seed glitchless you see calculators can be used to find the exact location of the stronghold With minimal eye vendor throws and back in early 2021 the community was overwhelmingly against allowing them the only problem was that there was a weird grey area with what was and wasn’t considered a calculator and the community consensus seemed to be shifting so the leaderboard mods held Another poll as the results came in some raise their pitchforks some lower their pitchforks and others use their pitchforks to move hay that’s right calculators were officially unbanned with a 58 majority will this controversial decision ruin minecraft speedrunning no of course not that was just me reading the title of carl drops Video about the subject but anyways with a decisive decision finally made rentilda’s record was broken seven times in a single day just kidding it actually lasted into 2022 making my prediction come true surely with calculators unbanned the record had to be beaten soon right so many people were entering The end ahead of world record pace only to have their hopes and dreams crushed due to bad rmg eventually however on january 22nd 2022 one runner was able to rise above the rest that’s right 279 days after brentilda date cube1337x got a 908 with a calculator that enabled him to exit the nether Directly into the stronghold while some other records in this video might have lasted longer none were even remotely as contested as this one in my humble opinion though the most impressive part of cube’s run comes from the fact that printilda literally predicted that it would happen anyways with such a great Start to the new year for 1.16 rsg would any other categories live up to that well the day before cube’s run lucid g got the first ever sub 3 in pre 1.9 ssg on a relatively new seed over the first few months of the year 1.9 to 1.15 runners were getting painstakingly close To breaking the 16 minute barrier and it got to the point where there were well over 10 runs with times between 16 and 16 30. understandably there was a lot of frustration with the inability to have a final time starting with 15 and then the month of april happened in pre 1.9 rsg The 19-minute barrier was broken in april but a new strat was starting to gain popularity trading works a lot differently in pre 1.9 versions compared to 1.14 but with some really good rmg it was theoretically possible to beat out tower strat runs on march 14th ledx got A run where he entered the end at 1446 with trading strats which was a minute and a half faster than the fastest tower strat enter but unfortunately he died in the end on the bright side niu redeemed eliot x by making a theory the reality Because on april 25th a time of 1816 was achieved with trading strats as of today that is the second place time with the record having been reclaimed by a tower strat’s run so here we are looking back at minecraft speedruns from 10 years ago it’s kind of insane how far we’ve gone From that point minecraft speedrunning was once a relatively small community but the year 2020 saw a meteoric rise in popularity which was spearheaded by the 1.16 update and people like dream while a lot of that hype has died down the community is still very active and flourishing and i don’t think that’s Going away anytime soon anyways that about does it for the entire history of minecraft speedrunning i guess feel free to subscribe to my channel and here are some good videos you Video Information
This video, titled ‘the entire history of minecraft speedrunning, i guess’, was uploaded by pikaJ on 2022-06-05 13:00:08. It has garnered 445944 views and 22228 likes. The duration of the video is 00:20:21 or 1221 seconds.
In this video, I go over the entire history of minecraft speedrunning, i guess.
This video mainly focuses on the any% glitchless categories, since not only are they the most popular, but they are also the ones I’m most familiar with. It should however be noted that Minecraft speedrunning is absolutely massive, and stretches far beyond what I was able to cover in this video.
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