The Fake Minecraft Speedrun That Fooled Everyone

This is one of the most groundbreaking world records in the history of Minecraft speedrunning it’s a 3 minute 59 second run in the pre-1.9 setsi glitchel’s peaceful category that beat the former record by 47 seconds and stood at first place for 643 days it’s also fake but before I get into that

Let’s take a closer look at the runner nicocraft HD had no prior runs at the time of the world record and when he achieved it he submitted it to the speedrun.com leaderboards where it was promptly verified nowadays the Run has over 11 million views on YouTube not

Only making it one of the most viewed Minecraft speed runs ever but being the run that introduced countless people to the community after posting the video Nico would remain somewhat active on his channel uploading every so often but it wouldn’t be until March 25th 2022 when

He would share his next run on a new much faster seed that had been recently discovered after loading into the world he made his way to a desert temple where chess loot blocks and TNT were acquired upon exiting the temple TNT was used to cross the river remember this detail

Because it’ll be relevant soon after trading with villagers he got an eye vendor dug down to the stronghold and entered the end almost two and a half seconds ahead of his personal best before I proceed you need to know that the end is incredibly RNG dependent in version 1.8 for starters the dragon

Won’t always charge fast enough to be killed quickly additionally the placement of the obsidian pillars and the height of the towers is completely randomized regardless of the seed a good run requires short Towers in close proximity to each other so when Nico loaded into this end his mind must have

Been racing at the first Tower the dragon almost immediately charged where a large amount of damage was dealt with the end Crystal then a mere 12 seconds later the dragon charged again upon reaching the third one what do you know it’s hungry for more but its path was

Just enough to decide in order to avoid a fatality fortunately this end layout was incredibly forgiving 2 minutes and 49 seconds a new world record that was later verified to the leaderboards but hold up where’s the TNT he placed it down when crossing the river but it appears to have magically

Disappeared after the run was completed it’s a detail so subtle that for over a year nobody noticed it that is until Elliott X came into the picture he’s a pre-1.9 runner who you may recognize for having the luckiest Minecraft speedrun ever but when he discovered this discrepancy he didn’t stop there notice

How at the beginning of the Run there’s a cloud that’s shaped like a p if you load into this seed you will not see this Cloud rather you’ll always see an f-shaped Cloud the exact same one that appears at the end of the run in order

To find the P Cloud you’d need to wait over 25 minutes before it shows up over the temple so with disappearing TNT and clouds that suggest he was in the world for way more than three minutes only one conclusion can be drawn the Run was spliced unfortunately however in his 359

That has 11 million views the audio is completely disabled and there’s no footage after the credits which meant that there was no way to prove the presence of a splice well for years that was the case until crafter dark noticed the tiniest little discrepancy hiding in

Plain sight for anyone to see in the beginning of the Run Nico made his way to a desert temple and after he jumped to the bottom did you see it the hunger bar moved up and down in peaceful mode this is actually completely normal you can’t lose hunger and peaceful but you

Can lose saturation which is the effect that determines how fast the hunger bar depletes when the saturation level goes below a certain point the hunger bar starts displaying these up and down movements which happen precisely every 3.05 seconds the only way to increase saturation in peaceful mode is by eating

A golden apple since other food can’t be consumed unless the hunger level goes down as he progressed through the run the bar kept ticking at a consistent rate and eventually he made his way to the strongholds upon and entry he was an incredible 13.6 seconds ahead of his personal best

After he dug out of the hole and pillared up to a short Tower the dragon charged immediately right next to him was another short Tower and of course he got the instant charge again but hold on did you see it the hunger bar had an up and down movement for the first time

During that entire end fight seriously I’m gonna go back and I want you to watch it really carefully there are no ticks his saturation couldn’t have possibly been restored without eating a golden apple but the hunger bar is displaying full saturation for the first 34 seconds of the end fight after that

First tick however it kept ticking at a constant rate until the end of the run which by the way just so happened to be the fastest end fight ever if we look at his other less viewed world record the same thing is present the hunger bar ticks at a constant rate until he

Reaches the end where it stops for the next 23 seconds let’s take a look at a run from Spoon Thai who held the world record prior to Nicos 359 the first Hunger bar tick took place 22 seconds into the run and from there until the end of the run it never stopped ticking

Same here in this run by Illumina and in the current world record by poisonous Skelly for whatever reason however Nico is the exception so why is that the case well a splice would make the most sense if he’s loading into the world starting at the end portal his saturation would

Be reset to how it was at the start of the run which explains the lack of hunger bar movement but for argument’s sake let’s assume the best of intentions from nicocraft maybe there was just a random event that led to this discrepancy when and saturation is depleted every 3.05 seconds each of the

10 food pieces has three possibilities determined by RNG they can either go up down or stay still with equal odds for all of them so given that 34 seconds passed before there’s any visible hunger bar tick that would come out to 10 Cycles in a row where every food piece

Chose the one out of three possibility to stay still that comes out to a probability along the lines of one in a Duo trigentillion which is a number that you probably haven’t even heard of unless you played Adventure capitalist as for the other run the odds jump to a

Relatively Unlucky One in 390 decillion for some perspective the chance of getting a 12i end portal is one in a trillion which is many orders of magnitude more likely to occur randomly the only other reasonable possibility is that an unknown modification was used that changed the mechanics of the hunger

Bar only problem is that in order for that to be possible Nico would need to be using Forge with OptiFine and as seen from the main menu that wasn’t the case so that leaves us with one realistic conclusion both of the world records were cheated