The LUCKIEST Minecraft Speedrun Ever…

On march 14th 2022 what is quite possibly the luckiest minecraft sp run ever happened to a runner by the name of elliot x this run took place in the pre-version 1.9 random c glitches category and to say the very least it’s a spectacle to behold typically the

First thing you’d think of upon hearing about this category is tower strats the simple and ingenious way to farm endermen incredibly fast for a long time that has been the meta with new more efficient towers being designed regularly by the top runners of the category that being said what if i told

You that there was a completely different strategy which could not only yield a significantly faster time but involved killing zero endermen well allow me to introduce you to the once thought to be theoretically faster strat known as pre 1.9 trading strats essentially this revolves around a trade

From the cleric villager that offers an eye vendor for emeralds but that’s all i’m gonna say right now as it would be significantly easier to explain through the lens of the luckiest minecraft speedrun ever right before i get into the run i’m getting pretty close to 100k

So if you enjoy the video be sure to subscribe to start off elliot x spawned in a desert and after wandering around for a bit he located a desert temple by lighting this piece of tnt he was able to blow up the chest in order to loot

Them faster and they contained 35 gold 3 diamonds and 6 iron not too shabby and when he wandered around the desert a bit more he found another temple containing 13 more gold another iron ingot and an emerald he then collected sugar cane while wandering around stumbled upon a

Village blew up a house for wood and started trading first he traded a cleric 10 gold per emerald which is unfortunately the maximum possible price regardless the next trade the cleric offered would decide the fate of the run you see there was a chance that he would

Have to pay up to 11 emeralds for an eye of ender but an equally likely chance that he would only have to pay seven once he checked he saw eight emeralds for an eye vendor which is pretty good but now he had to get three more

Emeralds in order to buy one at the librarian house he crafted a diamond axe various other tools and 36 paper with the sugar cane and mined the bookshelves he then located a librarian villager traded all of his paper for an emerald and prayed that it would offer him a

Good deal on books you see elliot x is an avid reader but more importantly books are the main way in which emeralds are obtained so he got pretty excited when he saw the minimum possible trade of eight books for one emerald now that he had eight he went back to the cleric

Bought an eye vendor and started locating the stronghold at 530. you see this thing at the bottom right of the screen that is a stronghold calculator and by inputting the coordinates an angle from two eye throws he could know exactly where the stronghold was located after pressing find he saw that it was

About 500 blocks away not great but not bad either and he started making his way there well hold on an eleven eyes about a one in ten billion chance so why did he start going to the stronghold now well strongholds contain libraries so by getting a bunch more books from there he

Could trade the librarian for the remaining emeralds he needed at 7 30 he started digging down and upon entry into the portal room he saw five eyes already in their frames something that only had a 1 in 231 chance of happening that’s not all because the library was located

Right next to the boardroom which is when elliott x realized the sheer potential of this run you see finding the library that quickly saved multiple minutes of stronghold navigation and since he only needed six more eyes to fill the portal he only needed to grab six stacks of books or in other words

Break about 128 bookshelves that’s not all because the diamond acts sped up the process by a decent bit and once ladex had eight and two-thirds sacks of books he pillared to the surface with leaves and was running back to the village at 11 30. according to him only one other

Run had ever left the stronghold on a comparable pace to this and in case you’re wondering he grabbed so many extra books to play it safe and it was only about a 15 second time loss anyways after making his way back to the village librarian at 12 30 he readied his books

And now is when you’re gonna find out how horribly convoluted pre 1.9 trading is basically with the exception of the first trade set in which you are guaranteed seven trades before the villager has to restock trades are done in sets that can yield two to twelve

Trades per set in other words eliot x could trade anywhere from 16 to 96 books at a time for 2 to 12 emeralds before having to wait for a restock and this is determined entirely by rng for each trade in a set the villager has an 80

Chance to hard luck after that set is traded a hard log means that you would have to do one or multiple different traits in order to re-unlock the main trade to more easily interpret what an 80 chance per trade in a set means take 0.8 and raise it to the power of however

Many trades are completed in a set if l8x were to get unlucky and only get two emeralds before waiting for a restock the villager has a 64 chance of hard locking on the contrary if he got super lucky and obtained 12 emeralds in a set the villager only has a seven percent

Chance of hard locking are you lost yet well i’m not done because sometimes the villager will just completely lock the trades and kill the run but this likely won’t happen to eliot x due to the relatively small amount of trades he had to make anyways back to the run and

After getting the remaining five emeralds from the first set since he traded two of them earlier the villager had a 33 percent chance of hard locking and unfortunately it did so he traded one emerald for three glass in order to proceed the next set gave him three

Emeralds no hard lock and the one after gave him nine still no hard lock six emeralds three emeralds ten emeralds nine emeralds five emerald six emeralds eight emeralds no hard locks and at that point he had enough emeralds to buy his remaining eyes of ender after going to

The cleric villager and getting their remaining 6 izavander from the first set since he traded for one earlier he had enough to fill the portal so at 1340 he was on his way back to the stronghold once he found the hole he used shears to quickly get back down and at 1446 he

Entered the end dimension to understand how insanely fast this pace was i’d like to direct your attention to the second fastest pre 1.9 n entry of 1629 by the blazer 97. unfortunately this run ended when the dragon heated him into the void but what about the fastest end entry on

A completed run well look no further than the current world record from teddy ursa 311 in which he entered the end at 1726 a full 2 minutes and 40 seconds slower than l8x’s pace the common denominator between the blazer and teddy ursa’s runs are that they use tower

Strats not trading strats by the time eliot x was entering the end both of them were still using their towers and this is because tower strat runs are pace locked by the day night cycle since the tower only works at night anyways back to the run where at 14 46 eliot x

Had the ender dragon in his sights now you may have noticed how he only entered the end with one bed and that’s because he was going to use n crystal strats this is something that you will see in setsi glitches runs but many opt out of

It for random seed glucose due to the difficulty as elliot x was pillaring out of the unsung box you can see his crosshair shaking uncontrollably just for a second picture yourself in this situation you just proved how effective trading strats are with what is quite possibly the luckiest minecraft speedrun

Ever and you’ve entered the end nearly 3 minutes ahead of world record pays your mind is racing at a million miles per hour and your heart is pounding incredibly fast you’ve already made history but you aren’t quite done yet unfortunately when l8x was trying to get

Pearls in order to easily access the top of the pillars he looked at too many endermen and at that point it was too late although quite a sad way for a run to end this run will undoubtedly make people rethink how to go about speedrunning pre 1.9 random see glitchless