Minecraft is the best selling game of all time. It's a open world sand box game available in almost every modern platform, and has sold 200 million copies. It was created by Hatsune Miku alone.

What many players do in this game is build buildings and correct resources to expand their base, however that is not my playstyle so I won't be discussing that, I will be talking about speedrunning for most of this thread.

Minecraft is a constantly updated game, with only a single Minecraft Bedrock, Java, Education and Pocket edition (these are the main editions, I will focus on Java edition). It's updates are by 1.(update version).(sub update version). My main focus will be on versions 1.7-1.8, 1.12.2 and 1.16.1.

Very basics of speedrunning.

All pre 1.9 non-SSG main categories require obtaining ender pearls and blaze rods to enter the end portal. The end portal is in the stronghold, located using the eyes of ender created with pearls and rods. Optimally obtaining end pearls changes throughout the versions, however blaze rods are always dropped from blazes in the nether fortress. Nether fortresses are in the nether, typically entered via magma ravines or (especially in pre 1.13, as this was the version where magma ravines where added) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPm7RC1EG90&t=1s](a lava pool)

1.7-1.8

1.8 is the main version used for PVP in Minecraft. This is due to the difference in player knockback and most importantly damage and damage cooldown differences.

The main Minecraft server used for PVP and the most popular server in the game is hypixel.net, a multi-mini game server, average around 100k players a day (you can fact check me on this I am not sure on the specifics).

1.8 in conjunction with 1.7.2 are the two main categories ran for pre 1.9 speedrunning. 1.8 has different Endermen AI as well as different bed explosion mechanics (this is extremely important to quickly kill the ender dragon, the final goal of a typical RSG/SSG/SRG/FSG speedrun. More on these categories later.). The strategy used at the moment is to use tower strategies to kill Endermen very quickly, and get ender pearls from them. 19:52 world record can be viewed here . The current WR is in 1.8 and sub 20 minutes.

1.12.2

This version is not nearly as speedran as other versions, as in the 3 sub categories pre 1.9, 1.9-1.15, and 1.16 1.12 falls in 1.9-1.15 which has 1.14 and 1.15, far faster versions for speedrunning however as a person deeply involved in advocating for a 1.9-1.13 category split as well as strategy crafting for 1.12 and 1.13, I I find it extremely enjoyable and with much to talk about. 1.12 uses one of these towers:

Volcano: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1105560942

https://youtu.be/c9wQFiqZayk Calm tower

reasons for a 1.9-1.13 category split

1.14+ has different ender dragon mechanics, with a perch allowing for one cycling. 1.9-1.13 does not have this, as well as a different end fight from pre 1.9, which involves dragon charging and single bed explosions.

1.14+ also has vastly different villager trading mechanics, far overshadowing the villager trading doable in 1.13 and 1.12.

There's far more in-depth discussion about a split, however this is a entry level minecraft megathread

1.16+

This is my main version and the most popular speedrunning category at the moment, and the 2nd most popular of all time, despite being little more than a year old.

1.16 is by far the fastest and most optimized version. This is due to bastions and subsequently Piglin trading. This allows for blind travel (because 1 block in the nether is equivalent to 8 the overworld, blind travel speeds up the travelling needed to get to the stronghold https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qplsfdkth8 as the distance to the stronghold is large (look at the first ring in the graph for the typical strongholds we use) , far faster collection of pearls+more so you can travel using them, the ability to speed up the bed getting process (for end fights as you may recall), and fire resistance for faster blaze fights. This allows the RSG WR to be <10 minutes

You may be wondering what RSG, SSG, and FSG are.

RSG

RSG is random seed glitchless, where the goal is to kill the ender dragon in a randomly generated world without glitches. It is the most played category.

SSG

SSG, or set seed glitchless uses a pre determined seed (found using a semi-automated seed-finding process). These are far faster and single seeds are scouted to perfection. The 1.16+ WR is 1:55 .

FSG

FSG, or filtered seed glitchless, uses a program to pre-find seeds that fit a certain criteria and are far better than your typical RSG seed, but they are played w/o previous knowledge of the seed. 4:47 by Dav1E is the incredible world record

This is just scratching the surface, https://discord.gg/minecraftspeedrunning this is the overall discord server, https://discord.gg/Y7mA7SEd35 and the 1.9-1.13 server. Anything else isn't much fun (overall server should get you everything you need).

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  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I’ve been following different instructions and all had the same problems, but often times they worked until i had the server reboot and some changes i made to some config file broke everything

    • NarrativeMaterialism [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      You have some experience with RPI/linux? If not, there's a bunch of things I can think of that would break, like setting up the foundry server as a service (and have it auto-restart and start on server startup, etc..), or permissions, or a bunch of other stuff. If yes then I'm not sure what would be breaking stuff on reboot.

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        My experience has been pretty minimal before this. In the past i’ve noticed that the config file to foundry likes to get corrupted, so i delete it and it makes a new one. Later today I’ll just be following simplier directions from the foundryvtt wiki and try to run the game like that for a while