I REPEAT. SOMEONE HAS BEATEN MINECRAFT IN UNDER A MINUTE
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this is actually set seed glitchless, you’re thinking of random seed glitchless (which the wr for is actually 7 min 45 sec)! this basically means that they know everything about the seed going in and are picking the most perfect seed. (the previous set seed record was 1 min 47 sec)
also this record uses a really cool strat where it uses the dragons velocity against itself and if you line things up perfectly you’re able to kill the dragon with a single shot of an arrow!
here is the video!
if you’ve ever been launched into the void off the top of a pillar by the ender dragon before, you know that the dragon tends to fling things around like crazy. this is because it’s center hitbox wants to push objects away really fast, proportional to how close it is to the center.
if you fire an arrow at the exact perfect spot (I’m talking insanely perfect - pixel and frame dependent, as well as needing the correct rng for the dragon’s flight path) then you can exploit this to have the arrow be launched at incredible speeds directly into the dragon’s hurtbox.
arrows in minecraft calculate their damage based on velocity. that’s why barely charging a bow does very weak damage, while fully charging a bow does much more. however, there isn’t a cap on this damage. you can theoretically one shot anything in the game no matter how strong, as long as you can get the arrow to travel fast enough. and that’s exactly what happens here.
the final minute barrier being broken for ssg just shows how much dedication and commitment and knowledge and willpower the entire minecraft speedrunning community has.
Reading hitchikers guide for the first time was really funny because it was like ohhhh THIS the writing that every unfunny nerd has been trying to emulate from like ‘00-‘12 . But good.
Douglas adams writing “the ships hung in the sky much in the same way that bricks dont”
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