Hey everyone,
As many of you know, YouTube will be privating unlisted videos from before 2018 unless a channel owner opts out. This means that a lot of submission videos on speedrun.com are going to be lost.
Because of this, a small group (me, @Wealth#3612, and u/pidgezero_one) have been working for the past few days on archiving all speedrun.com videos that are unlisted on YouTube. We have scraped speedrun.com, and we are currently forming a list of all unlisted videos, as well as contact information for all these runners with unlisted videos.
Here's where we need help. We have a list of twitter users that are going to be affected by this, and we need to notify them that their videos will be effectively deleted. If you'd like to help notify these people, and you have a twitter, please DM @pidgezero_one on twitter. If we can let everyone know, and avoid having these videos deleted in the first place, that would be amazing.
However, inevitably, we will not be able to reach all of these people. In fact, most don't even have contact information. So, since we will soon have a full list of unlisted videos, we're going to be archiving all of the at-risk videos.
The current list is [here] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR_U0zJrt7D23_vkCIfiHoZDEy2zh_kaARY1QHqFBlwofYtfM3h45xNy7Ca6itwd8_54lAKfVZQVZqc/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true), and includes runner names. You can search for your name to see if any of your videos are known to be affected. However, this list is incomplete as speedrun.com's API does not allow us to fetch all runs from Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition ILs, Minecraft Java Edition Any% Glitchless, Speed Builders ILs, Super Mario 64 16 Star, or Super Mario Oddyssey Any% (We are working on this limitation right now).
So, all in all, these videos are going to be saved somehow, not to worry!
Minecraft has been around for over a decade now, and it’s been a fixture of the speedrunning community for nearly as long. While early runs clocked in around the half-hour mark, in recent years, as strategies become more optimized and more is learned about the game’s code, that time has been pushed down to unthinkable levels. Up until very recently, the best times have hovered around 11-12 minutes, with runners striving to finally break the sub-11 barrier and eventually into the single digits.
Then along came a runner named Brentilda. He was not active on the main speedrunning forum/leaderboard (speedrun.com), but he streamed regularly on Twitch to a small audience and clearly had a good grasp of the fundamentals AND high-level execution. On April 19, while streaming on Twitch, Brentilda beat the world record for the random-seed glitchless category (RSG). But he didn’t just eek out a close victory. He didn’t just break the 11-minute barrier. He SHATTERED the old record, beating the game in 9 minutes and 36 seconds.
How do you “beat” Minecraft?
A sensible question. Isn’t this a sandbox game about building and crafting, you might wonder? It is, but it does in fact have an end boss (The Ender Dragon), and defeating it triggers an end credits sequence that is considered “beating” the game. The specific strategies involved with speedrunning the game can be rather intricate, but here is the basic gameplan:
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Step 1: Gather resources in the overworld and find/build a Nether Portal.
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Step 2: Travel to the Nether and find a bastion to trade with piglins.
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Step 3: Travel to the Nether and find a fortress to kill blazes for their loot. (Interchangeable with Step 2)
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Step 4: Return to the overworld and locate a stronghold using materials gathered from the Nether.
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Step 5: Enter the end portal within the stronghold and defeat the Ender Dragon.
Because every Minecraft world is procedurally-generated, each step on the way requires some element of RNG to perform quickly enough for a WR-pace run. If you’ve ever watched a streamer speedrun the game, you know that well over 90% of runs are dead within the first minute or less. I’d estimate that for every thousand worlds that skilled speedrunners spawn into, MAYBE 5-10 of them have a chance at a WR-pace run. It’s difficult to explain just how lucky Brentilda got on his run, but I’ll give a brief overview:
So Brentilda spawns in the overworld, and the first thing
... keep reading on reddit ➡I purposely make things vague so I don't spoil people, you can check the original post if you want more spoilers.
- Many areas are graded as low/medium/high in Inazuma, they require you find certain number of things to upgrade a certain something to enter, if you don't meet the requirement, you can't even do some world quests and open some high level chests(return later). Some areas will also deplete you HP very fast if you want to force your entry but haven't gathered enough something(similar to the cold system ). It will become more and more difficult and slow to upgrade that thing but rewards will also get better and better. (from the leaker's personal opinion:
you can finish if you grind non stop for 4 days straight(,(Edit: Even the most delicated player cant finish with 4 day non stop grinding) for casuals, it could take you half a year, some don't agree with him, bc they think there'll the guides to shorten the process later, also leakers' opinion could be incorrect as history has proved) - Part of world quests have REAL TIME stages. the NPC will tell you to come back after some days.(you can't adjust ingame time to accelerate the process, bc it's real time )
The positive review from the leaker:
1 The landscapes are breathtaking, the leaker can't praise enough the fun of the whole experience . The puzzles often utilize electro element, some puzzles are simple, some are creative and difficult, he thinks if the difficulty of archipelago puzzles is level 1, then some of the Inazuma puzzles are level 3, it's a test to player IQ.
- The terrains are rather complex and vertical (I assume it's similar to dragonspine), some puzzles are underground, content is packed and dense,he thinks Inazuma is quite a great upgrade from Mond and Liyue, and he wants mihoyo to keep improving this way.(I was already blown away by Liyue, damn it's exciting to think that Inazuma is even better.)
3, BGM for each area has its day and night versions.(It's the same as mond and liyue I think)
You can't access Inazuma by ice bridge, you will be forced to transport back.
