14 Minecraft Secrets Only Speedrunners Know... 

A lot of you have pointed out an easier method for triangulation at 9:30. If you do 4 sprint jumps (instead of 5) the math is 1000/angle change = distance in blocks. Much easier.

This video is just as useful for normal minecraft as well. Being able to locate nether fortresses and bastion in normal survival is extremely useful.

For anyone wondering: 5:18 Manipulating gamma in the game files is allowed, because you could just increase gamma on your monitor/display manually.

One thing to point out. This is for 1.16 minecraft java, and some of these facts no longer work in later versions. For example, with the deep dark the brightness (gama), the game no allows any value higher then 1.

If you want to speed up your gravel breaking, go right up against a block at hip height that is next to a wall, preferably a stone wall. Then if you hold left and right click, with a shovel main hand and gravel off hand, it will place the gravel almost instantly after the gravel breaks. They do pop off out of your reach occasionally so collect about 8-10 first and even if you have to move away to pick them up, it's still faster than placing them in a line.

2:33 it works because the method used to generate water and lava pools are similar. For the most basic example if I spawned a water block every 2nd block and a lava block every 4th block, then I’ll have a lot of overlap b/w them. Set them at different height levels and with sin waves and boom you got something close to what’s happening.

the lava waterpool trick is probably related to worldgen. the game generates all structures based on a set of instructions and it probably generates the lava in a similar ruleset to the water pools on the surface. interesting little trick

Wow, you are so underrated. I started getting into speedrunning a few weeks ago and I learned a lot from RU-vidrs like k4yfour and Couriway. However, many stuff in this video are new to me, and some stuff that you explained were more clear than other RU-vidrs. Great vid!

4:07 you can do something similar in real life with seeing things in the dark. There are more rods than cones in the peripheral zone of your retina which can let you see better in low light conditions if your eyes haven't had time to adjust to the darkness yet.

The reason why lava pool generates below water pools is because all water pools beyond 1.18 are aucuafer caves and wen aucuafer caves generates below Y -35. It terns into a lava cave

I am no speedrunner, but I still figured a couple of these out myself. I used the fog edge trick a lot back when I had a crappy computer that needed a low render distance and I did the eye triangulation because I figured that's what you were supposed to do. It didn't occur to me that doing trig functions was probably not what you should do.

Insanely good video man! Hopefully, this vid pops off cause it deserves to! Maybe you could do a quick vid on the pie chart strat people mainly use to find nether fortresses (rather than treasure bastions) since it's a bit more reliable than moving to a different quadrant?

9:18 You could have broke those dandelions and go in nether and get some mushrooms and craft Suspicious stew of saturation ❤️❤️

As a beginner speed runner, I found all of these tips very helpful. Thanks for putting this together for the community.

Hope this guy hasn't quit, videos are really well put together.

I'm glad I Kinda stumbled upon this vid. I'm not a speedrunner, but I've dabbled with it. Honestly, these are great tips for anyone! Speedrunning also teaches alot of basic core game strats that can help ya get to the end game much faster, then get your elytra and move on to the bigger plans you have for your world! Great video & really good simple explanation of the strats, thanks!!

I've been speedrunning casually for over a year now and this video was a massive help. I already knew everything except how simple the degree chart was for calculation and how to do magma portals. Best time is 43 right now and I'm hoping I can bring that down knowing how to do half decent stronghold triangulation now. Thank you!

I’ve been using subtitles for years and never caught on to the arrows indicating the direction of the sound. Thanks for the informative and easy to understand video

Bro you made this video at the best time for me. I just started speedrunning and a lot of the tips help out a lot.

great video! really good explanation that was detailed enough to actually be useful, but not over complicated to be confusing

Did I enjoy this??!! Man this was super detailed and we'll made and in such a short time as well! Keep it up, you gained a new sub

Amazing video for aspiring MC speedrunners! Great advice and tips to help runs go more smoothly

I’m a beginner to speed running and trying to get into it so this video was a very big help thanks so much

this was REALLY helpful for me, as I'm a beginner when it comes to speedrunning. thanks!

10:53 The math: 1000/angle = distance to stronghold

Lots of info!! Thank you for this!!! I been trying to get better at minecraft in general and trying out speed running for a personal best but i been looking at long times, and I have yet to beat the End!! So again thank you for the info! It was very informative and gave me a lot to think about for future runs!!

I need more video like these they helped me a lot

Thank you for this video! I’ve been searching for a vid like this for hours.

Thank you so much, it helped me a lot, I instantly got a pb!

This video is criminally underrated. Thanks for this mr creator. Please update this with latest strats.

this is like one of the few good speedrunning tutorials, thank you

Damn I only just found you scrolling through my feed today...this is my second video of yours that I'm watching but I already think you're soooooo underrated

Way better and more informative than other videos I have seen.

Those 19 minutes were the best 19 minutes I have ever spent on RU-vid

This was actually the most useful video tip for Minecraft on all over the internet Really appreciated it

Really excellent video. Nice work.

Acho o estilo de speedrun do minecraft fascinante, os jogadores que amao o game a ponto de estudar ele para se beneficiar, Tutorial Muito bom 👍

I an not going to lie, I usually don’t talk about the quality of videos, but this was very well done and easy to understand

Great vid! Probably gonna help me!

exactly what i needet keep up the grind my guy!!!

This is sick I always wondered how these strats worked

Love your editing

I didn't know the subtitles arrow thing Thank you ❤

Bro after watching this video i broke my PB in a half! before: 01:04:02 ----- after: 30:32 Thank you so much dude

Bro I'm a Minecraft Speedrunner and I learned a LOT of things from this video (the water and lava pool thing for example). IT'S CRAZY!!! Thank you so much 😊

Thanks this helped alot

Why so underrated...I just wish you had more subs, you deserve them.

I'm an intermediate player, haven't really played speedrunning. But this greatly helped me, even tho I knew everything.

thank you so much for the tips

This is that best! Thanks

Very helpful!

Thank you so much! Easy sub

Learning that my habit of playing casually with quake pro fov is, in fact, a valid strat makes me feel pretty proud of myself

Very interesting video !

this helped so much thanks

this is lierally the best sr video keep it up!

very helpful and simple thx

i am trying to get into speedrunning and this video did help me alot.

I discovered that water trick a while ago by accident and i was so proud of myself XD

for the 3rd tip, i do not need to increase fov because i like using quake pro everytime

Just wanted to point something out for those getting into speedrunning at 10:50 he mentions calculators being banned. After the time this video was published thespeedrun moderators have decided to allow calculators 👍

Sow I love it, there are so many interesting thing in F3

😳 incredible Thank you for this video! 🏆

Cave strat underrated, i hit my pb nether entry at sub 2 with exposed iron gravel and lava pool

best video that explains speedrunning briefly

most useful minecraft video I've ever seen thank you

I’m proud to say that after forgetting how to do trigonometry in high school years later I relearned it my self I do have a different more time consuming method tho

Fantastic!

soul sand is so cool because when you stand in it it sinks you down a little so if you crouch on it and build over lava you instantlly get set on fire

Great stuff! One question regarding ocean strats: Ive seen people scan for hidden treasure chests - I assumed they used entities as well. How does that work though?

This is such an incredibly well done video!

bro omg this helped me so muchhh

my pb is 10:32 and i didn't know what you said on 15:15 lol, i guess that's what i lacked for a sub 10 run!

So the calculation you would have to do to know the distance to the stronghold is 20/sin(angle change) since that is indeed a hard calculation to do, you look at the sin function and how we can approximate it We would be using a Taylor series x - x³/6 + x⁵/120 - x⁷/5040 ... and that theoretically continues forever, giving you more exat values for sin the more iterations you use. (Also, in this case, the x is given in radians, where one radian is 180/π degrees) But the thing is, for small values of x, we only need the first term of this equation, which is just x (what I'm saying is, that for example sin(0.1)≈0.1, sin(0.4)≈0.4 ...) so instead of 20/sin(x) we can just use 20/x, because if the angle is like 45 degrees, we know the stronghold is practically in the next chunk anyway and we don't need to calculate anything We just have to change the equation so we just have to put in the angle in degrees and not convert to radians, which is by just multiplying it with 180/π. This gives us 1145.915/x, which we can just do as 1146/x, because the error will be a couple of blocks at most, and we don't care if we are less than 8 blocks off, because the stronghold staircase always generates in the middle of a chunk So you only would have to memorize the number 1146, and then do the calculation like on a piece of paper or your desk, and you can know the exact distance to the strongholf

Thank u so much bro this is really helpful, I will try to use this in my speedrunning Btw I subbed

That was really good

This is an amazing video. But I am just wondering how you would figure out your quadrants if you are like thousands of blocks away from spawn?

I just want tips to avoid damage from piglin brutes and wither skeletons, other than that, the video is super cool!

Good tips

5:20 you can increase it as much as you want! For example, gamma 1,000,000 makes your game look as if its completely lit with light everywhere (kinda op)

funny i always wondered why i look at a distance on the edge of my screen in all games. guess the fov stretch would make it easier to see

Questions for quadrants and structures in the nether : - the middle of the quadrants in the vid is the portal, but, in the graph on top right corner, it’s coordonates 0,0. Does it means all this is calculated relatively to the first portal I make in the nether ? Or relatively to the coordonates 0,0 ? Or maybe my first portal is always at 0,0 coordonates ? - just one structure per quadrant, but green squares on the graph has width and height. What’s beyond this ? Is it like a mosaic, like green squares infinitly ? Or, if I get lost in the nether, and go away from spawn like thousands blocks away, and nether find my way again, does it means I will nether be able to find a structure because I’m far from the portal ? Does it means there is at maximum 4 structures in the whole infinite nether ? Edit : I tested with teleport and locate, and for those who were wondering too : portal is the origine of quadrant coordonates AND and world coordonates is 0,0, and this is infinite mosaic, with probability of structures in every quadrant.

The entity scanner was ammazing thx

This was the best speedruning tutorial i've ever seen . . . can you give me the link for that triangulation guide i mean the picture . tnx

Btw the brightness thing using gamma doesn't work in 1.19 or up because of deep dark

Gamma brightness feature was removed in 1.19, you now have to use a mod for that

5:18, You CAN turn this up as much as you want and basically have night vision but for a speedrun the max is 5.0

actually helpful

u got a new sub

I've been playing minecraft for about 10 years and most of these tips are new to me

Cool Penney.

i am not a speed runner but just this knowledge in your everyday gaming makes it just that little bit easier.

Hello good vid just is it normal that at 8:32 your lava bucket vanish into a normal bucket ?

6:30 could you explain a bit in detail on why you shouldn’t go that way?

OMG you deserver more subs

Why your video setting have different GUI? Is it from the new versions or it's some kind of a client?

what is your texture pack?!?!? your items in eq are soo coool

Ty

Video MUITO bom e útil agradeço por ter o feito

so what’s the center of the nether quadrants? is it your portal or 0,0 coordinates?