I took Minecraft's Most Popular Challenge to its Absolute Limits 

smallant the type of guy to put 100 episodes worth of a minecraft lets play into 1 video

This 35 minute cut is a masterpiece. Not just for the dedication and many many hours of grinding behind that made it possible, but also for the incredible editing

The touch that the blue axolotl is named whooper warms my heart. The fact that it’s his favourite pokemon which is itself a blue axolotl and that the achievement is called “a friend”. I can’t

At 12:08 the "Can we get coral today?" cut from 61 hours to 137 hours is so funny

As someone who watched through all 207 hours of vods, here are a few things that (obviously) didn't make it in the video but remain iconic and tragic and deserve to be preserved through time: ☆We started referring to the sky turtles as lesbians because smant had a revelation that both laid eggs. ☆ Lycel, (might know her as Smallants emote artist) , came up with the shield design, thus the name: "Thanks Lycel for the shield design I really apprec". ☆ Someone predicted that the kelp generator would break within an hour or so and we laughed at them, not long afterward, it broke. ☆ The thousands of bees that stayed alive hovering just above the void without unspawning or dying, had to be killed one by one with arrows to free the mod cap. ☆ The snowman that helped us with the wandering traders was killed, twice, the one currently held in the island and featured in this video is a constant reminder of those 'accidents'. ☆ Same with bobby, the official zombie villager converter, he's not the first of his kind. ☆ The powdered snow incident is mentioned, but I think it fails to demonstrate the pain and devastation that losing it brought, it wasn't momentary, we reminisced on it for the entire day, even weeks later. Some of us never stopped griefing. ☆ The slime farm was equally effective as a glowing ink farm, we never came up with a solution. ☆ The snow structure that teleported wandering traders into the nether scared us on at least 17 different occations due to resemblance to a ghast. ☆ Craftyboss (might know him as a mod creator) had at some point hidden a chicken in a glass box somewhere in the void as a fun surprise, this was never found, and was automatically deleted after the world adaptation. ☆ It is through this series that I was exposed to the full potential of smallants perfect timing on predicting when things would happend, specially his own death. ☆ The items in the item frames for the main chests would constant rotate when he tried to open them, some of them like the stone brick, are still in an incorrect position to this day, which definitely didn't drive chat mad. ☆ I can confirm husks drop sand. ☆ Smallant constantly repeared that his design for the Coble generator was 100% "idiot proof" and the entire chat joked that he would break it on hour 66, he didn't. At least not until the very last stream, over 150 hours latter when he no longer needed it, kinda tragic, kinda flex. ☆ The grind for the magma blocks to create The Machine™ was extremely painful yet satisfying. ☆ Two of the cats from out collection were named Pepperoni and Blu-ray by chat, precisely the mods. ☆ The villager traiding hall was made to have a two block deep floor in case he axed it and fell through. He still managed to fall through twice. ☆ Toggle crouch is one of the biggest anime villains, it caused more than one death. ☆ Smant created completely useless lapis lazuli and copper ore beacons exclusively to fuck with people just coming in, for which we grinded 4 extra nether stars. ☆ Inside our beautiful dirt house there is a sign that reads "live laugh love". ☆ Chat constantly repeated that the withers farm box would break, smant said no, eventually it did and a wither got stuck outside for a few days... or weeks. ☆ There are a few things that are theoretically possible, such as getting mining fatigue. The elder guardian could technically spawn when you load in a possible chuck and fall to the void. This applies to any other entity, although you'd have to get extremely lucky. Smant said he might do it in the future. Looking at this resume made me feel really dumb bc it brought tears to my eyes from the nostalgia. Yuck. These streams brought some of the best stories, and company I could have ever asked for. They happened during my last year of high school so many of these moments remind me of all nighters to finish art projects, studying and many breakdowns caused by frustration and indecision, I am now in my second year of university doing what I love in fashion design, but even now preparing for my final semester A submition in 3 days, skyblock and smant keep me company. These hours will forever hold a place in my brain and heart. Thank you to Smallant for the literal 207 hours worth of content, I definitely wouldn't have watched it all if it wasn't for you. Edit: thank you to everyone who wished me luck, this is another reason why I love being part of this community, I have finished my assignment on time and am on my way to submit so thanks. Every time I anxiously checked my phone to see the time I had left I was greeted with nice messages so again, thank you so much :)

*190 HOURS* of Skyblock grind summed up in a 35 minute video... Now that's what's called simplifying things 😅

*HOW* have I never come across your channel before??? Super chilled vibe, yet fast paced, informative, easy to watch and listen to, as well as great editing and a good balance of comedic value. 13 minutes into this video, you have a well deserved sub.

This has to be one of my favourite Minecraft videos I have ever watched

FINALLY i remember coming to a skyblock stream such a long time ago, glad the vid is finally out

16:17 is just the start of an absolute quote generator LMAO "Stop climbing the ladder" "They're just gonna all gonna murder themselves" "Wh- the pig is doing parkour, what the hell?" "How did the horse get on the roof?" "The llama's goin for a swim " "It seems I've made some of them mad"

now do it without the starting chest

16:40 pure comedy. Bees escaping, horse on the roof, pig doing parkour and a llama going for a swim😂

The fact that smant and devine compressed almost 200 hours of gameplay into a 35 minute video is truly insane to me Edit: over 600 hours actually. wtf.

ant is a small

Everytime he died i got a trailer for kung fu panda 4

I cannot believe I’ve known about Minecraft for more than a decade and I somehow never knew you could spawn the wither sideways. That literally blew my mind

To make sure that everyone knows how much he played this: I watched his stream for a bit, and then I went to sleep. When I woke up he was still streaming. I slept for around 9-10 hours.

I think I've watched what feels like HUNDREDS of hours of your VODs of this run. I can't believe you condensed THAT MUCH into a 35 minute video. You're the GOAT!

Crazy, this easily could've been turned into a 10 episode series but props for cramming months of gameplay into a 35 minute video, only a handful of dedicated youtubers still put there like um

19:55 the Super Mario Odessy music 🤣 btw i love your mario and minecraft videos, Keep smashing it!

Glad I could help contribute to this amazing playthrough ^-^ looking forward to a possible return of Skyblock!

Editor needs a raise, SUCH a clean video ant. Well Done and keep it up

So happy to see this video finally come out. Skyblock was probably my favorite thing you've done and I caught every stream I could. It's nice to get caught up on everything I missed and see the whole thing in a neat little package. Love you SmallAnt, keep up the good work!

This and alpharad's shiny hunting in lets go are the two vids ive been looking forward to the most this year. Good to see the first one absolutely slaps

I know you’ve been working on this for a very long time. I’ve been waiting for this video to drop for so long and it’s finally here. Insane bravo to you SmallAnt for this amazing feat.

The scriptwritimg on this is marvelous. The pacing, the quips, the explanations... Everything is so perfectly crafted, and together with the editing and graphic design truly make this video a masterpiece. Fantastic job SmallAnt and team, you guys truly outdid yourselves.

Honestly, if you had decided to make this video 3 hrs, I would've watched it all. This is so incredibly fun to watch.

“The idea is simple”

it's actually insane to think about how long this has been in the making like yeah i know it says the amount of hours right there, but still i am so incredibly happy that it still got made after all this sure is a magnum opus

"theres a witch, now we just need a zombie villager." zombie villager:allow me to introduce myself

Watched the vods for these while at work for what felt like months, insane to see it all in a 35 minute video

This is insane, the sorting machine in the nether at 21:00 alone is more effort than I've ever put into anything in mc, and you did it all in skyblock. Great video mate!

This editing is so good, i can tell this has been in the works for quite a while

watched all these vods in the background when they would come out. so many memories 🥹

This video is great! I love your energy, and I also love how you edited and summed it all up in this video hahaha. Will definitely be watching those streams!

I remember when Ant said this would come out in few weeks nearly 18 months ago So glad to finally see it out

"I think SkyBlock at its core is the ultimate challenge in resource management... ...And one day, we'll look back at where we started and be amazed by how far we've come." ―Technoblade

Honestly, pretty incredible to get all of this so concisely and enjoyably planned and edited down, to say nothing of the sheer achievement of the series! And no worries about the upload; I hope you're doing well and it's nice to see your videos whenever they show up!

Just saw one from Lord John where his start was even more barebones, just dirt, no chests or trees. Took him hundreds of days to get water and lava. Homie did some runescape level grinds. Good video.

devine did SUCH a good job with the editing!

This is legitimately the first time I've ever seen someone do everything there is to do in skyblock, this video was amazing! I hope you enjoyed your playthrough, smant :>

The skyblock streams got me through a lot of months cooped up at home during the peak of COVID. It's amazing to see all of that hard work distilled into a video.

I haven’t played vanilla skyblock in years since I first got Minecraft. With most of my skyblock playthroughs coming from old modpacks like Agrarian Skies 1&2, ftb Infinity Expert Skyblock, Project Ozone 2. So when I say that I’m impressed I am. Many of the stuff you did in the video is as complex and time consuming (if not more) what these modpacks have to offer and is all with vanilla mechanics only, Jesus, didn’t expect that it was possible to get as far as the hardest achievement of the game nor as technical as your pillager trading machine and the rabbit hole behind to build it (really gives throwbacks to the changed recipes of these modpacks) Really impressive stuff. One thing I would have wished you did is making your base look a bit more fancy, than just platforms in the sky tho. But after that really good

Smant has definitely hit legendary status on RU-vid now, and it’s well deserved

6:42 "I'm stranded in the sky with nothing but a family of unusually well-treated Amazon employees." SMANT BEING SO CASUALLY OUT OF POCKET

The editing and voice over on this is elite, can clearly see you’ve put a ton of work not only into the video (which is weeks of streaming and editing) but into honing your craft - especially impressed by your oral presentation skills !

Great video, first time here i subscribed. That was a lot of persistence and planning and you completed your goals heck you earned it

Smant NEVER fails to both impress the hell outta me and make me laugh my ass off !

His excitement about taming the cats is pure gold

Been waiting so long for this vid. Pretty sure I watched the streams 2 whole ass years ago 😭 Can't complain though, this is probably the most insane skyblock run I've ever seen, and he quite literally took the game and gamemode to its limit. Very impressive smant.

Watched all of the vods before this came out, having seen all of the fails and mishaps that happened throughout the run, i can really relate to, and appreciate the effort that went into this 35 minute video. Hope the villager spaceprogram team gets home safe🙏

I need to point out how beautiful the storytelling on this video is. Being able to keep someone engaged and entertained through 35 minutes in such a pace that makes you don't want to lose one second, is a talent. This is beyond amazing, both the content itself and the way it is edited. Thanks SmallAnt and Devine CMD for the effort!!

The wait was absolutely worth it. The stream, the script and the editing, my god the editing

The lengths you go to for these is amazing. Just subscribed! Keep going, you're doing great!

The editing and story of this video was so well made, I wish there was more

I'm so sad this video ended. Wish it was 35 hours. Thanks for the amazing content as always Tanner.

I wish we could have the finished world download, this looks awesome

32:28 you can sleep in a bed with cats nearby, they have a certain chance to give one of like 12 random items as a 'gift' each morning. One of the items in the loot table is a phantom membrane.

It’s been so long and it’s finally out! I remember watching so many of these a couple months ago, and would watch a couple vods when I had the spare time! I know I’m a week late but I’ve been busy, can’t wait to see how this 200+ hour grind has been condensed into… 35 minutes…

when the world needed him most, he delivered! thanks for making the year off to a great start man

"unusually well treated Amazon employees" is truly something Canadians would say

Love the video! Also thanks for that Astral Chain jumpscare at 31:20, bold reminder that I have to actually continue playing the game LMAO

i would've loved to watch a series of this

This is the pinnacle of RU-vid content. This is high effort, high quality content and I wish I could see more of this. Thank you Smallant, you are our saviour! X

I love your choice for the music during the description of The Machine. That Kirby 64 level, and it's accompanying music, has just the right feeling.

Fantastic video! I really love watching classic challenges get pushed to the absolute limit and skyblock is perfect for that! Is there any chance that the world download is available anywhere? I would love to explore the world myself and take a close look at all the incredible farms!

Except the fact that this is already insane, the animation of this video are super niice.

All of it. Everything. All for a little Woopy boi. The dedication of this man is both completely insane and beautiful.

WOah, props to the editor and graphics folks man. This looks incredible!

Your Minecraft videos are the only ones that I don't care about, but I still watch because of your skills. Keep the vids coming!

What an insane challenge/playthrough. Especially the fact that you never changed versions made this endeavor PERFECT!

This was my favorite stream series to watch so happy it finally got the amazing video it deserved

Just insane!!! Love your content and your energy man.

absolutely love these long minecraft videos. MORE PLS!

This was a HUGE project, the fact you were able to edit it all is amazing

The editing on this video is phenomenal. Huge congrats to smant for finishing the challenge.

Great freaking video! Loved every minute of it! Pacing was good and cool blue wooper!

That axolotl advancement is adorable,especially in a Skyblock world

I love how nautilus shells were after fully enchanted diamond armour.

SmallAnt, you are the best storyteller on RU-vid! Every video you put out is a MUST watch. I truly appreciate the effort you put into all your videos.

Incredible video, very well made! Great job smallant and the team!

"I needed to automate EVERYTHING" Next vid: Turning Minecraft into Factorio

Never thought I’d see a Skyblock video, considering how long the series went without one

Even though I'm watching this live, I can't wait for your commentary for the part 2!

smallant i swear youre the goat of goats man this video, the editing, the idea, the grind, the indset. every single thing was aburd. like literally absurd. incredible truly incredible content man. keep up the amazing amazing incredible work !

I remember watching these streams all the way since Phase 1, bravo on the incredible video 👏🏾

Last I played MC was 1.4.7 ... I was aware of Skyblock, but never really played it. Cool to see how you need to take advantage of every little thing. I'm currently playing a seablock marathon map on Factorio and I'm up to some green science after about 100 hours

Max output into a Skyblock world. What a absolut amazing Video. I love SkyBlock so much and see a Classic Skyblock to reach that far is purely amazing.

Man I remember watching almost all the vods. It's cool to finally see this completed!

3:30 that was convinient.

thanks for making some QUALITY minecraft content. The dedication is unreal

28:48 Most existential quote: “every biome looks like the void to me”

6:29 i though my monitor was falling over since i had my lights off. mini heart attack.

I kept seeing the occasional short from you, thinking "what is that ant doing playing so much Minecraft?" Something wonderful, turns out. 💚

I love the Pokemon music in the background. I remember watching your Pokemon videos religiously during COVID.

The PMD music at around 5:45 was so refreshingly beautiful to hear 😊

20:36 somebody needs to tag Mumbojumbo for this sorting monster XD /lh

Leave it to Smant to release a video nobody asked for, but we all ended up thankful for!

If you like this kinda insanity, I'd be proud to say that skytech is just as (often even more) insane. seeing the effort put into a dirt farm, finding a way to automate literally ANYTHING, it's truly interesting just how far some nerds on the internet will go for digital blocks in a game all about suppressing your resources.

this was an amazing video bro this is the first time ive ever watched one of ur videos and ur cool asf i love the way u edit ur videos its so cool to me everything about this video is just a masterpiece