Minecraft Minimum Advancement Runs Are Ridiculous 

THIS HAS BEEN EDITED FOR LIKE 2 MONTHS AND FORGOT TO UPLOAD IT WHOOPS ALSO FOR ANYONE ASKING, ITS THE ACT OF BEING IN THE NETHER THAT GIVES ADVANCEMENTS NOT LIGHTING THE PORTAL

Thanks for the shoutout! This run is incredible, huge props for doing it on the current version, some of those strats are insane!

Thanks for the shoutout! Glad you liked the idea enough to give it a go, and managed to get it even lower!

Smant really went “it’s a surprise tool for later” at his diamond tools like he’s Mickey Mouse

The amount of creativity to avoid getting some of those advancements is actually amazing

Kind of insane to think that only 4 advancements are needed to beat the game, of which all 4 are gained when entering the 2 dimensions

I mean, the fun thing about the "fewest" type categories is that no matter how *long* it takes, so long as you perform or receive fewer of the named thing, you're still "ahead." So, doing it with 4 advancements versus 5 is always an improvement. Neat!

"Why does your resume have no degrees, transferable skills, or work experience to speak of?" "I'm doing a no-advancement run."

Making this a speedrun category would be insane

Finally i can watch you again without getting spoiled

Imagine if ‘taking inventory’ was still in the game

I love how both Rhododo and Smallant thought of this at the same time and handled it completely differently.

After watching Banana & Bread do this, you were the one creator I was hoping would attempt it for yourself, glad to see it happened!

I love to see Banana and Bread being mentioned, those guys are so underrated.

I just absolutely love the idea that achievements are just handed out like trash candy to the point where the challenge is to beat the game with the least amount of achievements.

I appreciate you actually putting out a video I can watch. I'm not watching any TOTK stuff until I at least beat ganon, and the rest of the game is usually to interesting to do the main story

I've always thought a really fun challenge would be to try and get as many advancements all at once, in a row, as possible. Like, the longest chain with only n seconds between getting the next advancement. It's like a minimum advancement run, but with extra interesting routing to what advancements you want to proc early to give access to more advancements to do during the chain It's also fun as a concept because you get to see how the ingame chat gets completely spammed with the advancement get messages - very funny to imagine doing it on a server

397 minutes into less than 10. Wow, I do not envy the editing that challenge run RU-vidrs have to do.

Now, it could be a stretch but there are contraptions involving sand and boats to load chunks through a portal, if you could somehow create a portal frame and have an enderman place a wooden plank next to it, then allow fire to spread to it, technically speaking you could avoid the lighting portal advancement. And if that portal happened to generate right next to a blaze spawner you could use named mobs through the portal to temporarily load the chunks then having a blaze exit through the portal avoiding the nether entirely. Same goes for the end of you complete an end portal and launch named mobs with tnt you could theoretically also beat the dragon without ever even entering the end. Just a thought, in practice I could only see this happening on a set seed with LOTS of time, but it’d be a cool thing to see.

7:56 the music is nice, and in this context, it reminds me of those SM64 tas videos with parallel universes.

Let’s beat the game while beating as little of the game as possible

Imagine if he messed up at crafting the rods and had to redo the last 5 hours

Man this was an idea I had months ago but was too overwhelmed to start, then he goes ahead and does it with only 4! Kudos man 👏🏽

I love minimum captures in SMO, it's propably my favourite category to watch and I sadly haven't watched it in ages, it's been so long. This totally reminds me of that!

The current Low% World Record is 4 Advancements in 2:35:55 by Banana Mate!

I watched part of this live, and seeing everything done while he’s doing it was insane

My favorite part was the reference to 0.5 A press watch for rolling rocks. Had me smiling when you explained how you crafted the blaze rods!

the way you can look on how to beat a game is amazing ! thx for your vids, love u

SmallAnt you are ridiculously entertaining, I could watch you sharpen pencils.

Minimum achievement % is something I thought about last week, and I said to myself "you know what that's a good idea for a run" and little did I know it already existed

Incredible video, the content is so great, moreover I feel like I understood a lot of new things in storytelling! Also a wonderfull work from the editor Thank you Smallant!

Incredible to watch, but clearly painfully slow to do! I have massive respect for how much patience and creativity it took to complete the run

The voiceover is fantastic. The more RU-vid-catered content is awesome to see!

probably the 2 main things I didn't know before watching this is the crafting trick, and that you can use waterlogged mangrove roots or whatever they are called to 1 cycle the dragon

2:37 "Wooper Drowned"

im so glad banana and bread got recognition for once

When you realise that in 1.8 all you need to do to beat Minecraft without advancements is never crafting a stone pickaxe:

@2:25 I used to use that exact crop of the shark and hippo comic as my profile picture and it psyched me out so hard seeing it in the video lmao

every time i see one of your videos im reminded why you got so poplular in such a relatively small amount of time. The creativity to solve some problems you encounter is just mind boggeling. truly one of the must big brainded gamers i ve ever watched.

LETS GO ANT, so much respect for your dedication to the challenges you take on. Absolute beast

SmallAnt is an incredible content creator.

1:11 it's possible to generate a 12 eye portal on a random seed but it's really rare you could win on a lottery 50 times in a row before that happening

Wow, that was amazing. avoiding almost every advancement is just wild. Great job. as a minecraft newbie this confused me but it is truly amazing work

Dude I have been watching banana and bread for a year they finally get acknowledged

This is just amazing. Smant is so smart with how he avoids advancements.

I love the Pannenkoek reference when explaining the advanced game mechanics 7:46

1:57 Actually, the savannah villages have houses with Crafting Tables, as does the plains village's Fisherman house.

The narration style videos are sick! You're real good at explaining things

7 hours for a run this complex doesn't actually sound that bad. Well done smant!

amazing work! sucks about the gametick perfect input, makes it a really hard run to do, but still possible

at 6:00 i recognized the song from Kirbys air ride, absolutely incredible soundtrack and game. thanks for the nostalgia hit.

Smallant finally uploading regularly again?! It doesn't get much better than this

When i watched the banana and bread video theorising the lowest possible i was hoping someone would be crazy enough to attempt it for real. I should have known it would be you lmao

Great video! I wish you were making more minecraft content. Keel up the good work and thanks for a great time

love the pannen style explanation at 7:47

"Minimum Advancement runs" Ah yes, the Average Life of a College Student lmfao

That "And it took 7 hours" reminds me of the time you were doing minimum captures and, I believe, nut jump was discovered. Doesn't matter how much longer you take, if you use one less capture than the others!

If anyone is curious, set seed only skips nether advancements so you can do it with 2 Enter the end Enter the end (it shows up twice because its in 2 different tabs) but as smallant said, doing it on a set seed is boring

SmallAnt: Finishes Minecraft after 7 hours while avoiding basicially everything. Me after 7 hours of play: OMG!!! LOOK AT THIS!!! My house is no longer made out of dirt! OMG cobblestone looks sooooo cool!!!

YES! BANANA AND BREAD GETTING SOME MORE MUCH NEEDED ATTENTION!

You can beat the game without advancements by playing with achievements instead

Omg, love the kirby song at the end of the video ! thanks for the throwback ;p

0:41 it's really cool that you shout out the people who inspired you, especially small channels.

I’d like to see a run like this not using peaceful mode. Great vid nonetheless

The game trying to figure out how you beat the dragon before mining stone

God I love it when Ant does some crazy shit and get a record in it. Love these kinds of vids!!

In older versions (I think around 1.6 or 1.7) you can beat the game with just a single advancement: opening your inventory. Advancements used to be prerequisites in a tree. You couldn't get later advancements until you got all the ones before it. The first three advancements were opening your inventory, acquiring wood, and building a crafting table, after which the tree branches out in a number of directions. However, if you grab all the wood you'll need before opening your inventory, and never obtain any more wood for the rest of the run, you never get any more advancements. This technique was actually used in certain competitive modes like UHC, where getting advancements would reveal your progress to other teams.

1:18 can anyone give me details about how we have some "random number generator range" and how the 12 eye seeds are out of it? i failed to find anything on the internet

I'm a big fan of Low% or whatever the name is for these types of runs. They always force creativity to avoid aspects of the game and not having time be part of the run means that any new strat to avoid something is the meta, no matter how long it takes to do.

I did and routed a full low achievements run in terraria a few months back, where you only need 10 out of the 104 achievements are actually required in the latest update 1.4.4

That's crazy and creative. I always have a respect to speedrunner, especially with the crazy kind of challenge

Hmm... I wonder if something like this is possible, but with minimum recipes in the Recipe Book as well. It uses the same system that advancements use, and are technically advancements.

*Taking Invetory* has entered the chat

7:51 how we crafted stuff without putting it in our inventory before the auto crafter:

For anyone wondering using a 12 eye seed can let you finish the game with one achievement: enter the end. Doing the same digging under the end portal trick in the video you can ender pearl in using a pearl dropped from an enderman that you’ve suffocated using a boat

5:10 can u not avoid the flint and steel advancement? I remember seeing people place a wood block next to the nether portal and lighting it on fire using lava in Skyblock. And if that doesn't work u can technically find a trident then find a channelling book and wait for a thunderstorm to hit a creeper next to the portal forcing a lightning strike to ignite it

Combine this with a don't take damage challenge and you'll be the Mr. Beast of minecraft videos

Your voiceover voice sounds so different compared to your streaming voice. Like a burly, full-bearded dad, telling stories to his kids. It sounded very prepared, polished, and professional. I think it's the additional texture in the lower frequencies, and the intonation that does it. Also, nice run! Didn't think that few would be possible.

Can we all just appreciate the fact that Smant has THE Wooper Minecraft account?

I would love to see what this would look like in a hardcore run

The Kirby Air Ride music made this an insta-like for me, as soon as I heard that music a rush of memories just came flooding back. Thousands of hours on that game. Man it's such a shame there was never a KAR2.

Here's my theory for lowest achievements with a SET SEED, you start by getting beds from a village, you could also collect basic (leather) armour if needed, then you collect blocks (probably grass like imperialdrago said), until you have like atleast 9 stacks, then you find the stronghold, (you can dig through stone without achievemnts with fists), then you break a hole above the portal, all the way to the surface, and if you build to max height (or just high enough that you reach a good downwards velocity), then you can go through the portal without getting Eye Spy!, then you of course get The end? by being in the nether, finally you could use your blocks to pillar up and get the crystals (to make it easier), then you could kill the dragon with the beds, therefore you would beat the game with only 1 achievement, this would theoretically be the limit, if this is even possible, I'm going to try this now on 1.19 to see if this does work, will update when finished. Edit 1: cannot find a 1.19/1.20 full lit java seed, and i'd rather not resort to bedrock. Edit 2: Frick this its been another 30 minutes im just doing it on a 1.16 seed.

I know these are really difficult to achieve, and take a while with all the figuring out and trying... but I think these are the best challenges, when you play and beat the game...without actually playing the game :D Or at least playing it in a way you're not meant to play. Really tests your knowledge and skills, and these have the best and most creative solutions to the, err, the weirdest but most challenging problems. Kudos to you!

5:10 by using fiire from lava and a wooden block(the skyblock method) you can theoretically light it without getting the we need to go deeper achievement

Can’t you light a portal with a lava pool and wood ??

really enjoy this style of video!

omg the dire dire docks music while explaining the crafting just threw me back to parallel universes

Music at 6:00 ?

Smant!

I love that SM64 File Select has become the go to for providing explanation for glitches.

Smallant is way too entertaining, every now and then, I always come back to his channel to watch a bunch of his videos

God, impressive, well done that's a really cool way to speedrun ^^

Love this type of obscure challenge videos

The Pannenkoek music at 7:45 gave me a tiny serotonin boost

3:43 as someone who hasn’t played Minecraft in years and just watched this video, I had to do a double take at that chest boat lol

If you'd like an even more painful way to get ender pearls, theres the llama method. Go to the overworld and locate a llama. Set up a way yo trap ender men, and punch the llama so it'll spit at you. Then painstakingly wait for the llama to spit the endermen to death.

0:39 hheeey I knew my boy minmax was gonna get recognised

I like how it’s only 1 minutes into the video and it’s obvious you could just do the run with a 12 eye seed, avoiding the next 9 minutes 😆

I love that you used the same music pannenkoek2012 does for explaining the tech with the blaze rods

Love your MC content