Minecraft Community Magazine Issue 1 | Page 14

MINECRAFT... SPEEDRUN? Not many people know that Minecraft has an actual ending, of a sorts. Less know how to obtain this ‘ending’. Even less of these people know that it’s possible to speedrun the thing. A lot of people don’t know that there’s an ending to •Create a portal to the nether Minecraft. Even less know that there’s a community dedicated to speed running that exact goal. •Collect blaze rods & ender pearls The idea is simple, start a new world and defeat •Find the ender portal the Ender Dragon. But in order to do so, you’ll need to get a few items along the way. The current •Collect the required number of items world record for speed running Minecraft is just to complete the ender portal under 11 minutes. Quite something when you consider what you need to do to get to this point; •Kill the Ender Dragon •All the usual startup stuff, punching Of course, with many games that go through the trees, workbench etc. speed run communities, there is a lot of research 14 // Minecraft Community Magazine The GameOn Magazine