Ben | Vechs' Legendary FWR in 30:50.277 using completely new route @iPodBen | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 15 hours ago
New 26:16 WR from by me youtu.be/oY-wHKfMxrc
The most coveted CTM world record is now mine! Livestreamed on my twitch: twitch.tv/contranaut
So, about 6 weeks ago speedycube64 put out a $50 bounty for sub-30 Legendary, even though sub-30 wasn't possible with the previous WR route. Over the next month me and others worked to completely re-route the map from top to bottom. The first major change I made was playing on 1.16.1 instead of 1.7.10, which is what the previous WR used. The main reason for this is obviously to obtain pearls with bartering, but also on 1.16 you can deload pearls very easily, whereas on 1.7.10 you can only deload from far distances. 1.16 also has other advantages, such as faster swimming and boats, crouching for 1-tall tunnels, and tnt explosions give all blocks, which allows us to collect gold and diamond without a pick.
However, there is one big disadvantage to 1.16, which is that it takes a lot more xp to get to level 30, which is needed to get an efficiency 4 pick to mine obsidian for portals. The previous WR route mined a total of 64 obsidian. In order to make 1.16 faster, I decided to look into an enchantless, obiless route where we don't build any portals. We can make up a lot of the travel time using pearl deloads, but it requires getting 2 pearl barters with only ~21 gold, which is roughly only 25% chance. However, after testing I realized if we did get the luck we needed, this route was potentially way faster than the previous WR route, and could give us a chance at sub-30.
Then this run happened. I got the double pearl trades which was really lucky, and executed decently overall. Major timelosses include having to wait for the portal to light, slow bartering with only 1 piglin, falling in tacos, falling in starbright cavern, and catching on fire at VM. I think sub-30 is definitely within reach, but it's going to take quite the grind to get there.
Although I made most of this route on my own I did get a bit of help from others in the community:
jr5000 - For teaching me the mechanics behind portal relocation. This is the trick I do when I exit nether 22:33 into the run. Portal relocation/chaining is a very exiting new trick in CTM speedrunning that has potential to save time in many maps. Check out the explanation video jr made here youtu.be/Cz9B-P8-rmo
speedycube64 - For coming up with the idea to use portal relocation in the first place.
Japonk - For originally pursuing Legendary in 1.16, and coming up with the idea to go from shards to castle acedia using the map roof. Japonk is probably going to do some WR attempts using this new route, check out his youtube for streams: youtube.com/channel/UCQE7o4dTYkKcK_nE0oXsIXQ
SchmidtSays - For helping find ideal tnt placements for gold explosions.
Run Info:
Played in Minecraft 1.16.1 with Gamma 10
Mods: Fabric. NoFog, SpeedrunIGT
Easy Difficulty
Speedy's previous 34:24 WR: youtu.be/a0cLoI5da-o
Music in this run: youtu.be/NBasamSmpGo
New 26:16 WR from by me youtu.be/oY-wHKfMxrc
The most coveted CTM world record is now mine! Livestreamed on my twitch: twitch.tv/contranaut
So, about 6 weeks ago speedycube64 put out a $50 bounty for sub-30 Legendary, even though sub-30 wasn't possible with the previous WR route. Over the next month me and others worked to completely re-route the map from top to bottom. The first major change I made was playing on 1.16.1 instead of 1.7.10, which is what the previous WR used. The main reason for this is obviously to obtain pearls with bartering, but also on 1.16 you can deload pearls very easily, whereas on 1.7.10 you can only deload from far distances. 1.16 also has other advantages, such as faster swimming and boats, crouching for 1-tall tunnels, and tnt explosions give all blocks, which allows us to collect gold and diamond without a pick.
However, there is one big disadvantage to 1.16, which is that it takes a lot more xp to get to level 30, which is needed to get an efficiency 4 pick to mine obsidian for portals. The previous WR route mined a total of 64 obsidian. In order to make 1.16 faster, I decided to look into an enchantless, obiless route where we don't build any portals. We can make up a lot of the travel time using pearl deloads, but it requires getting 2 pearl barters with only ~21 gold, which is roughly only 25% chance. However, after testing I realized if we did get the luck we needed, this route was potentially way faster than the previous WR route, and could give us a chance at sub-30.
Then this run happened. I got the double pearl trades which was really lucky, and executed decently overall. Major timelosses include having to wait for the portal to light, slow bartering with only 1 piglin, falling in tacos, falling in starbright cavern, and catching on fire at VM. I think sub-30 is definitely within reach, but it's going to take quite the grind to get there.
Although I made most of this route on my own I did get a bit of help from others in the community:
jr5000 - For teaching me the mechanics behind portal relocation. This is the trick I do when I exit nether 22:33 into the run. Portal relocation/chaining is a very exiting new trick in CTM speedrunning that has potential to save time in many maps. Check out the explanation video jr made here youtu.be/Cz9B-P8-rmo
speedycube64 - For coming up with the idea to use portal relocation in the first place.
Japonk - For originally pursuing Legendary in 1.16, and coming up with the idea to go from shards to castle acedia using the map roof. Japonk is probably going to do some WR attempts using this new route, check out his youtube for streams: youtube.com/channel/UCQE7o4dTYkKcK_nE0oXsIXQ
SchmidtSays - For helping find ideal tnt placements for gold explosions.
Run Info:
Played in Minecraft 1.16.1 with Gamma 10
Mods: Fabric. NoFog, SpeedrunIGT
Easy Difficulty
Speedy's previous 34:24 WR: youtu.be/a0cLoI5da-o
Music in this run: youtu.be/NBasamSmpGo
