Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What's the best way to find a cactus in Minecraft? If you answered "Build a supercomputer and check every single seed in existence on a supercomputer running a program that takes over 1 year to finish" then you'd be correct!

CHAPTERS
0:00 - Seed Cracking 101
3:33 - Seed Finding 101
5:10 - Tall Cacti
10:52 - The Search Begins
11:55 - VERY Tall Cacti
15:06 - The Supercomputer
21:02 - The Future

MUSIC (In order of appearance)
C418 - Chirp
C418 - Wait
C418 - Divide by Four Add Seven
HOME - The Moment Before
HOME - Hold
Home - 9
Foewi - Negative Gravity
DMDOKURO - Theme of the Sunken Sea
Home - Tides

BOINC PROJECTS (TO GIVE PROCESSING POWER!)
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Project_list

EXTRA CREDITS / SOURCES
HyenaDae, CactusDuper, Matthew Bolan, KaptainWutax, Cortex, BoySanic, Dutchen18, Matt (2869), NeilSeed, Tomlacko, vcokltfre - Helping me research this video and for checking my script
NeilSeed - Providing much of the history of seed cracking through a video on his channel (youtube.com/@NeilSeed)
Boysanic - Didn't talk about his part too much in the video but he played a large part in modifying BOINC to work better with GPUs
Minecraft@Home Team - For doing these insane projec

Kaktoos Source Code - github.com/KaptainWutax/Kaktoos
Kaktwoos Source Code - github.com/BalintCsala/kaktwoos
Antvenom Herobrine Video - youtube.com/watch?v=35dkSdLE1KE
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CORRECTION
I don't know how I missed this, but the naive approach definitely wouldn't require 200,000 seeds per second, I meant 200,000 seeds per day. Not really a big issue but a couple people pointed it out.

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