A glimpse into the unpredictable world of Minecraft speedrunning
At 2019’s Summer Games Done Quick, 20-year-old Canadian speedrunner Kye ‘Illumina’ Riddell sat down to run the any% random seed glitchless category of Minecraft. It’s a category which has historically been dominated by Japanese speedrunners, and is notoriously difficult given its reliance on RNG.
Players are dropped onto an unfamiliar Minecraft seed, and have to improvise quickly to farm the Ender pearls and Blaze rods necessary to reach The End. A lot can go wrong in the run, from simply getting a bad seed, to struggling to find the resources necessary to advance, or falling victim to poor weather.
With so many random factors in play, it’s not unusual for speedrunners’ times to be wildly inconsistent between separate runs as they try to minimise the risk associated with these different tasks. We reached out to Riddell to ask what attracted him to such an unpredictable category and how it has developed over time.
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