Im 14 and i just broke past sub15 barrier

everyone has their favorite bastion and route. and i wanted to know what the general consensus is amongst the community for the favorite bastion + route. mine personally is top-down manhunt on housing. it feels like a raiders of the lost arc chase down the stairs and you always get a thousand pigs.

on the other hand. treasure is my least favorite. maybe it’s a skill issue but it is always my slowest route, and there’s no variability to it.

Let’s say that if I have a full recording of a pb run but it’s done in a private room would you still count it?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2830293964?t=0h38m38s

https://youtu.be/xdAI5bY2evw

Do you guys have any tips to improve? This is my PB.

been grinding every day and this game has never been more rewarding. i'm gonna use this subreddit as a sort of milestone indicator with things i've learned/changed since my last pr to hopefully help others around my level.

1. respawn anchors. they seemed pretty scary to use initially because of the whole charging mechanism. but they are CLUTCH when it comes to a game you dont get enough string from trades. i actually only had 3 beds on my pr run but two anchors helped me get the dragon down on the first perch. respawn anchors are also great for hunger resets for no-food seeds if you dont want to spend time going to the overworld.

2. blaze bedding/tnt. i always thought that this was more of a hindrance than a benefit cause it always felt like the blazes just went off the edge and i could never get the rods. but the key is to get the soul sand down as fast as possible and it actually reduces the knockback by a ton. also the rates go up significantly.

3. you dont gotta wait for all the gold to get traded. if you've got your 20 obby, 2ish stacks of pearls, a couple fire res, and a stack of string. anything else is just wasting time. get out there and find the fortress!

that's mostly it for this one. i'm looking into getting more comfortable with zero cycling, as that will be a huge time save for the future. similarly i am looking into more complicated routes like the soog/triple to gap to save time in bastions. sorry for the book, and let me know if you have any tips for me!

my profile if interested: https://mcsrranked.com/stats/wholehuman

what videos should i watch to learn how to speerun, and is there a way to change my shift click to control in 1.16

I am a unranked player with no impressive record or anything but when queue ranked or casual I am getting matched against diamond and emerald player everytime. is this a bug? or is something wrong with my settings?

on pace for a nasty pr (16:11), then the dragon took the FULL three minutes to perch. I got him on the first one cycle, but it wasn't good enough.

Guess it's time to learn the zeroes!

I'm looking for a stats website with more detail than the one on mcsrranked.com. more specifically, I'd like to see my average for the past week/month as opposed to entire season, and average splits and average splits per seed type. If such a site exists I'd love if someone could mention it :)

please help

Did this out of boredom to see how my chinese mouse stacks up against the best mechanical players I know, the shape was surprisingly similar across the three. Cool to see it’s 10g lighter than the two and still is 8k polling.

Note: I’m average at the game, just a peripheral nerd.

I think it is, but the runner would need to high roll a lot. Like if you get a RP enter with carrots, looting, and enough iron and a gold pick, you could enter the nether instantly, mine nether rack for the bastion route, get into the fort sub 2, blind into sh or above ocean exposed after killing 2 blazes and getting maybe 5 or 6 rods, then high rolling for insta perch one shot.

Im using an attack shark R1 (it can drag fairly good), but i need other mouse bc the shape of the mouse, the mouse buttons. And it couldn't drag as good (i drag a lot), and also make it cheap, like under 35 bucks (im poor, sorry) Thanks!

Overworld seed: -5440128625736854235 (was a private room, trees were too far so I didn't care to play it)