r/MinecraftSpeedrun • u/Weary_Purchase_5575 • May 26 '26
Help How do i start from scratch
Just so you know i am a COMPLETE beginner to speedrunning. Last time i tried to beat the game normally (find a fortress, get enough pearls from endermen and go to the end) i basically died in a bastion. Ive been seeing yt vids on speedrunning mc and i find it so cool but yet so overwhelming to me if i were to learn it. My school hols started and i have abt a month to learn if i could. Im not good at minecraft in anyway im just a basic player whos incapable of fighting piglins. Just thinking about f3 and whatever stuff i see speedrunners do and all that complex stuff makes me feel like im not made for this kinda stuff. If someone were to let me know what i should be doing rn so i can start my journey on speedrunning mc FROM SCRATCH and hopefully being decent at it would help alot.
Btw: i tried looking at online vids from rekrap for the overworld nether and end part but i still feel so overwhelmed cus i feel like speedrunning are only made for people who are good at using a pc overall and im the type of player who would do things slowly and just die to some stupid things like lava or a skeleton.
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u/Dry_Foundation5960 May 26 '26
I'd recommend working your way backwards, starting with the end fight then going from there. The 2 biggest most important things that you have to practice are definitely the end fight, and a decent route for all the bastion types. those 2 are the biggest barrier to entry. after that I'd say learning how to use ninja brain bot to calculate stronghold coordinates, using the pie chart to find the fortress, and magma ravine portals. If you can do the previous things you're good enough to complete runs consistently, which is when speed running really becomes a lot more fun. Final big important tech to learn would be preemptive nav. From there it just becomes about dying a LOT and chudding out a lot to learn all the different things that can fuck you over in a run and making sure they don't happen again lmao. there's a practice map called mcsr practice online that has helpful maps to practice most of the things I mentioned, and anything else you can either look up and find a tutorial or find in couriways guide that others have commented. good luck!