14 Minecraft Secrets Only Speedrunners Know...

These 14 Minecraft Speedrunning tips and tricks should help you out whether you're a beginner or have lots of experience.
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Chapters:
Intro 0:00
Entity Scanning 0:19
Water and Lava Pools 2:06
Fog and FOV 3:16
3rd POV Boat Trick 4:23
Increased Brightness 5:05
Quadrants 5:28
Cave Strats 7:10
Triangulation 9:26
Reducing All Damage 11:38
Magma Portals 12:52
Subtitles 14:36
Monument Strats 15:31
3-High Head Hitters 17:08
Blaze Juke Strat 17:52
#minecraft #minecraftspeedrunning #minecraftguide
Why are you reading the bottom of the description? lol.

[@notPenney]

A lot of you have pointed out an easier method for triangulation at 9:30. If you do 4 sprint jumps (instead of 5) the math is 1000/angle change = distance in blocks. Much easier.

[@fqvr9688]

I have been looking for an easier method for months! Thank you soooo much!

[@youaredonefor4444]

I still don't get it because maths but I will rewatch your video and try to understand. I am here before your channel blows up.

[@notPenney]

@@youaredonefor4444 if the first angle is 90.0 and the 2nd angle is 91.5 that is an angle change of 1.5 degrees. The math would be 1000/1.5 degrees = 666 blocks. Therefore the stronghold is 666 blocks away.

[@thermodynamics5951]

Are calculators unbanned now? I think the latest WR used one

[@notPenney]

@@thermodynamics5951 yeah, so unless you're Couriway the new meta is to throw an eye, press F3 + C and paste into a calculator bot.

[@redtsun67]

This video is just as useful for normal minecraft as well. Being able to locate nether fortresses and bastion in normal survival is extremely useful.

[@RedisFun2]

Lol, I just posted a very similar comment! But it's true, when I find a good speedrun tutorial, I learn new ways to make some of the most frustrating parts of early game alot faster and actually easier!

[@Wise-SIRO]

I know all the tricks from that work on bedrock

[@staleshortcake9442]

seedmap

[@dutchvanderlinde4965]

​@@staleshortcake9442 At that point just use commands and do /locate cause you're already cheating anyway at that point. Might as well just use keepinventory as well.

[@Man-st1pc]

​​@@dutchvanderlinde4965 This is a singleplayer game. The point of playing minecraft is to have fun, and having to mindlessly walk hundreds of blocks without finding anything is sometimes really tiring. If something makes a singleplayer game more enjoyable for someone and you think it's cheating, keep it to yourself and don't shove your opinions into other's faces/make fun of them. Doing shit like this makes you look like a total asshole

[@Schlohmotion]

For anyone wondering: 5:18 Manipulating gamma in the game files is allowed, because you could just increase gamma on your monitor/display manually.

[@brownfamily1892]

If I adjust gamma on both my display AND game files will I see the sun

[@theeonlystorm]

​@@brownfamily1892only one way to find out

[@mooing_cowmilk]

One thing to point out. This is for 1.16 minecraft java, and some of these facts no longer work in later versions. For example, with the deep dark the brightness (gama), the game no allows any value higher then 1.

[@rabrun]

Also, the render distance thing with monuments is now Simulation distance

[@Xalarh]

If you want to speed up your gravel breaking, go right up against a block at hip height that is next to a wall, preferably a stone wall. Then if you hold left and right click, with a shovel main hand and gravel off hand, it will place the gravel almost instantly after the gravel breaks. They do pop off out of your reach occasionally so collect about 8-10 first and even if you have to move away to pick them up, it's still faster than placing them in a line.

[@kimmyedd4950]

2:33 it works because the method used to generate water and lava pools are similar. For the most basic example if I spawned a water block every 2nd block and a lava block every 4th block, then I’ll have a lot of overlap b/w them. Set them at different height levels and with sin waves and boom you got something close to what’s happening.

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

A lot of people don't know that this applies to the coordinates of structures as well. Nether fortresses and End cities spawn along the same east-to-west rows in all worlds. Staying at specific ranges of Z coordinates and moving straight east or west in a flying machine is how I always find my first elytra.

[@ToniMorton]

the lava waterpool trick is probably related to worldgen. the game generates all structures based on a set of instructions and it probably generates the lava in a similar ruleset to the water pools on the surface. interesting little trick

[@jakeforemsky3946]

Yep right on. Strat is called lava dousing bc lava pools have statistically higher chances to spawn under water pools

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

The coordinates of villages, Nether fortresses, and End cities are also lined up. Somewhere out there is a video about a bunch of worlds where very specific seeds make a whole bunch of different structures spawn in the exact same x/z space.

[@runwords_]

4:07 you can do something similar in real life with seeing things in the dark. There are more rods than cones in the peripheral zone of your retina which can let you see better in low light conditions if your eyes haven't had time to adjust to the darkness yet.

[@jacksonspencer2707]

It’s often used to spot dim stars at night for example

[@thomastthompsonjr.7410]

Wow, you are so underrated. I started getting into speedrunning a few weeks ago and I learned a lot from KZbinrs like k4yfour and Couriway. However, many stuff in this video are new to me, and some stuff that you explained were more clear than other KZbinrs. Great vid!

[@notPenney]

Thanks, I love Couriway and k4yfour’s vids, glad you like my content too!

[@ewoutstremler1142]

@@notPenney its soooo true

[@LogansGames11]

Bruh

[@SorryMyHandleIsTAKEN]

@@LogansGames11shut up it’s not like if he gets more likes doesn’t mean u gotta cry abt it

[@KingofJ95]

I am no speedrunner, but I still figured a couple of these out myself. I used the fog edge trick a lot back when I had a crappy computer that needed a low render distance and I did the eye triangulation because I figured that's what you were supposed to do. It didn't occur to me that doing trig functions was probably not what you should do.

[@viggykamath2849]

9:18 You could have broke those dandelions and go in nether and get some mushrooms and craft Suspicious stew of saturation ❤️❤️

[@RedisFun2]

I'm not a speedrunner but dude these tips... freaking awesome. Speedrunning really gets ya back to basics!

[@wonjaechoi4714]

The reason why lava pool generates below water pools is because all water pools beyond 1.18 are aucuafer caves and wen aucuafer caves generates below Y -35. It terns into a lava cave

[@HedgeHogDino13]

this is 1.16 lol

[@arnekoefoed5653]

Insanely good video man! Hopefully, this vid pops off cause it deserves to! Maybe you could do a quick vid on the pie chart strat people mainly use to find nether fortresses (rather than treasure bastions) since it's a bit more reliable than moving to a different quadrant?

[@notPenney]

Yeah I was thinking of making another one of these tips videos that only includes the newer advanced F3 stuff

[@ceticx]

Penneym please do I just found your videos and they’re great you deserve more subs

[@GenXTech]

As a beginner speed runner, I found all of these tips very helpful. Thanks for putting this together for the community.

[@TGKPostsSometimes]

What's your best time?

[@GenXTech]

@@TGKPostsSometimes I'm still trying to break sub 40 min. My RNG is sooo bad lol

[@OnionGirl611]

I've been speedrunning casually for over a year now and this video was a massive help. I already knew everything except how simple the degree chart was for calculation and how to do magma portals. Best time is 43 right now and I'm hoping I can bring that down knowing how to do half decent stronghold triangulation now. Thank you!

[@notPenney]

a much better updated triangulation method is 1000 / angle change = distance in blocks

[@Mursooo]

Bro you made this video at the best time for me. I just started speedrunning and a lot of the tips help out a lot.

[@notPenney]

Pog

[@Mursooo]

@@notPenney Pog indeed

[@D4N1LO]

same

[@deferr8214]

10:53 The math: 1000/angle = distance to stronghold

[@donut8997]

Thank you so much, it helped me a lot, I instantly got a pb!

[@notPenney]

Damn, congrats

[@BoosterGaming231]

Bro after watching this video i broke my PB in a half! before: 01:04:02 ----- after: 30:32 Thank you so much dude

[@promitrius]

Nice PB! Congrats!

[@BoosterGaming231]

@@promitrius i have 2 sub 15s since then

[@promitrius]

@@BoosterGaming231 WOW

[@ajaykalra8981]

@@promitrius yes i also got a pb- 1:3:54 lets goo - i am beginer and my prev record was 2 hours

[@samuelloomis9714]

What is pb 😢

[@Zinczub]

Hope this guy hasn't quit, videos are really well put together.

[@RedisFun2]

I'm glad I Kinda stumbled upon this vid. I'm not a speedrunner, but I've dabbled with it. Honestly, these are great tips for anyone! Speedrunning also teaches alot of basic core game strats that can help ya get to the end game much faster, then get your elytra and move on to the bigger plans you have for your world! Great video & really good simple explanation of the strats, thanks!!

[@datapacks9927]

I’ve been using subtitles for years and never caught on to the arrows indicating the direction of the sound. Thanks for the informative and easy to understand video

[@protokingarche7588]

Lots of info!! Thank you for this!!! I been trying to get better at minecraft in general and trying out speed running for a personal best but i been looking at long times, and I have yet to beat the End!! So again thank you for the info! It was very informative and gave me a lot to think about for future runs!!

[@werdwerdus]

great video! really good explanation that was detailed enough to actually be useful, but not over complicated to be confusing

[@intahamusic]

Those 19 minutes were the best 19 minutes I have ever spent on KZbin

[@Sornfbf]

I an not going to lie, I usually don’t talk about the quality of videos, but this was very well done and easy to understand

[@nsrgaming4172]

I’m a beginner to speed running and trying to get into it so this video was a very big help thanks so much

[@terroriff3457]

Did I enjoy this??!! Man this was super detailed and we'll made and in such a short time as well! Keep it up, you gained a new sub

[@N8rBeans]

Amazing video for aspiring MC speedrunners! Great advice and tips to help runs go more smoothly

[@technomlc8587]

this was REALLY helpful for me, as I'm a beginner when it comes to speedrunning. thanks!

[@willian57saraiva65]

Acho o estilo de speedrun do minecraft fascinante, os jogadores que amao o game a ponto de estudar ele para se beneficiar, Tutorial Muito bom 👍

[@Breen1127-alt]

Thank you for this video! I’ve been searching for a vid like this for hours.

[@jayshreebarley7810]

I need more video like these they helped me a lot

[@PythonzFire]

Just wanted to point something out for those getting into speedrunning at 10:50 he mentions calculators being banned. After the time this video was published thespeedrun moderators have decided to allow calculators 👍

[@ItachiUchiha-nx2sw]

This video is criminally underrated. Thanks for this mr creator. Please update this with latest strats.

[@willemknoesen]

Damn I only just found you scrolling through my feed today...this is my second video of yours that I'm watching but I already think you're soooooo underrated

[@FlamingMoai]

Way better and more informative than other videos I have seen.

[@sohrab.m8295]

This was actually the most useful video tip for Minecraft on all over the internet Really appreciated it

[@JJ__]

Really excellent video. Nice work.

[@schizocsgo]

Great vid! Probably gonna help me!

[@Hipo3003]

this is like one of the few good speedrunning tutorials, thank you

[@phoenixclips27]

Bro I'm a Minecraft Speedrunner and I learned a LOT of things from this video (the water and lava pool thing for example). IT'S CRAZY!!! Thank you so much 😊

[@minophilic6577]

I'm an intermediate player, haven't really played speedrunning. But this greatly helped me, even tho I knew everything.

[@rxi1392]

exactly what i needet keep up the grind my guy!!!

[@firefallgaming5339]

Love your editing

[@cosmisku]

thank you so much for the tips

[@kianr2200]

This is sick I always wondered how these strats worked

[@aittalebyassine000]

I didn't know the subtitles arrow thing Thank you ❤

[@completeshenaniganspets8901]

Thanks this helped alot

[@pouheng0308]

This is that best! Thanks

[@divyarathore9354]

Why so underrated...I just wish you had more subs, you deserve them.

[@sehr.geheim]

So the calculation you would have to do to know the distance to the stronghold is 20/sin(angle change) since that is indeed a hard calculation to do, you look at the sin function and how we can approximate it We would be using a Taylor series x - x³/6 + x⁵/120 - x⁷/5040 ... and that theoretically continues forever, giving you more exat values for sin the more iterations you use. (Also, in this case, the x is given in radians, where one radian is 180/π degrees) But the thing is, for small values of x, we only need the first term of this equation, which is just x (what I'm saying is, that for example sin(0.1)≈0.1, sin(0.4)≈0.4 ...) so instead of 20/sin(x) we can just use 20/x, because if the angle is like 45 degrees, we know the stronghold is practically in the next chunk anyway and we don't need to calculate anything We just have to change the equation so we just have to put in the angle in degrees and not convert to radians, which is by just multiplying it with 180/π. This gives us 1145.915/x, which we can just do as 1146/x, because the error will be a couple of blocks at most, and we don't care if we are less than 8 blocks off, because the stronghold staircase always generates in the middle of a chunk So you only would have to memorize the number 1146, and then do the calculation like on a piece of paper or your desk, and you can know the exact distance to the strongholf

[@lochlan20]

or just use ninjabrain bot, which is allowed and tells you the exact coordinates.

[@sehr.geheim]

@@lochlan20 the aim is not to use it tho

[@napoleonbuonaparte8975]

@@sehr.geheim Calculators are allow now tho, so it doesn't matter.

[@photon8461]

Thank you so much! Easy sub

[@bass66]

Very interesting video !

[@gonnadie4351]

Very helpful!

[@naderhussein7202]

this helped so much thanks

[@alirezaie-cy6bg]

this is lierally the best sr video keep it up!

[@Ep13_]

very helpful and simple thx

[@Mat-ze-boss]

for the 3rd tip, i do not need to increase fov because i like using quake pro everytime

[@Lazycandle]

I’m proud to say that after forgetting how to do trigonometry in high school years later I relearned it my self I do have a different more time consuming method tho

[@laimarus]

Sow I love it, there are so many interesting thing in F3

[@IMM0Rtal318]

most useful minecraft video I've ever seen thank you

[@ShreyashGaikwad276]

i am trying to get into speedrunning and this video did help me alot.

[@TheeSlickShady]

😳 incredible Thank you for this video! 🏆

[@machintruc9457]

Questions for quadrants and structures in the nether : - the middle of the quadrants in the vid is the portal, but, in the graph on top right corner, it’s coordonates 0,0. Does it means all this is calculated relatively to the first portal I make in the nether ? Or relatively to the coordonates 0,0 ? Or maybe my first portal is always at 0,0 coordonates ? - just one structure per quadrant, but green squares on the graph has width and height. What’s beyond this ? Is it like a mosaic, like green squares infinitly ? Or, if I get lost in the nether, and go away from spawn like thousands blocks away, and nether find my way again, does it means I will nether be able to find a structure because I’m far from the portal ? Does it means there is at maximum 4 structures in the whole infinite nether ? Edit : I tested with teleport and locate, and for those who were wondering too : portal is the origine of quadrant coordonates AND and world coordonates is 0,0, and this is infinite mosaic, with probability of structures in every quadrant.

[@151453]

Fantastic!

[@WessNix]

Great stuff! One question regarding ocean strats: Ive seen people scan for hidden treasure chests - I assumed they used entities as well. How does that work though?

[@WessNix]

nvm just realized you did a video for that too! Nice

[@tver4789]

I discovered that water trick a while ago by accident and i was so proud of myself XD

[@kufmma]

5:18, You CAN turn this up as much as you want and basically have night vision but for a speedrun the max is 5.0

[@scrambledcube6122]

Thank u so much bro this is really helpful, I will try to use this in my speedrunning Btw I subbed

[@truetta7894]

bro omg this helped me so muchhh

[@wvsx9342]

best video that explains speedrunning briefly

[@allagenda]

Learning that my habit of playing casually with quake pro fov is, in fact, a valid strat makes me feel pretty proud of myself

[@rrrrre2905]

Cave strat underrated, i hit my pb nether entry at sub 2 with exposed iron gravel and lava pool

[@SwoleBenji]

This is such an incredibly well done video!

[@Vendr874]

Verified omg but image being verified and leave a comment 1 year ago then get no likes until a year later rip

[@SwoleBenji]

@@Vendr874 Do you think the likes I get on a comment would matter in 10 years?

[@Vendr874]

@@SwoleBenji idk but its kinda funny tho

[@gorranvickers1240]

I've been playing minecraft for about 10 years and most of these tips are new to me

[@Hscaper]

That was really good

[@SONIC-js3iz]

This is an amazing video. But I am just wondering how you would figure out your quadrants if you are like thousands of blocks away from spawn?

[@astrolite1]

using divison by using "coordinate" divided by 256 i think you can see the quadrant your in its very difficult quadrants are basically useless that far away

[@tigertoxins584]

soul sand is so cool because when you stand in it it sinks you down a little so if you crouch on it and build over lava you instantlly get set on fire

[@crookst_fan]

my pb is 10:32 and i didn't know what you said on 15:15 lol, i guess that's what i lacked for a sub 10 run!

[@agentlvids]

Btw the brightness thing using gamma doesn't work in 1.19 or up because of deep dark

[@quarkhead5044]

Gamma brightness feature was removed in 1.19, you now have to use a mod for that

[@smv5175]

This was the best speedruning tutorial i've ever seen . . . can you give me the link for that triangulation guide i mean the picture . tnx

[@tperm2901]

3:17 I thought that said Pog fov

[@clustercraft9192]

Good tips

[@twistednormals]

5:20 you can increase it as much as you want! For example, gamma 1,000,000 makes your game look as if its completely lit with light everywhere (kinda op)

[@RaelNight]

yeah but in speedruns max legal gamma is 5.0 that's why he said 5

[@ak_the_gr8]

I just want tips to avoid damage from piglin brutes and wither skeletons, other than that, the video is super cool!

[@willian57saraiva65]

Video MUITO bom e útil agradeço por ter o feito

[@claypot2964]

OMG you deserver more subs

[@SamXT1]

u got a new sub

[@Kobe_Abogutal]

lol now I find it pretty funny that I discovered the triangulation method by myself, and I don't even speedrun. Definitely just me being curious and doing math for fun so it's not that impressive.

[@Egg_14]

Ty

[@tejaswi_5095]

actually helpful

[@doublehit9165]

thank you

[@FainttduskVR]

The entity scanner was ammazing thx

[@liquidsquid5295]

funny i always wondered why i look at a distance on the edge of my screen in all games. guess the fov stretch would make it easier to see

[@havocxadofrommexico3268]

Hello good vid just is it normal that at 8:32 your lava bucket vanish into a normal bucket ?

[@latiremo9133]

so what’s the center of the nether quadrants? is it your portal or 0,0 coordinates?

[@jump_on_it8381]

Really cool video! I am new to speedrunning, but I have a bad PC. I heard of a modpack called sodium, I tried downloading it, but I could only find a 1.17.1 modpack of it. I was wondering if there was a way to get 1.16.1 version. Thank you!

[@notPenney]

sodium isn't a modpack, it's just a single mod. here's a video by k4yfour that has everything you need to setup your client for speedrunning, with the download links for sodium and more in the description. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXLFn353rs6lm68&t

[@jakmogestv9821]

what is your texture pack?!?!? your items in eq are soo coool