Shapez speedrun in 13m 57s (Former Blueprint% WR)

My first sub 14. There is a lot of embarrassing mistakes and room for improvement, but still a quite a good result.
Since I started playing this game I was trying to avoid any spoilers, any partial solutions, etc., so this whole build I created by myself. In the moment of posting this I have no idea how other speedruns look like and how similar they are to mine :) But I bet there will be some common themes.
The timer on top shows an approximate time of the run. It was started and ended by hand, so it's not perfectly aligned with the first frame of the game, neither stopped perfectly on the level 12. The real time is slightly lower, but the error is less than a second.
Done on version 1.5.5 on a Mac.

[@pepkin88]

There's a new WR for this category, 11m 34s by ホウト, go check them out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYeZc6lujLqXq80

[@ANormalNameROK]

Holy... I wish I can play like this...

[@CitadelOfVoid]

There is a -100% sale on epic games rn, that's how I got it.

[@arctic219]

@@CitadelOfVoid same

[@agentnull5242]

SAME!!

[@Posting9C7E128]

I absolutely love your paint setup. Thanks for sharing!

[@aarepelaa1142]

Yeah painting is fucking ass because of how awful the painter inputs are.

[@DamonDemolition]

Thanks! I used your run as a guide for my 30m Achievement :)

[@poteqqetop942]

I’m planing on doing the same lol, it worked right?

[@xkamyck]

Dobrze ci poszło bardzo szybko i profesjonalnie wow !

[@plutoisaplanet19]

The cutter going into the stacker is so cool. Want to try that this weekend.

[@silencer4573]

After seeing your strat and tried to implement it, I was mindblowned, though still not fast enought for me but the production speed did double, thks.

[@thunderlucas8923]

Just thought i'd say thanks for being the blueprint for me to get the 30 mins speedrun achievement TY

[@pepkin88]

You're welcome :)

[@uncleanexecution]

Wow, my brain kinda hurts just trying to figure out all your optimizations here. Figuring out a modifiable setup for going from red to magenta to white circles was inspired and was a big part of your good time.

[@pepkin88]

Thanks! Yeah, there were also some other iterations of that section, that proved to be suboptimal. For example, having a color mixer block separate from the painter block seemed good on paper, it required only 10 mixers and singular color belts, it also was quite easily modifiable during the run. However, the overall reaction time to change the output circle color (i.e. the rinsing time) was too long.

[@uncleanexecution]

@@pepkin88 I'm still trying to get sub-30 for the achievement, so I'm trying to implement some of your techniques. Also just noticed how you did the Green and cyan part at the end and it blew my mind.

[@loleczkowo]

brawo dobra robota!

[@binznakamaplays]

Impressive!

[@balmipour]

What an insane run ! I particularly love your timings & how you place tools naturally in your structure the second they are unlocked. Btw, What are those 3 minutes staying idle in the end ? O_o .Felt so unnatural ! Seeing those cyan shurikens stacking while some more parallel production could have been added was quite surprising. Wouldn't it shave a few some more seconds ?

[@pepkin88]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. The delivery of the green-cyan mushrooms finish roughly at the same time as the blueprint symbol. So if I extended the production of only one of them, it wouldn't improve the time. That means I had to extend also all of the blueprint symbol production, including the extraction of the raw shapes/colors. I have always ended runs like this, as I assumed, that it is not worth it. However, I might be wrong. I have not seen other runs yet, so maybe other players were doing that with success (that is, gaining some overall time). To be honest, I'm occupied by work lately and was not playing almost at all since November. But I also thought, that this section of the speedrun looks like having some potential to gain some time. So if/when I get back to it, this is actually something that I wanted to try out.

[@myersbob7517]

​@@pepkin88 my multiplace isn't working do you have any idea how to fix it

[@thechaoticbeing7964]

@@myersbob7517check settings in the game it might of gotten switched off

[@odanlima]

Thank you so much! Used your video for the 30 min achievement and it was very helpfull.

[@matheopereira7845]

Gg !!

[@nieusuwacz4013]

zajebisty detal na koniec

[@pepkin88]

heh, dopiero teraz zauważyłem :D

[@Wildemut]

This person beats in 13 minutes while it takes me like an hour lol. That's really impressive though good job.

[@aabho]

I tried to copy this route as best as I could for 30m achievement, and managed to do it in 27m! I don't know why it took me twice as long despite doing the same moves, probably just built things really slow. GGs

[@Romanian179]

The Game Suppost to be hard.....or easy but this is another lever Great WORK!

[@MadDgtl]

and here i am getting a couple of functional and extremely sloppy lines going for the goal shapes and then just letting the game idle til i reach the level/upgrade goal lmao. i'm on level 20 and i think it's been running for like 40 hours total now

[@Monvstar]

Idk this game and this randomly got recommended to me but hello!

[@pepkin88]

Hello!

[@seniorpz1969]

that was pretty damn awesome! I bet you play this in your sleep huh?

[@pepkin88]

Thanks! I don't remember, if I ever dreamt about Shapez. But funny you should say that, because there were a few times when some ideas about new strategies were popping in my head before going to sleep or after waking up.

[@INGANSHIN]

겁나빠르네

[@abandis]

polska gurom! :)

[@Qewqe]

Nawet nie wiedziałem że tak można a ja zawsze wszystkiego po 4 robiłem

[@MCroCopFFan]

POLSKA GUROM

[@Soringwind8052]

how are you able to place the tunnles all at once without them fliping

[@pepkin88]

Hold the Ctrl key while placing the tunnels. You can check it/change it in the settings.

[@Soringwind8052]

Ye I got that now

[@KengShad0w]

Polska Górom 🟥⬜

[@The_Dr_Fate]

POLSKI SPEEDRUNNER

[@The_Dr_Fate]

POLSKA GUROM

[@nieusuwacz4013]

polska grurom

[@kartofelik1530]

Ja bym musiał minimum 1 godzinę żeby to zrobić 😂

[@pepkin88]

Polecam spróbować, są za to acziwmenty na Steamie :)

[@felixostaszewski3875]

hi

[@pepkin88]

hi

[@alanwie7yt386]

ale trzeba mieć do tego mózg i pojęcie o grze

[@melonikmoloniasty3925]

Ja na 400 minutach mam tyle co ty

[@pepkin88]

dobrze spędzone 400 minut 💪 powodzenia w dalszej grze

[@GreenNotebookGaming]

The waffle house has found its new host

[@Rich_Youngin_Matthias]

This is impressive mann 👏 wish i knew all those techniques when i had the game 🦾

[@piotrseidel4141]

POLSKA GUROM