Minecraft Speedrunning

Introduction

Speedrunning is the art completing a game in as little time as possible. Minecraft is a freeform block building and survival game. This book fuses the two to act as a strategy guide to speedrunning Minecraft Java Edition.

In the 2010's both Minecraft and speedrunning gained massive popularity in the gaming community, and as a natural result Minecraft speedrunning gained popularity. Minecraft is almost unique among freeform games for having an ending, and as a result beating Minecraft is usually defined as defeating the final boss known as the Ender Dragon.

Table of Contents

Overworld

• Shipwrecks
• Villages
• Ruined Portal
• Buried Treasure
• Structureless
• Other Structures
• Building a Nether Portal

Nether

• Classic Bartering
• Bastion Strats
• Nether Fortresses

Exiting Nether

• Stronghold
• Ender Dragon Fight