
As such, it is also important to craft gold armor and mine any gold you find in the nether. Ender pearls are considerably easier to obtain in the new 1.16 Nether Update, since Piglin trading has a chance of dropping many at a time. Especially after entering the nether, look around for endermen as you search for the fortress.

After getting a weapon, listen for endermen in any caves you explore.

Therefore, the priority should always be to kill endermen, and it's never too early to get your first ender pearl. Obtaining ender pearls is almost always going to be the most time-consuming part of any speedrun. Just as golf can be described as a nice walk spoiled by a little white ball, a glitchless speedrun can be a fun challenge spoiled by a little green pearl. The goal of the majority of this article is to provide guidance for glitchless speedruns on random seeds with the goal of killing the ender dragon. Some category extensions are All Bosses, Obtain All Swords, Arbalistic, and How Did We Get Here? There are co-op speedruns, which is where multiple players work together to kill the ender dragon, All advancements/achievements speedruns, where the goal is to complete every single achievement or advancement, and category extensions (catexts), which are where the player tries to complete a different goal, usually obtaining an item or getting an advancement.

Glitched/Glitchless: The player chooses whether to take advantage of glitches in the game (which is common in speedruns for other games) or not.These include a repairable ruined portal close to spawn with a looting sword, a close bastion and fortress in the nether, and a close stronghold in the ocean if the portal back to the overworld is made near the fortress. Filtered Seed: The player is given a 1.16 seed that is guaranteed to have characteristics that make it more likely to lead to a good run.

Speedrunning would be trying to beat Minecraft as fast as possible. However, it is not against the rules to start a new world, look around for a village or other useful features and restart with another new, random world if necessary.
