Any% Glitchless (RSG)

Rules

• Leave the seed box completely empty, in Atum's config or on the Create New World screen
• Timing starts on world load, when you are placed in the world, and ends when the credits begin after you enter the exit portal
• Keep the default world settings apart from the world name, Survival or Hardcore and, on 1.16 and later, Easy, Normal or Hard; Peaceful may not be used
• Only glitches on the glitchless list are allowed, and Save and Quit may not be used during the run
• No console commands and no opening to LAN
• Show the F3 screen before you quit the world for the first time; the rulebook also asks you to do /seed after the run and show it in the video
• Only official releases from 1.0 on count, so no snapshots, pre-releases, release candidates or April Fools versions
• On 1.16 and later, runs under 13 minutes are retimed and must submit world files, logs and evidence of past attempts

Route / Splits

1

Overworld

Collect wood, food and iron, and look for a quick way into the Nether, such as a village or a lava pool.

2

Nether Entry

Build a Nether portal or complete a ruined one, and light it. Obsidian needs a diamond or netherite pickaxe, so without one you cast the frame from lava and water with a bucket.

3

Nether Fortress / Bastion

Find a bastion remnant to trade gold with piglins for ender pearls, and a fortress for blazes.

4

Blaze Rods

A blaze drops at most one rod when you kill it without Looting. One rod crafts into two blaze powder and every eye of ender takes one powder, so six rods cover twelve eyes.

5

Nether Exit

Return to the overworld with blaze rods and ender pearls

6

Stronghold

Craft eyes of ender and throw them toward the stronghold. Each throw has a 20% chance to shatter the eye, and an allowed calculator such as Ninjabrain Bot turns your throws into coordinates.

7

End Portal

An End portal needs 12 eyes, but each frame has a 10% chance to generate with one already in it. Fill the empty frames and jump in.

8

Dragon Fight

Kill the Ender Dragon, often with beds, which explode when you try to sleep in the End. Time stops when the credits begin after you leave the End.

Required Items

Crafting TableWooden/Stone PickaxeBucket (for lava/water)Flint and Steel or Fire ChargeBlaze Rods (6 for 12 eyes)Ender Pearls (up to 12)Beds for the dragon fightFood (bread, cooked meat)

Related Strategies

Tips

• ▸Practice Nether navigation until finding a bastion and a fortress feels routine
• ▸Learn to read F3 coordinates efficiently for portal linkage and stronghold triangulation
• ▸The rulebook lists the stronghold calculators you may use, Ninjabrain Bot among them. Any other tool needs moderator approval and may only use position, angle, dimension and block data from F3, not biome or temperature
• ▸Mark the run as F3 if you used the F3 screen or any F3 hotkey during it, including F3+Esc
• ▸If you play with SpeedRunIGT, its time counts as your in-game time as long as you submit all three decimals
• ▸Loading screens and pauses don't count toward in-game time, but in a run that gets retimed, pauses count apart from a few exceptions
• ▸Always carry a water bucket for MLG saves

Records by version range

speedrun.com splits Any% Glitchless random seed into six version ranges. These were the fastest verified times on September 15, 2026:

• ▸1.16 to 1.19: 6:39.813 by skycrab1, July 27, 2026
• ▸1.13 to 1.15: 12:55.920 by M4xx, December 23, 2024
• ▸1.9 to 1.12: 18:11.623 by whatevermarco, September 1, 2026
• ▸1.8: 16:44.035 by IceBacon, May 5, 2023
• ▸Before 1.8: 16:02.974 by spinnaker_rl, August 12, 2026
• ▸1.20 and later: the board only holds a placeholder marked Not Applicable

Retimes and extra proof

The faster a run, the more it has to prove. Below each version's limit, verifiers retime the run by the top-level rules and the rulebook asks for extra files. On 1.16 and later, a run that could be the world record also has to notify the moderators straight away, with the game still open and the recording still running.

• ▸1.16 and later: under 13 minutes a retime, world files, logs and evidence of past attempts; under 10 minutes also five previous world files and gameplay audio
• ▸1.13 to 1.15: world files under 20 minutes; logs, gameplay audio and a retime under 17. Chunkmap freezing isn't allowed
• ▸1.9 to 1.12: world files under 30 minutes; logs, gameplay audio and a retime under 25
• ▸1.8 and earlier: world files under 25 minutes; logs, gameplay audio and a retime under 23

Seed rules and video

Besides leaving the seed box empty, you may not try to learn the full seed during the run. The divine travel strategy is allowed.

Your video has to start before you begin generating the world. With Atum's reset feature it shows part of the previous attempt or you clicking the golden boots, and without Atum it starts at the title screen at the latest. If you use Atum and SpeedRunIGT, the timer is visible when the run starts and you open the F3 screen before leaving the world, the video may start just before the run instead.

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