Bedrock Any%

Rules

• Timing starts on your first input or movement, or when knockback hits you; changing perspective, chat, emotes and the pause menu don't count
• Timing ends on the frame the End Poem fades in after you leave the End
• Any% requires glitches that give an advantage; runs without glitches go to Any% Glitchless
• Random seed runs leave the seed box blank, and looking at the seed before the run ends is forbidden
• The video must show the world creation settings: Survival, Easy, Normal or Hard, no starting map or bonus chest, an Infinite world, cheats and experimental gameplay off
• No commands, texture packs, behavior packs or tools that change the game; apart from reset macros and a key mapper on mobile, macros and scripts aren't allowed
• Changing difficulty during the run is allowed, except to or from Peaceful
• Reloading the world puts the run in the glitched category, unless you can show it didn't affect the run

Route / Splits

1

World creation

Show the world settings in your video and leave the seed box blank for a random seed run.

2

Overworld

The timer starts on your first input. Gather what you need to get into the Nether.

3

Nether

Collect blaze rods for blaze powder and ender pearls, the two ingredients of an eye of ender.

4

Stronghold

Throw eyes of ender to find the stronghold, then fill the empty frames of the End portal.

5

The End

Kill the Ender Dragon and jump into the exit portal. Time stops when the End Poem fades in.

Required Items

Blaze RodsEnder PearlsA weapon or beds for the dragon

Tips

• ▸Full game runs are timed to the second; milliseconds only decide ties
• ▸On Windows, top 5 runs must run the PowerShell hash script from the rulebook at the start or end of the video
• ▸twitch.tv and discord.com aren't accepted for video proof, and the moderators recommend YouTube
• ▸Linux and macOS players can use the Minecraft Bedrock Launcher and submit to the PC boards
• ▸Emulators are banned, and touchscreen isn't allowed on PC or console

World settings for a Bedrock run

The video has to show the world creation screen with these settings. None of them may change once the world exists, apart from the difficulty:

• ▸Game mode: Survival
• ▸Difficulty: Easy, Normal or Hard
• ▸Starting Map and Bonus Chest: off
• ▸Default Player Permissions: Member
• ▸World Type: Infinite
• ▸Friendly Fire, Fire Spreads, TNT Explodes, Mob Loot, Tile Drops and Beds Work: on
• ▸Required Sleeping Players and Respawn Radius: default
• ▸Immediate Respawn: off, and Respawn Blocks Explode: on
• ▸Use Experimental Gameplay and Activate Cheats: off

Platforms and boards

A run goes on the board of the device the game runs on. PC means the Windows 10 or 11 Edition, or the Pocket Edition on Linux and macOS through the Minecraft Bedrock Launcher, played with any input except a touchscreen. Mobile covers Android, iOS, iPod and Windows Phone, and any input is fine there.

Console covers Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 4 and 5 with their Pro models, Switch and Switch 2, and the Xbox One, One S, One X, Series S and Series X, again without a touchscreen. A VR run counts for the device that runs the game, so a PC streaming to a headset goes on the PC board.

What doesn't start the timer

Besides perspective, chat, emotes and the pause menu, an input that does nothing, such as right clicking on nothing, leaves the timer alone, and so does being pushed out of a block you spawned inside. On a touchscreen the time starts when the action happens, not when the button is touched.

You may wait a reasonable time for the world to load before the first input. Wait too long and the time starts on world load instead, and the examiner decides what counts as too long. In co-op, the first player to act starts the timer.

Questions about Bedrock Any%