true I see why people use creepers as it is a way to skip other things, which I suppose is what you do when you want to go fast. I just wanted to raise the question, I can understand why it is being used.

Yeah I am aware, but it has always been the tradition that when you mine something, whether it'd be stone, or ores, you need a pickaxe to do that, hence the name "minecraft".

When I think about mining diamonds, or mining something else, I think about doing it with a pickaxe, not with a with a creeper. The intention of the creeper isn't to mine but to blow the player up, in contrast to going through the mining animation by holding your left click button. It just seems silly to me that you can justify it as mining, since it seems like the mining category was made for players who wanted to compete through more realistic ways than through villages.

It doesn't feel legitimate if you can just jump into a cave and let a creeper blow up - that wouldn't be the process that you'd take if you wanted to mine diamond in the singleplayer game. Getting a diamond from a creeper feels more like obtaining a diamond by different means than mining, and therefore I think it doesn't qualify for being in this section. I'm aware that you mine with explosives in real life, but I think it should be justified by the intended game mechanics and not by whether it's a thing in real life. (and still, in real life we use explosives similar to TNT in minecraft, we don't blow up animals ... ;P)

Hey I just stumbled upon the mine diamond category and saw how he got it super fast. Turns out a creeper exploded the diamond, and he didn't actually mine it. It seems like it doesn't cross any rules since the record is still there, but I really don't consider a creeper blowing up a diamond the same as you actually mining it with a pickaxe... Maybe think about adding a rule which says that you have to mine it with a pickaxe?

Hey I have a kind of simple yet fun idea. It’s simple yet interesting in how you would go about it. Basically the idea is that you need to reach the sky limit. You could also make the category be reach the sky limit and the bedrock layer.

Of course you would need some rules, as well as define different things. Like, what is the bedrock layer? Do you just have to reach bedrock or the deepest layer of bedrock possible. Also you should probably make a rule of documenting it by use of F3.

Also if you really wanted to make it exciting , you could make it: reach sky limit, reach bottom layer - go to the nether, reach the upper layer (bedrock) and the bottom most layer.

... if you are really crazy, you could do all of the above, go the sky limit in The End and finish it off by dying in the void ......

i’m insane I’ll go to bed I have to wake up in 4 hours

I like this idea.

Although villages, spawners and similar works fine for many categories I believe there should be added an additional category where you can’t use villages and spawners etc. I think it would be very interesting seeing how people go about achieving everything if they actually has to for example go into a cave, instead of just spawning by a village and duplicating the items. I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be villages and spawners, but it would be cool seeing people attempt diferrent things by more legitimate ways. Like having to obtain 24 iron in a cave and killing mobs, instead of just duplicating iron and getting exp from villager trades. When I think of the different categories, I think of it like doing it if you had been playing single player, but doing it as fast as possible. As going to a village is the fastest it should of course be a thing as it is a speed run, but it would be interesting to see how people go about it, if they spawn a place without that opportunity.

You could call it NoGeneratedStructures% although I don’t know if dungeons count as a generated structure.

Hello, I would like to apply for moderator in the The Contact Machine speed run category, as the current moderator is inactive, and I need someone to add my world record to the list. If I can't become a moderator, then I hope someone outside the game can verify it, as the only moderator for the game is inactive.