A better way to do survival
5 years ago
Iowa, USA

Just a heads up, there is a much easier way to do the survival branch AND do the preserve glitch than the one we know of now. if you go in on creative and break through the top of the bedrock box, you'll see a button up by the command blocks at the top, and if you press it, it gives you the brown wool, teleports you, resets your gamemode, etc. The button was likely used during map making to test that it worked. If you power the block that that button is on in some way from the outside, you'll finish the survival branch.

So, here's my strategy.

  1. Immediately when you spawn in the survival branch, turn around, go to the tree, and get two wood.
  2. Craft a crafting table, one set of sticks, and a wooden button, then craft a wooden shovel.
  3. On your way to the bedrock box, use the shovel to grab 15 dirt and/or sand
  4. Go to a specific block on the right side of the bedrock box (based on where you'll be facing while running there) and block up with your 15 blocks. Place your button 1 block down from the top block of the bedrock box, and you're done! I think the block you place it on is directly in the middle of the right side, but I'm not sure because I have my own way of recognizing where to build up, and I didn't write down the coords. This strategy will be used when I finally get around to recording uploading a run.

Also, I tested the preserve glitch with this, getting a pressure plate and a redstone repeater, and it worked. I even did Survival Branch Only unrecorded and untimed just to prove it was possible with my method, and it is. Not sure I'll ever do a recorded run of Survival Branch only, but hey... maybe?

See my g-less preserve run. No repeater necessary

Iowa, USA

Yo! That's actually so cool, what you came up with! I'm glad to see people other than me doing runs of this map again, so I can have some competition :) I'll definitely do some runs of that soon. I never even thought about using boats. Super cool idea you had! Good job

Iowa, USA

But you said you're waiting on a No Freebie Glitched run... how are you planning on using glitches on that category?