I have set my render distance, simulation distance and particle distance to as low as they can go but I can’t get dragon skip to work. Can someone help me? I am on version 1.5.3.

what's the issue? you have to let the dragon fly away from you (her health bar will disappear), then run to the portal; is this what you're doing?

I run away but the bar does not disappear.

The only way I could get it to work was to build a bridge like 200 blocks away from the island, then the bar would disappear.

I think the problem is that my render distance is too high. On all of the other speedruns it seems to be at 4 chunks. But the lowest I can put mine is at 16 chunks. Is there a way to decrease it to 4 chunks?

mine doesn't go that low either. are you sure that in your current world's settings the simulation distance is at minimum?

The simulation distance is at 4 chunks. That’s the lowest it can go.

its ur rd, minimum to do it is 8, and it being lower makes it easier so big rip

Is it possible for me to bypass this render distance lock

There was a video online for a way to increase the render distance. Which involved changing some things in a text file. I attempted to make the number lower to reduce my rd but it didn't do anything. My understanding is that it checks your systems specs so a possible solution (not a very good one) would be to remove a stick of ram (i know that sounds terrible) or find a way so that the game/pc doesn't read the ram. (my best guess is looking into the bios or finding some software). Otherwise dragonskip won't be very viable for you.

We've said that manually changing the rd in the game files is allowed as it's basically impossible to dragon skip with 16rd.

Oh my god, how good is your PC? My render distance MAX is 16.

I think i am just going to use a different computer. I have a different one that is not as powerful and its lowest is 8 chunks. Do think that will still allow dragon skip?

it will, I have done runs at 8 rd as u can see on my profile, and the wr holder Scott uses 8 too, triage uses 6 tho

Treago* my autocorrector dude

lol thanks guys for helping me. When I downgraded to 1.5.3 the render distance decreased to 6.