Hello,

My general advice would be to use versions before 1.9 because the new ender dragon fight takes too long after that. I think 1.7.x seems to be preferred because the mob AI was updated in 1.8 as well which makes things a little trickier.

You should start by punching trees and making a wooden pick <- stone pick <- maybe iron and getting a good amount of iron (chests if you are lucky + multiple furnaces), you should have shears, a bucket, flint + steel, and as much armour and tools as possible. You need to shear sheep (for beds) and kill chickens (or dig up snow) for arrows, plus mining gravel if you choose to have a bow.

Then head to the nether and get 6-8 blaze rods depending on your confidence.

The real bottleneck of this challenge is the endermen - your best hope is to run around at night (all this time you should kill animals with flint and steel to get cooked meat so you can jump/sprint) and kill every one you see - if you want to be safer, you should go into a 2-high space so they can't attack you but do not need to do this and may save time if you are willing to take a minor risk. During the daytime, you may want to look in caves as sadly endermen do not spawn in the nether prior to 1.10. If you are very lucky you may be able to obtain a looting sword which will significantly save time on the blazes and endermen, but as I say you would need a lot of good luck for this to actually save more time than it takes.

If you are going for the bow + arrow option you must also kill spiders in order to obtain string, Illumina missed out on the WR in this category because he did not remember this.

With you eyes of ender in hand throw them and try to find the stronghold (I am trying to build a computer program to locate this and will post it here when I accomplish this, but do forgive me that I do not have it ready for use yet. But perhaps my efforts are somewhat in vain as it may in fact be slower, but it is less risky because by only throwing 2 eyes of ender you do not so much risk them breaking). Fill in the eye of ender slots with you eyes of ender. Before you go in make sure you have a good amount of food, bow+arrows/snowballs, 4+ beds, some blocks, and a water bucket.

In the end, bridge/mine your way to the end islands, use projectiles to take out the towers, then use the bed trick to kill the dragon - 4 is the minimum generally but it is possible with 3 beds. Use the water bucket to save yourself if the ender dragon knocks you upwards. When the dragon is dead, get into the end portal as fast as you can.

I'm sorry this is so long and all, I in fact am not even that experienced with this category as I mainly work on set seed speedruns. I am however trying to do any% random seed glitchless in 1.13+ but I do not think I will come close to the WR doing anything like that! Anyway, hope this helps! MiracleDinner

here is a playlist of mini-tutorials me and bluecrystal made:

dont do first day nether if you're not going for wr, always make sure you're spending every night cycle hunting enderman if you need pearls

On your post I seem to only be able to see the "Blocks as Compasses" video, even if I hit "watch on youtube.com"

But I did find your tutorials by searching for them on youtube, I was particularly interested by the one about "triangulating strongholds." As I have said in my earlier post (and another thread) I am working on a program to automate this mathematically, but I suppose your tips could help for somebody who didn't want to use F3 (but that would not include me as I do not personally consider coordinates "cheating" and my run would still be accepted as a valid speedrun.)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ_xYPZPvLD1guh-Zy1UTh8pNpMzX7SL0

sorry this link should work