Hi, I'm a main speedrunner of Super Mario Bros., and don't really speedrun this game, or play this game very much. I did used to play this game as much as I could back years ago when I was a young boi. In this thread my hope is to get some answers and to spark some discussion around what I have noticed as an outsider.

The Set Seed Glichless (peaceful) WR currently as of today lies at a 3:57, and the Set Seed Glitchless WR as of today is currently 5:50. This demonstrates that playing on peaceful the fastest time is almost 2 minutes faster than with difficulty. What I don't understand is why we use the other (though newer) slower seed for difficulty instead of the faster (on peaceful) seed for the Set Seed Glitchless category. (out of curiosity, I'm hoping this isn't some brand new insane strategy that people will start using. I hope people will answer explaining why it won't work, and I can understand better).

The End fight in the peaceful world record was extremely fast, they didn't even destroy the crystals. The new non-peaceful seed is new and therefore not completely optimised yet. And you can run into mobs in that category, which slows you down.

But the time difference is so big that I would guess that it's worth a try, sure. But if course only in those old versions.

The current ssg (non peaceful) seed is extremely consistant and almost every run can get to the end with a quick time whereas the ssgp (p -> peaceful) seed is extremely inconsistant this is also reflected in the number of attempts it took to get the WR (ssg ~1500 // ssgp 13000+). Long story short trading is probably faster than nether yet a village is rarely close to a snowy biome which would allow for easy projectiles. This means you'd have to do the run bedless and that would make the whole thing very grindy and unenjoyable. Atm there is no good seed known that would have a village and snow.

Ahh, I see now. That makes sense What is it that makes it so RNG based? I see that the WR gets really good dragon RNG and only needs to destroy 3 crystals to kill the dragon. Even if you didn't get super RNG you have many other potential crystals to destroy.

inb4 dedicated person sees this thread, destroys the any% set seed glitchless WR monkaS

Another reason is that the seedfinding project is far from over - and trading seeds are something on our radar this summer. Personally, I would advise everyone against subjecting themselves to the SSGP seed, since a major improvement over it should be coming once we are all done our final exams and currently the RNG is unbearable.

Also, in Peaceful there is no need to eat. So the time you spend on "food management" is removed ;) But yeah, it's a seed-rng-related question for now