So I had an idea, if you piglen trades are going well and have spare blaze rods and get ghast tears, could you instead of using beds, maybe use end crystals, end crystals and beds, because beds in neather and end have an explosion strength of 5, but end crystals have an explosion strength of 6 when broken, so if you speedrun is going THAT well, then you might be able to one cycle the dragon with crystals you can only place them on bedrock and obsidian, so maybe you can use it in a run. Thanks,
https://www.speedrun.com/speedrunning/thread/6tgel
This is the general forums, not the Minecraft forums. You're most likely looking for here:
I'd be really amazed if the entire massive MineCraft community failed to realize that using a particular item would be faster.
Getting enough end crystals to kill the dragon would be very hard to do, because you need ghast tears (very rare and slow to farm) glass, which requires smelting sand (which is slow) and eye of enders, and once you have eye of enders you want to be heading to the stronghold. You would need several extra blaze rods and pearls. I don't even know if you can one cycle the dragon with crystals, but it would only save at most like 2 seconds in 1.9+, and you can't craft end crystals in 1.7, so this strategy is pointless.
@Merl_ thank you for pointing out the floors, but this is just a consept, again thank you for the feedback