I was wondering if you could use a strategy to not spawn the ender dragon and have the portal open.

You can see it in DylanC14's TAS (that being is Any% 20 second TAS); you spawn and end crystal in the 1 second window before the Ender Dragon spawns and it makes the game think its already been beaten, so it makes the end portal in the end already filled, causing the dragon fight to be useless.

So is there a reason you cannot use it? I think it's viable for Any%, so if anyone could let me know why not, please let me know!

It is viable for any%

@CoolhALAW why don't people use it? Is it slower? Just asking

its a glitch so its not allowed in rsg/ssg

even then you cant always find a ghast

@Alexithink you could probably get a good seed with a 12 eye and a ghast in the nether with the right rng (ss any%)

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considering how fast set seed alredy is by not having to go to the nether at all, specialy in the external subcategory with arrow glitch, it might not realy be worth such a detour at a human speed, but it would be interesting to try nontheless

if you are lucky with the ghast, random seed might have the most potential with that, idk

That would probably be a very slow strategy because to make an end crystal in a reasonable amount of time. I think the problematic item is actually the the glass because of the ways of obtaining it in a fast amount of time. The fastest way would probably be to spawn right next to a stronghold and a woodland mansion that has the lava room and also it has to be low down, so the player can reach it quickly then get silk touch fast enough to mine the glass and get the 7 glass that you need. The ghast tear and the ender eye could be obtained quite fast just by having a fast way of entering the nether and having extremely good luck. But for the glass you would need a crazy seed to even have a chance of getting any kind of WR using this strategy. If anyone knows of a perfect seed that allows this strategy to set the WR let me know.