Hello! As some of you have pointed out, this forum and leaderboard has been rather inactive as of late. I recently became a moderator of this game, and have made the following changes:

1. Removed redundant leaderboards The original leaderboards were just cloned from Diversity 2, a completely separate game that is not compatible with Diversity 1. We had impossible categories, poorly defined rules, and general confusion among runners. The new leaderboards have been changed to reflect what is possible and what isn't possible within Diversity 1. Our knowledge of the game does continue to increase, so if you find something new that you think warrants a new category, post it in the forums and I'll look at it.

2. Verified runs There was a large pile up of runs for several months that nobody was dealing with. The other two moderators for this game appear to be inactive, so I'll be handling future verifications too.

3. General moderation in the forums The forums will be cleaned up, and questions will be answered. Additional rule clarification will be posted below:

Any% is now defined as:

Timing starts on movement and ends upon respawning on top of the wall facing the Diversity logo.

Glitchless is now defined as:

Timing starts on movement and ends upon respawning on top of the wall facing the Diversity logo. You may not use any glitches in Minecraft.

These do NOT qualify as glitches, and are allowed according to the rules of the map: -- Jumping through the walls in the third section of the Labyrinth Branch. -- Jumping into the redstone below the Boss Battle Branch and altering the contents of the hopper to skip fighting the Witherboss.

4. Added new misc. leaderboards

No Exploits: This category is one for people who don't want to use exploits in the map that otherwise don't violate the rules of the map or are glitches in Minecraft.

No Freebie: Self explanatory, complete this without getting the freebie wool. All Branches must be completed.

5. Clarifying the rules for Level Leaderboards All Level Leaderboards work as follows: Complete the Branch, timing starts on first input after teleporting, timing ends upon teleporting out when you get the wool. You may NOT use commands, go into creative, or bring anything with you.

The leaderboards for this game are messed up. The only categories possible are Any% and Glitchless. What happened was whomever made this just copied everything from Diversity 2, where creative mode IS possible due to command blocks. The mods have yet to fix this.

Traditional dungeon order seems really interesting actually, I think that would be a good category.

What constitutes a skip though? Running along the floor of the level, or just jumping over a platform on the actual stage?

Don't die

Sounds awful. generating that many chucnks would lag the game considerably, plus the game just lets laggy the larger the coordinates get.

While you're at it, level 31 is missing from the Level Leaderboard as well.

Well, the thing is, Console is so different from PC that it would have to be it's own category, possibly even it's own game entirely. No clue how to time it either.

Well you need to mine iron to mine diamond/emerald, but lapis, quartz, redstone, and coal added in the mix would be ok I guess.

Its hardly different from normal enter the nether. the idea is exactly the same. Spawn next to a village/villages that have a combined total of 10 or more obsidian and at least 1 iron ingot. Get flint from the gravel road, build the portal, and you're done. Hardly worth making a new category for seeing as how the difference is miniscule to normal Enter the Nether.

Just wondering what "Best Ending" qualifies as. is it getting the "Happy Rancher" ending scene, getting all the ending scenes (that you can get with Happy Rancher), or is it getting a 999 Ranch Master score?

This is a bad category. The main issue would be getting the eyes of ender because endermen spawning is HIGHLY rng dependant. the entire run would depend on getting very lucky with, not only endermen spawns, but endermen droping their ender pearls. It could take 1 night, it might take 5, depending on how lucky the person is. I wouldn't want to run that category. It's not much different that glitchless random seed anyway. I could potentially see this as a minor category, but I personally don't think this is a good idea.

You could always sprint prior to 1.7 All you had to do was double tap Forward instead of using a separate key bind. And chests in nether fortresses started being generated in 1.6, which is what the current seed is for (I think). Horses were also introduced in 1.6 and are just generally slow anyway because you need luck to find a saddle and it also takes time to tame them, which is RNG dependant. I do agree that a 1.8 seed for glitchless would be good, but it's not necessarily a mandate, as there aren't many 1.7/1.8 features that would speed it up considerably

Ok, I just took a bit of a look at this seed. the stronghold IS amazing, however it is 800 blocks from the spawn. Additionally, I saw no village along that path or nearby so no easy way of getting iron for a bucket to make the portal. Additionally, the only way to get projectiles to destroy the end crystals would be to craft arrows manually with feathers and flint, which is RNG based and time consuming. I didn't see any horses either, although passive mob spawning can sometimes be RNG dependant.

I would agree! I'll get on that soon! It does sound promising!

Just wanted to point out that when Speedrun.com updated their format, the minecraft leaderboards got reorginzed prioritizing RTA time, rather than IGT, changing a few things around.

Makes sense! Thanks for the reply :)

I was just wondering, the rules for glitchless say that "no infinite bullets at Wiley, Gradius, and The Guy", but it doesn't mention anywhere else as being expressly forbidden. Is it just because those are the only three places where it is possible? Or it is allowed everywhere else? Because I was watching the WR run of glitchless, and when he was fighting Mother Brain at 6:07 to 6:10, he very clearly did not have 4 or less bullets on screen. I paused to count it, and he had at 6-7 on screen at a time. Is this not the infinite bullet glitch? Just wondering...

So, I was trying some any% set seed runs when I couldn't help but notice the large about of lag when loading the world after every dupe. Now, after that initial lag is gone, there is usually a second slight burst of lag, and this comes from your skin. On some poorer computers, loading the player skin causes a large amount of devastating lag, so I thought, why not just not HAVE a skin? After a little bit of experimentation, I believe now that we can save a little bit of time and a fair bit of lag, depending on your computer, by simply resetting our Minecraft skins to the default (Steve or Alex), so that Minecraft doesn't have to do any external loading of the skin. This won't make that much of a difference for most people, but for some people with bad computers, it should help a fair bit with lag.

Yes! Thank you very much! It finally works now. Time to speedrun Minecraft :D