Minecraft Speedrunning/Introduction

Speedrunning is the art of completing a game in as little time as possible. Minecraft is a sandbox block building and survival game. This book fuses the two to act as a strategy guide to speedrunning Minecraft Java Edition.

In the 2010's both Minecraft and speedrunning gained massive popularity in the gaming community, and as a natural result Minecraft speedrunning gained popularity. Minecraft is almost unique among freeform games for having an ending, and as a result beating Minecraft is usually defined as defeating the final boss known as the Ender Dragon. (Minecraft has 2 more bosses, but they don’t count for the any% category, but they do count for the “all bosses” category)