![]() ![]() ![]() The final odds: 1 in 20 sextillion, or 2 x 10^22. In a 29-page report issued last December, the Minecraft Speedrunning Team went into excruciating detail to calculate the chances of those Ender Pearl and Blaze Rod drop rates (or better) occurring in a truly random set of speedrun attempts. When you sit down and do the math, though, the chances of Dream being this consistently lucky, across this many consecutive livestreamed runs, become so small as to be practically zero. Unlikely things do happen sometimes, and speedrunners often power through thousands of runs in the hopes of getting that one random seed that will let them shave just a few seconds off their best time. In the livestreams in question, Dream got a Blaze Rod from just over 69 percent of defeated Blazes (211 out of 305).īeing lucky isn't proof of cheating, of course. Defeated Blazes drop Blaze Rods 50 percent of the time in an unmodified game. He also had to battle several Blazes to obtain Blaze Rods for the portal. ![]() In the six speedruns Dream livestreamed starting in October 2020, though, a full 16 percent of the Piglin drops were Ender Pearls (42 out of 262).ĭream's luck didn't end there. In an unmodified game of Minecraft, Piglin randomly drop Ender Pearls in about 4.7 percent of trades. One of the most crucial is bartering your gold with Piglins in the hopes of getting Ender Pearls, which are needed to eventually construct a portal that will take you to an area known as The End, where you can fight the Ender Dragon that serves as the final boss of the run. Quickly beating Minecraft is a process with a lot of steps. To understand the accusations at play here, first you have to understand just how much of a role luck plays in a top-level Any% speedrun of Minecraft and how ridiculously lucky Dream appeared to be in the streamed runs in question. The admission seems to finally put to rest months of drama and dueling accusations between Dream and the mods, settling an argument that relied on complex mathematics to prove that Dream's runs were vanishingly unlikely to be the result of random chance alone. Over the weekend, though, Dream said in a message posted to Pastebin that he had "actually been using a disallowed modification during ~6 of my live streams on Twitch" while maintaining that he "didn't have any intention of cheating." Further Reading Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to courtFor months now, popular Minecraft streamer Dream has insisted there was nothing fishy about six "Any% Random Seed" speedruns he streamed last October, despite evidence to the contrary presented by the moderators of clearinghouse. ![]()
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