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Can You Beat Minecraft Without Playing?



Can You Beat Minecraft Without Playing?

What would happen if we let the Minecraft world run forever by itself? Since mobs take random paths, their movement is predicated on a random number generator. If we generate enough times, we’ll eventually get the correct sequence for wherever we want these mobs to go. We could have a group of three baby zombies on chickens travel from one world border to the other. Is this likely? Not even close, but it could eventually happen. Enderman are atypical in many ways. They show up in all three dimensions, and they can teleport. But all of this pales in comparison to their most powerful ability. They can randomly pick up and place certain types of blocks. In our infinite time system, the Enderman could eventually construct almost arbitrary structures. The Enderman could randomly choose to make a pillar, construct patterns, or spell out text. It’s possible for an Enderman to make a snow golem. All they need to do is pick up a carved pumpkin from a pillager outpost, move to a snowy biome with two snow blocks already stacked, and then place the pumpkin, and boom, just like that, a natural snow golem has been produced. The snow golem unlocks a new and powerful ability. They’re aggressive towards hostile mobs. While the snow golem can’t damage most mobs, it does make them angry and they’ll retaliate by attacking the golem. If a skeleton has a flame bow, then it can fire a flaming arrow when it’s annoyed by a snow golem. A flaming arrow will not light a block on fire, but what it can do is activate TNT. There’s a secret room in Woodland Mansions that looks like the end portal. Within this room, there are two TNT blocks sitting out in the open. The Enderman can get here by teleporting, and they can pick up and move these blocks. Once placed, a snow golem can find its way to the block, anger a skeleton with a flame bow and have the skeleton miss and hit the TNT. Our capability for explosions allows the enderman to dig below the surface. In terms of underground destinations, there is one that sticks out above the rest, the stronghold. Now, most portal rooms will not be lit by default, but there’s a one in a trillion chance that the frame will be completely filled. And if we happen to be on one of these seeds, then the Enderman will have just created a path from the surface down to the end. And we’re presented with a question. Is it possible for these mobs to somehow defeat the dragon? The first step is to destroy the regenerating in crystals on the pillars. Enderman can come from the overworld and build huge staircases. The snow golem angers the skeleton and the skeleton fires an arrow that misses and destroys the end crystal. Repeat this for each pillar and we’ve now got a dragon that doesn’t regenerate. All we need to do is have enough enderman bring TNT from the overworld and the snow golems and flame bow skeletons will light it off. Slowly but surely, the dragon will take damage and eventually it will be defeated. Think about just how absurd this is. With the right random numbers, it is possible for the injured dragon to die with no player intervention whatsoever. Will this ever happen? No. But the fact that it could happen is amazing.

There’s a 1/1,000,000,000,000 chance of this happening in Minecraft, but it would be crazy if it did 👀

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  2. @Eclipse_Dragon981 on

    So you know how the achievement is called ‘free the end’? Well, the enderman decided to go on strike from the enderdragon’s tyranny and defeat the enderdragon

  4. @Gwyn23 on

    Bro, you’re fine. You just need an impossible sequence of events to play out in perfect order against all odds and you’ll be fine.

  6. @lotehk on

    Imagine going afk with an auto clicker or something while on a 3 day camping trip or something and you come back to the game being won

  17. @Gengodih on

    1. chicken jokeys cant travel from world boarder to world bourder, because your mob simulation distance only has a 128 block radius.
    2. a snow gollem will never bring a skeleton to the end, because the snow golem walks towards the skeleton and the skeleton towards the snow golem… this will lead to the death of the snowgollem with a 100% possibility.
    3. there wont be enough tnt for the enederman, because you have to load all the mansions and the paths to the portal, which is impossible due to the limited simulation distance of hostile creatures

  25. @Loganlindyhop on

    K this is a cool idea but there's some issues:
    1. This is acting on the assumption that mobs can spawn and act without a player. Endermen cannot spawn and cannot move without a player within a certain radius. And if the player moves outside of that radius, they immediately respawn. If you had a supercomputer that could run all of a Minecraft world as if a player was nearby (as it is intended to be perceived), then sure yeah a Minecraft world could beat itself

    2. The flame bow skeletons shooting at snow golems is not how it would happen. This case is much more rare than other ways blocks could be destroyed. For example in the snow golem case, snow golems will attack creepers, and these creepers will aggro and explode near the snow golems. This is much much more likely than a skeleton with a flame bow spawning near a snow golem with a placed tnt nearby. There's also the likelihood that the stronghold could already be exposed. Woodland mansions are also incredibly rare, and enderman can only travel small distances. 2 tnt for per tens of thousands of blocks all transported to the same place to dig a massive hole by random chance skeleton flame bow arrows? Sure it could happen, but there are easier ways to break blocks. Any way a creeper could become aggressive would also destroy blocks.

    That's pretty much all I have right now. A player needs to be present in the world for any mob activity at all, and even then it's only in a small radius. And on top of that while the method in the video could work, the game would beat itself millions of times over with creepers before it would win with tnt from woodland mansions

  26. @JonLasaga on

    The right random numbers is still about as likely as two Lego bricks connecting once as you dump out a tub of them considering a back step is 3 times more likely than a step in the right direction but if you really wanted to simulate it you could speed up game timing and see for yourself on a smaller scale. Chunks would have to be loaded on top of that for any of this to be possible

  30. @kingofrivia1248 on

    I have a very old map and mushroom biom next to desert, in my few thousands ours of building sorting systems castles etc i jever looked behind ohne mountain their were a few junks of mushroom biom, until they were GONE. Im not kidding they were completely desert now endermen just placed sand for a few thousand hours.

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