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+title = 'MCBE 1.11-1.14 Guide'
+summary = 'Speedrunning 1-11-1.14 random seed glitchless'
+tags = ["practice", "strat"]
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+
+Hello, I’m RodriHermo and in this guide I’m going to teach you how to
+run 1.12.
+
+Before starting the guide, you have to be very familiar with these terms
+because they will be very important in this category. And also knowing
+why 1.12 is the best version for this category.
+
+The first one is __highrolling__. Highrolling is taking calculated and often
+unnecessary risks that decrease the chance of getting a decent run, but
+it increases the likelihood of the run becoming really good.
+
+A good example is blaze rods. Leaving with 6 is standard, but sometimes
+you could get unlucky on the blaze rates so going for 5 is a risk
+because you are depending on getting a 2 eye or higher which is just
+34%. But sometimes that’s the only way to save a bad run or to get a
+really good time.
+
+The second one is __reset efficiency__. Reset efficiency is a principle that
+consists of the premise that the faster you reset undesirable worlds,
+the more seeds you play, so you get a higher chance of getting the seed
+that you want.
+
+That doesn't mean that you have to reset a lot necessarily, because a
+desired world is relative to the time you are going for, but what I'm
+trying to say is that you have to know pretty well what you need
+depending on the time you are going for. And also not spend a lot of
+time on a seed that you don’t know yet if it's playable or not, that’s a
+very common mistake on beginners.
+
+## Why 1.12 is good?
+
+1.11 restock mechanics are really bad and dragon AI is pretty scary as
+well. 1.12 dragon AI is the same as 1.11 but the trading mechanics are
+way better. 1.13 dragon AI is way better but they add a ¼ chance that a
+village is a zombie which is an annoying run killer that can be avoided
+just by playing 1.12.
+
+And 1.14 is roughly the same as 1.13.
+
+Gonna talk about dragon behaviour later in the guide but that's the
+reason why its the best version.
+
+Now I’m going to talk about __resetting principles__.
+
+First I’m going to talk about the chance of getting a playable seed.
+
+First we need a village below 200 blocks for spawn which is around a 1/7
+chance. Then the village has to have a cleric in which the chance
+depends on the type of village but on average is ¼.
+
+And finally, the number of tradeable villagers can’t be below 5\. It
+doesn't matter how crazy the seed is, with less than 5 villagers trading
+is way too slow and you are forced to reset. The chance of that, not
+gonna lie, I’m not secure about that one but it’s around ⅘.
+
+So in total there is a 1 in 35 chance of getting a playable seed.
+
+Yeah I know that’s a lot of resets for just a playable seed but luckily
+that is the most luck based part of the entire run because the nether
+doesn't require that much luck because fortresses are way more common
+than on 1.16+.
+
+And one pro tip, if you want to reset faster, I recommend you to
+download and set up a macro which is a program that touches specific
+places of the screen so you could use it to press the buttons to make
+the seed. For me it’s a game changer and I wouldn't run this category If
+I didn't have it.
+
+Now let's talk about the __actual run__.
+
+The category consist on buying pearls to the fletchers because they have
+the easiest trade of emeralds which are 32 sticks or 4 logs, and with
+that, level up the cleric to level 4 to start trading pearls and
+obviously going to the nether to get between 5 and 7 blaze rods
+depending of the time you are going for.
+
+And this category is very dependent on the day and night cycles because
+each day, the villagers that buy all of their available stock, restock.
+So that's why I recommend you to get a timer in this category.
+
+Under certain circumstances they restock earlier but after a day it's a
+guarantee that they will restock
+
+## First day:
+
+In first, you gotta get 2 flint to make a fletching table so one
+villager can become a fletcher and 10 gravel because there's a trade
+that the fletcher converts gravel into flint, which is very good because
+now you can make another 5 fletching tables and not depend on insane
+flint luck. Also, the more beds or villagers, the better.
+
+Then, you gotta get minimum 53 logs, 48 to get 12 emeralds and 5 for the
+fletching tables, but I recommend you 69 because with that you get 16
+emeralds which will be useful later in the run. But if you are running
+out of time just go for 53\. Remember, you gotta sleep as soon as
+possible to not interrupt the day and night cycle, because every second
+that it's night that you could sleep but you don't, that's just killing
+time, try to avoid it. We want the days to pass as soon as possible.
+
+Then, you need to grab all the beds of the village and place it near the
+center of the village. I recommend getting the beds, chopping wood, and
+even getting wheat at the same time (task overlap). After placing the
+beds, hit the bell, this way, the villagers go to the nearest bed,
+resulting in having lots of villagers nearby to trade without having to
+chase them. If the villagers go their way after a while, just hit the
+bell again.
+
+If you placed all the beds sub 8 you are at a pretty good pace because
+all the crafting sticks and trades takes around 2 minutes (on
+touchscreen).
+
+If you are playing on console or using a macro for fast crafting, that's
+a timesave because you don't have to tap really fast.
+
+Then, place the fletching table and see if the fletcher has the flint
+trade, if not, break it and try again until you get it, it's a ⅓ chance
+and each time not getting is a 6s timeloss approx. Then craft 24 wood
+into a stack and a half of plancks into 3 stacks of sticks, those
+numbers will be very useful to remember because with 3 stacks of sticks
+you can trade 6 emeralds which is the entire stock of the villager. As I
+said, each villager will give you 6 emeralds per day cycle. That's why
+the more, the better.
+
+Then buy the flint, make 5 fletching tables and trade another 6
+emeralds. Then trade the redstone and lapis to level up the villager to
+level 3\.
+
+If you have time to spare, you could trade 4 extra emeralds, kill the
+golem, figuring out where to dig in case of sh village, getting iron if
+there's a close cave. Just some ideas. If not, do it the next day.
+
+## 2nd day:
+
+Now trade 5 lapis so the cleric is in level 3 and a half. you might ask,
+why don't you buy glowstone to level the villager to level 4 early?
+
+The reason for that is because glowstone is expensive, costing 16 extra
+emeralds than just buying 5 lapis. But the problem is that you've
+already bought 5 lapis which is all of his stock, (disclaimer: For
+clerics their stock is 5 items not 6 like the fletchers), so you have to
+wait for not exactly another day but quite a while, like 5m.
+
+That's why we are going to go to the nether on the second day. Because
+instead of waiting for the next day or losing time buying glowstone, we
+are doing something productive which is going to the nether.
+
+That's a smart choice not just because it saves 16 emeralds but because
+of reset efficiency as well.
+
+It's more time-efficient to enter the nether at day 2 instead of
+spending one day or even one day and a half chopping wood and trading,
+just to have to reset to a bad nether.
+
+The sooner you get info about how good or bad the seed is, the better.
+
+And that's also why going for extra emeralds on the 1st day is a
+timesave, it makes the trades of the start of the 2nd day pretty much
+instant.
+
+(Disclaimer: Doing 2 lapis trades on the first day is possible but very
+rare. Instead of finishing your trades sub 10:10 or night time, you have
+to do it sub 7 so 3 minutes later it restocks. Finishing your trades
+that early is really rare and the timesave is not that big, it just
+saves the time to get the wood, craft and trade which is about 1:20.)
+
+If there's not a surface lava pool nor cave, just dig down at the
+village and hope for a lava pool or cave that leads to it. There's a YT
+channel called Mumbo Jumbo and according to one of his videos about
+statistics of digging straight down, the chance of getting one of those
+is 47% so that's actually a decent way to save the run.
+
+If there's any of those, you can use a glitch which I call it legal
+X-ray.
+
+Basically dig down until y 17 or 16, then dig in a 1x2 hole until y 13,
+do a 2 blocks hole, place gravel underneath, place a block here and
+break the block over you. Now you can see where lava is, and reset ASAP
+if it's too far or there's no lava.
+
+If you get iron, or diamonds it's a timesave so melt the iron while
+doing the portal.
+
+## Nether:
+
+This is probably the most straightforward part of the run, just find a
+fortress and get your rods as fast as possible.
+
+About fortresses, while the average distance of them in 1.16 is around
+600 blocks, in 1.12 it's around 350 so they are not common, but also not
+rare and getting sub 10, even sub 8 nethers should be very consistent.
+Chance of getting a fort in less than 200 blocks is around ⅓ and getting
+insta fort is around 10% or 1/8-1/12.
+
+I recommend once you find it, lower your render distance as much as you
+can so more mobs spawn including blazes and endermen. About endermen,
+kill them if it makes sense, because a pearl costs 5 emeralds minimum or
+20 logs, a pretty decent timesave.
+
+If it makes sense to open the chest, open them, you could find diamonds
+which is a big timesage, but if not, for example spawning near the
+spawner, don't force it.
+
+Also remember to dig the blocks near the spawner because the least
+amount of blocks, the more blazes will spawn per spawn cycle.
+
+Meanwhile you could be melting iron or managing your inventory by
+throwing the trash.
+
+After getting the rods, get back to the village. If you are in a cave it
+will take 40s.extra seconds.
+
+The ideal goal would be to return to the village before its night time
+so you can level up the villager from level 3.5 to 4 if you left sub
+18:30 and even buy some pearls if you left sub 17\. But if you returned
+barely sub 20:20 to sub 30 (night time) just sleep ASAP- If the nether
+somehow took you an entire day, your run is not death because they
+restock after a day, regardless if it was sped up by sleeping or not but
+that shouldn't happen regularly and its really slow.
+
+## Trading:
+
+Supposing that you slept as soon as you returned to the overworld, trade
+5 lapis to level up the cleric to level 4, then get 100 wood \= 25
+emeralds \= 5 pearls, and then get another 100 wood and craft it into
+sticks and trade a 2nd group of pearl next day.
+
+The reason why chopping 200 wood on one go is a mistake is because
+there's 3 phases for the cleric:
+
+Full stock (5 emeralds per pearl) \- Empty stock \- 3m later \- restock
+with higher prices (6 emeralds per pearl) \- one day later \- full
+restock with original price (5 emeralds per pearl)
+
+The problem with chopping the wood and crafting all the sticks in one
+go, while in terms of routing is convenient because you don't need to go
+back and forth to the forest, is that you are probably gonna finish
+late, like at 26m mark.
+
+So you end up trading 5 pearls and you just gotta kill 3 minutes. Or
+even worse, finishing at 28m mark so the villagers don't even restock,
+so instead of using that time to get a discount you just get a restock
+with higher prices. That's why I rather do 2 sessions of chopping wood
+instead of one.
+
+The problem with that is that you need a close forest, not just one
+because the distance of it to the village (let's say 1:30m) gets
+duplicated because you gotta go there again. But it shouldn't be rare to
+get a forest less than 30s away.
+
+So you finish your first session of chopping wood and you get your first
+5 pearls at 25m then get more wood, craft sticks, trade with villagers
+if their prices have not been raised, then sleep. Then at the very start
+of the day buy 5 pearls, you should be leaving at sub 31 (early day 4\)
+if the nether was good, sub 31 leaves are the standard consistently good
+village leave for this route.
+
+To get day 3 village leaves, you gotta trade a couple of pearls at day 2
+(potential for sub 24 leave), or to just accept the price raise of
+pearls and a big forest nearby with iron or diamond axe (potential for
+sub 27 leave).
+
+Sub 23 village leaves are not possible with this route without extreme
+highrolling. That's still pretty good for a beginner-intermediate route.
+
+I'm not gonna talk about advanced routes too much but in summary they
+require to highroll for sh village and going nether 1st day, it's
+clearly not beginner friendly but I just say it in case someone is
+curious.
+
+## Endgame:
+
+Stronghold generation stays the same until 1.18. Average sh distance is
+1000, spawn is at 4,4 unless not spawnable biome: If so, it raises your
+\+X coord, the village grid is the same and you gotta check for secret
+rooms on sh.
+
+About sh nav, sh stays the same but they are played differently. If you
+are leaving with 10 or less pearls, you gotta spend a little bit of time
+opening the chests you find on your way to the portal room to get extra
+pearls. Obviously the priority is to find the portal room as soon as
+possible but spending a little bit of time is worth it.
+
+If you find the portal room but it has not enough eyes, just after that
+start searching deeply.
+
+Beginners and me in the past, spend too much searching for pearls
+without knowing the amount of eyes the portal has. Maybe you got 3 eyes
+and that time was just a timeloss.
+
+If you leave with 11 pearl just nav normally highroll for 1 eye.
+
+## Endfight:
+
+The perching mechanics stay the same, the dragon takes 55s to leave the
+fountain if you are nearby and crit bug is the same.
+
+But the other dragon's behavior is quite different.
+
+In this version, the dragon can launch you through the air \+10 blocks
+so be very sure to have a hay bale or a lot of health (no water drops
+cus you are gonna fill the bucket with lava for one cycle).
+
+Also its hit box is bigger than on 1.16 so when building up to place
+lava, be sure to not be that close to the dragon, you can get closer
+once you are \+7 blocks higher.
+
+And dragon's breath and especially magic is really dangerous in this
+version. You can lose 10 hearts in less than 1,5s without warning or way
+to avoid which can be very infuriating in good runs. My tips are to
+check where the dragon is without seeing endermen which is not easy. Be
+far from the fountain and just hope for a fast perch so you don't have
+to deal with the dodging bruh.
+
+About the one cycle, because obsidian is rare, you gotta learn a
+obbyless cycle. I personally learned this method but you can use another
+one if you want, it's just what worked for me.
+
+[two sides 2023 - zwn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JDYZOJdAgY)
+
+If you wanna learn this one, one tip, instead of placing lava at 2,8
+like on a standard obby one cycle, place it at 4,6. Because in this
+method you are in the fountain, the path the dragon takes to leave is
+slightly different so 4,6 works.
+
+Please practice the obbyless one cycle a lot, and even warm up if you
+don't feel comfortable with it before doing a running session.
+
+And that's all I have to say. I hope everything is clear. If you wanna
+ask questions about this, my discord is rodrihermo and my [YT is
+RodriHermo](https://www.youtube.com/@RodriHermo) as well.
+
+Thanks for reading and good luck with your 1.12 runs :D /
+
+[The tutorial has been made by
+RodriHermo](https://www.speedrun.com/users/RodriHermo).