[Quillbert182]

There's an "ending" in terms of there is an event that gets the credits to play, but you can continue to play afterwords, and there is a not insignificant amount of content unlocked by triggering the event. You can also easily play forever without achieving this ending.

[p1necone]

I've probably played a few hundred hours of minecraft and never tried to reach the ending because I spend all my time building slight variations of the same cool wizards spire, and designing redstone minecart subways.

[zimpenfish]

> You can also easily play forever without achieving this ending.

I played from 2013 to 2020 before I visited the End and killed the dragon. Then I realised how OP elytra are and now it's an early game goal to grab a pair.

[mcv]

I still haven't killed the dragon. My son can kill it in under 20 minutes and loves showing me the elytra, but I've never gotten myself one. I just get stuck exploring, digging tunnels, building houses and castles and collecting animals.

[zimpenfish]

> My son can kill it in under 20 minutes

If that's "20 minutes from start of game to end", that's pretty good going. Get him a YouTube channel and get him grinding towards the World Record!

[mcv]

It is. He claims that with a specific seed, he's done it in much less (4 minutes maybe? I don't know). It's possible his speed-run record with a random seed is 14 minutes now, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

Last year, his class at school (he was 12-13) had their own server where they built lots of stuff. At some point, they divided into two teams. His team was the largest, which he found unfair, so he switched to the smaller team. Then both teams secretly decided to gang up on him, which they did when he wasn't prepared. 20 kids, against him on his own, without his armor on. He had an enchanted golden apple ready, quickly put on his netherite gear, and went to town. Beat them all.

As part of a special projects week the school organised not just a regular sports day, but also an e-sports day. 7 events. He won 6 of them, including one game he'd never played, and got silver on the one game he didn't win.

He's ridiculously good, that much is clear to me now. I'll let him know the internet says he should get a Youtube channel. He doesn't talk much, though, and I think that's kinda necessary for a youtube channel.

[zimpenfish]

> It's possible his speed-run record with a random seed is 14 minutes now

14 minutes would be top 400 of the "random seed glitchless" category. Which is pretty good since there's 3600+ (distinct) runs on that leaderboard.

> He's ridiculously good, that much is clear to me now.

I would agree.

> He doesn't talk much, though, and I think that's kinda necessary for a youtube channel.

I dunno - I follow a few Minecraft channels who don't talk and use subtitles instead. Fits with the general "chill" aesthetic (although I appreciate speedruns are anything but chill.)

[mcv]

I discussed it with him, and he says the 14 minutes was someone else. Also, he's not that interested in Minecraft anymore and prefers Terraria. He's currently helping his older cousin beat all the bosses there.

He also claims to have beaten Civ 6 at Deity level, admittedly by following strategies he learned in Youtube, which is frustrating to me because I'm struggling on Immortal figuring stuff out on my own. At least I can still beat him in chess.