The Troubled History of Dungeons Speedrunning - Hypixel Skyblock

you know its a good year when hellcastle and tyler upload

i don’t even play skyblock anymore but i still watch since the videos are entertaining lol

34:20 CORRECTION: Auto dungeons has not been released and to my knowledge, nothing like it exists elsewhere either. My motivation for making it wasn't to have it do runs for me, it was just because 1) I thought it'd be cool and 2) It was the perfect project to learn more about programming concepts like graph theory, optimization, data collection etc. I didn't (and still don't) plan on releasing it. I don't like how bad of a situation cheating is in Skyblock (Which is why the most major cheat I've released so far is still just a map scanner) and it's sad to see how a lot of dungeons has just devolved into people using auto routes and various other macros for all of their runs. Imo 2021 dungeons were the golden age, since the cheating situation wasn't that bad and runs were still (for the mostpart) mostly skill based. PB running on old f7 was super fun and I'm disappointed that we're never going to be able to experience that again due to the floor 7 boss being ruined with the release of M7. It was fun seeing how fast Floor 7 could be completed as almost a TAS run, but when those mods start getting used for normal runs or even make their way into party finder, then that's what I've got a problem with.

Bro does not fear the algorithm

I miss the old f7 and early dungeons, it was probably the most fun I'd ever had in my entire time playing skyblock

Oh man.. flying in f7... what a time. That was the most fun any of us had on skyblock, lets be honest. If they could just rework a few things in f7 like crystals to add back flight I'd literally cry tears of joy.

I would love to see a follow up video on m7. While unfortunately the story goes much the same, the amount of stuff found and the insanity of some of the cheats that were developed for it would make it much more interesting to see. Especially since the m7 speed running community is still alive and wr attempts are made regularly. Great video

A myth for mythbusters series: If you tranfer an enchanted or reforged silver fang to the rift (or two, one enchanted and one not. (they will stack in that chest then)), and then bring it/them back to the hub, they will stack again and lose enchants/reforges.

I’ve never completed a single mission in skyblock, but hearing people talk about niche things they dedicate their time to and explaining their expertise in this area is awesome!!

"Not looking to be out done by a rodent 15h, yarns, heatran, linman, and complexorigin came back the following day." got me dying

A lot of fun to watch keep it up :)

can we just agree that LiveLaughLuigi is a fantastic username

love to see clipping through doors at 14:45 its like the only tech i helped develop

Good video! I liked the explanations of the different techniques with how they worked, how they improved times, and how certain records utilized them to bring the time down. I would've liked to see a bit more of who the people running are though. Even if not much is known about a group, just having some basic information to characterize them would've been nice, as I did get a bit lost trying to keep track of who is who. Also, the sections with the only improvements being better execution or luck did drag on sometimes, so I think a bit less time could have been spent on that. However, I really liked the cheating part at the end. Although, as you mentioned, it was a bit of a downer, it was the most engaging for me. The reveal was done well, and the explanations of how clients got ahead of each other was entertaining. Both the explanations of new cheats as they were developed, and the tactics like releasing competitors' cheats for free were interesting.

IIRC Flying was first possible by equipping spirit boots, but if you took them off, you couldn't fly anymore. It was only afterwards when they patched that, where tarantula boots were used, where you could even take them off and fly

I am a new f7(post revamp) "speedrunner" and try to stay to full legit parties, the best time ive ever gotten on new f7 is 4:41, knowing how easily I could speed up clearing/phase 3 by having people cheat is very sad also the current mid-run legit bloodskips are so unreliable so runs are normally locked at camp time

Why is this video so rewatchable like I've watched it like 6 times now

I don't play Hypixel but I burst out laughing @ 17:44 because it sounds like someone might have been doing a little trolling along with their hacking. You mentioned that a dungeon mod was released called "Just Enough Dungeons" or J.E.D. that hacked player accounts... well, a few years earlier the Old School Runescape (OSRS) community had a BIG drama with a moderator at developer Jagex, who was fired after getting caught stealing player accounts & gold inventories. His name - Mod Jed.

That cat made my day nice to have you back

Man do i miss running old f7 it was by far the most fun I had in this game. All though new f7 opened up for some interesting new challenges and strategies which I have had alot of fun using and helping to develope some aswell. It really is a shame there isnt a way to verify runs on the new version of the floor besides word of mouth and screen shots of run times. Happy you included the clip of me on venomised jumping through the wither door on cal's stream one of my favourite moments.