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Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2 billion years
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How many of you have started a Minecraft world, made your first house, explored the Nether, and found an End Portal only to stop just short of defeating the Ender Dragon? I've done it more times than I'd care to admit, constantly juggling realms and getting bored of projects. Well, it turns out that we never had to do anything, because given enough time Minecraft may just defeat itself.
It may sound ridiculous but given the exact right seed and circumstances it can happen, Minecraft YouTuber RedLogic proved it.
RedLogic started off by making a simulation which can sort through various Minecraft seeds to find the one which had all the right and very specific requirements such as a completed end portal which was close enough to the surface to be discovered by mobs, and pumpkins, lots and lots of pumpkins. The next step was using a monte carlo simulation to compress billions of ordinary ticks (time passing in Minecraft) into "statistically sampled waiting times".
It then came to running the simulation in Minecraft world seed -535646876083114041:
After a billion years the Ender Dragon's health was whittled down by snow golem attacks and creeper explosions but it wasn't until 1.975 billion years that the last hit connected with the Ender Dragon and killed it. Felling the beast and defeating Minecraft.
After all of this RedLogic shows us what the End and overworld looked like and it's surreal. Blocks are stacked everywhere, creeper explosions have marred the land, and there's no signs of life to be seen. But it was all worth it because the game was finally complete.
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Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased. When they're not screaming or hiding, there's a good chance you'll find them testing their metal in metroidvanias or just admiring their Pokemon TCG collection. Elie has previously worked at TechRadar Gaming as a staff writer and studied at JOMEC in International Journalism and Documentaries – spending their free time filming short docs about Smash Bros. or any indie game that crossed their path.