This Famous Minecraft World Record Was FAKE All Along

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One of the most famous Minecraft speedruns ever has just been exposed as being faked. Thanks to @Crafterdark and @Eliotex for finally catching this cheater.

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[karljobst]

I can't believe someone cheated in Minecraft.

[Eliotex]

Thx for making clear Niko didnt confess to cheating right away.
When we confronted him with the evidence he still said that he didnt cheat, which was super confusing and I actually started to believe we made a mistake somewhere even though the evidence was 100% clear... So, I was actually a bit "happy" when he admitted to cheating all of his runs.
Cheers

[grcfan]

It's honestly fascinating how once someone realizes one run has a cheated element in it, how clear that cheat can be seen in other videos

[demarchiordie]

It'd be funny to get a compilation of "best/worst reasons cheaters got caught". Like, the cacti being taller than they should be is hilarious.

[enthiegavoir]

I love how the lack of audio was probably because he knew it wouldn't pass an audio spectrogram if he spliced it, yet he completely forgot that the world of minecraft moves with time as well.

That's like gearing up to fight a dragon, but then you slip and break your leg on a mopped floor.

[Feranogame]

A small correction: while Peaceful is a difficulty, Creative is a game mode, so you don't switch the game from Creative to Peaceful, you switch from Creative to Survival, while keeping Peaceful. The point still stands and works fine though, Saturation doesn't decrease in Creative.

[magicman]

They should have an any cheat% where everyone is expected to cheat, but you get honourably removed if someone can prove you cheated. Would be a good training grounds for mods

[zenny]

'no one would even dream of cheating in minecraft' i see what you did there you absolute legend

[therealxoc]

The backpedaling after the fact is nearly identical with every cheater who "confesses." I'd like to see a compilation of Karl's cheatbusting vids, like each time one of them says "I really don't care, " or "It was a demonstration" all in a row.

[dii]

"all the way back in 2019" gives me such deep psychic damage to remember it's been 4 years

[Ojisan]

There is never a shortage of dishonest people. Karl you absolute legend, you will never run out of content.

[hexicube]

Regarding hunger mechanics:

Saturation is actually a second, invisible hunger bar that is consumed before the regular hunger bar; it's not actually time-based but instead action-based just like regular hunger.
Steak in particular, which is shown for the explanation, restores 8 hunger (4 shanks) and 12.8 saturation (6.4 invisible shanks).

The saturation bar empties in around the same time because in both cases the runner is sprint-jumping for maximum speed, which is particularly intensive and overshadows any other possible penalty.

For future videos, if this somehow comes up again, I'd suggest using the AppleSkin mod to show these normally-invisible values as a visual aid.

[jakebower]

"No one would even 'Dream' of cheating in Minecraft" well played Karl, well played

[morgand]

I really appreciate how Karl always gives credit to the mods / community members who do the tedious work of catching the cheaters

[Pekay_P]

At some point the best way to prevent cheating in speedruns will be to just have a team of mods over at your house watching you play.

[brendencarroll]

Fantastic work Karl, Ive always loved how even with all the facts pointing towards the obvious you take the time to explain each and every aspect to the fullest. You are quite an amazing storyteller, thank you for all the hard work and time you put into these videos:)

[mcjibbo]

"I cheated for good"
These people are one of the worst.
There is no excuse. You cheated and you got caught.
And as always they apologize only for the fact that they got caught.
This guy would never come out after a long time and confess.

[psycojosho]

Imagine that one piece of evidence that your speedrun is fake is the speed at which cacti grow.

[PoisonousSkely]

Thanks for the video!
Btw small correction at 14:05: the strategy did actually exist at the time (tho it was pretty recent) but Niko didn't believe it was viable until I beat his ''wr'' with it by 7 seconds lol

[warpedwhimsical]

It sucks that cheating is so prevalent and there is so little that can really be done about it. Stuff like this would really discourage me if I was a speedrunner, to know I could reset thousands upon thousands of times and spend untold hours to achieve a leaderboard run meanwhile any number of asshats can come along and fake their way into top leaderboard spots, pushing legitimate runs down on the ladder. Props to all the legitimate runners who simply do what they do because they enjoy the challenge of it all rather than fame-seeking