Choosing the Right Difficulty Tier for Your Run

Before starting a speedrun in the Y menu, you must pick one of four difficulty presets. Each tier controls which items from the game's survival pool are allowed to roll as your target, letting you decide whether you want a quick Overworld sprint or a multi-dimensional marathon.

Easy and Normal Tiers

• Easy: Restricts the item pool to things you can obtain entirely without visiting the Nether. Pick this tier for short, beginner-friendly runs focused on basic Overworld gathering, mining, and crafting.
• Normal: Expands the pool to include Nether resources, while still excluding anything that requires traveling to the End dimension. You will need to be ready to build a Nether portal, navigate bastions or fortresses, and barter or gather Nether-exclusive materials.

Hard and Hardcore Tiers

• Hard: Opens up almost every survival item in the game, including End-related gear and materials, but specifically filters out items that take an excessively long time to obtain.
• Hardcore: Removes all restrictions completely. Any item from the entire game can be selected as your target, regardless of how rare the biome, structure, or crafting chain is.

If you are practicing fast crafting and biome routing for the first time, stick to Easy until you can consistently recognize item recipes on sight.