Minecraft is a game where players have an abundance of freedom in how they choose to play the game. In recent months, Minecraft speedrunning has exploded on Twitch, with tons of streamers joining the game’s community to get the fastest times.
Unfortunately, there’s been a bit of drama recently, involving one major Minecraft content creator being accused of cheating during one of his runs. Minecraft YouTuber Dream, who has over 14 million subscribers on YouTube, has been accused of cheating during an official speedrun by moderators of the official Minecraft speedrunning leaderboards.
For a long time, Minecraft speedrun times were much longer than they are now. This is because Mojang recently provided one major update to the game that allowed players to get to The End dimension much faster than was possible before, provided they had a bit of luck. Minecraft’s Nether update this summer allowed players to trade with new mobs called Piglins, who can sometimes give players Ender Pearls which are necessary for getting to the end. This feature is actually very important to the argument against Dream, which claims he cheated during an officially submitted Minecraft speedrun.
The moderators for Minecraft’s speedrunning leaderboards essentially claim that Dream was somehow manipulating RNG so that Minecraft’s Piglin trading feature would give him the drops he needed faster than normal. Dream has refuted these claims multiple times on his personal Twitter account, claiming the moderation team’s verdict was biased against him. This is mainly because the head moderator of the official Minecraft speedrunning leaderboard, Geosquare, published an in-depth video proving why the RNG in Dream’s past runs would likely never realistically occur, even by chance. In the video, Geosquare compares Dream’s RNG regarding Piglin trading and Blaze Rod drops to other speedruns, showing Dream’s luck with RNG was substantially higher than others.
These results come off the back of a two-month long investigation by the Minecraft speedrunning team. It’s also important to note that this isn’t the only high-placing speedrun that Dream has submitted. He actually held the world record for a bit in a previous run using the 1.15 build of Minecraft, which is still verified. The entire situation has become a bit of a fandom war online, with many fans of Dream struggling which side to believe in the ongoing feud.
Still, the Minecraft speedrunning moderation team have released plenty of evidence to back up their claims, with over 29 pages of results refuting the run. Though, it seems Dream is still intent on proving his runs were legitimate, as the content creator has stated multiple times he will be compiling his own evidence to prove his run is valid. Until Dream is able to fully disprove these accusations against him, the moderation team’s evidence looks very strong. Hopefully, this situation is able to be resolved somewhat peacefully in the near future.
Minecraft is available on Mobile, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
