The blue axolotl is the main protagonist in a crazy Minecraft record attempt.
Minecraft pro SmallAnt wanted to know. He didn’t just play Minecraft, no, he dissected the game mechanics of the blockbuster hit down to the smallest detail. His goal: He wanted to play in the particularly demanding game mode Skyblock achieve all available achievements – in Minecraft simply Progress
called.
He managed to do that – and he’s still annoyed. An official update to the game is to blame for this. The events happened in 2022, but only now has SmallAnt published a very amusing and informative video about its Minecraft marathon.
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200 hours with only one goal in mind
What is Skyblock? Before we continue telling SmallAnt’s tragic story, here’s a short briefing for those new to Minecraft. In the Skyblock game mode, players start virtually nowhere on a tiny island. There is only a starting supply in the inventory for crafting the most important block types; from then on, everything else has to be achieved and produced somehow using your own creative efforts.
SmallAnt has defied all odds. In the video above he shares some anecdotes. Among other things, how he accidentally destroyed powder snow blocks that he previously had to farm for 20 hours to produce.
He even managed to spawn turtles by finding the beach biome in an unmodified version of his world seed and then placing some sand and water at the same coordinates in the Skyblock world.
Over the course of the 200 hours, SmallAnt had to get very creative several times to reach its goal.
“It was all in vain”
Almost everything I did in Skyblock during these months served one purpose. Every day I streamed, every structure I created, and every block I mined was working towards him. This adorable amphibious boy: a blue axolotl.
With these words, SmallAnt finally comes to the big finale. Because in order to get the very rare blue axolotl, you not only have to be very lucky (when axolotls mate, the chance of getting a blue specimen is 1:1200), but you also need clay to build a farm.
At that time, as of Update 1.18, the clay resource was extremely difficult to obtain in Skyblock mode. So SmallAnt actually had to spend a lot of his 200-hour marathon to end up with enough clay to build the axolotl mating home.
The blue axolotl actually appeared, the last achievement was achieved – all’s well that ends well…
…until Minecraft 1.19 came out just a single week later, making it possible to obtain clay by simply packing some clay over a piece of stalactite.
SmallAnt finds clear words for this in his video: Oh my god, the whole game was free.
Are you also Minecraft virtuosos? If so, we are of course interested in your perspective! What do you think of the streamer’s mammoth project and could you imagine starting a similar record attempt yourself? Or do you prefer to build comfortably and stress-free in the normal game? Feel free to write it to us in the comments!
