- What's the fastest way to
reach sky limit in Minecraft? Back in 2015, mumbo jumbo looked for the fastest elevator at the time, but with nearly five
years of updates since, there's plenty of new
methods to see which are both stranger and faster than before. So today let's find out the
new current champion and hey, the YouTube genie's letting
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button down below. it's free and it helps out a ton. Firstly, one of the most basic ways to get up to build limit has to be by jumping up blocks
one at a time and hey, no surprise to anyone
it's not exactly fast, but it is pretty easy to set up. And it's definitely reusable
if you're trying to get up and back down from somewhere high up, but at 95 seconds to get from
sea level to build limit. It's not exactly one of our
best picks in the list because while it might be easy to
place all those one block high incremental jumps, it's so much better to just
place down some actual stairs that you crafted. With these in place, we
maintain the ability to sprint, which is a huge help if you're trying to get up somewhere
fast and you can see in the results, when we stopped
nursing that jump button, and instead let the stairs do the work, we can go so much faster up here. And in fact, we did it
in about 1/3 of the time. And while that's not mindbogglingly fast, it is pretty impressive that
if you take the time to lay this out, you'll actually
get quite a bit of results. And if you want to set up
more bang for your buck with that staircase,
you can actually go up those stairs quite a bit
faster with a speed two effect. And whether you choose to do this with a beacon or a potion effect, you're going to be fine
either way because that buff is going to shave some
valuable seconds off your time. Which proves that if you're
going to be going up and down that staircase quite a bit, it's worth taking the extra
time to set up a beacon and get yourself going that little bit faster. You know, where the speed
effect doesn't quite help you is with a snow staircase. Yeah, for the sake of being thorough, we tested this one as well. And this is just a crazy sight to see being over 1500 blocks wide. It's even less practical to do. The time that this mess clocked in at was four and a half minutes, which to put that in perspective, that would be going nearly 11
times up that staircase that we built earlier, the
regular staircase puts this to shame so much. It's not
even worth looking at the snow. And if you think that the speed two effect is going to help you here, don't even get your hopes up
because I tested it and it doesn't even get it
going under two minutes. I can't even put my mind around that. It's just that slow, absolutely do not use the snow staircase because really to an extreme effect that does show the problem
with having staircases: that they're just so wide
that it leaves such a footprint on your world. Really, if you're looking
to sacrifice some speed for a smaller footprint than pillaring is an obvious choice. While sure, this clocks
in is just about as fast as jumping up the blocks one at a time, it's so much more accessible to do. All you need is a couple
of junk stacks of blocks in your inventory and all of a
sudden the tops of mountains, even the tallest ones, are
completely within your reach. But if you're a fan of the
accessibility and not so much the speed, that's fine too, because like the speed effect
we actually can use potions to increase our time here. This time loading up jump boost two will get us a fully fledged
pillar and about half the time that we would regularly and
overall while pillaring is good for a one off occasion, if you're going to be using it all the time to get up to your sky base, it just gets
less and less desirable. But Hey, you don't just have to use
that water bucket to get down from the top, because as you know, if you've played in a Waterworld, we can just as easily use it
to get up to the sky high. Now still water is going
to be preferable for this. Even if it is harder to set
up from such a great height by simply holding space bar in one
of these Stillwater streams, we can actually get up to
the top reasonably fast. Look, it's not the worst of
the bunch, but with water, we can do so much better. If you don't want to leave a
massive water tube going up to your base, that's not even that fast, then water bucket climbing
is a pretty good alternative. Only downside is as you keep pressing, right click to rappel up
the side of the building, you'll notice that without
the proper technique, there's so much room for
human error to screw you up. What I will admit with our data
is we're not exactly working with the best attempt when
we show you the numbers. But what I will say is even with the best possible technique I can think of, it's so quickly outpaced by some of the other methods. I think it's not a worry. So unless you're using that
water bucket to get to the top of obsidian pillars in the end, I don't think it's going
to be that helpful for you. Instead, do yourself a
favor place down that water and use some soul sand to
get yourself a real boost by making one of these bubble elevators, we can shoot up to the top and 353 ticks. And folks, that's just by standing still. If we sprint swim up
that very same stream, then we will launch ourselves
up to the top and 314 ticks. This is definitely the champion
of water bucket base travel. Anyhow, I'll admit it
is somewhat of a pain to set up because you do have to have source blocks all the
way up from that soul sand. But as long as you're
using the kelp trick, you can turn all of those blocks
into sources pretty easily. And from there, all you're left with is a beautiful way straight up to the top. That is, it's beautiful
until you decide to break it. In which case you're going to get so much flooding over your landscape. Okay, in that case, if you're looking for
a teeny tiny footprint, then nothing really beats scaffolding. All it takes is one of
these blocks as a base and then from there quite
literally the sky's the limit. Just hold down, right click, and you're going to shoot
it off into the moon. Only problem is as fun and fast as it is to set one of these up and tear it down. That speed doesn't really carry
through with how fast you're able to climb it. Sure, it's faster than some of
the methods we talked about, but it still ranks amongst some of the stinkers of the bunch. Proving that scaffold's purpose
is really just a clean form of pillaring, which in fairness, I think that's all it's supposed to be. But who knows, maybe you're tired of building
the blocks to the sky. And instead you'd rather have the blocks take you themselves to the sky. Then of course, with the power of bee snot and pistons, you can do just that. As far as pure style points, I don't think many of the picks in the list can rival the flying machine. And while you can rest assured knowing that you'll look good
as you go up to the sky limit, it's not going to take
you there any faster. You see, in my testing, the time from this was only one tick off from regular pillaring, which is fractions of seconds. It's so close that it could
have just been command block or human error, who knows. And the data itself speaks
that this is one of the slowest ways to get yourself up to build limit, but is it one of the fanciest? Oh, absolutely. And Hey, it requires a lot less placing blocks than some
of the other methods. I think there is merit here. It's just not in the speed category, or if you don't want to learn
all that complex machinery to build one of these rides up to the sky, then using mob power is another option. And while shulkers might
seem like the obvious choice, when you look at the data, they absolutely do not stand out that way. Clocking in, it took nearly four minutes to get from point A to
point B in our testing. Which for all the effort that
it takes to set up one of these up, especially in survival, this is just about as impractical and slow as doing it with the snow staircase. As anyone who's ever gotten the shulker-based achievement knows, there's so much variation
with one of these things. And your time on this course can depend on so many different factors. Like how many times you
get hit by the shulker or whether or not you lose
any levitation between sets. Oh, and don't forget all the damage you're going to sustain during this thing. Unless you're eating something good, you're going to die on the way up. No question. Really, leave the shulkers in the end, because we have so many
better picks over here in the overworld for mob-based staircase. Like how about using a horse? And no, not by jumping, but instead, just going
up a simple staircase. Now, in fairness, we did use the fastest possible
horse in survival for this. Keep that in mind when I say the results are oh, so impressive. Because 20 seconds for this tall of a Trek is insane. Granted, during that attempt the horse wasn't temperamental or bucking in any kind of way, because
if that does happen, it will slow you down. But even then, this is
a pretty decent option. And it definitely makes that
staircase you built earlier a whole lot more worthwhile. Or if you're looking to drive
up some real horsepower, then a thin horse
staircase is what you want. By using certain blocks
with weird hit boxes that just keep getting
thinner and thinner. Like cakes that we use in this example. You can clock up so much speed
as you run up to the top, Just like that, we clocked in at hitting the target in less than 10 seconds. I can't even wrap my head around it. That turns your stallion into
a spaceship and even better to know is that horse speed does not greatly impact this method. So whether you got the fastest
possible horse in survival or just one in your backyard, it's still going to do pretty
great with this method. As long as no hungry souls
come in to eat the cake. I think you're pretty set with this one, but if you don't have any
horses nearby and you still want to hitch your ride, then
a powered mine cart rail is still pretty good. With consistent powered rails
all the way up the slope, we were able to clock in
at 24 seconds for the time. Which for a method where all
you gotta do is just place down your mind cart, sit back and
ride is pretty nice to have. And we can push that ride even further. If we use the same Redstone,
we used to power those rails to instead build a slime
block mine cart elevator. Now, besides being one of the
most fun picks on the list, this also clocks in some
pretty decent speed. As the elevator bounces
our way to the top, we're able to handle this in 11 seconds, which means I got to say, if you're saving up your slime
blocks for a fly machine, maybe put one of these
on your list instead, It's even more reusable and
that much quicker to get yourself right up to the top. And if you don't want
to work with mine carts then a piston elevator
can also fit that bill. Now, the stability on one of these can be a little bit more finicky than some of the other elevator designs. So for our testing, we
decided to go with one that's much more stable for multiplayer, but it isn't the fastest
piston elevator on the market. Regardless as much as I
love piston elevators, whether it's this one or
one of the faster builds, they're still put to shame
by other picks in the list. But if you're looking for a killer way to get up to that penthouse apartment, this is still a pretty rocking
choice to put in your build. Now, piston elevators are great if you're sick of mine carts, but what if the mine
carts are sick of you? Funnily enough with a couple
of hundred activator rails, we're able to see just that. Laying it out like such, we get sort of an injector
rail situation going on here. And if you're just holding
down right mouse button, it's going to do all right
to get you to the top. In about 19 seconds. But for the sake of being thorough, we also looked at how we can do this with a right click macro. And folks, when you use one of those, you can throw the other
times off of the board. Because doing this, we got 4.9 seconds. Although if macros aren't
your style and instead you'd rather just hold down right click, then a mine cart tube laid out like this is still gonna do a pretty great job. Even with a method as simple
as holding down the button, we can clock in at 9.5 seconds here. What that same right click macro
that we talked about in the last one, using it here only
gets us 0.05 seconds return. But if you don't want to be
using macro scripts every time you try to get up to your base, then building one of
these over the last one is a pretty awesome pick. - But as much as you love
holding down right click, you're not going to be able
to do it on this next one. Because as soon as we start
to talk about enderpearls, the cooldown doesn't even
let us hold down right click. Instead for this method, we're going to have to hold
down the shift key because every time that we go up, we have to hold on for dear
life to one of these ladders. Which is perilous, but hey, it's a pretty fair trade off
for not having to use any redstone on the build. With a 12 second time, you can clock in some pretty
great speed with one of these. Although keep in mind that enderpearls are pretty inconsistent by nature. So they are going to have some variation in the way that you throw them. And well, that's not
really an issue with this, if you don't align yourself
perfectly at the beginning and throw those pearls at the right intervals, you will start to see some rubber banding as previous pearls
start to launch you back and lose your progress. Plus, if you don't want to align one of those enderpearls
yourself, don't sweat it. This machine will do it
for you and better yet, It'll do it a whole lot faster
than that previous method. This design touts around 20
blocks per second in its method, which folks I've got to
say is crazy to see happen. Unfortunately though,
there are some things to this mechanism that don't
exactly seem intentional. And while it won't bog us down too much with the nitty gritty, I will say that Fallen_breath
has a beautiful video about the design of this thing. And I highly recommend you check it out if you're interested. So we can see that using projectiles is a pretty fast way up to sky limit. But what if you yourself
want to be a projectile? Well Evil Knievel, there
is an option for that. And I got to say, it's a pretty great one at that. By letting all of the
explosives fill into the water, as soon as they start to go off, boom. You'll send yourself right
into the stratosphere. Unfortunately to note, this can be somewhat inconsistent in survival. Where some methods will launch
you 75 blocks and others will launch you the full 400. Even with those inconsistencies, this is still going to get you to the top of the world
in around five seconds. That's nuts. And while it's easy to get
caught up in such a crazy speed, don't forget to pack on some
blast protection on your armor. Otherwise this will take you
to your grave even faster than the build limit. Now, a much safer option that still uses that same
gunpowder from your creeper farm is in an Elytra rocket spam. Worth mentioning for our testing, we were holding down rockets
and spamming them all the way up to the top, which if you do that, you better have a good supply
of fireworks because this will eat through your supply, like no other. But with that greediness comes
some pretty great results. By being able to hit our target in just over six seconds, it's clear why this is an end game pick. It's that good. And while that might be
one of our better picks when the sky is clear, as soon as you start to see
a bit of overcast overhead, then it's time to whip out the trident. And for good reason, using one of these things can get you from sea level to sky limit in around two seconds, two seconds folks! And I thought that was
just how fast people subscribed to the channel, but no, it's literally how
quick you can get yourself from point A to point B by using one of these three pronged forks. Obviously, unless you're in Seattle, you're not going to be using
one of these with the rain all that often, but when
you do get the chance, it'll fling you up into the stars. No question about it. And Hey, while we're talking
about lightspeed travel, we might as well talk about
different dimensions as well because nether portals, even though they are
awkward to set up and link, can do a pretty great job at sending you up to the top of the building. Now in survival, there is some downside, like you got to wait until that
nether portal sickness gets away before you go in the next time. In creative, that doesn't exist. And we can turn our nearly
11 seconds in survival into 2.3 in creative! And folks, this is the point
of the video where I tell you, we didn't just look at survival methods, but for the sake of being thorough, we also covered every creative
mode and command line option I could think of. Just to rattle through some of those Creative mode flight is
reliable, but surprisingly slow. Making spectator mode at max scroll wheel the best for fly arounds. Also potion effects can do crazy work with both max levitation
and max jump boost giving us some of the best results, but don't go past 127 on either of them or they just stop working outright. And even if you can go past 127, like with max speed up to 255, it doesn't even help
that much on the stairs. On land, you can move around
in a blink, but on stairs, it's still slower than
some of our other options. Not worthwhile. And yes, for all the
Einsteins in the comments, teleportation is the best method. Congratulations for remembering that. (party poppers fire) I'm proud of you. Now, after all that testing, here's the data we got from all
of our sideshow experiments. And finally, this is the list adjusted with those creative mode methods in mind. So with that folks take a climb to that subscribe button down
below and have a good one. All right?
