A big speedrunner named Nikocraft was just caught cheating his Minecraft speedruns which set world records and gained millions of views. The cheating was uncovered using innovative new techniques by Eliotex and Crafterdark. You can find them here:
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Music used (in order):
Pulsar Glitch - Orbit
Foewi - Close
Ben Prunty - Lanius
Bun Prunty - Federation
Lemmino - Biosignature
Lemmino - Cipher
HOME - Nights (I Wish I Could Be There)
Outro prod. NickHitt Beats: • [FREE] Drake Type Beat...
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This is the story of a Minecraft player who possibly cheated to get a faked Minecraft speedrun world record, and not the story of their friend who did not cheat to get a faked Minecraft speedrun world record. Fake Minecraft speedruns are insane, almost as insane as this description! If you want to see a fake cheated Minecraft 1.16 world record speedrun, this is the video for you!
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Hi! I'm SpoonTy, the previous WR holder for the SSG Peaceful category. My world just got turned upside down. When I ran the category, I was the only crazy guy who tried beating the game with these unstable seeds and it took me days and a lot of dedication to complete ONE run. When Nikocraft appeared and posted the new WR, I really thought it was leggit, congratulated him for the exceptional (and extremely lucky) run. It was so lucky and exceptional that it was suicidal to even THINK about beating his time, so nobody really tried to beat his WR for a very long time, and I totally gave up this painful yet fun category. Knowing that he cheated, it feels weird. When I posted my WR back then, it didn't last for very long until it was beaten and his video exploded while I was already excluded from the history of this category. That's how it is with speedrunning sometimes, but somehow I feel a bit robbed today. Congratulations to everyone who figured out the truth, and thank you for making this video. My honor is restored!
Hey I know this comment might not mean a whole lot coming from someone who only watches these cheaters get caught but I really hope you get the recognition you deserve!
That sucks. You deserved the recognition and attention from having the number one spot for longer, but you got that stolen from you by a cheater. I’m sorry that happened to you, as I would feel like I got robbed as well if that happened to me.
Brb, gonna watch your world record a bunch of times cause you deserved it
Life do be like that. It's sad but it happens
thats pretty much what happened to a bunch of geometry dash players recently too. someone named spaceuk was outed for cheating recently and hes been the number one player for so long. the amount of first victor and number one player titles he stole was insane, causing players that felt like they were always in his shadow to quit as well. it really is sad to see all the clout and respect that gets ripped away from legit players being overlooked due to cheaters.
"This is the biggest Minecraft cheating scandal we've seen in a long time" So like, 2 weeks?
lmao
Lmao
actually true lmao
"The biggest Minecraft cheating scandal we've seen in a long time so far!" :P
They are all big
nikocraftHD getting exposed at like the same exact time as SpaceUK is just crazy
spaceuk was running minecraft for a little while too...
Hello fellow GD enjoyers!
@@_Nek0_ what’s GD? Geometry dash?
@@yobedlesskuz yes.
exactly what came into my mind when i saw this video
If I had a dollar at this point for every time a top minecraft speedrunner, especially one with world records, was exposed for a cheating scandal spanning a long period of time, I would have... Hell, I'd have a LOT of dollars, that's for sure.
All I can picture is Dr. Doofenshmirtz going "Wow, if I had a nickel for every time I was doomed by a puppet, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice." in Phineas and Ferb accros the 2nd dimension xD
You'd have like two or three dollars. I think people overstate how many cheating scandals there's been.
@Duey Drem Dream Guy who exposed Dream Another guy whos name I cant remember The pair of speedrunners who both cheated This guy in the video.
@@GubbiGap SAAAAAAAMMMMMEEEEE
@@GoldenRedder Flowbee as well - not sure if that was one of the names you forgot
With the title of Niko's run having (totally legit, believe me lol) in it, im surprised it didn't get found out sooner....
It was added after the expose video was made public.
@@Crafterdark thanks for the clarification!
@@thepretzelball what you just said sound like one of those little auto-responses in gmail who agrees
Can't believe a guy name Niko made a mistake involving food
Iol
kado avocado
hold on a moment
Lmaooo
niko oneshot
When a Minecraft speedrunning video uses Lemmino - Cipher, you know it's about to go down
Fuckin facts lol, heard that shit and nearly fell off my chair
11:33 "but in the end, he forgot about saturation." The best pun I've heard this year
Correction for the probability: (1/3)^100 for the 3 : 57 run (1/3)^70 for the 2 : 49 run (1/3)^10 is the probability for the entire hunger bar to not move once. [one skipped cycle of the hunger bar] Each (1/3) is the independent food piece probability to stay still. So in general, the probability for a specific amount of consecutive skipped hunger bar movements is: (1/3)^(10*skipped_cycles) Anyway... Ty for showcasing my last extra evidence as well in the vid!! (I went full investigation mode lol)
thanks for the math correction.
great job on finding that! very smart as always :P
thanks for exposing the cheaters
^10^7 is the same as ^70
mans really had the nerve to edit the title to (totally legit, believe me lol) after 4 years of cheating like bro what 💀
The craziest thing is that if niko wasn't just thirsty for more fame and decided to cheat a world record again, he would've stayed a legend in the community with his first run
Hardly. The method to expose him still would have existed therefore he would have been exposed eventually.
@@lightyagami3492you really think so?
@@lightyagami3492would've believed it if this was 1 year ago, maybe 2. But 4? We found out how to locate the stronghold by just looking at the bone blocks in nether and beat minecraft in 15 seconds in all this time and yet couldn't prove he was cheating
@@lightyagami3492ot really, there isn’t much reason to look into that run. The runs that are going to be looked at are probably competitive WRS, such as RSG Glitchless, not a FWR that was beaten by like 2 minutes
We actually were suspicious of his other run first but for the wrong reasons. There’s a decent chance we wouldn’t have found the stuff in the first run though if we couldn’t have made more progress in the 2:49.
Awesome video! Btw a small correction at 2:02: Niko didn't keep playing as far as we knew, he kinda just came back out of complete nowhere and posted the 2:49. It was really shocking and cool at the time that he came back and got wr again but now we know the sad truth...
"Four years of lies" "april 2019" me: wait that's only one year, isn't it? isn't it...
Umm, hello! I am from 2023. I am from the present, but also your future! How do you do?
it’s unbelievably disturbing how many of these ‘verified’ cheated runs still haven’t been caught
Has it really been THAT long since a Minecraft cheating scandal?
Yeah, weeks at least - that's very long nowadays.
Must be a miserable game to speedrun if half the runners would rather cheat
@@vizic9561 Probably. If I were a speedrunner, I'd just do/create fun, gimmicky ones for content instead of compete for a spot on the leaderboards. If you're not getting accused of being a cheater, then your fellow speedrunner is.
@@vizic9561 the random seed runs are dumb. The end result is super cool to watch but spamming resets with "the wall" is straight up retarded
The first piece of concrete evidence that his run was cheated being based on his spawn point in relation to the path he took where he had to place blocks to keep his speed over a river is simultaneously incredibly good luck for those who want to prevent cheating, and monumentally bad luck for the cheater.
yeah i was surprised it was that simple LOL
As much as it sucks to find out that iconic runs are actually fake and the respected runners are assholes, I love seeing how people are expanding the knowledge of the game to catch more cheaters. It also reinforces that you will ALWAYS be caught eventually.
spaceuk but minecraft!!! 😰
Hold up did space also cheat his top 3% (500) run??!! Everyone who already knew him was so surprised to see him do runs like that after 4 months of starting speedruns
SpaceUK is fake. UK has too much government corruption to fund their space program and uK equals bad. I know this because i don't like the king or queen. In fact,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. Trust me bro us is truly better. Uk dose not have a lot of oil, they have to import. Going to space requires Oil and us has lots of oil. If no oil the hunger bar on the space ship would dissapear so fast it is much faster than shown in video. The player's hunger value is shown on the heads-up display in the form of a hunger bar (or food bar), which is similar to the health bar (located above the hotbar), located opposite to it and represented by ten drumsticks ( Hunger (icon).png × 10). One half of a drumstick ( Half Hunger (icon).png ) represents one hunger point or half-unit of hunger, thus the full bar consists of twenty hunger points. It is replenished by eating food, and decreased by player's actions such as sprinting, digging or attacking. Various levels of player's hunger control health regeneration (or depletion) and the ability to sprint. When hunger is at 18 ( Empty Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png ), the player's health regenerates. If it falls to 6 ( Empty Hunger (icon).png Empty Hunger (icon).png Empty Hunger (icon).png Empty Hunger (icon).png Empty Hunger (icon).png Empty Hunger (icon).png Empty Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png Hunger (icon).png ), the player loses the ability to sprint. If the hunger bar is at zero, the player'
Probably lol
According to him he doesn't know how to fake mc speed runs, idk to believe him or not. Its much harder to cheat mc speedruns then to hack in gd
Sounds like it's time to make a mod that forces your hunger bar to jiggle no matter the situation level 👀
6:50 damnnn i didn’t know this, after playing minecraft peaceful mode for like 7+ years I thought it was just a bug
what about lide? he also admitted to cheating his pre 1.9 records in the comments of this video
Yes but there is not a lot to talk about. He wasn't exposed. We just know because he admitted it.
He’ll probably make a video on it but it takes a few days. Also it was PikaJ’s video not this one.
SpaceUK
nikoUK confirmed
If the mods don't release their investigations, it creates a transparency issue. If they do release the details, and KZheadrs spread word of them, it creates a blueprint for cheaters to know what to avoid doing. It's a lose lose scenario, but being transparent is better than being secretive imo, because standards of legitimacy are effectively rules of the sport, and it isn't fair to expect players and fans of the sport of speedrunning to trust the integrity of rules they can't know. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I wouldn't be surprised if some revolutionary new cheat detection method is invented years down the line and it identifies that half of all popular/top runners are cheaters.
As someone who used to be a moderator for a competition in a different game I would be in support of moderators keeping as much to themselves as they possibly can get away with. It's just too powerful to throw away that advantage of not letting the enemy (cheaters) know what your exact capabilities are. Obviously when someone needs to have their runs removed, something has to be said about why, but they should never reveal everything they know.
@@BlueCyann In your opinion, were the details released (as shown in this video at least) too much, too little, or just right?
Does the pinned comment on eliotex's video about the same topic count?
@@Lyxier I'd say it does count when it comes to being relevant to the conversation over balancing transparency and secrecy. While Eliotex isn't a moderator to my knowledge, the linked document does provide valuable insight into what a cheater should take into account when trying to fake a run. It isn't Eliotex's fault though, as he needs to be thorough if he is going to make a damning accusation on someone's integrity. Should he have sent the info privately to mods and never released the document/video? Should the community be expected to take behind the scenes moderator work as legitimate, when Minecravenger was a moderator at one point, thus showing that undercover moderator abuse could be possible if someone wanted to? There isn't an easy answer, and while I still side with transparency, I'll admit it isn't perfect.
@@Miken398 when was eric a mod? He might’ve been a verifier at one point, but I don’t think he was ever a mod.
I remember watching this video by Nikocraft and being amazed. This was about 4 months before I got into survival minecraft, and I just couldn't believe the skill of the run. I showed it to others in my family and that video is what got me into watching mc speedrunning and then this channel. It's just insane that it isn't legit.
1:53 One day I came across this video in which I learned about minecraft speedrunning. I remember how I wanted to repeat run, not knowing anything about Minecraft speedrunning I can say that my speedrunning story began with this video. It's good that this video was published despite the fact that run is fake. If it hadn't been published, perhaps the leaderboard would have been smaller.
new spaceuk just dropped
Lol true
Lol
every single time I see a video like this pop up in my recommended I PRAY that I haven't heard of the person being discussed
I'm lucky The only user I ever heard of who was discussed was Dream. Who I'm neutral about, since I don't watch his videos, but he's in some videos of other youtubers.
Already said this on PikaJ’s video, but DAMN the methods used to expose Niko are incredibly impressive and genius
I don't care how many times you re-upload or re-edit videos i would still watch them and be amazed by the quality improvement on each one of your vids 😁 keep up the "mind boggling" work!!
Welcome to the comments have some milk and popcorn 🍿🥤
Thx, don't forget for yourself too
Thanks, but..These are free right..?
No way you actually came back with the milk?
Thx my dad is getting the milk
Thank you good sir
The Monthly Thing is back
Holy cow the methods used to catch him cheat tho. That's insane
Idk if you would be interested in geometry dash, but do you think you could cover the SpaceUK hacking scandal? He was the #1 player for a while until he got exposed for hacking
I second this.
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I encourage more players to go into Cheater Hunting. The best way to mitigate cheating is by placing as much scrutinization as possible on runners, prefer-ability through automation. Imagine if you got 2nd place in a category only to learn all your hard work was beaten by a cheater? Cheaters hurt real runners the most. They are the scum of the gaming community.
this is not geometry dash spaceuk!
9:24 ahhh the dream luck this explain everything
Stuff like this is why I subbed. Love this kind of content.
imagine you rob a bank and they find you through a stomach rumble
SPACEUK 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😮😮
This guy's better at cheating than my girlfriend
ouch
lmao
I like that a guy like crafterdark which is a really smart guy that puts insane effort into his work/things he does in Minecraft, gets attention through multiple other KZheadrs to support him By now many many people have heard this name by now and will recognize him as the genius which he actually is Shoutout to him Well done stuff
Tbh, at this point, I almost wonder if some minecraft speedrun cheaters are intentionally doing it to draw attention to the field. I mean, I for really don't care about minecraft speed runs at all, but I often find it very interesting to hear stories about how people faked runs. I mean, it makes for good KZhead content.
oh great. first spaceUK and now this
@@regionruns WHAT?
@@wehaveculture Well they found a new way to check for splices. All those runs that didn't know that will get exposed now. And then new ones will be created that make sure to use up there saturation before recording, and the cycle continues
great video, loved the dramatic music with the 30 second timer, excellent
Bro thinks he's SpaceUK
Kinda surprised noone has thought of this hunger bar thing before. It is brilliant though.
Plot twist: Everyone on the leaderboards is faking it. It's physically impossible to get a sub 40 speedrun.
can't livesplit run on fullscreen games? i tested it myself anyway the ingame timer thing makes sence though
unrelated but very cool that u used lemmino songs. thats one of my favorite channels, i recognized it instantly :)
So many cheating scandals this week! First SpaceUk, now this?!
If someone from GD here: SpaceUK be like:
11:07 - Won't dive in? But that's what I'm here for.
Gotta update that SSGP video now haha
There should be a world record for most faked speed runs.
I bet every fake runner is shaking in their boots right now
so many cheaters... this after spaceUK is just
(Reads thumbnail) Ooh this must be the one on SpaceUK
8:25 IT CIPHER AGAIN AHHHHH ITS MY OWN PERSONAL AMOGUS
Plot twist there is a dev at mojang that tells moderators of runs tiny details either unknown or almost forgotton and then they use them to catch cheaters.
what i sthe intro song? - can you link it in the reply if you find it :D
I want it to be actually a weekly thing
first video, and i watched to the end, subbed too. I would lve to see more content abut cheating and speedruninng
bruh first SpaceUK in Geometry Dash, and now its nikocraftHD
The saturation level is insane insight by the investigators KUDOS
At this point I'm getting more and more convinced that the actual record is around 42 minutes and all faster runs have been cheated in some form. The amount of scandals is getting kind of ridiculous.
Lol, I was waiting for you to record this video since yesterday lol.
EVERY speed run cheating scandal >Mods and pros both had serious suspicions >Nobody heard of this guy >He came outta nowhere with a huge WR >No previous record >No known progress >Used unique, never before seen and difficult to explain techniques or just refused to explain his method >We accepted it as legit anyway >Turns out he cheated massively 😱
The FTL soundtrack is so nostalgic
spaceuk reference
Love the music choice
How are people still gonna act like speedrunning isn't an esport when our media analysts are just as dedicated but without the pay! Seriously, despite having wrestled with the same sort of fading out problems in my own videos just from an aesthetic frustration, I still wouldn't have thought to check for something like that in a million years. I'm glad that it gets taken seriously, because sometimes people deserve to be taught they can't get away with stuff like this, but it's also always just so wild that people will go to these lengths to try and fake runs. I wonder if it's for the glory of the WR or just the thrill of pulling one over on people, at that point?
Best players are getting exposed opn popular games, Look at Geometry dash, Spacuk just got exposed
Plot twist: They are all fakes. Literally everyone is cheating. They just haven't been caught yet. 😏
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Honestly being new to Minecraft and all seeing these videos confuse me. How the mods find out about the small things also amazes me.
9:23 "one in 10 decillion odds" Dream : I reckon I could get this on third try
This is why I dont like to watch MC speedrunning anymore. Everybody seems to be a cheater
this run fooled me so long
A cheating scandal for both geometry dash and Minecraft? What a year!
I’m not sure which one was harder to go find a cheater. One from the chest load out over trillion possibilities. Or the splice video from the sageration.
Yo! Can you tell me what is the name of the song played at 8.42 ?
8:42 *
@@Prisma___7 LEMMiNO - Cipher: www. youtube. com/watch?v=b0q5PR1xpA0
@@Prisma___7 Secrets-LETMIGO
@@canaldodarkk thx
Yoo, the monthly thing finally upload
I can understand the rationale for why one might not want to make the evidence public but the fact that that is a possibility honestly disturbs me and makes me unable to sleep at night.... yes that is weird lol
the fd up thing about these fakers is that getting exposed doesn’t really hurt them that much.. they’ve already gotten the views, praise & money anyway
Getting exposed for cheating due to tiny things like clouds and the freaking hunger bar not moving is kinda insane. I didn't even notice those details in the game before
Such things are one of the first things i look at when i watch a run for the second time.
@@meinekraft667 I guess it's just a difference in how we play the game or watch content from the game. I am more of a builder, so I focus more on things such as location. I would've noticed the TNT missing because it triggered my builder heart that someone would use TNT for stepping stones instead of sandstone. But I wouldn't notice a change in the clouds or hunger bar. It's really cool that you're able to notice such tiny details
These speed runners need to go outside they doing way too much lmao
there exists a mod called apple skin that allows you to see their saturation easily and with a lot more detail. to my knowledge it doesn't change the gameplay so they could use that.
4:11 is that the Faster Than Light music?!
man, i've played mc eversince nether reactor core exist in mcpe and i never know the hunger bar did that wiggle move
7:14 You can see the mouse cursor move a bit. Is this further evidence?
What a clever way to debunk cheaters
>one guy makes a vid right away >another guy makes the same vid about 4 hours after the first guy >and then THE Weekly thing! makes a PREMIERed video
love the music used at 8:25
I love the FTL music in the background!
thanks for telling me what moderators are looking for
We need a speedrum faking competition
april does wonders
I'd say he fooled me for so long but... honestly, the only way I keep up with speedruns is through The Weekly Thing
Hans Niemann: *Finally, a worthy opponent!*
spaceuk: *don't mind me*
This is why I dislike Minecraft speedruns...they're far too based on luck. Assuming the runs were simply two halves spliced together, he theoretically could have achieved the listed time given enough runs. Do the villagers have the trades I need? Will piglin bartering get me ender pearls quickly enough? Will blazes drop enough blaze rods? Is there a village close to spawn? Can I quickly find a lava lake? These are some of the many questions facing speedrunners depending on the version and type of run. Yes, the speedrunners are very skilled, usually even the ones with faked runs. The question of world records then becomes almost entirely based on RNG and how much time you can devote to trying to get the randomness to work in your favor.