Update ruins Minecraft streamer's 200-hour challenge just one week after he completed it: "Oh my god this whole playthrough was for nothing"

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One streamer spent 200 hours beating an absurd, hyper-difficult variant of Minecraft's most popular challenge, only to have the crowning achievement rendered meaningless by an update that landed just a week after it was all done.

That challenge is Minecraft Skyblock. This is a mod that puts you on a tiny island floating in a vast, endless void, armed with only a couple of items necessary to start farming a few essential types of blocks. Skyblock requires you to have pretty intense knowledge of Minecraft's most intricate systems. With no ground to walk on and no earth to mine, you have to build intricate systems of item farms, carefully construct areas for essential mobs to spawn, and subsist mostly with a network of villager trading.

Streamer SmallAnt decided to take the Skyblock challenge to the next level by attempting to get every single achievement in the game - or, more in the proper Minecraft parlance, every advancement. A few advancements are literally impossible to get in Skyblock, but most are gettable, and so SmallAnt set to work collecting them.

That effort took place in just under 200 hours of in-game time, which SmallAnt helpfully condensed into a 35-minute video published last week. It makes for some delightful viewing, with some fun anecdotes about accidentally destroying the powdered snow he'd farmed 20 hours for, or how he managed to spawn turtles by locating the beach biome in an unmodded version of his world seed and then placing some sand and water at those coordinates in the Skyblock world.

One of the biggest roadblocks to all this was building a lava farm, which requires access to pointed dripstone. Normally, you'd mine that from dripstone caves, which obviously do not exist in a Skyblock world. The