The Minecraft-speedrunner Dream admits to his cheating after half a year. At least partially. Because the cheating was “just an accident”.
Almost half a year ago, we reported on the Minecraft speedrunner “Dream”. He was suspected of cheating during a record run in Minecraft, which caused a lot of stir as he tried to prove his innocence.
Now he has confessed: Yes, he did cheat. But it was supposedly an accident.
What is it about? We are talking about the streamer “Dream”. He has a pretty large fanbase and entertains them with various content. One type of that was speedruns. For a while, he held the speedrun record for the fastest completion of Minecraft. Even though Minecraft is basically an “endless game”, you reach the provisional end by defeating the Ender Dragon.
Speedrunner had suspiciously good loot luck during record run
What stood out: What was suspicious back then was the drop chance of items, as Dream got a lot of Blaze Rods and Ender Pearls. These are items that can be obtained, for example, through drops in the Nether from certain mobs (Blaze Rod) or by trading with Piglins (Ender Pearl). The chance for this, however, is quite low. However, Dream managed to obtain both items extremely frequently and with high reliability, which raised concerns from critics.
An investigation revealed that the drop chances were most likely manipulated. The probability that his “speedrun record” was legitimate was 1 : 117,000,000,000. The speedrun record was subsequently revoked from Dream and he fell from grace.
Over the last few months, Dream tried repeatedly to prove his innocence. He was apparently convinced that he had not manipulated the run. He even hired an astrophysicist to demonstrate that the probabilities in his speedrun were possible and legitimate.
Dream admits to cheating, calls it “accident”
What Dream says now: Just a few hours ago, Dream published a statement about the whole case, which was quickly deleted (via Invenglobal). Here he explained that a plugin was to blame for changing the drop chances. He stated:
I had considered at the time that [the plugin] could potentially be the problem, but dismissed the thought since server-side and client-side changes are entirely different things and as far as I was aware, nothing was changed client-side.
He also admitted that the 29-page document by his critics, which detailed what was wrong with the speedrun, was “largely accurate” and apologized for having “dragged them through the mud”.
The admission is therefore: Yes, he cheated, but he simply wasn’t aware of it.
This is how the community reacts: Although Dream now admits that the speedrun was not legitimate, many in his community are still dissatisfied. Many do not believe Dream that the cheating was an accident and feel that he is simply shirking his responsibility by continuing to hide behind these excuses.
Since then, Dream has announced that he will release another “statement” regarding the cheating allegations after the first one was already deleted. Perhaps he will choose words there that his community will like a little better.
What do you think about this story? Do you think it is realistic that someone cheated “accidentally” and simply didn’t know? Or do you believe there was some cold calculation behind it?
