Why Minecraft Players Built a Real Life Supercomputer

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What's the best way to find a cactus in Minecraft? If you answered "Build a supercomputer and check every single seed in existence on a supercomputer running a program that takes over 1 year to finish" then you'd be correct! CHAPTERS 0:00 - Seed Cracking 101 3:33 - Seed Finding 101 5:10 - Tall Cacti 10:52 - The Search Begins 11:55 - VERY Tall Cacti 15:06 - The Supercomputer 21:02 - The Future MUSIC (In order of appearance) C418 - Chirp C418 - Wait C418 - Divide by Four Add Seven HOME - The Moment Before HOME - Hold Home - 9 Foewi - Negative Gravity DMDOKURO - Theme of the Sunken Sea Home - Tides BOINC PROJECTS (TO GIVE PROCESSING POWER!) https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Project_list EXTRA CREDITS / SOURCES HyenaDae, CactusDuper, Matthew Bolan, KaptainWutax, Cortex, BoySanic, Dutchen18, Matt (2869), NeilSeed, Tomlacko, vcokltfre - Helping me research this video and for checking my script NeilSeed - Providing much of the history of seed cracking through a video on his channel (https://www.youtube.com/@NeilSeed) Boysanic - Didn't talk about his part too much in the video but he played a large part in modifying BOINC to work better with GPUs Minecraft@Home Team - For doing these insane projec Kaktoos Source Code - https://github.com/KaptainWutax/Kaktoos Kaktwoos Source Code - https://github.com/BalintCsala/kaktwoos Antvenom Herobrine Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35dkSdLE1KE Join Minecraft@Home - https://discord.gg/gTYAUr6xhg Use code : "Hellcastle" in the hypixel store when checking out to support the channel :) CORRECTION I don't know how I missed this, but the naive approach definitely wouldn't require 200,000 seeds per second, I meant 200,000 seeds per day. Not really a big issue but a couple people pointed it out. Follow us on twitter so we can see some meaningless numbers increase : https://twitter.com/HellCastleBTW https://twitter.com/tylerwith4rs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our discord server : https://discord.gg/duo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Texture Pack video (includes the ones we use in videos) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54XupCvcgA&t ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our mods folder video (includes the ones we use in videos) : https://youtu.be/3hSlsRBxXLs