Any% Set Seed Glitched (Internal) Pre 1.9

Played on 7/10/2024
This run used an alternative dupe glitch which doesn't involve exiting the world making it an internal set seed glitched run. Explanations are in the description below.
Category name explanation
There are two sub-sections of set seed glitched listed in the speedrun.com leaderboards: internal and external. External means the runner used glitches that involve exiting the world either by save and quitting to title or force quitting the game via alt+f4 or task manager. Internal means the runner utilized glitches that didn't involve exiting the world. This run is considered an internal run as I didn't exit the world at all during the run and utilized glitches within the world only. In this case, I used a dupe glitch which has you pick up an item in the chest at a specific tick when it explodes to glitch the item, allowing for duplication.
Set seed glitched is also split into Pre 1.9 and 1.9+ where pre 1.9 includes runs done on release versions 1.0 all the way to 1.8.9, whereas 1.9+ includes runs from release version 1.9 all the way to the current version of the game.
Internal dupe glitch explanation
Since I'm not allowed to exit the world at any point during an internal run, I had to use an alternative dupe glitch method that doesn't exit the world. This particular dupe glitch method involves TNT and a chest. By grabbing an item from the chest right as the TNT explodes, the now glitched item should show a red 0 on the hotbar. This glitch is tick perfect. You can then open the inventory, select the glitched item, and right click elsewhere from the inventory to dupe as much of that item as you want as shown at 3:45 of the video. In this case, I went with emeralds in order to trade ender eyes from a clerk and bow and arrows from a fletcher.
Thoughts on the run
2 days prior to this run, I didn't think a completion in this category was feasible for me due to the tick perfect dupe that was required. In practice, I never got the dupe to work due to its very precise timing. The current completions I saw of this category also used the current 1.8 SSG WR seed which lacks accessible projectiles and wool for beds meaning I likely had to do the glitch multiple times. The next day however, when researching how to do the dupe glitch, I came across other duplication methods which had the player just spam click the item. I then decided to apply spam clicking the item on the chest rather than time when to pick up the item. And with that, I got the dupe glitch to work. I then had to solve the seed situation as I've never completed a speedrun in any category by killing the dragon projectileless in pre 1.9 (without peaceful). I first thought of an old SSG peaceful seed, but went with a seed that I remembered seeing in an old video which had the dragon killed in 2 charges in Pre 1.9 that was in the description of a video by Crafterdark: • New Strategy to defeat... . This seed was used as it had extra iron for shears along with enough to create a bucket and iron tools, as well as a temple with TNT, a village for trading, and a fairly close stronghold.
The next day, I set a couple of times, and eventually settled for this run. This run was not that great except for an alright end fight for me which was a 2:28. The overworld was poor as it was second try dupe and got lost trying to find the clerk. The enter end of this run was a 5:24 and I've gotten a 4:47 before. The route can also definitely be improved in this seed as I spent only a day playing this, and there are probably faster seeds than this seed that can be completed consistently for this category. However, I'm content with this time for now as it's sub 8.
Previous PB: • Any% Set Seed Glitched...
Version 1.8.9
Exact in game time: 7:52.664
Exact real time: 7:54.641
Difficulty: Easy
Recorded with Xbox Game Bar
Timer: SpeedRunIGT v13.6 with Legacy Fabric Loader
Seed: 2934660241550003783
Leaderboard and rules: speedrun.com/mc?h=Any-internal-set-seed-pre-1-9&x=wkpn0vdr-68k15rkl.lr35gnol-2lgzk1o8.rqv4pz7q-wlexoyr8.jqzywv2l