Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed have wrapped up their Minecraft Hardcore marathon, taking down the Ender Dragon, the Wither, the Warden, and the Elder Guardian after roughly five days of streaming.
The challenge was simple on paper and brutal in practice: beat all four of the game’s most dangerous mobs in Hardcore, where death is permanent. The duo racked up a reported 42 deaths across the marathon before the run that finally stuck.
For most of it, they were badly underprepared. Iron armor, no serious enchantments, and a habit of walking straight into fights they had no business taking.
The turnaround came once they stopped rushing. Cenat and Speed built out experience farms, food farms, and a raid farm, then upgraded to full diamond armor with Protection IV, the highest normal level of the enchantment.
They also picked up Smite V swords, which shred undead mobs. That matters a lot against the Wither, less so against the Warden or the Ender Dragon.
The raid farm handed them Totems of Undying, the item that cancels one fatal hit if you’re holding it. Viewers counted anywhere from eight each to dozens in storage.
Once the armor was finished, ordinary mobs stopped mattering. At one point Speed survived an End Crystal explosion and the fall that followed with barely a scratch.
Feinberg showed up and changed the run
Minecraft speedrunner Feinberg, known for his All Advancements records, joined for a coaching session estimated at around an hour. His advice was to max out the armor enchantments, get full diamond, farm XP properly, carry food and healing, and stop entering boss fights half-geared.
The pair’s play improved sharply afterward. Viewers claimed they didn’t die again once the session ended.
It’s a funny gap in their knowledge: they already understood farms and redstone-adjacent setups, but had been skipping the enchanting table almost entirely.
The Warden was handled with a cheese strategy rather than a straight fight, which is fair enough given Mojang designed it as something you run from, not something you duel. The Ender Dragon went down without the classic bed-explosion speedrun trick.
Worth noting: only the Ender Dragon and Wither are true bosses with health bars. The Elder Guardian is a monument miniboss, and the Warden is a boss-level threat that isn’t structured as a boss encounter at all. The challenge simply grouped all four together.
Speed floated Terraria as a follow-up and also threw out Elden Ring, which Cenat shot down because he’s already finished the base game and the DLC. Nothing has been confirmed.
