danny i think it would really help you if you tried speedrunning on easy instead of hardcore. most people speedrun on easy and you are allowed to die on speedruns. dying can actually be a legit strategy for things such as hunger resetting. the wr was done on easy, you're making it harder on yourself and harder than it needs to be by going on hardcore
So Danny, the fortress had so many mobs because you had your render distance so low. The game has a certain amount of mobs that can spawn, and they can't spawn out of your render distance, so it just spawns them closer to you!
every night i come home drunk he has posted a new minecraft speed run attempt stream and when i tell you i haven’t consciously finished a single one but i’m so devoted to his journey i will continue to drunkenly cheer him on for at least a half hour till i pass out <3
Seeing Danny practice and improve at Minecraft speedrunning genuinely makes me so happy and is being such an inspiration for me to not give how despite the struggles im feeling right now.
Big words of encouragement, i can only hope for the rest of your speedrunning carreer to go as smoothly as it could!
He really shouldn't be doing these in hardcore. I don't think he realizes that hardcore also makes enemies do more damage on top of just not letting you respawn. Even if he wanted to speedrun the whole game without dying, he should at least do it on easy or even normal mode and just load a new world when he dies. He's doing really well for being semi-new to the game, and he's making it harder than it needs to be.