#Server Challenge Submissions
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i redid it with A13
but i haven't gotten a verdict on either submission yet
the shelter? no, why?
since it is UD as well 
yeah i was gonna rate it 3 too
kind of annoying to have to detour into farm arrays for puffs, but it's not that bad
especially as monk, i didn't even bother paying the toll twice and just helped them stab lizards
rules need to be clarified if SS_A13 is mandatory, because now it says that I have to travel through "both sections of UD" without any specifics
yeah i agree
I just drained my rain timer by waiting
and I didn't pay
I kept my OS pearl to pay on my way back

i mean you can pass tolls at 50+ rep for free in exchange for a rep penalty
which like. who cares, it's monk
and if you help them stab lizards that also bumps rep
so basically you can pass for free
that toll is always fighting lizards anyway
this was also when i learned that monk's spear damage isn't high enough to knock the plates off of red centipedes ! which was annoying because my first few attempts it kept crawling back to its den
wait, I just noticed
Have I even submitted my charged run?
I don't see it on the track sheet
Did I just forget to submit it?
they’ll count for saint in msc (i think?)
lmao that wouldn't surprise me
i know you get points from killing them in expeditions, so i thought they counted as an enemy
i guess since they can't kill you, they don't count
per an earlier discussion in #speed-score-runs they didn’t count before 1.9 so i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s an msc exclusive thing
huh
squidcadas also can't kill you
yeah i was thinking that

it was just funny literally stabbing baby centis to death over and over again just for the game to be all 'wow look at you, being so passive and saint like :)'
Figured out dying the same cycle you meet Pebsi revokes the "Helped Five Pebbles" mark the hard way, even if the mark and karma increase stays
quit out works the same, I suppose?
yes
at least better than previous run in every way
bc it got kills, more deaths, more cycles, more time and DP enabled
"I'm so honoured that I got to be Mortimer's bodyguard in his greatest ever performed magic feat. What a truly marvellous fellow, I hope he returns to this plane one day." — Slugcat
"he looked so tasty i wish I got to eat him :((" — Salamander
"I risked life and limb to see this guy do his thing, better be worth it" — Pink Lizard
"*swish swis...
⚡ 🐛
I just now saw you ask this lol
Sorry apparently SS_A13 is mandatory
really good run though
so many close calls
GOOD LUCK
thanks 
rules need to be clarified tho. I'm sure there are people like me who will fall into that pit as well
and at least one person already resubmitted their challenge with that dreaded room
Yes, doing a really precise diagram of where to go might help! The current one is a little unclear 😅
yea I didn't even know it was a requirement until I asked around
if it was up to me I'd give you the ok lol
actual nothing room
to be honest that blue line on the route picture does not touch the room 
no hard feelings. That challenge is a pushover for me
I'll see if we can make it more clear
and I still have untouched save file 
looking forward to your clear
Timby what challenges should I avoid at all costs
Idk which ones have you completed already
Visions is easy
I'm just throwing myself at challenges untill I get ascended
collector is easy but tedious
I'm doing ranger rn
Just complete all of them really
maybe except for the ones which take a full playthrough
saint isn't hard though
chieftain is easy
if you go through SB
journey, ascension and mother aren't as hard as everyone say
charged is easy
feast and symbiote are fairly simple
scholar and outlaw are just fun
(if you don't count the FS pearl for scholar)
@distant kestrel are using Wild’s save files alright to do challenges, btw?
why is the only challenge with a dark blue role color martyr 
collector is pretty blue
not enough for me
hromph
it's too purple
pilgrimage is blue
martyr is like the perfect color
light blue
maybe devotee will look good
might do scholar
cyan 
yeah
that is the purpose of them
challenge set up and competitive cycle practice
doubled spawns, negatives
so on
feel free to use them
pilgrimage sucks balls lol
mother is hard but there's so many strats for it nowadays
you could pull it of
f
guardian is fine
SI is the biggest hurdle
you know how to 2 hand glitch right
how is chef compared to pilgrimage?
Mouth spearing was easy to learn
Movement techs aren't as bad as it sounds
i would love chef ten times more if you could CRF as hunter
What's the route for chef
start > sub > shoreline or ds (don't do ds) > gw or shaded (I like shaded better) > industrial > cc > wall > win
why not ds?
you need to do a million walljumps to get up
which are super annoying with the jetfish
ive been murdering the same centis for the past 2 hours
imagine going up these tunnels by wallpouncing
I think I will do feast next
yeah feast isn't hard
But ranger has gotta be done
didn't do ranger yet
is there enough room to actually wallpounce
yes
you can chain wallpounces in a 3 tiles wide vertical tunnel
idk about 2 tiles though
I'm doing feast for the past 2 hours and no progress whats so ever
probably possible too but with tas tools
also how do jetfish wallpounces look lol
lemme test
Get better at killing centis 
Combat has been so much fun
just get better lineage rolls 4head
i am every single cycle but 90% either a baby respawns or just nothing
ah yes just get better luck how didn't i think about that
what's your cycle right now?
50 something
rough
pretty much the same but about 1.4 times lower and slower
do you think going ds over shoreline is worth
I KNOW ;-;
Oh wow they actually replaced the teacher who flipped a desk and starting cussing out a bunch of random dudes
Average Texas moment
yep
Get better at luck
i just get the tier 3 ones kill them and boom baby or air
yep just got that thing i said 2 secs ago
cycle again u mean yes?
With my luck I'll kill a baby and it will automatically turn into a red
Yes
Reroll
:[
this is why i never play luck based games
I have unnecessarily good luck
Three Isaac runs in a row with crickets head
All on the first room
ye heard but never really looked at gameplay
what are the chances of a tier 3 centi to become a baby after death?
for the 13th time?
Big centi into baby?
Damn you gotta start.recording it
there are 3 baby centies and only one of them is able to be lineaged
if you had an adult killed and then there are babies
they are just a fodder
adult centi just didn't respawn yet
and you actually HAVE progress
:O
(even tho i didint understand a thing)
every1 does eden streaks bruh
also every run takes like 2h because I minmax to hell LOL
keep killing and it will respawn eventually for you to kill
lineages can't go back btw
it has about 33% to respawn for monk if I remember correctly
ye
yes 33% respawn roll every cycle
btw does eating a small centi count as killing for lineage
on top of the 50% lineage
(eating withouth spearing it)
it should
ight
I always speared them before to make sure
I stabbed it though
stab
funny how they can tank a monk spear
Yeah it may cause bulk
its so silly
Help
yea
monk is a loser
How do I record on steam deck
this is why monk is shit
I am at my mother's over the weekend
phone
And I need to keep my streak
And I have given myself a self imposed rule that I can't prerecord stuff
And post it
virgin eden streak vs chad shartwheel streak
shoutouts to the 40m visitor submission btw
there go the baby centis again(nothing spawned)
Biggest troll known to man
Did you get helper?
Oh you did
Cool
If shartwheeling ever comes back I will return with all of my daily runs

creator of room SS_FO3 better watch out next time they go outside
What is ss_fo3
a room in unfortunate development
this room seems familiar yet not at the same time
very easy
it's at the beggining of ud there's another long room similar to it
good shartful morning
3 cycles with no centipied is this normal?
did they verify ur videos?
no
What videos?
challenge videos
Ah
you can look at the track sheet
press crtl+f and type толя#6684
wait why are there only 21 submissions
i submitted 22
I'm not on my pc
how much time did you guys spend on feast role
20 seconds
a bit more than 1 hour
including getting the puffs from FA
Don't get the puffs
Combat is easy
Combat is fun
When will we get more combat focused challenges
im gonna
they did leave all their explo shit in there atlesat
RED
FINNALY
i just gotta get the onion
Just.kill it
well as long as im doing it correctly
...
i dont really know if im doing it correctly
i was in my starving cycle the red spawned scav hit red, red ran in den
...
:O the red is back
clip u gotta wait for yt to load it
or i could share screen the recording
to be faster
might be killing from the wrong pipe, kill the smaller ones first
also check the map to see if the pipe is able to lineage into them
(the online map w/ spawns)
is ded
and sent
Your video is private
🔥
Nope
still says private?
neat
literal bullying 😭
Didn't expect that
Oh, I got the ascended role!
Let's goooo
Sorry gwyn, I got a little distracted xd
Lul
clean vaults on charged man
c l e a n
I loved the one to get the baby centipede at the gate
you can now ascend in real life
Oh right charged exists
37 hours still waiting for charged verification

congratsss
I wish I could give roles out
oh you can't?
Would you gibe shartwheeling 
I need only one challenge more to get verified for ascended role 
cant belive I did it xD
i only need 20 more challanges verified for the ascended role 😎
already..
Ye
did u forget to do the second lap back ?
wait
Skill issu e
i think i have all achievments
vanilla ones
wasnt there like a challange role for that
yes
Yes
Passages is the name of challenge
I only see 8 of your submissions on da doc
i think the only ones im missing is expedition leader the one for completting all in-game challanges and ||artificer ascension ending||
if those are achievments even that is
you can see what they are by looking at world stats
tho i have unlocked many of the achievments in the
msc campaigns
does that still count?
Look at your achievements
i can count 23 vanilla achievments.. huh
wait I have to also go back?? huh I am pretty sure when I did that it was just go memory conflux from unfortunate in one cycle
god dammit
It's there and back
im pretty certain those are all vanilla achievments
wasn't "Within time" added in downpour?
yeah
the only ones im missing are the martyr, champion and expedition leader
so that means that i do have all vanilla achievments
yeah
that's cool then
can someone send me a website link to this message so i can submit it?
You can see your not unlocked achievements
i figured it out tho
by reading all achievments and seeing which ones i do not have
yea they changed it
Click view global achievement stats
It should be on the top
Of the achievement page
It shows achievements you don't have even hiddens
oh ok
yeah i do not have martyr, champion and expedition leader
that means that i DO have all vanilla achievments
time to submit, but i need help with this
Martyr is base game I thought?
ty !
yeah I did 12 like 4 months before so they are not on a doc
sorryyy
now i have 2 challanges to wait for verification
Spend that time doing some shitty thumbnail art 
unfortunately this one is not a video 😔
I now have to draw thumbnails
I'm running out of random images on my pc
And I can't post the one of mrbeast from Fortnite and Peter Griffin killing a jockey from l4d2
Left 4 dead mods are funky
https://youtu.be/BrtfeOuKdb0 this one is my favorite
Rain world reddit moment
is there a speedrun channel?
I would like to look what are speedruns about
nah man, nah

How applicable is mouthspears
Should I be mouthspearing for most kills or just rock spear combo
how does this look for feast
im most likely gonna be purple to fit the challange role color
Ah
applicable for what in particular? for scoreruns not very, for killing reds in ranger/foe go for it, for other lizards you can use scare them with a mask
this is very high quality
they're not very useful unkess it's reds, since all the others you can see their backs if you wear a mask lol
no it is NOT
it took me like 8 minutes
yes it is
this would sell for like 8 million I know it
they don't lol, I just forgot about them being the other exception
noob much
this isn't anything to brag about

servre challlanges.. quite fun
AGREE
i have to cheat some red centipedes in arena first to learn how to battle them
(i dont have the unlock 😭 )
you can just use spore puffs
not having to bring a sporepuff from farm arrays would be very convienient
screw you !!! i want to be cool
why was this so easy
Because people overestimate combat
It isn't hard
Throw speae
Spear
Get spear
Throw spear
Repeat untill it's dead
Too many people want to roleplay the monk
weak creature
2 spears is all you need
does this mean a red centi can be lineaged here?
yes

this is like the perfect spot for feast
i can just go on with the cycle of kill eat rest
Where is this?
I think that is the 3 screens shelter room in garbage wastes with pole plant
omgggg
this guy is so fucking cool
if only visible ids was allowed :((
this is the like
most majesitc scav
ive ever seen
don't know if anyone responded so i'll bump this
the lineaging begins
lmao why is the threat theme so powerful near to a damn pole plant

Joe.
i killed him but he zappedme thats not fair
trading kills
i'm still baffled about the scav kill steal i had happen last night
you can see me staring at them like 'bruh wtf'
coward keeps going in his den
(and he dragged me in it once lmao)
my man has too much hp
no he just grabbed me and ewnt in the den lmao
wel it wasnt the same centipede
im gonna peel this guy's armor off at this point
Ok
What you gotta do
Is get it to follow you
Into a pipe
And just pipecamp
And hit it in the face
Martyr but better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazFbQNaRx0
sooo... how do I get a Champions role?
Get 10 challenges verified ^^ and hopefully someone notices that. Or, once they are, ping a challenge person.
Yeah I have 10 of them verified 
HAH LOSER !!! GET GOOD, RED CENTIPEEDE
I can give a mod a holler if you want
you could do it yourself too
whom do I ping?
Try grandiose lights?
@stoic quartz hello? May I have my Champions role please?
Thanks in advance
timby answer my question 
do i need to redo feast
i mistook the overgrown centipede for the mature and did not take a screenshot of that lineage
I haven't seen it I don't think
i didn't submit it cause i wanted to check first
I DUNNO
I think it proves that you did do the lineage
but I'm not the ultimate authority
I'd let it slide and tbh I think the others would too
also look at this kill snipe
but I don't wanna overstep my boundaries as the new guy
yeah understandable, should i submit and just let the other verifiers judge?
you even got the scavs to tenderize your meat!
I could never reject that
I'll ask someone if they think it's ok later
don't sweat it
thank you
feast isn't that bad anyway
when i first saw it i was very intimidated about the red centi, but puffs really trivialize any centipede
Yep
There's also other cheese strats
I just would rather you don't have to deal with lineage!!!
That mechanic sucks!!
it was sort of funny personally, but yeah it really takes a while
tunnel cheese 👍 centi can't do shit if i can spam grab and throw fast enough with two spears
Red centis get kinda shit on the moment you get a front armor segment down tbh
They get stunned on any hit
doing feast is what taught me that monk's puny spear damage can't knock the plates off
and aiming specifically for the head when it's twitching around is hard
Oh shit yeah I'm gonna need puffs
I forgot I was playing monk
For feast
Monk is pathetic
use the superior lineaging area by farm arrays, sub
the only red centi lineages in base game are sub, sky islands and gw lol
Agh
Excited for the mod called "better monk" where it just removes monk from the character selection screen
oh is it? i hit it three times and all it did was clank
They definitely can come off
for what?
Feast
you can't use mods for set up, and warp mod is banned
i think the ruling there changed recently, but also. to be honest it's not like anyone could really tell 
i turned everything off for feast at least
We run 90% of things on an honor code
Honestly I think just walking there would make you ever so slightly better at rw
The most stressful thing I have ever done in a video game
... holy shit
how the fuck
and yeah feast is just a trek to garbage wastes, maybe to farm arrays if you want puffs
really not that bad
Maybe you learn something random while you're wandering
And it comes in handy later
Imagine having to get the squid for symbiote
hello
I did!!!
I brought it from sky islands
Ah
I just spawned it in the shelter
Would rather make it less painful
I guess walking could get you better at rain world slightly but it also is more time spent doing absolutely nothing
More time for you to reconsider spending 90% of your time playing videogames
you learn moving by moving
I learned how to chain roll consistently only by moving from one place to another "doing nothing"
On any other challenge
that's just an example
you need some knowledge of movement to beat these challenges
Yeah
and it is easy to practice while you are doing other challenges
I have a good grasp on movement aswell as have school and would rather not spend 90% of my free time not doing the challenge
it does not take much to setup
Trying to apply new tricks you learned into random rooms goes a long way
Symbiote wouldve
Yeah
took me 22 minutes to setup
But I also am bassically on a time limit at all times and have to bassically plan out my freetime
it is possible to do it faster
Hell you could give your mouthspears a test ride on a real scenario
That or I just do even worse at sleeping
That's what arena is for
I practice in arena
Arena is wayyyy too perfect
Then run into real stuff
It helps get the movement down
Muscle memory
I've been getting down the wall in like 2 mins
Probably like 4 but it feels like 2
I just find it more enjoyable to not spend awile for setup
Too slow
but you lose out on the satisfaction of eihopping several times in a row!! ! !!
I can't eihop
me either but it's a golden opportunity to practice lol
i'd have to find a gif of it but the only setup is you need an item lol
do you know how to eslide? it's an eslide but with a jump after you throw
It would also be easier to use it an a non timed enemy lacking environment to be able to get it down
found it
Oh yeah I've been practicing that
Stupid exact tho
Only got it down once
And I had unlimited rocks
Can't imagine practicing not in arena
After ranger I will
Procrastination is my power
friend
What was your strat for the red?
walk around with food and then throw it at red lizard and run and then go get more food and come back and give it to lizar
What did you feed it
lizards have no food preference, as long as it's something they'll actually eat
you can even feed it live eggbugs lol
dropwigs and centipedes ansd 1 big noot
bruhhhh whar
my devotee challenge got rejected even though the link is part 1 in the playlist
i mean in disc it looks like its just the one vid
if you click it shows the playlist on the side though doesn't it?
also it has the "&list=" part in it, thought it would be clear the playlist was there lol
whatever ill submit again
Ah
could someone give me my id i'm on mobile lol
probably
i will now download every sound effect from scratch
this was my desc run, i managed to cut it down to the size of a gamebar clip lol
you little fucker thats a shartwheel
whats a shartwheel

@tall kindle this guy is preaching his strange beliefs again
whats a shartwheel anyway
th evideo wont load
GET BETTER WIFI
i think the issue is on your end
every other video i click loads instantly
try reuploading to yt,
yes it only works on your end because its literally ur video
does it work now??
still isnt loading
what
What video is this?
true
some bullshit fliptop made up
something called a shartwheel
have you ever heard of such a thing?
Yeah, I don’t see anything?
Like, I click on the link, and nothing happens
theyve been doing this for days now the jokes getting kinda old
It just loads for ages
Yeah, weird joke dude. Why are you obsessed with sharting, I don’t wanna know about that @gaunt token
??? I don’t see anything 😅
theres no shartwheeling fliptop calm down and see a psychiatrist
exactly??
shartwheel has been strung out for so long its getting really seriously stale
no one believes you anymore
???
It’s literally just a weird link, and when I click it, it loads forever
yet another broken link
nonexistent
FUCKING
It doesn’t exist…? 😅 are you feeling okay…?
i was going to put the goofy scratch sound effects ovr this but i gave up on number 9
man i love when my game crashes and for some unknown reason mouthspearing isnt working
total bullshit
anyways heres my ranger part
Why is the thumbnail hell
rainw orld
WHY IS MY LIBRARY
RUNNING FROM MY MOUSE
WHAT THE FUCK
MY STEAM LIBRARY
IT LIKE
PULLS DOWN
WHEN I BRING MY MOUSE TO IT
WTF
it like
drags the entire library around the fucking
mouse
because it describes this chunk of the run
imagine not drawing your challange video thumbnail
i love my thumbnail consistency
i dont have time
thats one of the like msot fun parts kf the challange
👁️ 👁️ 💬
you have no name,,,
OK SO I JUST CANT MOUTHSPEAR
BECAUSE ITS MOUTH IS TOO SMALL
THATS FUNNY
AND COMPLETELY FAIR AND BALENCES
OK WTF
I AM MOUTHSPEARING
EXACTLY HOW YOUR SUPPOSED TO DO IT
AND IT JUST WONT
what are you trying to mouthspear
what do you mean
it just wont open its mouth
and when i finally do mouthspear it
after losing all of my karma
theres no more spears
just pick the same spear back up
i cant
mouthspear it multiple times
OH MY GOD
DOUBLE MOUTHSPEAR
AGHH
and of course
it just leaves
because you cant have anything fun in this game
and i just cant mouthspear
its bullshit inconsistent
and it will have its jaw fully unhinged and apparently its "closed"
ok so i just cant kill it
like the game just wont let me
it wont let me mouthspear
it wont let me grab spears out of it because it will just instakill me
and it wont spawn more than 3 spears
I FINALLY PIN IT
I CANT FIND A SPEAR
JUMP OVER IT
TO GRAB A SPEAR IN IT
AND IT FLICKS ITS HEAD AT ME AND KILLS ME
MAN I LOVE THIS CHALLENGE
oh my god
ITS OVER
skill issue it seems
i swear
watch the video
it just
wasnt letting me do it
i just couldnt mouthspear
practice in arena

the video is 1 hour long 
yeah
this is just jumping immediately out of an extended slide right?
yeah
i've been getting more consistent at extended slides, but EIhops...
it'd be cool to be able to do that for ascension, for the chimney bridge
but if i fuck it up i kill my run 
Yes
You have no idea how many times Ive died from.an accidental slide flip or eipounce
But it's worth learning
And there's a lot of risk free applications
passages challenge thang
How tf do you accidentally do a difficult movement tech
I can barely intentionally pounce
muscle memory
Ah
you can also mess up the timings and end up pouncing, not just muscle memory
It's easy to do an accidental slide flip or a slide pounce while trying to eijump
They use similar inputs
I have no explanation for the eijumps I got while trying to shartwheel though
Lol
y'know the challenge rule "no mods during setup" is so restrictive and arbitrary, whereas save files can achieve the same easy thing, or the same broken thing. i haven't seen any rules restricting save files in any way, and as far as i know the rule is literally only "no mods during setup". i don't get why a specific kind of getting past the setup is preferred, and it is preferred so arbitrarily.
i've heard people say "using mods during setup violates the spirit of the challenge". i think this may be valid, but we need to know how it violates the spirit, since for some challenges, the vast majority of the actual challenge part is the challenge, and there's no way mods could disrupt it. not to mention if mods violate the spirit, why do save files not?
i've also heard people say "just use common sense", but the thing is that that rule, it's not common sense. and if you really want it to be common sense, then specify that. in fact specify literally anything other than "no mods during setup"
i've also heard people say mods are a slippery slope, but arent save files too?
please enlighten me if i am wrong!
Simply don’t use them.
It is how it is.
my point itself obviously isn't about me wanting to not have to use it. i may want that, but thats obviously not what the point is about. you aren't arguing my point, youre just misunderstanding
please try to understand this so that you don't do it again
aw yeah
now the fun begins
if you want people to engage with your argument you shouldn’t be so insanely condescending
You’re correct, I’m not arguing your point, I don’t care to
i just got mad because of such a useless point being said
if the rule was actually considered by the moderators or the rule was given more specificity, then i would do this
but until then, what youre saying is really useless and annoying
please try to understand so you don't do this again
it is time
first room cleared
second one cleared
wow meme crypst is easy !!!! !
and there we go !!!! !!
almost forgot to get the one that mattered lol
ayyyyyy
dude using setup with mods is simply unfair because many don't. you are trying to continue this argument over and over when the best answer is the simpliest one, like.. just play the game normally it's not difficult to set up for many challanges.
For example in feast, to make the challange easier you could grab a spore puff or two from farm arrays and then go to a red centipede lineage. But if you don't want to waste time on that, you could just simply proceed to head straight to garbage wastes and kill the centipede with just some spears and rocks in a much more convienient location. Mods would skip that entire process. Save files, if im correct, are something that you have arleady played in and put your time into, so i think they are fine as long as you don't use mods to cheat stuff in them !
getting to a certain area with a specific creature can be difficult, but console players for example dont have a way to just skip it
i dont know excactly what mods you are talking about, but i dont think its NECESSARY for you to have your metal pipe sound effect when killing scavengers when playing
Thank god sun hat is allowed
you can import save files and its legal
i would assume fluffycats is too, but just in case i'm gonna stick with just sunhat 
you are right! the rules are bad atm!
look anything console players can't do, pc players should abstain from too out of fairness. is this really something you have to drag out an argument on for over a day?
no, i just want the rules changed
my point was built on the presupposition that the moderators want save files to be legal
the entire thing breaks when the mods say you cant do that
so the rules need changed or more specificity
thats my general point
i think that using mods like warp for challenges that have the extreme bulk of the difficulty and substance in the actual challenge itself should be okay, but i'm willing to concede that
also if doing the setup and proving you can do the setup is necessary, then you would be able to seperate those steps, making everything waaay easier
that removes all the fun and challenge of the challenges though
challenges are meant to be hard and time consuming haha
yeah totally
but that only applies to the challenge part
if some of the challenge is in the setup, then that should be specified
why can't people just have fun in fun challanges 😢
what?
the setup is not THAT hard
it makes it harder for you to cheat the set up part and thats a good thing
maybe for some challenges
because using save files is not as easy as mods
not all though
what
it is literally just moving and saving files
not everyone thinks of those
thats a highly circumstantial and generally wrong point
you should've realized that before you said it
if there's 2 methods, 1 more obscure than another then banning the more obvious one should decrase rates of cheating
this applies
i delivered The Bomb to five pebbles.
nice
five explosive-coated pebbles
meme man typing a manifesto
modded setup is more of just a general no-no because it relies on the presupposition that one is definitely being honest and faithful and not using any mods that would cause a cascading unintended effect to the challenge. vanilla save files (which if you get them from somewhere, it is likely someone the community trusts) at the very least ensure that someone hasn't gamed their save file or made setup easier by, say, using mods that allow unnaturally easy setup (easy mode tweak stuff), might affect difficulty even if the mod is removed (like emerald tweaks' passive reputation boosting), or just circumvent setup altogether (like beastmaster)
tl;dr it's more just a "modded setup introduces uncertainty and is against the spirit of the challenge in most instances considering console players don't have mods" sort of thing, and unlike the actual challenges themselves, there's no way to properly verify whether someone's modlist is acceptable during setup. vanilla save files (when gotten from an approved source) do not suffer this same issue because it can be generally assumed that there's no shenanigans going on in the background
you've submitted one challenge so far phnurginium. as someone who's had experience with at least half the challenge list, i can tell you that none of them (besides maybe pilgrimage and feast) require any super significant setup efforts past a cycle or two, and those that do usually tend to be because of lineage RNG or creature interaction unluckiness more than overall challenge.


