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Hello Minecraftians! Have you ever wanted to try or played Hardcore, and you find yourself afraid to play or angry because it’s too difficult? Well, no worries: Me (Coco) will give you some tips and advice for this challenging game mode.
Well, I’ve played and complete hardcore several times, and I can tell you that from all the hours I’ve played hardcore, I consider myself a pro. I am also giving advice to all kinds of players, so they can have a challenging, yet fun experience while playing Minecraft Hardcore, just like I did!
Now, first thing firsts:
This is one of Minecraft’s, most difficult gamemodes to play, since mobs are stronger and can kill you easily; If you die, its game over!
All the features of Hardcore:
Before playing:
First night:
Following nights (and goals):
Additional tips:
1.- The Twilight Forest mod (more mobs and bosses)
2.- Advent of Ascension or Nevermine (more weapons, mobs and bosses)
3.- Infernal Mobs mod (more challenging mobs, and rewarding too)
4.- Special Mobs mod (variety of different and powerful mobs)
5.- EnviroMine mod (adds thirst and other features to your survival experience)
6.- Hexxit Modpack: from technic launcher (Roleplay like modpack, with variety of dungeons and mobs)
7.- Departed: from Feed the Beast launcher (Challenging modpack, with variety of dangers and challenges)
Ways to get better before jumping into hardcore:
For less or more challenge:
Well, I’ve played and complete hardcore several times, and I can tell you that from all the hours I’ve played hardcore, I consider myself a pro. I am also giving advice to all kinds of players, so they can have a challenging, yet fun experience while playing Minecraft Hardcore, just like I did!
Now, first thing firsts:
What is Hardcore mode?
This is one of Minecraft’s, most difficult gamemodes to play, since mobs are stronger and can kill you easily; If you die, its game over!
All the features of Hardcore:
- You cannot respawn if you die, but you can spectate your own world after death
- You can’t change the gamemode once you create the world
- The difficulty is set to hardest by default
- You get hungry, fast and often
- Mobs are stronger
- No bonus chests
- No cheats
Tips for Hardcore
Before playing:
- Preferably play normal Survival Minecraft prior to Hardcore
- Make sure to know the essential crafting recipes
- Also, make sure you know how to fight and react in combat
First night:
- Play safe
- Collect as much wood and food as you can (and some wool for a bed)
- Illuminate your house surroundings as much as you can
- Don’t use regular doors for housing; Zombies can break them!
- If possible, place as many glass windows as you can.
- Don’t focus on building a fancy house
- Don’t go venturing at night, neither mining! (especially if you have no equipment)
Following nights (and goals):
- Create a plant/animal farm
- Expand your base
- Mine for the essentials (coal and iron), and make yourself some armor. Once you get your iron armor, you can now go mining for diamonds.
- Find a mob spawned, so you can create a mob/xp grinder
- Enchant equipment, if required
- Go to the nether (optional)
- Prepare and go to the End
Additional tips:
- Listen to your surroundings, and check behind you occasionally
- Don’t engage in a fight against a pack of mobs, especially if you don’t have enough equipment
- Watch out for your camera positioning, you don’t want to look at an ender by ‘accident’
- Illuminate as much as possible, especially around your house
- Always try to sleep at night
- Make your house as visible as possible, or carry a map/compass
- Carry a clock when mining
- Stay away from caves, unless you are well equipped. Beware of mineshafts and mob spawners!
- Preferably live in a biome that is mostly clear of trees, like plains.
- Wear armor when going exploring
- If you think the fight against a mob will kill you, you should run away
- Always carry a lot of food; Preferably cooked beef.
- Avoid jumping and running too much, since your hunger will go up fast. Run when it’s really needed
- Clean your inventory as much as you can, get rid of all the trash you don’t need!
- Don’t hoard useless items!
- Keep a water bucket handy; you can put fire away, and you can also push a hoard of zombies
- Carrying a bucket of milk can also come handy, since witches can throw potions at you, cave spiders will give you poison, and wither skeletons will give you wither effect.
- Your hot bar should have, at least, these essential items: Sword, Shield, Axe (when cutting wood) or Shovel/Pickaxe (for mining), lots of food, water bucket, and torches.
Challenges after mastering Vanilla Hardcore
- Don’t build and/or live in a house; Nomad challenge
- Sleepless challenge; Never sleep on a bed
- Unlock all achievements in Hardcore mode
- Play Hardcore on Servers, or multiplayer
- Ultra Hardcore mode; No normal regeneration
- Play Hardcore with mods; I recommend playing the following mods/modpacks:
1.- The Twilight Forest mod (more mobs and bosses)
2.- Advent of Ascension or Nevermine (more weapons, mobs and bosses)
3.- Infernal Mobs mod (more challenging mobs, and rewarding too)
4.- Special Mobs mod (variety of different and powerful mobs)
5.- EnviroMine mod (adds thirst and other features to your survival experience)
6.- Hexxit Modpack: from technic launcher (Roleplay like modpack, with variety of dungeons and mobs)
7.- Departed: from Feed the Beast launcher (Challenging modpack, with variety of dangers and challenges)
Additional Tips
Ways to get better before jumping into hardcore:
- Minecraft hunger games (item management skills)
- PVP servers (combat and reaction skills)
- Building! (fast block placement)
For less or more challenge:
- Set brightness to the highest setting, or the opposite if you want more challenge
- Set your mouse sensitivity to comfortable, yet easy to move. Don’t set it too high, unless you want to challenge yourself (I don’t recommend it)
- Choose a seed that you are familiar with, or one that has plenty of resources. For challenge, you can go with a random seed and hope for the best, or you can also choose a unusual seed (such as island areas)
- You can live in a plains biome (easy), or a jungle for challenge.
- You can try strip mining for even less difficulty; However, this removes the fun of hardcore
Tips for multiplayer Hardcore (coming soon)
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Did I forgot something? Is something unclear? Or would you like to suggest something?
Let me know in the comments!
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