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PVP Battle Hardcore (Watered down UHC)

• • 3/1/26 4:56 am • 70 logs
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Cosmoguy
Lvl 50 • Grandmaster Programmer
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Battle Hardcore (PVP Minigame)
Version 8.747
[​Updated 1st March 2026]
1.21.11+
Will not work in earlier versions

This is a really fun pvp minigame which has taken me over a year to make. Battle Hardcore is basically a watered down UHC as you do get natural health regen during the prep time. Full UHC mode can now be enabled!

This minigame features 8 different gamemodes including:
Classic - Normal gearing up
Lootcrate - Crate every 12 mins
Flowerpower - Break flowers to get gear
Scavanger - Stay above y40 (y40 border enabled)
Overpowered - Gear up in creative mode
Duel - No prep time, just fight
Marathon - Only out if you die to another player
Confined - Limits the world to just 2,000 blocks across

It also features 3 game types. Default vanilla, Speed or Hyper

The tutorial video will go into more detail about the features & battle settings.

Free for all: Supports upto 25 players
Team game: Supports upto 14 teams (Unlimited players)

Battle Hardcore: Your battle your rules!

If you use this datapack please credit me in the description and even send me a video link so I can watch your battles :D

70 Update Logs

Version 8.747 : by Cosmoguy 03/01/2026 4:56:05 amMarch 1 @ 9:56 am UTC

All the below changes relates to flower power

Change: Leaf litter, saplings & lily pads will no longer drop the flowerpower loot
Change: Grass blocks & mycelium will no longer drop xp bottles (normal grass & dried grass will)
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Craftplayer23
• 10/05/2025 5:26 am
He/Him • Level 38 : Artisan Enderdragon Enderdragon
Looks like this was a lot of work. Well done!
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Cosmoguy
• 10/05/2025 7:34 am
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
Thank you! It was, also keeping it upto date is also a challenge especially the amount of changes mojang have been making lately :)
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TheLunky2
• 03/17/2025 3:20 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
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Hi there, do you have a version of this for 1.20.1? I was looking for a battle / pvp type game just like this but with no UHC elements on 1.20.1 and I'm not sure if that's available.
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Cosmoguy
• 03/19/2025 4:18 pm
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
I no longer have that version sadly this version will only work in 1.21 - 1.21.4
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TheLunky2
• 03/26/2025 1:19 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
Aw :(
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OtakuCraft
• 08/05/2024 12:19 pm
• Level 14 : Journeyman Miner
Hi i have a one question, if the new player joined did it automatically pop up in their inventory?
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Cosmoguy
• 08/06/2024 3:49 am
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
history
You mean the control book? it will only give the person in creative mode the control book after running /reload command. The info and briefing books are given as soon as players joined. If you mean the bonus tools they are all given as soon as you start the game, hope thjis helps :)
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3laa_aldeen
• 06/20/2024 7:42 am
• Level 26 : Expert Miner
may I ask what site did you use to make this book? i am using gamergeek but when I save the command it doesn't save any of the text in the book
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Cosmoguy
• 06/22/2024 1:19 pm
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
Thats very strange as I also use gamer geeks, first check to makesure you have the correct version selected in the top right of the book editor, if that doesn't work you could try a different browser, hope this helps
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3laa_aldeen
• 06/22/2024 1:29 pm
• Level 26 : Expert Miner
oh never mind I just discovered that there's code importing and unlike mcstacker it actually works
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