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Add an actually harder survival mode that is not hardcore

This is a big one for me personally.

Back in the days of the Beta and Alpha Minecraft, everyone essentially sucked at the game. Nobody was really good at it so diamond was valued a lot. Meaning that without things like sprinting, enchanting and having shulker boxes that it took a good while to improve and get good enough to fight against the monsters in the wild.

My solution to this is by making some features harder to unlock, Let's call it 'Challenge mode'.

Challenge mode requires the player to unlock certain challenge achievements to make sure they can load let's say diamonds.

It also makes the mobs become a lot more harder to kill and slowly faster every in-game day. With the new moon event suggestion, you can possibly add some kind of challenge to it as well.

Armor requires the smithing table to be used to craft armor plates. Armor plates have to be made by villagers and the process should be slow enough to keep the players busy with other activities like farming.

Different crops only grow in different biomes, berries grow in tundra and spruce forests and wheat grows in plains and flower fields as a small example.

Horses will make you jump forward if you come too close to monsters or ride right towards the players.

These are small examples of how the game could possibly become more challenging without having the hassle to install or even write data-packs. Minecraft feels more like a casual building and engineering game than a survival game nowadays.

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• July 14, 2019 22:38
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  • July 17, 2019 22:07
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  I think you would really enjoy a mod called Terrafirmacraft, which is an older mod that's compatible with 1.8 (?). Ethoslab did a series on it, and it has some very challenging combat mechanics, simply because mobs are really strong. 

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  • March 09, 2020 22:57
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  These all sound like mod features that break the feel of the game, not making it hard, just more tedious :/
  2/5 stars, needs a lot of work

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  • March 30, 2020 06:38
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  While I do agree there should be a separate harder mode for minecraft survival I wouldn't want them to stray too far away from the original material.

   

  I'd love a stupid ton of zombies spawning all of the time as one example.

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  • April 15, 2020 19:56
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  "It also makes the mobs become a lot more harder to kill and slowly faster every in-game day. With the new moon event suggestion, you can possibly add some kind of challenge to it as well."

  I like this, this concept makes the game more playable and challenging during endgame(where I usually get bored and go do something else), although I think there should be a limit to this growth since we, the players ourselves are capped (at the most recent update) to fully enchanted netherite. I feel like this idea should be implemented, with a toggle switch of course, (this also somewhat solves the problem of asking and getting lots of stuff for doing nothing)

  idk I like the idea though