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I looked at the code and understood it! It should say if deaths > 9 though. If deaths are exactly 10 (not greater than 10) the result would still be zero.

Take that, coders!!!!

EDIT: I didn't read @RatMazeMind's post before I wrote this. He makes the same point.

 

Some random observations/feedback I have:

• The terrain is phenomenal! It's really fun to explore (and I'm sure it would be even better to build in...)

• Chest loot seems too good, especially early on in survival. It's low-effort, high-reward -- but I guess that encourages exploration.

• Death is almost meaningless. Players are killing themselves to respawn in a better location, or to restore their hunger bar/health.

• The achievements are great. They really enhance the gameplay.

• You get hungry too quickly. After eating steak, my hunger bar began to deplete ~10 seconds later, when standing still.

 

This will be enabled after tonight's restart.

Yeah, I figured that would probably happen. Death has a very serious penalty if you want to compete for the leaderboard, but if you don't then there's not much of a downside, other than being spawned in a random place.

I'm not sure why this would be. I didn't change anything having to do with food or hunger other than cancelling the event that heals you when your hunger pops are full.

 

I think this was a problem in the old UHC, too. I don't know for certain, but it seems like when your hunger bar is full and your health bar isn't, the game/server is trying to give you the regeneration effect, but because it's UHC, it doesn't work - but your hunger bar still responds to it, as if you were actually regenerating.

 

I suspected the same thing. I was full health for much of the early game and barely had to eat. Then I went down a heart and it seemed like I had to eat a lot more (or at least the first hunger pop or so disappeared quickly.)

For some sure, but not for true diehards! My only death seemed inevitable, but I hope it will be my last.

As far as achievements, the HoePlowings is greatly OP. Someone (though I would never do it ) could just run up and down a field with a hoe and easily rack up 610 points in a few minutes. By comparison, a wither kill is listed as 500 points. Probably should tone down those rewards or go by harvesting totals instead.

The explorer achievements (number of steps on foot I think) are pretty easy to get too. I haven't ventured far, but I think I have them all just by working on my little home and mine. Is there any way to track how many original biome types (plains, taiga, mesa, etc.) a person has visited? I've seen a plugin do that before for custom achievements, but I don't know which one it was. That would be a cool way to measure true exploration of the map. EDIT: Actually it was vanilla MC that measures that somehow for the Adventuring Time achievement.

 

This is fine. For those that want to compete, it serves their purpose. For anyone else, they can die to regenerate - remember this is early in the cycle when people haven't done much, but they won't like to die and respawn randomly once they have built a base and then have to travel to get back to it.

As for points, I hear the arguments. I think some things will just be easier than others and we should only fine tune things if, in practice, they are being abused. It doesn't really present an uneven playing field since everyone can take advantage of the same things.

 

I knew I could count on you to kick the math up a notch @Bezoarnut. I'd definitely be up for changes if people are interested in trying them out.

Just as an aside, I have open-sourced all the custom code I wrote. Any of you that know programming (or are just learning it @LegoBoyo) are more than welcome to look over my code and offer improvements. I'm still a rookie at this kind of stuff!

https://github.com/c0wg0d/SandlotHardcore

 

We are unable to complete the zombie pigmen achievements. It doesn't seem to register as a zombie pigman kill.

 

Visit, I may. Die, I shall.

 

I think I fixed this now.