Hardcore - Revision history

Rmanimal: Updated the overview section. The page needs major overhauls, especially adding links to other pages

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Updated the overview section. The page needs major overhauls, especially adding links to other pages

MOUTHWEST at 19:26, 25 May 2026

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Rmanimal: Minetech -> MineTech

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 == Overview ==
-Hardcore (Commonly shortened to HC) is a series of challenging parkour, maze, puzzle, and adventure maps. Hardcore serves as a challenge that tests players' trustworthiness and integrity before granting them build rights. It is the sole requirement to earn Green (Builders) rank on the server.
+There have been 12 major versions of Hardcore, with some minor version differences within them for tuning changes to balance difficulty or to make adjustments for changing game mechanics as a result of Minecraft updates.
-There have been 11 major versions of Hardcore, with tuning changes to balance difficulty, or to make adjustments for changing game mechanics.
+Historically, versions of Hardcore have also been called rotations, the HC rotation, iterations, or gauntlets. Guantlets has become a more outdated term for Hardcore versions, however, due to becoming the name of the final section in several different HC versions.
-Historically, it has also been called the rotation, the HC rotation, or the gauntlet.
+Hardcore has difficulty elements not seen in [[FFA]], such as:
+* Managing hunger, with limited quantities of food or little to no saturation in maps which otherwise had full saturation.
 * Item pickup being disabled to prevent food sharing.
 * Having to play multiple maps without checkpoints in-between.
-Levels within hardcore are notated with a dash (Ex: HC-1), and versions are notated with a dot (EX: HC 1.0)
+<br>
 == Current Iteration ==
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 Notably, the implementation of HC12.0 marks the longest gap between rotations in the server's history. This was mostly due to a lack of available staff to complete the project. HC12.0 also contains the greatest number of maps total (31) and the greatest number of required maps (17) in the history of Hardcore.
-==Trivia==
+== Trivia ==
 * The Hardcore System was released alongside the server upon launch.
 * Hardcore is one of the oldest challenges in the history of Minecraft.
 * The overall success rate of players making it through hardcore is less than 1%.
 * Hardcore pre-dates the variant survival gamemode of the same name by over a year, as Hardcore survival launched in November 2011 in version 1.0.0.

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 This layout created a unique meta because it meant if the player died in any level, they had to start over at the beginning. This resulted in a strategy of people starting Hardcore in groups, with unofficial "leaders" guiding people through the first one or two levels. If people could keep up with the leader, they could learn where to go for the beginning levels.
-In early 2011, [[Creators#HatterTheMad|HatterTheMad]] finished a lava maze, and that was quickly entered into the HC system as a replacement for the other lava themed level, lava parkour.
+In early 2011, [[Creators#HatterTheMad|HatterTheMad]] finished a lava maze, and that was quickly entered into the HC system (1.2) as a replacement for the other lava themed level, Lava Parkour.
-There was a 7 level system, HC 1.4, that existed between the 5 and 10 level system. A diagram does not exist for it yet. Like 1.3, its existence was short, and not all of the layout is known with certainty.
+From then until late May, there were additional changes that expanded the length of HC from 5 to 10 maps. Briefly passing through a 7-level series (HC 1.3), it expanded into a 10-level system, HC 1.4. At this point, checkpoints were available every two levels. Like 1.3, its existence was short, and not all of the layout is known with certainty. However, it's believed that all 1.2 and 1.3 maps were present in some order.
 === Version 2.0–2.1 ===

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 This was due to a desire to populate HC with gameplay-focused maps (common among older maps), rather than story/aesthetic based maps. There was also a wish to greater represent the server's history within HC.
-The design was originally intended to include a gauntlet of mini-maps, sourced from a HC map building competition. However due to low entries the design was amended, though Citadel, Bustlin' Bees, Freefall and Incinerate emerged from
+The design was originally intended to include a gauntlet of mini-maps, sourced from a HC map building competition. However, due to low entries, the design was amended - though Citadel, Bustlin' Bees, Freefall and Incinerate emerged from
 this competition.

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 [[File:hc12.png|1000px]]
-The design process for HC 12.0 started in early 2023 with the objective of building on the strengths of HC 11.0 and amending specific issues with that rotation. This design was led by pieceofcheese.
+The design process for HC 12.0 began in early 2023 with the objective of building on the strengths of HC 11.0 and amending specific issues with that rotation. This design was led by pieceofcheese.
 HC 12.0's core design philosophy was the implementation of more randomisation in both the maps themselves and in the player's progression through HC. In previous rotations, staff had grown concerned that large groups were
 progressing through puzzle and maze maps together, allowing some players to bypass challenges without having to solve (or contribute to solving) them, defeating the purpose of Hardcore itself. Large groups completing HC at the same
 time also began to overwhelm the green applications system and made accurately reading logs difficult, if not impossible. Consequently, this design added several new maps with randomized features and brought back and modified
-pre-existing maps to include randomization all for the purpose of splitting up groups and making answer sharing more difficult.
+pre-existing maps to include randomization. This was done in order to split up groups and to reduce the ease of answer sharing.
 HC 12.0 retains mostly the same structure as HC 11.0, with some amendments. There was an effort to diversify the map types present in HC, with Search and Dropper maps being added. A new section, The Weave, was created, which forces players

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 * One of the puzzles, Miner's Millions, was considered one of the hardest on the server. Few players completed this path.
-In addition, HC8.0 introduced the two loop-back feature for switching between the two paths. [[Satyrs]] had to be completed to switch from the main path to the puzzle path, and  [[Minetech]] was required to switch from the puzzle path to the main path.
+In addition, HC8.0 introduced the two loop-back feature for switching between the two paths. [[Satyrs]] had to be completed to switch from the main path to the puzzle path, and  [[MineTech]] was required to switch from the puzzle path to the main path.
 This was the longest version of Hardcore upon release, however many users do not consider it to be the toughest.

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 HC 12.0 retains mostly the same structure as HC 11.0, with some amendments. There was an effort to diversify the map types present in HC, with Search and Dropper maps being added. A new section, The Weave, was created, which forces players
-to play one maze, one parkour and one puzzle, but allows the player to choose which maptype they’d like to play at the hardest, average and easiest level, varying in difficulty based on which column they are in. This change was made as
+to play one maze, one parkour and one puzzle, but allows the player to choose which maptype they’d like to play at the hardest, intermediate and easiest level, varying in difficulty based on which column they are in. This change was made as
 many HC11.0 players got stuck at the same points - the Weave ensures that although they still complete a map-type they may struggle with, they can choose an easier map in that category and harder difficulty maps in other categories to
 compensate.

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 === Version 11.0 - 11.1 ===
-[[File:hc11old.png|800px]]
+[[File:HC11.0_fix.png|800px]]
 [[File:hc11.1New.png|800px]]

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 this competition.
-Notably, the implementation of HC12.0 marks the longest gap between rotations in the server's history. This was mostly due to a lack of available staff to complete the project. HC12.0 also contains the most number of maps total (31) and the most number of required maps (17) in the history of Hardcore.
+Notably, the implementation of HC12.0 marks the longest gap between rotations in the server's history. This was mostly due to a lack of available staff to complete the project. HC12.0 also contains the reatestg number of maps total (31) and the greatest number of required maps (17) in the history of Hardcore.
 ==Trivia==