Hardcore

Hardcore is a mode in which the player only has one life. If they die, they will not be allowed to respawn back into the world, however they can use Spectator mode which allows the player to view the progress they made. The difficulty is locked on hard mode, and cannot be changed. This means mobs will do more damage.

Purpose

Hardcore is meant to be a more challenging variant of survival and is meant to give experienced players more of a challenge. It retains most aspects of survival, except for the fact that the player will only have one life and the difficulty is locked on hard.

Tips

• Always have a weapon, as mobs are common and deal a lot of damage.
• Armor is very useful, as armor can reduce damage by a lot.
• Always keep food in your inventory, and, if possible cooked. Foods that apply regneration, such as golden apples, candy canes, and cookies.
• Enchanting can be very useful for you tools, weapons, and armor. Enchants such as sharpness, smite, and bane of arthropods are useful for fighting hostile mobs. Blast

 protection is good for creepers, projectile protection is good for skeletons, and fire protection is good for the Nether. Power is very good on bows for ranged 
 combat.  Other very useful enchants for combat are protection, feather falling, thorns, fire aspect, flame, punch, and knockback.

• Light up areas such as your mine and base so that hostile mobs cannot spawn.
• Be very careful in lava or acid caverns as falling in you do a lot of damage. Also be careful in caves and near monster spawners in dungeons and the

 Skyhold.

See also

• Survival
• Adventure
• Spectator