Hardcore Games



The Harcore Games is a brutal, all-out battle to the death. Players spawn in the open countryside with no equipment, except for simple k its. Last man standing wins.

How to start
You can join a server with the ip 'mc-hg.com'. When you join a server, you may choose a kit. There are always 4 free kits which will be listed in chat as your available kits. You can buy more and see kit descriptions  here. Once the game starts, you should find a jungle or swamp biome, with the desert biome being a secondary option. You can make soup out of 1 cocoa bean and  1 bowl, 2 cacti and 1 bowl or 1 red mushroom, 1 brown mushroom, and 1 bowl. Each soup restores 3.5 hearts or, if you're at full health, 3.5 hunger bars. There are a lot of tactics to eat soup, learn some  here.

The Kits
There are 70+ kits, with 1 being added every week. In the first week that a kit is coded, only PROs can use the kit. After 1 week, anyone can purchase the kit for $2.50 at https://www.minecraftpvp.com/kits/hungergames . There are always 4 free kits (Support, Vanity, Power and Defensive) that any player can choose. The free kits are randomly chosen and are cycled every 2 weeks.

Custom Terrain Generation
The Hardcore Games servers have a custom terrain plugin which adds these features:
 * Diamond ores do not generate. This means that the only way to get diamonds is from abandoned mineshafts, temples, or villages.
 * There are many lava and water lakes on the surface.
 * Ocean biomes and rivers have been removed.
 * Swamps have red and brown mushrooms.

The Feast
The Feast is probably the most important part of the game. The Feast is 10 chests and an enchantment table, which spawn on top of a circular patch of grass. You can get many items from the Feast: Meat, Enderpearls, Potions, Diamond Armor, Diamond Swords, Cobwebs, TNT, Flint and Steel, Lava and Water Buckets, Bows, Arrows. The enchantment table is also useful for enchanting your armor and tools with the levels you gained as you play. The Feast is announced in the chat 15-22 minutes into the game. The chat tells you how much time is left until the feast starts (beginning with 5 minutes) and it tells you the exact coordinates of the Feast.

Mini-Feasts and Bonus Feasts
Mini feasts are simply smaller versions of the Feast and contain a variety of useful items: Diamonds, Iron, Soup ingredients and Kit Packages (gives you back your starting items), among other things.

However, the mini feasts will not be as easy to find as the Feast. The announcement will show a relative location — instead of exact coordinates, it will show you the location rounded to hundreds. However, there is a rare chance where it will say the feast is located between x: 300-300, z: 100-100

For example, if a mini feast is located at x: 275, z: 411, the announcement will say it’s within x: 200-300 and z: 400-500.

In addition to this is the chance of Bonus Feasts. This is an extra feast that can be spawned without any coordinates announced. It can be all over the map, and will give you a chance to turn the tables if you manage to find it. (Credit to ThaRedstoner for writing this section.)



Start of the Game (0-15 minutes)
Defensive is playing Hunger Games solo by getting resources yourself.
 * Defensive:

You need to be extremely cautious and look around for other players that might come and find you, or you can of course use a stealth kit, like Chameleon, where you won’t have to deal with people seeing your nametag or tracking you. You can also use the Spy kit and be massively aware of your surrounding.

You’ll need to get ores fast and watch out for any offensive players. To speed up this process you can use kits that make this faster, like Forger or Miner. The Crafter kit is also a good choice, as you can keep going without having to return to furnaces.

You can also use the Hermit kit to get away from everyone and finish up fast, including the bonus of being in a soup biome (hopefully).

Another thing to think about is your food level. If getting ores is not much of a problem for you, you can use Pyro to get cooked food easily by burning mobs, use Cookiemonster to get a few snacks while in caves, or Cultivator to supply yourself with enough food to last a game.

As soon as you have full Iron armor, you can switch to offense or stay defensive.

You can also try to set up a trap using any trap kit (Kaya, Stomper, etc.) and lure a player to you. Hopefully they fall for your trap, and you can get their items. Traps are usually harder to make and not smart to do alone, especially with some kits made against it.


 * Offensive:

Offensive play relies a lot more on pvp, and is thus, more dangerous, but also highly effective.

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Mid game (15 – 30 minutes)

 * Defensive:

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Late Game (30 - 60 minutes
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