by ABParadigm » Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:39 pm
Would like to put my two cents on the hard mode topic.
I, admittedly, die very infrequently, as I wear a chestplate very often and only for very specific or very brief periods put on an elytra. This makes me be able to take creeper blasts point blank (to which I use a shield, so one has to sneak up on me, which very rarely happens) and bearly scratch my health. I think i stood inside a creepers hitbox just to test it and I seem to recall it did 6 hearts. This makes me able to do borderline reckless things like host the murder games, and allow Zed and the Zriends to use their powers.
That being said...
Not everyone is me, not everyone has a fire resistance potion in their last hotbar slot, not everyone holds golden apples, not everyone uses a shield, not everyone uses a chestplate, not everyone uses smite 5... you see where I am going with this.
Minecraft is easy to me, to others it is the most frustrating creeper-infested death trap of a game. Keep in mind that this would affect everyone, not just the ones that have the easiest time surviving, but also the ones that have the easiest time dying.
Moving onto my opinion...
I would like hard mode, as I said before I don't have much of a problem surviving. Most of the issues with hard mode surround creepers, withers, and zombies, specifically with mobgrief rules (creepers and withers do more damage, zombies break doors). This also affects things like hunger, various mobs' attack strengths, as well as things like spiders spawning with potion effects (invisibility and strength included) and skeletons and zombies spawning with more armor/weapons. I do want hard mode, but it definitely is something to consider with the 1.13 update as well speaking of what is going on with it again, considering phantoms, drowneds, and all around mob spawning is tweaked a bit. Basically, I know that a lot could change, and it is something to think about before going full-throttle-death-mode.
Not the brightest bulb in the box... but at least I'm not the broken bulb.