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Hardscrabble is a hardcore survival overhaul for Minecraft Java 26.3 / NeoForge: slow, metal-by-metal progression, timed crafting, real hunger, 29 new mobs and the Underworld, a dimension under the bedrock.
It is inspired by MITE (Minecraft Is Too Easy) by Avernite and is not affiliated with MITE or its author: it is a clean-room reimplementation, and every texture and model is original (provenance).
- Getting Started: install, your first day, survival tips
- Progression and Crafting: metal tiers, timed crafting, workbenches, tools, furnaces
- Survival: health, XP, hunger and nutrition, curses, world mechanics, interfaces
- Combat and Armour: weapons, plate and chainmail armour, bows and arrow tips
- Mobs: the 29 new mobs and the full bestiary
- World: the Underworld, moons and weather, villages, runegates, ores
- Configuration: in-game config editor, server and client settings
| Area | What exists |
|---|---|
| Progression | Flint → copper → silver/gold → iron → ancient metal → mithril → adamantium; no bare-hand logs; wood/stone/diamond tools removed |
| Tools | 78 new tools and weapons plus vanilla copper/iron/gold ones and a fishing rod per material; durability ×100, wear by hardness, quality (8 levels, paid in XP), reach, parry |
| Crafting | Timed crafting (2×2 and benches), 9 workbenches gating metals, restricted 2×2, crafter restriction |
| Metallurgy | Heat-level furnaces (clay → netherrack), fuel heat, MITE ore distribution with depth-scaled veins |
| Player | MITE XP curve, negative levels, max health 6 → 20 by level, death penalty, 120 s forced respawn, gem sacrifice |
| Hunger | Satiety + nutrition, protein/phyto, insulin, humidity, slow regen, starvation, MITE sleep, bowls, HUD |
| Combat | Weapon damage/speed, 9 plate armour sets + 8 chainmail sets, wear lowers protection, bows, 10 arrow tips, silver vs undead |
| Enchanting | MITE table (XP points), 17 enchantments, metal anvils (nugget repair), disenchanting bottle, strongboxes |
| Mobs | 29 new mobs (Ghoul, Wight, Revenant, Shadow, Longdead, elementals, Bone Lords, cubes, bats…) with their own models, digging zombies, depth spawns |
| World | Underworld dimension, bedrock-linked portals, Underworld dungeons, locked villages, runegates, dirt gravity, Nether core |
| Time | Lunar calendar (blood/blue/harvest moons), moon colours, witch curses, 50 advancements (49 plus the tab root) |
Version 0.1.0-alpha. Bugs and ideas: issue tracker.
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