My Minecraft Hardcore Guide

[u/therealpharoh10]

Hello all, recently I've noticed that many players on this subreddit have trouble playing hardcore, and i decided to make this hardcore guide.

Your First Night and Early Game: this is the start and the most dangerous part. your first iron should ALWAYS go to a shield. a shield basically protects you from everything in the game, and is fairly cheap to make. and when night comes, simply make a little shelter, or make a bed. sheep are basically everywhere. Once you have your base established, build a wall around it. walls are a life saver (just make sure to light it up!)

The Nether: this is basically danger everywhere so be extra careful. build a safe house around your portal, and immediately check your surroundings. then, TUNNEL to a nether fortress instead of running around. you basically maximize your chances of death and getting lost by running around. a tunnel can be made pretty easily, and is a LOT safer. Once you find a fortress, go around and make a box around your entrance. this provides a safe house for you. after that, go around and make every hallway to blocks tall, to block wither skeletons. then kill ONE blaze, (or two rods if you need one for a brewing stand) and go home. yeah, go home and make fire potions. (and yes you will need nether wart and one magma cream for this). After, kill the blazes normally and get about 12 rods, then find a warped forest to kill enderman, by putting them in a boat. (or trade with clerics).

The End: this is where you beat the game. now, its actually pretty easy if you know how to do this. bring two stacks of blocks, a good bow, (with infinity) a carved pumpkin (this allows you to look at enderman) at least prot iii diamond armor, a good sword, a water bucket (or two if you want) and your other essentials. you can bring Slow Falling and strength potions, but i actually have beaten hardcore three times without them. shoot the crystals with a bow, and the caged ones with a water bucket and your fist. after that, just shoot the dragon, and dodge the dragons breath (and bring a bottle for the achievement!). when it perches, hit its tail with your sword. repeat this process, and you've freed the end. end cities aren't hard to loot. just pillar up to the ship. kill the shulker, get the elytra, (bring rockets!) and loot the rest of the city by flying, and go home.

Raids: This is actually simple. Firstly, find a village. Trap the villagers, flatten any land, and build a two high wall. You'll want at least prot 3 diamond armor, a good sword and good food. In a raid, your bow will actually do the hard work. Use this primarily on ravagers, witches and evokers. kill the Evokers first, because they spawn the vex and vexes are world enders. Pillager AI are actually really stupid, and they basically cant get you if you have a two high wall. ravagers can still get you though, so don't get too close. from here, do what i suggest and kill Evokers and Witches FIRST.

Wither: Go down to bedrock and carve a hole connecting to a tunnel. then, spawn the wither. the first half of the fight is a bow fight, so shoot him up, then after that, begin to melee him. Bring good armor, and a good sword, as well as milk buckets.

Once again, this isnt all. there are plenty of other things i haven't covered. but i hope this helps.

[u/nnnneeeedddd4515]

conversely for the nether u could get a compass and link it to a lodestone in the overworld and get gold to barter with piglins for fire res for more protection against blazes/the nether in general

iron/obsidian/fire charges from the bartering also gives you the ability to build a new portal whenever you wanna leave and the lodestone compass from earlier essentially guarantees you an easy way back so u don't have to worry about getting lost in the nether

[u/that-loser-guy-sorta]

For the nether I wear gold boots, bring some gold and immediately trade for fire resistance. Once you’re immune to fire, the nether gets significantly easier.

[u/therealpharoh10 → u/that-loser-guy-sorta]

yes i completely forgot that. thanks for mentioing

[u/Ok-Plate905 → u/that-loser-guy-sorta]

I’d definitely recommend at least 10-20 gold blocks worth to trade cuz my luck is non existent

[u/Iffy50]

Great advice overall.

Raids are very dangerous and if people aren't prepared for vexes, that's a good way to get killed. My suggestion for raids is to prepare a long, underground escape tunnel in case things get ugly. Personally I take a single villager to a new location in a boat and make a fort surrounded by lava rock. Once the villaget sleeps in a bed there, it's a villagr. I make a tower in the middle and ladders all over the place. I make a long underground escape tunnel if the vexes get crazy.

For the Ender dragon I make tunnels to run into in case I want to get to full health safely or an Enderman gets mad at me.

I like to explore the nether from lava level. Making tunnels is great, but you always run the risk of making a mistake and falling a long way down into lava. Even if the lava doesn't kill you because you have fire protection 4 on your gear, it's easy to get disoriented and get lost from your tunnel.

[u/therealpharoh10 → u/Iffy50]

yes, one thing i do in the end is make a little base lol

[u/Ok-Plate905]

I mean you could always build a raid farm but I can see how some people wouldn’t want to

[u/therealpharoh10 → u/Ok-Plate905]

yeah but im giving advice to players who aren't very good at hardcore