User:IlIllII

=Surviving RLCraft=

First, you're going to need to understand that if you're going to play RLCraft, you're going to die. A lot. Because of the numerous mods which arbitrarily increase difficulty to a ridiculous extent, it'll be a surprise to the both of us if you manage to make it an entire night of wandering without getting hunted down by something and killed.

So, let's make an assumption:


 * You've got a decent understanding of Minecraft.
 * You can reach the End somewhat confidently on your own on Normal difficulty.
 * You have no prior modpack knowledge.
 * You're going in blind on Normal or Hard difficulty.

You're probably thinking "This shouldn't be too bad!", then once you load in on your first map you find out you spawned right next to a dragon nest and immediately get flambéed after you find out one of its chests is filled with bones. You respawn again, this time in the bottom of the goddamn ocean and you get ripped apart by a giant sea serpent which happened to spawn next to you. The point I'm trying to make here is you're going to be respawning a lot until you actually get a good one and it's going to be frustrating. If you're trying to do a hardcore run, this is where you reconsider your life choices because the likelihood of you appearing in any undesirable spot in a randomly-chosen -10000 to 10000 X/Z coordinate is going to be high and the likelihood you will find a desirable spot only to squander it by wandering near a enemy that looked weak just for it to turn 180 degrees and maul you to death in one or two hits is also quite high.

Spawning - Basics
Let's get to the basics and make another assumption and say you got a decent spawn, one that is just only slightly better than the bare necessities of actually surviving. What would you actually need in order to ensure "victory", provided you don't find a village or anything much better?


 * Somewhere inland, preferably near a body of water of some form and NOT a small island.
 * Woodland or forest biome, one with plenty of trees and not too mountainous. Plains are fine as long as there's shelter.
 * A walled off shelter with no spawners (unless completely exposed to light so you can kill it).
 * Plenty of gravel nearby.
 * No dark area near said shelter, especially if said dark area has spawners or any other potential to annoy you.
 * NO DRAGONS.

Now, with that last point, you might scoff but I think for a very large point of the game you're going to be avoiding dragons. For some reason, their roosts spawn VERY frequently and they have godawful, hostile tempers, so much that they'll snipe you with their fire from a distance you thought you'd be safe in. Have fun with that in mind.

That aside, if you don't immediately have these things, you can just explore and search around for at least something. If there's still no gravel, wood or you're always constantly surrounded by water, you may as well just respawn because you're not going to last the night. But I should mention there's a few new things you'll immediately see that I'll get to now...

Thirst Meter
That's right. Your very own thirst meter! You will see this bar right above your hunger meter, telling you if you've forgotten common sense or not. This bar will drain faster than the hunger bar, especially when doing normally hunger-intensive tasks such as sprinting and jumping while also sprinting. Like hunger, you'll be unable to sprint with three full units remaining.

Hey, why is my screen all blurry? That would mean your thirst meter is at two full droplets or under. You'll probably want to drink something real quick or you'll start taking damage due to dehydration. Once you drink past two droplets, your vision should go to normal unless you've done something else to your body.

Wait, how do I drink? You can crouch near a body of water and left click it with an empty hand. Doing that will restore your thirst bar by 1.5 points.

My thirst bar is green now! Oh, right. You have the liquid equivalent to food poisoning now. You're meant to PURIFY the water first, but that takes time and effort to make. You have to take an ordinary water bottle and do one of three things:

Making purified water bottles
bruh

Changes to vanilla passives
So far, most passive animals from the vanilla Minecraft are quite unchanged. Sheep, cows, pigs and chickens remain largely the same, and squid and horses now drop their own respective meats.