Extra Hard Mode

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Extra Hard Mode changes the game rules to create NEW, INTERESTING CHALLENGES for players who have mastered the core game. Unlike Mojang's "hard" mode or other plugins' "hardcore" modes which just punish you more for making mistakes without actually changing game mechanics, Extra Hard Mode delivers interesting new challenges for advanced players.

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Important Info

Detailed rundown of all features and configuration help Check here or here (alternate formatting)

You can enable specific features only for specific worlds, Check here

Save yourself some time! Check "Troubleshooting and Common Questions" for the answer to your question.

Here is a playlist of a few 1 minute clips showcasing some features

If you have any questions feel free to ask, post bugs / feature suggestions in ticket section

Recommended Plugins

Make tree logs and branches fall when chopped with GraviTree. Set "FallingLogsDamagePlayers" to true in its config for an extra challenge!
For anti-grief, avoid plugins that disable explosions entirely, because that will undermine the cave-in mechanic and the new improved TNT.

Avoid plugins which allow players to teleport themselves out of danger when they're in combat or lost. Especially avoid plugins which add commands like /home, /back, and /tpa, since they will undermine the difficulty VERY much. Consider instead a teleportation plugin like Population Density, which allows players to teleport only between teleportation posts it places on the surface every 400 blocks.

You might want to look into balancing villagers. Having diamond gear tradable for very easily farmable materials will undermine the difficulty. I use Rebalance Villagers to make the trades harder.

Metrics

This plugin utilizes Hidendra's plugin metrics system, which means that the following information is collected and sent to mcstats.org:

A unique identifier
The server's version of Java
Whether the server is in offline or online mode
The plugin's version
The server's version
The OS version/name and architecture
The core count for the CPU
The number of players online
The Metrics version
Config options that are activated, allowing me to see what people use (or don't)

You can disable the stat collection via /plugins/PluginMetrics/config.yml if you wish. If you want to see the stats, you can go here

Source

Source can be found on github here. Contributions, pull requests and feedback are appreciated :).

Credits and Thanks

Coding: BigScary for creating this project; Mitsugaru for implementing awesome utility classes

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_ForgeUser8289699
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Posted Jan 1, 2013
@bigscary

I have been running the plugin with bukkit 1.4.6 for a week or so. Most of your changes related to explosions, such as exploding blazes, exploding magmacubes and charged creepers are broken.
Also I'm not 100% sure if it's a bukkit 1.4.6. issue, but disabling the inhibitmonstergrinders has fixed my problems for the most part. Before there were hardly any mobs and the ocean was completely empty, no squids at all, now its seems to be normal again.
Enderman: I kinda like the idea. Just that it doesn't work correctly. I had imagined that the enderman teleport you to them, so that you can't just stand on a 3 high pillar and kill them. That makes sense. It's just that they teleport you all over the place and not to them. I guess what's a problem as well is that in vanilla enderman teleport all over the place at day, maybe there is a way to disable that. For example I attacked an enderman in a cave and he teleported me out of the cave and was just gone afterwards.
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Posted Dec 31, 2012
As an alternative solution to BUKKIT-2874, can it be made a configurable value that all wheat drops 0 seeds, making tall grass the only way to get wheat seeds?

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Posted Dec 30, 2012
@MrMightyGnome

Already did. I'm not op, and I didnt give any group the bypass permission. It is the same for all other players.

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Posted Dec 30, 2012
@DerPragmat

you might be op, deop urself and check

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Posted Dec 30, 2012
I'm using Cb 1.4.5.R-0.2. I dont know why, but suddenly cobblestone and dirt blocks dont fall for me anymore. It is also possible to mine stone with a stone/wodden pickaxe. I didnt change anything, and it didnt even give me an error. Powered creepers still spawn, and Zombies/Spiders have added effects on hit. I checked, and those blocks are still configured in the config. Any idea how this is possible?

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Posted Dec 29, 2012
annnnnnd 1 more thing also, i think its this plugin thats limiting on enchanting items, a config on that would be also nice, ty :D

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Posted Dec 29, 2012
can you please add a config for pickaxe taking extra damage when mining (i think it has to do with hardened stone config but people in our server likes the idea of the hardened stone which require iron pickaxe to break but they dont like how their pickaxe is breaking too fast)

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Posted Dec 28, 2012
Please update, this is my best plugin and i need it to update my server to 1.4.6, also i liked the fire work idea a few comments down perhaps you should try to work them in somehow? Oh i know how about when a firework explodes it attracts hostile mobs to the area it exploded in that way if a player uses one then they will be swarmed by mobs

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Posted Dec 28, 2012
any idea when this will ever be updated if possible? also could you add world gaurd protection for the tnt if not already done?

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Posted Dec 28, 2012
You have to either deop yourself or if you are using a premissions-plugin you can remove the permission "extrahardmode.bypass" for yourself. It's in the post btw, read, it makes you more intelligent.

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Posted Dec 27, 2012
I cannot get this to work. Everything seems to load fine, but dirt won't fall and i can break stone with my hands and etc. :(

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Posted Dec 26, 2012
Nice Work bigscary, I have been using this plugin for a month already and love it!

Some things I noticed:

You can't build while standing on a halfslab. Is that intended?
The amount of monsters that spawn can vary heavily. Sometimes I can't even collect ores without getting attacked from behind and sometimes there are very little monsters. Is there a plugin that will work well with EHM to control the spawnrates?
There is moblimit per world and once that is reached no more mobs spawn, is that right? So the more players are playing at the same time, the less monsters there are per player? Meaning that its the hardest if you are on the server alone? Is there a plugin or way you can think of to make it kind of the same all the time? I was thinking of maybe letting monsters despawn quicker if they are far away and spawn a new monster that is nearer. Maybe also despawning monsters automatically if they cant reach a player.
What is the recommended difficulty? I know it only affects the dmg inflicted by monsters. I run the server in hard, ZombiePigs can kill you in a few hits and almost always get the first hit, cause they are so fast.
How is one supposed to kill Ghasts? Does one have to use a sword, or do arrows actually do dmg, it just doesn't show?
Falling dirt gets destroyed by torches. Probably a limitation of bukkit.
I tried to build a sand-piston-door with dirt, dirt doesn't fall if you don't update it. Probably a limitation of bukkit aswell.
Idea: Maybe you could use the fireworks for something. Maybe spawn 1-3 fireworks after a player dies? Maybe spawn some fireworks after u have killed a wither.

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Hey, Just a little suggestion, I think that if you hold shift while you take fall dammage, it should reduce it by 35% or something. In this case, sneaking would be like rolling once you hit the ground. Maybe it would have to be timed so you sneak right as you hit the ground? I'm not sure... Once you open your sever I will chat with you!

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Posted Dec 23, 2012
I've updated my server to 1.4.6. Everything in this plugin seems to be working fine EXCEPT that charged creepers no longer explode on damage. They still have the aura.

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Posted Dec 23, 2012
I would love it if this mod was available in SSP. Also, and endless night option would certainly add extra challenge.

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Posted Dec 22, 2012
@Ladyofthefez

If you want help, please provide some specific details. The likely cause is that you are an op, and so you bypass many of the new rules. Try /deop yourself.

@Ajaxan

You probably need to disable the "inhibit monster grinders" option. One of the ways it works is by preventing monsters from spawning on top of non-natural blocks like wooden planks, for example. Maybe your world generator is putting more of those kinds of blocks in?

@Zombiemold

It's something like "workaround plugin bugs option". :)

@tremor77

I don't think it's doable with Bukkit alone, sorry. I know some other plugins do it, but they are comfortable with taking a nasty craftbukkit dependency (technical stuff) that I don't want to get into. I think you'll find that players already have a rough time getting started without animals making a token effort at defending themselves. :)

@krone6

You're probably in /op mode. See above for the permission node you need to take away from yourself (or /deop).

@Confuzzled77

Changing the day/night cycle is a possibility, let me look into it. However I dunno if I really want to make this plugin harder... already it's practically impossible to keep a reasonable number of players on my server given that it's so damned hard. :) Have you not had the same experience?

@mrhelton123

I will release for 1.4.6, but right now I'm out of town away from my developer environment. :)

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Posted Dec 22, 2012
It works...

And, it's a hit on my server, I set it up in a new world, and my whole population is playing it.. They're favorite part? "Whoa! Cobblestone Falls?"

Haha.

edit: Can you add Longer NIghts in? I was thinking 20hr nights, 4 hrs days

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Posted Dec 22, 2012
Can someone confirm this is working in 1.4.6?

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Posted Dec 21, 2012
Does anyone have a working config I could look at? The plugin's not giving any errors and is loading fine, but it doesn't appear to work in the world I've selected. Ghasts still take damage from arrows when I test.

If possible, put a pastebin link on here and I'll see how you have your "worlds" section setup. Thanks in advance.

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Posted Dec 21, 2012
What is the config value to turn off the explosions?, I don't believe a new config generated it for me.

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