Hard Mode in Minecraft
This datapack adds 28 changes to make your Minecraft experience significantly more challenging. From the removal of the crafting table recipe to every item having only eight durability, this pack is designed for players who find vanilla Minecraft too easy.
Once you defeat the Ender Dragon, a message will appear in the chat showing how long it took you to complete the game. This datapack is suitable for both single-player and multiplayer worlds.
Changes:
- Eternal Night: The world is perpetually in a state of night.
- Difficulty: The game difficulty is set to Hard.
- Netherite Mobs: All mobs capable of wearing armor or using weapons will be equipped with Netherite armor and a Netherite axe.
- Wood Planks: 1 Log crafts into 1 Plank.
- Crafting Table: The crafting recipe for the crafting table is removed.
- Increased Enderian Health: Endermen have 2x more health.
- Increased Iron Golem Health: Iron Golems have 2x more health.
- Iron Golem Drops: Iron Golems will always drop 1 iron ingot.
- Sheep Shearing: Shearing sheep will always drop 2 strings.
- No Wool from Sheep: Sheep will not drop wool.
- Invisible Ghasts: Ghasts have a permanent invisibility effect.
- Increased Ghast Health: Ghasts have 3x more health.
- Increased Blaze Health: Blazes have 2x more health.
- Blaze Powder: 1 Blaze Rod crafts into 1 Blaze Powder.
- Increased Silverfish Health: Silverfish have 3x more health.
- Ender Crystal: Ender Crystals will not explode from projectiles.
- Dragon's Resilience: When the Ender Dragon's health drops below 50%, all Ender Crystals will respawn, and the dragon's health will regenerate to 100%.
- Bad Omen: You will have a permanent Bad Omen effect.
- Bed Breaking: Breaking a bed will drop 1 wool block.
- Item Durability: All items that have durability will only have 8 durability.
- Sticks: 2 planks craft into 1 stick.
- Wither Skeletons: Wither Skeletons have a Bow with Punch II instead of a stone sword.
- Silverfish Buff: Silverfish have a permanent Strength III effect.
- Eye of Ender Recipe: Eye of Ender crafts with 2 Blaze Powders.
- Eye of Ender: Eye of Ender has a 100% chance to break.
- Torches: Torches craft in a quantity of 1.
- Complicated Campfire: The campfire recipe is made more difficult.
- Complicated Furnace: The furnace recipe is made more difficult.