Hardcore Extended
by Qboi
Hardcore Extended turns survival into a set of challenges, adding rules that change how healing, damage, sleep, jumping and mining work.
What it does
Hardcore Extended makes the Minecraft experience harder by attaching a set of challenges to ordinary play. Each challenge targets a different part of the game: healing, damage taken, sleeping, jumping, breaking blocks, fishing underwater, and a vegan-style restriction on food. The challenges can be switched on or off and their settings changed from the config, and item changes can be applied in game.
The mod is built for Forge on Minecraft 1.16.5, with the 1.16.4 build also published. Because both the server and every player must run it for the challenges to apply, it is a client and server mod. The project is all rights reserved and is not open source, though its source code, issue tracker and wiki are public.
Key features
Healing challenge
Natural and item-based healing is limited, so recovering health requires more effort than usual.
Damage challenge
The amount of damage a player takes is raised, making mistakes and hostile mobs more costly.
Sleep and jump challenges
Sleeping and jumping each carry their own restriction, changing when a player can rest and how they move.
In-game config changes
Item changes and challenge settings can be adjusted in game, without restarting the world.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Hardcore Extended need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft versions does Hardcore Extended support?
Can the challenges be turned off or changed?
In the catalog
Hardcore Extended is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,478 Adventure mods for Forge. 5,992 mods support Minecraft 1.16.5.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/hardcore-extended
- Owner
- Qboi
- Published
- 2022-03-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2022-03-27
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15