The Pumpkin Challenge

Players progress through challenge tiers named Copper, Iron, Gold, Diamond and Netherite. Each tier is made of phases: combat phases in which mobs spawn around the arena and fight until a set number of kills is reached, and non-combat resting phases between them that give challengers time to heal and prepare. Only the copper and iron tiers are complete in this version, and further tiers are planned for later updates.

Within a challenge, each normal wave ends once its kill count is reached, then the next resting phase begins and the difficulty rises from wave to wave. After a set number of normal waves a boss wave appears, by default after 5 waves, with one boss to defeat quickly. A building phase can replace a resting phase, letting the group reshape the arena ground, though instant-breaking blocks such as grass are the only ones that may be removed outside it. Leaving before the boss wave is defeated counts as failure.