Notch Reveals Leveling and Permadeath

By WedTM Jul 20, 2011
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In a recent article on PC Gamer, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson explained a new leveling system for Minecraft versions to come.

“I’m a big roguelike fan,” explains Notch. “It’s really fun. The idea is that you level up really, really fast. You can grind away and level up fast if you want to, or you can just play as normal and level up that way. The longer you play, the bigger the risk of dying becomes. It’s the part that really works. If it feels like it’s too harsh, we might make it half or something like that. But the fact that you lose everything – you lose all your inventory anyways.”

This is looking like it's more and more to do with the much anticipated "Adventure Update" moniker that Patch 1.8 has been dubbed with.

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sprolsly
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Posted Jul 20, 2011
looks cool :smile.gif:
also first

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Hopefully permadeath and hunger are only in hardcore.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
I'm not sure about this. I hope there will be a toggle, or something to that effect.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
perma death, that's definately something to watch out for...

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Who's ready for the petition against this?

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Perma-death for SMP probably. I'm pretty sure. Otherwise, he has a good gimmick going on :wink.gif:

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
cool! cant wait

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Leveling? COOL!

EXP Death? Sounds...annoying.

I wonder how this will change adventure maps...

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
I'm not so sure about the whole leveling idea... Doesn't seem that MC is that type of game.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
i love it! adventure mode should be fun!

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
i dont mind the idea...but i really hope this is toggle able.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
How will gaining levels affect our character? Does a higher level character do more damage? Or maybe higher critical chance? Will it affect what weapons and armor we can use? And how will this all play into PvP? It sounds pretty cool but I hope it'll be balanced out. :smile.gif:

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
I don't like the sound of permadeath... but leveling sounds pretty cool.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
I'm okay with hunger, but I hope permadeath becomes an option of its own.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Wow.. permadeath? =O

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Permadeath would be an option I'm pretty sure.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
people immediately saying:
"THIS IS GAY" you lose your leveling progress when you die, it's not like you lose your saves.
"NOT AN MMORPG" mc already was an mmorpg, it just didn't have all the functions without mods people have created.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
Quote from Pirate_Ray

hunger.... ok can live with that, leveling will be the first ill let be modded out, and if permadeath means when you die enough times in singleplayer and cant play your world anymore, im modding that out to... explanation about permadeath please?

Permadeath = You die and you die for good. Game over. Delete your world and make another.

And I agree. If permadeath isn't a toggle-able function already, I'll have to mod it out as I'm happy with hunger and I can tolerate leveling since its only affecting max HP.

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Posted Jul 20, 2011
leveling - sounds dumb and pointless, i hope to god there is a setting to disable this
permadeath - sounds interesting would love to see how this plays out
hunger - interesting idea, but needs to only be on hardcore modes (or applicable by settings in server.properties)

In all honesty, kinda interesting to see but some are just pointless (leveling is so stupid, we dont want a MMO version like WOW thanks) but i am looking forward for hunger and permadeath

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