
Notch recently noted a possible end to the currently-frozen scoring system: experience orbs may begin counting towards a score total in the near future! The recent screenshot also reveals another likely addition, in the form of Hardcore Mode - death means world deletion. At the moment, Minecraft only offers item loss as a potential deterrent from death; the inclusion of an optional Hardcore Mode would certainly provide a new sense of danger and accomplishment to an already excellent game!
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Notch also did say there was another difficulty which deletes your premium account.
Maybe withdraws money from your Paypal account too
Hardcore is only in SSP, otherwise SMP would just be so easy to grief.
Im sure theyll have a working system for smp.
It'd be cool if when you died, everything that you made and crafted dissapeared on smp.
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And so Save-scumming comes to Minecraft!
Hehe. Not that it would make much sense to pick Hardcore mode if you just intend to save-scum your way around the rules... But on the other hand, Hardcore players would probably still keep backups in the event of world-corrupting bugs or system crashes, and then when their Hardcore character they've had for six month dies, it would probably be pretty tempting to use the backup...