Minesgiving Survival GamesThis Survival Games datapack raises the stakes of a traditional survival-based speedrunning competition by creating additional avenues for players to win. While the ultimate goal is still speedily reaching the End Dimension to Free the End, this datapack modifies the overall competition by assigning points for each vanilla advancement. This change makes slower players still have a competitive chance against speedier runners.
**Why?**
Minesgiving has hosted a Survival Games component since the very first Minesgiving event. The event has largely been successful, with the primary goal of players to be to race to the End Dimension as fast as possible and be the first one to defeat the Ender Dragon (more specifically, the player that obtains Free The End first.)
This is a very predictable and objectionable event metric, as the specific advancement is only achieveable by one person per Ender Dragon.
Going in to our 6th edition of Minesgiving, we wanted to address a consistent problem across each version of the game we've run the event:
- 1.16 revamped the Nether biomes and increased the difficulty of Nether traversal, [impacting the process of locating a Nether Fortress/getting Blaze], but the speedrunning path remained the same.
- 1.17/1.18/1.19 signficantly altered Overworld terrain generation, but didn't really change the speedrunning path, outside making the strongholds deeper and introducing The Deep Dark.
- 1.20's only major impact on the speedrunning path was locking netherite completely behind Nether Bastions (not that netherite armor/tools are necessary to defeat the Ender Dragon)
With the introduction of Java Edition 1.21, we took the opportunity to experiment with the new advancements, and restructure Survival Games & the speedrunning process by utilizing the in-game advancement system with embedded points, while still maintaining the ultimate goal of Freeing the End.
The program was written for Minecraft: Java Edition version 1.21. It was written and tested within Windows 11.
Warning: This program may contains errors. Use it with your own risk.
Download link: https://github.com/GirixK/minesgiving
- TODO: correct link to include releases/latest ?
This plugin was written with respect and intended usage for multiplayer "vanilla" servers, and specifically modifies 1.21 Java Edition advancements. It is possible to use the plugin in single-player if desired.
The folks over at the Minecraft Wiki have written an excellent article regarding datapack installation:
A special thank you to @GirixK for helping set up the github repository (i'm new to this!) and for general assistance regarding Minecraft code structures & how things work.
An even greater thank you to all the members (Build Team and not!) that help put on Minesgiving year after year.
- multiple playtests to validate point spread & expected player behavior
- Improve player recognition & knowledge of advancement points
- universal translations?
- modification of advancement backgrounds?
- Partial advancement credit?
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