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vort3x's Avatar vort3x
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If you want to try out a vanilla-friendly, but more survival-like, then this is a great datapack for you.

Basically the longer you play the harder the game gets. There is no way to avoid it because it uses the time you play to calculate difficulty.
If you sleep in your bed to skip nighttime it will get harder faster.

There are 9 difficulties (0 being regular without any challenges, up to level 8 which is extremely hard)

There is a way to reverse the difficulty if it gets to hard or something. If you don't want to cheat then you can throw a
nether star, a enchanted golden apple, and a clock onto the ground. This will summon a lightning bolt, and your difficulty will have gone down 1 level.

You can also manually change the difficulty if you want to experiment or something. You will get a book which gives you all the information you need upon doing /reload.

YOU MUST DO /reload FOR THE DATAPACK TO WORK PROPERLY

You can view how many difficulty points you have on the first page of the special book as long as it is in the far right hotbar slot.

As a bonus, there are mob captains/minibosses. They have orange particles and are extremely strong. They are somewhat rare
but they drop more xp, and a piece of enchanted iron armor.

Giants have also been added. They will spawn starting at level 5. If you are too close they will stomp on you, doing great damage. If you start to get out of range, then it will throw boulders at you that explode. If you want to prevent builds from being blown up, you can do /gamerule mobGriefing false

Takeaways:
- Do /reload after you first install the datapack (you may need to enable cheats temporarily)
- In order to view how many points you have, PUT THE BOOK INTO YOUR FAR RIGHT HOTBAR SLOT and then open it



Here are some future plans for the datapack:
-Make mobs spawn during the day starting at level 6
-Make phantoms larger at level 6
-You won't be able to sleep at level 8
-Mobs will be given a variety of armor
-More mob spawns

Completed Updates:
-Illusioners can spawn with pillagers starting at level 6
-Giants can spawn at level 5 or more
-You can't sleep starting at level 7
-Phantoms will start getting bigger and bigger starting at level 6

Please give me other ideas you think I should add.

This also hasn't undergone lots of testing, especially in multiplayer. Let me know if anything is not working

CompatibilityMinecraft 1.19
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2 Update Logs

Update #2 : by vort3x 01/27/2023 10:06:08 amJan 27th, 2023

- Temporarily disabling giant boulder attack because of some bugs.
-You can't sleep starting at level 7
-Phantoms will start getting bigger and bigger starting at level 6
-Fixed a bug with the book which didn't let you switch to level 6
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ItsPhilipM
03/11/2023 5:06 pm
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On what difficulty should we put the world
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radekr5
01/26/2023 10:41 am
Level 1 : New Miner
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Nice data pack.

But i wanted to ask, are you willing to make a function that disables Giant spawning?

mainly because i want to use this data pack on my private server that every player has an island that they can build on. and yeah a giant on a island would'nt be so great.



if not i will understand.

(sorry for my bad English lol.)
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radekr5
01/26/2023 10:45 am
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And i a;so wanted to ask if this data pack is compatible with "Terrors of the Deep" Data pack?



www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/terrors-of-the-deep-stronger-mobs-below-y-0-true-survival-datapack/
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vort3x
01/26/2023 9:24 pm
Level 45 : Master Procrastinator
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Next time I update the datapack which will be in a few days, I can add that function. For now, if you want, you can go into the datapack yourself to fix it. Follow this file path inside the datapack folder:

data>vortex>functions>loop.mcfunction

Once you are in the "loop" function you can see on line 24 (or somewhere around that) "function vortex:giant/giant"
When you find that line of code you can comment it out or delete it to disable giants.

You can probably open the datapack with notepad or notpad++. I personally use VScode.
About the Terrors of the Deep, I have not tested but I am nearly positive that the datapacks are compatible, but you should check it out just in case. If it doesn't work then let me know and I can see what I can do.
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Tymonitar
01/21/2023 8:33 am
Level 1 : New Miner
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Cool!
When do you plan to add the future plans?
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vort3x
01/22/2023 4:14 pm
Level 45 : Master Procrastinator
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Probably sometime today. If not, tomorrow or the next day
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vort3x
01/22/2023 4:43 pm
Level 45 : Master Procrastinator
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just updated it. Let me know if you have some ideas for this
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Alexosavrua
01/21/2023 7:01 am
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Been looking for this for a long time I’ll try it on my server.
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King_Apocalyptic
01/17/2023 5:13 pm
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Interesting concept! Can't wait to try it out
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