Description
Challenging is the mid-level survival mode. Temperature, hunger, and health mechanics are tougher. The player cannot place blocks while in the air.
Gameplay Features
- Finite supply of blocks, items, etc. They must be gathered from the environment or crafted.
- Character can be hurt or killed by catching fire or freezing. See the Health and Damage System page.
- Animals are provoked more easily than in Harmless mode. Simply touching a hostile animal may cause them to attack you.
- Animals cannot be easily set a fire with matches.
- Sleep is necessary every 2 days. Without it, you may faint - even if you are in a dangerous situation.
- Tools and weapons wear down and eventually break.
- Animal spawn eggs [aside from birds] are unavaliable.
- Eating is necessary for survival. See for more info.
- Getting wet in colder climates can cause hypothermia, which will give the character flu.
- Dangerous animals are frequent.
- Blocks cannot be placed while in air like after a jump or if you fall.
Notes
- See World Options to learn how to change the game mode.
- It wasn't possible to edit terrain generation, environment behavior, etc. while it is set to Challenging Mode. You can still get around this by creating the desired world in Creative Gamemode and changing it into challenging mode after the world has been generated.
- Before 2.0, it wasn't possible to change temperature and humidity in non-creative modes.