My friends and I want to see if we can set a Minecraft Server to Hardcore mode. What number do you need to set the difficulty option to for Hardcore? e.g. Peaceful = 1, Normal = 2, etc.

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According to the wiki, there's no option for it on servers. Hardcore isn't a difficulty, it's a separate gamemode, and the only options for that is creative and survival.

This kind of makes sense too. Since the world is deleted when the player dies, it'd be harder to handle it when there are multiple players, waiting until they're all dead. Also, no one could drop in, and what if all the players just disconnected, and someone else joined while they were gone and died?

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In Minecraft 1.3.1 and later, you can simply edit your server.properties files.

Locate the line that says hardcore=false and change the false to true. Voilà!

If you use Bukkit 1.8.1, you can use this pretty plugin: Hardcore

It's not updated to 1.0.0 yet , but it probably will after RB of Bukkit get released.

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You CAN change your server to hardcore and without a plugin. I just don't know how I did it. I had a bukkit server and when I updated to 1.3.1 the server changed to hardcore. When you die it says "You died in hardcore. It's game over man!" The only way to pardon them is to get their IP address and type in /pardon-ip <ip address>.

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Create a map in single player and set the game type to hard core once its created move it into your bukkit install and set it up as your default map in your server properties.

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Create one on singleplayer and put it as the default world and voila, it's hardcore. This works. I tried it myself.

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