Expert Mode

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Expert mode was introduced in version 1.7 as a more challenging way to play The Blockheads.

Starting

See also: Getting Started

Worlds enter expert mode while they're being created. Such worlds are a form of custom world that imposes a number of alterations, only some of which can be changed.

Expert mode worlds may be used to host multiplayer sessions normally.

Conditions

When playing a world in expert mode, harvesting produces less resources (including products from trees and plants) and crafting tends to require more, although this is partially compensated by an increase in the abundance of deposits of all kinds. Gold chests do not spawn under beaches, only in caves, and are less common. And, as is normal with custom worlds, the portal chest is unavailable.

The situation is complicated due to the default of blockheads spawning with no items, and by blocking ready access to meditation and trade portals.

Some of the changes can be adjusted using custom rules, such as teleportation requiring a diamond portal, meditation being blocked, attacks and hunger doubled in effect, and tools wearing out at half the rate (unless misused, including non-weapons being used to attack).

Additional differences from normal mode are also present:

  • Crafting trade portals is only possible in a diamond portal
  • If a blockhead foolishly chops down a tree at the bottom, then they receive one wood (whereas in normal mode, an abundance of wood blocks and sticks drop).

Crafting Progression

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In addition to significant changes in the recipes for crafting, expert mode imposes a clear progression through the crafting surfaces by adding levels between every item on a workbench. Further restriction exists in that a trade portal cannot be crafted without a diamond portal and many level-ups (some of them new) on all crafting surfaces require a gem as an ingredient. The result can be seen in the following list:

The increased number of gems needed for portal upgrades and the need for gems for upgrading other crafting surfaces gives the player some strategic planning to consider.