Last edited on 20 July 2017 - 07:45 PM by bosclown

Hello everyone my name is Purped or Logan, I will be informing you on different strategies commonly used in UHC here. I hope this proves helpful to newer players.


Snowballing

Basically snowballing is rush 0,0 and trying to get as much gear as possible. This is typically done where a player gets full iron and possibly some secondaries and then goes to pvp. A successful snowball will result in a player getting a series of kills and eventually becoming very stacked in terms of gear due to killing a large amount of players. The risky part about snowballing is that you could die rather quickly due to having less gear and the possibility of someone cleaning you up. This particular strategy is more high risk high reward style.


Border camping and Border trapping

These are too very common strategies used in most UHC's and I will talk about them one at a time.


Border camping

This is the first of the two. This one usually involves a player mining to get very geared until the border is near shrinking and then they will go up and wait for the border to shrink and try to kill whoever is there. This is common to see full diamond players A common thing for this is that multiple players will attack a lesser geared opponent or look for someone full iron and target them.

Border trapping

Now this is very similar to camping however I decided to go over it separate. The basic idea is that you will spend the majority of the game mining and becoming more geared and then you head up near the shrink. The principle ofr this however is that you will build traps and doing things so that your opponent can not attack you or escape. Common traps are falling ones where they an not MLG or one where they will get hit by the feet and not be able to fight back. The idea is to not let your enemies fight you at all and take their gear easily.


Nether rushing

This is another very common strategy and the last one I will cover here. The whole idea of this one is to get to the nether as quickly as possible and go from there. In the nether many players rush to find fortresses and make potions or mine quartz and gain experience levels. The idea of going for potions is that you will have an advantage over you opponent, speed or fire resistance for example. Potions give a helping hand to any player who finds them and helps give them a better chance at victory.

The other common idea involving the nether is to simply mine for levels. Now for those of you who do not know, nether quartz gives the most experience when mined above all other ores. The use of this is to get high levels and go for more dangerous and deadly enchants. When a player reaches level 30 and if they have enough books, they can enchant for that and get very valuable enchants on an item. Getting higher level enchants is a very useful idea and will aid anyone in killing other players. An example of this would be getting levels to make a sharpness V diamond sword. That is the most powerful sword in the game and using nether quartz, obtaining it becomes much more realistic.

I hope my little thread here helps anyone who needs it. Feel free to leave any additional strategies or feedback below.

Posted on 20 July 2017 - 01:50 AM

I'd be bad at all these options.

Posted on 20 July 2017 - 05:00 PM

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Posted on 26 July 2017 - 05:14 AM

"sticky" haha no.

Posted on 26 July 2017 - 05:14 AM

Purped well written

Posted on 02 August 2017 - 11:35 AM

Ok there are many flaws with the explanation. Also I want to add on the ideas since Badlion is a little different now.

1. Snowballing on Badlion is aids and I do not recommend new uhc players to do this. Literally there are 20 full diamonds at 00 20 min in and they just killaura u. Since its badlion, u have a 0% chance getting respawned and even if u record, u have 10% chance of getting respawned since the evidence has to go to seniors. If u do get respawned, it will be 30 minutes later so ur game is already gone.

2. I would recommend going to border -+ or –, as they are the least X-ray player filled border. New players should go here, because it's the least sweatiest. Also, I would cave at awkward cords, because all the xrayers on Badlion have something called border-ball where they literally go 2k2k or 2.5k2.5k and use their radar/X-ray to dig on kids. I would recommend caving at 2k900 or 2.7k1.2k or something random like I stated.
3. Nether- This is an area that u should not go. If u press f3, it says hell, and boy it sure is hell. I will talk about when to rush nether and when not to. You SHOULD NOT go nether at 20 min in. There will be a lot of people going in and it will be chaos. Also, nether is infested with bhoppers and killaura, and xrayers. These players come only 20min in to kill the full irons and pot stuff. If u still want pot stuff, then go ahead and die to the cheaters. If you are stacked and have a lot of books, you should go nether after 45 min. All the cheaters leave at this time and go to the sweaty borders that I have mentioned before. While mining levels, always look around u to make sure no one is coming since 1 lava bucket is rip game in nether. You should also try to get out of nether before 1hr and 20min as people try to get stacked last min.


I did not make this thread to bash Badlion, I made this so the new uhc players will understand that they have to be aware more since there are a lot of cheaters.

Posted on 07 August 2017 - 01:51 PM

Great thread, especially for beginners.
Thank you Purped.