Starting from Saturday, 15 February 2025 Blocsoc will be running it's own **Wild Life**! 🚦
For those unfamiliar with the Life Series, it's described as a "hardcore with a twist" survival multiplayer series, which was created by Grian. Each season has had a different set of rules, but the baseline has always been similar. Each payer has a set of lives, and after they lose all of them, they're out. Players are also limited to a small area to keep players in close proximity.
In Wild Life, the most recent season of the Life Series, the gimmick is that there is Wildcards. Each session, a unique twist on gameplay occurs which may affect how players interact with the world and other players. Some may also be dangerous in nature, forcing players to think of solutions on how to mitigate their effects.
Each player will start with 6 lives. Players with 4 or more lives are represented as Dark Green, three as Light Green, two as Yellow, and one as Red. In our version of Wild Life **only red names** will be able to attack players, and they will only gain a life for killing a **Dark Green** player. Yellows or above are not allowed to attack, but that doesn't stop you from being nefarious! However! If you catch someone trying to steal from you, or they attack you first, it's free game :) 💚 💛 ❤️
There's a few other changes that will be made:
* Passive mobs will have a chance to drop their respective spawn eggs, similar to hostile mobs.
* Enchanting tables will only offer the first level of scalable enchantments. Unscalable enchantments such as Silk Touch will still be available, though at much lower levels than what is normally required.
* TNT will be craftable using a custom crafting recipe, making it easier to access.
* Totems of Undying will not be dropped from evokers, but from wardens and withers instead.
Wild Life will run for 8 Weeks over weekly sessions from 16:00-19:00, with a 15 minute break included. There will be 30 slots available for people to play, and we will release a sign up sheet for that soon in the coming future. Please bear in mind that UofG students will have priority over associate members, and it will otherwise be on a first come first serve basis. If you aren't able to sign up in time - fear not! Some of our own committee members will be streaming it 👀
Before I sign off and let you all go crazy at this news, I would like to give a special thank you to our devs for being the programmers behind the project. This has taken a great deal of work from the two of them and I would appreciate if you could all give them some appreciation for the hard work they have, and will continue to put into this.