Hardcore Survival Launched

The main feature of our Hardcore Plus server will be our new health mechanics. This system punishes you for dying by removing a heart from you each time you die, with a minimum health of 3 hearts. To restore your hearts, you'll have to craft a Heart Crystal by using an echo shard and diamond block. A heart crystal restores 1 heart back, and can even overheal you over 10 hearts, to 20 hearts. These extra 10 hearts are called temporary hearts, as when you take damage; they'll disappear. So for example if you have 20 hearts, you take 6 hearts of damage, you'll only have 14 hearts after.
We'll have a video explaining this made before release.

Other things to note, this server will be essentially vanilla; where there are no teleport commands, all types of block damage is enabled(fire spread, creeper explosions, etc), and natural health regeneration will be off!

About the PVP mechanics, we will introduce the pvp toggle system again; but those who have PVP enabled are fair game for pvp at any time, and any items on their person is up for grabs. On the other hand, if you have pvp disabled, you cannot be killed or have your items taken from you when you die.

Stealing and griefing will still be not allowed, we aren't an anarchy server of course; any loot dropped during pvp will be fair game.

Players with pvp enabled will be indicated with redstone particles above their head, and can be set at spawn.

I look forward to seeing everyone on launch, i'll be posting more teasers of our features and other things as we draw closer to the date!