Reworking Game Modes

[BenCheung0422]

Background

In the game, currently there are 4 modes: Survival, Creative, Hardcore and Score. However, the handling is not quite well, and their brief respective differences as below:

Feature	Survival	Creative	Hardcore	Score
Darkness rendering	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Hotbar rendering	Yes	Hidden when empty	Yes	Yes
Arrow consumption for bow shooting	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Time constrains	No	No	No	Yes, configurable
Health	Yes	Hidden	Yes	Yes
Stamina	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Hunger	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Score showing in debug display	No	No	No	Yes
Spawner instant kill	No	Yes	No	No
Spawner configuring	No	Yes	No	No
Hostile mob attacking	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Mob instant kill	No	Yes	No	No
Score multiplication	No	No	No	Yes
"Flying" on sky level	No	Yes	No	No
Constant slime loot	No	No	No	Yes
Item consumption	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Can always craft	No	Yes, but recipe must be unlocked	No	No
Boss tile effectiveness	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Survival mode achievements	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Can respawn	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

However, Game Modes should only affect player-oriented behaviors, so features like time constrains and spawner radius, changing world behaviors, are not favourable in this area. This system could not support multiplayer effectively.

Redefinition

Firstly, Game Mode has to be redefined. Now, Game Mode means player's gameplay mode in a world. This should only affect per-player features, but not world behaviors applying globally on every player.

Refined System

Score Mode would be removed from the game. Hardcore Mode would be removed from Game Modes because of the characteristics of the Hardcore Mode, but would be introduced in another system. Referring to Minecraft's implementation, we have:

• Survival (as is)
• Creative (more unified)
• Adventure (useful for maps)
• Spectator (useful for landscape maps)

For the Score Mode, it is not really flexible, and the scoring system would be entirely removed the game, but some features may be replaced by the Statistics System. For the modes, the implementation might be similar to Minecraft, but tweaking would still be required. Among them, Adventure and Spectator are the new modes to be introduced to the game.