UHC terrain generation is incredibly broken and exploitable. Since maps don't change every single game people can simply memorize or write down the coordinates of where diamonds or other things are. What makes this worse is incredibly exploitable ore generation in Cubecraft's UHC such as "Ore Explosions" and water temples which I will explain in this thread. To have a chance against anyone on the leaderboards you have to exploit these bugs yourself or you will end up fighting a full team of fully enchanted, diamond armor teams by the end of the game. With that said let's get started exploiting! :D
Even if the other bugs in this thread are eventually fixed this will remain. All UHC worlds are manually reset it seems and the current worlds have been around for 2 weeks. This has given leaderboards people such as myself plenty of time to memorize where the best places are to get gear. If cubecraft reverts back to daily resets though you will still be able to use those same world's and coordinates for the entire day. I have my doubts that UHC worlds are going to be reset soon anyway as these worlds have already been around for 2 weeks. I will give coordinates for key places later in this thread so that you can stand a chance against the leaderboards people who already know where all these places are.
Ore explosions are massive amounts of ores that spawn in gravel patches. They will include every type of ore that spawns at that y level. Often these ore explosions will extend from near the surface at y=60 all the way down to bedrock so if you find one at the surface chances are you can find tons of diamonds below it. What's even worse about these ore explosions is that they are predictable and are at the same places on every single map. Currently I remember that there are ore explosions on every single map around (-22, -22) and (-218, -218) but there are many more. If you mine down to one at diamond level you will typically have enough diamonds to gear up 2 people in full diamond armor, tools, and weapons. Clicking the spoiler below will reveal a video showing a fraction of what you can find in one of these ore explosions.
You may not want to go to water temples in vanilla UHC as they are incredibly dangerous but in Cubecraft UHC they will win you the game if you know how to use them. Cubecraft water temples will typically spawn underground and contain ores of every type at every level. To exploit them effectively just mine underground into one of the walls with ores. Do not go into the water area as you will be two shot by guardians. Once you are at one of the side walls at any y level simply break ores one by one and replace them with a cheap block like cobblestone. You can probably find enough diamonds to gear up 6 people in full dia from one of these and enough gold to make half a stack of gapples if you spent the time mining it all out. I've managed to get full diamond within 10 minutes of the game starting using one of these is your best option to gear up in diamond before anyone else would even get iron armor in vanilla. Below are screenshots of the current coordinates to the 3 water temples on the current maps.
I hope you guys have fun exploiting these bugs to win I know for sure I don't. These bugs do occur in speed UHC as well but ore explosions are harder to spot with increased ore generation and I do not have the coordinates to any water temples for speed UHC.
This thread would be incomplete without telling you guys the strategies/weaknesses I've seen with the current leaderboards teams. Please note that Danikka, Bob_the_Giraffe, and Chrisi(string of random numbers) are all on the same team. If you don't want to fight against any leaderboard people simply play solo UHC as they like to carry each other/be carried onto the leaderboards. The only leaderboards player who often plays solo is me and you won't have to worry about me because after this I'm quitting Cubecraft UHC and sticking to much funner private UHCs. The spoilers below will tell you what I know about each leaderboards team.
I'll end this off with a little rant :P UHC on cubecraft just isn't fun for me anymore. People often die to mobs and the environment before you get to even have a fair fight with them. Games with leaderboards players are just mad rushes to the nearest water temple or ore explosion. Hackers often are able to the majority of players in some of my games before I can hunt them down and try to kill them. Winning games just by outliving every other player is not fun at all to me and exploiting these terrain bugs has grown very boring as the normal player doesn't even stand a chance. To top it all off the two people I really wanted to get on the leaderboards with GamerFreak and DaJosh are almost never online due to school and lost interest in minecraft :( I remember playing the very first 1.9 UHC as having so much fun with other private UHCs from 1.9-1.11 because: I knew most of the people, all the people could easily beat mobs and not take environmental damage, the worlds were randomly generated, people would all agree not to abuse bugs like the horse invis glitch, and there were never hackers or cross teamers I would have to worry about killing off everyone before we could have a fair fight. When cubecraft UHC first came out I was really excited to check out the custom world generation and relive at least some of the awesome experiences I had when playing 1.9-1.11 UHCs with friends before. Since then I have been heavily disappointed.
Sorry for the long, messy thread but this has just been really bothering me for the past week almost. I hope you guys find playing uhc more fun than I have in the past 2 weeks and I hope this gives people more of a chance against leaderboards players. ♡♡♡♡
Exploit #1 - World's stay the same for at least a day.
Even if the other bugs in this thread are eventually fixed this will remain. All UHC worlds are manually reset it seems and the current worlds have been around for 2 weeks. This has given leaderboards people such as myself plenty of time to memorize where the best places are to get gear. If cubecraft reverts back to daily resets though you will still be able to use those same world's and coordinates for the entire day. I have my doubts that UHC worlds are going to be reset soon anyway as these worlds have already been around for 2 weeks. I will give coordinates for key places later in this thread so that you can stand a chance against the leaderboards people who already know where all these places are.
Exploit #2 - Ore Explosions
Ore explosions are massive amounts of ores that spawn in gravel patches. They will include every type of ore that spawns at that y level. Often these ore explosions will extend from near the surface at y=60 all the way down to bedrock so if you find one at the surface chances are you can find tons of diamonds below it. What's even worse about these ore explosions is that they are predictable and are at the same places on every single map. Currently I remember that there are ore explosions on every single map around (-22, -22) and (-218, -218) but there are many more. If you mine down to one at diamond level you will typically have enough diamonds to gear up 2 people in full diamond armor, tools, and weapons. Clicking the spoiler below will reveal a video showing a fraction of what you can find in one of these ore explosions.
Exploit #3 - Water Temples
You may not want to go to water temples in vanilla UHC as they are incredibly dangerous but in Cubecraft UHC they will win you the game if you know how to use them. Cubecraft water temples will typically spawn underground and contain ores of every type at every level. To exploit them effectively just mine underground into one of the walls with ores. Do not go into the water area as you will be two shot by guardians. Once you are at one of the side walls at any y level simply break ores one by one and replace them with a cheap block like cobblestone. You can probably find enough diamonds to gear up 6 people in full dia from one of these and enough gold to make half a stack of gapples if you spent the time mining it all out. I've managed to get full diamond within 10 minutes of the game starting using one of these is your best option to gear up in diamond before anyone else would even get iron armor in vanilla. Below are screenshots of the current coordinates to the 3 water temples on the current maps.
How to Deal With Leaderboards Teams
This thread would be incomplete without telling you guys the strategies/weaknesses I've seen with the current leaderboards teams. Please note that Danikka, Bob_the_Giraffe, and Chrisi(string of random numbers) are all on the same team. If you don't want to fight against any leaderboard people simply play solo UHC as they like to carry each other/be carried onto the leaderboards. The only leaderboards player who often plays solo is me and you won't have to worry about me because after this I'm quitting Cubecraft UHC and sticking to much funner private UHCs. The spoilers below will tell you what I know about each leaderboards team.
Danikka often teams with Chrisi, Bob_the_Giraffe, tacosbefriends, Mistie, some person with a 3 letter name starting in
"y" (idk xD), and a few other people. Along with these teammates I've seen Bob_the_Giraffe play with players who are dedicated ghosters for him. These players will find some way to kill themselves at the start of a match and then ghost for Bob. If someone dies at the start of a game and stays the entire game in a match with any of these people chances are they are a dedicated ghoster and they will know where you are at all times. Danikka will often team with the players she thinks are the best if she is not with her teammates.
Danikka's teammates always use the hunter kit so get a shield as soon as possible when in a game against them (which you probably should do for any UHC anyway :P) I would recommend either hunter or pyro agaisnt them but they are used to dodging lava after I used pyro against them so many times. If you want to stoop low you can also use cowboy and abuse the horse glitch! :D (thx cubecraft for being 1.9)
Typically Danikka's team will go to the ore explosion at (-22, -22) on the current maps or go to a water temple. If they are teaming with tacosbefriends kill him first as he is simply the best PvPer on her team and killing the rest of her team will be easy without him.
"y" (idk xD), and a few other people. Along with these teammates I've seen Bob_the_Giraffe play with players who are dedicated ghosters for him. These players will find some way to kill themselves at the start of a match and then ghost for Bob. If someone dies at the start of a game and stays the entire game in a match with any of these people chances are they are a dedicated ghoster and they will know where you are at all times. Danikka will often team with the players she thinks are the best if she is not with her teammates.
Danikka's teammates always use the hunter kit so get a shield as soon as possible when in a game against them (which you probably should do for any UHC anyway :P) I would recommend either hunter or pyro agaisnt them but they are used to dodging lava after I used pyro against them so many times. If you want to stoop low you can also use cowboy and abuse the horse glitch! :D (thx cubecraft for being 1.9)
Typically Danikka's team will go to the ore explosion at (-22, -22) on the current maps or go to a water temple. If they are teaming with tacosbefriends kill him first as he is simply the best PvPer on her team and killing the rest of her team will be easy without him.
GiovanniPvP typically teams with his clan which consists of people who have names ending in PvP. The current teammates I can think of off the top of my head are AlvaPvP, EmblaPvP, MrJordyPvP, GewoonChar, and many more. Giovanni's team are frequent abusers of the horse invis glitch and indirectly and possibly directly cross team if they can't all be on one team. I've seen one match where one of Giovanni's teammates from another team circled Giovanni and protected him from other players while still keeping his distance so it would not be considered teaming.
Giovanni's teammates typically use the cowboy kit to take advantage of the horse invis bug. Sometimes they will use hunter if the map is not suitable for horses. I would highly recommend pyro as the lava bucket can be used to trap the horse and kill the rider if they do not dismount quickly enough. If you do end up in a fight against any invis player on a horse though just aim for where the rider should be and you will hit.
Giovanni's team will almost always head to (0,0) and the ore explosion at (-22, -22) if you want to kill them at the start. They will occasionally go for a water temple though. If you are on the map "Desert" they will always ride around on horses trying to kill everyone off quickly.
Giovanni's teammates typically use the cowboy kit to take advantage of the horse invis bug. Sometimes they will use hunter if the map is not suitable for horses. I would highly recommend pyro as the lava bucket can be used to trap the horse and kill the rider if they do not dismount quickly enough. If you do end up in a fight against any invis player on a horse though just aim for where the rider should be and you will hit.
Giovanni's team will almost always head to (0,0) and the ore explosion at (-22, -22) if you want to kill them at the start. They will occasionally go for a water temple though. If you are on the map "Desert" they will always ride around on horses trying to kill everyone off quickly.
In the event that I ever play Cubecraft UHC again before these bugs are fixed this will be what I do :P
My teammates which I'll rarely have will probably be DaJosh, GamerFreak (if he's not a scrub and wants to go against me :3), MagnificentSpam, PinkySan, and on rare occasions HuNous (MastaWinda). I will typically use the pyro kit and will first lava my enemies before trying to melee. Sometimes I will use hunter though. I'll typically go around raiding structures to get full iron really quickly. Sometimes I will go for water temples or ore explosions if I'm in a game with other leaderboards people but recently I've been sticking to getting full iron and checking the spots I think the other leaderboards people will be. For the most part the best way to counter me is with hunter as I will not have a bow when I pick pyro. Using a bow and keeping your distance seems to be the best bet for most people I fight. I will typically stick to the surface and constantly check locations of ore explosions and water temples in normal games to make sure no one else uses them.
You probably won't have to worry about me though as I won't be playing normal UHC on cubecraft anymore.
My teammates which I'll rarely have will probably be DaJosh, GamerFreak (if he's not a scrub and wants to go against me :3), MagnificentSpam, PinkySan, and on rare occasions HuNous (MastaWinda). I will typically use the pyro kit and will first lava my enemies before trying to melee. Sometimes I will use hunter though. I'll typically go around raiding structures to get full iron really quickly. Sometimes I will go for water temples or ore explosions if I'm in a game with other leaderboards people but recently I've been sticking to getting full iron and checking the spots I think the other leaderboards people will be. For the most part the best way to counter me is with hunter as I will not have a bow when I pick pyro. Using a bow and keeping your distance seems to be the best bet for most people I fight. I will typically stick to the surface and constantly check locations of ore explosions and water temples in normal games to make sure no one else uses them.
You probably won't have to worry about me though as I won't be playing normal UHC on cubecraft anymore.
I'll end this off with a little rant :P UHC on cubecraft just isn't fun for me anymore. People often die to mobs and the environment before you get to even have a fair fight with them. Games with leaderboards players are just mad rushes to the nearest water temple or ore explosion. Hackers often are able to the majority of players in some of my games before I can hunt them down and try to kill them. Winning games just by outliving every other player is not fun at all to me and exploiting these terrain bugs has grown very boring as the normal player doesn't even stand a chance. To top it all off the two people I really wanted to get on the leaderboards with GamerFreak and DaJosh are almost never online due to school and lost interest in minecraft :( I remember playing the very first 1.9 UHC as having so much fun with other private UHCs from 1.9-1.11 because: I knew most of the people, all the people could easily beat mobs and not take environmental damage, the worlds were randomly generated, people would all agree not to abuse bugs like the horse invis glitch, and there were never hackers or cross teamers I would have to worry about killing off everyone before we could have a fair fight. When cubecraft UHC first came out I was really excited to check out the custom world generation and relive at least some of the awesome experiences I had when playing 1.9-1.11 UHCs with friends before. Since then I have been heavily disappointed.
Sorry for the long, messy thread but this has just been really bothering me for the past week almost. I hope you guys find playing uhc more fun than I have in the past 2 weeks and I hope this gives people more of a chance against leaderboards players. ♡♡♡♡
