📅 Hardcore Resets & Rebirth
Gumdum Hardcore still has its normal Chronicle and monthly fresh-start rhythm. A reset closes one survival story and opens a brand-new world where everyone begins again together. There is also a carefully guarded early rebirth path when the realm has been quiet for five full continuous real-world days (120 hours).
Why Reset Hardcore
- Keeps the challenge fresh
- Gives new players a fair entry point
- Creates clear seasonal leaderboards
- Prevents one world from becoming permanently exhausted
- Turns each month into its own shared story
The Five-Day Rebirth Clock
Only qualifying activity from an eligible living Hardcore player resets the five-day clock. A living player's login, continued activity, or connected presence starts a new inactivity baseline, and a currently connected living player blocks rebirth.
If the final living player dies, that death becomes the inactivity baseline. A player who is dead, fallen, or spectating may log in without resetting the timer; dead-player presence does not count as living activity.
After five full days without qualifying living-player activity, the guarded reset can become eligible. Eligibility is not the same thing as a successful reset: the replacement, activation, Bedrock runtime, and post-reset proof still have to pass before the new world is ready.
What Resets
Only the active Hardcore world is reset. Its active world folder is wiped and recreated through the guarded lifecycle, using the same configured seed. Chronicle and history records, plus the required backup and rollback evidence, are preserved. SMP is untouched, and so are ports, friend bridges, and unrelated configuration.
The Discord resurrection announcement is made only after a successful resurrection has been proven.
Before a Reset
Staff will announce the expected reset window when possible. Players should finish screenshots, tours, celebrations, and final leaderboard pushes before the cutoff.
Nothing says fresh start like punching the same kind of tree with entirely renewed optimism.