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Wurstmineberg Ultra Softcore (often abbreviated as USC) is a type of Minecraft minigame based on Mindcrack Ultra Hardcore. The rules vary from match to match (like on Mindcrack UHC), but the primary difference is that we give players another chance when they die from environmental damage (hostile mobs, fall damage, fire/lava). We mainly do that because we're exceedingly happy to even manage to get 4 people scheduled for a match, and having that match end after 30 minutes because someone derped up would kind of defeat the point of having a fun game.

Wurstmineberg's USC games take place on usc.wurstmineberg.de, and the main world is shut down during the event to reduce server load.

Rules

1. The goal is to be in the last team with surviving players.
   • Players who are in the death screen or respawn timer (see below) do not count as surviving players for this rule, until they have respawned.
   • Players who have disconnected (intentionally or not) also do not count as surviving players for this rule, until they have reconnected.
   • Whether or not the Ender dragon counts as a player for this rule depends on the game mode. If she is, she forms a team of her own, named Team Glydia and without color.
2. If a player dies because of another player, whether directly (the death message shows the player's name) or indirectly (e.g. traps, utility mobs, suicide to escape), they must either disconnect from Minecraft or switch to Spectator mode within 2 minutes after their death.
   • Players who disconnect may continue to talk in their team's voice call. They may also leave and switch to Spectator mode later.
   • Players in Spectator mode may join any voice calls but must stay muted except in the USC Lobby.
   • The Ender dragon always counts as a player for this rule, even if she does not actually participate. Dying while in the End counts as a pvp death.
   • If the dead player switches to Spectator mode, they must also leave their team call, if any.
3. You may not break into the USC box.
4. You may only stream/record your perspective of the game with your teammates' permission. Similarly, you may only join other voice channels while streaming/recording with the permission of the unmuted people in that channel.
5. You may not watch other players' livestreams of the game or read their Twitch chat unless you are in Spectator mode. If you are streaming, it must be a bannable offense to post information from another player into your Twitch chat (unless you are in Spectator mode) or vice versa (unless that player is in Spectator mode).

Other game mechanics

These rules are automatically enforced but might still be nice to know:

• The server will be on hard difficulty, with pvp on and naturalRegeneration off.
• When the game starts, teams are scattered randomly around the map.
• If a player dies, they automatically enter the respawn timer. This is intended as a timeout for deaths by environment, see rule 2.
• When a player enters the respawn timer, they will be set to Adventure mode and teleported to their team's lobby. A clock will count up to 12000 ticks (12 hours), after which the player will be set to Survival mode again and teleported to a random location on the map.
• The world border starts at a radius of 1450 meters around coordinates 0/0, and shrinks to a radius of 100 meters over the course of the first 10 days of the game.
  • The border moves 150 meters every day for the first 8 days, 100 meters on day 9, 50 meters on day 10, and then stops.
  • The border movement is synchronized with the server ticks at least twice a day, so when there is tick lag it stops until the server has caught up.
  • The scatter radius for respawning players is always slightly smaller than the current border radius.
  • The current border radius will be announced every day using /title.
• If you're interested in the details, the data pack that runs USC can be found at https://github.com/wurstmineberg/usc.

History

Previous seasons

There have been 16 main “seasons” (games) of USC and 3 side seasons before Zucchini:

Season	Date	Players	Team size	Winners
USC Zero	2013-04-08	4 + dragon	4	Team Glydia (Ender dragon)
USC 1	2013-04-28	4	2	Team Joined Forces (@jemus42, @felinira)
USC 1b	2013-04-28	4 + dragon	4	Team Glydia (Ender dragon)
USC 2	2013-08-07	4 + dragon	2	Team Saarland (@l3viathan, @fenhl)
USC 3	2013-10-05	6	3	Team Light Purple (@l3viathan, @felinira, @fireantprincess)
USC 4	2013-12-08	5	2–3	Team FFA (@fenhl, @alexanderjulo, @felis)
USC 5	2014-01-10	6 + dragon	6	Team Wurst (@l3viathan, @fenhl, @papierschiff, @felis, @madmalik, @drseilzug)
USC 6	2014-05-24	8	4	Team AnderZEL (@jemus42, @fenhl, @felinira, @zookee1)
USC 7	2014-06-14	9	3	Team Sail Away (@felis, @madmalik, @zookee1)
USC 8	2014-07-26	8	4	Team Infantry (@l3viathan, @felinira, @fireantprincess, @zookee1)
USC 9	2014-10-04	4	2	none (teams agreed to a draw due to technical difficulties)
USC 10	2014-12-07	9	3	Team Understatement (@fenhl, @fireantprincess, @katthekat)
USC 11	2014-12-21	12	4	Team Fire And Water (@fenhl, @papierschiff, @alexanderjulo, @plyspomitox)
USC 12	2015-01-25	9	3	Team Splitup (@plyspomitox, @dirdante, @SZE)
USC 13	2015-03-08	5 + dragon	5	Team Fireworks (@fenhl, @felinira, @papierschiff, @felis, @plyspomitox)
USC 14	2015-08-29	13	4–5	Team Never Warts (@felis, @madmalik, @ralokt, @kharadbanar, @Hanna)
USC 15	2015-10-25	12	3	Team Gold 'n' Lava (@felis, @madmalik, @plyspomitox)
USC 16	2016-06-04	15	3	Team Dirty Warts (@l3viathan, @ralokt, @Hanna)
USC 16b	2016-06-04	8	4	Team Sappers (@fenhl, @plyspomitox, @ralokt, @kharadbanar)

A more detailed history of USC from before Zucchini can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20170414034907/http://wiki.wurstmineberg.de/Ultra_Softcore.

USC 17

Date: 2020-06-28 14:00 UTC (16:00 Berlin time)
Played on: Minecraft 1.16.1, USC data pack 4.0
Seed: 5514996819959838032
Winners: Team Taking Inventory

Team	Members	Chat color
Evil Portals	@seven_waterkant, @bobschi	Dark Aqua
Hot Stuff	@tinuqin, @kharadbanar	Light Purple
Taking Inventory	@fenhl, @ralokt	Green
Anonymous	@l3viathan, @schimbi	Red

World backup including logs

Videos (timestamps at game start):

• @fenhl's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/664373483?t=41m50s
• @ralokt's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/665385874?t=53s
• @kharadbanar's perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MU0uz63jfs

USC 18

Date: 2020-07-31 17:00 UTC (19:00 Berlin time)
Played on: Minecraft 1.16.1, USC data pack 4.1
Seed: 5420292106763712990
Winners: Team Taking Inventory

Team	Members	Chat color
Taking Inventory	@fenhl, @ralokt	Dark Aqua
Hot Stuff	@tinuqin, @kharadbanar	Light Purple

This season was played with “show player advancements” enabled.

World backup including logs

Videos (timestamps at game start):

• @fenhl's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696679382?t=25m55s
• @ralokt's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696462709?t=11m45s
• @kharadbanar's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696459612?t=5m49s

USC 19

Date: 2020-10-18 15:00 UTC (17:00 Berlin time)
Played on: Minecraft 1.16.3, USC data pack 4.2
Seed: 680464199991511197
Winners: Team Love at Second Sight

Team	Members	Chat color
Saarland	@l3viathan, @fenhl	Dark Aqua
Love at Second Sight	@benemitc, @ralokt	Light Purple
(none)	@kharadbanar	(none)

This season was played with “show player advancements” enabled and in Love at First Sight mode, a variant where players start solo and automatically form teams of 2 with the first other solo player they meet.

World backup including logs

Videos (timestamps at game start):

• @fenhl's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/774520338?t=22m24s

USC 20

Date: 2020-11-29 15:00 UTC (16:00 Berlin time)
Played on: Minecraft 1.16.3, USC data pack 4.2
Seed: -5685805613022333943
Winners: Team Glydia

Team	Members	Chat color
Die glorreichen Drei	@benemitc, @fenhl, @None#	Dark Aqua
Half-hearted Nether Adventures	@l3viathan, @ralokt, @kharadbanar	Light Purple
Glydia	Ender dragon	Black

This season was played with “show player advancements” enabled and with the Ender dragon participating as her own team.

Videos (timestamps at game start):

• @fenhl's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/821356289?t=9m10s
• @kharadbanar's perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeRiI00wjc&t=5m14s

USC 21

Date: 2022-11-06 15:00 UTC (16:00 Berlin time)
Played on: Minecraft 1.19.2, USC data pack variant branch
Seed: (copy of the main world) Winners: Team Zucchini

Team	Members	Chat color
Zucchini	@fenhl, @kharadbanar	Dark Green
Eldin	@l3viathan, @ralokt, @trash_pandemonium, <@725167797004664894>	Dark Red

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Wurstmineberg, this season was played as a variant on a copy of the main world (copied from the last backup before the variant was first discussed, made on 2022-06-19). The teams spawned at the Renascence settlements Zucchini and Eldin, with Team Eldin's relative lack of infrastructure being compensated with a larger number of players. The size of the world border was multiplied by 24, starting just outside of Eldin and shrinking to a radius of 2400 meters around the Witch Hat over the course of the game. Advancements were shown in chat, and there was an alternate win condition of spawning and killing an Ender dragon.

Despite @fenhl taking a strategic death early on due to not paying attention to fall damage, Team Zucchini was able to gather powerful items such as elytra from @kharadbanar's base, enchanted golden apples from the Cloud, totems of undying from the raid farm, and gear from the Zucchini armory and @kharadbanar's pre-Zucchini inventory left in the Derpy Hut. Team Eldin, meanwhile, was surprised by the world border while trading in Eldin Village and had to retreat to the Nether. Once @kharadbanar went to the Ender ender 2.0 to repair his elytra, Team Eldin assumed Team Zucchini was trying to spawn and kill an Ender dragon to fulfill the alternate win condition, and followed him into the End. Alerted by the advancement notifications, @kharadbanar hid in the maintenance below the railway while @fenhl made their way to the End from Naron Benh where they had grabbed a pair of better bows. Once there, Team Eldin was easily overwhelmed since they hadn't geared up on golden apples.