Four Streamers Gather 489 Iron in Hardcore Minecraft Rematch With an Hour to Spare

REJECT — Hanamae Haru, Kokuyou Lira, Hebiyoi Tier and Sato Anime pooled 489 iron in a hardcore Minecraft challenge on Wednesday, finishing with about an hour left of their two-hour limit. The four had tried the target once before, and called this rematch a bid for the “mythic-tier” count.

More than 200 iron, roughly 230 by their tally, carried over from the first attempt. The rules changed this time: if anyone died, everyone would return to the starting point, and only the player who died would lose their items. The two-hour limit could not be extended, and putting items in chests was banned. Bonus chests also handed out roles, among them an idol, a digger and a fighter. The idol’s kit included a gold helmet and glowing arrows, the digger’s netherite tools with lava and water buckets, and the fighter’s a netherite spear and armor. The food role went to Anime, who handed out a limited supply of carrots, bread and pumpkin pie.

“Glad we cleared it. Revenge accomplished.” — Kokuyou Lira, closing her own stream

The group dropped into a large cave and went after iron, running into zombies, skeletons, creepers and a monster spawner along the way. Fights and cave-ins left them short of food, and torches ran low until they made more from coal. They scattered underground, and at one point Haru went looking for Lira, whom the others call Manda, a nickname taken from the salamander. Tier found diamonds, which did not count toward the goal. The tally passed 300, then dropped to six short of the goal, and then hit 489.

With time to spare, someone floated heading for the Ender Dragon, but the group instead settled on a spear fight on the surface, taking off their armor first, and then talked. Lira wandered off to play on her own, and a guessing game over what Tier was eating ended with the answer: popcorn. Anime, who had mined the most with 160, led the group’s closing shout.

Tier said the hardcore rules were hard, with two or three hits leaving a player near death, and that she would like to try the Ender Dragon next time. She also announced a stream for 8 p.m. the next day in which she would build choreography from viewers’ comments. Lira said she prefers a relaxed style of Minecraft, and called the clear a successful revenge. Haru said on her own stream that the run had ended sooner than expected, and that she planned to rest before streaming longer again.