Tough as Bedrock

Introduction

Bored of only managing your hunger bar? Want to feel the extreme environmental heat of deserts and the lethal frost of frozen biomes? This survival experience requires preparation, resource management, and quick thinking to make it through your first night.

Tough as Bedrock, this addon improves the survival aspects of Minecraft with new features such as thirst or temperature. The final version is now out for you to enjoy! Bored of the hunger bar? Want to travel the world feeling the temperature overwhelming you? Then this addon is for you! Explore the world paying attention to your temperature, be careful not to get dehydrated! This survival experience is not for beginners but if you are prepared enough. You may be able to last until your first night...

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Credits

Addon inspired by: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/tough-as-nails (and popular rpgs/survival games)

Thanks to Ghaith13 for making the fire overlay texture, the banner/thumbnail and helping with texturing the addon.

Thanks to Qoffie for making the water purifier/rain collector texture and giving me the motivation to continue updating this addon.

And thanks to the minecraft bedrock community for providing useful feedback and playing my addon!

Addon Main Features

This addon brings to your game a whole new experience, with its main gameplay loop revolving around thirst, temperature and stamina. Some of the new vital meters are enabled by default but you can also toggle oxygen for example which will make the game even more challenging.

Thirst & Hydration

The thirst bar is located directly above your hunger bar. It drains naturally over time and depletes faster during demanding actions such as sprinting, jumping, or being in arid environments.

If your thirst bar empties completely, you will receive severe slowness and begin taking fatal dehydration damage.

Drinking wild untreated water directly from rivers will quench thirst, but risks parasite infection and poison due to water toxicity. Water must be boiled, filtered, or collected via rainwater to be safely consumed.

Thirst icons from the bar located above the hunger bar

Dynamic Body Temperature

Your body temperature is represented by a meter above your experience bar (new spawns get 5 minutes of grace immunity).

When the meter turns gray, your temperature is balanced. Shifting toward blue indicates hypothermia (freezing to death in icy biomes/water), while shifting toward red means hyperthermia (overheating in deserts and the Nether).

Protect yourself by crafting specialized gear (Winter Armor for cold, Volcano Armor for heat), drinking resistance potions, standing near campfires/cooling coils, or consuming ice cubes.

Body temperature indicator above experience bar

Stamina

Stamina is an optional, highly customizable mechanic enabled via the settings menu.

When enabled, performing strenuous activities rapidly empties your stamina bar. Low stamina significantly hinders your movement and will eventually cause physical collapse and damage over time if not rested.

Oxygen

oxygen is an optional, highly customizable mechanic enabled via the settings menu.

When enabled, performing strenuous activities rapidly empties your oxygen bar. Low oxygen significantly hinders your movement and will eventually cause physical collapse and damage over time if not rested.

Survival Equipment & Crafting

Surviving the harsh elements requires crafting custom tools, purifiers, and climate-control blocks.

Winter Fur

The winter fur is a drop from polar bears.

Leather Canteen

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Water Purifier

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Thermometer

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Commands & Settings

Configure difficulty presets, rate of thirst depletion, and toggles in-game using built-in function commands.

Function Commands

/function settings - Opens the interactive configuration GUI for thirst, temperature, and stamina difficulty.

/function start - Manually boots the addon logic (required if player.json conflicts exist).

/function stop - Pauses all addon ticks and scripts.

/function cleanworld - Cleans dummy entities and scoreboards in case of desync.

/function restart - Fully resets the addon states to default.

Compatibility

Important requirements to run Tough as Bedrock properly in your world:

Compatibility Guidelines

Enable Experimental Gameplay: Both 'Beta APIs' and custom experiments must be enabled in world settings.

Behavior & Resource Packs: Ensure both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack are activated.

player.json: If using other mods that edit player.json, place them ABOVE Tough as Bedrock in the priority list and run '/function start' upon entering the world.

player.entity.json: The custom HUD requires player.entity.json to render the UI bars, making it incompatible with custom player 3D animation mods.

Player.json

Player.json is a minecraft file that contains parts of the player code (behavior). By modifying this file, add-on creators gain access to otherwise unavailable functionalities. But this file can only be modified by one addon on each world, that's why it has compatibility issues. If you're using an addon on your world that uses player.json, put it above tough as bedrock, you won't lose much and the addon will still work. If player.json is unavaible (for example you have an other addon that uses it) you will just need to start the addon manually by using /function start, and the ice resistance effect will not make you immune to snow powder but the rest of the addon will work as normal.

To play with this addon if you have other addons that use player.json, you need to add it to your world, then when you entered the world, use the "/function start" command.

Player.entity.json

Player.entity.json is a minecraft file that contains parts of the player code (resource). By modifying this file, add-on creators gain access to otherwise unavailable functionalities. But this file can only be modified by one addon on each world, that's why it has compatibility issues. If you're using an addon on your world that uses player.entity.json, it will be incompatible with tough as bedrock. I can't find a work around like I did with player.json, the player.entity.json file is mandatory to have the custom bars. This file is often used by addons that modify the player model/animations or addons that have custom 3D items.

Installation

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Get more out of this addon!

There is an addon compatible with tough as bedrock which can help you counter temperature by adding new equipment, it's called furing fabrick I recommend you try it alongside tough as bedrock!

https://mcpedl.com/furing-fabric/

Downloads

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