Editing Hardcore Factions (section)

== History ==

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HCF grew out of the wider Factions genre around '''2012''', spread rapidly through YouTube coverage across '''2014–2015''', and reached its largest player counts between '''2013 and 2018''' — the period the community generally calls its golden era.

The turning point came in '''February 2016''', when Minecraft 1.9 rewrote combat with attack cooldowns and an off-hand slot. The HCF community overwhelmingly rejected the change and stayed on 1.7 and 1.8, which preserved the format it knew but gradually cut it off from the version most players were running. Numbers declined through '''2019–2020''' as networks closed, and the scene has since continued at a smaller scale around a committed core.

'''<span style="font-size:110%;">→ Full article: [[History of Hardcore Factions]]</span>'''
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