Shanghaied Version 2.0.7

BEGINNING YOUR ADVENTURE: Although its yet another survival game, it has some differences. You start out on a dying planet with a few possessions including a weapon of sorts, and of course your trusty quest book. Its up to you to decide how you want to progress, either by searching for a safe place to hunker down before the nightly mobs come out to play, or by throwing caution to the wind and spending the entire day trying to gather as much material as possible to complete some of the early quests in order to reap their wonderful rewards. When night does come, you'll likely be overwhelmed with countless mobs that will have you running for cover in an attempt to prevent them chalking up yet another victory via your mangled corpse. So you might want to consider taking the first option mentioned and concentrate on making a shelter before night actually falls. On the other hand, there might not be that many mobs after all, just the usual assortment you'd expect to get on any dying planet you just happened to get abandoned on.

COMPLETING THE QUEST: All is not lost, you'll notice as you progress through the quest book that there is a pathway that opens up. You might get lucky and just happen to take the shortest route possible, or you might not. Although your primary goal is to complete the solitary quest on the WINNERS CIRCLE page, there are many optional side quests that you can still complete along the way that offer useful rewards. Hmmmm, I imagine there might be some completionists out there thinking they ain't gunna play any game that can't be completed. Well don't worry, this game can be completed 100%, its just that you can choose not to complete it if your intention is to just get to that beckoning finish line.

DISCLAIMER BOOK: We've also provided a disclaimer for your reading pleasure. If you're playing alone, you'll be able to read it in complete safety as opening it freezes time along with those nasty mobs. There's a lot of information in it including some that might even be a bit helpful, but we aren't passing out guarantee's, just letting you know the lay of the land so to speak. We do however highly recommend you read it sooner rather than later so that you don't miss out on any unexpected bonuses that you might stumble upon during your upcoming ordeal.

FOOD: Food is a requirement for survival, and you'll likely spend the first few weeks on the brink of starvation and have to spend every waking moment in the pursuit of yet another morsel to stave off death. There will still be time however to progress through the challenges at a steady pace until you eventually become established enough to want to automate some of your growing number of daily tasks.

Our intrepid botanist's have managed to source some new crops that will happily grow in tilled soil in whichever climate you choose to eke out your existence. Thanks to one of our illustrious sponsor's supplying us with these seeds, we have been able to distribute them randomly via our 'Lucky Dips' so watch out for them when you break one open. Oh, and we've also included a FREE everlasting hoe just for completing one of our early quests that will help you get those crops growing sooner.

Hopefully you'll last long enough to get started on your new crops and make all the wonderful recipes our chef spent creating during our 'off' season. He reckons some of them are to die for. Not sure what he meant by that remark, hopefully its just a metaphor and not to be taken literally. Eventually you'll be able to grow prodigious quantities of regular crops when you ramp up to mass production. This is a good thing as there are quests where you can earn magnificent rewards for handing in your surplus produce.

Did I mention the hidden recipe treasure hunt? No? Well I think its best to leave you with a few surprises to look forward to hey?

MOBS: In this game you get rewarded for killing mobs, in fact its a requirement so if you prefer playing on peaceful, you'll find you can't progress much further than the first few challenges. This is not to say you'll be spending every waking hour defending yourself. Its a relatively small part of the game, but necessary as there's no point in having mobs if you're going to spend every night hiding away from them.

ORES: Now that we've got that concern out of the way, lets think about how we get ores. Although its possible to get to the waiting ores below the layers of bedrock in the Flatlands worlds, its not something you should concern yourself with early in the game, especially as it'll be some time before you are able to make a pickaxe. The good news is you can grow ores until a better option becomes available. Oreberries are a big part of the early stages of your adventure and best of all, you can simply hang them on drying racks and wait until they turn into nuggets. They can still be smelted if preferred.

REWARD BAGS: The reward bags have been specially designed to help improve your lot in life. They can help you immensely, or just a little bit. How useful a reward is often depends on how advanced into the game you are when you receive it.

If you're really lucky you might get a food reward that is also one of the hidden treasure recipes, so be sure to check the Secrets Revealed page every now and then to see if you've accidentally 'discovered' a secret recipe.

So what about when you band together with other adventurers to form a pack? Well as this pack is primarily designed for single players, we wouldn't want multiple players gaining an unfair advantage by rewarding every one of them with reward bags just for completing the same quest. Instead we thought you'd prefer to decide for yourselves how you're going to share around all that lovely 'free' loot.

Although there are a limited number of reward bags, we've been generous enough to include a second tier group of reserve bags that never run out thus ensuring that whatever bag you were meant to get, you'll never come up empty handed.

RUINS: There are heaps of ruins scattered randomly about that may or may not contain hidden treasures and of course not so hidden adversaries. There are 4 pre-made template worlds to choose from, each one slightly different to the other, or you can choose to make your own world via the 'Create New Game' button that will be different to the existing 4 worlds. Just make sure you alter the Transmutator's setting that is still preconfigured to send contestants to last years now defunct sky platform.

Want even more variety? No problem, thanks to the ruins that tend to spawn randomly as you explore further from your starting point, subsequent play thru's of the same biome will be like a box of chocolates, all melted and gooey. Hmm, that doesn't sound right, lets just say traveling to new areas will cause new ruins to spawn and they'll probably be different to the ones you discovered on your last playthrough of the same biome before you ran out of lives.

TOOLS and WEAPONS: Have you ever wondered why tinkers tools and weapons only level up 5 times? I mean, you become a master of the weapon in no time flat and that's it? Well our boffin's managed to find the key to unlocking more of those hidden levels to give you a greater incentive to keep hacking and slashing with them? How many levels? Ahh well, we wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, so we'll let you find out for yourself.

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DO's and DON'Ts: Do read carefully each challenge as there are many hints thrown in to help the newcomers.

Don't just assume the recipe you used in your last game will be the same here as there have been heaps of changes, mostly to allow the flow of this game to work as intended and some simply because I thought they made more sense.

Do download it and try it out today. You won't know if its any good unless you actually play it. Don't worry about the millions of players that said they'd rather have a lobotomy than go through the ordeal of being shanghaied again. You're an individual and as such have every right to be shanghaied into playing our ramshackle survival game. Besides, the likelihood of your making it all the way through to the WINNERS circle without dying at least once and undergoing our patented RIP service is a billion to one, so don't pay for a lobotomy, let our technicians lobotomise you instead.

Don't give up if you die on the first day. Sometimes you need to play a game a few times to get an idea of which is the best tactic for you to employ. Besides, some worlds are by their nature, harder to get started in than others. You owe it to yourself to at least try each one out. As they say, practice makes perfect, so give those mobs more time to hone their skills so they can mercilessly slay you even faster. Who knows, you might even get better at staying alive longer yourself.

Do believe me when I say this game has been exhaustively tested by our totally unbiased team of just me and was unanimously voted as the best minecraft survival game bearing the name Shanghaied ever played, this year.

Don't add any mods or change any existing mod versions. This pack is designed to be played exactly as it is and any changes could actually break the pack and make it unplayable. Even if it doesn't break, you'll no longer be playing the pack as it was intended and won't know if you 'could' have made it all the way through as was originally intended.