Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20150723225638/@comment-24108228-20150727231927

Outright nerfing everything that spawns naturally is an idea that's been put into practice on the (now discontinued) Survival 303 Hardcore that I think halo was making. It also nerfed the amount food gives you, and increased hunger rates, so it was a lot more of a survival challenge. Unfortunately, it was abandoned before it was made very official. It's a shame, it looked promising.

Anyway, if we were to nerf everything, we'd make it much harder for new players to survive, and the aim of this suggestion is to hit the self-proclaimed "masters" of survival 303, who figured out how to farm wheat for bread on magma; but also avoid dealing the same damage to the rest of the playerbase, who don't really need to be hurt in such the same way. Increasing respawn times would hurt those who live off the wheat, while leaving the people who're just visiting once untouched. After all, they don't have to wait for it to regrow.