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The Blockheads (video game)

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including the aforementioned double-time and time crystals, which can be used to craft items, make and/or support online servers, and do actions faster in the game. Players can also get time crystals through watching in-game advertisements. HD graphics used to be paid and added in hand drawn icons to
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In January 2021, the app was removed from the Google Play Store without comment from its publisher, Noodlecake Studios. The Blockheads Community Manager would later confirm that the game was removed from the Google Play Store by Noodlecake Studios themselves due to failed negotiations with Google to
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On August 22, 2022, David Frampton announced that he would be shutting down the online services that hosted cloud servers due to "low player numbers" and a significant lack of maintenance. In his announcement, Frampton clarified that players would have the ability to download their cloud worlds and
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The game can also be hosted via an app for Mac users, although the availability of the world solely depends on the online status of the host. The player can 'warp' a Blockhead through a portal, randomly generating a finite world of multiple sizes ranging from 1/16-16x that loops back to the portal.
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The player must craft items to progress in the game. Crafting takes a certain amount of time, in or out of game, but this waiting process can be bypassed by using time crystals. Time crystals can be gained by watching short advertisements, mining them in caves, or through in-app purchases. Players
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The Blockheads have five statistics: health, happiness, hunger, energy, and environment, accessible from the in-game menu. The hunger and energy bars will constantly decrease in most cases. The Blockhead must eat food to prevent the hunger bar from entirely depleting, otherwise the health bar will
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After version 1.7, players can create single player worlds or servers with custom options, such as custom health values, how the world is generated, custom sun colors, and even customizing the items Blockheads spawn with. Version 1.7 also included a new game mode called “expert mode.”
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deplete due to starvation. When the energy bar is depleted, the Blockhead will walk slower and 'collapse from exhaustion'. The energy bar can be gradually filled by sleeping in a bed or on the ground, or it can be filled instantly by consuming caffeinated items like coffee.
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survival sandbox game. The players control a customizable "Blockhead" avatar and can explore their surroundings, navigate through the world map, harvest materials to create structures, and craft more advanced tools and materials in the game.
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also mentioned that the shutdown would take some time. Along with claiming that he had no plans to remove The Blockheads from the
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can also purchase double-time, a feature speeding up crafting times by twice the speed and cuts the time crystal costs in half.
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Aggressive and passive creatures exist on land, underground, and in bodies of water. These include sharks, dodos, scorpions,
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The game has received over 10 million official downloads. It has been noted that the game has largely been overrun by
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the interface. With the 1.7 update, it was made free, but can be turned off in settings.
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option that enables players to attack one another in multiplayer mode.
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said that it is another one of many two-dimensional versions of
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Multiplayer can be accessed over Wi-Fi, with worlds hosted over
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developer and owner of Majic Jungle Software, a studio based in
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circumvent certain requirements of modern Android versions.
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Majic Jungle Software NoodleCake Studios (for android)
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