Sneve's Half Sword climb runs on a scavenged candlestick
The medieval survival challenge has passed 600,000 views, with RLCraft and a vampire RimWorld run also drawing viewers.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Conquered Half Sword in Hardcore Mode | Bad at the Game Edition
Video summary
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- 0:05Sneve sets out to climb from Beggar through the combat ranks, with death threatening a reset.
- 0:27Unarmed arena brawls turn discarded stools and scissors into scavenged equipment.
- 2:04An early death sends Sneve into the Abyss, where spirits offer another obstacle to survival.
- 3:41A heavy cast-iron candlestick gives Sneve a longer-reaching weapon for the Beggar fights.
- 9:12The dual-wielding Commoner champion creates a reach problem and a string of difficult attempts.
A heavy cast-iron candlestick turns out to be a useful career ladder. In Sneve's Half Sword challenge, the scavenged object helps him work his way out of the Beggar ranks, where stools and scissors count as fighting equipment.
Sneve posted nothing new this week, but his archive added roughly 64,000 views. "Conquered Half Sword in Hardcore Mode | Bad at the Game Edition" remains its most active upload, more than two months after release. The climb through medieval society involves arena combat, repeated resets and an early strategy of letting everyone else do the dangerous work. As Sneve puts it: "Nobody said politics had to be fair."
Since our earlier look at that departure from Minecraft, another survival experiment has joined the mix: "I Conquered Hardcore Rimworld as a VAMPIRE | Reginald Edition". Its colony-building premise involves assembling an army of ghouls, with the British Empire cast as the target. It is drawing viewers alongside the older one-heart RLCraft challenge, whose "Suffering Edition" subtitle makes the channel's approach to difficulty fairly clear.
The subscriber total held steady over the week, while daily views are currently running above Sneve's usual level. Among nearby Minecraft channels, Tango Tek2 is enjoying a particularly active spell, with daily viewing around three times its norm.
For Sneve, the strongest ongoing draw is a game where reaching the rank of Commoner earns this observation: "And at last, we've reached my real-life rank: commoner."
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- 155,000
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- 64,438
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RimWorld is the colony simulation game developed by Ludeon Studios.


