Last week, Kelsey Howard, Tom Stone and Per Landin competed to see which one of them could survive the longest in hardcore mode, the Minecraft mode where if you die, it’s permanetnly game over. Click here to read the first part of their adventures!

All caught up? Great! Here we chronicle the conclusion of their attempts to survive, and finally answer the question that has haunted the finest minds our species has ever produced for millenia - Which Minecraft.net writer is the most hardcore?

DAY TWO – KELSEY

I decide to build a boat and travel up the river to see if I can find anything cool. I close the door on my depressing hole of an apartment and immediately feel better about my prospects. See ya never, sad dungeon! I’m off to find my hardcore equal. I hop out of the boat to look around some plains, and I see some sheep so I… er… relieve them of their wool. Look, having a bed to sleep in every night is central to my strategy! Getting digested by a spider while trying to sleep is not hardcore!!