The sixteenth season of Cube Ultra Hardcoreconsists of seven episodes; it premiered on January 29, 2016 and concluded on February 10, 2016. The montage was released on January 16 2017, almost a year later.
The season introduced one new participant and nineteen returning veterans, keeping the roster at twenty participants.
In this season of UHC, it is free-for-all until the end of second episode. In the third episode and onward, after a player sees another player, the two are then formed to make one team. This gamemode is carried throughout the entire duration of the season. In the event that a teammate dies, the surviving player may team with another solo player, however, the former team is broken and is replaced by the new team. In addition, if the new team is victorious, the former dead teammate will not be counted as a winner due to not being part of the new team. The participants are scattered across a 2000x2000 map with a shrinking border. Every episode a new scenario will enter the game, after each episode, the scenario will end and will change 5 seconds into the next episode. Strength II potions are disabled once more.
Graser10 organized the season and intro sequence was made by FinsGraphics, with an unknown song and artist. The server hosting and plugins are provided by PlayCubeSMP. The series follows the 2-day format, new episodes releasing every other day, starting on the premiere. Episodes continues to be 20 minutes long, like previous seasons.
Twists[]
Episode 1: Food CutClean.
Episode 2: Ore CutClean.
Episode 3: First person found is teamed; Diamond, Gold, and XP are doubled.
Episode 4: Nether enabled for the episode, can't enter/exit after.
Episode 5: The nether has been disable; Mining diamonds is no longer possible; Feather drop rates are increased
Episode 6: Overpowered Enchants and Broken Furnaces
Episode 7: Permaday On, Present Spawns at 0,0 (Grape and Creeps were the first team to get there and could not find it)
The first death took longer than any other season; starting with MrMitch. Unlike most seasons, the first death was solely PvP. Mitch & Huahwi chased Grapeapplesauce and HyperCraftto a cliff, where they water-bucketed down just before being hit. After a few quick bowshots, Huahwi & Mitch separated. Grape and his teammate targeted Mitch, and destroyed him in just a handful of hits. While the teams collided, CreeperFartsswooped in for a bowshot, landing it on Hypercraft, ultimately killing him. While Huahwi gappled, he was sandwiched by water and players. He went in for CreeperFarts, but it didn't go as planned. He then left just CreeperFarts and Grape, subsequently causing them to team up.
Mid Game[]
StrauberryJam& Pokediger1, also a team, found the lonely Goliath Tofuugamingcutting trees down. Unfortunately for the threesome, Grape and CreeperFarts were also in the area, whom found the names of all three players. Back at the fight, Tofuu sneak-attacked Poke, getting him down half health. Poke retreated, leaving Straub to fight the lone Tofuu. Victory landed on Tofuu, ultimately killing StrauberryJam. Poke, who stopped for a brief moment, was also sneaked up on by Grape. Despite Grape's low enchantment sword, he managed to get the kill on Poke. A third sneak attack took place when Tofuu was crafting a golden head. Grape sneaked up on Tofuu at the last second while eating the golden head. While TYBZI& teammate NoBoomGaming were separated, Curtisand his teammate, Dfield, both targeted the lonely TYBZI. He attempted to get away up a hill, which didn't quite work out, as he was one-shot by Curtis. Bee& PrivateFearless, both at low hearts, were chased down by Grape and Creeps into a taiga. They tried to hide in a cave, but that didn't quite work out, as the steep cave got Bee killed. PrivateFearless, desperate to live, was finished off by CreeperFarts in a couple of bow shots. Up on the surface, Vasehh & Rushergot into a tussle with Grape & Creeps up on the surface. Bow shots were fired on both sides, both hitting numerous times. Getting closer, Creeper finished Rusher off by landing one last bow shot. Desperate to get away, Grape somewhat hit Vasehh, giving the kill to Creeper.
Final 10 Participants[]
NoBoom, whom was alone the majority of the game, was not looking too good in his half iron and leather chestplate. Still mining, he caught the names of Dfield and Curtis, who were digging straight to poor NoBoom. In an attempt to get away, NoBoom blocked his strip-mine with wood, but it was not enough to get Dfield & Curtis to give up. In one shot, Dfield finished him. Up on the surface, Graser and 8Bit met the overpowered Grape and Creeperfarts. Unfortunately for Graser and 8Bit, Grape and Creeper had more OP stuff than them, which led them to their death. While heading to 0,0, DField and Curtis ran into Grapeapplesauce and Creeperfarts. They first had a long-ranged fight, but afterwards Curtis and DField headed towards the top of a hill to get the height advantage. Eventually they had a sword fight, in where Grape and Curtis killed each other, and Creeperfarts killed Dfield.
The final 3 consisted of Kiingtong and Fin, who were a team, and Creeperfarts. The lag had made it difficult for Creeper to fight, but after a lag-fest fight with Kiingtong, he was left with 3 hearts. Creeper and Fin had both went to gapple for a final fight, where Creeperfarts was the victorious one, and so was crowned as the winner of Cube Ultra Hardcore Season 16.
Elimination[]
Participant
Team
Status
Episode(s)
Ranking
MrMitch361
Team Four
Slain by Grapeapplesauce
4
20th
Hyperdarkness
Team Seven
Shot by CreeperFarts
4
19th
Huahwi
Team Four
Slain by CreeperFarts
4
18th
StrauberryJam
Team Two
Slain by Tofuugaming
5
17th
Pokediger1
Team Two
Slain by Grapeapplesauce
5
16th
Tofuugaming
None
Slain by Grapeapplesauce
5
15th
TYBZI
Team Five
Slain by Curtis
5
14th
HeyImBee
Team Eight
Hit the ground too hard
5
13th
PrivateFearless
Team Eight
Slain by CreeperFarts
5
12th
TheCampingRusher
Team Six
Slain by CreeperFarts
5
11th
Vasehh
Team Six
Slain by CreeperFarts
6
10th
NoBoomGaming
*None
Slain by Dfield
6
9th
8BitHomo
Team One
Slain by Grapeapplesauce
6
8th
Graser10
Team One
Slain by CreeperFarts
6
7th
Grapeapplesauce
Team Nine
Slain by Curtis
7
6th
Curtis
Team Ten
Slain by Grapeapplesauce
7
5th
Dfield
Team Ten
Slain by CreeperFarts
7
4th
Kiingtong
Team Three
Slain by CreeperFarts
7
3rd
FinsGraphics
Team Three
Slain by CreeperFarts
7
2nd
CreeperFarts
*None
Winner
7
1st
Notes[]
Due to twist involving new team formations, team rankings would not be included this season.
During the end credits of the fifteenth season montage, it gave the viewers a hint the next season would return soon.[1]
In the second season of Cube vs. H3M UHC, Dfield and Rusher talked about Rusher experiencing bad luck against skeletons during Season 16, which Dfield stops as the season hasn't been released yet.[2]
This was also present in Huahwi's first episode of Cube vs. H3M S2 when Huahwi mentioned to "scare Graser again."Huahwi scaring Graser early on happens in this season of Cube UHC.
MrMitch's thumbnail artist revealed a thumbnail for his first episode of the season. This tweet has been deleted since it surfaced.
Mrmitch also leaked episode 4, putting it up about 20 hours early!
This is the first even-numbered season to be played in free-for-all instead of the usual team season.
The second being Season 18.
However, free-for-all lasts from the first episode to the second episode. From the third episode and onwards, teams are active. An addition to this, if a teammate is eliminated, the surviving teammate may form another team with another solo player.
The intro sequence is the shortest one ever produced with 8 seconds in total. According to LearningMonkey, the host of the server, Fin didn't have time to make a full intro before PAX South.[4]
This is also the first season to not contain names of the participants or the participants themselves in the intro.
LearningMonkey also confirmed that the season was rushed as he only had 22 hours to code in the plugins for the twist.
Three Cube UHC participants will reach their 100th episode of Cube UHC by the end of the season.
StrauberryJam reached this achievement during the 2nd episode.
Grapeapplesauce reached this achievement during the 3rd episode.
TheCampingRusher reached this achievement during the 4th episode.
This season has the longest elapsed time for no deaths, as MrMitch, who died first, did not die until 66 minutes and 43 seconds were elapsed.
The previous holder, Grape, had 64 minutes and 13 seconds in Season 2.
On Vas' fifth episode, he extended his episode to the part where he is eliminated by CreeperFarts.
CreeperFarts got the third most amount of kills in one season, with 9 kills.
Dfield currently holds the most kills in one season, with 11 kills.
Grape currently holds the second most amount of kills in one season, with 10 kills.
JWong confirmed that he did not participate this season because he didn't feel like recording.[5]
It is revealed in the After Call that if a team had made it to the finale, the two participants would have battled until one is left standing. For example, if Grape had made it to the finale with CreeperFarts, both participants would fight each other until one is left, giving the surviving participant the win of the season.[6]
Nerdgazm did not return this season due to him being inactive on his Minecraft channel.
Both participants who ended up solo had 'gaming' in their YouTube channel names.
Firsts[]
This season was the first:
Season where CreeperFarts won
Even-numbered season played Free-For-All
Have the intro sequence not feature and list the participants
