Themecore/Indie Clash

Smash Themecore: Indie Clash is the first Ultra Hardcore season of Themecore, straying away from the normal Hardcore goals and instead focusing on a PvP-orientated battle. The 8 cast members are split into 4 different teams, all representing different Indie Games with their skins:

Smash Themecore: Indie Clash
Game	Minecraft (1.8.9)
Goal	Be the Last Team Standing
Uploader	Themecore
Editor	Amber K.
Artist	Rosswell
Date Start	Jan 15, 2020
Date End	Jan 30, 2020
Date of Recording	Nov 9, 2019
Number of Episodes	5
Playlist	Playlist
Seasons Directory
Preceded By	Minecraft End Mini (My Little Pony)
Followed By	N/A

The Blue Team consists of Quote and Piggy, representing Cave Story.

The Red Team consists of Spicy and RJ, representing Celeste.

The White Team consists of Toad and Kyoger, representing Hollow Knight.

The Yellow Team consists of Amber and Renn, representing OneShot.

Game Modifications

• Ultra Hardcore: Ultra Hardcore is a PvP gamemode that spreads the four teams out across the world where they are then given a certain amount of time to gear up before fighting each other. With it also comes rules of its own:
  • Natural health regeneration is turned off, making golden apples the only way to refill hearts.
  • The world border is set to 1500 blocks, and after an hour has passed, it will begin to shrink over the span of 20 minutes, stopping at 200 blocks.
• Positional Audio: Players are able to hear each other throughout the game based on how close they are to each other, being louder in close distances and quieter from far distances, up to no longer being heard.

Cast Information and Death Order

Hardcore Cast

Cast Member		Team	Character	Death Episode	Cause of Death	Last Words
	Amber	OneShot	Alula (OneShot)	4	Attempting to run away from the pursuit of Team Hollow Knight, she was slain by Kyoger.	"Fuck!"
	_inro
	Toad	Hollow Knight	The Knight (Hollow Knight)	5	Lost a melee fight with Team Cave Story, dying by Quote's hands.	"SHIT!"
	ProtonToad
	Kyoger	Hollow Knight	Quirrel (Hollow Knight)	5	Tried to secretly dump lava on Team Celeste but dumped it on himself, dying instantly.	"FUCK! I'M AN IDIOT!"
	Awokenkyoger
	Quote	Cave Story	Quote (Cave Story)	*5	Shot by Spicy using "a funny meme" while running away from Team Celeste.	"Toad is like, one arrow away from dying."
	Quote_Izkewl
	Spicy	Celeste	Badeline (Celeste)	5	Got into a long bow-fight with Piggy and was shot to death.	"OOOH!"
	Mildgirl666
	RJ	Celeste	Madeline (Celeste)	5	Ran up to fight Piggy with half a heart, dying instantly.	"I don't care if you kill me! You are a loser."
	RJ_Exists
	Renn	OneShot	Niko (OneShot)	5	Got into a long bow-fight with Piggy and was shot to death.	"Oh kay."
	CmdrTaka
	Piggy	Cave Story	Curly Brace (Cave Story)	*5	After winning, the man himself jumped off a pillar, committing dead.	"WOOOOOOOoooo!"
	ConspicuousPiggy

*Indicates that their team won the season.

Season Summary

All four teams start spread across the world, immediately beginning to gather resources. Team Cave Story, true to their names, delve into the caves to look for iron and gold for armor and weapons, and golden apples respectively, and come out with full iron armor and tools, a bow each, and a golden apple each. Team Celeste find multiple ravines, getting full iron armor and tools each, while Spicy gets 46 arrows with no bow and a golden apple, and RJ gets 2 golden apples. Team Hollow Knight start to dig downwards, taking a while to find a proper cave but finding enough diamonds to enchant their gear, ending with full iron armor and tools each with Toad getting a diamond pickaxe and a single golden apple. Team OneShot finds a surface ravine, getting an early head start, ending phase 1 with diamond swords, iron tools, and a bow with 29 arrows each, Amber having a diamond chestplate and iron boots, helmet, and leggings, and Renn with full iron armor and a golden apple.

When the border begins to shrink, Quote has 10HP, Piggy has 20HP, Spicy has 19HP, RJ has 14HP, Toad and Kyoger have 20HP, and Amber and Renn have 19HP. Team Cave Story frantically tear down trees to make more golden apples, Team Celeste find a mountain to take shelter in, Team Hollow Knight start to hunt for other teams and find Team OneShot, who were trying to sneak around, marking the first instance of combat between two teams. The teams damage each other significantly, with Amber ending up dead and Renn, Toad, and Kyoger weakened. Taking advantage of their weakened state, Team Celeste take on Team Hollow Knight, but are pushed back with force, ending up with all four severely wounded. As the sun rises, the border stops shrinking, binding all four teams in just a 200x200 block arena.

Without a teammate, Renn tunnels underground, but is heard by Team Hollow Knight. As they are forming a truce, Kyoger is shot by Spicy, causing them to flee. Soon after, Team Cave Story and Team Hollow Knight meet, trading arrow shots, before Quote rushes in to kill Toad. Kyoger manages to escape with just 1HP, but finds Team Celeste. He attempts to place a bucket of lava on top of them, but accidentally places it on himself, dying. Spicy and RJ are unharmed by said lava. As the forest begins to burn down, Team Celeste ambushes a now weakened Team Cave Story, killing Quote. Piggy runs away, finding Renn once night falls. Piggy claims it to be homosexual to not fight, yet leaves right after despite his words and Renn's attempts at teaming. Piggy soon enough finds Team Celeste again, now weaker due to a mix of nighttime mobs and fall damage, and begins to fire upon them, killing Spicy in the process. RJ charges at Piggy with only 1HP, resolved to his death and trying to deal as much damage to Piggy as he can, dying in the process. During their fight, Renn laments his inability to place a door on top of leaves. Come daytime, and the rain had washed away the forest fire. Piggy spots Renn atop the trees, and begins firing at him, with Renn having no choice but to return fire. Piggy claims bow fights to be lame, successfully killing Renn with a bow, claiming victory of the season for Team Cave Story. After celebrating his victory, he pillars upwards and jumps off to his death.

Episodes

#	Thumbnail	Title	Release Date	Length
T		Time for a Special Announcement!	Jan 15, 2020	3:05
		We are going to beat you to death...
1		Four-Team Clash	Jan 16, 2020	23:23
		4 teams begin their journey to win the battle, and take their place as the superior Indie Game team. With a limited time to prepare, and no health regeneration to help them, who will come out on top?
2		The Great Diamond Hunt	Jan 20, 2020	20:42
		The four teams continue their journeys to prepare for the eventual showdown. Tools and Armor may be easy to gather, but will anyone manage to find diamonds to put their team at an advantage?
3		Excavate and Evacuate	Jan 23, 2020	21:26
		With time running low, the teams need to make sure they're fully prepared for the upcoming battle. This could very well be their last chance to get resources before the border begins to shrink. Will they get lucky?
4		Total Team Turmoil	Jan 27, 2020	20:37
		With the border shrinking, the teams are forced to head towards their final arena, where they will face-off until one team is considered the victor. With a limited time to make it there, what will happen along the way?
5		Final Destination	Jan 30, 2020	18:20
		The final showdown is upon us, but who will take home the victory? Team Cave Story, Team Celeste, Team Hollow Knight or Te-....Taka?

Portraits

Art By Rosswell

Name	Alive	Dead
Quote
Piggy
Spicy
RJ
Toad
Kyoger
Amber
Renn

Additional Credits

• Quote - Host
• Spicy - Host
• JR - Server host
• gerrybrano - UHC Commands

Trivia

• All represented Indie Games can be found on the Steam Store.
• Because of the variety of games represented, the Nova Quest portraits are used, rather than new ports by Medley.
• The production name for Indie Clash was "Undertale Themecore".
  • In the trailer during the OneShot segment, a remix from Kamex is used. In this song, Kamex ripped some music from the Waterfall part in Undertale, meaning that Undertale is canon in the Themecore Universe.