Softcore

Softcore is the difficulty behind Peaceful. Lots of players say that it is almost too easy, making the game not quite as fun.

Changes

 * No monsters can spawn, but all mobs can drop bones, golden nuggets, rotten flesh, ender pearls, and string as a replacement for monsters
 * Passive mobs do not run away if you hit them
 * All mobs have half-health than normal
 * The Player takes halved damage by lava, fire, and fall damage
 * The hunger bar is always maximum and food restores health
 * Health for the Player is twice its normal amount and regenerates 2 hearts a second, making dying virtually impossible
 * The Player can infinitely sprint
 * The Player jumps three blocks rather than one
 * Cows, pigs, and chickens have 100% chance of dropping their own items and 50% chance of dropping monster drops
 * Arrows shot from a bow always one-hit kill and do not arch, but go in a perfectly straight line until they hit the ground or fly above the maximum block height
 * A furnace does not need coal to smelt & smelting ores or cooking food is immediate
 * The crafting interface is the same as the Xbox version's
 * It is possible to craft spawn eggs
 * Breeding automatically occurs so long as two animals are near each other
 * Chickens lay a stack of eggs every 2 minutes
 * Water buckets can be dumped 5 times before becoming empty (as well as lava buckets)
 * The Player loses 1 heart every five seconds when drowning
 * Soul Sand does not slow down the player but slows down other mobs
 * Ender Dragons still spawn, but they do not knock back the player and drop 5 Ender Eggs upon death
 * Brewing takes much less time
 * Cauldrons can hold 3x more water
 * Lava does not spawn on the surface
 * Coal, Iron, Gold, Lapis Lazuli, Redstone, Diamonds, and Emeralds can spawn in any biome under Y50 with a greatly increased chance of spawning every chunk
 * Some villagers will trade you items for free
 * Grass can drop seeds of any kind (wheat, pumpkin, melon, carrot, potato, cocoa, & nether wart)
 * Crops cannot be trampled
 * Crops grow 8x faster and always give at least 2 or more seeds
 * A single diamond, coal, iron, gold, and emerald ore block will yield 2-5 of its respective block/item
 * Armor never breaks
 * Tools never break