Survival — HUD, guide, death and the respawn ad

Players: shared worldseen in the scoreboard
Match length: ongoingone sampled match
Map seen: shared worldname shown in game
Mode: —as listed in the picker
Last measured: 2026-10-30our own session

Official wording

The sentence above is the developer's own description of Survival on miniblox.io. Everything after this note is what we saw ourselves.

Getting in

Connecting runs through five named stages — Finding server, Connecting, Authenticating, Loading world, Shaders — with a chunk counter (Loading chunks (6 left)) while the world streams in. Our first world took about 43 seconds from click to standing on grass.

Miniblox connection screen — The connection screen at 20:52: five stages, with a cancel option throughout.

Two bars of 28

The HUD shows health and a second amber bar with a shield glyph, both reading 28 / 28. On death the red bar drops to 0 / 28 and the amber one stays at 28. Whether that second bar is armour, absorption or something else we have not confirmed — it never moved during the session, so we are not going to label it.

Miniblox survival HUD — First minutes: minimap top-right, hotbar at the bottom, and a Survival Guide objective counting 0/4.

There is a guided first hour

A SURVIVAL GUIDE panel in the top-left tracks objectives with counters — Break 4 logs 0/4 — and a separate achievement system pays out on demand: a toast reading On the Hunt — completed, Press G to claim appeared when we killed something.

Miniblox achievement toast — The achievement toast at 20:53, with the manual claim key.

It is a shared world

Other players joined and left the same world while we played; the chat log announces both. A system message also warned, in Chinese on our client, that progress is not saved without an account and that creating one keeps experience, skins and records.

Miniblox chat log — Join and leave notices, plus the guest-progress warning.

The death screen has one button

Dying reads 你死了！ with a single green button, 重生, and a red vignette over the world you were just in. The inventory you were carrying is still on the bar underneath, so death is a reset of position, not of gear.

Miniblox death screen — Death at 20:54: red vignette, 0/28 health, one button.

Miniblox pause menu — The pause menu in Survival: five entries including the Survival Guide.

What we have not confirmed