Secret Life

**Secret Life** is the fifth season in The Life Series. It features 17 players, with one new competitor, and two returning. It lasted for 8 sessions, from October 20th, 2023 to December 15th, 2023. The main twist of this season is the secret tasks, providing advantages to those who complete them. Despite having no allies and many enemies, GoodTimesWithScar managed to stumble his way to a win.

## Rules/Format Changes

* **3rd Life Rules** Standard 3rd Life rules apply. Each player has a certain amount of lives. Green names have three, yellow names have two, and red names have one. Red named players must try to kill others. Once a player's lives have run out, they are eliminated from the series. The last man standing wins.
* **No Regeneration** Any damage taken is permanent, as there is no natural regeneration. To counter this disadvantage, every player has 30 hearts, instead of the standard ten.
* **Secret Tasks** At the beginning of each session, every player will be given a secret task to complete. These are usually social and require interaction with other players. If a player succeeds their task, they will receive ten hearts, however, if this exceeds 30 hearts, they will be given the equivalent of valuable items. A player can fail their task by either not completing it or revealing their task to another, but there will be no consequence. Many tasks that were included in the series were created by fans.
	+ **Hard Tasks** If a player decides they need more hearts, or do not like their original task, they may reroll for a hard task. Hard tasks are much more difficult than normal tasks, but reward twenty hearts upon completion instead of the standard ten. Additionally, if a player fails their hard task, ten hearts will be taken away from them.
	+ **Red Tasks** Once a player reaches their red life, usual tasks are disbanded and they will instead receive a red task, which will always require some form of damage to be dealt to a player or their property. If a red task is completed, five hearts are awarded. However, if a red task is failed, 2.5 hearts will be taken away. Additionally, if a player completes their red task, they will immediately be given another one.
	+ **Guessing Tasks** Once a player becomes a yellow name, they are given the special power to guess the task of any green name. If they guess correctly, the green name will immediately fail their task. If the guess is incorrect, nothing will happen. A yellow name can guess the task of every green player once per session.
* **Kills** Another way to earn hearts aside from tasks is to kill another player. For every kill a player gets, ten hearts will be added to their total. And unlike hearts earned from secret tasks, these hearts can exceeded the 30 heart limit. As green and yellow names cannot kill others, this feature is exclusively limited to red lives.
* **Heart Gifting** Each session, every player has one heart they can gift to another. This heart will not be deducted from their total count, but will instead simply be added onto the player of their choosing.
* **Spawners** A custom spawner recipe was added to the server, allowing for members to craft their own and build their own mob farms. Additionally, mobs always have a small chance of dropping their spawn egg upon their death.
* **Reverted TNT Recipe** Since Last Life, the recipe for TNT was changed to be less gunpowder focused. However, due to the many TNT related deaths from Limited Life, the recipe has been reverted back to what it was in 3rd Life to reduce the amount of TNT on the server.
* **Keep Inventory** Continuing from Limited Life, players keep their inventory upon their death.

## Trivia

* Secret Life, along with Last Life, share the record for longest season: both lasting 9 weeks.
* This is the first time in the series where Jimmy wasn't the first player eliminated.
* Secret Life marks the first season in the series to face a rebrand, with the logo differing from the classic style used in previous seasons.
* This is the first time that the final two had been in a final two in a previous season.