Deep Beneath the Earth's Surface--past the barrier of hardened bedrock--lies a world untouched by any player, full of mystery and danger. Untouched until today...
Surveyors of the Villager Mining Corporation had discovered a mysterious anomaly--an unstable fault in the world's bedrock leading to the deep recesses below. A team of miners was sent to investigate and explore what had never been seen before, but upon traveling through everything went wrong...
The ground suddenly began to shake with a violent earthquake, collapsing the mine and sending you, and your fellow workers hurtling into the depths below. When you awake, you find that the bedrock has been resealed, trapping you in a vast underground world. The mobs have grown strong here and they are not happy about being disturbed. Can you survive and live in the deep underground or will this be the end?
Your challenge is to live, play, and build constrained entirely to the underground world. Resources are limited and food is scarce. Your ultimate challenge is to escape what will otherwise eventually be your tomb. Can you make it back to the surface alive or will you die far from the light of day? Many challenges will lie in your path, and in the end the most insurmountable barrier of all: solid bedrock, blocks your journey back to the sunlight.
We have customized the underground to be twice as deep as normal and altered the world generation for a truly unique experience. But be warned! Secrets lie deep beneath the earth--undiscovered and dark--A malevolent presence that will stop at nothing to keep this world a secret forever...
Cave-In is an open survival world. You can travel as far as you wish and anything you can accomplish is yours: there are no rules. We've provided a list of challenges to guide your gameplay but you are free to play however you would like. You may--and probably will--die horribly a few times. Gradually you will learn to survive and make a home for yourself in this new world with its new rules. As you explore, you may stumble upon riddles, mysteries, and dangers. What you make of them and whether or not you escape is entirely up to you...
I have received notice that this forum will soon be archived and read only! The download and project location will still be active over on curseforge. Feel free to message me there if you want to get ahold of us: https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/cave-in-deep
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This map is free to use and play. If you feature it in a youtube video or on another website
please credit the creators (danaphanous, zann10thousand, and samuelInca)
and include a link to this post. Thank you and I hope you enjoy!
Featured Series:
Watch Youtuber PureSpirit tackle the darkness!
Watch hardcore survivalist _james96_ play Cave-In!
1-4 players, and play with friend if you can!
You must play this map in version 1.8, the version in which I created it. Maps opened by version 1.7 or earlier will experience a known bug where chest contents are deleted!
Do not play on peaceful. This is a dangerous survival map and needs to stay that way! Also your game may remove some critical features!
I do not recommend playing on hardcore. You can try it but I'm betting you won't make it through the list without dying once.
Render: 4-8 chunks
Command blocks: enabled, if playing on a server with friends
Don't Cheat by using commands! You can change the gamerules if you wish or add a scoreboard, but don't use it to give yourself free items or change gamemodes.
Your challenge is to survive in and live deep underground, and eventually, to escape what will otherwise be your tomb. Can you make it back to the surface alive or will you die far from the light of day? Your fate is up to you. This List of Challenges will help to guide you on your way...
Tier 1: easy
1. Construct a set of stone tools
2. Find and smelt iron
3. Build a house
4. Farm 2 types of food
5. Obtain an enchanted item
Tier 2: progressive
6. Find Redstone ore
7. Discover Lapis ore
8. Obtain a full suit of armor
9. Construct a mob-spawner grinder
10. Strike diamond!!!
Tier 3: difficult
11. Construct an anvil
12. Make a Jukebox
13. Build an enchanting table
14. Construct a nether portal
15. Make a brewing stand
Tier 4: for fun
16. Build an underground railway
17. Make a redstone machine
18. Cure a villager friend!
19. make an iron golem companion
20. build a snow golem
Tier 5: extreme
21. Create a chicken farm
22. Infiltrate a stronghold
23. Conquer the Ender Dragon
24. Defeat the wither
25. Escape Cave-In and return to the surface!
Following this list to the end the path to escape should become clearer.
Will you make it? Good luck!
Main changes:
We’ve modded the map generation to generate an underground that is twice as large as normal
ore/gem generation is also altered: Gems appear as isolated blocks rather than veins and ores are rarer but appear in larger vein sizes.
Mob dungeon counts are very high
These changes will continue to generate no matter how far you travel as they are embedded in the world generation.
Bedrock generates trapping you below Y=128 and does so in all direction as far as you can travel, so don't waste your time looking for hidden holes.
You start very near a mineshaft—these are your sole source of wood so ration it wisely.
Various mysteries and surprises lie in the underground of this map
If you ever escape you will find a normal surface-world with all biomes generates in the normally unused space between 128-->256
Tips:
Ores may not generate where you'd expect. You'll need to explore to find them.
Kill many zombies they are probably the most valuable mob on this map!
Baby Zombies have a small chance to generate riding a chicken. These chickens will not lay eggs and will despawn if you walk away but you can name-tag them and breed once you get 2.
Monsters sometimes bring items back to their nests
Strongholds spawn about the original worldspawn not where you start it will be a trek to find one.
Fishing can yield some surprising items
Villagers will trade some rare goods and are the ONLY source of some valuable items. Cure some to improve your living standards!
Mining around the bedrock seal may yield some interesting finds. You are not the only thing to have fallen through the bedrock from the surface over the years.
I hope you find this map a refreshing alternative to default vanilla generation! It's definitely a new experience!
No game is complete without a cozy base!
Garden Expansion: Over time we found and transplanted plant seeds. Can you find them?
The laying of the green: rock gets lonely...
Our Zombie Farm:
Villager candidates!
Our other Dungeon "Farm"
Desperate for potions we brave the nether! How far will we have to travel?
The sky never looked so sweet than after months underground! And it's a normal world up there so you can keep right on playing the map for survival!
there's far more to tell, but then I would be spoiling it wouldn't I? Let's keep some things a surprise...
If you have an older version of the game than Cave-In V1.3 You can update your current, in-progress map painlessly. I made the new content lie in new regions meaning all you have to do is the following:
download the file Link Removed and unzip
navigate to your minecraft saves folder and open the Cave-In save file. It should be named something like Cave-In-V1.x.x where x is letters/numbers indicating the version.
You should see inside the folders: data, playerdata, stats, DIM1, DIM-1, and region. Open the "region" folder.
Copy the 2 regions files inside my folder (r.-2.2 and r.0.1) to your region folder. Accept if it asks if you want to overwrite existing files. You'll know you're in the right place if you see other region files of the form: r.x.x.mca where x is numbers. You are basically just adding 2 more to the folder that contain the newest stuff.
Voila! Your game chunks are updated and the new custom areas should appear. You'll have to find them though! Happy questing! Contact me if you have further questions about doing this.
Valdarok: Our very first player who helped us work out an initial bug for single-players. He also posted many playthrough pics and contributed to V1.3.0 with suggestions! Check out his survival-based lava-covered underground map here which gave us some tips for Cave-In!
Reaverofdarknes1: A big supporter who role-plays, names ravines, and generally makes the map fun for everyone! He seemed to die the least out of all my initial players and contributed to V1.3.0 with suggestions! Glocktah: One of our very first players who was the first to identify a serious bug. His comments also contributed to V1.3.0. He has posted pics of his progress and was the first to get automation in Cave-In! MrVlix: The first to beat all of cave-in, completing all challenges and escaping! Thanks for being awesome!
danaphanous, samuelInca, zann10thousand
This is our first map but we had a blast making it! Please let us know if you have any issues and we will work on them right away. Hope you enjoy!
Meet the team and get a sneak preview of our upcoming maps!
Enjoyed Cave-In and want to see more of our projects?
In all our maps we make sure the following standards are met:
Our maps are open worlds, not linear. This means you are free to play however you like. We didn't design our maps to have tasks done in any particular order so you can relax and take things and experiences as they come.
Our maps are designed for survival and are as raw as possible. This means we try to pre-build very little leaving that part to you! We might throw in some little surprises to make it interesting or add gameplay feel, but that's it!
Our maps start you with nothing and contain survival puzzles. We don't baby-step you. You'll start and you'll figure it out or not. Most of what you need will be inherent in the way the world generates, but things WILL be different. That's the point of a survival map.
Our maps have ways to get pretty much everything useful. It may be difficult, but if you work hard enough there are no hard limitations. That's one of the things we tested most thoroughly. There are ways to legitimately get pretty much everything you'll need to have fun, though some of the ways you get nicer things are quite different than you might expect or capitalize on game mechanics you've probably never had to exploit before. This is what makes them fun. It's a puzzle!
Our maps have goals. Just in case you get bored or are an achiever we've provided a list of challenges ending with the ultimate goal of each map. The challenges are up to you if you care to do them, but if you are ever stuck realize we picked our challenges for a reason. Going through the list may clue you in to things you were missing.
Finished Maps:
Cave-In(finished) by danaphanous, samuelInca, zann10thousand
A mining disaster traps you deep under the Earth beneath the world's bedrock. You must survive deep underground in this new world, but be warned! This is no normal underground. Among many other changes, you'll find this underground is twice as deep as normal and bedrock traps you below so you cannot reach the surface via any normal means. Monsters abound in the depths and they are not happy about being disturbed. Fight for your life, survive, build, explore, and discover the many secrets that exist in Cave-In including a dark history and a terrible secret. Can you figure out how to escape and return to the suraface or will you die far from the light of day? The path you take is entirely up to you!
Release Date: February 2, 2015. Playtime: ~20+ hours
Match wits with a sadistic, apocalyptic landscape in your quest to live and raise up a new human colony after a global disaster turns the earth into a desolate wasteland. Four survivors have gathered and are holding out at a place called the "Sanctuary", but massive monster hordes attack each night. They need your help! Can you preserve Sanctuary, the last bastion of humanity, and make it flourish in the wasteland or will this be extinction for mankind? Deadly radiation traps you in a small area around the Sanctuary, however, it is slowly dissipating with time. Each day you survive will allow you to explore a bit further into the surrounding wastelands to gather supplies.
Release Date: March 6, 2015. Playtime: ~20+ hours
Exiled(finished) by danaphanous, samuelInca, ciysco, zann10thousand, and Valdarok
The game opens with you being exiled from the normal world for unknown reasons. It will be up to you to figure out first how to survive and then to explore in the hostile new world you have been exiled to. There are plenty of adventures for you along the way including some brain-teasing, cryptic puzzles and the mysterious ruins of a long-dead civilization. Can you figure out what is going on in this strange world and earn your freedom? This map contains loads of custom content and a large amount of secret content that will be up to you to discover! Better put on your sherlock hats!
Release Date: May 17, 2015, Playtime: ~40+ hours
Maps in-progress:
Planetoid(planning stages) by danaphanous, zann10thousand, samuelInca, ciy_, and Valdarok
Players have reached the Space Age! A habitable world has been discovered and all the factions are rushing to be the first to plant their flag on its surface. Now, years later your craft has arrived in the system! But something is wrong. A meteorite has struck the craft in transit frying one of the navigational circuits. When the colonists awake they find they are not orbiting the chosen world, but instead are hurtling down toward a harsh-looking Planetoid. Hours later you awake in the wreckage of the craft to the sound of the ship's computer, Hal, urgently informing you that you are in great danger if you don't help her to do some repairs asap! You two begin a relationship with one goal: your survival on this barren planet... Planetoid is much more than a harsh survival situation though, with mysteries brimming beneath the surface. Will you survive long enough to discover them and figure out how to get off this rock?
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If you take a look at our world please leave a comment and let us know what you think or if you have suggestions! We'd love to improve, but nothing that will make the map too easy!
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I trying to play your map but my starting spawn in on a roof and I cannot exit as my weak arms are impotent to the surrounding surface. If I jump I can see a wondrous landscape around me . Please help me
sorry to hear. can you upload a screenshot? I'm assuming you didn't get tp-ed out of the bedrock starting box for some reason. However I just downloaded and it worked for me. I got transported immediately.
Just in case I made a couple tweaks and reuploaded. (v.1.1.1) let me know if it works for you now.
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I sent you a pm so we can work this out. Thanks for testing this. Check your mail, and I gave you the coords for the startpoint too. Odd problem, I haven't had a tester not get tp'd before.
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Alright ppl! All issues with single-player have been resolved. Thanks Valdarok for helping me debug the problem where some player's games failed to start properly. So are all you ready to survive in the depths of the Earth? We beat it on hard in our tests but I would not recommend hardcore, there are some elements that might be...difficult...to not die at least once when encountering. Have fun anyway! If someone does beat this map on hardcore you're a way better (or more cautious) player than I.
70 downloads already? Thanks so much guys! If the map worked for you please leave some feedback and let me know what you think. I would love to improve and make this survival experience even better!
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Awesome Valdarok! Sound like you're off to a great start! Thanks for not spoiling the special features for others!
Bad luck with the Enderman. At least you got your revenge though! Wow you got melons going quickly, perhaps our map isn't too hard for an underground survival pro (check out his lava survival thread!), but there's a bit of road left ahead. You should continue to find little features we added, but it is a pure survival map. It'll be up to you to piece things together and shape a home out of your surroundings.
As of now there are no clear in-game hints of how to escape. We wanted to leave it a puzzle so you'll have to use yer noggin! It'll be interesting to see what you players come up with and what you discover about the map! As time goes on if we get a lot of questions we may post a hint, but I'm sure some of you can figure the map out without that so I'm gonna be silent on the subject for now.
When you get a chance upload a screenshot of your base so we can see what you've been up too!
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I've got melons growing, too. I have been farming my zombie spawner for a while now and have scored an iron ingot, leather armor, and an iron shovel, but no carrot or potato yet.
I found my second iron vein which was pretty large, so now I have full iron armor. I have explored the majority of the nearby areas and what's left appears to be a few more mineshaft tunnels and a ravine. I have uncovered 2 skeleton spawners, a zombie spawner, a spider spawner, and a cave spider spawner, but I have yet to find any difficult encounters. Haven't died yet, amazingly haven't seen any creepers (thank goodness!), but I'll keep you posted on when or if I die.
I've got melons growing, too. I have been farming my zombie spawner for a while now and have scored an iron ingot, leather armor, and an iron shovel, but no carrot or potato yet.
I found my second iron vein which was pretty large, so now I have full iron armor. I have explored the majority of the nearby areas and what's left appears to be a few more mineshaft tunnels and a ravine. I have uncovered 2 skeleton spawners, a zombie spawner, a spider spawner, and a cave spider spawner, but I have yet to find any difficult encounters. Haven't died yet, amazingly haven't seen any creepers (thank goodness!), but I'll keep you posted on when or if I die.
wow reaver! You got iron armor quick. You'll find that iron ore is quite rare, but when you do find it, it spawns in larger vein sizes. Of course the dungeons give you a good bit too.
Carrots & potatoes are luck of course, but so worth it! Good luck on the search!
Hopefully you'll find your challenge soon if you keep playing and exploring, it wasn't the starter area that killed me while testing.
Nice Valdarok! Beautiful seeing all that green underground. Looks like you're food problems are solved with all those melons!
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lol, nice. If you are where I think you are, then yes, that particular area killed both of my playthrough partners and made a mess of our health. I didn't die but I spent a lot of running back and waiting for health to regen. hehe. Best of luck conquering it alone!
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Hey! Bob is finally happy! He is even smiling! I guess he's thankful for having someone around who knows what they're doing.
House is looking good, I see you got reeds! Looks like you're into challenge tiers 2-3. I guess enchanting should be just around the corner now for you...
I'm thinking of releasing an update based on some feedback I've gotten from you guys. We should have that finished by Saturday. More to come on that. Thanks so much everyone for sharing your stories! Some of you are nearing the point survival-wise that we tested too already and I may have to start playing again so my base doesn't get surpassed! xD
If any of you get to the point that you start seeking out the strongholds I'd encourage you to check F3 and coords first, the area I start you in is not near the original world-spawn, just keep that in mind. Strongholds will spawn centered around the original point.
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Have fun in the nether. It's great, I like the new building materials you get from the trip, though the stronghold loot is definitely the most valuable. It'll be interesting to see which villager friends you get. Our favorite is the librarian, for obvious reasons, though many of them are useful. Wiki says villagers that are village-less have a chance to despawn. I've never seen this happen but it might be good to be safe and use some of your name tags. I don't want any of you guys to be unpleasantly surprised after your hard work.
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wow reaver! You got iron armor quick. You'll find that iron ore is quite rare, but when you do find it, it spawns in larger vein sizes. Of course the dungeons give you a good bit too.
Yeah finding those two veins took a good bit of searching, over a stack of coal in torches in fact. I explore caves pretty rapidly though.
I have found it haha, I think we posted at the same time, these spiders!! I'm constantly playing on 1/2 a heart left :s
I found that the cave spiders seem to go passive with torch light even when they were after you before you placed the torches. It makes it easy to approach the cave spider spawner. The regular spider spawner was trickier though, especially cause my sword broke! XD Wasn't too much of a challenge though-spiders have never been difficult for me. I find skeletons are tricky without armor, but now that I have armor I'm not expecting just mobs to be difficult--except creepers. Creepers are always difficult!
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I want ocean content(thanks Möjang!), nether biomes(again thanks!!), and savanna passive mobs (meerkats incoming!?).
@reaver: cool, I did not know that about cave spiders, they still seemed aggroed at me with torchlight but it's something I might try since you said it works for you. keep exploring! There's some difficulties/surprises left yet, though it sounds like you're doing quite well.
@Valdarok: very, very nice. I like the look of your base and how you staggered the plants. Did you find all the diamonds mining or did you get lucky with the fortress chests? And yes "vein of diamond" might be closer to the truth. xD
I'll be back to comment later but gotta finish up work first. Maybe a couple hours. Keep up the good work! hehe
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Cool, I don't even know what is in your fortress chests. xD There's no guarantee players will find the same fortress. Most things I just let naturally generate and tried to introduce the challenge through customization of the world generation. Everyone's worlds should be the same but even I don't know what ppl will find with my settings. We only played one way so far.
Yep leather is one of the biggest hurdles--you can get it without cows. Assuming you never get cows there are 3 ways I know of to get to the bookshelves--all laborious. Honestly I would use some low-level enchants if I were you--esp. on iron armor/sword/bow. And even unbreaking I will double the life of your picks. They will make your life a bit easier in the mean-time as it'll take a while to get to a full enchant table.
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lol yep. I've gotten leather a few times and in the beginning it could mean an extra bookshelf which will at least give you a chance to get some better stuff on gear. Getting all of it that way? I agree with you...my tests show that no way do I or most players have that patience. It's a 12% in 10% chance or about 1.2%. That's why I made sure there were other ways one of which was talked about on your thread which was quite helpful.
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I have put a fair bit of time into this map and have been enjoying it up until now.
How does everyone navigate the MASSIVE CAVE expanse. Torches on the right hand side of the wall is not working for me as alot of the caving complexes work in circles.
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Deep Beneath the Earth's Surface--past the barrier of hardened bedrock--lies a world untouched by any player, full of mystery and danger. Untouched until today...
Surveyors of the Villager Mining Corporation had discovered a mysterious anomaly--an unstable fault in the world's bedrock leading to the deep recesses below. A team of miners was sent to investigate and explore what had never been seen before, but upon traveling through everything went wrong...
The ground suddenly began to shake with a violent earthquake, collapsing the mine and sending you, and your fellow workers hurtling into the depths below. When you awake, you find that the bedrock has been resealed, trapping you in a vast underground world. The mobs have grown strong here and they are not happy about being disturbed. Can you survive and live in the deep underground or will this be the end?
Your challenge is to live, play, and build constrained entirely to the underground world. Resources are limited and food is scarce. Your ultimate challenge is to escape what will otherwise eventually be your tomb. Can you make it back to the surface alive or will you die far from the light of day? Many challenges will lie in your path, and in the end the most insurmountable barrier of all: solid bedrock, blocks your journey back to the sunlight.
We have customized the underground to be twice as deep as normal and altered the world generation for a truly unique experience. But be warned! Secrets lie deep beneath the earth--undiscovered and dark--A malevolent presence that will stop at nothing to keep this world a secret forever...
Cave-In is an open survival world. You can travel as far as you wish and anything you can accomplish is yours: there are no rules. We've provided a list of challenges to guide your gameplay but you are free to play however you would like. You may--and probably will--die horribly a few times. Gradually you will learn to survive and make a home for yourself in this new world with its new rules. As you explore, you may stumble upon riddles, mysteries, and dangers. What you make of them and whether or not you escape is entirely up to you...
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Here also is a direct link to the latest map version will always link to the latest curseforge download
Featured Series:
Tier 1: easy
1. Construct a set of stone tools
2. Find and smelt iron
3. Build a house
4. Farm 2 types of food
5. Obtain an enchanted item
Tier 2: progressive
6. Find Redstone ore
7. Discover Lapis ore
8. Obtain a full suit of armor
9. Construct a mob-spawner grinder
10. Strike diamond!!!
Tier 3: difficult
11. Construct an anvil
12. Make a Jukebox
13. Build an enchanting table
14. Construct a nether portal
15. Make a brewing stand
Tier 4: for fun
16. Build an underground railway
17. Make a redstone machine
18. Cure a villager friend!
19. make an iron golem companion
20. build a snow golem
Tier 5: extreme
21. Create a chicken farm
22. Infiltrate a stronghold
23. Conquer the Ender Dragon
24. Defeat the wither
25. Escape Cave-In and return to the surface!
Following this list to the end the path to escape should become clearer.
Will you make it? Good luck!
Garden Expansion: Over time we found and transplanted plant seeds. Can you find them?
The laying of the green: rock gets lonely...
Our Zombie Farm:
Villager candidates!
Our other Dungeon "Farm"
Desperate for potions we brave the nether! How far will we have to travel?
The sky never looked so sweet than after months underground! And it's a normal world up there so you can keep right on playing the map for survival!
there's far more to tell, but then I would be spoiling it wouldn't I? Let's keep some things a surprise...
Valdarok: Our very first player who helped us work out an initial bug for single-players. He also posted many playthrough pics and contributed to V1.3.0 with suggestions! Check out his survival-based lava-covered underground map here which gave us some tips for Cave-In!
Reaverofdarknes1: A big supporter who role-plays, names ravines, and generally makes the map fun for everyone! He seemed to die the least out of all my initial players and contributed to V1.3.0 with suggestions! Glocktah: One of our very first players who was the first to identify a serious bug. His comments also contributed to V1.3.0. He has posted pics of his progress and was the first to get automation in Cave-In! MrVlix: The first to beat all of cave-in, completing all challenges and escaping! Thanks for being awesome!
danaphanous, samuelInca, zann10thousand
This is our first map but we had a blast making it! Please let us know if you have any issues and we will work on them right away. Hope you enjoy!
Meet the team and get a sneak preview of our upcoming maps!
Enjoyed Cave-In and want to see more of our projects?
In all our maps we make sure the following standards are met:
Finished Maps:
Cave-In (finished) by danaphanous, samuelInca, zann10thousand
A mining disaster traps you deep under the Earth beneath the world's bedrock. You must survive deep underground in this new world, but be warned! This is no normal underground. Among many other changes, you'll find this underground is twice as deep as normal and bedrock traps you below so you cannot reach the surface via any normal means. Monsters abound in the depths and they are not happy about being disturbed. Fight for your life, survive, build, explore, and discover the many secrets that exist in Cave-In including a dark history and a terrible secret. Can you figure out how to escape and return to the suraface or will you die far from the light of day? The path you take is entirely up to you!
Release Date: February 2, 2015. Playtime: ~20+ hours
Final Battleground (finished) by danaphanous & Valdarok
Match wits with a sadistic, apocalyptic landscape in your quest to live and raise up a new human colony after a global disaster turns the earth into a desolate wasteland. Four survivors have gathered and are holding out at a place called the "Sanctuary", but massive monster hordes attack each night. They need your help! Can you preserve Sanctuary, the last bastion of humanity, and make it flourish in the wasteland or will this be extinction for mankind? Deadly radiation traps you in a small area around the Sanctuary, however, it is slowly dissipating with time. Each day you survive will allow you to explore a bit further into the surrounding wastelands to gather supplies.
Release Date: March 6, 2015. Playtime: ~20+ hours
Exiled (finished) by danaphanous, samuelInca, ciysco, zann10thousand, and Valdarok
The game opens with you being exiled from the normal world for unknown reasons. It will be up to you to figure out first how to survive and then to explore in the hostile new world you have been exiled to. There are plenty of adventures for you along the way including some brain-teasing, cryptic puzzles and the mysterious ruins of a long-dead civilization. Can you figure out what is going on in this strange world and earn your freedom? This map contains loads of custom content and a large amount of secret content that will be up to you to discover! Better put on your sherlock hats!
Release Date: May 17, 2015, Playtime: ~40+ hours
Maps in-progress:
Planetoid (planning stages) by danaphanous, zann10thousand, samuelInca, ciy_, and Valdarok
Players have reached the Space Age! A habitable world has been discovered and all the factions are rushing to be the first to plant their flag on its surface. Now, years later your craft has arrived in the system! But something is wrong. A meteorite has struck the craft in transit frying one of the navigational circuits. When the colonists awake they find they are not orbiting the chosen world, but instead are hurtling down toward a harsh-looking Planetoid. Hours later you awake in the wreckage of the craft to the sound of the ship's computer, Hal, urgently informing you that you are in great danger if you don't help her to do some repairs asap! You two begin a relationship with one goal: your survival on this barren planet... Planetoid is much more than a harsh survival situation though, with mysteries brimming beneath the surface. Will you survive long enough to discover them and figure out how to get off this rock?
Estimated release date: TBD
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Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
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Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
I trying to play your map but my starting spawn in on a roof and I cannot exit as my weak arms are impotent to the surrounding surface. If I jump I can see a wondrous landscape around me . Please help me
Just in case I made a couple tweaks and reuploaded. (v.1.1.1) let me know if it works for you now.
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No luck with the update I'm afraid same spawn location, see attached screenshot.
I normally check out a map in sp then if all is well I upload it to minecraft relms so I can play with my son. I would love to play your map.
Sry didnt read your post properly, I'm very green with commands, where should I tp too?
I sent you a pm so we can work this out. Thanks for testing this. Check your mail, and I gave you the coords for the startpoint too. Odd problem, I haven't had a tester not get tp'd before.
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70 downloads already? Thanks so much guys! If the map worked for you please leave some feedback and let me know what you think. I would love to improve and make this survival experience even better!
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Bad luck with the Enderman. At least you got your revenge though! Wow you got melons going quickly, perhaps our map isn't too hard for an underground survival pro (check out his lava survival thread!), but there's a bit of road left ahead. You should continue to find little features we added, but it is a pure survival map. It'll be up to you to piece things together and shape a home out of your surroundings.
As of now there are no clear in-game hints of how to escape. We wanted to leave it a puzzle so you'll have to use yer noggin! It'll be interesting to see what you players come up with and what you discover about the map! As time goes on if we get a lot of questions we may post a hint, but I'm sure some of you can figure the map out without that so I'm gonna be silent on the subject for now.
When you get a chance upload a screenshot of your base so we can see what you've been up too!
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I found my second iron vein which was pretty large, so now I have full iron armor. I have explored the majority of the nearby areas and what's left appears to be a few more mineshaft tunnels and a ravine. I have uncovered 2 skeleton spawners, a zombie spawner, a spider spawner, and a cave spider spawner, but I have yet to find any difficult encounters. Haven't died yet, amazingly haven't seen any creepers (thank goodness!), but I'll keep you posted on when or if I die.
I want
ocean content(thanks Möjang!),nether biomes(again thanks!!), and savanna passive mobs (meerkats incoming!?).When or if? Cocky much? XD
Carrots & potatoes are luck of course, but so worth it! Good luck on the search!
Hopefully you'll find your challenge soon if you keep playing and exploring, it wasn't the starter area that killed me while testing.
Nice Valdarok! Beautiful seeing all that green underground. Looks like you're food problems are solved with all those melons!
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Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
House is looking good, I see you got reeds! Looks like you're into challenge tiers 2-3. I guess enchanting should be just around the corner now for you...
I'm thinking of releasing an update based on some feedback I've gotten from you guys. We should have that finished by Saturday. More to come on that. Thanks so much everyone for sharing your stories! Some of you are nearing the point survival-wise that we tested too already and I may have to start playing again so my base doesn't get surpassed! xD
If any of you get to the point that you start seeking out the strongholds I'd encourage you to check F3 and coords first, the area I start you in is not near the original world-spawn, just keep that in mind. Strongholds will spawn centered around the original point.
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Have fun in the nether. It's great, I like the new building materials you get from the trip, though the stronghold loot is definitely the most valuable. It'll be interesting to see which villager friends you get. Our favorite is the librarian, for obvious reasons, though many of them are useful. Wiki says villagers that are village-less have a chance to despawn. I've never seen this happen but it might be good to be safe and use some of your name tags. I don't want any of you guys to be unpleasantly surprised after your hard work.
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Trading
I love reading the stories and seeing pics, anyone else as far along as Valdarok? Please share your experiences!
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Yeah finding those two veins took a good bit of searching, over a stack of coal in torches in fact. I explore caves pretty rapidly though.
I found that the cave spiders seem to go passive with torch light even when they were after you before you placed the torches. It makes it easy to approach the cave spider spawner. The regular spider spawner was trickier though, especially cause my sword broke! XD Wasn't too much of a challenge though-spiders have never been difficult for me. I find skeletons are tricky without armor, but now that I have armor I'm not expecting just mobs to be difficult--except creepers. Creepers are always difficult!
I want
ocean content(thanks Möjang!),nether biomes(again thanks!!), and savanna passive mobs (meerkats incoming!?).@Valdarok: very, very nice. I like the look of your base and how you staggered the plants. Did you find all the diamonds mining or did you get lucky with the fortress chests? And yes "vein of diamond" might be closer to the truth. xD
I'll be back to comment later but gotta finish up work first. Maybe a couple hours. Keep up the good work! hehe
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Yep leather is one of the biggest hurdles--you can get it without cows. Assuming you never get cows there are 3 ways I know of to get to the bookshelves--all laborious. Honestly I would use some low-level enchants if I were you--esp. on iron armor/sword/bow. And even unbreaking I will double the life of your picks. They will make your life a bit easier in the mean-time as it'll take a while to get to a full enchant table.
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
I have put a fair bit of time into this map and have been enjoying it up until now.
How does everyone navigate the MASSIVE CAVE expanse. Torches on the right hand side of the wall is not working for me as alot of the caving complexes work in circles.
Any tips?
Another, more survival-feel way would be to make a size-5 map. It'll show the surface and you can navigate underground using landmarks up there.
Also, strip mine in straight lines radiating out from your base. With any luck if you get lost you'll run into them and can follow a line back.
Lastly, it'll take some time back you can leave trail-markers every once in a while in the form of cobblestone pointing the way to get back
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!