This gametype is best-suited for advanced Minecraft players, as the entire game will take place in the most dangerous cave system you will ever explore: The interior and connecting cave networks of a giant hand-made volcano, including around a dozen ravines. I hope you like lava, because you're never going to stop seeing it. The objective? Points. Lots of points. How do you get these points? By doing what you do in Minecraft best: Collect all the things!
In my solo playtest of the network, I came out with a couple of minutes to spare and 1,861 points. Think you can beat me?
This map is still being built, but I'd like to guess that it's nearing completion. Those who would like to get in on beta-testing this can send my gamertag, Logic Lizard, a friend request, but MAKE SURE TO TELL ME YOU'RE FROM THE FORUMS. I am willing to allow people below 17 at this point, but if I have to explain the rules 3 times to you, you will be removed, they are NOT difficult. This map will be played on the Halo mash-up pack. Turn in-game music on for the full VOLCANO experience.
Terminology:
Rest Area: Rare, secure room to idle in for any reason. Players cannot kill other players inside rest areas.
Exit Station: Naturally-generated, nearly symmetrical rooms that have been adapted to provide an exit route from the cave network. Using this exit signals a player's game ending, and they will be scored upon returning to the scoring zone. Each station is numbered and contains a map.
Scoring Zone: Players go here after exiting the network to be scored.
Time limit: 1 hour.
Difficulty: Hard
Starting inventory:
Crafting Table
64 wood block
Diamond Pickaxe
Iron Sword
Bow
32 Arrows
64 Steak
Full set of Iron armor
Map
Rules:
Grace Period: Players are not permitted to attack or purposefully interfere with eachother for 5 minutes after the game begins.
If you find a way out of the network that is not an Exit Station, tell me the coordinates, turn around, and go back into the cave. Touching the ground outside the cave will result in DQ if I see you outside.
Mining: Unrestricted (exceptions: no strip-mining, quarry-mining, or "pillaring" to exit the network)
Placing Blocks: Permitted (exception: Blocking/erasing lava flows is not allowed, nor is hiding/obscuring a cave route)
PVP: Attacking enabled (and encouraged), gamertags/map locations off
Stealing: Allowed. Any items belonging to a player killed inside the network are fair game for other players, including the killer, to pick up.
Trap Creation: Allowed
Lives: 1
NO BUCKETS PERMITTED. I removed all of the water I could find from the cave networks that I found, but with how vast the system is, I could have easily missed some. Do not make a bucket and take the water with you, or build blocks in such a way as to redirect the water into a lava pool to erase a hazard. There is water in at least one Exit Station, but the rule still applies: You cannot make a bucket and take this water with you. Using buckets to collect lava for later use/traps is also prohibited.
Griefing the map will result in a permanent ban. This includes but is not limited to: removing or destroying any items inside an Exit Station or Rest Area, personally or through reckless allowance of a creeper explosion, spinning the maps inside Exit Stations to make them misleading, and breaking any other aforementioned rules.
Once you exit the volcanic network, your game is over and you will be required to cash in your score immediately. Follow the glowstone arrow back to the volcano to be scored. An Ender Chest is located at the top of every Exit Station. Before leaving, empty all contents of your inventory into the chest to lock in your points. Do not collect more points from mobs or mushrooms on your way back to the scoring zone.
Point system (per piece):
Collapsing resources into blocks, such as block of iron, is permitted. Only resource blocks count, no rails/dyes/etc.
Remaining arrows in inventory, including those obtained from skeletons, are worth 1 point each, meaning each player actually begins the game with 32 points, and lose one each time they use an arrow. Think carefully about your shots! All other items including those crafted using materials, such as swords and pickaxes, will not be counted as score.
I am a mom trying to help my 8 year old twins have more fun with minecraft. They heard of servers and want to play minigames. However, I don't understand this very well. You said that you accept younger players and that your game is still open. Are they old enough and is all of this appropriate for kids this young? Thank you for any information you can provide!!
I am a mom trying to help my 8 year old twins have more fun with minecraft. They heard of servers and want to play minigames. However, I don't understand this very well. You said that you accept younger players and that your game is still open. Are they old enough and is all of this appropriate for kids this young? Thank you for any information you can provide!!
No, they are too young. I was willing to accept players in their low teens, but anyone younger than that would be glorified babysitting on my part, and I actually REALLY don't like kids. Long story short, almost everything about them annoys me, nothing personal to you or your kids.
Servers in Minecraft are hosted by a particular person that your children need to have on their Friends List, or they will not be able to access the server. Using the search bar, you should be able to find some servers specifically built for younger players, I know I saw at least two at some point before.
Minecraft as a whole is definitely one of the safest games you could have your kids playing. There is no blood and the only violence is between players (if PVP, Player Versus Player, is even enabled, which in child-friendly servers probably won't be) and players VS. Passive or Hostile mobs like zombies and skeletons. There is no blood, and hitting something only makes the target flash red.
Typical minigames in Minecraft are Spleef, which is where the players punch snow blocks out from under other players to make them fall first, and Hunger Games, which is probably a bit too complex for small children to get into.
As for my Volcano world, I've pretty much given up on getting any games going in it, the interest level has been pretty much zero since the date of this topic's creation. Anyone that might want to see it can send me a message and friend request on their own initiative, but I am otherwise no longer actively seeking people out. If someone and a group of their friends wants to play on the world, they can contact me and I'll see what I can do.
In my solo playtest of the network, I came out with a couple of minutes to spare and 1,861 points. Think you can beat me?
This map is still being built, but I'd like to guess that it's nearing completion. Those who would like to get in on beta-testing this can send my gamertag, Logic Lizard, a friend request, but MAKE SURE TO TELL ME YOU'RE FROM THE FORUMS. I am willing to allow people below 17 at this point, but if I have to explain the rules 3 times to you, you will be removed, they are NOT difficult. This map will be played on the Halo mash-up pack. Turn in-game music on for the full VOLCANO experience.
Terminology:
Rest Area: Rare, secure room to idle in for any reason. Players cannot kill other players inside rest areas.
Exit Station: Naturally-generated, nearly symmetrical rooms that have been adapted to provide an exit route from the cave network. Using this exit signals a player's game ending, and they will be scored upon returning to the scoring zone. Each station is numbered and contains a map.
Scoring Zone: Players go here after exiting the network to be scored.
Time limit: 1 hour.
Difficulty: Hard
Starting inventory:
Crafting Table
64 wood block
Diamond Pickaxe
Iron Sword
Bow
32 Arrows
64 Steak
Full set of Iron armor
Map
Rules:
Grace Period: Players are not permitted to attack or purposefully interfere with eachother for 5 minutes after the game begins.
If you find a way out of the network that is not an Exit Station, tell me the coordinates, turn around, and go back into the cave. Touching the ground outside the cave will result in DQ if I see you outside.
Mining: Unrestricted (exceptions: no strip-mining, quarry-mining, or "pillaring" to exit the network)
Placing Blocks: Permitted (exception: Blocking/erasing lava flows is not allowed, nor is hiding/obscuring a cave route)
PVP: Attacking enabled (and encouraged), gamertags/map locations off
Stealing: Allowed. Any items belonging to a player killed inside the network are fair game for other players, including the killer, to pick up.
Trap Creation: Allowed
Lives: 1
NO BUCKETS PERMITTED. I removed all of the water I could find from the cave networks that I found, but with how vast the system is, I could have easily missed some. Do not make a bucket and take the water with you, or build blocks in such a way as to redirect the water into a lava pool to erase a hazard. There is water in at least one Exit Station, but the rule still applies: You cannot make a bucket and take this water with you. Using buckets to collect lava for later use/traps is also prohibited.
Griefing the map will result in a permanent ban. This includes but is not limited to: removing or destroying any items inside an Exit Station or Rest Area, personally or through reckless allowance of a creeper explosion, spinning the maps inside Exit Stations to make them misleading, and breaking any other aforementioned rules.
Once you exit the volcanic network, your game is over and you will be required to cash in your score immediately. Follow the glowstone arrow back to the volcano to be scored. An Ender Chest is located at the top of every Exit Station. Before leaving, empty all contents of your inventory into the chest to lock in your points. Do not collect more points from mobs or mushrooms on your way back to the scoring zone.
Point system (per piece):
Coal: 1
Iron: 3 (smelted or not)
Gold: 4 (smelted or not)
Lapis: 2
Redstone: 2
Emerald: 12
Diamond: 10
Common Mob drops (rotten flesh, bones, string, gunpowder, etc): 1
Mushroom: 2
Ender Pearl: 8
Collapsing resources into blocks, such as block of iron, is permitted. Only resource blocks count, no rails/dyes/etc.
Remaining arrows in inventory, including those obtained from skeletons, are worth 1 point each, meaning each player actually begins the game with 32 points, and lose one each time they use an arrow. Think carefully about your shots! All other items including those crafted using materials, such as swords and pickaxes, will not be counted as score.
I am a mom trying to help my 8 year old twins have more fun with minecraft. They heard of servers and want to play minigames. However, I don't understand this very well. You said that you accept younger players and that your game is still open. Are they old enough and is all of this appropriate for kids this young? Thank you for any information you can provide!!
No, they are too young. I was willing to accept players in their low teens, but anyone younger than that would be glorified babysitting on my part, and I actually REALLY don't like kids. Long story short, almost everything about them annoys me, nothing personal to you or your kids.
Servers in Minecraft are hosted by a particular person that your children need to have on their Friends List, or they will not be able to access the server. Using the search bar, you should be able to find some servers specifically built for younger players, I know I saw at least two at some point before.
Minecraft as a whole is definitely one of the safest games you could have your kids playing. There is no blood and the only violence is between players (if PVP, Player Versus Player, is even enabled, which in child-friendly servers probably won't be) and players VS. Passive or Hostile mobs like zombies and skeletons. There is no blood, and hitting something only makes the target flash red.
Typical minigames in Minecraft are Spleef, which is where the players punch snow blocks out from under other players to make them fall first, and Hunger Games, which is probably a bit too complex for small children to get into.
As for my Volcano world, I've pretty much given up on getting any games going in it, the interest level has been pretty much zero since the date of this topic's creation. Anyone that might want to see it can send me a message and friend request on their own initiative, but I am otherwise no longer actively seeking people out. If someone and a group of their friends wants to play on the world, they can contact me and I'll see what I can do.