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[CathGorm]

THIS IS AN OLD VERSION OF THE CHALLENGE. I HAVE POSTED A BETTER AND NEW VERSION OF THIS CHALLENGE HERE: http://www.minecraft...w-and-improved/

The Super-Flat Mode, at first, seems like a barran land but there is hope...
Introducing; The Super-Flat Challenge. Will you be the first to complete it? All you have to is complete the following challenges on Hardcore Super-Flat World.

Rules and Guidelines:
1. Play on Hardcore mode (or normal if you're a pussy) and Super-Flat.
2. No mods of any kind.
3. Incase you haven't realised NPC Villages are in Super-Flat and have chests.
4. This isn't a custom map it's a challenge for you.
5. As of 1.2 there are iron golems, you may kill them but you can't set up any kind of system to farm iron ingots.

Challenges:

Easy:
1. Collect 64 Slimeballs.
2. Discover an NPC Village.
3. Bake or find some bread.
4. Craft a stone sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel and hoe.
5. Build a cobblestone generator.
6. Craft a flint or steel.
7. Craft and wear a full set of leather armor.
8. Find a sapling.
9. Collect red, orange, yellow, black and white wool.
10. Craft a golden apple.
11. Reach level 25.
12. Catch a fish in an artificial lake.

Medium:
13. Collect 16 Enderpearls.
14. Craft an iron sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel and hoe.
15. Build a nether portal and enter it.
16. Craft an enchanting table.
17. Craft a gold block.
18. Create a tree farm.
19. Build a fireplace out of netherrack and stone bricks.
20. Build a Nether base.
21. Build a minecart system that is at least 32 blocks long.
22. Play a music disc.
23. Grow both of the different coloured mushrooms to giants.
24. Reach level 50.

Hard:
25. Kill a skeleton with one bow and arrow in your inventory.
26. Add 20 bookcases to your enchanting room.
27. Craft a diamond sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel and hoe.
28. Find a nether fortress.
29. Craft a brewing stand.
30. Collect a ghast tear.
31. Light your base with glowstone.
32. Decorate your base with a diamond block.
33. Surrournd your farm with nether brick fences.
34. Collect 2 Enderpearls from a single enderman.
35. Kill a zombie with a single hit from a sword.
36. Reach level 100.

All these challenges are possible but some are extremely hard. If you manage to complete these you know you have finally conquerred Minecraft.

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[TheGrayGoo]

not that hard. its a normal minecraft map with a flat surface.  you might as well say "do this" for a normally generated map.

[Matt650]

It only needs one challenge:
Find wood

[CathGorm]

TheGrayGoo, on 12 January 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:

not that hard. its a normal minecraft map with a flat surface.  you might as well say "do this" for a normally generated map.

Except there's no ores or trees.

Matt650, on 12 January 2012 - 09:36 PM, said:

It only needs one challenge:
Find wood

Read the clue.

[Arbiterfreak]

now that makes sense

[CathGorm]

Arbiterfreak, on 12 January 2012 - 09:40 PM, said:

now that makes sense

Finally some positive feedback.

[CathGorm]

C'mon more people should be trying this; it is possible.

[horodirus]

I'll attempt it but I doubt I will finish it.  Here are my initial thoughts on the list:

1. Collect 64 slimeballs.

Easy, just kill some slimes.

2. Make an iron sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel and hoe.

Find lots of village chests and pillage them for their iron.

3. Bake bread.

Easy, harvest some wheat from a village.

4. Craft 64 torches.

Find sufficient amounts of coal from village chests.

5. Find obsidian.

Solution 1) Leverage the village wells by a bucket or other means, pouring the water onto the smithy's lava.  Thus obsidian.  (Does this count as 'finding'?

Solution 2) Find obsidian in village chests.

6. Craft a golden apple.

Find a golden ingot in village chests or kill pigmen in the nether.  Find an apple or Oak sapling in a village chest.

7. Travel to the nether.

See #5.  Remember to pour the lava into a mold that would make a nether portal.  (Unless you happen upon diamonds)

Gather the flint from the village pathways, gather the iron from the chests.

8. Gather 16 Enderpearls.

Kill Enderman.  Not too hard.

9. Make a fireplace with netherrack.

Finishing #7 effectively finishes this challenge, all you need to do is remember to bring some back.

10. Brew a potion of regeneration.

Slay a couple Ghasts, find a blaze spawner, kill a couple blazes, find a netherwart patch, then brew it all up back home.

11. Enchant a bow with "Infinity"

Simple enough, just craft an enchantment table.  You can harvest the village's bookcases to boost your table's levels.  Kill slimes for XP.

12. Throw a splash potion of poison at a spider, killing it.

This challenge is impossible.  To quote the MC Wiki:  "Spiders are unaffected by Splash Potions of Poison."

13. Gather 64 Soul Sand

Gather some Soul Sand during your Nether trip.

14. Light your base with Glowstone.

Gather some Glowstone during your nether trip.

15. Build a base in the nether.

Bring some cobblestone to the nether, build it up around your portal.

16. Make an animal farm.

Lure the animals to your farm using wheat.  Not hard.

17. Craft a full set of iron armor.

Find iron in village chests.

18. Craft mushroom stew.

Bring some mushrooms from the Nether.

19. Find a nether fortress.

#10 addresses this.  Blazes only spawn in Nether Fortresses.

20. Craft a diamond block.

Find diamonds from village chests.

[CathGorm]

horodirus, on 12 January 2012 - 10:14 PM, said:

I'll attempt it but I doubt I will finish it.  Here are my initial thoughts on the list:

1. Collect 64 slimeballs.

Easy, just kill some slimes.

2. Make an iron sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel and hoe.

Find lots of village chests and pillage them for their iron.

3. Bake bread.

Easy, harvest some wheat from a village.

4. Craft 64 torches.

Find sufficient amounts of coal from village chests.

5. Find obsidian.

Solution 1) Leverage the village wells by a bucket or other means, pouring the water onto the smithy's lava.  Thus obsidian.  (Does this count as 'finding'?

Solution 2) Find obsidian in village chests.

6. Craft a golden apple.

Find a golden ingot in village chests or kill pigmen in the nether.  Find an apple or Oak sapling in a village chest.

7. Travel to the nether.

See #5.  Remember to pour the lava into a mold that would make a nether portal.  (Unless you happen upon diamonds)

Gather the flint from the village pathways, gather the iron from the chests.

8. Gather 16 Enderpearls.

Kill Enderman.  Not too hard.

9. Make a fireplace with netherrack.

Finishing #7 effectively finishes this challenge, all you need to do is remember to bring some back.

10. Brew a potion of regeneration.

Slay a couple Ghasts, find a blaze spawner, kill a couple blazes, find a netherwart patch, then brew it all up back home.

11. Enchant a bow with "Infinity"

Simple enough, just craft an enchantment table.  You can harvest the village's bookcases to boost your table's levels.  Kill slimes for XP.

12. Throw a splash potion of poison at a spider, killing it.

This challenge is impossible.  To quote the MC Wiki:  "Spiders are unaffected by Splash Potions of Poison."

13. Gather 64 Soul Sand

Gather some Soul Sand during your Nether trip.

14. Light your base with Glowstone.

Gather some Glowstone during your nether trip.

15. Build a base in the nether.

Bring some cobblestone to the nether, build it up around your portal.

16. Make an animal farm.

Lure the animals to your farm using wheat.  Not hard.

17. Craft a full set of iron armor.

Find iron in village chests.

18. Craft mushroom stew.

Bring some mushrooms from the Nether.

19. Find a nether fortress.

#10 addresses this.  Blazes only spawn in Nether Fortresses.

20. Craft a diamond block.

Find diamonds from village chests.

Well done on figuring it out and updated challenge 12.

[CathGorm]

I'm doing the challenge right now and have gathered basic supplies (wood, stone, food and tools) and am bouncing from town searching for loot.

[Tjakka5]

This seems like a cool challenge, sure are going to do it when i come home!

[Superguin200]

Looks awesome! I will definitely try it! Unfortunately, NPC villages can sometimes be VERY uncommon in Superflat, but that's one of the things that makes this challenge a challenge, right?

[444timothy]

Looks easy enough. Going to try it today.

[welshpixie]

Nice!

I'm giving something similar a go on my YT channel, http://youtube.com/welshpixie . It won't be hardcore, cuz I'm a noob, and I probably won't stick steadfast to the above challenges - I'll just see how far I can get in a survival flatworld.

Yay for new survival challenges ^.^

[444timothy]

No-one has posted their scores yet so here's my score for my first attempt:



I also did challenges 1,3 and 5 as well.

[CathGorm]

The secret to this challenge is to find loot in the forges located in the NPC villages without them it's impossible.

[colorfusion]

I looked through 2 whole NPC villages and found no "chests", are you sure about them or am I just being unlucky?

Edit: Nevermind, found a single chest.

[fish312]

This is a interesting challange, but probably easier on a flat map, and since villages sometimes have chests and you can pillage for wood that makes it easy.

[Error 52]

You are being really cocky. I'm going to give it a shot.

[CathGorm]

colorfusion, on 13 January 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

I looked through 2 whole NPC villages and found no "chests", are you sure about them or am I just being unlucky?

Edit: Nevermind, found a single chest.

Remember chests only appear in forges.