The minelands are a series of rules that I have put together to make the overall playing of Minecraft both more difficult over time, but also rewarding in its own way. There is no Lore, there is no backstory. You are playing Minecraft, and want a challenge, so here it is.
Play on Hard Mode at all times.
Have a Death Counter activated.
The Game Begins when you start the world. The Game Ends when you enter the End Portal after beating the Ender Dragon.
Name all tamed Mobs; Wolves, Cats, Mounts. If you do not have a NameTag, you may spawn 1 in.
All Prerequisite Rules MUST be activated via Console Commands BEFORE doing anything else.
All Worlds Generated MUST be random. Using Premade Maps is unfair and takes away from the game.
Whenever you 'Beat the game, you begin New Game +. Doing so means you start a new world, and add the following rules, depending on how many Playthoughs you have done. Beating the game also means you keep whatever you have in your HotBar, and nothing else. You are aloud to spawn in and enchant said items. If you have nearly worn armor, you are aloud to spawn it in fresh. Below are the Rules that go with each of the Playthroughs.
Playthrough 1: Survival, Difficulty Hard
Playthrough 2 New Game+: Survival: Difficulty Hard, No Health RegenPlaythrough
3 New Game++: Survival: Hardcore
Playthrough 4 New Game+++: Survival: Hardcore, No Health Regen
Playthrough 5 New Game Gigas: Adventure, Difficulty Hard
Playthrough 6 New Game Accension: Adventure, Difficulty Hard, No Health Regen
Playthrough 7 New Game Decent: Adventure, Hardcore
Playthrough 8 New Game Abyss: Adventure, Hardcore, No Health Regen
Playthrough 9 New Game Torment: Adventure, Hardcore, No Health Regen, Endless Night (Cannot Craft Bed)
Playthrough 10 (Coming Soon!)
Notes: In order to have said challenges activated, use these codes.
No Health Regen/gamerule naturalRegeneration false
Adventure Mode/defaultgamemode adventure
Endless Night/time set night/gamerule doDaylightCycle false
Starting the next level of the playthrough is simple, just generate a new world in Survival or Hardcore mode. If you need to input codes in Hardcore mode, just Open to a LAN server and bingo, you're done.
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Days 1 - 3
Day 1 – SpawnOh come on.Are you freaking kidding me? Why on earth did I have to spawn in a Notch-forsaken OCEAN Biome?!After swimming a good while, and for some reason not starving, I caught first site of land.It wasn't until landfall that I realized how hungry I was. I was soon able to find some sheep, and thankfully a bed was soon in my Inventory.The Island is small, only a handful of chunks at best. So far all I've found is forest and sheep, not a single cow or chicken in sight. I'm not worried though, not now at least.And the evening and the morning was the First Day.Day 2 – HungerNot much to report. The Forest is becoming thinner with each tree I fall, and since I have been sleeping rather soundly, no Mobs are in the area. I've started to look around the island, see if there are any other biomes or villages, that would be useful. So far all I found is lava.Dangit I'm hungry. This Island is smaller than I thought, mostly just beaches. I did find this VERY small Plains area, but nothing to report there. Just as void of hunting food as the forest. If I'm not careful, I'm afraid starvation will be what kills me this time...Notch be Blessed! I'd totally forgot about Apples! One of the frist trees I'd chopped finaly finished decaying, and an apple left in it's wake. With a newfound goal and a little less hungry, I began my deforestation of the Island.Day 3 – Chop ALL the TreesMother Nature is gonna get me for this one day I'm sure. But for now, I am leveling the Forest on this side of the Island. I've started a small quary so I can get some charcoal, I don't intend on Mining any time soon.Yeah, mass murder of trees is a pretty pitiful way of getting apples, but dang it if there isn't any food to be had otherwise.Nothing much to report. Until my wheat farm kicks off, I'm surviving on Apples, and I'm not ready to brave the Night just yet. I'll build a shelter tomorrow, maybe start a sheep pen. But for now, I'll just wait and watch the sunset.
Days 4 - 6
Day 4 – A Place to RestAnother day, another quest to stay alive.Chopped some trees, mined some stone, not much else to do really. The Farm STILL isn't growing very fast, so I'm still relying on Apples. I got started on a house though.I don't know, I kinda like it. It's simple, not to big, and honestly isn't my usual mansion. I think It's a good start for a home anyhow.Day 5 – First BloodMy first night in my house was nice, although it took me a little longer than usual to finish. Because of that when I woke up I saw a Witch outside. Shouldn't be an issue.Oh Crap...OH FUDGE!< Drayle88 was killed by magic >Grrrrr... Kill me in MY house will ya?Ha.... Ha... Stick that in a can and drink it!Was able to get some Bones from some SunKissed Skeletons. At least I can grow my farm a little faster.And now for Old Trusty!And now the fishing begins!And this is how the day ends...Day 6 – Stinking Zombies...So I spent the day fishing. Making sure I don't starve. And in the process a ZOMBIE showed up and nearly took me out. Stinking AOE Fire Spreader... Anyhow, nothing really else happened after that.
Days 10 - 14 - Diggy Diggy!
It's been a few days, and I'm pretty stable on food... Time to Mine.I've sunk a shaft to bedrock level, and started a strip mine. I have enough wood food and torches to last a few days.Aaaaand first Diamonds!I think i must have dug for over a 3x2 chunk base in the mines. I found some more Diamonds though, to it's worth it.Headed topside, with 18 Diamonds in tow, along with plenty gold, iron, and coal. Not bad for a few days work. Next on checklist, Create a Portal.
Day 18 - Into the Nether!
So my first portal was made without any diamond pickaxes. I used the dirt adn sand to build a mold, then made obsidian around it. It worked out pretty nice. I thought to save my Diamonds for later use anyways.So... This Nether Sucks. Seriously, not a fortress in sight. I've looked around, and after dodging Ghasts and jumping ravines, all I've found is some mushrooms... I"ll head back and deal with this place once I establish a better Nether Base... No sense Dying a lot for nothing yet.
Day 20 - Fortress Ho!
It's taken me a while, and a lot of recorces, but I finally found a Fortress! I've managed to stay both alive and unharmed, so thats good...Needless to say I'm a little wary of Ghasts at this point...First Whither! KILL KILL KILL!!!!The fortress is vast. I've been able to find several chests with good loot, every kind of Horse Armor, even a few saddles. Pity I'm still stuck on that island. I can see lots of mobs too...Whither Party! To bad no skull drops.I went back to my Nether Base, and decided to build another Portal. Right now I"m not comfortable enough to go against those Blazes or Ghasts... Right now I need a bow. Time to go Topside.
Day 21 - Cavefall
What. A Cave? Why the heck am I in a CAVE... Man it's bad enough I'm next door to a stinking Portal to Nether, now I'm under-freaking-ground...Opps, sprung a leakFixed!Ok, I REALLY hope I'm not far from land, cause building up from this will be a bust...WOHOO!!! LAND! YES!!! FINALLY! Back to base though. Not ready to take on this new area.Got my secondary base set up, and a big flamin' arrow pointing to the hole in the ocean so... Yeah. Time to settle in and get ready for the rest of the map.
how do you defeat the enderdragon befoooore entering the portal?!?!?!?! and i dont 100% understand the rules? what happens after you defeat each round? do you just start a new game and do the next round? and dont you think spawning armor and items is cheating? so were supposed to start from spawn and play till we defeat the enderdragon? or go into the end and start survival there with just a couple of items??
How I lost have of my items:
I was building and a spider comes down so you know I try to kill it but nope there's a creeper boom death.
I try and try to get my stuff but I mean there are skeletons every where and zombie backups and I ended up loosing my iron my oak wood, food, seeds, wheat, shovel and a axe. 13 deaths because of that. Night Rain.
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how do you defeat the enderdragon befoooore entering the portal?!?!?!?! and i dont 100% understand the rules? what happens after you defeat each round? do you just start a new game and do the next round? and dont you think spawning armor and items is cheating? so were supposed to start from spawn and play till we defeat the enderdragon? or go into the end and start survival there with just a couple of items??
Ok, first of all, you enter the Portal, and you Beat the Enderdragon, then you enter the NEXT portal, the one with the Dragon's Egg on it. THAT is the end of the first game.
Yesm you start a new game for the next round with the new rules activated.
No, spawning in your final HotBar is not cheating, because things are getting a lot harder each time. Any other New Game+ gives you a perk or something for starting over on harder difficulty.
You are supposed to start a brand new game until you beat the enderdragon, and then enter portal, rinse, lather, repeat until ragequit.
How I lost have of my items:
I was building and a spider comes down so you know I try to kill it but nope there's a creeper boom death.
I try and try to get my stuff but I mean there are skeletons every where and zombie backups and I ended up loosing my iron my oak wood, food, seeds, wheat, shovel and a axe. 13 deaths because of that. Night Rain.
Seems like a good challenge. Especially in adventure where you cannot break blocks and have to find the cave system the portal is in. I might try it, probably with many epic fails.
This challenge would take an insanely crazy amount of time to complete. (By complete I mean all 9 phases)
Not so much. I've seen Speed Runs of getting to the EnderDragon and Insane amounts of luck invlolved. Ramping it up to complete phases wouldn't take a terrible long time to do, but it would be better since you'd have better stuff to take with you and such.
Seems like a good challenge. Especially in adventure where you cannot break blocks and have to find the cave system the portal is in. I might try it, probably with many epic fails.
I think many people have a misconception of Adventure Mode. You CAN break blocks, you need only have the tools to do so ahead of time. You can't punch wood, but you can chop it down. Makes mining a pain when you can't punch dirt out of the way though.
Back from the End, time to rebuild.
Feel free to link back with your results
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It's going pretty good, no deaths yet!
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HELP CAPSLOCK KEY FELL OFF IT SWITCHES ON AND OFF, HELP PLS.
You open console commands, then type this
/scoreboard objectives add Deaths deathCount
Then type
/scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar Deaths
If it hasn't shown up yet, type this
/scoreboard players add (player_name) Deaths 1
/scoreboard players remove (player_name) Deaths 1
That should cover it all. So do I, but I need a challenge every once in a while.
Back from the End, time to rebuild.
I was building and a spider comes down so you know I try to kill it but nope there's a creeper boom death.
I try and try to get my stuff but I mean there are skeletons every where and zombie backups and I ended up loosing my iron my oak wood, food, seeds, wheat, shovel and a axe. 13 deaths because of that. Night Rain.
#BAUM4EXILE2014
:^)
HELP CAPSLOCK KEY FELL OFF IT SWITCHES ON AND OFF, HELP PLS.
Ok, first of all, you enter the Portal, and you Beat the Enderdragon, then you enter the NEXT portal, the one with the Dragon's Egg on it. THAT is the end of the first game.
Yesm you start a new game for the next round with the new rules activated.
No, spawning in your final HotBar is not cheating, because things are getting a lot harder each time. Any other New Game+ gives you a perk or something for starting over on harder difficulty.
You are supposed to start a brand new game until you beat the enderdragon, and then enter portal, rinse, lather, repeat until ragequit.
Have a nice Day.
Ouch. Just... ouch.
Hardcore is difficult. This is playing against Sephiroth with only Yufi.
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Be sure to check out my texture pack: Easy Ores!
Not so much. I've seen Speed Runs of getting to the EnderDragon and Insane amounts of luck invlolved. Ramping it up to complete phases wouldn't take a terrible long time to do, but it would be better since you'd have better stuff to take with you and such.
I think many people have a misconception of Adventure Mode. You CAN break blocks, you need only have the tools to do so ahead of time. You can't punch wood, but you can chop it down. Makes mining a pain when you can't punch dirt out of the way though.
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So glad you approve
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Play minecraft.
NOW
That's sort of the point yes.
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