(Original concept created by the great 5thHorseman! Link to original thread found here.)
[b]No lava.[/b]
[b]No stone.[/b]
[b]Just you, some trees, and a couple friends.[/b]
Skyblock is a wonderful map, but this is NOT Skyblock, and is nothing like it. Play it for 20 minutes and you'll see.
Due to 5thHorseman ceasing all further development of this amazing map, I decided to take it upon myself to take over for him and try to keep this updated as best I can. (And most of this post will be copied and pasted from 5thHorseman's original forum topic which I linked above.)
The 5.0 release is updated for 1.7.x
The additions to the map include:
- Updated Nether to increase Zombie Pigman spawning...(everything outside the bedrock "box" have been removed and replaced with air)
- Added some more Lapis ore to ease the burden of dying glass and clay.
- Added a new biome "Flower Forest" to get the new flowers.
- To prevent ruining the beautiful look and shape of the island, Acacia and Dark Oak Saplings have been added to the "starter" chest.
- Added a spawning room to fix any mob spawning issues in the overworld, and any multiplayer spawning issues...(although this map was originally made for single player, but go ahead and invite some friends and they shouldn't spawn on the ocean floor anymore...I hope!)
Adfly (to support my hard work): OceanBlock 5.0
Direct Link: OceanBlock 5.0
[b]Multiplayer server! (Thanks to BritishCommando2 for setting up and running this):[/b]
URL: oceanblock.us
Just paste that into Minecraft and head on over!
Alternate urls: oceanblock.me oceanblock.co oceanblock.in oceanblock.org
Once connected hit T, then type /server Oceanblock
Then read all the signs for what to do next!
[b]Rules:[/b]
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- Do not kill yourself in ANY way for ANY purpose.
- NO mods/hacks/cheats that give you an advantage. (Optifine is fine, but TMI is not)
- Play on at least easy difficulty.
- Have FUN!
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- You will be given a bed, and when you start it should be night. Sleep in the bed to set your spawn point, and sleep in it whenever you move it. This will keep you from spawning back in the original "introduction room".
- When you start, there is no lava. There is no stone. You'll be working with wood until you can get iron tools, either from a mob trap or from Iron Golems, or from trading with villagers.
- Most of the stuff you'll work with in on the little block of dirt, sand, and a few other resources that you spawn on. There are some goodies available if you search a bit, but don't look too far! *EVERYTHING* unique is within 16 horizontal meters of the island.
- There are 6 biomes in the world. Most of the world is a plains biome, but there is also a snow, a jungle, a swamp, a mushroom biome, and a flower forest. Like everything else of interest, they're all within 16 meters of the Island. They're also all placed symmetrically so if you can find one, you should be able to find the others.
- There is an emergency cache on the non-hardcore version of this map. It's not exactly hidden but it's out of the way. It has a few critical resources that you start with, but could lose. For the ultimate challenge, try to do EVERYTHING below without ever opening that cache. If you don't like it but don't want to use its contents, feel free to destroy it and throw it and its contents into the sea or onto your cactus.
- There is coal on this map. And diamonds. And obsidian. And all of the Nether blocks. And Nether Wart. Yes, you can get it all. And yes, you'll need it all.
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MILESTONES (Do in REVERSE order):- Build a Village
- Mine the Obsidian
- Go to the Nether
- Activate the End Portal.
- Get a Dragon egg.
BUILDING:
- Enchanting Room
- A House for yourself (Include Brick, Nether Brick, Stone Brick, and Quartz)
- Cobblestone generator
- Giant red mushroom
- Giant brown mushroom
- Mob farm
- Grass for Animals (Min. 8x8)
- Golden Apple
- Other Golden Apple
- Golden Carrot
- Brewing Stand
- 16 Jack 'o' Lanterns
- Anvil
- Enchantment Table
- Furnace
- Get a tool, weapon, or armor with at least 2 level-IV enchantments
- Enchant something with 30 levels of experience
- Cake and Pie (eat an entire cake and a pumpkin pie in one sitting, to fill your hunger bar from 0 to 10)
- Make a jukebox and collect records for it
- Automate something with pistons, hoppers, and/or dispensers
- Hang a map and at least 1 painting in your house
- Pot some plants for decoration
- Tame a Wolf
- Tame an Ocelot
- A Full set of leather armor, each piece dyed
- A Mismatched Set (One each of helmet, chestplate, leggings, and boots in iron, gold, diamond, and chainmail. No duplicates)
- Use a carrot on a stick to ride a saddled pig
- 16 Blaze Rods.
- 64 Bonemeal
- 64 Arrows
- A Bow
- Mushroom (Min. 8x8 mycelium area)
- Pumpkin (Min. 1 stalk)
- Sugarcane (Min. 64)
- Jungle tree (Min. 4 or a 2x2 square)
- Birch tree (Min. 4)
- Spruce tree (Min. 4)
- Oak tree (Min. 4)
- Wheat (Min 64)
- Potato (Min. 8)
- Carrot (Min. 8)
- Melon (Min. 1 stalk)
- Nether Wart (Min. 8)
- Cactus (Min. 1)
- Snow
- Experience
- Chicken
- Cow
- Sheep
- Pig
- Slime
- Iron Golem
- Magenta
- Light Gray
- Orange
- Cyan
- Purple
- Gray
- Light Blue
- Pink
- Lime
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
- Green
- Black
- White
- Brown
- Invisibility
- Night Vision
- Regeneration
- Swiftness
- Fire Resistance
- Healing
- Strength
- Poison
- Weakness
- Slowness
- Harming
- Craft at least 8 of each color of Stained Glass
- Craft at least 8 of each color of Stained Clay
- Cook a Salmon
- Brew 6 Water Breathing Potions
- Tame a Horse
- Tame a Donkey (Optional)
[b]FAQ:[/b]
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How do I get cobblestone? Where's the Lava?Until you get to the Nether, there IS NONE. This is not Skyblock, no matter how similar it appears on the surface.
Anything you can do with cobblestone, you can do with wood, except maybe holding lava.
What about Iron?
Iron is a renewable resource, and getting it is one of your goals. If you do the challenges in order you'll get iron in no time.
What about Whithers? I bet you didn't think about those.
You're right, I could have accounted for Withers but I didn't.
Your map is dumb and you're dumb and how can you mine diamond without iron you dummy.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you'll need iron to mine diamonds.[b][/b]
[b]Pictures:[/b]
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Feel free to leave suggestions, and I welcome any and all screenshots and videos of this amazing map. Also, feel free to ask questions and/or report any bugs with this map.
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The mod Ex Nihilo, by Erasmus_Crowley, adds a ton of features that allow the player to accomplish almost anything, starting from almost nothing. This map aims to provide the perfect Ex Nihilo experience. You start from nothing (18 dirt blocks, and 1 birch tree), and the possibilities are limitless. Go to the nether, set up an iron golem farm, kill the ender dragon...
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The Map:
-Spawn on a "fancy" 3x3x3 platform.
-All biomes needed for bee stuff are located within 16 blocks of the island.
-Located 30 blocks below the island lies the end portal, waiting to be activated.
-Nether is a complete void, blocks are needed to even step out of the portal.
-The End is a 5x5 obsidian platform.
-Download: http://www.mediafire...anion%20Map.zip
Old Versions:
Version 1:
-Normal: http://www.mediafire...q/Ex_Nihilo.zip
-Hardcore: http://www.mediafire...lo_Hardcore.zip
Version 1.1:
Easy: http://www.mediafire...on_Map-Easy.zip
Normal: http://www.mediafire..._Map-Normal.zip
Hardcore: http://www.mediafire..._Map-Hardcore(2).zip
Version 1.2:
http://www.mediafire...mpanion Map.zip
Using a mod that makes birch wood un-usable in crafting recipes?
Try this version where the birch tree has been replaced with an Oak tree:
http://www.mediafire...n%20Map-Oak.zip
Make sure you download the amazing mod Ex Nihilo by Erasmus_Crowley:
Ex Nihilo: http://www.minecraft...-companion-mod/
I would also recommend Ex Aquilo (an ex nihilo add-on), by Zerokyuuni:
http://www.minecraft...hilo-companion/
And make sure that you change the config options to enable void generation (located at the bottom of the config file).
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http://www.mediafire...8kanvch2fomp4cq
The overworld will generate an infinite void of the extreme hills biome (used super flat preset of all air, then angel blocks from extra utilities to create island), no mainland anywhere.
Nether should be void for a few thousand blocks, but no island will be there, so blocks must be placed to even step outside the portal
I added an end portal frame about 30 blocks under the dirt island, however I didn't screw with the end landscape, as I figure it would be pretty much impossible to beat the ender dragon with only a 5x5 obsidian portal.
All in all, this should function as a bare bones Ex Nihilo map until you add the world generation.
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Sounds Awesome!
Also, congrats on 100 replies
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Out of curiosity, how many dirt blocks will your map start the player off with?
Also, it would be awesome if you could make silkworms compostable, as once you have stacks of them, they really have no use.
In classic skyblock you can get all the dyes except the ones that require lapis, and brown dye (cocoa beans).
However, in 1.7, a lot more dyes become available
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One question: how do you check your experience level in various things??
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I have it installed with tinker's construct and equivalent exchange 3 which seems to work fine
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