Anyway, today I'll be starting a new subject- custom maps!
Custom maps are worlds edited and customized for the player's enjoyment. These are split up into a couple of different categories, which I'll be going over: games, adventure maps, parkour maps, puzzle maps, design maps, PvP maps, Complete The Monument (CTM) maps, and survival maps. I'll also be giving an example of each type of map with a link to download it, but the video at the bottom is just my personal favorite.
Games- Game-style maps are probably my favorite now, since survival maps have gotten harder to find and much less creative. These types of maps are usually inspired by actual games such as Monopoly, or, just recently becoming very popular, Super Smash Brothers Brawl (SSBB), and are quite enjoyable for a while, and usually need to be played with one or more people. These maps are normally purely vanilla, meaning they require no mods to run. However, that doesn't always mean they were made without mods. In SethBling's Super Craft Bros. Brawl map, which the trailer for it is below, monster spawners will instead spawn items, some of which are customized. To do this, you need to use a 3rd Party Program called MCEdit, which has many features allowing you to edit your Minecraft world. I've even tried this map out for myself, and it really is fun!
Adventure- Adventure maps are actually pretty entertaining, but they tend to be either long and drawn out, difficult, or CPU-intensive for certain players, such as myself. They normally use texture packs, sometimes even mods, and they usually take a really long time to make because of all the details and testing. However, like I said, they an be very enjoyable. An example of an adventure map is, in my opinion his most popular map, HyPixel's Herobrine's Mansion.
Parkour- Oh my God... I normally don't play these, and tend to stay away from them. Parkour maps are probably my least favorite to play, but are hilarious to watch. The reason these aren't really my favorite is because of 2 reasons. 1) I just suck at these types of maps, I'm more of a surviver/fighter, and 2) the creators of parkour maps are just jerks sometimes! They make jumps that are near-impossible to make, some of which will kill you, forcing you to re-do a lot of what you just did! If you want to go try out a map, an old but interesting one would be Minecraft's Edge, based off of the popular game Mirror's Edge. A more recent one, however, would be the Epic Jump Maps. I think there are four of them, so click that link for the creator's Youtube channel, which has videos and download for all of them. (SkyDoesMinecraft, a popular Youtube commentator, did maybe 3 of them, and those are pretty funny. However, he does use some language, so make sure that's alright. Just a warning.)
Puzzle- Puzzle maps! These are quite rare in my opinion, because the puzzles are usually imbedded within parkour maps, not just one big map themselves. As the name would suggest, puzzle maps are just one big puzzle. That's... That's about it. SethBling's Redstone Challenge is a good example of this, testing the player's knowledge of redstone by using puzzles.
Design- I see these a lot. Design maps, as I've called them, just show off designs or builds of miscellaneous things, such as a jungle temple built 5 times the normal size, or Proof-of-Concept maps, which show off different things that might not have been finished, but prove that the thing can be done.
PvP- I've actually made one myself, but I never posted it. PvP arenas are made specifically for players to fight each other. These are always found on servers, and are actually creative. However, I think there might be just a few too many sometimes, but that's just what I think. HyPixel made a few of these, The Walls and The Walls 2, both of which are sort of survival-PvP. Go ahead and download them or try them out, they're fun.
CTM- Infamous for being the Super Hostile Maps, these rely on the player completing some sort of monument by collecting blocks through a series of challenges. Normally being wool, these blocks can NOT be... crafted unless it's made of a mineral (iron, gold, diamond, lapis lazuli, emerald, or, in the next update, redstone) and if it's wool, it cannot be dyed to fit the requirements. If you feel up to the challenge, download any of the Super Hostiles. No spoilers, sorry! I'm only saying they're very difficult...
Survival- Finally! This is the final map type, and also the type that's sadly appearing less and less often. Survival maps are known for their challenge, being custom maps made with the essence of the player's survival in mind. These maps usually have challenges for the player to do, such as create a house, make a farm of every type, things like that. These maps used to be my favorite, but have been replaced by game-inspired maps. That doesn't mean they're bad, however. AntVenom, another popular Youtube commentator, has done both Ant Farm Survival and Extreme Ant Farm Survival, both of which are really good survival maps.
Well, this post has gone on for quite a while. Just in short summary, many different types of maps, click the bold titles to go to the download page for each map, and click this video right below to see the trailer for SCBB, made by SethBling.
Anyway, this has been Megakaby, and until next time, have a great fortnight!
