Every 50 Years The Wither Boss Returns, and every fifty years some poor soul / great hero, is chosen to go forth and battle the Wither Boss and send him / her / it back to its wither-y tomb for another fifty years. This time it is your turn, and putting the Wither Boss down is not going to be an easy task. You must leave your sky village and venture forth to lands below, which is a heck of a relocation just for starters. Then there’s finding someone to cover the rent whilst you’re gone… getting enough emeralds to trade with villagers along the way… and trying to get medical insurance when your chosen profession is ‘Boss Hunter’ well, even Obamacare doesn’t cover that.

But seriously, or not seriously as the case may be, this is an epic adventure you’re setting out on, so don’t forget to gather supplies before you leave. That means gathering up all your Conversation and not leaving it in the chest with a quizzical look.

A series of mini-games and side quests not only entertain the player, but provide item rewards that will ensure you are not immediately slain by the Wither on sight. Play the map well and you will be prepared for the final boss. Rush through the main story line like someone who only came in to the supermarket for bread, and you’ll be crushed by an unexpectedly devastating loaf.
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This island is what happens when you take Minecraft out for a night of hard liquor and even harder women and then switch it on the next morning. If that analogy isn’t appropriate for you, it is what happens when Elmo and Megatron have a fight. This small block of WTF is nestled cosily in the void, and it is your job, as a player of the game of minecraft, to attempt some form of survival upon it. No animals will spawn naturally at first (unless you count the three little pigs clinging to outcroppings above an endless fall,) who are highly likely to turn themselves into cooked pork chops if they get loose. Arable land is at a premium, meaning there is almost none of it. Good luck growing crops when the flame from the netherblock keeps turning them into crispy wheat flakes before you get a chance to harvest them.

This simple minecraft survival island / sky block map is the sort of thing that survival dreams are made of. Can you sort out the chaos that is the random smattering of blocks into something useful? Or will you slip and fall into the void, never to spawn correctly again? Although this sort of map has definitely been done before, the randomized terrain adds a new level of challenge that most players will find quite enjoyable. I liked the fact that the mandatory ‘single tree’ wasn’t one of the usual oak tree sticking out like a sore thumb. This is a sky survival map for a new generation, a generation of players using the minecraft 1.4 update.

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Honey, I shrunk myself!

If you enjoy feeling small, or simply looking at large objects, you’ll be absolutely thrilled with this minecraft map download that presents minecraft blocks and objects in super large microscopic detail. (Yes, the concept of super large microscopic things is a paradox. Enjoy the brain twisting.) This minecraft map is pretty much the closest you’ll ever get to being Rick Moranis. Or Miss Frizzle.

Need a scale? Sure, here’s a scale for you. Every pixel in the standard 16x minecraft texture pack has been blown up to the size of one block. 1 Pixel = 1 Block = 1 Small Step For Mankind.

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Part of the joy of having friends is destroying their hopes and dreams in fictional game scenarios. If you know some people you’d like to battle to the digital death over bits of colored wool, then do I have the map for you? (Hint: I do.) Sky Wars is a minecraft game map designed for one to four players and follows a simple premise: get the wool, or get exploded trying.

Not every one who begins the Sky Wars race will finish. Some will inevitably be lost to the void, or to one of the many devilish traps placed along the way. You have brushed up on your pig riding skills, haven’t you? Good, because that’s going to be important in this game – as it is in so very many areas of life. Algebra might be questionably useful, being able to conjugate a verb will come in handy once or twice, but pig riding, now there’s a skill for the ages.

But I digress. As you will, from a great height. Haha! Seriously though, this is the perfect map to download if you want your ears to ring with the anguished howls of your comrades in pixels as you battle in the great Sky Wars.

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Are you feeling a little nervous? Looking over your shoulder? Seeing things out of the corner of your eye? Whirling about in darkened corridors? No? Well you will be soon as you descend into a deep state of paranoia whilst playing this scary minecraft adventure map. As the map begins you find yourself in the lap of high tech luxury. All is well in a sterile world where computers do your bidding and creepers are mythical beasts spoken of but never seen.

All that changes when weird things start happening. Weird isn’t good when you don’t understand how your housing unit is powered, so you beam down to the planet surface to see what’s going on. What’s going on turns out to be some hard case paranormal activity – and it’s up to you to get to the bottom of it.

There are a lot of reasons to like Paranoia. A solid, original storyline is one of those reasons. Another one is that this is the first minecraft adventure map I’ve ever seen that offered a walkthough. Kudos to the map maker for taking the time out to redirect the lost. The map also has unlockable areas, which is pretty unique for an adventure map, so it’s actually worth doing sidequests in order to unlock more gameplay. This isn’t just a map, this is a game within a map within a game. And we’re only getting started.

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