It’s a long way down when you spawn in the void of the sky, Skyring is a Skyblock inspired map with several differences that make it quite an entertaining minecraft survival challenge. One spawns at the very top of the concentric sky rings, with one block of water which serves as a four pronged elevator through the various biomes available on the skyring ,a bed and trees growing up from below on four sides.

Each ring of the skyring map represents a mini version of a biome. There is a desert ring, a jungle ring, a forest ring, a snow ring, you get the general idea. There is even a farm ring, where the very small space has been engineered to hold an ark number of important animals.

One must be careful when taking advantage of the apparent convenience that is the water elevator, for drowning is the least of your worries. Once you sink too far, a cold death in the void is the only hope for you.

In addition to the rings, there is a dungeon type structure known only as ‘Nether Tower’ floating off the coast, as it were, of the Skyring. This provides a strong survival goal, a reason for navigating all those rings. But be sure not to approach the Nether Tower before you have crafted yourself sufficient protections – for the mobs that lurk in that fire proof structure will singe you to an inch of your digital life.

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Minecraft survival maps have become increasingly abstract since their inception. Where islands once flourished now mere blocks are considered sufficient basis for a survival map. Seth Bling’s SkyGrid survival map takes the theme to its possibly illogical conclusion by placing random environmental blocks in a grid.

There are no rules in this map because you’ll be hard pressed to even play the thing. The appeal of SkyGrid comes in making sense out of chaos, of turning a jumbled mass of elements into something coherent. In more than one way, playing SkyGrid is akin to handling the universe in the moments after the Big Bang.

It’s hard to say whether this is technically a ‘fun’ map. There’s the thrill of repeatedly plunging through the grid before being able to catch yourself again, there’s the wild disorientation that comes from being surrounded by the pure expression of the concept of randomness and there’s the drive of the desire to build a nice house and hide yourself away from the madness that is the outdoors. Whether your enjoy it or not, SkyGrid has already claimed its place among minecraft survival map classics.

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Shatter is very much like many other sky maps except for the island upon which you would have found yourself residing has exploded and you have to rescue your dog and perhaps a Testificate from one of the shattered isles, as it were.

There are more achievements than there are fingers on my hands, which means that there are a whole lot of achievements for you to, er, acheive. Some of them don’t seem to be entirely meaningful, like creating five snow golems. Others are steps along the way to creating a grand metropolis in the sky full of happy villagers and their iron golem watchmen.

As with other minecraft sky survival maps there is a certain risk associated with falling whilst carrying sensitive and important blocks.

A good solid survival map with the capacity to send you over the edge (that’s the literal in game edge, not the real world edge,) Shatter Survival Island is one to add to your minecraft map download list!

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Fond of the tales of Camelot? Of medieval knights and dragons and damsels in distress? You’ll potentially run into two of those three things playing Faraway Avalon, a minecraft sky island survival map. A castle to explore makes survival all the more exciting on this floating island in the sky. There are secret panels and passages to uncover, not to mention hidden rooms filled with spiderwebs and other useful items of, well, usefulness. Not all the passages are safe however, so best to be careful when exploring. Sometimes it is much easier to get into things than it is to get out of them.

Players looking for a whimsical survival experience will have a lot of fun with this map, which builds on the basic survival experience without going quite so far as an adventure map. With this new island world as your own, you become the master of all you survey, build your sky island kingdom to greatness or farm enough creepers to blow the whole thing, er, sky high.

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Skyblock is the original Minecraft survival madness experience. It is the alpha and the omega, and it is now available for Minecraft 1.11 . This new, improved skyblock map includes a bunch of new challenges, upping the challengemeter to 60. By playing the new Skyblock, you’ll learn what an aquaduct is, which makes it educational and also fun and also includes the traditional skyblock fear of heights and scarcity mentality which will impact all areas of your life:

New Challenges:

Collect 64 iron.
Make a gold farm in the nether.
Cure a zombie villager.
Spawn an iron golem.
Use redstone in three contraptions.
Find a slime chunk and create a slime farm.
Make a lava aquaduct system.
Go to the end and defeat the enderdragon.
Find an elytra.
Spawn and defeat the wither.

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