Look at this minecraft town! It is made of wheat! And medieval peasants. Ha! Toil in the fields, peasant, toil from dawn to dusk. But download this minecraft custom map first.

This is a rather beautiful and very simple minecraft custom map, inspired by Skyrim’s farming lowlands. Although, to be fair, if it were staying close to Skyrim style lore, each farm would have maybe eight potatoes and eight wheat and eight carrots, and then there would be a custom NPC who would inexplicably pay you gold for having picked their tiny crops. (more…)

This beautiful minecraft steampunk island map is available for download now, so you can experience the beauty of Steamshire. There’s also a custom minecraft steampunk texture pack you can download with it, so you can have the full steampunk island experience.

Though it isn’t an adventure map or a survival, it’s still very much worth the download, simply for the fun of walking through it and seeing what can be done with a bunch of stacked blocks. And that’s always been the beauty of minecraft, hasn’t it? The fact that minecraft is a place where dreams take flight, where almost anything can be built if one is willing to take the time and energy to create it.
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I’m going to start this minecraft survival map review with a warning: do not let the poisoned villager out of the solitary village blacksmith’s house. He is not in his right mind and he will run right off the edge of the world if you’re not careful.*

This simple island style of minecraft survival map is by far and away my absolute favorite. I love the simplicty of these maps, as well as the challenge that comes from having limited space and limited resources. Sky Flat is especially challenging as a quick peek over the edge reveals this map to be but one block thick.
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Kidnapped, or KIDNAPPED, as the map screams its own name, is a minecraft adventure map whose maker claims it has had 18,000 downloads in the two days since its launch. I suspect that this is a significant stretching of the truth, but I’m willing to suspend my disbelief, as this is minecraft and people without imagination simply curl up, whimpering in a corner ‘it’s all just blocks, it’s all just blocks’. This map is one of many made for the Planet Minecraft ‘Caved In’ Custom Map contest, which involved giving map creators a ‘blank slate’ of a map and letting them go to it. (Keeping that in mind, perhaps this truly does have downloads numbering in the five digits.)

KIDNAPPED certainly deserves 18,000 downloads for the dramatic cinematic trailer alone. It’s been 109 hours in development, which is an impressive feat (but 9.891 hours short of the amount of time it takes to master a skill). With a gripping story and forty five minutes of action packed gameplay, this is a must download for minecraft adventure buffs. The environments are beautiful, the story is tight and this map goes out of its way to ensure that it is not a waste of your precious minecrafting time.
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This is a minecraft adventure map set in Egypt amidst the pyramids and the bazaars and the desert homes. If you’ve a hankering for Serious Sam style minecraft gameplay, then this is a map worth looking at.

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