Biomes. In Cubes. Cubic biomes. That’s a pretty apt summary of this minecraft survival map. Though there are many like it, there aren’t many that are quite as unexpectedly dangerous. Spawners, spawners everywhere!

There’s an awful lot of bridge building ahead for the avid minecraft player, also an awful lot of cultivation and an awful lot of spawner destroying. So many spawners. Although the premise of the map is simple, there’s actually rather a lot of work involved in completing the challenges. Although you’re really supposed to play the map on easy mode or higher, it’s still quite a fun map to play on peaceful.

What’s most enjoyable about The Cubes is the fact that each little cube must be cultivated and tamed. Stone must be mined, wood must be harvested and trees replanted. Then one is off to another cube to harvest some handy cacti and dig some sand for more glass.

For a good solid minecraft survival experience with some sky island-esqe twists, why not download The Cubes, minecraft survival map!

Are you ready for a new, ultra challenging minecraft survival map? I hope so because 2×2 Square Survival is a Minecraft survival island with a twist – the twist being the almost complete lack of soil in which to grow crops, spawn animals and you know, survive.

In addition to the basic survival challenges there are also hidden areas to investigate and plenty of challenges to complete, over fifty unique challenges in fact! It is compatible with various minecraft snapshots and with the base game, so you can get as deep into minecraft challenge mode as you like, or simply build a little boat and spend your days floating around your tiny island, escaping predators through the art of paddling or sail or magnets or whatever force is supposed to be propelling a minecraft boat.

Download Square Survival, 2×2 Island Survival Map!

Don’t just survive, thrive and complete a monument! Olympus was the mythical home of the gods, but the crater like hell valley you find yourself in leaves you feel anything but like a god. The view as you leave the crater of Mt Olympus is awe inspiring, but there are no gentle olive groves or peaceful Greek villages. There’s an awful lot of darkness and lava and an ominous dark cloud floats all o’er the land.

Traps and tricks abound on Mt Olympus, placed there by vengeful gods with a twisted sense of humor, no doubt. In order to survive you’ll need to carve out a little nniche of paradise in among the lava hell, and in order to complete the map you’ll need to collect a bunch of animal eggs and avoid the temptation to use them to get a couple of pork chops or strips of leather because you’ll need them to complete the monument.

This map is compatible both with the current 1.3.2 release and also the 12w38b snapshot, if you’re the sort of person who likes introducing unstable features into your game (and I highly recommend it.)

There be dungeons, there be dragons, there be challenges of all kind in this dangerous and exciting minecraft survival map.

Click here to download Olympus, Minecraft Survival CTM Map!

Wanderlust is a nickname coined by redditor superguh for a specific type of minecraft survival map play that does not involve actually downloading any minecraft survival maps. The rules of Wanderlust are as simple as they are demanding, as complex as they are cheese (which is not at all) and as fun as they are rules (which is 100%.)

When I stumbled across this survival mode of play I thought it quite genius and invigorating, especially for those of us for whom Minecraft has recently become rather confusingly bat-filled. To play a game of Minecraft Wanderlust as laid out by the aforementioned superguh, you must perform the following actions:

• Every night you must sleep in a bed. It can be the same bed but it can not be in the same place twice. You must move your bed to an entirely new area every evening. If you do not sleep, you lose the game. That’s because sleep is important if you want to grow up to be a big strong Steve.
• Every night you must build a new shelter to house you and your bed, Wilson.
• Mining is strictly forbidden in this style of minecraft, that is to say, digging a mine is forbidden. All minerals must be found on the surface of things. Say hello to a lot of fast paced spelunking if you have ambitions of finding diamond.
• Once a structure is built, you must leave it be. You can take only your bed, your furnace and your workbenches. Okay, maybe a torch or two – and that painting you put on the mantelpiece. But that’s all!

And that’s it. Those are all the rules. Pack up your pickaxe and grab a few stalks of sugar cane to nourish you along the way. (Ha! Jokes on you, minecraft sugar is inedible!)

The Program minecraft survival map takes the minecraft universe and turns it into a metaverse, that is, a world where you must end the simulation that is minecraft by slaying the Ender Dragon. Actually it’s a little more complicated than that. You see a computer has been hacked into your brain.

Your actions in the simulation produced by this computer (aka The Program) will influence the real world because in the real world The End has broken out of The End and is leeching through reality. The only way to stop The End from taking over reality is to kill the Ender Dragon. Still a less convoluted and ridiculous plot than The Matrix.

Before killing the Ender Dragon you must complete certain challenges, like make an animal farm, enchant ‘something’, get 64 pieces of rotten flesh, get every color of wool, the list goes on. So although every second you’re in the simulation is another second that The End is destroying the world, you still have time to collect a rainbow of wool and dye sheep jolly colors and sit around with your thumb up your posterior.

So there we go, save the world and stuff around at the same time! The perfect solution for a gamer.

Download The Program Minecraft Survival Map!