In the tradition of the Ant Farm Minecraft Survival Map and the Fish Tank Minecraft Survival Map comes Bird Cage Survival, a minecraft survival map requiring vertically oriented survival skills. This dense and action packed map is full of challenges and choc a block full of rewards.

the main object of the map is simple: escape. It is easy to fit between the bars of your cage and make an escape, not that escaping by the direct route will do you any good because you’ll end up falling to your doom. To properly escape the cage, you must visit The End and slay the dragon that lives there.

A fun little survival map with much more scope than one might at first expect, Bird Cage Survival comes with its own texture pack. It is advisable to use it as the map may not render properly or with any measure of sense if one doesn’t.

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You’ve survived in an Ant Farm, you’ve survived in a Fish Tank, you’ve even survived in a Hamster Cage – but now it is time to survive in a minecart. That’s right, it’s the newest iteration of one of the oldest minecraft survival themes.

Of course, this isn’t all about survival in a gimmicky landscape, remember that tiny pharoh buried in a minecart? That guy? Yeah, well if you play Minecart Survival, you’ll get to unearth him. Pretty sweet.

None of this makes any sense of course, but then again, trying to survive inside a giant minecraft makes very little sense on its own. Looking for sense in these things is like looking for pigs on mars.

There are lots of challenges for people who like minecraft survival challenges and there’s a nice nether portal to complete so you can escape into the dimension of firey things on fire that set you on fire and shoot fire at you whilst they’re on fire.

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Clueless is a minecraft puzzle map with a difference. The difference being that there are no clues* and it is up to you to work out how on earth you’re supposed to get out of the place you find yourself stuck in. Hordes of puzzles stand between you and a certain sense of freedom. Okay not hordes, but you will wish for hordes when you find yourself confronted by these machinations of an evil mind. Some of them are traditional minecraft jump style puzzles, others involve the use of sound and a plethora of redstone. My only real complaint with this map is that some of the puzzles are really quite hard. But that’s a good thing if you’re the sort of person who enjoys wanting to slam their forehead against their keyboard until something is solved. I, for one, found the experience of standing in front of a wall of obsidian pressing buttons and listening for the precise note emanating from a nearby block to be quite a fascinating experience.

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(*The complete lack of clues quickly turns out to be an exaggeration. There are some clues hidden hither and thither, so that’s nice.)

I really rather like the name of this minecraft map download, Destiny. It’s like when you call your dog something like ‘Mike’. Then you can yell things like ‘hurry up and take a dump, Mike’ or ‘stop humping the guests, Mike.

Destiny comes with it’s own texture pack. (A modified Doku pack.) Destiny tends to hold your hand throughout your adventures. Destiny is your constant companion, your friend and ultimately the cause of your demise. Destiny is forever alone. But Destiny is also horribly cliched in some respects, you spawn in confusion, as in so many minecraft maps. Are we truly to believe that the only way to begin a minecraft map is in a bizarre state of partial amnesia? Surely Destiny could do better than that.

Destiny has continuous narration provided through signs, which I rather like. It’s much better than reading through tedious text documents. So double points for destiny there.

Destiny thinks that the primary use for cookies is DNA testing.

In many respects, Destiny is a bit like a game of golf, a nice stroll through a pretty landscape.

Destiny is sometimes confusing. The beginning of the adventure is deliberately obfuscated from the player with numerous ‘false starts’ that make one wonder if one is actually playing the map yet or not.

Destiny makes you question your sanity a little more than is probably good for you.

Destiny has a storyline that keeps you guessing and puzzles that will make you scratch your head whilst you guess. So basically, it’s a one size fits all minecraft wash for your brain. By the time you are done with this map you will not only be satisfied, but possibly a little wiser than you were when you began play.

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Here’s hoping you like melon. Because Melon Survival is a minecraft survival map with a whole lot of melons. In some respects, one could say that it is entirely made of melons. Actually, in almost all respects one could say that.

Interestingly enough the map maker decided to put most of the useful-ish resources fairly near the spawn point, just in case your search skills involve sitting and spawn and calling out like a baby bird having fallen out of the nest.

some animals are in evidence, though I’m not sure at the time of writing if this is because of hidden dirt (let’s hope so), or because the map maker left them there, like relics of a time gone by. I suspect so, as I also came across a pit of dogs. Was that a spoiler? Hardly, you would have found it yourself if you bothered to walk around the map once.

Basic survival skills are going to be essential if you hope to survive. By that I mean you’re going to have to work out how to get by without anything but melon to eat. Be careful where you dig, because you’ll have to be able to step ladder yourself back out. And watch out for your blood sugar levels.

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