In the spirit of SkyBlock, Survival Island, and other famous survival titles, the OathBrothers promise to bring you Survival content that is innovative and entirely unlike any others that you have experienced!
If you love survival, open worlds, creativity, puzzles, and adventure, then you are gonna love the maps we have in store for you!
So what do we have to offer that is different from the hundreds of crappy survival maps out there?
Good question! With the advent of command blocks I've seen a huge focus shift to CTM, RPG, and Adventure maps. Everyone loves fighting and a good story right! However, the genre of survival is sorely lacking in new ideas, and it still remains many player's favorite way to play the game.
We use the new custom generation and command block features to dramatically change survival, complete with adding in new mechanics and features to the game. In the past we've focused on interesting scenarios, but we're going all-out on the command-block side in this latest world. Set in the space age where nearly everything about the survival experience will be modified and players will have to refigure out how many things work in a new system with space-age tech and life in a wacky asteroid-filled world with custom minecraft seasons!
New map announcement! We've upgraded our skills to 1.10 and are working on a brand-new map with loads of custom mechanics and features, scroll down for a full announcement below.
In all our maps we make sure the following standards are met:
Our maps are open worlds, not linear. This means you are free to play however you like. We didn't design our maps to have tasks done in any particular order so you can relax and take things and experiences as they come.
Our maps are designed for survival and are as raw as possible. This means we try to pre-build very little leaving that part to you! We might throw in some little surprises to make it interesting or add gameplay feel, but that's it!
Our maps start you with nothing and contain survival puzzles. We don't baby-step you. You'll start and you'll figure it out or not. Most of what you need will be inherent in the way the world generates, but things WILL be different. That's the point of a survival map.
Our maps have ways to get pretty much everything useful. It may be difficult, but if you work hard enough there are no hard limitations. That's one of the things we tested most thoroughly. There are ways to legitimately get pretty much everything you'll need to have fun, though some of the ways you get nicer things are quite different than you might expect or capitalize on game mechanics you've probably never had to exploit before. This is what makes them fun. It's a puzzle!
Our maps have goals. Just in case you get bored or are an achiever we've provided a list of challenges ending with the ultimate goal of each map. The challenges are up to you if you care to do them, but if you are ever stuck realize we picked our challenges for a reason. Going through the list may clue you in to things you were missing!
Finished Maps:
Cave-In 1.8 (finished) by danaphanous, samuelInca, zann10thousand
A mining disaster traps you deep under the Earth beneath the world's bedrock. You must survive deep underground in this new world, but be warned! This is no normal underground. Among many other changes, you'll find this underground is twice as deep as normal and bedrock traps you below so you cannot reach the surface via any normal means. Monsters abound in the depths and they are not happy about being disturbed. Fight for your life, survive, build, explore, and discover the many secrets that exist in Cave-In including a dark history and a terrible secret. Can you figure out how to escape and return to the suraface or will you die far from the light of day? The path you take is entirely up to you!
Playtime: ~20+ hours, Difficulty: Medium, Type: Custom Underground World with added discoverable features to enhance survival. A quest-list will eventually lead to escape. Map is for 1.8, but will eventually be updated.
Match wits with a sadistic, apocalyptic landscape in your quest to live and raise up a new human colony after a global disaster turns the earth into a desolate wasteland. Four survivors have gathered and are holding out at a place called the "Sanctuary", but massive monster hordes attack each night. They need your help! Can you preserve Sanctuary, the last bastion of humanity, and make it flourish in the wasteland or will this be extinction for mankind? Deadly radiation traps you in a small area around the Sanctuary, however, it is slowly dissipating with time. Each day you survive will allow you to explore a bit further into the surrounding wastelands to gather supplies. If you can survive long enough you will eventually reach and be able to gather from the wastelands, but the game gives renewable access to pretty much everything. E
Playtime: ~20+ hours, Difficulty: Hard, Type: Minimalist Survival with limited space and resources. This is an expanding world and your access to new areas is based on how long you survive.
Exiled 1.8 (finished) by danaphanous, zann10thousand, and Valdarok
You are exiled from the normal world for the crime of being a player. The inhabitants of this world do not trust players and view them as dangerous animals--fit to be caged. It will be up to you to figure out first how to survive and then to explore in the hostile nether, which is your exile. There are plenty of adventures for you along the way included some brain-teasing, cryptic puzzles and the mysterious ruins of a long-dead civilization. Can you figure out what is going on in this strange world and earn your freedom?
Playtime: ~50+ hours, Difficulty: Very Hard, Type: nether survival, with custom nether ruins to explore and access to most useful blocks. We found this kind of survival very fresh and new, but it isn't for everyone, especially those with fear of lava and fire! It's kind of fun growing crops and building a settlement into the hostile nether terrain. There is a way to escape and some command-block machines and puzzles to unravel, however, at the moment players have reported the puzzles very hard (though not impossible) to decipher. keepInventory is enabled to protect your hard-earned supplies from fire and lava.
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
thank you for your interest! I will make sure to message you when we release!
As a sneak preview for you, I'll let you know the title of the map is "Cave-In". The second map which as also mostly done is entitled "Exiled". Both are vanilla worlds designed with 1.8 features.
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
The time is near!!! We are doing our final test run and should release the Beta Version this coming week if all goes well!
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Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Date is set! Cave-In will be released Sunday Night this weekend. We've tested it all the the way through and it all works well. Again, if you are interested in playing the map, comment and I'll message and link you to the release post when I upload it. Have fun!
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Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Small problem we are fixing: apparently the size-1 gem ores were not generating at all. I did some research and the smallest you can use is size-3 ores? Strange...but whatever. We are fixing the generation first and transferring our work to the updated map before we upload. Sorry about that! It'll be up soon though!
And to all future map-makers! Do NOT use size 1 or 2 ores in your maps! We did not discover this problem until late testing but the ores will not generate AT ALL unless you use size 3+ it is not a linear equation!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Published another map, Final Battleground! Also updated the main post. We are currently working on Exiled, which is gonna be totally new! I've seen hardly any survival experience like what we're designing! Will post progress reports here.
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Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
While the other Brothers shine in all of their map-making glory,
I plot in the Darkness...
Learning the secrets of the Command Block,
waiting to exact my revenge on my unsuspecting kin...
...
No just kidding, but I have been learning some pretty neat things involving command blocks that I would love to share with you guys.
Time is pretty scarce for us brothers, and it's hard to find a time where we can all get together to talk.
But rest assured, once we all have a chance to sit down and hash out some details, there will be some pretty cool new ideas implemented into our maps, as well as some guides on little known Command block tips.
That's all for now, but remember LADDDD (pronounced laddies):
coming tomorrow, maybe afternoon! we are doing to final stuff today! sorry forgot to update the date on this post!
Here is our new trailer:
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Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
lol. It's certainly a tough map. That's the response I'd expect from some ppl.
Here's a brief description I have so far for the post which ironically speaks to your response:
Get ready to be plunged into a world of harsh realities and stranger-still custom content.
Set in a modified nether, this map begins with the start of any survival game--but quickly diverges. Rather than being free to wander off and do as you please, you find yourself imprisoned in an 8-block cubic prison with nothing but some cheery natural scenery and a few books explaining that you are unwanted in this world and henceforth have been Exiled. The reason isn’t clear, and only adds to the mystery of this map. Other than the few useful bits of scenery the only other feature of the prison is a strange doorway, which emits haunting sounds. At this point you have some hard choices:
You can log out immediately, rage-quitting at the nerve of us having imprisoned you at the very start of a game! And forcing you to go to the Nether of all places!
You can spend a boring life in your prison listening to records and twiddling your thumbs.
Or you can take up the challenge of this difficult survival/puzzle map and brave the hostile world beyond the doorway.
If you take option #3, and we sincerely hope you do, you’ll find that this map is no ordinary survival map. There is an intricate backstory and a reason for your imprisonment. And you’ve been given the tools to uncover it. But first, of course, you need to worry about basic survival.
Adventuring is a big part of this map, which has loads of custom content and strange places built into it. Brave the dangerous terrain and explore frequently to uncover the many hidden secrets and destinations. See ancient ruins, strange puzzles, cryptic symbols, and more on your journeys. Each discovery will give you more pieces of the puzzle and additional survival supplies to increase your well-being. But ultimately, beyond the survival, which is unique, challenging, and fun as always, you’ll find that at the heart of this map is a strange and gripping story uncovered through a series of stranger-still puzzles. What is this place? Where did the ruins come from and where are the inhabitants now? And most importantly, why were you exiled here in the first place? All this and more will be revealed to those who seek and unlock the mysteries of Exiled…
Will you make it? Well, it’s your challenge, and as always, the battle is up to you…
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Our newest map Exiled is out! Posted it up this morning! Fully functional and awesome, we tested the whole thing last night! We put almost 4-5x the work into it than any of our previous maps and plan to keep supplying updates to add explorable content if the community is interested in the idea! Hope you guys enjoy, It's certainly a different kind of map. I've never seen anything like it in custom maps before! Hope some of you guys check it out!
Also, we've created a new youtube channel called The OathBros to host our trailers, map-building and invention tutorials, map-building episodes and other content with the community in the future. If that sort of thing sounds interesting to you consider subscribing or at least check out our first video the Exiled trailer!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Hey guys! We're back, after a year of taking a break and testing the new 1.9 and 1.10 features, we have a dream and we're working on bringing it to you!
I've been working on our new map idea on and off as I had the inspiration for nearly half a year and it is now nearing an alpha release with the basic survival changes finished. This map is big, new, and it will be innovative in the survival genre with loads of custom command-block-enabled survival features that change the base game itself. So what's the low-down?
Seasons(or a better name if I can think of one, near alpha release) by danaphanous, zann10thousand
This will be a space-age map. In the nascent stages of space colonization earth has sent out scouts to check out promising nearby systems. Your job is to investigate the wacky system designated as X3-B35-C. The system seems habitable, but is dramatically unlike earth, being composed of a dense cloud of asteroids sharing a breathable atmosphere and an already thriving native ecosystem! Also, years here are only only about 25 days with dramatical, rapidly changing custom seasons!
You and your trusty AI companion, the biosuit are charged with settling and observing the system for one year (25 days) and reporting back on the promise of the system for human colonization. Prepare to be challenged and intrigued as the normal minecraft mechanics have been dramatically altered and much of the mechanics changes with the seasons. Adapting to life in this world will be completely different then your normal minecraft experience with changing mob spawning (including new custom ones!), dozens of new mob drops that you need to figure out, changing difficulty, daylight cycles, temperature, precipitation, meteor showers, plant growth, animal breeding, custom items and crafting recipes, buildable space-age machines and more! The biosuit will be your constant companion through this experiment giving you missions, advice, and commenting on your situation. But beware! This system is hiding a secret that will change your life forever.
The story and sophisticated dialogue system will take some time to implement and fans that have known about the map have been asking for access to alpha so they can begin to play just to test the seasons and life on the asteroid world. This access will come pretty soon, possibly within the next few weeks as I finish the basic mechanics changes to the world.
Due to the fact that so much about natural mob spawning and their drops has been changed, this world allows for some epic new inventions. If you are a redstone or mob-farm enthusiast you can get hours of fun just from playing on the map and figuring out the all the new mechanics which I won't tell players. That's for you to figure out! Feel free to help each other out though by compiling a list of discovered features, it may take a long time to discover all the changes!
I will open a separate thread once alpha release comes along with more teasers.
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Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
great! I'm still working on the map, decided I wanted it to be "prettier" and have more features before the first alpha test and release, but I'll let people start testing it in a few weeks now probably. I'll keep you posted!
By the way, alpha testers will get the opportunity to suggest specifics for the map, changes, new mechanics, and make their own asteroids. If you want to help out I'm making hundreds of asteroids, so if you make a cool-looking one chances are I'll include it somewhere in the world. They can be based off any biome, even nether terrain, just make it look interesting!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
there aren't really very many rules on size, the main central asteroid is giant and fills most of the height limit for instance, it's almost 200 blocks deep with different "strata" for mining. But normal asteroids will range from maybe a 50-block radius on average to as small as just a couple blocks. There will eventually be dungeons and things to find in the bigger ones so if you want to design something like that for yours that's fine. Since it's in space and an asteroid field a "natural" look would be to have an irregular shape, pocked with the occasional meteor craters which show bare and broken rock. Because the system has a breathable atmosphere it's your choice if you include plants and animals on the surface. I will probably terraform anything I get and add specks of grass, ferns, or the occasional tree for instance, showing that most of the asteroids are habitable. Make them look exotic and space-agey, if that makes sense.
If you have a particular gravity you'd like let me know. There are 10 gravity settings ranging from normal to very light.
I'll try to post up some screenshots later this week if you want a few examples--I'm out right now.
For the alpha test I'm only trying to complete the asteroid field out to a radius of 512 blocks. This will allow for easy updating of alpha-testers maps by just giving them the new region files which are 512x512 chunks as I finish them in the future.
Space Expedition to EPIC 204:Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Hello Map-Lovers!
In the spirit of SkyBlock, Survival Island, and other famous survival titles, the OathBrothers promise to bring you Survival content that is innovative and entirely unlike any others that you have experienced!
If you love survival, open worlds, creativity, puzzles, and adventure, then you are gonna love the maps we have in store for you!
So what do we have to offer that is different from the hundreds of crappy survival maps out there?
Good question! With the advent of command blocks I've seen a huge focus shift to CTM, RPG, and Adventure maps. Everyone loves fighting and a good story right! However, the genre of survival is sorely lacking in new ideas, and it still remains many player's favorite way to play the game.
We use the new custom generation and command block features to dramatically change survival, complete with adding in new mechanics and features to the game. In the past we've focused on interesting scenarios, but we're going all-out on the command-block side in this latest world. Set in the space age where nearly everything about the survival experience will be modified and players will have to refigure out how many things work in a new system with space-age tech and life in a wacky asteroid-filled world with custom minecraft seasons!
New map announcement! We've upgraded our skills to 1.10 and are working on a brand-new map with loads of custom mechanics and features, scroll down for a full announcement below.
In all our maps we make sure the following standards are met:
Finished Maps:
Cave-In 1.8 (finished) by danaphanous, samuelInca, zann10thousand
A mining disaster traps you deep under the Earth beneath the world's bedrock. You must survive deep underground in this new world, but be warned! This is no normal underground. Among many other changes, you'll find this underground is twice as deep as normal and bedrock traps you below so you cannot reach the surface via any normal means. Monsters abound in the depths and they are not happy about being disturbed. Fight for your life, survive, build, explore, and discover the many secrets that exist in Cave-In including a dark history and a terrible secret. Can you figure out how to escape and return to the suraface or will you die far from the light of day? The path you take is entirely up to you!
Playtime: ~20+ hours, Difficulty: Medium, Type: Custom Underground World with added discoverable features to enhance survival. A quest-list will eventually lead to escape. Map is for 1.8, but will eventually be updated.
Final Battleground 1.9 (finished) by danaphanous & Valdarok
Match wits with a sadistic, apocalyptic landscape in your quest to live and raise up a new human colony after a global disaster turns the earth into a desolate wasteland. Four survivors have gathered and are holding out at a place called the "Sanctuary", but massive monster hordes attack each night. They need your help! Can you preserve Sanctuary, the last bastion of humanity, and make it flourish in the wasteland or will this be extinction for mankind? Deadly radiation traps you in a small area around the Sanctuary, however, it is slowly dissipating with time. Each day you survive will allow you to explore a bit further into the surrounding wastelands to gather supplies. If you can survive long enough you will eventually reach and be able to gather from the wastelands, but the game gives renewable access to pretty much everything. E
Playtime: ~20+ hours, Difficulty: Hard, Type: Minimalist Survival with limited space and resources. This is an expanding world and your access to new areas is based on how long you survive.
Exiled 1.8 (finished) by danaphanous, zann10thousand, and Valdarok
You are exiled from the normal world for the crime of being a player. The inhabitants of this world do not trust players and view them as dangerous animals--fit to be caged. It will be up to you to figure out first how to survive and then to explore in the hostile nether, which is your exile. There are plenty of adventures for you along the way included some brain-teasing, cryptic puzzles and the mysterious ruins of a long-dead civilization. Can you figure out what is going on in this strange world and earn your freedom?
Playtime: ~50+ hours, Difficulty: Very Hard, Type: nether survival, with custom nether ruins to explore and access to most useful blocks. We found this kind of survival very fresh and new, but it isn't for everyone, especially those with fear of lava and fire! It's kind of fun growing crops and building a settlement into the hostile nether terrain. There is a way to escape and some command-block machines and puzzles to unravel, however, at the moment players have reported the puzzles very hard (though not impossible) to decipher. keepInventory is enabled to protect your hard-earned supplies from fire and lava.
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
As a sneak preview for you, I'll let you know the title of the map is "Cave-In". The second map which as also mostly done is entitled "Exiled". Both are vanilla worlds designed with 1.8 features.
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Small problem we are fixing: apparently the size-1 gem ores were not generating at all. I did some research and the smallest you can use is size-3 ores? Strange...but whatever. We are fixing the generation first and transferring our work to the updated map before we upload. Sorry about that! It'll be up soon though!
And to all future map-makers! Do NOT use size 1 or 2 ores in your maps! We did not discover this problem until late testing but the ores will not generate AT ALL unless you use size 3+ it is not a linear equation!
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/maps/2347888-cave-in-a-unique-survival-experience-by-the
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Published another map, Final Battleground! Also updated the main post. We are currently working on Exiled, which is gonna be totally new! I've seen hardly any survival experience like what we're designing! Will post progress reports here.
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Greetings from the Silent Oath Brother!
While the other Brothers shine in all of their map-making glory,
I plot in the Darkness...
Learning the secrets of the Command Block,
waiting to exact my revenge on my unsuspecting kin...
...
No just kidding, but I have been learning some pretty neat things involving command blocks that I would love to share with you guys.
Time is pretty scarce for us brothers, and it's hard to find a time where we can all get together to talk.
But rest assured, once we all have a chance to sit down and hash out some details, there will be some pretty cool new ideas implemented into our maps, as well as some guides on little known Command block tips.
That's all for now, but remember LADDDD (pronounced laddies):
Light up,
Armor up,
DON'T
DIG
DIRECTLY
DOWN!
Remember:
LADDDD (laddies)
Light up,
Armor up,
DON'T
DIG
DIRECTLY
DOWN!
lol still waiting for Exiled to be realeased HYPE
coming tomorrow, maybe afternoon! we are doing to final stuff today! sorry forgot to update the date on this post!
Here is our new trailer:
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
lol. It's certainly a tough map. That's the response I'd expect from some ppl.
Here's a brief description I have so far for the post which ironically speaks to your response:
Get ready to be plunged into a world of harsh realities and stranger-still custom content.
Set in a modified nether, this map begins with the start of any survival game--but quickly diverges. Rather than being free to wander off and do as you please, you find yourself imprisoned in an 8-block cubic prison with nothing but some cheery natural scenery and a few books explaining that you are unwanted in this world and henceforth have been Exiled. The reason isn’t clear, and only adds to the mystery of this map. Other than the few useful bits of scenery the only other feature of the prison is a strange doorway, which emits haunting sounds. At this point you have some hard choices:
If you take option #3, and we sincerely hope you do, you’ll find that this map is no ordinary survival map. There is an intricate backstory and a reason for your imprisonment. And you’ve been given the tools to uncover it. But first, of course, you need to worry about basic survival.
Adventuring is a big part of this map, which has loads of custom content and strange places built into it. Brave the dangerous terrain and explore frequently to uncover the many hidden secrets and destinations. See ancient ruins, strange puzzles, cryptic symbols, and more on your journeys. Each discovery will give you more pieces of the puzzle and additional survival supplies to increase your well-being. But ultimately, beyond the survival, which is unique, challenging, and fun as always, you’ll find that at the heart of this map is a strange and gripping story uncovered through a series of stranger-still puzzles. What is this place? Where did the ruins come from and where are the inhabitants now? And most importantly, why were you exiled here in the first place? All this and more will be revealed to those who seek and unlock the mysteries of Exiled…
Will you make it? Well, it’s your challenge, and as always, the battle is up to you…
I hope you enjoy Exiled my friend.
Inspired by the Myst Series
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
HYPE
Sounds like a fun map. Can't wait for it to be May 17
P.S That video was there because you changed the realease date to be May 17 instead on May 16
Our newest map Exiled is out! Posted it up this morning! Fully functional and awesome, we tested the whole thing last night! We put almost 4-5x the work into it than any of our previous maps and plan to keep supplying updates to add explorable content if the community is interested in the idea! Hope you guys enjoy, It's certainly a different kind of map. I've never seen anything like it in custom maps before! Hope some of you guys check it out!
Exiled: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/maps/2428328-exiled-by-oathbros-outcast-to-a-hostile-world
Also, we've created a new youtube channel called The OathBros to host our trailers, map-building and invention tutorials, map-building episodes and other content with the community in the future. If that sort of thing sounds interesting to you consider subscribing or at least check out our first video the Exiled trailer!
Here is the trailer guys!
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Hey guys! We're back, after a year of taking a break and testing the new 1.9 and 1.10 features, we have a dream and we're working on bringing it to you!
I've been working on our new map idea on and off as I had the inspiration for nearly half a year and it is now nearing an alpha release with the basic survival changes finished. This map is big, new, and it will be innovative in the survival genre with loads of custom command-block-enabled survival features that change the base game itself. So what's the low-down?
Seasons (or a better name if I can think of one, near alpha release) by danaphanous, zann10thousand
This will be a space-age map. In the nascent stages of space colonization earth has sent out scouts to check out promising nearby systems. Your job is to investigate the wacky system designated as X3-B35-C. The system seems habitable, but is dramatically unlike earth, being composed of a dense cloud of asteroids sharing a breathable atmosphere and an already thriving native ecosystem! Also, years here are only only about 25 days with dramatical, rapidly changing custom seasons!
You and your trusty AI companion, the biosuit are charged with settling and observing the system for one year (25 days) and reporting back on the promise of the system for human colonization. Prepare to be challenged and intrigued as the normal minecraft mechanics have been dramatically altered and much of the mechanics changes with the seasons. Adapting to life in this world will be completely different then your normal minecraft experience with changing mob spawning (including new custom ones!), dozens of new mob drops that you need to figure out, changing difficulty, daylight cycles, temperature, precipitation, meteor showers, plant growth, animal breeding, custom items and crafting recipes, buildable space-age machines and more! The biosuit will be your constant companion through this experiment giving you missions, advice, and commenting on your situation. But beware! This system is hiding a secret that will change your life forever.
The story and sophisticated dialogue system will take some time to implement and fans that have known about the map have been asking for access to alpha so they can begin to play just to test the seasons and life on the asteroid world. This access will come pretty soon, possibly within the next few weeks as I finish the basic mechanics changes to the world.
Due to the fact that so much about natural mob spawning and their drops has been changed, this world allows for some epic new inventions. If you are a redstone or mob-farm enthusiast you can get hours of fun just from playing on the map and figuring out the all the new mechanics which I won't tell players. That's for you to figure out! Feel free to help each other out though by compiling a list of discovered features, it may take a long time to discover all the changes!
I will open a separate thread once alpha release comes along with more teasers.
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
So exited for the new map!! Gonna make all the farms.
great! I'm still working on the map, decided I wanted it to be "prettier" and have more features before the first alpha test and release, but I'll let people start testing it in a few weeks now probably. I'll keep you posted!
By the way, alpha testers will get the opportunity to suggest specifics for the map, changes, new mechanics, and make their own asteroids. If you want to help out I'm making hundreds of asteroids, so if you make a cool-looking one chances are I'll include it somewhere in the world. They can be based off any biome, even nether terrain, just make it look interesting!
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!
Sounds good! Could you explain the asteroids a bit better? Like how big should they be and their shape and stuff. Thanks
there aren't really very many rules on size, the main central asteroid is giant and fills most of the height limit for instance, it's almost 200 blocks deep with different "strata" for mining. But normal asteroids will range from maybe a 50-block radius on average to as small as just a couple blocks. There will eventually be dungeons and things to find in the bigger ones so if you want to design something like that for yours that's fine. Since it's in space and an asteroid field a "natural" look would be to have an irregular shape, pocked with the occasional meteor craters which show bare and broken rock. Because the system has a breathable atmosphere it's your choice if you include plants and animals on the surface. I will probably terraform anything I get and add specks of grass, ferns, or the occasional tree for instance, showing that most of the asteroids are habitable. Make them look exotic and space-agey, if that makes sense.
If you have a particular gravity you'd like let me know. There are 10 gravity settings ranging from normal to very light.
I'll try to post up some screenshots later this week if you want a few examples--I'm out right now.
For the alpha test I'm only trying to complete the asteroid field out to a radius of 512 blocks. This will allow for easy updating of alpha-testers maps by just giving them the new region files which are 512x512 chunks as I finish them in the future.
Download and play my new Survival Map!
Space Expedition to EPIC 204: Go on a Space-Age Adventure to visit and explore EPIC 204, a wacky world of dense asteroids and full of alien life! Experience Custom Seasons, Weather, Over 50 new creatures, Beautiful Biomes, Alien Ruins, Dungeons, and new space age tech crafting recipes!