

One of the more unique custom survival maps out there, Adam3945 has taken Minecraft's various biomes and constrained them into small cube shapes. Players will need to think on their feet to meet all of their basic survival necessities while also avoiding the hostile wildlife.Ĭaft has advised for optimal experience, players install the PureBDcraft texture pack, Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shader pack, and Karyonix's GLSL shaders mod update. The map implements some features from Minecraft 1.8, and as a result death can result from things such as hypothermia or dehydration. Minecraft players can expect extreme food shortages, so much so that it is common to die from hunger.Ĭaft's only rules for this map are to play on at least Easy difficulty and to play on Survival Mode, but the latter really goes without saying.Īnother Ermin Caft Minecraft creation, Stranded Raft, starts with players floating about in the Pacific Ocean. They will need to improve situations on the station before finding its few survivors and returning to Earth. Ermin Caft's Deadly Orbit pits players against the quickly-declining situation aboard the International Space Station. If Minecraft players aren't feeling the wide open western expanse, maybe they'd prefer the cold and lonely reaches of space. The advised texture pack to use with this map is ICrafting's Western Style 32x32 pack.Īdditionally, the rules set forward by the map's creator, ICrafting, are only for players not to use cheats and to play at the desired difficulty level of the player, making this one of the more open-ended custom survival maps. Beginning in a small western town, players will have little to their name as they begin life on the frontier. Minecraft: 5 custom survival maps certain to challenge players 5) Wild West Image via Mojangīased on the days of rough-and-tumble cowboys and the vast frontier of the American west, Wild West is an experience best played with friends in a Survival Multiplayer capacity. Here are five of the most famous and engaging custom survival maps. For Minecraft players who have played Survival Mode extensively or simply those looking for a change of pace, custom survival maps can bring an intense and rewarding experience.

These maps often have incredibly dangerous terrain, mobs and limited resources that force players to conserve what they have and try to ration themselves in order to avoid death. Custom survival maps are individual worlds created by the Minecraft community to challenge players' wills to survive.
