City Map For Minecraft

[Ariane Delbrune]

Afterthe best joyride of my life, I decided to head to the beach and just stand there for a bit, feeling (but not really looking) cool next to my car. With the (virtual) breeze in my (virtual) hair, I finally felt content. I had a fast car and a gorgeous city I could drive it in.

Every building has a realistic lobby and has elevators to go to different floors and even to the roof. The buildings have shops, restaurants and offices on street level. Some famous buildings are even fully furnished like the Chrysler Building, Metlife Building, Tower 49 and the Citigroup Center.

Welcome to the City of New Blockston, a Canadian city with New England influences, started in June 2021! Located on the shores of Lake Naicouche and along the banks of the Mons River, New Blockston is a blossoming city in its prime. From parks, to attractions, to skyscrapers and historic buildings, there's something for everyone in New Blockston!

Shmar is a solo-built, fictional city based on Chicago and similar midwestern cities. The city is very realistic and detailed with lots of places to explore and interiors in every building. The city is very reminiscent of Chicago architecture and urban planning. I have spent 1000s of hours building it, and this is only the beginning as I plan to continue working on it.

Skyscrapers, Beaches, Mountains, Broadway Theaters, A Stadium, Subway System and so much more! 6 years of solo building to get to this point. A nice size city for you to explore and learn the secrets of the city!

It's Back! - That's right, it's back after being lost to the abyss! Unfortunately, due to GDPR laws in Europe that came into effect last year and my failure to allow MCF to store my data, my original account along with the thread for this challenge was deleted. However, I have decided to bring it back to life from an archived web file because of the popularity it had - over 450,000 views and 2,300+ posts made by players sharing their progress! I'm still hugely appreciative of all the people who took their time to try the challenge and share their feedback since 2011 and, as a lasting thanks, here's the thread for you to enjoy it all over again (or for the first time).

A New Beginning - The challenge has been brought back in part - i.e. Normal difficulty from the Normal Mode (re-named to Nostalgia Mode). This is to allow for some changes I have in mind for the future, if there is still interest. If you wish to play using any of the other difficulties, please refer to the archive link at the bottom of the thread.

I was browsing the forums in attempt to find some challenges to try out and couldn't seem to find many and all the challenges i saw had a similar theme: "You have 1 day to gather materials then you can't return to the surface ever again"

I then came across the 10,000 BN Challenge (Found here) and was refreshed by its originality, though it was slightly lacking boundaries and goals. It gave me inspiration to come up with my own challenge in an attempt to improve on the linked challenge and incorporate my own ideas too, it is an attempt to be a quite realistic (in terms of limitations and requirements) challenge.

So, without further ado, here is my 'City Construction Challenge':

The rich king of the wastelands ruled tyrannically over the people with an iron fist, taxing the citizens more than they could dream to afford and threatening to slaughter them if they came up a penny short. He starved his people so that he could hold feasts for himself and his fat lords, caring little for the poor villagers who feed his endless stomach. The people have grown fed up of grueling work in a place with no hope or future in sight, you must flee this barren hell with whoever has the courage to leave and find a way to live for yourself.

You have been travelling for months, escaping from the old world filled with corruption and injustice, in search of a new paradise, where you can start afresh and create your own kingdom.You will become a ruler among those you brought with you, but can you cope with the pressure and survive in the wild?

Notch has surely blessed us all, we have stumbled upon new land far away from the wastelands of the Mad King. The grass here is greener and wildlife roams freely in the lush meadows. The land is very fertile and could easily support your new settlement.

Guidelines

Your challenge is to create a city, progressing through the stages one by one, reaching the next stage once all of the requirements are met. During the challenge there are some guidelines that should be followed for the best playing experience. Some should be followed throughout the challenge (see immediately below) whereas others only apply to certain stages:

- Mine shafts must be at least 3x3 areas (except in naturally generated caves)

- If you find a bucket, you may use it regardless of the stage you are in.

- Any NPC constructs do not count towards requirements, but you may use anything you find (e.g. If you find a smelter, you can use it... however if you are still in stage 1 you cannot craft more smelters)

- Raw food and zombie flesh does not count towards item requirements (but may still be eaten)

- Use at least 'Easy' game difficulty

- Do not cheat at any point in this challenge

- Post your progress on this thread (optional)

Stage 1: Foundations

Tips

- Plan well in advance for the best result.

- Struggling for food? Try fishing or growing mushrooms.

- When considering where to build your kingdom, think about what you're going to need to do: Unless you find a bucket in a dungeon, you'll need to build near water for a farm. Also, it's recommended to build in a flat open area so that you don't need to do too much Terra-forming to build your structures such as walls.

- Try incorporating other ideas or religions, such as ArchbuS's 'Cubeaism' religion

- Check out the Community section for other challenges like this!

Summary

I hope that you enjoy the challenge, please be sure to give it a go and give me feedback and updates on how you do. Remember, the guidelines are not set in stone so you don't have to follow them by the letter!

Any suggestions? Please let me know because I am sure I can improve this challenge with your help. Also, I may have made some errors copying over the old thread and some details may not be up to date with the current version of Minecraft, so please let me know if that is the case.

Sweet, I was looking for it. One, tiny every so small problem. You only posted the nostalgic mode, never actually posted the new one, at all. At 6 months on, I just figured I would post here, and see what was up.

Wow! Glad to find you resurrected the thread! I've attempted this challenge multiple times over the years and have been using the Wayback Machine to see the challenge rules. Playing on a server with some friends who aren't following the challenge, but it's been making it kinda fun. Made it to stage 3 and am completed with all the farming district and only need a few more houses in the mining district before moving on to the Market district!

Glad to see this has been revived somewhat. I played through most of this challenge with some friends on a server five or six years ago and have some fond memories of it. Recently installed and started playing Minecraft again for the first time since then and thought of this challenge right away.

It seems the webarchive link is missing the various changes to rules/requirements from the different difficulties. I thought I had a text file where I had copied and pasted everything years ago buried on Google Drive, but it seems to be long gone.

Because I can't leave well-enough alone, I'm working on a fusion with this and Cubeaism (something suggested in the original thread), as well as updating aspects of this challenge to fit better with some of the content that's been added to Minecraft in the 5 years since I played last (you guys, there are bunnies and bees and foxes).

I strongly recommend, for those just stumbling upon this thread in 2021, to play this challenge on Hardcore Survival mode. It makes the early stages much, much more challenging (while the later stages are challenging just because of the sheer amount of work required to build/collect all the things). I've been playing this for the past week or so on a hardcore world while my friend gets a server set up. We're thinking about playing the fusion of this challenge and Cubeaism on the server with a few other friends, though not on hardcore.

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