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Whether it’d be going on small quests to stop a village’s destruction or embarking on towards lands of ancient evil, Minecraft is no stranger to having storytelling told within its code. Many players seem to enjoy playing these different adventures and partaking in the longest journeys there is. There’s a lot to encounter and a lot of creative storytellers doing their best to use the game as their medium.

These adventures tend to be called “Adventure Maps” and come in a huge variety. Seeping into the lands of horror, coming with the pleasant journeys, or even making silly trolling shenanigans. You can find all sorts of craziness within this vanilla game.

With StickyPiston, we provide these journeys for you, the player, to be able to have fun with friends or be able to experience a taste of what these adventures. Using the trials to experience this small taste or using the One Click Installer to add it to your server, it’s best to give credit to each mapmaker who has put their artworks and stories. This is what we consider the Top 10 of these maps.

10. Pokemon Cobalt & Amethyst by Phoenix SC

MC 1.8.8 Profile | Can be played for 1 Player

You would think you aren’t able to find a custom Pokemon experience for vanilla Minecraft. Well you’d be wrong! Phoenix here introduces an entirely new Pokemon game in the form of a Minecraft map. With a bunch of new Pokemon, an entirely new region, a fun battling system, and even challenging gym leaders; this experience will take you on a journey like no other in vanilla MC.

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9. Overthrow Jevin by TheblueMan003

MC 1.16.5 Profile | Can be played for 1 Player

On December 31st, 2020 a meteor was headed straight for Planet Earth. Solar Tech Corp sent its best agent to save the world, but he ended up failing and was knocked out. A dog-man by the name of Jevin Sprint had an idea to rid the ash that brought on a cold winter from the entire world. Because this ridiculous idea ended up somehow working, he became the leader of the world. Him becoming leader was not even a smart idea. So the agent mentioned before must stop Jevin before humanity is wiped out.

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8. Cake Team Towers by Swanlet & The Cake Team Crew

MC 1.19.4 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 4 Players

Optifine is required in this map, but for how much there is hidden around in this roguelike map, you will find a bunch of things to collect and secrets to find. Your goal is simple – reach the top of the tower. There’s over 15 playable characters and so many new custom items and bosses. You will find the dungeons randomized and gain a new experience each time.

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7. Verticuloid by FingerMaps

MC 1.19.4 Profile | Can be played for 1 Player

This map introduces an interesting mechanic of never being able to jump. While you can’t jump, you will be tested on your ability to use your arms and killing the boss that stands in your way. End this torture and overcome the disability to jump.

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6. Shadow of the Skeleton King by Mundi Maps

MC 1.21.1 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 2 Players

This map was introduced as the last map for the anniversary of Mundi Maps. While it was the last introduction, it doesn’t make it any less special. The Skeleton King has seized control of the land and it’s up to the player to stop him.. or become the new ruler. Find allies across the map to help with puzzles and to get you to defeat this tyrant.

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5. Undertale in Minecraft (UTMC) by UTMC Team

MC 1.20.4 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 4 Players

This map is honestly pretty simple in concept – it takes the entire game of Undertale and puts it into Minecraft! Now while that may not sound fun, re-journeying through the same game again, this iteration of the game adds more charm and gives that Minecraft feel to it. It makes everything feel more alive and gives each scenery a new amazing and whimsical view.

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4. Herobrine’s Mansion by Hypixel

MC 1.7.10 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 4 Players

One of the classic adventure maps created by Hypixel. Find yourself journeying to Herobrine and fighting across some of the earliest kinds of bosses Minecraft had to offer. You’ll be going all the way from caves to the corners of his mansion in order to stop this legendary figure. Don’t forget to upgrade your gear the more you progress too.

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3. Terra Swoop Force by Noxcrew

MC 1.11.2 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 10 Players

Want to play the 1.16.4 version? Follow our tutorial here.

Your mission as a Terra Swooper is to find out what happened to the bore-drill and its crew thirty years ago. The special task force you are with was employed by Geo Descent Labs with cutting edge Thermal Flight armor. Reach the top speeds a human can get to and go to the center of the earth, gather Noxesium, and uncover the story of what happened.

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2. Dirge of the Sky by Ash_47 & ChaoticImme

MC 1.20.1 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 6 Players

Out of all maps on this list, this map has to be one of the most unique experiences ever seen out there. A cooperative map where you need to work together with the best class combinations? Being able to go through tons of bosses and experience a new and fun combat system? There’s just so much here that feels like we’re playing through those old raids from World of Warcraft or even some superbosses from Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy.

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1. Across The Time 2 – Time For Regrets by Team Adventquest

MC 1.20.2 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 3 Players

Honestly going into this map, there wasn’t a whole lot of expectations for this sequel. The original map was a fun journey, but asides from being grand in builds and being fun to utilize spells, there really wasn’t that much it had to offer over any other Adventure Map at the time.

This time your heroic acts have led to you partaking in a curse and will have to travel through the land of Silberland to get rid of this evil. With new custom loot, ton of secondary objectives, a bunch of side quests, many new cutscenes, and tons of new spells that can scale across 10 different levels.. you will have so many new things to experience that change everything up. You may just want to order a server in order to experience this map to its fullest!

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

For many different people, Minecraft is a game where you go to relax on. Spending hours upon hours of building, exploring, and mining to your heart’s content. While many players enjoy this aspect of the game, there’s others who wish to take it a step further and challenge themselves, but not in terms of the hardcore games.

These challenges come into the form of “Minigames”. These Minigames allow you to play with other players and challenge each other in various tasks. Whether it’d be get the most kills, survive the longest, find the blocks hidden by other players, or even just building the best; there’s always something to challenge you.

Here at StickyPiston, one of the things we provide is a variety of these various games inside of Minecraft itself. Whether you’re the builder to people who work together, there’s something here. By checking out our trials site or our One Click Installer, you can find all Minigames that were allowed to be posted by various Mapmakers out there. This list is just our personal Top 10 to check out.

10. Shulker Rush 2 by MineMakers

MC 1.21.1 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 24 Players

If you ever played Bed Wars, you’ll enjoy Shulker Rush. You need to protect your shulker, which can take multiple hits, from being destroyed. With a variety of souls to power yourself up, money to buy better gear, and different types of special gear, there’s going to be multiple ways for you to destroy the others while protecting your own guy.

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9. Jakob’s KitPvP by Jakobrigtrup

MC 1.20.1 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 24 Players

KitPvP is a concept in where you have to go into an arena and constantly fight people to gain levels. Jakob’s PvP pretty much does this, but allow you to constantly evolve and gain all kits without too much fuss or hassle. There’s 32 unique kits alongside the ability to unlock everything for Server Operators.

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8. Beaconators by Jbip

MC 1.15.2 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 24 Players

Fighting control over Beacons have never been as fun. With custom weaponry and arsenal to either defend from attackers or from charging forward, you’ll be able to combine different items with the perfect synergy.

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7. Kitchen Burnout by Command Realm

MC 1.20.1 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 50 Players

Kitchen Burnout will navigate you through a bunch of dangerous hazerds as you try to create the perfect meals. With hungry customers and angry lines, you’ll need to do your best to satisfy the needs of them all.

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6. Disaster Star 2 by Jontohil2

MC 1.20.4 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 24 Players

A sequel to the beloved game of Disaster Star. Unlike the original, there’s a new gimmick in this game called Disaster Stacking. By stacking disasters, you can increase the intensity of each disaster. There’s also more balance so you can’t get insanely hard combinations to try and survive.

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5. Building Game Redux by Mapmaker’s Bootcamp

MC 1.20.4 Profile | Can be played between 3 to 96 Players

The original Building Game returns with an entirely new revamp. Now instead of just being based on the telephone gamemode, you can play through many different gamemodes throughout Minecraft’s history. From the standard telephone experience of Build Battle seen on servers like Hypixel, and the unique experience of 1v1s from Grian’s original Build Off.

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4. Rocket Riders by ZeroniaServer

MC 1.20.4 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 12 Players

Missile Wars was a beloved classic by many people. SethBling truly made a game that was fun to just send missiles across to the other side. But Rocket Riders here improves the amount of rockets you gain and send over, changes the amount of gamemodes you can play, build up your defenses, and much much more that’s around. With all the customization here and the ways to play, you can find so much limitless fun.

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3. Monster Industries PvP by MrFoogy

MC 1.20.1 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 16 Players

This is a classic game that was recently pushed to the latest version by our resident mapmaker Dominexis. He helps with creating these reforged versions of the original game without ruining what made the classic so good.

In Monster Industries, your goal is to reach the stock count faster than the opposing team. How do you gain stock you may ask? Well you have to kill the other team. You can’t kill them normally though. You have to gather resources in order to buy mobs and mob upgrades to generate everything faster. With this speed, you can buy mobs from the villagers around and gain mob eggs. From there, you can summon them on the opposing side and defeat your enemies, gaining 100 stock per kill they do.

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2. Combat Cube 2 by ArcadiaLabs

MC 1.21.1 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 24 Players

Smash Bros is a great game to play. Combat Cube 2 turns that game into a place where you can smash your bros and friends alike. The more damage you take, the more chance of blocks that get destroyed around you. After enough time, the arena will collapse and you will have to try to survive it.

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1. Sprint Racer by Flamingosaurus & AriaZeroQueen

MC 1.21.1 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 25 Players

This Minecraft Map is probably one of the most replayable minigames out there. This takes your Mario Kart experience and turns it into an X-Run extravaganza. There’s two different gamemodes to play in from racing to battling your buddies. You can use items, fight with your fists, or even do your own personal test in the Time Attack. Compared to a lot of other games too, you can even go up against custom computer-controlled zombies!

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