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These maps are Must Plays for people to get into. It’s not because they’re popular or highly liked, but rather they’re unnoticed or “underrated”. Despite the amount of time and effort a person puts into their passion project, the project will often go unseen by the community at large. It doesn’t matter how much advertising you might do, how many people start interest at the beginning, nor even the group you create around the hype for it.
In this situation, there’s a lot of maps that are left unattended or not cared enough for simply because people don’t sit down to take the time to play it or that it may not be interesting at first. It’s understandable, but it can be quite sad for the content creators who put their heart and soul into these works.
Even though we at StickyPiston take joy in taking all walks of life and allow for all kinds of creators to get involved with putting their maps out on the trials. This is for you guys, the guys who put a lot of time in their maps and need the push to get noticed.
Table of contents
- 10. Miscommunications 2 by Henzoid
- 9. Monster Industries 3 by CheesyButler95 & MrFoogy
- 8. Gold Rush by PhoenixXero & Merphin
- 7. Forsaken Dungeons by YouKnowWhen
- 6. Illemana Defense by Piyotato
- 5. Super Ladder Battle Royal by UniqueImpact
- 4. Mission Flora by Vilder50 & Pollieboy
- 3. Cake Defense 2020 by Bleddyn23
- 2. Destroyer by Jontohil2
- 1. Building Game Redux by Mapmaker’s Bootcamp
10. Miscommunications 2 by Henzoid
MC 1.17.1 Profile | Can be played for 4 Players
Normally cooperative maps require communication between 2 different people that work together. In this, you’ll be here to test your communications between 3 other people, essentially requiring 4 people to be working together. Trying to speak in different ways and communicate with each other will make you feel a bit tongue-tied.
9. Monster Industries 3 by CheesyButler95 & MrFoogy
MC 1.16.5 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 24 Players
It’s a real shame that people haven’t checked out this updated version of Monster Industries. Worked on by a fan and given advice and help from the original creator himself, this version of Monster Industries works just fine and is played pretty well. With new upgradeable generators, custom mobs and tools, alongside new turrets, there’s multiple ways to get together.
8. Gold Rush by PhoenixXero & Merphin
MC 1.8.9 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 4 Players
Having mined too far down, you’ve ended up unearthing something evil. The goal of this map is to survive different waves of mobs until you can defeat the final boss for the map. To help assist you are shops where you can buy gold to gain skills. Despite being an old map, it was well put together and adjusted.
7. Forsaken Dungeons by YouKnowWhen
MC 1.21.1 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 32 Players
This roguelike map honestly needs more of an upgrade in the amount of people who play it. It’s a lot like other Roguelike Maps, sure, but the fun in this is encountering traps that can effect you in a variety of ways and seeing how well crafted some of these simpler builds are. Everything just flows well together and with all the items introduced, it’s something all players should check out.
6. Illemana Defense by Piyotato
MC 1.18 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 8 Players
I remember enjoying this map a fair bit. Using various classes with my to wipe out all waves of mobs on my path and rescuing my buddies who didn’t know how the game operated at the start. Yeah, going through constant waves of mobs and protecting everyone was a lot of fun. I also enjoyed upgrading everything, feeling how things were going to play out, and tackling the various new types of foes.
5. Super Ladder Battle Royal by UniqueImpact
MC 1.19.4 Profile | Can be played between 2 to 24 Players
Made by a prominent figure back in Game Show Central, this minigame takes the “King of the Ladder” concept and makes it a lot longer and crazier. Find various ways to knock people down a crumbling arena, combining your skill and luck with strategy as you loot everything around. Climb these massively built arenas and tackle down everyone and everything.
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4. Mission Flora by Vilder50 & Pollieboy
MC 1.16.5 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 4 Players
Made for Yeggs’ 3rd (or 4th) mapjam, this map combines the aspects of fun gunplay with finding keys to open up everything. Your goal is to get to the reactor and defeat the mutated flora that infect it. You’ll have to get through waves of different mobs as you locate and find upgrades that are located in the chests all around.
3. Cake Defense 2020 by Bleddyn23
MC 1.16.5 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 4 Players
This map gives a refresh to the original Cake Defense created by Disco_. This comeback has you fight against 15 waves of mobs on top of a giant cake! Whether you’re a solo lover or want to play with friends, you’ll be able to experience tons of fun getting through. Upgrade everything in a shop and look through an almanac to know the waves you’ll be encountering. There’s also 3 difficulty options to explore and use.
2. Destroyer by Jontohil2
MC 1.19.3 Profile | Can be played between 1 to 12 Players
In this map, you’ll take the role of the Destroyer or fight it off as the Survivors. Learning how to be a Destroyer is quite difficult, but it’s very rewarding once you can pull off various chains and combos against survivors using your bombs, your axe, and the ground slams. Working together as the survivors is also quite difficult with their unique abilities, but it’ll be rewarding to stop the Destroyer from ending you. The inspiration behind this map was the old Herobrine game seen on Hive.
There’s also a singleplayer campaign if you wish to explore through that. It features various mobs and has some bits of lore hidden for how the Destroyer became so bent on killing everything.
1. Building Game Redux by Mapmaker’s Bootcamp
MC 1.21.1 Profile | Can be played between 3 to 96 Players
Building Game was one of the best maps to exist for its time. Originally created by SethBling, you’ll have to build themes and guess themes based on what is around and continue going in order. It was hilarious, it was fun, and it was ridiculous. This iteration of the game doesn’t just take the original Building Game into consideration, but combines multiple building games into one.
You can play the standard experience known as “Telephone” or you can explore out into the other modes. You have Hypixel’s own Build Battle here, a tournament mode which is an enhanced version of Build Battle, or even Grian’s Build Offs known as “1v1s” here. There’s also so many options that are around! It’s a mystery as to why more people aren’t grabbing their buddies and playing this game more often, it’s quite awesome!