History VideoGame / MinecraftAdventureMaps

* {{Checkpoint}}: All three Parkour Branches and Escape Branches feature them in some regard, as well as Diversity's Arena Branch, Trivia Branch and Labyrinthian Branch, and Diversity 2's Adventure Branch.

** Diversity 2's Trivia Branch uses one in tandem with a soul sand/ice floor to create a very, very slow punishment.

** Diversity's Escape Branch is a modified version of qmagnet's map "Complex", which itself is based on ''Film/TheCube''.
** Diversity 2's Adventure Branch, being mostly made by [=ColdFusion=], is littered with references to his other maps.
* SoftWater: Utilized by all three Dropper Branches.
* TheThreeTrials:

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: In the chapel scene, qmagnet congratulates the player for completing the map and asks what their favorite part was.

* SidetrackBonus: The various unique wrong answer punishments in Diversity 2 and 3's Trivia Branches.

Diversity is a series of three increasingly complex multi-genre "Complete the Monument" maps in which players must complete ten mini-maps in order to obtain colored wool blocks. Originally a solo project by qmagnet, the second and third installments were created by build teams[[labelnote:*]]Diversity 2: abrightmoore, [=ColdFusionGaming=], goldenturkey97, Jesper the End, qmagnet, and qwertyuiopthepie. Diversity 3: Adrian Brightmoore (abrightmoore), [=AdamDJM=], [=ColdFusion=] ([=ColdFusionGaming=]), Jigarbov, Noodlor, qmagnet, qwertyuiopthepie, [=renderXR=], and [=The1Kwa1Jsucsh=][[/labelnote]].

Diversity for Bedrock was announced on qmagnet's YouTube channel on June 10, 2021.

* BarelyMissedCushion: Happens to the player in Diversity 2 and 3's Dropper Branches[[labelnote:*]]Diversity's Dropper Branch had the entire bottom of the drop be safe landing space in the form of SoftWater. 2 and 3's Droppers had significantly smaller targets[[/labelnote]]. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

* DungeonBypass: Diversity and Diversity 2 feature Bonus rooms that allow players to bypass one branch at no cost, unless you count 2's Bonus room creating a pedestal to immortalize your failure to complete a branch.

* NoFairCheating: In the Arena Branch, the player leaves each arena by building a ladder up to an elevated door after killing fifteen mobs. The final arena subverts this by having a secret door open at ground level granting access to the yellow wool room. However, there is still an elevated doorway with an identical wool room visible inside. Players who don't know of the real wool room and are skipping through the arenas in Creative mode will likely go to the false wool room and press the button, transporting themselves to the End which has been completely emptied aside from the obsidian spawning platform, the dragon, and a message reading "[[CheatersNeverProsper CHEATERS NEVER PROSPER]]". The player's spawn is set on the platform, rendering themselves permanently trapped in the End.

* AliensStealCattle: The black course in the Elytra branch features a flying saucer with a cow in its tractor beam. Killing the cow unlocks a secret advancemment.

** Many of the people in the Adventure Branch can be seen this way, being "played" by YouTubers, [=HermitCrafters=], and even Mojang devs. [[CreatorCameo Qmagnet]] also appears as the signmaker.

* {{Checkpoint}}: All three Parkour Branches feature them in some regard, as well as Diversity's Arena Branch and Diversity 2's Adventure Branch.

** Diversity 2's Trivia Branch uses one in tandem with a soul sand floor to create a very, very slow punishment.

* GladiatorGames: 2 and 3's Arena Branches.

* CasualDangerDialog: [=Maor2013=] doesn't seem all that upset to be hanging off a train car dangling over a chasm.

* FishingMinigame: One of the punishments in the Trivia Branch.

Diversity is a series of three increasingly complex multi-genre "Complete the Monument" maps in which players must complete ten mini-maps in order to obtain colored wool blocks. Originally a solo project by qmagnet, the second and third installments were created by build teams.

*** Elytra Branch: The player arrives at [=RenderXR=]'s End Ship and walks in on him [[ToiletHumor using the facilities]]. He unceremoniously hands them the purple wool due to the situation's awkwardness.

* BizzareAndImprobableGolfGame: In the Secret Branch, wherever your pearl lands is where you take your next shot (excluding water and the void).

* CasualDangerDialog: Maor2013 doesn't seem all that upset to be hanging off a train car dangling over a chasm.

** Diversity 2's Trivia Branch uses one in tandem with a soul sand floor to create the a very, very slow punishment.
** In Diversity 3, the Survival Branch's mesa island has one in its mineshaft.

* DungeonBypass: Diversity and Diversity 2 feature Bonus rooms that allow players to bypass one branch at no cost, unless you count 2's Bonus room creating a pedestal to commemorate your failure to complete a branch.

* DungeonCrawling: Diversity and Diversity 2's Survival Branches feature sprawling underground locations that are filled with danger and valuables, with Diversity having a naturally generated mineshaft (which Qmagnet didn't even know was there until hearing about it from happy players) and Diversity 2 having a large facility-like structure.

*** Survival Branch: After the player brings qmagnet his friend's messages, he forgets his promise to reward them with the brown will until he notices they're not leaving.

** {{Inverted}} in Diversity 1, the finale sequence ends with the player dropping into the void.

* DurableDeathtrap: The Escape Branch is in an Ancient Pyramid, complete with perfectly functional traps.

* AliensStealCattle: The space-themed Elytra course features a flying saucer with a cow in its tractor beam. Killing the cow unlocks a secret advancemment.

* BolivianArmyEnding: The Adventure Branch's bad ending.

* SelfParody: The Easiest Adventure Map TM is not easy at all. The first book inside the map also refers to itself.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Witch, obviously.]]
* MacGuffin: Milk. Clearly an excuse plot.
* FridgeBrilliance: Why did the witch steal your milk of all things? Because in ''Minecraft'', it can be used to remove their harmful potion effects.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: A witch stole the milk in your fridge and you have to pass her weird ''Minecraft'' challenges to get it back.
* MindScrew: The entire adventure map depends mainly on this trope, mostly due to OminousVisualGlitch.

* NightmareRetardant: Some parts of the map try to be frightening, but pull it off very poorly, such as the Pumkin man.
* NothingIsScarier: The map starts off as very lighthearted, with the clumsy Witch guiding you throughout the way. [[spoiler:However, the real ending causes you to glitch out the whole system, causing everything to change. The witch falls into the void, and you're stuck in large rooms of corrupted data which you're just running across. No dialogue, nothing happens. You can find signs with strange comments like "THERE IS NO MILK", "ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE TO WIN", and "DANGER", and everything generally stops making sense.]]
* PokeThePoodle: The witch starts off by stealing your milk. Lampshaded by the download page that purposefully exaggerates that the witch has stolen something important from you.
* HarmlessVillain: The witch. Even in the boss fight, she [[spoiler:doesn't do anything to you at all]]. [[spoiler:Averted in the secret Wardrobe route, where she actually tries to attack you in a maze. (She attacks like any other ''Minecraft'' witch.)]]
* CasualDangerDialog: The witch switches between being a LargeHam to being extremely awkward often, most notably in the introduction sequence. The player also responds in a similiar awkward manner, speaking in lowercase and showing complete disinterest in the whole plot.
* FinallyFoundTheBody: Since this map follows the events of [[spoiler:Atilliary Facilities 2, the dead body of Ashton Mault can be seen in the same place where he died, complete with burnt skull and torn lab coat]].
* ExpositoryGameplayLimitation: Extremely lampshaded in the intro, where the player can only walk on the light tiles towards the literal cutscene trigger. The witch teleports in front of you, just out of reach, just for the sake of exposition.
* {{Backtracking}}: Played straight while escaping the [[spoiler:broken matrix]]. You see familiar areas such as the bedroom and the first and third chamber.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Hilariously played with in the level design of the escape sequence. You pass by a fence that you can not climb and spend five minutes parkouring and perfecting slime block jumps… only to find out that you've come full circle to where you've started, except now you're ''on'' the same fence, but now you're able to progress right next to where you began.
* InvisibleWall: Played straight and made fun of.

* ReadingAheadInTheScript: An interesting player example. There is a book at the start of the map explaining to avoid the witch's trials. Except… the witch hasn't even appeared yet.
* MemeticMutation: Hungry Pumkin and the EB Games "Copy That" guy. Also the words "Dank Memes" twice. Also re-sparked the "He needs some milk!" meme for some reason.
* PacifistRun: [[spoiler:You can spare the witch in the lazy ending by passing at last one of the tests before refusing to kill the witch at the end. The witch will remove the TNT and offer you a ride home, and give you the milk.]] You still get the same lazy ending, though.

* UnwinnableByDesign: A gameplay mechanic example of this appears. Consider that you have to ''fail'' each test. Once you pass even ''one'' of the tests, even if you've failed all the others, ''all'' the ways to fail are instantly removed. You're permanently set to the lazy route and you might not even realize until it's too late. Also counts as a PointOfNoReturn.
* UnwinnableByInsanity: It is possible to get yourself stuck inside the hedgemaze by abusing its self-changing feature. It wasn't intended, and you have to switch to creative/survival mode to get out.
* ExploitingTheFourthWall: Actually used as a game mechanic. [[spoiler:You ''have'' to fail every test, and failing most tests requires you to jump into the void and die. You're ''meant'' to do that.]]

* AntiClimaxBoss: Played for laughs in the lazy ending. You can even choose [[spoiler:not to fight the witch in the lazy ending and she'l just OptOut]].
* VillainousBreakdown: As you fail more and more of the Witch's tests, the Witch becomes increasingly aggressive and assertive and less funny.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The player has to break the whole environment by failing every test, making the environment very dangerous and unstable. ButThouMust to get the real ending.]]
* OhCrap: There is a scene in the real ending route where the player has failed five tests in a row, and suddenly a lot of weird garbled text shows talking about errors. Suddenly, the player gets teleported around the whole map repeatedly, even out of bounds and in the air, all the while the chatbox is getting spammed with error messages talking about chunk errors and trying to remove the player's files. The player then ends up in a room that is spazzing out and changing color constantly before the floor gives way and the player falls into the void. There is no warning for any of this.
* UnconventionalFormatting: The Witch uses normal white text to speak, but uses bold red text sometimes when angered. The error messages also get pretty whacky with this, going all-out Zalgo.
* {{Railroading}}: Played with. The Witch obviously railroads you to pass each trial, to the point where you can just move forwards to win the map without any effort. It is also played straight in that there are only two paths — Pass each test or fail each test, with the two endings.
* ContinuityNod: The real ending takes place right after the events of [[spoiler:Atilliary Facilities 2]], and shows the [[spoiler:extent of the destruction. Some lava pits are dried up, and the dead body of Ashton Mault can be found. It also shows that SADOS was in fact covering up the dead body of Ashton Mault, which explains why it is covered up in the first map (which happens much much later)]].
* BrickJoke: One of the rooms in the glitchy escape is a copy of the ten-lever-code room, but instead every wall of the room is covered in levers, even the floor and ceiling.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: A removed ending was to include leaving the witch's lair and buying some milk next door, avoiding the whole scene. It was changed into a Glitch in the Matrix.
* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: "There is no milk" being written in binary in the first book.
* InsaneTrollLogic: "You can push the button because I said you can not." Context: The witch wants you to push the button so that you get the lazy ending. She says this if you have failed every other trial and she is about to snap.
* BoxAndStickTrap: The witch resorts to this in the boss fight, with signs next to the pressure plates saying "STEP ON THE WOOD". (Normally there is only "SHOOT" on these signs.)
* CutawayGag: The memes contribute nothing to the story other than for laughs.
* TheDoorSlamsYou: An open door closes in your face in the escape route. There isn't even anything beyond that door.

* AbandonedLaboratory: [[spoiler:Atilliary Facilities.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:It is revealed that the Witch is actually part of a larger program designed you entrap you forever.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Blowing up the witch.
* GenreBusting: An adventure map where you have to lose every test, not win.

* ContinueYourMissionDammit: The witch does this if you refuse to press the button/kill her during the real route.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: If you pass at least one of the trials and then refuse to kill the witch, the witch will remove the TNT and congratulate you for passing the other tests, giving you your milk back and even offering a ride home.
* EvilIsHammy
* EvilLaugh
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Averted or played straight depending on how you interpret "The Easiest Adventure Map Ever."
* FateWorseThanDeath: The lazy ending implies that you keep reliving the same adventure again and again.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: From the start of the map, there are some hints that the map takes place in Atilliary Facilities. First, the wardrobe contains the same syntax as the many test chambers in Atilliary Facilities, and identical to the Virtual Reality rooms of the prequel. There is also a split-second scene in front of the house that shows that the house is labled with "AF". In the real route, there is the appearances of the Virtual Reality machine itself appearing twice without being explained. In the glitch escape sequence, you pass through the same virtual reality hallways from the prequel (albeit corrupted).

Now has a sequel, ''The Dropper 2''.

* FiveBadBand:

In this game, the player must defend a house against the armies of the undead. Notable for having a complex, and dynamic environment that the player must explore as opposed to the usual static arena.

A wave survival minigame...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin entirely with Creepers]].

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly what it sounds like]].

Essentially, a recreation of VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} in Minecraft.

A boss fight against and evil bunny that shoots fire out of its feet and mouth, and must be shot in the face.

A map based on...[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog well, guess]]. Here, the player must dash through an obstacle course while being timed.

We'd list every map [=SethBling=] has made, but there's just too many (and most are self explanatory anyway). Just check out [[https://www.youtube.com/user/sethbling [=YouTube=] channel]].

A fully operational game of Tic-Tac-Toe in Minecraft! Oh, and the loser gets Creepers dumped on them.

A spinoff of Super Hostile, described by its creator as a cross between VideoGame/TheOregonTrail, VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}, and Railway Sim. There is currently one map, ''Pigget Panic''.

In this game, one player plays as the Terminator. Armed with a sword but slowed down, they must hunt down and kill the other players, who must find and pull the 8 Death Switches to kill the Terminator before he kills all of them.

The most popular Minecraft custom map EVER. Inspired by ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', the players are released into a vast wilderness where they must survive and fight off the other players in a massive battle. Has many sequels.

In this map, one player plays as the Vampire, who is fast, can jump high, and is invisible but can only use a Wooden Sword. The others must protect Villagers from the Vampire, but if killed they become Vampires.

A team-based PVP map in which the players must attack the other team's base, break through an Obsidian barrier and destroy their opponents' Beds; trading, upgrading and capturing Control Points along the way.

A map based on VideoGame/{{Quake}}, using teleportation, and Jump Boosts to replicate the jumping mechanics.

Minecraft...IN SPACE!!! A rare science fiction themed map, made by the [=VoxelBox=]. The player plays as [[PunnyName Pro. Tagonist]], officer of an agency called [=GR7=] who has been tasked with capturing Dr. Earl S. Testudine, a renegade scientist-turned-terrorist from a mining company. Stunning landscapes, creative and detailed environments, an brilliant sci-fi texture pack, and the shear effort put into it have caused some to call it the best custom map ever.

* DownTheDrain: [[spoiler: How you enter the secret area. Literally.]]
* EasterEgg: An entire area of them! [[spoiler: See above]].

* TheMaze / BlackoutBasement: An INVISIBLE MAZE.

Two sprawling open world maps designed to simulate an RPG experience, complete with sidequests, shops, branching paths and even cutscenes. Just make sure [[MarathonLevel you have a lot]] [[JustOneMoreLevel of free time]] before starting.

A sequel of sorts to ''Creeper Survival'' a short adventure where the only enemies are Creepers. Also includes a shop system.

A StarWars themed adventure map (it has no real name), set during the Battle Of Hoth. Short and simple, but notable for being one of the first maps to use Command Blocks.

* ColorcodedForYourConvenience: Tenacity is green, Angelic is blue, Demonic is red.

* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:The Wither]].

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Wither]].

* FiveManBand:

** TeamPet / SixthRanger: [[spoiler:The Wither]].
* FlunkyBoss: All the bosses: The Skeleton King summons Skeletons, Benetha summons Baby Zombies, Zatho summons floating Pumpkin...things, Areita summons Cave Spiders, Herobrine [[SerialEscalation summons the previous bosses]], [[spoiler:The Wither summons Wither Skeletons]].

* HubLevel: The main hall fills this roll to an extent.

* TheMaze: One section in the crypt is a maze. [[FromBadToWorse Full of Endermen]]. [[UpToEleven That you have to navigate with Blindness]]. [[SerialEscalation Over a bottomless pit with no walls]].

* RuleOfThree: 3 Acolytes, 3 equipment sets, 3 floors...
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The Nether]].

* CloudCuckooLander / TheDitz: Lord Frozenberg. "THE COLD IS MY FAVORITE COLOR!"
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience / GoodColoursEvilColours: Allies' text is blue, enemies' is red.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Unknown]].
* FinalBossNewDimension: Subverted. The final battle takes you through [[spoiler:both the Dream World and the Nightmare World, but the actual final enemy is fought in the normal Overworld.]]

** Especially notable are The Mad King, who sends the Army Of The Dead at you while hiding, but when you get to him he goes down in a few hits and doesn't fight back, and [[spoiler:Unknown]], where [[spoiler:the entire (very long) fight is against flunkies until Grobo appears, and he's got flunkies of his own while still being just a flunky to the real villain himself]].

* GiantMook: [[spoiler:Grobo]].

* PuzzleBoss: The Blezium fight never has you fight the Demon himself, just freeing the Villagers and exchanging items with them to get the item that kills him automatically,

* RuleOfThree: All over the place: 3 equipment sets, 3 Corruption Crystals, 3 Prisoners, 3 Nodes, 3 floors of the castle...
* SequentialBoss: Almost all of them to some extent: Magmo has you visiting three different areas to destroy the Corruption Crystals and fighting minions in the central area while you wait for each one to open, The Mad King just has waves of minions, Blezius has you free the prisoners one by one, each requiring you to complete a different platforming challenge to reach, with Lord Frozenberg you alternate between fighting him in the castle and fighting his minions in the Frozen Dream, and [[spoiler:Unknown]] takes this up to eleven by having you [[spoiler:visit four different locations to kill powerful enemies and destroy Corrupted Crystals, with breaks in between each where you fight minions in the Temple, and one proper boss after all that]].
* SerialEscalation: Pretty much the whole map, but the final boss deserves special mention: [[spoiler:you fight multiple Withers. AT ONCE.]]

* ShieldedCoreBoss: With Magmo you have to destroy the 3 Corruption Crystals before he appears, with Belzius you can't hurt him and have to free the 3 Villagers to get the item that kills him, with Lord Frozenberg you have to break the 3 Nodes in the Frozen Dream to get the only weapon that can hurt him, and with [[spoiler:Unknown]] you have to destroy 2 sets of Corrupted Crystals twice before [[spoiler:Grobo]] appears.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The temple]].

* EliteMooks / EliteZombie: Anything that's not a Zombie (which is to say, the actual Minecraft Zombies).

* MultipleEndings: [[spoiler:You make a LastSecondEndingChoice to either sacrifice yourselves to destroy the Core Computer (which has a random chance to succeed or fail, but you die either way) or escape with your lives but leave Rick behind and the city in flames]].

* ZergRush: ALL THE DAMN TIME, but especially in the Grocery Store, the Park, the Subway, and the Power Plant.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: To weaken Skeletor, you have to shoot him [[EyeScream in the eyes]], to kill Koragor, you have to shoot marked points along his arms.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience / GoodColoursEvilColours: Passive [=NPCs=]' dialogue is green, allies' is blue, and enemies' is red.

* DeveloperRoom: Not actually a developer room, but after you beat Herobrine you find [[spoiler:a cave full of Steve? Heads reskinned with the skins of famous Minecraft Let's Players]].

* HeroKiller: Tarov actually manages to kill [[spoiler:[[BigGood Thannos]]]]. [[spoiler:He wasn't actually dead, though]].

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: You collect Souls by killing monsters and loose them when you die. They can be exchanged for Archangel Set pieces in the Heaven Shop.

* PlanetHeck / LethalLavaLand: Most of the map is set in the Nether.

* RuleOfThree: 3 years, 3 Experiments, 3 Keys, 3 Hoppers to fill with 3 Gunpowder each, 3 platforms, 3 phases in the final battle, 3 Hoppers to fill with 3 Demon Souls each to break 3 chains...

* SequentialBoss: Maltorn and Skeletor are fought directly in sequence. Tarov transforms into a different type of monster after you damage him enough. Then there's the fight with Herobrine: first is a mostly cinematic sequence where he flies around shooting fire everywhere, then he stands on the other side of a lake launching minions at you who's Souls you have to collect, then you finally fight him hand to hand.
* ShieldedCoreBoss: With Maltorn you have to drop 5 Zombie Hearts into the Hopper before you can hurt him, with Skeletor you have to shoot him in the eyes before breaking the block that contains his soul, with Dina Bone you have to destroy the Power Cores before pushing her into the Gas Chamber, with Herobrine you have to break the chains holding his platform up before fighting him.
* ShoutOut: The special items are all named after various well-known Minecraft players.

An [[NintendoHard infamously difficult]] map where the player plays as Max, a man whose village has been captured by an army of Zombies and imprisoned in a fortress composed of 4 towers. He must fight his way through the Zombies, free his friends and escape the towers.

* DiscOneFinalDungeon: So, you beat the all 4 towers and gained access to the Central Fortress. You think this is the end? [[spoiler:Nope, that's just Chapter 1.]]

* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler: The map ends with Max freeing his village, reuniting with his wife and son, and returning to his house, which you are free to explore]]
* HellGate: [[spoiler: The Central Fortress contains a Nether Portal which leads to the area where Chapter 2 is set.]] Also, the Zombies were planning to build another one to [[spoiler:summon the Overlord]].

* LethalLavaLand / PlanetHeck: [[spoiler: Chapter 2 is set entirely in the Nether.]]
* MooksButNoBosses: More than enough mooks, but not a single boss in sight. Even the final confrontation is composed of platforming while under attack by Zombies, with the final challenge being...hitting a switch.

* StuffBlowingUp: Specifically, blowing up [[spoiler: the Overlord Portal]] is your final objective, and doing so reveals the exit of the final level.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The Overlord Portal]].

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Professor Grizwald]] in ''The Adventure Of The Pyramid''. However, the ending of ''The Redstone Keys'' hints that [[spoiler: he may not be dead after all]]
* DiscOneFinalDungeon: ''The Redstone Keys'': Hurray! You completed all the trials and accessed the city! [[spoiler: Only those weren't trials. They were training. Now the ''real'' trials begin.]]

* DownerEnding: ''The Adventure Of The Pyramid'': [[spoiler: Grizwald dies and the Diamond Block gets incinerated by the Lava trap]].

* KaizoTrap: [[spoiler: In ''The Adventure Of The Pyramid'', taking the Diamond Block triggers a flood of Lava to fall from the ceiling, killing the player and incinerating the diamond]].
* KillItWithFire: In ''The Adventure Of The Pyramid'' [[spoiler: YOU get killed with fire.]]

* MinecartMadness: [[spoiler: The True Trial Of Fear]] in ''The Redstone Keys''.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The original maps spelled it "Grizwald" but in the Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries it's been spelled "Grizwold" and "Griswold".

* BigBad: [[spoiler: The Glowstone Heart]], although [[NonActionBigBad it never really fights you directly]], and it's unknown if it's even sentient.
* TheCorruption: [[spoiler: Glowstone Energy]].
* DugTooDeep: The Xingans discovered the [[spoiler:Glowstone Heart]] by during a mining operation.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The last surviving miner tried to do this, but failed.]]

* KillItWithFire: Accessing the mine requires you to [[spoiler: burn down the palace.]]
* LethalLavaLand / PlanetHeck: [[spoiler: The area of the mine around the Glowstone Heart is being turned into Nether.]]

* StuffBlowingUp: Specifically, blowing up [[spoiler: the Glowstone Heart]] is the final challenge.
* UndergroundLevel: [[spoiler: The mine.]]
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The mine]].

* ''The Tree Of Life'': The protagonist's homeland is being ravaged by drought, famine and pestilence, so they are dispatched to find the legendary Tree Of Life and bring back one of its magic leaves to heal the land.

* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler: The Pigmen's invasion of the hometown]] in ''The Return'' is reminiscent of this.

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The interior of [[spoiler: the Mothership]] in ''The Return'' apparently displays [[spoiler: Burgmund]]'s thoughts. Or actually is his mind. [[MindScrew Or something]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Burgmund]] in ''The Wizard Burgmund'' and ''The Return''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: Burgmund]]'s records of experimentation with the [[spoiler: Pigmen]] in ''The Wizard Burgmund'' are...suggestive, to say the least.

* DungeonTown: [[spoiler: The hero's hometown after being attacked by Pigmen]].
* EvilIsVisceral: The [[spoiler: Pigman Pods]] from ''The Return'' have tentacles made of what looks like flesh, and the same stuff coats their interiors. [[spoiler: The Mothership]] is entirely made of the stuff.
* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler: Burgmund]].

* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler: The Temple Of Trials]] in ''The Tree Of Life''. [[MindScrew Maybe.]]
* HellGate: [[spoiler: Burgmund]] uses Nether Portals to [[spoiler: summon his Pigman armies]].
* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: The Mothership]] in ''The Return'' makes strange screeching noises.
* TheLegionsOfHell: [[spoiler: Burgmund's Pigman armies]].
* LethalLavaLand / PlanetHeck: [[spoiler: Part of ''The Return'' takes place in the Nether.]]
* MacGuffin: The titular Tree in ''Tree Of Life''

* MindScrew: [[spoiler: The Temple Of Trials]] in ''The Tree Of Life''. The only trial is to not have your brain implode.

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Burgmund turns ''himself'' into [[SapientShip the Pigman Mothership]]]].

* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler: The Nether Portals]] in ''The Wizard Burgmund'', [[spoiler: The Pigman Pods]] in ''The Return''. [[GottaCatchEmAll Gotta Blow 'Em All Up]].
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The last Portal]] in ''The Wizard Burgmund'', [[spoiler: The Temple Of Trials]] in ''The Tree Of Life'', [[spoiler: the Mothership]] in ''The Return''.

* YouCantFightFate: In ''The Tree Of Life'', [[spoiler: The Temple Of Trials]] shows the protagonist that their ship will crash in the arctic during their return journey. This does indeed come to pass. [[spoiler: However, it never said they would die in the crash.]]

* TwistEnding: An [[MoodWhiplash exceptionally silly]] twist: [[spoiler: the "treasure" was just a Flint And Steel that the priests locked away to prevent fires]].

* AxCrazy: Your brother can come of as this some times.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: Your brother is Death and he sent you to kill the villagers that had tried to run from him. You're left with a choice to fulfill your duty and kill them or defy nature and let them live.]] [[FlatWhat What]].

* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler: Your brother]] is revealed to be this. Which makes you [[spoiler: Death's ''sibling'']]. [[MindScrew Somehow]].

* MindScrew: [[spoiler: How can Death have a sibling? And how can you escape Death by physically running away from it?]]
* MissionControl: Your rother.
** MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: He can come of this way.

** TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: The villagers were running away from YOU.]]

* In ''The Pharaoh's Curse 2'', the hero, having learned that [[spoiler: Horobus is still alive, and preparing to take over the world]], sets out to kill him once and for all.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Pharaoh Horobus]].

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Pharaoh Ises]].
** However, the ending of the second map reveals that [[spoiler: he wasn't actually dead]].

* EvilOverlord: [[spoiler: Pharaoh Horobus]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: Pharaoh Horobus]]. Although you could easily say that it's a DualBoss with the [[spoiler:Resurrection Machine]] or that the [[spoiler:Machine]] is the boss and [[spoiler:the constantly reincarnating Horobus]] is/are its [[FlunkyBoss flunkies]].

* HellGate: [[spoiler: Horobus]] uses Nether Portals for various purposes.
* TheLegionsOfHell: [[spoiler: Horobus is creating an army in the Afterlife]] in the second map.
* LethalLavaLand: One of the challenges in the second map. The same map also has [[spoiler: sections in the Nether.]]

* MultiMookMelee: [[spoiler: The pyramid]] in the second map is effectively a long stream of enemies that slowly gain variety and strength, culminating in a final WolfpackBoss fight against [[spoiler:a group of Blazes]].
* PlanetHeck: [[spoiler: A large part of the second map takes place in the Afterlife, i.e. the Nether]].

* ShiftingSandLand / TempleOfDoom: The setting of the first map and much of the second.
* ShipLevel: In the second map. [[spoiler: In the Afterlife, no less.]]
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:The Resurrection Machine]].
* StationaryBoss: [[spoiler:The Resurrection Machine]].

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The Torture Chamber]] in the first map, [[spoiler: the pyramid]] in the second.
* ZergRush: Happens a lot in [[spoiler: the pyramid]] in the second map.

* GainaxEnding: An absolutely massive one: [[spoiler: The Kikatchu people regarded "Heaven" and "Hell" as not as places but as time periods: Heaven was the beginning of the Universe, Hell is the apocalyptic future. So Glowstone, which reverses time, was sacred, while Obsidian, which speeds it up, was evil. The Kikatchu apparently constructed Nether Portals to release armies of Undead to...do something (stop the apocalypse), but it's seemingly implied that the Undead will destroy the world anyway. So the player has the choice to do nothing and let the undead rampage across the world or destroy the Portals and "end all hope of peace in the future", but it doesn't matter because the map is over anyway.]] Confused yet?

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The Lost City Of Kikatchu]].
* TimeMaster: Apparently, Glowstone can reverse time [[spoiler: and Obsidian speeds it up]].

A puzzle-based map that requires 2 players. The protagonist is trapped in the [=FloddyFlosh=] Clone Creation Center where the facilitiy's supercomputer GLAFLOSH forces them and a clone of them to work together in order to solve difficult challenges. As you might have guessed, the whole map is a homage to ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}''.

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream?]].

* EldritchAbomination: In both maps [[spoiler: the villagers are trying to summon these]]. They're only vaguely mentioned and represented by retextured Ghasts.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Shoggoth]].

* {{Gorn}}: One of the secrets is [[spoiler: ''a chest full of body parts''.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: The villagers are implied to be this]]. This is yet another reference to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* LovecraftCountry: A small, mysterious TownWithADarkSecret in Massachusetts in the '30s, [[spoiler: populated by a cult of not-quite-humans who want to summon an EldritchAbomination]].

** MindScrewdriver: The second map explains that at the end of the first map [[spoiler: the protagonist went insane.]]
* MooksButNoBosses: There is one fight that COULD be considered a boss, but it goes down just as easy as a normal monster.

* SanitySlippage: Starts happening to the protagonist before long. According to the second map [[spoiler: [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the protagonist went insane at the end of the first map]]]].
* ShoutOut: The whole map is one to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, but their are many specific examples from all over the maps.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The Asylum]] in both maps.

A vast, open world map designed to simulate a fantasy RPG, complete with class system, epic storyline, shops, and sidequests.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: The King.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Bogmire]] could count, as could [[spoiler: [[TomatoInTheMirror the King.]]]]
** NonActionBigBad: [[spoiler: Bogmire.]]
* BigFancyCastle: The entire map is set in one. [[spoiler:And the bonus section is set in another one]].

* DeadpanSnarker: Dominic and [[spoiler: Bogmire]] are this some of the time.

* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:[[VillainProtagonist The King]] vs. Bogmire]].
* ExtendedGameplay: When you reach the "end" [[spoiler: you have the choice to continue with "a far greater challenge", and go destroy Bogmire's replica of your castle in the Nether.]]

* ILied: [[spoiler: Bogmire]] does this all the time, even reminding you several times that he lies a lot.

* LethalLavaLand: The Deserted Meadow. Averted with [[spoiler: the Nether]] though: [[spoiler: Bogmire]] didn't like all the fire, so he magically froze it over.
* TheLostWoods: [[spoiler: The Wood Maze]].

** Also, [[spoiler: the Wood Maze]].

* MirrorWorld: [[spoiler: The Twilight Steeple.]]
* MissionControl: Dominic, [[spoiler: Bogmire]], [[spoiler: Doopliss]].
** MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: All of them are constantly snarking and making wisecracks, and [[spoiler: Bogmire]] in particular is constantly berating you, lying to you, and generally screwing with you.

* PlanetHeck: [[spoiler: The Nether]]. However, Hell has frozen over.

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler: The Twilight Steeple]] is all one for ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Frigid Sprint, [[spoiler: the caves]], the entirety of [[spoiler: the Twilight Steeple]].
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: The King is pretending to be everyone he killed, and has been impersonating his own butler the entire time.]]
* SolveTheSoupCans: Mostly avoided, but a few instances PlayedForLaughs, like having to break the Red Wool with a Cake.
* StuffBlowingUp: Many parts have the solution involve blowing something up. The ultimate objective is to [[spoiler: blow up the castle]]. Unless you [[spoiler: choose the "far greater challenge"]], in which case you blow up [[spoiler: Bogmire's castle]] instead.
* TakeAThirdOption / OffTheRails: One puzzle is literally impossible and requires you to [[spoiler: escape through a secret passage]].

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: The King is insane, and killed everyone. He constructed the challenges and wrote the notes himself for fun.]]

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The King's objective is to reach the top floor of the main hall, where he hopes to find some sort of great secret. [[spoiler: If you choose to continue after reaching there, it becomes a DiscOneFinalDungeon and you get a more traditional final dungeon in the form of the Twilight Steeple, a replica of your castle made of ice in the Nether]].
%%* VillainProtagonist

* ''Chronotide'': The protagonist is summoned by the Chrono Keeper, who's city is under threat from a force known only as [[EldritchAbomination The Darkness]]. In order to protect the [[CosmicKeystone Chrono Crystal]], he preserved the city outside the space-time continuum and ejected [[MacGuffin the Crystal's 8 Power Cores]] to various points in space-time. The protagonist must now retrieve them from frozen snapshots of places and times in the city, gathering clues from [[ApocalypticLog the readable thoughts of the people frozen in those moments]]. Slightly less MindScrew and a lot more NightmareFuel ensues.

* ''The Curse Of The Pumpkin Prince'': The protagonist is a friend of the great wizard Senros J. Majek, who, in order to prove his superiority, has recently killed the Pumpkin Prince, a spirit keeping the land safe from evil monsters. The protagonist takes in on themself to bring him back to life.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Senros]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters / YouKillItYouBoughtIt : [[spoiler:The ending of the second map]].

* MindScrew: The second map is very, VERY weird.

* RandomEventsPlot: ''The Pumpkin Prince 2''. Ostensibly the protagonist is trying to get home, but apart from that everything that happens along the way is complete randomness.

** The Pumpkin Garden Zerg Rushes you with EVERY MOB IN THE GAME AT ONCE.

A very unusual map: the protagonist falls asleep in a tour bus in Paris, an wakes up to find the city totally deserted. They begin to suspect that recent predictions of the end of the world were correct...

* BigBad: [[spoiler: The Devil]].

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Devil]].

* [[spoiler: {{God}}]]: Makes a brief (non-physical) appearance, where he challenges you to ThatOnePuzzle.

* LightIsNotGood / [[spoiler:GodIsEvil]]: [[spoiler: God]] actually works against you, although he's more generally annoyed than actually evil.
* PlanetHeck: [[spoiler: The last section of the map is in {{Hell}}.]]

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: [[spoiler: The race against the Devil]], where the map abruptly changes from a slow-paced puzzler to a high speed race against time through a deadly obstacle course.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Nothing other than [[spoiler: HELL ITSELF.]]
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Why have an aerial Minecart ride through Paris? BECAUSE IT LOOKS AWESOME!

A StarWars themed custom map, set just before Episode IV: the players take the role of the Rebel spies infiltrating the Death Star to retrieve it's schematics.

* DevelopersRoom: Not exactly: the Cell Block contains signs [[ShoutOut referencing]] popular Minecraft Let's Players.
* EternalEngine / SpaceZone / BattleshipRaid: The entire map is set inside the Death Star.

* MinecartMadness: The escape train...thing. At this point, it's pretty much mandatory.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Ewok Pigs]].

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The Garden]].

The hero is one of the shipwrecked survivors from the S.S. ''Gloria''. While searching for supplies in the ship's cargo hold, they unlock a secret room and discover that the ''Gloria'' is part of something much bigger...

* BigBad: [[EldritchAbomination The Corruption]].
* CrapsackWorld: The...wherever it is. The last Humans are being hunted down by the Corruption, hidden in various Terminals that are being destroyed one by one.
* EternalEngine: The ''Gloria'''s reactor.

* GottaCatchEmAll: There is a large amount of Gold and Lapis Lazuli to find. [[spoiler:Finding all the Lapis is necessary to get the true ending]].
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The world slowly but inexorably being taken over by the Corruption. [[spoiler:You eventually manage to destroy it and save the few surviving scraps of civilization left]].

* ZergRush: The Heart Zerg Rushes you with nearly every mob in the game at once. [[SerialEscalation And it only gets more insane]] [[TurnsRed the more damage you do]].

A ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'-themed map, set during one of the stories in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. The protagonist is Elcarien, an Elf of from the Elven capital of Gondolin, returning from a scouting mission to learn the plans of Dark Lord Morgoth. However, when they return, they find that the real danger comes from within...

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Maeglin]].

* DugTooDeep: The mine. Only fitting, considering that LOTR is the Trope Namer.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Balrog]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: It certainly made [[spoiler: Maeglin]] evil.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Tuor killing Maeglin]].

* ShownTheirWork: The map is very well researched, and loaded with references that someone not familiar with Middle-Earth lore would miss. Given that the map was made by the people responsible for the Minecraft Middle-Earth project, you'd expect they'd know their stuff.
* StationaryBoss: [[spoiler:The Balrog]].

* [[spoiler: TheWarSequence: The city comes under siege, requiring you to fend of vast armies of monsters]].
* ZergRush: During [[spoiler: the siege]], [[spoiler: Gondolin]] is absolutely overflowing with Monster Spawners.

* AbandonedLaboratory: Alpha Hub has one where they were doing experiments on [[spoiler: Nether materials.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: The Crystal in the Nether fortress (actually a Diamond Block) that is what's powering the ZombieApocalypse.]]

* BeneathTheEarth: [[spoiler: Gladsbury's citizens lived beneath the earth under an artificial sun for thousands of years.]]

* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler: It turns out that this is what happened to the planet Leeir — it got blown apart by a meteor shower, turning it into the very Asteroid you've crash-landed on.]]
* DecadeDissonance: Intentional: [[spoiler: The medieval Gladsbury folks and the futuristic Leeir people lived smack next to each other for quite a long time before they discovered one another.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: In the end, you are rescued and handed a spaceship free of charge by a race of aliens called the Durinians.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Zandell]].
* FlyingSaucer: [[spoiler: The Durinian ships are huge flying saucers.]]
* FungusHumongous: [[spoiler: One area contains a bunch of giant mushrooms made out of Glowstone. The biggest one even has a little house inside.]]

* TheMaze: There's a really elaborate one [[spoiler: under Lord Muford's castle.]]

* MinecartMadness: Although fortunately there are very few obstacles so you can mostly just enjoy the ride.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Asgondus]].

* WeirdSun: [[spoiler: Gladsbury used to have an artificial sun.]]

* ''The Swarm'': [[DoomedHometown The protagonist's hometown has been destroyed]] by a swarm of monsters called, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The]] [[TitleDrop Swarm]]. However, they discover that The Swarm is actually a living weapon created by "the evil govenment"[[[RougeAnglesOfSatin sic]]] to keep the population under control. They then set out to destroy The Swarm once and for all.
* ''The Swarm: Rebirth'': The hero has deposed the tyrannical "govenment" is now living peacefully in the country. However, they uncover a plot to recreate The Swarm, and must stop the villains before it's too late.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Pharaoh]].

* ShiftingSandLand / TempleOfDoom: The setting, as you'd expect.
* TimedMission: There is one timed section. [[UpToEleven It's also a maze]]. [[OhCrap Of Lava]].

An interesting puzzle map, that effectively uses DualWorldGameplay as the basis for a whole game. The players are given Bottles O' Enchanting, and every time they break one they are teleported between [[LevelAte two]] [[LethalLavaLand areas]], one pair for each level, which are almost identical. Jumping between these areas is required to solve the puzzles and collect the Levers needed to complete the levels.

What happens when you try to make a DatingSim in Minecraft? You get this. It...No explanation will do. It needs to be seen to be believed.

* [[spoiler: BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind]]: The whole map, but most evident in Chapter 5 and [[spoiler: the battle against the Wither]].
* BigBad: Wuqing. [[spoiler: In both worlds.]]

* BilingualBonus / MeaningfulName: Most of the names of people and locations actually do mean something significant in Chinese or Japanese.

* BonusBoss: The four elemental gods, who are hidden one in each of the first four Chapters. Killing them gives you some extra supplies and a very good weapon or armor set.
* DeathCourse: In Chapter 3 you're forced to go through the Archway Of Nirvana and run three of these to purify you of your Greed, Hatred, and Ignorance so you can access the Sunyata Tree.

* DiscOneFinalDungeon: The Imperial Palace at the end of Chapter 4 is a huge, complex, difficult area that's set up to be the final challenge before a straight walk for you reach the Sensei. [[spoiler: It is, but you're not done when you meet her]].

* ElementalPowers: The four elemental gods [[DishingOutDirt Diqiu]], [[MakingASplash Mizu]], [[BlowYouAway Feng]], and [[PlayingWithFire Kasai]] are themed after the four classic elements.

* FarEast / InterchangeableAsianCultures / CultureChopSuey: The setting is a seemingly random blend of elements from China and Japan, which is justified since [[spoiler: it's AllJustADream and protagonist's memories of their trip are getting all jumbled together.]]

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Wither]].

* [[spoiler: HappyEnding: The Mysterious East is saved, Wuqing is dead, and you defeated your inner demons. In the real world, your parents find you and get you back home, and Wuqing has been arrested.]]

* [[spoiler: JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Sort of, except it's in your mind.]]

** There's also a few parts of the Kyohaku-Tekina Caves and the Wexian De Caves, the test to purify Hatred in Chapter 3, Kasai's home area in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the jade caves]], and the [[spoiler: dark side of the dream world]] in Chapter 5.

* PaperFanOfDoom: Hatsumomo's Metal Fan and [[spoiler: Wuqing's Metal Fan]], which are actually some of the best weapons.
* [[spoiler: SamusIsAGirl: The Sensei.]]

The protagonist is a detective named Vivian Hanson, who receives a call one day from a man named Jim Dour, who wants her to investigate the people of his home, Crepuscule Town, being kidnapped and taken to the Pumpkin Castle. Agreeing to help him, she finds the town suddenly appears outside her house...totally deserted.

* AlwaysNight: [[spoiler:[[CueTheSun Until the Jim Reaper is vanquished, that is]]]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: If [[spoiler:Jim Reaper]] wins, you will [[spoiler:have your soul sucked out and be turned into an undead soldier]]...and have your name legally changed to Jim.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: To kill [[spoiler: the Jim Reaper]], you have to destroy his 4 Hearts.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Jim Reaper]].

* BlackAndGreyMorality: At least according to [[spoiler:Jim Reaper]]: "Doctor Franken kidnapped children and used them as test subjects. Doopliss sold illegal drugs. Padem stole from corpses. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Darkly killed his dog]]."

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:The Jim Reaper]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Jim Reaper]].
* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler:The Jim Reaper]] sends his minions after you, but compared to the rest of the map his arena is positively sterile.

* MultipleEndings: You [[LastSecondEndingChoice can either]] [[spoiler: become the new Jim Reaper, or reject the role and free all the (not exactly nice) townsfolk]].

* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:The town and all its people are returned to normal after the Jim Reaper dies]].

* StationaryBoss: [[spoiler:The Jim Reaper]].
* ThemeNaming / SignificantAnagram: All the gravediggers' names were spelled using the same letters in different orders, [[OddNameOut except the last]].
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Jim Reaper's lair]].

** WeirdSun: [[spoiler: After winning, a smiling Sun comes up]].
* [[spoiler: YouKillItYouBoughtIt]]: This happens in one of the endings.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Innocent [=Piglet/Porkins=]]]. Also, [[spoiler:Random Stranger]].

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Dorleac killing the Innocent Piglet]].

** The Random Stranger, too. Yes, his name is actually Random Stranger. [[spoiler:Except it's actually Jorren]].

* InsistentTerminology: Some items are renamed to fit the Wild West themed: Swords become Whips and Knives, Bows become Guns, and so on.

* RailRoading: The map has a tendency to tell you to do things in a specific order, rather than let you do them how you like or at least MAKE you do them in a specific order.

A puzzle map that takes many queues from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' in which two players are kept in facility and forced to solve a series of complex puzzles.

A puzzle map in which the player completes a series of challenges, each one being somehow based around one of the Minecraft mobs.

The Easiest Adventure Map TM is a satirical jab at the Minecraft Let's Play community. It makes fun of unprepared players who prefer easy, shallow adventure maps rather than deeper effort-full maps. It has two routes, a "Lazy" route, where you complete all the witch's challenges, and the "Real" router, where you [[spoiler: fail all the witch's challenges but get to escape the machine you're trapped in.]]

* AddressingThePlayer: The player plays as...themselves. [[spoiler:At least, so they think. They actually play as a professor who got trapped in some Aperture Science facility clone, Atilliary Facilities.]]

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Witch, obviously]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Why did the witch steal your milk of all things? Because in Minecraft, it can be used to remove their harmful potion effects.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: A witch stole the milk in your fridge and you have to pass her weird minecraft challenges to get it back.

* AGlitchInTheMatrix: It's used throughout the Real Ending route, but the escape sequence stands out the most. Many doors that lead to nowhere, blocks stacked into (seemingly) infinity, floating blocks, blocks vanishing and reappearing, and random garbled walls of many blocks replacing normal walls, upon other things. The entire sequence is heavily based on glitchy minecraft features, such as the since-removed Far Lands, where blocks also stacked randomly to infinity, and chunk errors to the void.
* NightmareRetardant: Some parts of the map tries to be frightening, but pulls it off very poorly, such as the Pumkin man.
* NothingIsScarier: The map starts off as very lighthearted, with the clumsy Witch guiding you throughout the way. [[spoiler: However, the real ending causes you to glitch out the whole system, causing everything to change. The witch falls into the void, and you're stuck in large rooms of corrupted data which you're just running across. No dialogue, nothing happens. You can find signs with strange comments like "THERE IS NO MILK", "ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE TO WIN" and "DANGER", and everything generally stops making sense.]]
* PokeThePoodle: The witch starts off by stealing your milk. Lampshaded by the download page that purposefully exaggerates that the witch has stolen something imporant from you.
* HarmlessVillain: The witch. Even in the boss fight, she [[spoiler:doesn't do anything to you at all.]] [[spoiler: Averted in the secret Wardrobe route, where she actually tries to attack you in a maze. (She attacks like any other minecraft witch.)]]
* CasualDangerDialog: The witch switches between a big ham to being extremely awkward often, most notably in the introduction sequence. The player also responds in a similiar awkward manner, speaking in lowercase and showing complete disinterest in the whole plot.
* FinallyFoundTheBody: Since this map follows the events of [[spoiler:Atilliary Facilities 2, the dead body of Ashton Mault can be seen in the same place where he died, complete with burnt skull and torn lab coat.]]

* {{Backtracking}}: Played straight while escaping the [[spoiler: broken matrix.]] You see familiar areas such as the bedroom and the first and third chamber.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Hilariously played with in the level design of the escape sequence. You pass by a fence that you can not climb and spend five minutes parkouring and perfecting slime block jumps...only to find out you've come full circle to where you've started, except now you're ON the same fence but now you're able to progress right next to where you began.

* ReadingAheadintheScript: An interesting player example. There is a book at the start of the map explaining to avoid the witch's trials. Except...the witch haven't even appeared yet.

* PacifistRun: [[spoiler: You can spare the witch in the lazy ending by passing at last one of the tests before refusing to kill the witch at the end. The witch will remove the TNT and offer you a ride home, and give you the milk.]] You still get the same lazy ending though.

* UnwinnableByDesign: A gameplay mechanic example of this appears. Consider that you have to FAIL each test. Once you pass even ONE of the tests, even if you've failed all the others, ALL the ways to fail are instantly removed. You're permanently set to the lazy route and you might not even realize until it's too late. Also counts as a pointofnoreturn.
* UnwinnableByInsanity: It is possible to get yourself stuck inside the hedgemaze by abusing it's self-changing feature. It wasn't intended, and you have to switch to creative/survival mode to get out.
* ExploitingTheFourthWall: Actually used as a game mechanic. [[spoiler: You HAVE to fail every test, and failing most tests requires you to jump into the void and die. You're MEANT to do that.]]
* ButThouMust: Averted and made fun of. The witch steals your milk, and the player automatically agrees to getting the milk back. [[spoiler: But you can choose not to via the Real route.]]
* DeathCourse: Complete with Bottomless Pits and Le Parkour and The Maze. [[spoiler: But they're all harmless, so its really played for laughs.]]
* AntiClimaxBoss: Played for laughs in the lazy ending. You can even choose [[spoiler: not to fight her in the lazy ending and she'l just OptOut.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The player has to break the whole environment by failing every test, making the environment very dangerous and unstable. ButThouMust to get the real ending.]]

* RailRoading: Played with. The Witch obviously railroads you to pass each trial, to the point where you can just move forwards to win the map without any effort. It is also played straight in that there are only two paths - Pass each test or fail each test, with the two endings.
* ContinuityNod: The real ending takes place right after the events of [[spoiler: Atilliary Facilities 2,]] and shows the [[spoiler:extent of destruction. Some lava pits are dried up, and the dead body of Ashton Mault can be found. It also shows that SADOS was in fact covering up the dead body of Ashton Mault, which explains why it is covered up in the first map (which happens much much later.)]]

* AbandonedLaboratory: [[spoiler: Atilliary Facilities.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: It is revealed that the Witch is actually part of a larger program designed you entrap you forever.]]

* OfftheRails: The entire real ending route.
* RoomFullofCrazy: The floating signs in the glitchy escape sequence.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The lazy ending implies you keep reliving the same adventure again and again.
* ForeShadowing: From the start of the map there are some hints that the map takes places in Atilliary Facilities. First, the wardrobe contains the same syntax as the many test chambers in Atilliary Facilities, and identical to the Virtual Reality rooms of the prequel. There is also a split-second scene in front of the house that shows that the house is labled with "AF". In the real route there is the appearances of the Virtual Reality machine itself appearing twice without being explained. In the glitch escape sequence, you pass through the same virtual reality hallways from the prequel (albeit corrupted).

A spinoff series of Super Hostile, with the same basic premise but a much lower difficulty level.
Currently has 2 maps:

* TheFirstTown: Greenstown. You spend the beginning of the first map wandering around it and protecting it from monsters, and the second is all about getting back to it [[spoiler:and freeing it from Senros's rule]].

* FauxSymobolism: ''The Tree Of Life'' is full of this.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Witch, obviously.]].

* Backtracking: Played straight while escaping the [[spoiler: broken matrix.]] You see familiar areas such as the bedroom and the first and third chamber.

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* ShowingTheirWork: The map is very well researched, and loaded with references that someone not familiar with Middle-Earth lore would miss. Given that the map was made by the people responsible for the Minecraft Middle-Earth project, you'd expect they'd know their stuff.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Not really: Princess Idril (indirectly) caused [[spoiler: the destruction of Gondolin]].

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience / GoodColoursEvilColours: Allies' dialogue is blue, enemies' is red.
** The three equipment sets as well: Tenacity is green, Angelic is blue, Demonic is red.

* SuspendedAnimation: Pro. Tagonist wakes up from this at the start of the map. Everyone except them, Dr. Testudine, and Captain Schmidt died while in stasis.

A map based on...[[SonicTheHedgehog well, guess]]. Here, the player must dash through an obstacle course while being timed.

A LordOfTheRings themed map, set during one of the stories in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. The protagonist is Elcarien, an Elf of from the Elven capital of Gondolin, returning from a scouting mission to learn the plans of Dark Lord Morgoth. However, when they return, they find that the real danger comes from within...

* BiggerBad: Morgoth.

* NoNameGiven: The Innocent Piglet. You're given the chance to name him, though. And then in the second map, he's officially named Porkins (this name was presumably selected because in their playthrough of part 1, LetsPlay/LewisBrindley and LetsPlay/SimonLane from the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} chose to rename the pig that name using a Name Tag.

* NoNameGiven: The Innocent Piglet. You're given the chance to name him, though. And then in the second map, he's officially named Porkins (this name was presumably selected because in their playthrough of part 1, LetsPlay/LewisBrindley and LetsPlay/SimonLane from the LetsPlay/Yogscast chose to rename the pig that name using a Name Tag.

* NoNameGiven: The Innocent Piglet. You're given the chance to name him, though. And then in the second map, he's officially named Porkins (this name was presumably selected because in their playthrough of the map, Creator/LewisBrindley and Creator/Simon Lane from the LetsPlay/Yogscast chose to rename the pig that name using a Name Tag.

* NoNameGiven: The Innocent Piglet. You're given the chance to name him, though. And then in the second map, he's officially named Porkins.

* FiveBadBand:

* ShoutOut: The whole map is a Shout Out to the CthulhuMythos, but their are many specific examples from all over the maps.

* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Hillariously played with in the level design of the escape sequence. You pass by a fence that you can not climb and spend five minutes parkouring and perfecting slime block jumps...only to find out you've come full circle to where you've started, except now you're ON the same fence but now you're able to progress right next to where you began.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The player has to break the whole enviornment by failing every test, making the enviornment very dangerous and unstable. Buthoumust to get the real ending.]]

* Railroading: Played with. The Witch obviously railroads you to pass each trial, to the point where you can just move forwards to win the map without any effort. It is also played straight in that there are only two paths - Pass each test or fail each test, with the two endings.
* ContinuityNod: The real ending takes place right after the events of [[spoiler: Atilliary Facilities 2,]] and shows the [[spoiler:extent of destruction. Some lava pits are dried up, and the dead body of Ashton Mault can be found. It also shows that SADoS was in fact covering up the dead body of Ashton Mault, which explains why it is covered up in the first map (which happens much much later.)]]
* BrickJoke: One of the rooms in the glitchy escape is a copy of the ten-lever-code room, but instead every wall of the room is covered in levers, even the floor and cieling.

* BoxandStickTrap: The witch resorts to this in the boss fight, with signs next to the pressure plates saying "STEP ON THE WOOD". (Normally there is only "SHOOT" on these signs.)

* Even Evil Has Standards: If you pass at least one of the trials and then refuse to kill the witch, the witch will remove the TNT and congratulate you for passing the other tests, giving you your milk back and even offering a ride home.

* Foreshadowing: From the start of the map there are some hints that the map takes places in Atilliary Facilities. First, the wardrobe contains the same syntax as the many test chambers in Atilliary Facilities, and identical to the Virtual Reality rooms of the prequel. There is also a split-second scene in front of the house that shows that the house is labled with "AF". In the real route there is the appearances of the Virtual Reality machine itself appearing twice without being explained. In the glitch escape sequence, you pass through the same virtual reality hallways from the prequel (albeit corrupted).