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404: Solid Ground Not Found!


Welcome to the 404 Challenge! With the coming of the 1.3 update and the new seed feature when creating new worlds, there have been a multitude of seeds searched in hopes of an epic world. Well, with the dreaded 404 there is just that! This world is filled with high mountains, cavernous terrain, and most importantly a sink hole! Here is where the challenge begins.

Back story wrote:
You create a new world, and with a new world comes responsibility. You have to gather resources and find a safe place to spend the night. You hastily gather wood, coal, pork, and anything you can get your hands on. The sun is falling and it is getting dark, so you decide to dig a hole in the ground next to some water. Your shovel hits the ground and sets off a massive sink hole! You are plunged into darkness with no way out. You must now survive... the 404 cave!




The Challenge!


Survive the 404 sink hole as long as possible without dying! This is a ruthless and expansive cave system that is very unforgiving of any of the many mistakes you could make. The hardest part often proves to be surviving the descent!

Set your own goals or try to complete various achievements to get the highest score. There are many achievements for different styles of play. They will be listed after the rules.




How to setup the 404 Challenge:


1. Open Minecraft. Be sure it has been updated to version Beta 1.3. Click 'Singleplayer' then click 'Create New World'. Type in the World Name of your choosing, then enter for 'Seed for the World Generator' type '404'. Then click 'Create World' and you are on your way to the challenge!

It should look like this:




2. Find your way to the sinkhole at coordinates -25, 65, 15 (press F3 to see your curent position). This is where the challenge will begin! If you find yourself too far from the sinkhole you can re-create the world to get a better spawning location.

The correct area can be recognized by the nearby reeds:


If you want to download the level the old fashioned way:

Download this save file and extract it into your .minecraft/saves folder: The 404 Challenge.zip

This will place you right next to the 404 cave gravel. However, you will start with 9.5 hearts because you are lazy! (or because I spawned on a cactus and am too lazy myself to create more worlds to get another good spawn)





The Rules!


1. You have until night fall to gather supplies. Spend your time wisely! Once night hits you MUST venture into the hole, never to return to the surface again!

2. You can gather any resource you find top side, but venturing into any other caves (for iron mostly) is not allowed. Sunlit caves are allowed.

3. You must not break ground on the 404 gravel until you are ready to enter the cave. You are intended to be finding shelter for the first night, digging the gravel, and discovering the cave. Once you break ground on the gravel, you must enter the cave.

4. Once you enter the cave, you must descend all the way to the bottom! The waterfall has swept you into the deepest parts of the cave.

5. No torches! If you whine about why you can't use torches, just STFU. Real men use lava for light anyway! (Redstone torches, jack-o-lanterns, and flint n' steel are OK!)

6. Survive and thrive. Don't simply build a wall around yourself. Explore. Build. Progress! Your 'score' will be based on what you accomplished, not simply how long you survived.

7. Only mine ores that are is visible. If you see an ore, you can mine it and the blocks around it to see if you got all of it. No branch/strip mining allowed. You are spelunking/surviving here, not at your 9 to 5 mining job.

8. Difficulty must be either Normal or Hard. If you play on hard you could get a 1.5x score multiplier.

9. 1 life. If you die the challenge is over. Start a new 404 world if you want to try again.

10. No inventory edits or 'cheating' of any kind. Using F3 to see mob locations is considered cheating as well.




Achievements!


You can gain points and achievements for many things during the challenge (even during the day time!). Take video/screenshots as proof when submitting your score. Score submissions without proof, although still wanted, will not be considered for a high score ranking. Mob kills are the only achievements that are counted every time. All other achievements are earned only the first time you do them.

Mob kills: (Player must actively kill each mob. Placing lava/sand/gravel/cactus to kill counts, but only for the first mob it kills):
Zombies: .5 each
Skeletons: 1 each
Spiders: 1 each
Creepers: 2 each
Zombie Pigmen: 3 each
Ghast: 6 each

Collection:

Place on the ground, 1 block of:
Iron: 2
Gold: 5
Lapis Lazuli: 5
Diamond: 20
All 4 blocks in the same shot: +25

Creeper blowing up directly next to all 4 blocks (please capture with video!): +50!!!

Gather:
3 Pumpkin: 2
32 Cacti: 4
20 Sugar Cane: 4
1 Obsidian: 5

Crafting:

Complete leather armor: 10
Complete iron armor: 10
Complete gold armor: 20
Complete diamond armor: 50
Bread: 4
Jack-O-Lantern: 2
Bow + 64 arrows: 10
32 glass: 5
Place 1 glowstone in Overworld: 10
8 different colored wool: 10
12 different colored wool: 15 (25 pts total)

Building:

Structure using at least 20 bricks: 10
Nether Portal: 15
Farm (10 wheat, 5 reeds): 10
Working double door (redstone, swings correctly on activation): 15
Mob spawner trap: 20

Bonus achievements: (must have 25+ points already to unlock)

Dungeon Runner (never build a shelter that mobs cant get into) 15 points
Don't Need No Stinking Armor! (never wear armor) 15 points
Chuck Norris has nothing on me! (play on hard difficulty) +0.5x score bonus

Grev wrote:I actually have a server running with the 404 map, so far unexplored, so if you guys wanted to set up a time to do that (I can't today, but otherwise...) I could do a video of that with all you guys.