New on Java Realms: Running, Riding, Escaping

My mama once said that life is like a box of chocolates. When I realized she had stolen this line from the second-highest-grossing film of 1994, Forrest Gump, I concluded that one must make out what life is on your own (unless you resort to plagiarism, Mom). 

Sometimes, life is also about running, or for those with the necessary mounts – riding. Escaping, from demanding houses and meteorological phenomena, life can be a frenzied flight or a casual stroll down the street depending on how you look at it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our Java Realms content library, which has five new additions as of today. Let’s check them out and see if a life on the run can be fun!

RodRun 2.0

by Theticman, ChildOfStars, Elmarchio, ChildOfMoon

Escape the House starts in the outskirts of a luxurious mansion, complete with spacious rooms, a working elevator, and several floors that are all lavishly decorated. It’s a rude house though because once you’ve wiped your shoes on the doormat, it promptly asks you to leave by completing a series of puzzles that will surely test your Minecraft expertise. But I say nayeth, Escape the House! Compared to my crummy one-room apartment, you have everything I need; a veritable library of bookshelves instead of my one Billy in the corner, and more fireplaces than chimneys. That’s how you know you’re living the life, so I’m staying!

Oskar’s resolution has nothing to do with his puzzle-solving skills. - Editor’s note.

Don’t be Last

by StuartA, TheBushBandit & marhjo

Lastly, we have one of the greatest blunders in sequencing history on my part – Don’t be Last. Why not be last? Well, because the map says so! Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to question Minecraft map titles? This is actually a pretty simple affair to explain; everyone starts by the beacon and is tasked with creating the same Minecraft item. You then have to gather resources in a survival spawn and hope that your encyclopedic Minecraft crafting knowledge won’t fail you, or that your fellow players won’t cheat by having better cave generation where they go, like fellow content coordinator Matthew “Moesh” Dryden.

STOP AND TAKE A BREATH!

So if you’ve been reading this the same way I’ve been writing it, this might be a good place to step off the treadmill, take a short water break, and launch up one of these new maps (for which the canned text will explain how to here below!)

To learn about loading these maps and other content into Java Realms for your PC, visit our help site. If you haven't yet tried Realms for yourself, you'll have a blue diamond on the Minecraft Realms button, located on the main screen of Minecraft: Java Edition. Click it, then follow the instructions to try Realms free for 30 days.

Want to have your own Minecraft creations featured on Java Realms and on Minecraft.net? Head over to this page, which explains the Java Realms Content Creator Program.

Happy Minecrafting!