Here’s a thought experiment: do you remember how it looked when you logged into your first Survival world? Do you remember your first building or what biome it was? Only fond memories of... say searching for a punchable tree, getting your dirt hut in order, and most likely getting blown up by a stray Creeper. If you thought this makes you a Survival expert, then think again! Java Realms has 14 new maps which will give this tried-and-true game-mode a new makeover!
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- Written By
- Oskar Thysell
- Published
- 4/25/25
New on Java Realms: Survival: The Remix
14 maps that will survive the test of time!
How do I play the new Java Realms maps?
Start up Minecraft on your device, then find Minecraft Realms in the menu. Press the “Configure” button, choose the “Reset World” option on the Realm slot you’re ok with overwriting (or use the “Mini game” slot for mini games). Now you can pick the map you want to play from the corresponding categories!
MINI GAME: UHC EVOLVED
by The Fat Santa & Pinkessi
Ultimate Hardcore – a twist on Survival almost as old as Minecraft itself (Source: the trailer above). Just as in regular hardcore you only have one life, but now there’s also no natural health regeneration! “How hard could it be?” I told myself while giving the ‘terms and conditions’ scroll of the UHC tutorial on the wiki before loading up UHC Evolved. Pretty hard it turns out, but with the tons of customization options for this map making it truly the one UHC map you’ll ever need (patent pending), even someone like me who’d at best be ‘Somewhat Hardcore’ on a good day has a shot of emerging victorious!
MINI GAME: ADVANCEMENT HUNTERS
by SubChronos
One thing about me is that I’m a purely advancement driven person. Believe me, if there was an achievement to recreate the entire Sistine Chapel fresco by Michelangelo in Minecraft, I’d have that done in a jiffy, but without that sweet, rectangular text box compelling me, you’ll just have to do without. Advancement Hunters is a mini game tailor made for me, where you play survival and gain points by completing vanilla advancements, which I always thought was the point of Minecraft anyway!
MINI GAME: BATTLE BLITZ
by fakebaguette, vvinscent, & FriedFood
Lastly, if there’s one way to get out of a Survival-induced funk, one could take a short break to participate in some real survival – and Battle Blitz will definitely have that up for questioning! Ten classes, ten powerups, and six maps - some that even introduce special events at the halftime point to shake things up. If all the adrenaline you’ll get from this fast-paced mini game causes you to yearn to crank out another dirt hut, there’s no shame in that!
ALSO RELEASING TODAY
MINI GAME: VOID CHAINS
by Ajj
ADVENTURE: LINE PARKOUR
by Omar_6374, Teddyishappyl, & Dasdron
EXPERIENCE: NEURAL NETWORKS
by Ajj
INSPIRATION:
INSPIRATION: VILLAGE OF DRAGONS
by Saimator, ItzCleverMan, & DoJlgin
WORLD TEMPLATE:
UPDATES TO CURRENT MAPS
With 1.21.5 a lot of maps in our library broke and had to be taken down, but thankfully our mapmakers have updated a lot of the maps to work with the new Minecraft version!
TRIDENT DOME:
New Mace Kit, desert map rework and other tweaks!
Bug Fixes:
Bleps: Nocked and Loaded, Duel TNT, Percy’s Park, Sprint Racer
Back on Realms:
1200 BCE: A Space Odyssey, Beaconators, Bridge Blitz, Boom Brawl, Cornered, Find the Button: The Carlin Collection, Killstreak, Mummies & Memory, Parkour Duel, Parkour Egg, Parkour Pyramid, Parkour Spiral 3, Parkour Town, Ruins of Altrac, Shadow of the Skeleton King, Sprint Racer, The Hauntpuzzled House, Tricky Treats, Upwards
I WILL SURVIVAL
Learn to load this content into Java Realms by visiting the 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 that diamond, 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 the Java Realms Content Creator Program page. If you have questions about this process, you can find me at Oskar Thysell on X.
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