New on Java Realms: The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door

Wait, what? Gently rapping? What kind of soft, nonthreatening hip hop was Edgar Allan- uh, I mean me listening to? Not sure where I was going with this anyway, opening a blog post about our latest community creations with a narrative poem feels highly atypical. Nevermore!

RELICS FROM THE DECK

by The Brickmasons Team 

Relics from the Deck is a digital card game, where you can build your own deck and d-d-duel your friends! I’m gonna show some slight bias here as I myself am an enjoyer of card games and have spent most of my disposable income on pieces of cardboard that will do little to protect me when the zombie apocalypse comes around. Sunken cost fallacy dictates that I should love this game, cool deckbuilding options and themed card packs be damned! If you don’t think that’s scary, consider this: there are people out there who don’t have a Realm and won't be able to play this (solutions to this problem at the bottom of the post)!

MONSTROSITY

by Cold Fusion 

Horror works best if it’s based on a psychological fear, something people experience in real life but is given a metaphorical form. Frankenstein, was about people’s general fear of, uh, having your name wrongfully attributed to your humanoid monster, I think? Vampires, if I’m not completely making this up as I go, were created as a marketing strategy on behalf of garlic entrepreneurs. So, what is the real Monstrosity of this massive, unforgiving CTM map? Is it the perils, traps, and enemies we make along the way? Is the real Monstrosity... us? I do’nt know, I didn’t make it out the first area so if you get to the end maybe you can let me know! 

DOZE OFF

by Flamingosaurus & Frenderman 

Falling asleep is hardly scary unless you happen to be an active bulldozer operator. Unfortunately, that sentence is as far as it goes for titular equivocality with this puzzle game, but that just leaves room for you to roleplay yourself! Getting through all 59 levels and steering your bulldozer so all the boxes are in the right place can take quite some time, and you could even experiment to see what happens when you eventually drift off into the land of Nod by starting your playthrough late at night. If your foreman yells at you to wake up, you’re being way too meta and shouldn’t play at your workplace.

ALSO RELEASING TODAY

WITCH ESCAPE

by Primt, 1iClown & Zaldoria

GARTIC 

by Mrinin & Caspone 

THE ANCIENT TEMPLE

by Creeper Juice & Squishi 

DESTROYER

by Jontohil2 

PARKOURSE

by Cartography 

GLOW RUN

by Cartography 

PARKOUR CITY

by _Elton, Zombie1111 & LiamHenricson 

SUPER TRAITOR MYSTERY

by The People on Earth 

PRISMATIC PARKOUR

by Detry 

CITY OF SCHNEE

by Damian, Ioneh & Fetch 

DEATH VALLEY

by Faish, wbd & Dolllan 

SHIPWRECK SKERRY

by Nick_team

MONKEY MOUNTAIN

by Peepsibabe & Meddi 

TAIYOU

by icupo3 & ball

LOST ISLANDS

by Faish, wbd, Neonaut & Dolllan 

TWISTED GROVE

by Faish, wbd, Neonaut & Dolllan

COMMAND REALM UPDATE!

Wait, you’re still reading and you want more maps? Oh, I was soooo not prepared for that! Sike, the fine folks at Command Realm have now updated these maps with tons of new features: 

• Boom Doom
• Build Party
• Celestial Champions
  
• Dragon Wars
• Stealthiators
• Would You Rather

To learn about loading this 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. If you have questions about this process, you can find me on Twitter.

Happy Minecrafting!