Triumph Books - Ultimate Guide to Mastering Minigames and Servers: Minecraft Secrets to the Worlds Best Servers and Minigames

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Ah, minigames! Those saviors of Minecraft that take our vanilla-jaded minds and turn them onto something new and awesome that makes Minecraft feel like a whole new game.

Since even the earliest days of Minecraft, creative folks out there have been taking the rules of this blocky building game and have made entirely new games out of it! These are what we mean when we use the term minigame, a term that essentially just means a new way to play Minecraft with everything from new rules to new items, and, always, other players to play along with you.

The many, many kinds of minigames people have come up with inside of Minecraft is frankly amazing, and in fact some of them are so much fun that many players now do nothing but play them instead of the regular game!

This has especially become the norm for online Minecraft servers on the PC edition of the game, where minigame playing has turned into an entire culture of its own.

Of course, we do love vanilla Minecraft, but after countless dozens of hours, even the worlds best game can get a little old hat. Lucky for us Crafters, Minecraft is set up so that it is ideal for intrepid creators around the world to modify and turn into all sorts of other games.

Thats what this book is all about. What games are out there, what games are most popular, how to play em and where to find em! Well explain each game, tell you how to play it, give you the basic strategies that will start to get you wins in no time, and even throw in a handful of pro tips to really amp up your skills!

Whether youre an oldschool Crafter looking to spice up your game, or whether youre a new Minecrafter looking to see what all this fuss about online Minecraft is about, or whether youre already on Minecraft servers and want to take your minigame playing to the next level, this is the book for you.

Game on, Crafters!

Before we jump into the nitty gritty of this thing and get you some game tips, lets break down the general types of games in this book.

There are about as many types of minigames in existence as there are plug-in creators and Redstone engineers that create them. There are always new variations and entirely new styles of minigames out there, but since Minecraft has been around for a while, a few genres have become established and most minigames new and old fall into them.

These, young Crafters, are the genres were going to get you familiar with in this book, and will having you beating people at all over the Internet in no time.

Minecrafts about two things in the regular version of the game: survival and building. Learning how to do these two things is learning how to Minecraft, and people really pride themselves on their abilities in these departments.

Thus, when people set out to make minigames that took the regular game of Minecraft and made it competitive, one of the first things people did was to make a bunch of Survival-Based Minecraft minigames to pit their hard-won skills against those of their friends and the rest of the Internet.

These games will test your ability to simply stay alive and thrive in Minecraft, forcing you to mine for resources, hunt mobs, craft items, and even enchant a thing or two in some cases. On top of that, almost all Survival-Based minigames also require you to vanquish other players to win.

These are some hard minigames, but theyre also highly rewarding and very beloved by the community.

Parkour is different from just about every other minigame in this book, because its not really about surviving, fighting, or building, but instead just plain jumping! Parkour is the art of jumping from block to block, and its gone from being an obscure part of the online game to a bona fide phenomenon that you can find on almost every single server.

Parkour feels like an easier, less-intimidating minigame on the surface: you just jump from spot to spot, and when you fall down no alarms go off or You Lose signs flash or anything (usually, there are some competitive Parkour servers where things are a little more formalized). You just go back to the first block and start again, and you can go as slow as you want.

However, thinking of Parkour as easy is a mistake. This is one of the most tricky minigames in existence; one that takes years of practice and an incredible sense of timing and spatial recognition to get truly good at.

You can try, and well give you some tips, but beware Crafters: Parkour is some hardcore Minecraft minigamin.

Person on person combat is the focus of most video games out there, and where regular, single-player Minecraft doesnt have it very often (except when youre being funny and slap your friend), online Minecraft has taken Player vs. Player (or PVP) combat and turned it into an art form.