Tutorials/Creating a challenge map

=Creating a Challenge Map= You might want to make a challenge map. Need some pointers? Don't know where to start? Read on!

Customize the Superflat world type
Changing the Superflat options can make a good Superflat survival world.

Make a spawn area
You could make a spawn pad, a pre-made house, or anything you can think of!

Add Bonuses
Hide some little rewards for the player. Extra surprises make a challenge map exciting and fun. Diamonds or emeralds work well if you hide 100 it can it can be a fun way to keep score.

Make obstacles
Add pits, traps, etc. Check out the Puzzles and Traps section.

Make dungeons
Making pre-made dungeons hidden around your map can give players a very fun time!

Add some fancy stuff
Hack stuff into your inventory. Monster Spawners would be useful for some traps or funboxes, or simply decorations. Bedrock or end portal frames could encase areas where you doo not want the player too get out of. Ender Crystals look very elegant, but due to their obstructive and explosive powers, can be used as sorts of obstacles the player has to safely destroy.

Indiana Jones-ing
Make a large room and put lots of lava at the bottom. Now place a bunch of floating blocks which leads to a small alcove with a valuable chest. The aim is that the player must carefully jump on the blocks to get to the chest.

The Cakes Are A Lie
Place 5 cakes in a line over BUD switches for the player to eat. One of the cakes, when eaten, will push up a small chest area with valuable stuff. The remaining 4 will send the player into a very deep lava pit!

What Tiles?
Create a room with a grid of wooden and stone pressure plates. Only some plates are good. For example, wood pressure plates are safe to walk on while stone ones push the player into the Void.

Be Flamin' Careful
Create a maze with netherrack sides at ground level. Set the netherrack on fire. Players will find it hard to complete this maze without a scald. To stop them jumping over the flames put some floating obsidian/bedrock/end portal frame blocks two blocks above the maze path. For some extra amusement, make it a maze that climbs upwards and then add a lever saying "Trophy" which when pulled will make a lava flow chase the player, who has to either burn or burn.

We hope this helped you get started!