User:User-7769161/Alternative experiences

This guide is for those who enjoy different, unconventional methods of playing. It is completely personal choice whether or not you want to perform any of these challenges or use custom maps to supplement the challenges. It is not recommended for beginners to try these but if you think normal survival is too straightforward, you can try most of these techniques easily without too much preparation.

Standard
The normal mode. You know the drill, just survive. If this is too boring for your tastes, read on.

Island
Go to an island and never leave it. The fewer resources available on the island, the harder it becomes. If you're having trouble finding a good island, try a custom seed (found below), which starts you off on an island, saving you the trip.

To spice things up, you could try living in an archipelago, which is a set of islands close together.

Here is a table of seeds:

Sailor
Wander the oceans, islands and archipelagos.

Nomad
Make no permament housing and take all your items with you. Make sure you know how to make an important shelter before trying this, because you will probably die if caught in the open at night. You can't invade a village and take residence there, either.

Hardcore nomad
Same thing as the ordinary nomadic experience, but play on hardcore mode. It is highly recommended you learn how to fight melee and/or build traps if you want to survive.

Seafarer
Construct a single boat and harvest a single sapling. Collect a single full stack of dirt. Then, find an ocean and sail off until you cannot see land in any direction. Now, live life as normal or combine this mode with the nomadic version. An optional rule is that you are not allowed to return to the mainland.

Mole
Get a sapling and 4 torches. Dig a hole in the dirt and lock yourself underground. Never see the sky again. Play your game as normal, except for one rule. You may never go back to the surface.

Hellbound
Pack whatever you feel necessary and exile yourself in the Nether.

Forest guard
Only build houses on top of trees. Clean the forest and grow large trees. Best played on large forest biomes or swamps.

Sky lord
Find some of those floating islands touching the clouds and survive there. To climb to these islands get 64+ blocks of dirt, sand or gravel. Then place below a probable edge of the floating island and place blocks underneath you while jumping enough times to get to the island.

You may pick some known seed maps (Like 'Glacier' in 1.7.3) to produce these structures or spend quite some time with random seeds.

Build a continent for your own amusement or more than one connected by bridges and with cool waterfalls. Clouds can be annoying so make sure they pass 3 or 4 blocks above continent level.

The only problem with this experience is lack of minerals and dirt/cobblestone unless you are very lucky. It's up to you whether or not to build a tower to a mine or not.

You can go to the Sky Dimension in order to get exactly this kind of experience.

Arctic explorer
Live in cold biomes (tundra and taiga). Your shelter must be an igloo. If you fall in water surrounded by ice, let yourself drown (simulating hypothermia) unless you are wearing leather armor. Only stay outside during the night if you have leather armor.

Too heavy
Pretty simple variation of the normal Survival mode. All you have to do is don't wear armor for the entire game. Simple, really.

Dig dug
Live and mine in an abandoned mineshaft. Destroy spawners, expand mine and rails. Death to spawners!

Regicide
Once you find a Stronghold, live in it. Just a simple variation of the normal gameplay.

Restoration
Steve doesn't like ruined strongholds. He dislikes them so much that he rebuilds them. Play as Regicide, but you must destroy all Cracked/Mossy Strone bricks you find and replace them with normal ones. Also, destroy the cobwebs and restore any walls/bookshelves.

Hardcore mode for both Regicide and Restoration: Go to the Nether with one dirt, one torch and one sapling (Probably smart to set it on Peaceful at first)Then, search for a nether stronghold and live in it. Restoration compels you to expand the tunnels leading in cave sides to make them connect, build Nether Wart farms, destroy spawners etc.

Safety first
At all times, you must wear a full set of armor. The first thing you craft should be a set of armor, before you even make a pickaxe. Get ready to hurt some cows!