10 MORE Famous Old Minecraft Maps You Forgot About

Minecraft custom maps provide fresh takes  on the game, whether it’s racing to the   end with your friends in parkour,  enjoying (or not enjoying) pvp,   or being scared with a horror map. There have  been many famous ones that have come and gone,  

And that many people feel nostalgia for and  remember fondly. If you remember, a few months   ago I made a part 1 of this video, and there were  a lot of comments asking about other iconic maps   that were left off the list. Since I didn’t get  to cover everything in that video, let’s look  

At 10 more famous custom maps in minecraft  history that you may have forgotten about. Before I get to the list, if you’re looking  for a new lifesteal PVP SMP to play on,   look no further than Raccoon Den. Raccoon Den  is a brand new lifesteal SMP that features a  

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I think you will love it too. I’ve left links  to everything in the description and pinned   comment below. Special thanks to the Raccoon  Den Lifesteal SMP for sponsoring this video. Perhaps one of the most talked about map series  in part 1’s comment section, the first map on  

The list is Sea of Flame, which comes from the  extremely famous Vechs’s super hostile map series.   Sea of Flame was the very first installment in  this epic saga, being initially released in beta   1.7.3 in 2011. It is widely considered  the first CTM, or complete the monument,  

Map ever made. In CTM maps, the goal is simple –  find specific items hidden around the map while   surviving super hostile and difficult conditions.  Super hostile…yeah I did. Once you find the items,   usually colored wool or something similar, there  will be a victory monument with empty spaces you  

Have to fill. In the case of Sea of Flame 1, it  actually didn’t start out that way. Early on, it   was just a difficult survival map, featuring tons  of lava and fire, with some starting materials   near spawn to give you some chance of surviving  before venturing out further. This first version  

Of the map was famously played by the early  Minecraft youtuber Zisteau. In the second version   of the map, the victory monument was added, and  chests were scattered throughout with colored wool   that you had to collect to complete the challenge.  It was a new thing not really done before in  

Minecraft, and thanks to Vechs, this genre of  custom map blew up considerably for the next 4   or 5 years. Vechs went on to make 17 total Super  Hostile maps, a Super Hostile modpack, and a super   hostile SMP in 2016, which ended up being really  popular. I love a good pioneer story in minecraft,  

And the story of Vechs and Super Hostile is  definitely up there on the most famous list. Another famous installment in the minecraft CTM  map genre is Diversity. The first installment   of Diversity came a couple years after Sea of  Flame, being released in 2013 for Minecraft  

Official release 1.7 by qmagnet. It gained  immense popularity because it did something   no CTM map had before – instead of the usual M.O.  of finding wool in challenging parts of the map,   Diversity required you to complete entirely  different genres of custom map within  

The Diversity map to find the wool. Like, a  parkour dungeon, a survival dungeon, a dropper,   et cetera. This made for a great map to play with  your friends, as most Minecraft players are better   at some aspects of the game than others. Like  me, I cannot parkour or pvp to save my life,  

But put me in the trivia section of the map,  and I’m winning it for the team. Anyway, this   mapception thrusted the popularity of DIversity  to the moon, and some great iconic youtube series   were born from it. Like yogscast lewis and simon,  or ihascupquake. As the minecraft map community  

Evolved over the years and new genres were  invented, Diversity evolved as well, with qmagnet   making Diversity 2 and 3 as sequels to the first  map. Both featured the multi-genre excellence the   first one had, with some new twists and turns  and using the new features of later minecraft  

Versions. The Diversity trilogy has definitely  firmly cemented itself into minecraft map history. This next map holds a very, very special  place in my heart. The original hunger games,   or survival games map from 2012. You see,  something I’ve hinted at in previous videos  

Is the fact that I used to play minecraft on a  cracked free version. That unlicensed copy message   still haunts my dreams. I remember watching  a video on the survival games back then, and   wanting to play it so badly, but I couldn’t join  with a cracked account. Finally, I took the leap  

With my mom’s credit card, and bought the game  with lawn mowing money. And it was all due to this   map. The minecraft survival games were inspired by  the irl hunger games books and movies. The first   hunger games movie was released in 2012, so when  the map came out, it was peak popularity. There  

Was a server, mcpvp, that hosted the original  survival games. It had a huge list on the website   of hundreds of games running simultaneously, and  that’s how you would join – finding a game that   wasn’t full. I’ll never forget the first game I  played. I had no idea what I was supposed to do,  

So I hid in a hole in the middle and crouched  while gathering some stone tools. At the very end,   it was me and 1 guy who had gotten all the diamond  gear and killed everyone else. And that’s the  

Story of how I took 2nd place in my very first  survival games. Anyway, the survival games genre   kept its popularity for a very long time, with  hundreds or maybe even thousands of different   map iterations being made over the years. But this  one, the first one, holds tons of nostalgia for  

Many, and is just downright one of the most iconic  and recognizable maps ever made in the game. Let’s shift gears a little bit into something  darker. Let’s dive into one of the first horror   maps ever made, and hands down the most popular.  And consistently voted the scariest. This is The  

Orphanage. The Orphanage was released in 2014 by  omerci for version 1.7. Before I go into the map,   I want to talk about the command block. Version  1.7 extended the command block character limit   from a virgin 256 to a chad 16,369. This  provided map creators with an insane amount  

Of easy customization potential they never had  before. That’s how horror maps like the orphanage   and early adventure maps really took off, and one  of the reasons why 1.7 is one of the most fondly   looked upon versions in minecraft history. Anyway,  the orphanage took the minecraft world by storm,  

Combining horror games, which were reaching their  absolute peak in 2014 with the likes of markiplier   and pewdiepie, and Minecraft together. The story  of the map is that you are lost on a road trip,   run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, and come  across the only building for miles and miles,  

An orphanage that looks abandoned. You  decide to take shelter for the night,   but are met with jumpscares, immense suspense,  and some of the best ambiance i’ve ever   experienced in a minecraft map. Some really famous  creators at the time helped put it on the map,  

Like PopularMMOs and of course DanTDM.  Just look at baby Dan, doin his thing.   The jumpscare Dan just experienced became  infamously known as the Cellar Jumpscare,   scaring the pants off many people who have  played the map. Since the Orphanage came out,  

There have been a plethora of horror maps  attempted, most are terrible, and none of them   really reached the space that the Orphanage did.  Just, nowhere near as memorable and nostalgic. Now that we’re at the halfway point of the video,  let’s shoutout our console friends really quick.  

I’ve been a java player pretty much all my  life, but I did have a brief stint with Xbox   360 Minecraft back in the day, and I know these  things hit home for a lot of people who didn’t  

Play on PC. So, let’s talk about one of the best  holiday maps ever made for legacy console edition.   The Halloween Mash-up pack in 2015. A mash-up  pack is similar to a java edition resource pack,   featuring custom skins, textures, and title  screen, with the kicker being that they come  

With a themed world as well. The 2015 Halloween  mashup pack was one of the last ones released   for legacy console before everything was  transferred to today’s bedrock edition,   so it holds a special place in console player’s  hearts. It has super cool themed spooky builds,  

And a huge minecart rollercoaster. Like other  mashup packs, there are music discs hidden in   chests throughout for you to find. It features a  whopping 33 new skins, which is an insane amount!   An interesting, yet sad fact about this map is  that when they upgraded it to bedrock edition,  

It completely broke. The skybox is missing,  no purple clouds, and the lighting and fog are   all reverted to vanilla. This was unfortunately  never fixed. A kind soul has ported the map to   java edition, which is what you’re seeing  on screen, and I’ve linked that below.

One of the earliest complex adventure maps ever  made, as well as extremely fondly remembered   and put in the spotlight, was the sunken island  adventure map, released in late summer of 2011   by terraforming legend inHaze. What made sunken  island an instant success was how beautiful the  

Terrain looked. I mean, this was 2011. World edit  was in its infancy, and mcedit was a shell of what   it is today. In fact, inHaze has stated that at  first, an adventure map wasn’t even the goal. It   was just a custom terrain project to make a really  pretty, mountainous tropical island. Adventure map  

Status didn’t happen until later, when he added  objectives, a storyline, and an ending to the map.   This was back in the everybody-make-a-let’s-play  era of youtube, so tons of people tried their hand   with sunken island. Many, many people look  back on this map fondly, and due to it being  

Released so early in the game, it absolutely  helped pioneer the adventure map genre,   which eventually led to adventure mode  literally being added into vanilla minecraft. Let’s go back to Vechs and his mapping genius.  Next up on the list is the original Capture  

The Wool map. Similar to capture the flag in real  life, the way it works is super simple – there are   2 teams, team RGB (red wool green wool blue wool)  and team CMY (cyan wool magenta wool yellow wool),   defending their own wool while attacking  to capture the enemy team’s wool. Since  

Vechs literally invented the capture the  monument genre, it’s not so hard to see   how he also came up with the multiplayer  version of his own creation. So simple,   yet such a fun concept. Vechs only made one map  in this genre – fields of glory, which is the one  

I’m showcasing. Since this map’s inception, there  have been many, many iterations and map variants   with this game mode. It’s been featured on  gargantuan minigame servers like hypixel,   and the subject of major pvp tournaments over  the years. The fields of glory map specifically  

Was played pretty extensively by Vikkstar back in  the day. Other big names too – Preston, Jerome,   BajanCanadian, Technoblade, rest in peace. Pretty  much every recognizable name in the old PVP space   has played capture the wall. What comes to mind  instantly as well is the massive yogscast Capture  

The Wool invitational from 2021. What a beautiful  covid distraction activity that was. The game mode   is still going strong to this day, and we have to  tip our hat to Vechs. Honestly, I’ll just say it,   Vechs was absolutely the most influential  early Minecraft map creator of all time.

Yet another influential minigame map that took the  world by storm is the Walls. Similar to survival   games, the walls is a team based pvp game where  there are 4 teams split into different sections   of the map. You have 15 minutes to gather  resources and gear up with your team, then,  

The walls drop and it’s a pvp free for all.  Last team standing is victorious. The very   first walls map, and the one I’m referencing for  this video, was released all the way back in 2012   and was created and developed by Hypixel.  No, not the server Hypixel. THE Hypixel,  

Aka Simon Collins-Laflamme, the mastermind behind  the eventual biggest server the game has ever seen   to date. I honestly didn’t really know the  history behind the server or honestly even   knew there was one guy named Hypixel (please keep  your pitchforks at home, I don’t know absolutely  

Everything about the history of the game despite  what you may think), so when I learned that the   guy who originally created it made custom maps  back in the day, I was pretty shocked. That is the  

Epitome of a fun fact. Anyway, the walls has been  a staple on the server ever since the beginning,   and has had a gazillion variations created over  the last decade. The game mode has seen a drastic   drop in popularity unfortunately, but at the  time, it was THE thing to do in Minecraft pvp.

The next on the list is a famous old youtuber  world, perhaps one of the most famous of all   time. PopularMMOs house. PopularMMOs is one  of both the most famous and most infamous   minecraft youtubers ever. Despite being later  to the game, not posting Minecraft until 2012,  

PopularMMOs rose to popularity quickly with  his original let’s play, due to his energetic   personality and leaning into the fact that he  was, at the time, a true minecraft noob. So,   the map with the house he built in this very first  let’s play series has made the list, because a lot  

Of people fondly remember watching him back in the  day. The house is admittedly pretty cool for old   minecraft, with a water slide, secret rooms and  passages, and a large greenhouse. Now, PopularMMOs   has fallen off the map completely recently, for  many ongoing allegations of domestic assault,  

As recently as last year. The full drama  behind this has been covered extensively,   and doesn’t really fit the scope of this  video, but I thought it’s worth mentioning   nonetheless. Due to all of that, his website  has been taken down, but I was able to snag an  

Archived download link for the original survival  world map with the house that I’ve linked below. Last, but of course not least – the Cops  and Robbers 4: high security map. Cops   and Robbers is a minigame inspired by  Halo 3’s game mode of the same name,  

With the first maps being made by Podcrash  in 2013. The setting is a prison, and the   concept is there is one player playing as  the warden, and the rest of the players   are playing as escaped prisoners. The goal for  the prisoners is to well, escape successfully,  

And the goal of the warden is to prevent that from  happening at all costs. You may remember the exact   video that catapulted cops and robbers into fame  overnight – the Cops & Robbers video posted by   the now universally disliked SkyDoesMinecraft.  Again, I said cops and robbers 4, as this is the  

4th iteration in the 5 map series by podcrash,  but it was the most memorable and most popular   due to this video being made on it. Similar to the  stories from Vechs and his minigame inventions,   cops and robbers took off in popularity, though  like the rest we’ve covered in the video,  

Has heavily fallen off in recent years. Kind  of sad, but it makes me wonder what the next   generation of minecraft minigames, and more  broadly, minecraft maps will be in the future. If you’re still watching, thank you so much. If  there are any maps I haven’t covered in either  

Video, let me know in the comments below.  If you haven’t, check out part 1 for even   more nostalgic maps. And as for me, leave a  like and subscribe if you’re brand new to the   channel for more nostalgic videos and more like  this. As always, special thanks to my channel  

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Treat yourself to something nice today,  and I’ll see you in the next video!