Map: Famine Lands 1.1

Game: Minecraft 1.8.1
Texture Pack: Default
Required Mods: None
Game Mode: Survival
Difficulty Setting: Hard

Author: David Brasher
Date: 2/22/15
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CONTENTS
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1. Information on the Map
2. Rules for this Map
3. Installation
4. Version History
5. Known Issues and Troubleshooting
6. Copy Status and Credits
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1. INFORMATION ON THE MOD
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Long ago your people lost a war and were banished to an area surrounded
by an impassible magical barrier. Things went well for a time and a new village
was built. But the area within your prison was too small. The land was not
fertile enough. There was too little mineral wealth. The population grew too
large.

The forests receded as more and more wood was cut. Wildlife was hunted to
the point where it could hardly be found anymore. Overgrazing and the relentless
hunt for seeds laid waste to the plains.

Then things got really bad. The harvest failed twice in row. The flocks
and herds perished. The theocratic rulers of the village made some unwise
management decisions and trusted too much to their faith and too little to logic
and hard work. Before anyone realized what had happened, important food crops had
gone locally extinct. Prices rose higher and higher. People began to starve to
death and the graveyard started filling up quickly. A few hardy souls desperately
attempted to cross the magical barrier with predictably tragic results.

The barrier was not exactly impassible. Your people could not get out,
but monsters and evil men could get in to prey upon the people of the village in
their darkest hour. Maintaining the stone wall around the village became a big
priority at the same time that maximum effort to obtain food was required.

In short, your people are about to die off.

One morning you wake up in your house and realize that you only have
enough wheat left to make three loaves of bread. Your meager life savings of 10
emeralds will not buy much food or anything else. You need to take action now,
venture beyond the safety of the village walls, gather resources, and work hard to
rebuild the agricultural system before it is too late for everyone.


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The main point of this map is to have resources be scarce and to make it
so you have to struggle to avoid starving. Standard Minecraft is way too easy.
Careful people never starve to death. They get so rich that they can't figure out
what to do with all their treasure. It gets boring. Trading with villagers is
pointless because you can get the things they sell on your own more easily than
you can get the emeralds to buy them. Selling stuff to them to get emeralds seems
pointless because there is nothing you really need to spend them on. So you just
horde them in a chest and look at them.

But this map is different. You really could starve if you are not careful
or if you make bad decisions. Being able to trade with villagers can be a matter
of life and death. Here are the challenges you face:

(1) Your village is imprisoned inside a magical barrier and the resources inside
have been depleted.
(2) There is pretty much no grass and no seeds. So wheat farming will be difficult.
(3) Animals are very scarce. You won't get much meat.
(4) You don't know where to find any red mushrooms.
(5) You don't know where to find any potatoes and carrots.
(6) You don't know where to find any melons.
(7) You don't know where to find any cocoa beans.
(8) The forests have been chopped down. Wood is scarce.
(9) The area does not have a lot of mineral wealth. Coal and iron are scarce.

Inside the walls of your large village, you will find villagers to trade
with, a few resources, and lots of garden space if you can find anything useful
to grow.

Outside the village wall you will find a few resources and many dungeons to
explore. The best loot is found in chests at the end of dungeons. Things that
will make it easier to survive.


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2. RULES FOR THIS MAP
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There really aren't many. It is free play style. Break all the blocks you want, place
all the blocks you want, and craft all you want.

Rules:
(1) Stay in Survival Mode at all times.
(2) Stay on the hard difficulty setting at all times.
(3) Be nice to villagers. You are the hero trying to save them. So do not kill them
and grief their property. Do not steal from them unless absolutely necessary for the
good of the village. Those who live outside the village walls (other than at the mine)
are outlaws and their property is fair game.

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3. INSTALLATION
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Use 7-Zip to extract the downloaded Minecraft map to your .minecraft\saves directory.

For example, here is the file path on my PC with Windows 7:

C:\Users\(YourUserName)\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves

So after you install, it will look like this:

C:\Users\(YourUserName)\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves\Famine Lands 1.X

But what if you can't find it?

This directory may be hidden and invisible on your computer. Once you find it, create a desktop
shortcut to it for future use.

To find it, you may have to something like this:

On Windows 7, the Windows key (between Ctrl and Alt) + R, and enter %appdata% into the box.
Click OK and find the ".minecraft" folder. Find the "saves" folder inside it.

For more information on how to install a Minecraft map:

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Custom_maps
http://ergotutorials.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Install-Downloaded-Minecraft-Maps
http://www.howtogeek.com/school/htg-guide-to-minecraft/lesson13/

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4. VERSION HISTORY
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V 1.0 1/31/15 Initial release. Four dungeons total.
V 1.1 2/22/15 Nine dungeons total. Roller coaster added.
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5. KNOWN ISSUES, AND TROUBLESHOOTING
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This map was designed using the default texture pack and may not look as good if certain
other texture packs are used.

This map uses new blocks and coding from Minecraft 1.8 and will not work right on an older
version of Minecraft.

Villagers are rather stupid and defenseless, and the zombies are likely to kill many of
them because Minecraft is imbalanced in this respect.

If you cannot find the dungeons, read the spoiler document.

This map is still being worked on. The content which is present is finished and playable,
but there are plans to add new dungeons and other content.

This map still needs more testing under a variety of operating conditions.

If you locate a bug, contact David Brasher so that the situation can be examined and can
hopefully be fixed.

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6. COPY STATUS AND CREDITS
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Credits: David Brasher - Design, block placing, redstone, command blocks.

Mojang for making Minecraft.

Copy Status: Public domain with proper attribution and courtesy notification. You may edit this map
and redistribute it so long as you list the original author in your credits in your
readme file and notify David Brasher that you have done this.

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