With so many maps focused on slaying monsters and traversing frightening lands, sometimes, you just want to sit down and try your head at a well-constructed head-scratcher.
So this list offers some of Minecraft’s best puzzle maps, for when you’re in a sit-on-the-toilet-and-do-sudoku kind of mood.
Escape Prison is a map that has you escape 10 prisons.
It’s good training, in case you actually end up in the slammer. No need to fare if you simply leave!
How realistic are these prisons?
Well, all the other prisoners are villagers with big noses, and real-life prisons have plenty of people in there for lying about some very big things so… if we’re following the rules of Pinocchio, they’re somewhat realistic?
Everyone’s always talking about their crazy lucid dreaming experiences. If you don’t know what lucid dreaming is, it’s when you are aware that you’re in a dream while you’re in the dream.
Personally? I prefer lucid nightmares.
They make me feel like I’m in a horror movie – and I find that pretty cool.
Unfortunately, lucid dreaming/lucid nightmare-ing can be quite difficult to do.
Practitioners use various methods to achieve lucidity such as waking themselves up with an alarm in the middle of the night during REM and then going back to sleep. As a former lucid dreamer, it gets exhausting.
Fortunately, this map exists.
You can get the lucid nightmare experience without waking up in the middle of the night!
In fact, you can get the lucid nightmare experience during the day.
And unlike many popular horror movies, the characters (you) are not stupid. You can’t be. This is a puzzle map, so get that classical music and tea ready!
In this map, you’ll be switching between your nightmare state and your wakeful state to escape a scary room.
Luckily for you, this map’s museum has a five-finger discount. So use those five fingers to w-a-s-d your way into a museum and steal as much loot as you can!
They should have a statue of you in there for how good you are at stealing.
Master Surgeon is a puzzle map where you must carry out medical procedures on your patients. Hopefully, you don’t have shaky hands. Or fingers!
You’re no regular surgeon though.
You’re a tiny surgeon.
I’m not calling you short. I’m calling you tiny. Tininess is a prerequisite to become a Minecraft surgeon because you’ll need to enter your patients’ bodies.
Enhanced is the crossover of Blockbuster superhero action flicks and Minecraft puzzles.
Like most superheroes, you start as an average Joe. You don’t stay that way though. No, you’re special.
You get to upgrade your biology using a little something called the bioupgrader.
What does upgrading your biology mean?
No, you’re not going to get a more symmetrical face and become uber-attractive.
This is the Minecraft puzzle map industry, not the makeup industry.
What you will get is going to be far more useful in attracting a mate of your preferred sex. You get superpowers! And if your preference is nobody, well…you still get superpowers so be grateful!
You may be wondering: “what will I be expected to do with these superpowers? Will I stop Thanos from snapping his fingers? Will I be the Thanos snapping his fingers?
Well this map encourages something like that. Except instead of other people, you’ll be bossing your Minecraft world around.
Many maps prohibit the use of commands but that’s what this map’s all about.
Here you’ll find 10 different levels, which you’ll need to use your knowledge of commands to solve. And if you don’t know what command to use…well, Google’s free!
You can’t use “/gamemode” though because we wouldn’t want you simply creative-punching your way through these levels, now would we?
