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[nitrodog96]

Discuss Minecraft and anything to do with it here.

I've created a "Through Time" parkour, and might post some screenshots of it here later, but for now I'll leave discussion to you guys.

[nitrodog96]

Your comment about loving survival reminded me of my current survival... I'm doing one myself and recording it, although I'm (VERY) amateur. Minecraft started running out of memory around the 30-minute mark, so I decided to end it off there. I might upload it to YouTube and ask the viewers for feedback etc, of course that's if I get any.

BTW, I don't really play creative that much... I mostly play OP Factions on my friend's server as well as different parkours and Skyblock with three other people I know from a private server.

The reason for making the parkour? I wanted to get a parkour in MineCats' Player Created Parkour section, so I decided to follow the "be original" criteria. First idea: Make it survival-oriented. Follow the course of what's obtained in survival and work from there. Wood, stone, coal, iron, gold, redstone, diamond... Then I drew a blank for that idea. I scrapped it and started again.

Then I realized that if the parkours were on the skyblock server, why not make it oriented around a skyblock? This idea was scrapped quickly, as I realized that it was really worthless to do so unless the skyblock was a skyblock created by myself in survival, with the parkour added to and around the skyblock.

Third time's the charm, right? I realized that Ancient Greece could make a great parkour base. The thing was, I didn't want to make huge statues of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades buck-naked, because that would make it "inappropriate," as denoted in the guidelines.

Then I thought, "Why not make it go through time from prehistory to our civilization, including Ancient Greece?" That's where the whole idea came into form. Starting with prehistory, I built trees and a dinosaur. Transitioning into the Ice Age, with a mammoth and a saber tooth tiger. I immediately transitioned into Mesopotamia, building a ziggurat, then Egypt, with a small pyramid. Greece was next, with a large shrine, and the Roman Empire came after that, including the Roman Coliseum with a lion. I decided not to build a city; I had a 24-block-wide space left, and who wants to build skyscrapers in that?

So I made a gigantic six-segment parkour going from prehistory to Rome. As it was difficult to build, I had to make the parkour difficult as well. In Prehistory, I made a superbly hard ladder jump near the start. In the Ice Age, you have to make a 2-block corner jump on soul sand. In Mesopotamia, you have loads of ladder jumps in a tower. Egypt always gives a block directly above your head. Greece involved difficult block jumps, and Rome consisted of long-distance jumps.

Let me tell you, everyone hated the jumps but loved it in general.

As I said, I will be posting screenshots of the parkour, but you'll have to wait until Friday for them, because I'll be at my grandparents' house until then.