With a name like it has, the Build Faster mod should be pretty easy for most players to figure out from a glance. Basically the mod just makes you build faster. There’s nothing special about that; what’s unique is the way the mod does what...
The Legend of Zelda is a popular source for lots of Minecraft content, including resource packs, mods and even maps. The Majora’s Maskcraft mod adds a wide variety of new headgears to Minecraft, except if you’ve played Majora’s Mask in the past, none of them...
What could be more terrifying than giant pig meteors falling from the sky and destroying your Minecraft world? Well, a lot of things probably. The Nether is a pretty scary place on its own, after all. But the Pig Meteors mod reminds us all that...
Just where do players put all the weapons, tools, items, food and other goods they carry around in Minecraft? Steve sure doesn’t look like he’s carrying a bag of some kind while he’s out adventuring. The Backpacks plugin for Bukkit adds usable backpacks to Minecraft...
Building in Minecraft is fun now and then, but only when you’re working on your house, or your farm, or something else that’s going to help you directly. Most people don’t actually enjoy building massive online worlds by hand, which is why they use mods...
Making maps can be a chore in Minecraft. Not only do you need some fairly advanced materials to make something that is more useful the earlier you can get your hands on it, but maps aren’t interchangeable. They can only cover a certain area, even...
Minecraft’s random map generation algorithms have been known to produce some cool and unique worlds that just don’t look like they could have been made by the game. However, the majority of maps you get when creating new worlds tend to look the same. The...
The different biomes which can be found throughout Minecraft each have unique features. Some of them, like jungles, even have items you can’t find anywhere else (cocoa beans in this case). Others, like swamps, feature enemies you won’t find elsewhere – which means enemy drops...
If you already know about the Lucky Block mod, then you know it’s one of the best mods available for Minecraft right now. It adds an element of chance to the game which just isn’t there otherwise, and for that it’s one of the more...
Even though the names are spelled differently, Cake Defence and Cake Defense 2 are both actually from the same author. This second entry in the popular map series introduces more monsters, more hazards and more stress to a game formula which already had players feeling...
Nintendo really managed to tap into a ready market when they started producing their Super Smash Bros. game series. Seeing their iconic characters fighting each other in a number of familiar worlds has made the games a huge success, so much so that other companies...
As far as medieval maps go, Kargeth will more or less blend in with the rest. It features a lot of wood and stone construction – simple structures made using simple tools. However, there are a few pretty sweet pieces of architecture to find interspersed...
Tower defense games are very popular on the Internet these days. They aren’t the only games people are playing where the object is to defend a particular object or point, however. In Minecraft, the Cake Defence map presents players with a special game, lasting 12...
When you need to travel over large bodies of water in Minecraft, you can usually find a couple blocks of wood, convert them to planks and then build a boat. This allows for fast traveling on water, rather than the slow swimming that takes forever...
You know how people used to think the Earth was flat? It wasn’t even that long ago, when you consider the scope of time and how long people have been around on this planet. Cube World 2 is the second map in a Minecraft series...
Some mods manage to change the way Minecraft is played without really making any drastic changes to item IDs, or adding a bunch of blocks, or breaking the game by adding overpowered equipment and armor. The Road Blocks mod is one of those simple but...
Some of the best custom Minecraft maps let players try something new in Minecraft without requiring a laundry list of different mods and loaders to work. Though they don’t add custom content to the game, they create new function with the content which already exists...
Minerim: Skyrim’s Downfall sure sounds like some DLC for the popular Elder Scrolls title by Bethesda. However, it’s actually a custom map for Minecraft which incorporates a lot of content from the RPG into the blocky world made by Mojang. The map features many locations...
The Dendrology mod, also known as the Ancient Trees mod by some, is the perfect mod for Minecraft players looking to add leagues of new vegetation to their tired worlds. In all, this mod adds thirteen new and different types of trees to the game,...
Anyone who has ever watched one of the old Alien or Predator movies (or the newer Prometheus film) knows what to expect from that particular director. Big, nasty monsters with acid for blood and high-tech space weaponry capable of taking down an entire army of...
The Dynmap mod brings dynamic, web-based maps to Minecraft; but what does this mean, exactly? If you’ve ever used Google Maps, Mapquest or another popular online mapping service, then you already know about web-based maps. This mod gives you a similar map which you can...
The Fast Building mod is one of the best mods out there for Minecraft players seeking to build expansive structures. If you like to make custom adventure, puzzle or maze maps for other players to download and try to find their way through, then you’re...
For Minecraft players who prefer playing alone, as well as those who are designing custom maps for others to use when playing at online servers, the Single Player Commands mod is a highly useful tool. Basically, this mod adds a number of commands to the...
Randomly generated maps are the name of the game in Minecraft. Unless players are getting their maps through various download sources, they are making their own maps, with or without accompanying seeds. That’s why it’s so cool when something like The Recreation of the Earth...