After 2 years in development, my map just got released today! It's an epic adventure map with puzzles, combat, parkour, and a boss fight. Welcome to The Curse of Starry Isle! (Links in the comments)

Download link to the map. (1.12)

PlanetMinecraft link.

It's also available on realms! It just got released on there today. Here's a blog post about it.

This map has been a passion project of mine for the last couple of years. I'm going to keep this short and sweet, so if you guys have any questions just ask.

The Curse of Starry Isle is essentially a classic CTM map, but it has some unique mechanics for you to discover. It features a huge map to lose yourself in, and many challenges await if you are to lift the curse. I don't want to spoil too much, so good luck in your adventure!

don´t now if my toaster of computer can handle it :/ but will try anyway

I bought Minecraft 3 days ago. Of course I know everything since I watched a lot of youtubers for 3 years.

Gulp. I don't know if I can finish the purple parkour dungeon the other guy talked about.

Well. I downloaded it, the details are awesome! Only it gives me an Fps of 3 at times, maxing out at 7.

My computer IS a toaster. Maybe I will complete it.

Is this map recommended for solo play or is it co-op compatible?

Aaaaaaaaand bookmarked

I just finished playing it, and I really, really enjoy it!

Pros -such a pretty map -good gameplay -really cool final boss

Cons -maybe a lack of food sources? -i think it was the purple dungeon where there was a parkour course where the floor would tp you back to the start. some of the skeletons fell on the ground and my bow broke so I had to pull some fishing rods shenanigans to stop them from annoying me.

10/10 map, thanks for making this! :)

I recommend lowering your FOV while. Taking screenshots. Looks normal to you but many aren't adjusted to it. I too play as a quake pro.

I tried to get a friend to set this up but he says "nothing happens when he presses the begin button". Are we missing anything? The server's completely vanilla by the way.

Is it possible to play this over LAN?

Thanks for the awesome adventure map! I just finished playing the game, and I really enjoyed it. I haven't played adventure maps like this before.

The scenery was breathtaking - I especially liked the blue shard's castle and the purple shard's "nether" palace.

Even though it was fun exploring the map, I kind of have to say that I disliked the parkour part for the blue shard. After trying to pass the two uppermost jumps (green & yellow) without success over ~50 times (even with the jump boost potions), I had to cheat and give myself the levitation effect. I think it could have been made either easier or the checkpoint could have been next to the difficult jump.

I'm just curious what this area looks like up close. Like, how is there so much variation in the grass? Is it a mix of concrete and wool or something?

I wish the Yogscast would play this.

would this work on MCPE / WIN10?

The map looks really cool! And a big congratulations on getting it on Realms and mentioned on the MC blog! I'm sure it's awesome to finish a project like this that you've been working on for so long. I'm going to download and give it a try!

Looks awesome. Well done dude :)

What editing programs did you use to make this map or was it all by hand in creative?

I’ll definitely have to check it out, 2 years? Sounds like a with a lot of work put in it.

Hey out of curiosity, do you think it'll work on a server that's been spigotted?

Where we droppin bois

How large is it?

currently have the blue infinity stone- I MEAN SHARD

pretty good map so far

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REVIEW OF "THE CURSE OF STARRY ISLE"

OVERALL Well worth the download and time!

CONS:

• MOST of the ornate pathways are void of all half slabs and stairs (lots of jumping)

• INVENTORY MANAGEMENT is a MUST (there are EXTREMELY few quest items) a chunk of time was spend consolidating chest contents to the horse sable. While the variety of food is entertaining it doesn't add to the game play, just makes inventory management more tedious.

• RESPAWNING ENEMIES It appears u/AdamDJM took a page out of the old Zelda games, you can take your time and snipe those pesky blazes and ghast, but don't waste your time, they'll jut be back. RESPAWNING ENEMIES makes it difficult to appreciate the IMMENSE amount of work you've put into it! / Exploration in the 'dungeons' isn't fun/feasible when constantly under attack.

• Post game, players are encouraged to explore, they are unable to do so using spectator or creative. I know that I wanted to fly above and around to take in all the sights. (Unless you take out the 2 specific command blocks with MCEdit...got to find those first)

• Little to no guide as to 'how'/'where' one should progress / EXTREMELY simple goals (there are 4 of them)

• Some animations weren't witnessed as the players attention wasn't directed to the action.

• The island has EXTREMELY FEW WAYS TO GET OUT OF THE WATER....DON"T FALL INTO THE 'OCEAN', else you'll have a SSSSSUUUUUPPPPEEEEERRRR long way around to finding somewhere you can jump out.

• The Island 'ledge' surrounding the perimeter is extensive though void of any purpose...I'd have cut off that ledge to remove the speculation of 'something is around this edge!'

PROS:

• FLIPPIN' AMAZING WORLD! Beautiful! If you've got shaders, run 'em. If you're on PC, and it can handle it Turn up the render distance to 40 or MORE! The mountains in the distant are beautiful.

• AMAZING ANIMATIONS It takes a LOT of work to build each frame and have it work as intended.

• Robust Commands / Streamlined Commands This map has JUST enough commands to make everything work as it does. There's no messy wiring or horrific execution of logic.

• The 'side treasures' are entertaining and MOST are easy to understand.

• FLAWLESS EXECUTIONS ... I didn't get trapped anywhere, or get stuck, nor did any NPC behave in an unintended way.

• CAN NOT EXPRESS ENOUGH How beautiful this world is. Take the time, remove those 2 'set gamemode to adventure' command blocks and EXPLORE THIS BEAUTY!

• LITTLE TO NO REDSTONE/WATER/ENTITY Mechanics This map will be playable for YEARS.

• EXPLORATION IS REWARDED ... most of the time. Go off the path, see who or what is roaming out and about, they'll be there to help.

• NO TRIAL AND ERROR PUZZLES There was NO 'figure it out by dying a bunch of times.' You can look ahead, plan your attack and get through it!

• PARKOUR wasn't super tedious, spawn points were place almost/just frequent enough.

• LORE/WRITTEN BOOKS were appropriate, not super lengthy, and straight to the points (easy to follow/added to the experience)

• FINAL BOSS MECHANICS ARE AWESOME unique and entertaining, they add more to the game-play in a positive way.

Neutral Comments:

• It would add a LOT to the game, if Minecraft Music was played upon entering areas or locations.

• It would add a LOT if the weather changed.

• It would add a LOT if the day/night cycle changed.

• The portion located in the nether...could have been located in the over world using the /tp command. (unless you REALLY wanted the 'full specturm' of nether travel animations)

• This world is large enough and picturesque enough to merit the addition of other quests and similar (future updates?)

u/AdamDJM thank you for this contribution to the community! I've enjoyed it greatly, and hope others do as well!

The farm area reminds me of The Rows on the Wandering Isle in World of Warcraft.

Been too long since I’ve played a CTM map! Definitely gonna try this one! Congratulations on finishing this! Good job sticking it out to the end!

Wish I had a pc so bad to play this looks awesome!

Nice, gettin those cape points ;)

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!

I'm gonna run this on a Rock64 server, see how it goes :)

This looks super awesome! I hope this is the precursor to a new wave of adventure maps like this, I find that they're lacking these days.

Interesting

Thanks man! I was looking for a big adventure map to play with my friends.

I can hardly even imagine the effort that goes into making these

What's this ? Is it just a map to play on and manage ressource or is there a story/quests ? Boss drops random or set loot ? Do they respawn or quest-only ?

This is beautifull!!!

It looks great! Cant wait to get home and play!

Looks hella cool

Is there any place I should go first after the village? I see a hellscape with a red beacon nearby, but that can't be early game content :/. Not sure where I should go

Edit: Is there a map anywhere? Do I take the crystals back to spawn?

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Thanks for putting this together. Look forward to downloading and playing!

Do you ever get the ability to break/place blocks? I was hoping this would be more like a traditional CTM survival map but it's looks like it's not quite that...

Just tried it in VR with Vivecraft. Only did a little exploring so far, but really immersive, your map looks beautiful.

It seems so cool. Never played adventure, any rules I need to know? Digging is forbidden I guess?

Are you supposed to be able to craft potions? Because I've come across all sorts of water bottles and potion ingredients, but no blaze powder to make potions with.

Hey dude, I'm pretty bored today so I'm going to give it a try... will update.

Brilliantly beautiful map.

Overall: Pretty fun and great. Though I have a very minor gripe about the Blue Crystal section. That part in the Blue Crystal section with the extending bridges made me incredibly frustrated just due to how slow the bridges extended and thus how tedious it was to get back up to the top. Overall though, this was a blast to play and see. I loved doing the Crystal areas and I loved looking for the secret treasures. I thought they had very good hints that were informative but don't give anything away. I took some screenshots with Conquest of the Sun as my shader pack and Better Vanilla by Fisher/PixelNinja521 as my resource pack. C:

This looks so amazing for a long map (and in general)!

REVIEW Cons:

• First area is probably the most difficult mob wise.

• Profound sense of loneliness

• Spent way too long looking around in all the little houses to only ever find nuggets and food

• Variety of food is nice, but it caused major clogging

• No personal storage, had to use a nearby house

• Mobs don't give XP. I know it is probably intended for us to find the bottles of enchanting, but given the enchantment tables and books you give us, we need more XP available

• Most of your "treasure" rewards are books that I do not have enough XP to use

• Parkour where you have to jump a 4 block gap or a 3 block, 1 vertical gap is nigh impossible. Makes it very unenjoyable to play.

• No spectator mode when map is complete

• The blue shard was problematic. One of the targets stopped respawning the minecart, and I had to cheat to move on. Then, the bridges were very annoying, as the last block disappeared the moment it reached the destination. The parkour sections were difficult because there were a couple jumps that resulted in you having to do the bridge section over again, which takes forever

• In the middle of the boss fight all of the husks despawned and I just went and killed the evoker, which I don't think was intended

• No reward for finishing the map, no daylight cycle

• Respawning mobs

• The exit of the blue dungeon takes you right to the purple dungeon. I hit both up, but it was a little confusing to get back after.

Pros:

• Visuals were stunning! Landscape and Builds were detailed, appropriate, and pleasing visually

• Mechanics involving blocks physically being animated were fantastic and never failed to work (besides once). Really creative choice

• There was enough food

• Horses! Thank you!

• Mobs were correctly balanced

• Lore was good, there were enough secrets to keep me interested

• Travel time was decent

• Checkpoint system worked great

• Most parkour was pretty cool

• Villager trades were great, and correctly balanced

In general, I thought it was a very solid map. The visuals are the strongpoint, and the gameplay was creative and well thought out. While there are areas where it could be improved, they were mostly minor annoyances. I found myself wanting to keep playing it. One thing I will stress is that I want to be able to use spectator.

Given how nobody else seems to have mentioned it, I'm assuming what happened to me was some sort of bug. I'm in what can best be described as a hot/cold floor parkour room, one of the first challenges I've come across. I hit both switches, and found the book that SAYS "hit both switches," but the gate isn't opening as I believed it would.

Am I doing something wrong? Or has something gone awry? If so, how do I fix it?

So after playing the map and taking notes as I played I have decided to post said notes here. slight spoiler warning I suppose

• no clear set of rules

• love the scenery

• not a ton of parkour but plenty to be fun

• loved the riddles

• great how it tells you when you solve a riddle

• loved the sawmill

• small puzzle elements included

• in green area I believe it is the bridge should go down once shard is collected

• in the area where you shoot the mine carts some of the bridges vanish too fast

• plenty of loot

• red area could have a easier way back

• loved the campfire that is hidden away

• final boss was great especially because I haven't fought that enemy very much

• design there was also good

• when you return to the island it should put you in survival or creative so you can explore the island little restrictions

• loved the ship

This map looks absolutely beautiful and well done on all the time and effort put it.

Some really great builds.

Love the mechanics of pushing buttons and things actually happening.

However, oh my god the parkour challenges are the worst. I’ve only seen one or two other complaints so maybe my friend and I are just terrible at jumping but we have burned through 2 entire infinity bows trying to get the blue shard. I am ready to smash my entire laptop.

Again, incredible map, you are an amazing builder and I think the story itself is nice and straight forward and that mini map!! Loved it!

But screw the parkour. So infuriating.

Edit: also, found loot to be a little sparse, fine with 2 people, but I think playing with more would be rough.

"where we dropping boys?!"

Heya, I can't seem to open any chests or get items from item frames in the starting area. Am I supposed to be getting gear some other way?

Are you supposed to get the red crystal from that red fiery castle? Because I can't find it.

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wow. you are really good at building, but it does get a bet confusing. maybe i accidentally went the wrong way or something, but i ended up randomly wandering.

Someone needs to make The Witness in Minecraft

You should make it clear that the spawn pot takes away shards. I retrieved the red shard, gave myself the potion to skip parkour, and found that I lost the shard and my wife and my sense of meaning.

So are there not rules anywhere or am I just blind?

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Controversial opinion, but any adventure map is automatically 100% if it doesn't have parkour.

How do u waste two years making a subgame