Minecraft’s Survival Mode can be daunting at times for newer players or the completely uninitiated, but custom survival maps turn up the heat significantly with their challenge.
Custom survival maps are individual worlds created by the Minecraft community to challenge players’ wills to survive. These maps often have incredibly dangerous terrain, mobs and limited resources that force players to conserve what they have and try to ration themselves in order to avoid death. For Minecraft players who have played Survival Mode extensively or simply those looking for a change of pace, custom survival maps can bring an intense and rewarding experience.
Here are five of the most famous and engaging custom survival maps.
Minecraft: 5 custom survival maps certain to challenge players
5) Wild West
Minecraft players aren’t feeling the wide open western expanse, maybe they’d prefer the cold and lonely reaches of space. Ermin Caft’s Deadly Orbit pits players against the quickly-declining situation aboard the International Space Station. They will need to improve situations on the station before finding its few survivors and returning to Earth. Minecraft players can expect extreme food shortages, so much so that it is common to die from hunger.
Caft’s only rules for this map are to play on at least Easy difficulty and to play on Survival Mode, but the latter really goes without saying.
3) Stranded Raft
hostile wildlife.
Caft has advised for optimal experience, players install the PureBDcraft texture pack, Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shader pack, and Karyonix’s GLSL shaders mod update.
2) Cube Survival
Edited by Gautham Balaji 
