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Nether Escape - Minigame/challenge

• • 6/24/25 4:13 am • 21 logs
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Minecraft 1.21
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Cosmoguy
Lvl 50 • Grandmaster Programmer
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Nether Escape! v2.05
1.21.5 + 1.21.6
(Will not work in earlier versions)
Updated: 24th June 2025

This is a challenge/minigame where you start in the nether with nothing and the goal is to escape to the overworld in the fastest time possible!

Play it singleplayer or multiplayer

If someone joins after the host has started the game they will be teleported to the nether automatically and their challenge will start
Big shout out for JTnBex as they inspired me to make this into a datapack
JTnBex: https://www.twitch.tv/jtnbex

Useful Commands (Version 1.04+)

Pause game: /function game:_pause
Resume game: /function game:_resume

Pausing the game stops the clock and all players are given invincibility until the game is resumed.

I do apologies for the frequent updates but will settle down once I squash all the bugs :)

21 Update Logs

v2.05 : by Cosmoguy 06/24/2025 4:13:18 amJune 24, 2025 @ 8:13 am UTC

Change: Now invincible for 1 min after death (was 30 secs)
Change: InfoPanel now renamed to Sidebar
Added: "[O]" setting to the sidebar option (Sidebar will only show the amount of obsidian in players inventory)
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SirMephistoPheles666
• 12/11/2021 4:19 pm
He/Him • Level 68 : High Grandmaster Spelunker Botanist
Hi. This data pack is marked to work with Minecraft version 1.18 but 1.18 wasn't even out when it was last updated. I just tested it and it does not work with 1.18. If you could please do something about it, maybe change the supported version number to exclude 1.18 that would be greatly appreciated since this is very misleading. Thank you.
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Cosmoguy
• 12/12/2021 8:01 am
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
Thank you for your comment, I have just tested it in 1.18.1 and for me it is fully working, can you tell me what's going wrong? thanks Cosmo :)
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SirMephistoPheles666
• 12/12/2021 8:55 am
He/Him • Level 68 : High Grandmaster Spelunker Botanist
I don't know how are you using this data pack but it isn't working for me no matter how I try. Well as a data pack it isn't the traditional one for sure. Seeing there are two pack.mcmeta files are inside the zip. If you try to use the data pack as a regular one it simply won't show up when making a new world. If you try to extract then repack the data pack files as TWO separate data packs they won't work either.

Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyBwJxHTPw4

If I'm doing something wrong please tell me so I can fix my methods. According to my best knowledge this is how you use data packs.
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Cosmoguy
• 12/12/2021 10:58 am
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
You are not installing it correctly, most datapacks are installed this way but this one is not. The youtube tutorial will show you exactly how to install it which is featured within the gallery on planet minecraft :)
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SirMephistoPheles666
• 12/12/2021 11:01 am
He/Him • Level 68 : High Grandmaster Spelunker Botanist
Aha! I see! Thank you for clarifying. Much appreciated.
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Cosmoguy
• 12/12/2021 11:06 am
He/Him • Level 50 : Grandmaster Programmer
No problem :) Glad you got it working, always happy to help :D, reason why its 2 datapacks is cos it has the coords hub from vanilla tweaks that i modified to also display deaths and stopwatch
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CylinderBox
• 01/13/2021 2:05 pm
• Level 64 : High Grandmaster Kitten
I really want to ewscape!
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Welcome