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Ikalyx, 2K, Ruins, Castles and flying Rocks [1.20.2, survival friendly, Download, Java, Bedrock, Minecraft World, Community Suggestion]

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Published Jun 20th, 2024, 6/20/24 3:36 pm
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Ikalyx, 2K, Ruins, Castles and flying Rocks [1.20.2, survival friendly, Download, Java, Bedrock, Minecraft World, Community Suggestion] Minecraft MapIkalyx, 2K, Ruins, Castles and flying Rocks [1.20.2, survival friendly, Download, Java, Bedrock, Minecraft World, Community Suggestion] Minecraft Map
Ikalyx, 2K, Ruins, Castles and flying Rocks [1.20.2, survival friendly, Download, Java, Bedrock, Minecraft World, Community Suggestion] Minecraft Map




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Welcome to Ikalyx,

a amazing 4km² custom Minecraft map created by McMeddon. This world is the perfect start for your adventures. A Starter island with a huge alpine mountain, high plateaus, cliffs, and a shipwreck beach

With plateaus, multiple mountain regiones, seperating the world into multiple areas of adventure and opportunities, with a variarity of new mountains, new plateaus, terrains, cliffs, rivers, and biome types..

Whether you're playing in survival, creative, coop, or on servers, this world offers a rich environment for every Minecraft enthusiast.

Embark on thrilling adventures by plundering forests and balloons, battling through deserts, or constructing your dream home on cliffs or mountains. Discover custom thriving diverse island to explore.

Enjoy your adventure!
  • Compatible with 1.20+ Java and Bedrock edition
  • Enhanced biomes with trees, plants, and animals
  • Lootable structures such as ships, balloons, and dungeons
  • Custom caves, mineshafts, mansions, and strongholds
  • Survival-friendly with ores, resources, and villages

Download this World today and start your epic journey!



Thats me!





Hii, if you dont know me, i am a map creator, creating big landcapes, custom worlds or survival maps. My goal is to create the best Minecraft worlds that are usable, enjoyable and fun to play (in survival).

I have huge passion for minecraft, and landscapes, and became over a long time really good at it by improving my worlds, project by project. I care alot about these projects and try to iterate, improve or reimagine the basics of minecraft to lift it up to create new experiences, while also trying to keep the "spirit" of vanilla Minecraft.

PlanetMinecraft is my home, where i love to share my creations with familiar and new faces. And create a small community around that, that cares aout these worlds as much as i do. :)


Community Suggested Worlds


💡 Comment your ideas, what I should include/do

Suggestions taken in from:
Bonny W. & Ww2guru73







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Releases


ReleasedRelease dateType
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20. June 2024Source Files
✅
20. June 20241.20.2 Java
✅
20. June 20241.20 Bedrock

Predecessor Map (Evolution of:)www.planetminecraft.com/project/horypso/


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Features, Structures, and Biomes



General Features


Structures & Specials


Biomes

✅Download✅Vanilla and custom advanced structures✅Custom Arctic Area
✅Exported for 1.20+ Java✅

✅Plains Village
Taiga Village
Desert Village
Savanna Village

Custom Badlands / Mesa
❌Exported for 1.15+ Java
✅Trail ruins✅Bamboo Jungles
(integrated into jungles)
❌Exported for 1.12 Java
✅Custom Pillager and Illager Outposts✅Custom Beaches
✅Exported for 1.21+ Bedrock✅
Custom Mineshafts

✅Cherry Grove
(Custom: tall, normal, lush)
✅Map Size:2048, 2048
Map Center: 1024, 1024
Map Size: (Java) 200+MB
Vanilla Strongholds
Custom Deserts
✅Terrain Heights: 320
World height: -64 to 320		✅Custom Dungeons
Custom Red Deserts
✅Water Level 62
(Minecraft default is 62)
✅Strongholds scattered across the land
(indicated by Moss and stone statues)

Custom Flower Forest
✅Minecraft Ores: all 1.17+ Ores
Custom Desert Temples

✅Caves (Custom)✅Custom Ships and Shipwrecks✅Custom Jungle
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Every Plant/seed possible/obtainable

Plants: In biomes, villages, flower fields, or through bushes
✅Custom Random Structures (farms, scarecrows, balloons, camps, beach loot, bushes, deep dark structures, water/lava ponds, skeletons, snowman, forester house, statues)
Custom Mountains
Frozen Peak
Stony Peaks
Jagged Peaks
Snow slopes
Glaciers
✅Survival-Oriented plants:
Small trees are max 6-7 block reach, designed for easy chopping down
✅Vaultmine - Every Plant Available (Custom Mineshaft with Seedvault - Read More here)
✅Custom Forests: Birch, Oak, Mega Oak, Dark Oak, Spruce, Mega Spruce, Taiga, Jungle
✅(Passive-) Mobs spawning✅Custom Witchhuts✅Custom Mushroom Fields
✅Vanilla Ancient City✅Mobvote Mob Statues and Golems✅Custom Plains
✅Vanilla and custom mineshafts✅Custom Plants (designed for survival)✅Custom Rivers

Custom Vanilla Mobs included (In mineshafts)✅Custom Nether Portals
Custom Savanna
✅Java:

Loot chests accessing the Vanilla Loot-Tables, for random loot
✅Custom Mobs Spawner Structures for:

Bees, chickens, cows, donkeys, foxes, goats, horses, ice bears, llamas, ocelots, pandas, pigs, sheeps, tutles, and wolfs)
✅Custom Caves Gen 2
✅ Lush Caves
✅ Dripstone Caves
✅ Crystal Caves
✅ Deep Dark Caves
✅ Mega Caves
✅ Deep Dark Caves
✅ Complex Caves
❌Bedrock:

Loot chests accessing the Vanilla Loot-Tables, for random loot
(currently software limitation)

Custom Mansions✅Custom Oceans,
Custom Warm
Custom Frozen
Custom Coral Reefs
✅Infinite World on Java & Bedrock with a transition✅
Abandoned Villages / Structures


Stone Shores
✅Geodes✅Custom Ocean Monument✅Custom Swamps
(Currently Basic included)
❌Patreons as Villagers
✅Villager Camps✅Custom Mangroves




✅Custom High and Flat Archipelago



What changed? What's new?



  • https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/mcmeddons-map-update-history/
  • reduced height of rolling hills
  • added more smoothing to mapedge cutoff
  • added additional beach layer at map edge terrains
  • added 20 stone castle ruin structures (wip)
  • added 40 various misc structures/ruins to be placed around the world (minecraft dungeons reference)
  • added 2 ruined house structures (minecraft dungeons reference)


🚧⚠ Issues / Things to be aware of


As complexity rises, a small tweak or change can have unintended consequences, flaws, be just poor choices, or I maybe hit certain possibility limits of programs. These maps are really complex and hard to make, with dozens of steps and hundreds of layers to apply in the right order. And I'm just a non-magical-wizard boi making sometimes either a poor decision or an unintended mistake, but I want to let you know what might have an impact when playing this world, and here’s what I´ve noticed:

  • Bedrock: Map edges can be not smoothed
  • Bedrock: Villagers can be missing (Program: amulet limitation)
  • Bedrock: Chests can not be converted (Program: amulet limitation)
  • rivers can be wacky at cliff edges and steep slopes
  • this map deviates heavily with the texturing methode to other worlds

Want to know what's coming next?
Check out this post: www.planetminecraft.com/blog/mcmeddons-roadmap/

The focus of this map was the reshaping and reworks of the base land and rivers. Combining them and refining the implementation of different terrain types and improved texturing for the environment



Minecraft Maps Java Installation Guide

  1. Download map by clicking the yellow button at the top right of the description.
  2. On Windows, use keys Windows+R and then typing “%appdata%/.minecraft/saves/” into the command line. (On a Mac, your save files are in: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves/). This will open the saves folder
  3. Drag your downloader map (after unzip or unrar) in the zip/rar folderMap into saves folder.
  4. Close windows and reopen Minecraft
  5. .Select your map and play.

OSLocation
Windows%APPDATA%\.minecraft
macOS~/Library/Application Support/minecraft
Linux~/.minecraft


Minecraft Maps Bedrock Installation Guide


The world is as .mcworld file provided, meaning you just need to execute the file.
.mcworld is a renamed .zip file, you can rename it to .zip, and import it to your folder manually too.
For more insights how to install it check out PMC´s Tutorial: www.planetminecraft.com/blog/how-to-download-and-install-minecraft-maps/





Possible Questions / FAQ


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Which Programs did you use?WorldPainter:   https://www.worldpainter.net/
WorldMachine  www.world-machine.com/
Gaea      quadspinner.com/
WorldEdit     enginehub.org/worldedit/
Chunky Renderer https://chunky.llbit.se/
Amulett     www.amuletmc.com/
NBT Edit
How long did it take to make these map?s
Roundabout:		Gathering the experience: ca 4500h +
Working on this project: mostly a full week
Exporting the world: 1h for each export
Building, fixing, improving, and adding customized small bits: 3-10x
Building assets and working on node structures, 4 days
Rendering: 15-20 Images = 1-2 Days
Did you make those assets?Yes, every asset is done by myself. Those can be found here
For 1.18+ Maps, are Copper Ores and Deepslate included?Yes, near 0-10 will be a full layer of deepslate with all ores, Copper Ore is available underground everywhere
Is it made for survival?Yes with 100% survival in mind
Java - Do animals spawn?
Yes, worlds are populated with plants, animals, and nature blocks.

Also Mobspawners with animals are scattered around the world.
Bedrock - Do animals spawn?Animals are definitely spawning regularly independent from the terrain (in my experience)
For 1.18+ Maps, are Crystal Geodes included?Yes across the map are sparsely scattered.
For 1.18+ Maps, are Copper Ores and Deepslate included?Yes, near 0-20 will begin a full layer of deepslate with all ores, Copper Ore is available underground everywhere


What are your plans with these maps?These are adventure maps, survival maps, and creative maps for you to build, play and explore. For my part, I gain new techniques and experience with every new map, building on that for the next and making map by map better maps.
Do you do commissions?Yes, but only in limited amounts per month - checkout Patreon for further details
PMC Member: "[...] Out of curiosity, if someone else uses your world to build things in and wanted to share, do you just request a credit?"
    • Yes always - please credit the origins of work / the creator. (people want to know where to find the stuff)
    • Redistributing or selling my Intellectual Property without consent is not allowed.
    • Showcase Submissions are allowed
    • (Backside info: I've spent hundreds of hours to achieve the knowledge to create those maps. And can spend days creating each Map. For the casual people: I encourage you to play..test and build on these maps. I actually like to see what you can do on/with them. I see my maps as canvases for people to explore and enjoy... what I don't like it when people just plainly say: I made that canvas, that's mine. [​analogy end] It's IP theft, disrespectful, and ungodly frustrating to deal with. And there are either Kids who just entered the internet and don't know better and there are 3rd Parties that do that intentionally)

Can I use your map for my server?That's allowed
Where is the map center/spawn?2k Maps - 1024,1024
3k Maps - 1536,1536
4k Maps - 2048,2048
5k Maps - 2560,2560
6k Maps - 3072,3072
7k Maps - 3584,3584
8k Maps - 4096,4096
Are there versions without structures?No, but the source files are available, with which you can remove structures and reexport the pure map (Explanation: Online Storage Space is my main concern)
Where are villages?In all the recent maps, Villages are placed near rivers.
Tips:
- On PMC you can find often a overview map.
- You can also import the map into WorldPainter and export a image/overview map from there.

How can i remove the Villagers?/kill @e[​type=!player] (kills everything except the player)
Can I build on the map and sell it?Redistribution and commercial redistribution is NOT allowed
Can i continue playing your map after the subscription has ended?ofc, every map you´ve downloaded until the subscription end is on your pc, where you have full control over the map
Map recommendations?Checkout maps with a "🌟", these are my recommended ones
Bedrock: I´ve Spawned in water/vanilla area where's the map/spawn?You´ve spawned at 0,0, the top-left edge, at the map edge. Head towards ~ 2000,2000 for the map center.
(Explanation: This is program caused issue, as during the conversion the spawn point gets reset to 0,0. And while sometimes the area around seems vanilla, that's the pregenerated area i had to create in order to insert/convert the map into.)




Rights



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NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
Exception: But you can use it as Server Maps
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
Exception: You are free to share Videos, Images, Renders



🌐 Links



🚀Website
mcmeddon.com
🟪 Discord
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🟦 Twitter
https://twitter.com/McMeddon
🟥 Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/c/McMeddon
🌍 PMC
https://www.planetminecraft.com/member/mcmeddon/
🟨 Instagram
 https://www.instagram.com/mcmeddon/
⬛ Tiktok
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    hasteful05
    • 12/19/2024 1:58 pm
    • Level 1 : New Miner
    Quick question... I have never used a custom map or anything like this before... Is there more randomly generated stuff beyond the limits of the custom 2k size? Can you still enter the Nether / End and play the full game?
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    McMeddon
    • 12/20/2024 8:51 am
    • Level 88 : Elite Caveman Button Pusher
    yes, yes and yes :)
    2
    OdysseusOfIthica
    • 05/20/2025 8:36 am
    He/Him • Level 2 : Apprentice Crafter
    is there a stronghold in the preset world or would you have to go farther to finish
    1
    hasteful05
    • 12/30/2024 8:40 am
    • Level 1 : New Miner
    Beautifully crafted world, my kids love all the abandoned structures and balloon loot crates. There is quite a bit of deep holes which are hidden by all the tall grasses which has lead to a few fall deaths and tears :P
    3
    Balzikz
    • 12/11/2024 9:12 am
    • Level 1 : New Miner
    very beautiful and atmospheric map! it's a shame he's not in Bedrock edition...
    3
    User5329742G
    • 08/19/2024 6:38 am
    • Level 1 : New Miner
    Einfach Grandiose map die map ist eine der besten die ich finden konte da ich immoment an einem modpack für ein RPG adventure sitze und mir deswegen sehr viele maps angesehen habe kann ich ich mit sicherheit sagen das das eine der besten kostenlosen maps ist
    3
    Konah_
    • 06/25/2024 6:14 pm
    • Level 10 : Journeyman Ranger
    Loving the look of this map, I'll have to try it out.

    Just a side note, but do you know any mods that would enhance the experience of playing your maps? I was thinking about doing something like Scape & Run Parasites, but that's currently only for 1.12.2.

    Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks.
    2
    jimmyyyyy_
    • 06/21/2024 4:25 pm
    He/Him • Level 31 : Artisan Cowboy Chicken
    funny idea for a world: recreate call of duty campaign maps kill me please aaaaaaah
    2
    TheLoli_Slayer
    • 06/21/2024 9:24 am
    • Level 10 : Journeyman Miner
    Amazing Build! I was wondering if you could create the Island from Ark Survival Evolved?
    2
    EthanTheGeoMapper
    • 06/20/2024 8:53 pm
    • Level 29 : Expert Artist Architect
    Very well descripted page!
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