The Stone King
Latest version: 2.1 (Teleporter Update) (3.0 in private release)
MC version: 1.12 (1.14 in private release)
Year of release: 2016
Type: Defence, attack, mining, strategy, building, PvP
Player capacity: 15 players
Our king may be in really big trouble. We must assassinate the enemy king before our own king gets killed!
Explore through all of the different tunnels of this minigame, dig, dig and dig again to find the enemy base and assassinate the other king! Scroll down to learn more!
About the minigame...
RULES: This game is almost only about tunnels. When the game starts, you must already dig through a clay tunnel. Once you arrived at the bottom of any tunnel, there is a special block that you must dig to upgrade your team's pickaxe (For example, at the first tunnel it's a coal block, at the second tunnel it's a redstone block, etc...). After 5 minutes, teleporters will be ready to teleport you directly to the enemy team's base. But there are still lots of tunnels to go through! The final special block is an iron block - it lets you destroy iron bars, the ultimate protection of the kings! Trade with your own king to get armour, special items and weapons. And once you're fully ready, kill the enemy king to win the game! Pay attention, your own king must never die!!
THE ORES: As I said, the minigame is only about digging, upgrading your pickaxe, digging, upgrading your pickaxe, etc. You must dig through tunnels of different ores and at the end of each tunnel, you can find special blocks that let you get a better pickaxe. Here is a list of the ores you should find, in order:
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Clay (Blue if you're Red and red if you're blue), with a COAL BLOCK at the bottom, the Goblins' Treasure
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Coal ore, with a REDSTONE BLOCK at the bottom, the Bloody Rock
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Redstone ore, with a DIAMOND BLOCK at the bottom, the Legendary Carbon
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Diamond ore, with an EMERALD BLOCK at the bottom, the Citizen's Fortune (With the teleporters in-between which means that you need to wait 5 minutes from the beginning of the game before you can use the teleporters for the first time)
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Emerald ore, with an END STONE block if you're blue or a NETHERRACK block if you're red, the Shameful Stone
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Obsidian, with a LAPIS BLOCK at the bottom, the Water Foam
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Lapis ore, with a QUARTZ BLOCK at the bottom, Hell's Whiteness
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Quartz ore, with an IRON BLOCK at the bottom, the Lethal Steel
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The Lethal Steel lets you destroy iron bars. There is no ore nor special block after it - except the enemy king of course.
Mining ores: Every time you mine 30 of each ore (16 for obsidian), you will get a random bonus item that will help you through the game. These items can be potions, weapons, tipped arrows, and even barrels that you can place somewhere to extend your storage!
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Special challenges: For every team, there is a total of 4 special challenges, in other words a mob arena, a parkour, and two mazes. Every challenge ends up with a pumpkin block that will drop a special music disc once it's dug. These music discs have different effects: they can heal your team, give you extra ores, make you invisible...
Music discs have to played at your base: there is a jukebox on the ground next to the basic chests.
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In any case, make sure that your inventory is not full when you get any of these items! I'm not a magician so I can't extend your storage capacity. Sorry!
Your king's trade offers: Your king is a Villager. The Blue king is white, whereas the Red king is purple.
You can trade with your king in order to receive weapons or armour.
Here are some examples of offers he can give you:
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Golden apples using special blocks
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Different types of food
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Barrels for extended storage
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Turn clay and iron bars into actually placeable blocks!
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Swords (Enchanted or not)
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Chestplates (Enchanted or not)
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Powerful combat axes
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Pressure plates, using the emerald block, that can be placed as a shortcut to the teleporters in front of an iron door
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Totems of undying
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Enchanted golden apples by turning 5 classic golden apples into an enchanted one!
Some hints and tips for the game...
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When an enemy is approaching your king, you will directly get warned in the chat. Pay attention and try to defend him!
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Keep an eye on the ground: it should be the same colour as your team's colour. If you're walking on blue blocks when you're red, that means you're in hostile territory. Be careful! What's more, daring to use a teleporter that is not for YOUR team (e.g. using a blue teleporter when you're red) will instantly kill you!
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Due to a bug in the game, a team can kill its own king. Try not to do so, obviously. If you see any player that kills his own king on purpose, you can give me his name with a screenshot of the game on Discord or Twitter so that I can warn him/her.
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You can get placeable blocks. Try to hide your king somewhere with these blocks!
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There are 6 different music discs (3 common, 2 rare and 1 legendary) and a total of 14 different bonus items.
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Each time you acquire a special item, you will get a small message in the chat. However, make sure your inventory is not full!
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Same when a team gets a special block or a pumpkin. You can know how far the enemy team is by looking at which special block they got, or which challenge they have completed!
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The teleporters that lead to the enemy's base are inactive fr 5 minutes. When there's only 1 minute left, you will get notified as well. That means it's time to hurry up!