Best Posts in Thread: New Parkour Suggestion

Last night, Clueless and Klutch were talking about parkour in global. At one point, Klutch told me that players could submit maps for staff to consider implementing and linked me to the suggestions page.

It has been nearly 2 years since the release of Chillroom, which is a remarkably long time for this server to go without a new parkour course, discounting Ck's recent spawn parkour. In 2012, we got City and the original ice parkour. In early 2014 we got a multitude of new maps, including Ultimate Ice, Slicks' Ice, Planet, Countryside, and Stronghold, all at once. In 2015, we got Balloon, Flower, 2 Cactus maps, and Barrier, followed up in 2016 by Chillroom, a massive project. Yet 2017 was only the second year in the server's history that saw no new courses added to the parkour world. That's not to say nothing happened last year, Mid and Ellie did a great job finding new plugins and bringing back four old maps for Christmas. However, neither of those quite match the excitement of an entirely new map, with tons of people rushing in, competing to be the first person to beat it.

This is why EmperorMeznik and I are submitting our parkour map to be considered for implementation. If accepted, this would be the first time a player-submitted map is brought in as an official parkour course, discounting Lizzer's Balloon Parkour, which was built for (and won) a contest.

If I said our map was Jungle Parkour, you'd immediately dismiss this because we already have a Jungle Parkour. Well yeah, of course we do, but hardly anyone really likes it. It's labeled as "easy" yet the third jump stumps new players, it's confusing, ridden with shortcuts, and outdated in terms of architecture. I'd propose our Jungle Parkour as a replacement to the current one, but in honesty, our map would be considered of medium difficulty. If the current Jungle were replaced with ours, the server would need another easy map. Beginner parkour players deserve more than one course (would be Cactus), but they deserve something better than the current Jungle. As a solution, an easy map is under development to be submitted as sort of a "Part Two" to this suggestion.

Our map features a variety of jumps with different strategies, in contrast to the current Jungle's makeup of mostly rudimentary jumps from slab to slab. It also has a temple, to be traversed through by the player, two small streams, and a plateau, all of which add architectural interest and liveliness to the area. Linked below are an imgur album containing screenshots of the map and a video walkthrough. Please keep in mind that if what we currently have is insufficient, we can tweak it in any way to better suit MeepCraft. At worst, the state of the map at the moment can serve as a base for a map to be expanded on, either visually or in terms of parkour. If staff would like to further consider this suggestion, a download can be provided.

Jungle Parkour Screenshots