Announcing Minecraft Duskbringer

Hello. C J here. We’re going on another Minecraft adventure today. Here we have a shot of a street in my practice map for making Duskbringer. If you want to know more about Duskbringer look under the Astral Video Games label here and read the two posts from yesterday. They’re mostly samples of the game’s script. Here is the nice little town of Cruelty, situated in the Plains of Deceit in the region of my setting’s Hell known as the Domain of Makelith.

That orange wood above the door indicates the building’s use. It’s a cafe. Here’s the inside.

Those lights? They’re people, coated in brass and made into furniture. The Fallen who rule Hell aren’t just going to go to IKEA and pick up a couple of Swedish made furniture kits. No! The Fallen are really good at interior design so they make their own furniture.

As you can see the tables are also made out of the wailing souls of the damned. Isn’t it festive?

And here’s the cafe, where you can exchange the local currency Hell has for food and beverages. The currency is named Agony and is made by torturing the damned. It’s a nice place to live, isn’t it?

Also when I have enough of this map done in like a year I’ll look into putting it on the official Minecraft Marketplace for sale. They sell maps and this one will be huge by the time I’m done with it. I might even switch the game mode to Survival, make the blocks unbreakable by monsters and add in some adventure or JRPG elements.

C J Mcpherson

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