0x_12 Hey Scavanna,
I'm not sure if you will see this, but fate is weird and you may get something out of reading it.
I first played your map in 2015, and was absolutely stunned. It was the first time I had seen so much depth implemented in such a broad scale. I cannot imagine how many hours went into building it, and especially into adding the finesse seemingly everywhere in the world. Special commends for the starting area full of tricks, the railroad under the desert, the inverted village, the optional wither encounters, the parkour over the Sphere, the tripwire traps, and hundreds of memorable (and sometimes unforgiving) encounters. Even after having spent an unholy amount of playtime in this, you still keep surprising me somehow.

I've probably spent as many hours on Sphere as I have spent on Minecraft as a whole. This map has more substance and replay value than some standalone triple-A titles, and many of the kids that get their hands on it may fail to notice. I downloaded it back in the PMC days, and I couldn't believe how little attention it got compared to much more low-effort maps that went mainstream. I spent many, many hours custom-fitting it for team vs team multiplayer on a server, with team A starting on the fortress of the highest sky island and Team B on the destroyed dome under the Sphere (last picture on imgur). With enderpearls off, my idea was that apart from dealing with the world's hazards and exploring, the players would end up being funneled through the Sphere, forcing conflict and PvP inside it. By the time I was done preparing the map, university and adult responsibilitie s caught on, and my friends and I outgrew minecraft. In any case, I saved the multiplayer map, especially given that your PMC download link stopped working, as I felt Sphere was too good to vanish without a trace. Today, I looked up "Sphere by Scavanna" just for nostalgia purposes, and it made me very happy to know that you're back on board.

If you're like me when working on creative projects, you probably know you made something decently good, but it's probably hard to tell how good it actually is. Let me tell you that it's really, really good. It is light years better than any survival/advent ure minecraft map I have been able to get my hands on in the last 6 years. It is, uncontested, the best custom minecraft map I have ever played by far, it rivals vanilla-core survival in terms of originality and "soul". It absolutely has the potential to gain a cult following among the right kind of people. Even if it never gets the recognition it deserves in the current minecraft crowd, at least know that it kicks ass and someone, somewhere enjoyed the sh*t out of it over the years.

Godspeed autist, blogpost over

ciriakk i've had a mental breakdown while playing this map. 10/10; definetly would play again

Doe This is one of the most beautiful maps I have ever seen! Thanks so much for this masterpiece!

Jens Bergensten A pretty nice map! Keep up the good work.

noname i think its good

Salem This map is a real treasure. I can tell it's a beloved project--not just intricate, but careful and purposeful and full of wonder. Thank you so much for sharing it with us :)

Nacho_Man2323 I've played this map for a bit, and I have found chests that look as if they have been used before. eg a double chest that looks like somebody's storage chest (coords r x616 y71 z471). Is there any reasoning to that?

oscar best map ever keep up the good work