The 404 Challenge Ep. 1: In the Beginning

Here is my shot at the 404 Challenge. It has been a bit frustrating, not because I can't make it down there, but because I can't get a good spawn near the sink hole. So, let us see what we come up with with as we enter into the challenge.

In this video, the first part of the darkness I have the video set at default. The second half, when I'm fully underground, I turn the brightness on the video editor up all the way. So what you can see is not necessarily what I can see. Please let me know if you like it dark, so you can be spooked and have the same feeling I did, or if you prefer it completely brightened. Or somewhere in between.

Here is the link to the challenge, with all the rules, story, etc: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1031&t=190157

Here are the rules for the challenge, so you know what I'm up against!

From The 404 Challenge Thread:
1. You have until night fall to gather supplies. Spend your time wisely! Once night hits you MUST venture into the hole, never to return to the surface again!

2. You can gather any resource you find top side, but venturing into any other caves (for iron mostly) is not allowed. Sunlit caves are allowed.

3. You must not break ground on the 404 gravel until you are ready to enter the cave. You are intended to be finding shelter for the first night, digging the gravel, and discovering the cave. Once you break ground on the gravel, you must enter the cave.

4. Once you enter the cave, you must descend all the way to the bottom! The waterfall has swept you into the deepest parts of the cave.

5. No torches! If you whine about why you can't use torches, just STFU. Real men use lava for light anyway! (Redstone torches, jack-o-lanterns, and flint n' steel are OK!)

6. Survive and thrive. Don't simply build a wall around yourself. Explore. Build. Progress! Your 'score' will be based on what you accomplished, not simply how long you survived.

7. Only mine ores that are is visible. If you see an ore, you can mine it and the blocks around it to see if you got all of it. No branch/strip mining allowed. You are spelunking/surviving here, not at your 9 to 5 mining job.

8. Difficulty must be either Normal or Hard. If you play on hard you could get a 1.5x score multiplier.

9. 1 life. If you die the challenge is over. Start a new 404 world if you want to try again.

10. No inventory edits or 'cheating' of any kind. Using F3 to see mob locations is considered cheating as well.

Enjoy!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• 404
• challenge
• minecraft
• survival
• mobs
• creepers
• darkness
• underground
• cave
• sinkhole

[tehdelicatepuma]

Liked the video, but the brightness was a little much at the end. I thought it was fine with the vanilla lighting.

[PapaSmurf124]

@tehdelicatepuma thanks for the feedback! I was surprised with how much I could see, because some of the other players I have seen make dark videos, I can never see anything unless they brighten it

[fw2k]

I liked the brightness at the end, however you did it.

Unlike some i have dark as -dark- on my monitor, witch makes dark minecraft videos almost impossible to see.