- Map Version : 'Across The Time - v2.0'

- Amount of time worked : ~4400h.

Date creation of the map: in July 10th, 2013!
Date planned release: 11 February 2015!

Across The Time is a big project of map RPG/PVE adventure. A map created by the

Team Adventquest

On an original idea by : Piccomaster & Thundesrtruck

FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/piccomaster
TWITTER : https://twitter.com/Piccomaster

Listen or buy the album : "Across The Time - The Original Soundtrack"

Summary :

- Solo or Coop PVE/RPG game (Max 3 players)
- Between 20h & 30h of plays
- 8 clearly distinct classes (ex : druid, ninja, tank, sorcerer, alchemist...)
- 20 magic spell (available trough books) consume Dahäl
- Main Quest with many Donjons containing Elites Mobs and unique Boss - Thousands of Monsters to fight
- 12 secondary Quest
- More than 70 Heroic deeds.
- A lot of normal, magical and legendary items & set to collect.
- A dozen of sacred article to buy
- 2 gamemode : Softcore & Nightmare with 3 difficulty level (easy, normal, difficult)
- Many events of all kinds (Jump, Puzzle, Enigma)
- Several NPC Town & Village
- Varied and original Landscape, Biomes
- a Fantastic script & a highly developed Lore writing by Thundesrtruck
- All Musics writing by Piccomaster and placed in the resourcepack
- Monster & Boss Farming available thanks to mobspawners
- Hundreds of hidden chests and many loots to find
- Basic Currency (Chronotons) and legendary currency « Ecaille Souveraine du Chaos »
- Potion, food, weapon, armor and sacred shops
- Upgrade effect (aptitude) to unblock (Strengh, Haste, Resistance, Regeneration) with de l'XP
- Recycling available in exchange for Chronotons (BlackMarket)
- A bank to convert XP to Chronotons, Chronotons to XP, and exchange Chronotons between players.

DOWNLOAD

English version : Across The Time - v2.0 ENG
MIRROR LINK : Across The Time - v2.0 ENG

French version : Across The Time - v2.0 FR
MIRROR LINK : Across The Time - v2.0 FR

Chinese version : Across The Time v2.1 CH
MIRROR LINK : Across The Time - v2.1 CH

Story and Presentation

An incident occurred in a small town, you're working as a delivery boy : a portal letting out monstrers of an another age is open, leading the world in the Apocalypse. All hope is dying, there is no more than you, the last representative of the human race. You are rescued by a magical force that takes you back in a distant past. In this world, the Dahäl exist… You will learn that the cause of your misfortunes is none other than Ranegot, a corrupt immortal, enemy of seven kingdoms ; and there is only one way to overcome : to gather 9 powerful gems scattered in 4 of the seven kingdoms.

A journey full of obstacles, puzzle, epic fights against in gargantuan amount of monsters or against more and more smart and powerful boss are waiting ! For helping you in your quest, you teach to control the Dahäl trough spell book (original and unique with minecraft vanilla !). You can personalised your equipment with many different weapons and armors. You can find them with farming or you can buy them in different shop in exchange of local currency : Chronoton! Furthermore, your experience will increase your abilities trough an original system of evolution.

Good luck, you’re the only one that can do the difference !

Aspects et details of the gameplay

Basic Gameplay

Across The Time is a map, entirely built for vanilla minecraft (no need of mod).
The Map is inspired by RPG Adventure like Zelda or Secret Of Mana with loot systems like Diablo or Borderlands.

You need to accomplish quests, fighting a lot of monsters and boss in a lot of dungeons more and more big!
The game is focused on PvE (PvP isn’t available) and also provided with events like puzzle, platforms, enigma, etc…
A unique development system supports players trough the experience gained and a well developed economy allows players to buy, to sell, to exchange in different shop
You can do this adventure alone or with friends, but it’s advisable to be no more than 3 players on the map.

La map is semi-open world : large zones and regions were created to allow players freedom but will be partly driven by the main quest.
Of course, a dozen of secondary quests is waiting to extend the life of the game
Finally, you need between 20 and 30 hours of play to defeat the map.

Fight Monster and Elites

Like we said, it’s a PVE game, many battles await you with course difficulty increasingly enhanced.
Each dungeon have his boss and small-boss with hundreds of minions! The free areas are provided all kinds of monsters that you try to block the road.
In some free zones, monsters regularly spawn, you can increase your power to fight against this monsters.
Each monster has his own special capacity (different speed, increased life, increased strength etc...) and is obviously equipped with a wide variety of armour and weapons.
You can fight with sword, bow with more and more powerful enchantment, but also with spell.

You gain one bonus heart after each death of a boss.

Magic and Spell

To help you in your fight against the corruption, you may cast spells all more original and miscellaneous than the others, for example :
- Invocation (wolf, golem etc…),
- Renewal of life
- Slowing Aura
- Rain of Arrows
- Fireball
Etc...

So, you can cast spells through books. They will unlock according on the progress of the player. The magical gauge is called Dahäl and is evolutive.

Farming, Loot and Items

Almost all the items of Minecraft are available on the map and you can buy, sell, drop on monsters or find in chests...
There are various kinds of weapons and armor classified according to their powers and rarities : Sacred, legendary, sets, magic or normal!
Do not forget, each item is useful, indeed they can be for most sold on the black market.

It is possible and sometimes necessary if you want to improve you and loot the many legendary items owned by the enemy!
The number of monsters you'll face will always be more important and difficult depending on your progress! That is why you need to equip
yourself and loot.

Know that monsters, bosses and elites have a small chance to dropped powerful items, so do not lose hope. Some Elites are unique but some dungeon bosses can be farmed!

Elites and some secrets also drop a rare currency: "Ecaille Souveraine du Chaos".
It used to buy you a type of very powerful items : the Sacred items.

Choice of the class

To give a RPG touch, the player need to choose between 8 class at the beginning of the game !

Each class has his own feature, like unique spell book, or passive abilities. For example : Dahäl regeneration for sorcerer, two hearts
more for the warrior, etc.

Take a look at the different available class :
- Warrior,
- Druid,
- Ninja,
- Alchemist,
- Farmer,
- Healer,
- Hunter,
- Sorcerer.

Deeds of valor and secondary Quests

To complicate adventure, all deeds of valor or goals may be validated.
 So, you have to perform some kind of secondary challenges such as :
- Kill on thousands monsters,
- reach the 80 level - Gain 2500 chronoton,
- etc…

These goals aren’t imposed but you will be rewarded according to what you have accomplished !
But, to extend the life-time of the game, a dozen of secondary quests are available in some places of the game that you have to discover.

Mod, difficulty and death

At the beginning of the adventure, during tutorial, you will have the possibility to choose between two game-mode :
- Softcore-mode : You lost only 1 level per death, heart regeneration by food is activated, the effects when you are badly wounded, are reasonable.

- Nightmare-mode : You lost 2 level and 10 Chronoton per death, heart regeneration by food is deactivated, after badly wounded the effects are very restrictive (slowdown, bleeding etc…)

With these two modes will be added an opportunity to play easy, normal and hard. Be careful if you play in multiplayer, an automatic system is activated and the difficulty changes depending on the number of players on the map :
- 1 player : easy,
- 2 players : normal,
- 3 players : hard.

Do not worry about death, many Checkpoints are placed throughout the adventure. You can enable them by clicking a button that is recognizable by yellow sponge blocks.

Keys and locks

During this journey you will find many locked doors and mechanisms. To unlock the doors, a key system was created for the map.
Simply put a key (renamed and of varying shape) in a container that will be located in front of each mechanism.
Of course there will be more or less difficult to obtain these keys.

Hunger and potions

As you guessed, the food is present in the game. You will need to intelligently manage this resource because you can not cultivate.
Obviously you will find some food on monsters, many chests and you can also buy in a specialty store.

Concerning the potions, a system of limitation and recycling of empty potions has been created!
There is therefore limited you the number of potions in the game, but it is possible to recycle the empty bottles to buy more potions in the shop provided for this purpose.

NPC and dialog

You will meet a lot of NPCs to talk your way. NPCs are usually found in the villages but you can also meet in different locations across the map, away from civilization.

The dialogue system is automatic, you just have to approach the NPC to talk. Some NPC ask you questions that you can choose the answer by clicking in the chat window.

Visit every corner, because some NPC give clues and quests which awesome rewards.

Adventure Mode & anti-cheat

You will understand, the game is in adventure mode, you can’t break blocks, tape command, etc.
A security system is in charge of stop « briefing » and block the creative game mode. You can try but it’s at your own risk.

Economy and Skills

Skills & evolution system

This terrible adventure will put you in difficult situations, the skills evolution systems is created to answer that.
During the game, your character will gain more and more experience, thanks to this Xp, you will be able to exchange against advantageous abilities.

Many effects are available from the weapons master, with several level unblock : 
- Force I, II, III, IV
- Resistance I, II, III, IV
- Speed attack I, II, III
- Renewal of Dahäl I, II, III, IV
- Renewal of heal I, II, III, IV

Money & Shops

A important part of the game that we can’t to undervalue : the economy.
The principal money of the game is the « Chronoton »
Every monsters killed will give you ONE Chronoton, but the sell of recyclables items or the secrets’s searching will give you more.

All these Chronotons give you the possibility to buy a lot of items in different shops in the main village of the game :
- Alchemist (potion’s shop)
- Smith (Weapons and armour shop)
- Grocer (food shop)
The Palace sell sacred items.
Indeed, an other money is available in the game. This money is called « Sovereign Shell of Chaos ». With this, you can buy powerful sacred items in the game. This money can be found in some chests and on some monsters or Boss.

Black market

As mentioned previously, you’ll be able to exchange many objects like (zombie meat, wire spider, skeleton bones, etc.)
Indeed, thanks to Hannibal Chau’s black market, any useless monsters drops can be exchanged in Chronotons.

You will just to put items on specific container, and it’s done. Thanks to that, every drops, every items give you a benefit.

Bank

The Bank is a popular place for multiplayer game, because the money exchange system between player is developed in it.
The Bank is in the Palace, you can exchanged 5, 50 or 500 Chronotons per click.
You will find in the Bank a exchange system of Chronoton to XP, and XP to Chronoton.

Redstone system and command

Behind this huge map is hiding a system that we would like to show you to prove all of the gameplay.
Many redstones systems have been created, for boss, for the economy, for many challenges. Every systems include command blocks with specific codes to improve the functioning of the events, puzzles ou mechanism. 
Take a loot at some redstones systems on this photo :

Music and resourcepack

This map require a particular Resource-pack, dedicated to ambience music ! You can play with really and unique original music. You can combine this sound resource-pack with others texturing-resources of your choice.

13 songs are available in this resource-pack, these songs follow you during the adventure.
All these songs are composed by Piccomaster, except the end’s song composed and played by the Rock/Metal Band « Vernes ».

Thanks

Thank you already for waiting so long, for the release of our map, because it was not won. To give you an idea, this map is a work of 2 years. We have sacrificed almost completely 2 years of our lives for this project.
Sometimes, it was hard, but we had great fun to creat a map of this scale on Vanilla Minecraft.

Thank to all of Beta-tester that have and will testing our map :
Fulmen,
Rubn2003,
Devildog68,
Tristepouille,
Maximonf,
Drigabuss,
Freedmatius,
Swann10diamant.

For the english translation, we thank to Sigmund Athena, Devildog68 & Tristepouille.
A Special thank to Kuro Arachi, for his help at the beginning of this project.

We also thank the Rock/Metal band « Vernes » that accepts to put his song at the end of the game. If you want to have more information about the band, click on this hyperlink.

Programs and plugins used : Mcedit (with Sethbling filters), Bukkit, World Edit, Too Many Items, NBT Edit.
Thanks to : Sethbling, MinecraftZephirr, Jesper The End, Moirnvince, Hypixel, for their maps and tutorial video too!

Conclusion

We hope you enjoy the map.
We hope you will spread the map, but quote creators, if you share a free contained.

Of course, we allow gameplay video of the map for Youtube.
If you have some questions concerning bugs, informations or other subject, directly write after this subject or try to contact me on my Facebook page.

Enjoy