Ancient Islands

Ancient Islands - Created By: Jugz & 8bitjew
Ancient Islands was a map created by Jugz & 8bitjew which was released around 2015-2016. The map features a major hazard that was the giant pyramid as-well as tall jungle trees. Ancient Islands was often hated for its huge camping capabilities and 3 small islands that used to sit in-between 2 of those trees. The 3 small camping islands were removed mid 2018 and replaced with a single bigger multi-level island and some bridges connecting the island with the trees. Smash players have criticised the Mineplex build team for adding the bridges and the shape of the island, often calling it sloppy and pathetic at the attempt.

Gameplay Advantages and Disadvantages:
Ancient Islands without a doubt gives huge advantages to camping and long ranged kits. Classes that can spam and out-range you will often retreat to the safety of the trees or the camping islands to avoid direct conflict. The pyramid in the centre however, provides somewhat good space and coverage from all the trees.

Kits with Advantages:

 * Skeleton
 * Enderman
 * Magma Cube
 * Zombie
 * Wither Skeleton
 * Sir.Sheep

Kits with Disadvantages:

 * Iron Golem
 * Creeper
 * Wolf
 * Witch
 * Skeleton Horse
 * Cow
 * Pig
 * Guardian
 * Villager

Trivia:
> Ancient Islands used to be covered in plants and bushes, but it was removed for being too impactful on gameplay. Apparently it was hard to hit small mobs with these in the way, but on other maps the decorations and bushes have not been removed

> When the maps 3 small islands we're reworked, the builders also added multi-biome shading to the ground, something which they seem to be adding to a lot of there new maps

> Smash players hate the new bridges that connect the trees, so much so that they have lashed out towards mineplex on replacing them with more broken and nicer looking bridges

> Currently from the date of the maps update (8/25/2018) until now there is a 'golden weighted pressureplate' under one of the trees that marks a player spawning position. It was not removed when they were updating the map

> Because of the underside shape of the islands, when Chicken and Spider used to get energy back on there jumps, you were able to spam flap/jump on the underside caught between a small gap and stall under the stage forever