In which ponies set out to tackle the map as if we’re playing it for real, observing unexpected things and bugs and stuff!

IN WHICH three ponies from the Trixieverse Builds server, tackle the very first attempt to play the very first Place The Key map ‘Nightmare Moon’, and only intend to look around a bit—find stuff to fix (which has already been addressed)—but start having so much fun it’s like they’re playing through the map for real! This miniseries of six episodes is a great peek at the gameplay of a Place The Key map in development. If you saw the Nightmare Moon Mobs video, this shows some of those devices and mob designs in action!

We will be playing Nightmare Moon in earnest when we get together a good herd of ponies to tackle it, and work out our schedules. Also, Trixieverse Builds will resume between other serieses, but stuff like Nightmare Moon will get its own playlist.

For redstone and command blocks, it’s over to Twilight Sparkle, who will tell you far more than you ever wanted to know about how to make a Place The Key control box! This is a large bedrock device at spawn that continually tests for the map’s win condition. They can also dole out punishments if the player’s done wrong, but be careful not to trigger attacks on the player unless you’re sure about it!

This device is what runs the map Nightmare Moon (first Applejinx Place The Key (PTK) map. It tests for the presence of the dragon egg, which must be placed by a player who has never killed anything.

(technically, you can still win the map if you’re in singleplayer or you have no pure and kill-less players left, by placing the egg and then getting out of Dodge. This is better than sensing ‘guilt’ and triggering a player-kill, because if the wrong player is too near the sensor they can ruin everything after a very long and epic LP-series, all at night)

Making mobs for the map ‘Nightmare Moon’! We’ve got a Cow Popper, a Stormtrooper spawner and the Cockroach.