

Why not find out for yourself? Valley of Kings was recently added for you to play on PC Realms. While you may have a chance to sneak around human players as they make their way to your base or patrol the middle-ground, you’re guaranteed to need combat skills to take the flag: each is guarded by a cohort of AI skeletons who are every bit as lethal as you are. “The skeleton AI weren’t originally in the first pre-releases,” says Qwerty, “but when I realised I wanted to release on Realms, I thought it was a good opportunity to make the map work for fewer people: on Realms you may only have two or three people on the server. Obviously Valley of Kings is a very large map, designed for rounds of ten-versus-ten players. For it to work with just two people there needed to be something interesting when you attack the enemy base - otherwise no one’s ever going to be defending their flag, and you can just walk in and take it.

So I figured I’d have some AI that have the same power-level of the player that just spawned there. It worked out pretty well I think! If you try to sneak up on the skeletons, they can switch to their melee attack which can kill you even if you’re holding up a shield.

The Glide Mini Game is the third mini game added to the console editions of Minecraft. So there’s a lot of strategy involved when you’re fighting those AI. It is the only mini game so far that is not a 'last player standing' game, but rather a racing game. The glide mini game involves racing against other Players, or solo. Each player is given an Elytra, which is used as the means of getting to the finish line.
