Catastrophic Pandamonium

Catastrophic Pandamonium
Map maker(s)	Gamemode One
Price	Free
Release date	December 10, 2018
Website page	Catastrophic Pandamonium in Minecraft Marketplace
Article	"Get your free cats and pandas map!" – Minecraft.net.

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Catastrophic Pandamonium was a limited time Marketplace map developed by Gamemode One that promotes the Holiday Update, featuring a story that involves a crisis wherein pandas go missing. At some point it was delisted.

Summary

The map opens with the player in a moderately sized info room, with a fountain, a sculpt of a face with emerald eyes, and several maps in item frames. To the back of the room is a copy of the map's key art, to the sides are promotions for Gamemode One's Twitter account. Climbing up stairs behind the key art leads to several pens, where many pandas sleep, with a chest full of bamboo and raw cod at the end. Advancing beyond that leads to an exhibit area, the Jungle Safari, where the player meets a zookeeper, introducing to all the pandas: Loaf, Sniffles, Baby, Rascal, Chicken, Bellicose, and Mahogany. After explaining their personalities, they instruct the player to sleep.

Climbing up into a nearby jungle treehouse, players will find two cats, red and persian, and four green beds. Upon waking up, the zookeeper will discover that the pandas have escaped thanks to a blackout, begging the player for help locating them. There are two ways out of the panda exhibit: to the right of the door is a dispenser, which gives iron armor "in case of pandamonium," while to the left are several horses, already equipped with saddles. Nearby is a directory, which gives directions to every area the pandas have wandered off to, each color coded.

Moody Marsh

Color coded lime on the directory but green in practice, Moody Marsh is found on the same path as Creepy Caverns, splitting off at a rose bush garden. The building is primarily made of jungle wood, with awnings made of jungle planks and granite, hanging oak trapdoors, and banners spelling out the attraction's name. To the left is a large gift shop filled with empty shelves and banners, with terracotta walls, an interior stage, and a cash register represented by stone brick stairs. The entrance is marked by several crafting tables, with the zookeeper another room over.

Upon entering, the zookeeper explains that the storm that released the pandas is looping, thanks to lightning frying a circuit, which is scaring Chicken. In order to save them, the player must locate a control room and deactivate the thunder, while evading slimes. Chicken is sitting scared inside of a swamp biome, surrounded by spruce walkways that circle over to several buildings. Going straight from the right leads to a vacant building with three creepers, one charged, and a zombified piglin. On the left path players will reach a witch hut, with another zookeeper saying to check "the place where lightning strikes twice."

This turns out to be an area on the left path, with fire perpetually burning a spot made of black concrete powder, reachable by a ladder. Approaching it reveals a hidden entrance to a room made of blocks of quartz, with bookshelves, potted plants, and what appears to be a monitor made of blocks of iron, iron trapdoors, and black concrete. At the end is a lever, which can deactivate the thunderstorm, marked by a dynamic sign. On the opposite side of that area is a British Shorthair cat playing on pressure plates.

Upon solving the lightning situation, Chicken can be brought back to the zookeeper using bamboo, and whisked away back to safety.

Creepy Caverns

Color coded green on the directory but lime in practice, Creepy Caverns is accessed by climbing up a large increase into a cave, where a zookeeper will explain that Baby climbed into a gap. Venturing into the cave, players will immediately find a monster room, partly walled off but reachable by stairs, spawning several zombies. Beyond that is a spring, opposite to it a mineshaft rail with Baby trapped behind cobblestone slabs. Not far from that is another mine, identifiable as tied to the previous through the use of stained glass to block entrance, near a lava downpour and obsidian in front of scaffolding. Climbing down the scaffolding shaft will lead deeper into the mineshaft, with a TNT minecart surrounded by displays of ores.

The goal of the area is to push the minecart up to the debris, where it will detonate a hole big enough to free Baby. Upon being released, Baby can be led back to the zookeeper, who will return to the Jungle Safari.

Hostile Horrors

Color coded red, Hostile Horrors is a sandstone building with a warm color scheme, featuring raised roofs similar to end cities and opposite of a parrot sanctuary. The zookeeper explains that a panda ran inside Hostile Horrors, a place full of so many "hostile monsters" that even its keeper is scared to enter. Inside the building are displays of skeletons, creepers, blazes, and zombies, contained inside of acacia boarded observatories. Bellicose can be found at the very end, hiding behind an armor stand holding a diamond sword.

Upon approaching her, the monsters will sprout from the exhibits and begin attacking. Using the sword, the monsters can be defeated. As with the other pandas, Bellicose will have to be led to the entrance using bamboo, which is made harder by the presence of enemies.

Cactus Valley

Color coded orange, splitting off the path to Hostile Horrors, Cactus Valley is marked by a granite and oak wood gate. Entering the area will reveal it's set in a badlands biome, explaining that Sniffles ran off into the "desert." In order to find him, the zookeeper suggests following a trail of slime balls. The path begins to the left of the zookeeper, the right is a secondary exit that loops into Moody Marsh. The trail of snot leads to a directory, before the player encounters a husk upon reaching a cave with a dark oak skull looming above. Players can exit the cave by climbing up onto a railway platform, leading to an otherwise unreachable crafting table and two anvils, with a balcony.

Exiting the cave, players will arrive at a shooting gallery, with an adjacent armor stand holding a bow and a chest with nine stacks of arrows. In order to advance, players must shoot four birch buttons on a desert pyramid, activating redstone lamps. Upon shooting four, a fence will disintegrate. The pyramid can be accessed by dropping down into a hole marked by scaffolding, launching upwards using a slime block. Instead of the traditional pit with TNT, Sniffles is stuck in a hole also marked by scaffolding. In order to free him, players must craft a slime block, and place it on a sticky piston.

Instead of trekking back to the start, Sniffles merely needs to be taken to a zookeeper outside the temple, remarking that "the two of you had quite the adventure." Players can return to the entrance using a minecart after Sniffles leaves.

Iceberg Island

Color coded light blue, splitting off the path to Cactus Valley at a series of bushes and benches, Iceberg Island is led up to by two separate stairways with a directory in the middle. Similar to Moody Marsh, there are two gift shops near its premises, with noticeably poor lighting. The one to the left sells banners and stained glass, while to the right is one with two floors infested with husks. Closer to the area is a similar building, however it appears to be more of a lounge or cafe, with bookshelves and couches, and a jungle log table. Opposite to that is a parkour challenge, where players can platform up several piked planks to reach a tuxedo cat.

The proper entrance to Iceberg Island is marked by spruce trees, with the zookeeper explaining that Rascal has gone out into the icebergs to "play with the polar bears." Now, thanks to the blackout, they can't reach him, so the player has to use scaffolding to activate a rooftop generator. The scaffolding is to the zookeeper's right, past several quartz stairs and smooth stone bleachers. Once the player reaches the top, they must platform across several scaffolds over into a second building, encountering two drowneds. After bypassing or defeating them, the player returns to the roof of the first building, where the generator can be activated, marked by a lever on orange concrete.

After activating the door to the island, players can advance onto it, an ice spikes-like area. Rascals lies in the center, near a chest of supplies, and can be led back with bamboo. To do so, players must follow a path of white concrete powder discs, first found in the back of the area Rascal plays in. After evading innately hostile polar bears, Rascal can be escorted.

Treetop Walkway

Color coded purple, Treetop Walkway opposes the rest of the paths, going backwards from Jungle Safari into a bamboo jungle. At the top of a hill are more gift shops, along with several shops, one containing a cat and polar bear with a melon. In the entrance area, other biomes can be glanced at, including a flower forest with llamas, a taiga with wolves. The zookeeper can be found at the bottom of a stairway next to the logo, explaining that Mahogany climbed up a tree, angering several wolves, and they don't know how to get him down. The zookeeper then suggests using scaffolding, which can be claimed from an infinitely restocked chest.

The rest of the section is set on treetop platforms built into fancy oaks, with scaffolding beams missing between each. Once a gap is filled, Mahogany will automatically progress to the next platform. Once Mahogany is rescued, the zookeeper will praise the efficiency of scaffolding. In the area where the player ends up, there is a staff building, with multiple floors and tripwire hooks on the wall.

Jungle Temple

Once all the previous pandas are found, a narrating zookeeper will establish that Loaf is still missing, having checked the entire premises. It turns out he was inside the Jungle Safari the entire time, specifically the player's cabin. Once he is found, the doors to a temple are opened, resembling a jungle pyramid but with added end rods and skeleton skulls. Additionally, the player is given a goal of taming all 47 cats within the map.

Inside the temple, there are several displays, including explanations of the mobs introduced in the Holiday Update, demonstrations of scaffolding's properties, and a shulker box autofarmer using bamboo as fuel.

Quotes

“	Welcome to the Minecraft Preserve, a sanctuary for the mobs of Minecraft. Your dream job is about to become a nightmare when you realize THE PANDAS ARE MISSING! - Explore 6 unique zones to find the lost Pandas - Befriend the army of cats that have mysteriously appeared - Beware escaped mobs as you overcome puzzles and challenges to save the Pandas	„
	— Minecraft Marketplace description

History

Bedrock Edition
December 10, 2018							Catastrophic Pandamonium is released on the Marketplace.
October 23, 2019							Catastrophic Pandamonium is delisted from the Marketplace.

Issues

Issues relating to "Catastrophic Pandamonium" are maintained on Gamemode One's help desk and viewed here.

Trivia

To make the story a simple experience, players perpetually have regeneration and immunity to fall damage.
On the directory, Moody Marsh and Creepy Cavern have swapped colors, or possibly the other way around.