Beating Castleminer Z's "Story Mode" 

this game feels like a fever dream that you can’t remember actually happened or not

I played the shit out of the game but don't recall those challenge blocks or lucky blocks. And for the longest time believed the undead dragon was in hell so instead of traveling out to hell on earth, we dug down to hell and searched there on sky bridges. Needless to say, I never unlocked dragon endurance. I do, however, await the remake.

this game feels like an acid trip

What most people do is dig a tunnel from spawn all the way to the Ore lands at 3000

i used to play this on my 360! childhood game right here. so simple but so much fun

The hours that my friends on 360 and me played this and Murder Miners feel like a fever dream, very nostalgic times. Not even including Minecraft because that's a whole new level of dedication from all those years ago.

I remember in the xbox 360 days that me and my buddies hop on and try to even reach the undead dragon. We never reached it, most of the time we all just die or one of us dies and the whole crew follows suit, or it ends at the ore lands. Still good times.

This was one of the games playing with the minecraft formula that I kept on the radar. Its a shame the game didnt get expanded upon over the years. Really think this was a winning formula, to have minecraft/terraria world with FPS gameplay. It has a ton that I felt still is missing from minecraft, like bosses in different biomes etc. Actually a purpose to build defensive castles etc. Where in minecraft you build a castle purely for aesthetic reasons. Really think this game would have been a success if the devs kept updating and adding content over the years. The fact that endurance shows there is much potential for single player story mode within the game, that could have certainly been upgraded and expanded upon. There a are a few minecraft clones/like games that were abandoned that is such a shame. There was another one where the entire voxel work is cardboard and you could make cardboard cutouts for digging, building equipment, weapons and buildings. Think a lof of these games had the potential to fill in a niche that minecraft lacks. Having a giant voxel sandbox world that actually has some purpose in terms of game progression.

Aaand now I'm inspired to finally beat Castleminer Z myself, played it since I was around 7 years old but never actually played much Endurance. Also I bet the fire dragon's 2:00 loot landed somewhere behind you, because dragons tend to fall diagonally in the direction they were facing.

I remember playing with a friend a long time ago, traversing the land in an attempt to find Bloodstone land. After much time of traversing the land.... we found in. Bloodstone all the eye could see. We we're living like kings.

I remember joining a public match as a kid, and being holed up in a wooden house with a few others as a dragon was swooping outside.

The fact that this got recommended to me after I plugged my old 369 in to revisit old indie games and see THIS, truly remarkable. Good to know this game still gets views on RU-vid!

Omfg this game unlocked deep nostalgia for me. Thank you.

This is it. This is the game I have been looking for for years now. I had even begun to think it was all just a fever dream I had.

awesome vid man, loved your gameplay and commentary! you deserve wayyyy more views!!!

Underrated as hell, congrats on the earth-shattering achievement

your channel is genuinely underrated I have watched and very much enjoy a few of your videos keep up the great content you have gained a new subscriber

xbox 360 Arcade had many gems. This, DeadBlock, limbo, Zombie Apocalypse.

bro I haven't seen this game in years thanks for literally reviving my childhood

Woah you just unlocked a memory of playing this with the boys after school, I Only remember the dragons flying overhead and spooking us

This brings back memories, awesome video

I had so much fun on Castle Miner Z haha. This video unlocked my memories. I remember having a bloodstone AK, I duped a million diamond blocks and made a fully working legit Zombies map like COD. Thanks for the vid!

This game is a certified hood classic

My last memory of playing this game was in the past few years; played with my friend on the PC port in a private session with my friend, and a person named "BushDid9/11" joined our game, killing us with a nuke-esque explosion instantly.

CastleMiner Z! I loved traveling to miners heaven on Xbox 369 with all my friends. We hopped into an Xbox party and played until we passed out. Then After we made a bloodstone base on the alien planet up in the sky I can geek out for hours about this gem god I miss this game..

I remember joining random peoples lobbies back in the dayvon xbox 360, oh the memories

I used to play this a lot before MC was released on console.

I still think about this game almost everyday, even tho it’s been YEARS, since I’ve played it. Minecraft on console before minecraft was on console

I thinks what I loved the most in this game, was that each biome haved is own theme, EACH BIOME, and I loved those music, really making feel like it was a trip

This is an awesome video and it’s nice to see this game more

I did this before the RPG update on Xbox with 4 players, All we had were AKs. We dug a tunnel too ore land, then we built a tower and built a long bridge. When we got to the boss i built a huge platform praying the dragon didn't knock us all down.

holy shit i remember this game. it deadass felt like it didnt exist. thank you

I played this game probably when I was 10-12 literally all the time and my strat would always be to mine resources in caves at spawn until I had bloodstone weapons. There were no teleporters or loot boxes but I think I remember there being a thing where you could teleport to people you were playing with if they were alive so if everyone died, everyone would always get off LOL. thanks for the trip down memory lane

Amazing video thanks for showing me part of my childhood I could never accomplish

I’ve always wanted to try to get a full lobby of CMZ enthusiasts in a vc and in dragon endurance. Sounds so fun

The destiny 2 gameplay was the biggest jump scare

goddamn this is a trip down memory lane

Omg I saw this game when I was 6 and forgot it ever since dawg this has mad iconic vibes

I remember playing this on my 360, I had almost forgotten about it until this video popped up in my recommended.

I was JUST thinking about this game and then this pops up on my feed

I didn't even know there was a dragon. On my Xbox 360 I only ever played survival with my friends. This video does bring back memories though

8:20 Oh man ! The lazer weapon, I remember I played this game too as it was presented by the creator it does both, such memory

I never thought a minecraft-like game would be bad looking yet interesting to watch

The "it''s so bad it's good" MineClone

One of those games that u remember existing and nothing about the game itself

despite being really shoddy and having a great deal of controversy around it (thanks keem) I always loved the concept of traveling out away from spawn to go kill a dragon. I didn’t really grow up in the old video game days where school ground gossip was your #1 source of hidden game knowledge and secrets but this was one of the few moments I got to capture that same magic. Getting told that somewhere out there is an evil undead dragon that you have to beat but no one you know has actually seen it was so captivating as a kid. Wish this idea would be used more and expanded on

Gosh dang the nostalgia hit me like a truck

reading these comments i feel kinda proud of myself and my friends for having beaten this game multiple times back in elementary school. cant believe its already been a decade but i vividly remember our bases made of full diamond and gold blocks, bloodstone weapons out the ass, and i had Dragon Endurance unlocked for the longest time. we had no idea what we were doing, we were just kinda going around and shooting things lol its pretty weird seeing all these people say they struggled or couldnt beat certain dragons, i always thought this game was piss takingly easy. awesome video man, this is one of the most nostalgic indie games from the 360 days. loved this blast from the past

I remember back on the 360, I had 3 friends and we all agreed we would commit to endurance until we defeated the undead dragon, so we geared up with gold weapons and headed for the desert, towering up at night and moving as a unit at day to the mountains, we found a meteorite there, we mined for a couple hours and got laser weapons, by this time our group was down to 3 since one had to leave for bed, we ran and made it with ease to the snow biome where one of us died and gave up, so me and one other remained and we pushed through oreland and into hell where we made it to the required distance for the dragon to spawn, so we towered up and built a quick platform to fight on, we fired for a long time and my friend died but just then 3 more clips with my assault rifle, it died, and both of us got the access few people had, dragon endurance. This was honestly like an anime or something, the process took 6 and a half hours and I’ll never forget it, this game gave me some good memories.

Castleminer, Castleminer Z, White noise and I made a game with zombies in it (its only a dollar!). These games and many more for just a dollar was one the best features Xbox 360 had with the indie developers.

I loved castle miner z as a kid, such a good 360 game

God i remember playing this, regular castleminer, and castleminer warfare on Xbox as a kid. castleminer, castleminer warfare, and castleminer z allowed your Xbox avatars to be used instead of generic soldiers! I….. I really miss those days…..

Holy heck my nostalgia

this and xenominer were my favorite indie games. xenominer was a block based game(like minecraft) but you had health, battery power, and oxygen to worry about and the last update they had done before disappearing was add oxygen generators so you could have a base with airlocks and shit. there was also this little robot that you could program to build or mine for you. you were able to make macros and put macros within the macros to really simplify things.

This is my memorable version of minecraft with guns

Holy damn, last time i saw this game i was maybe 7-8 years ago and loved watching random channels play it.

CMZ has alot of awesome ideas. Awesome ideas that were horribly executed. That soundtrack is god tier though.

I remember playing this in the days of desperation for Minecraft on Xbox. along with murder miners. my friend carried me through the whole thing and I had no idea what I was doing. Great memories

Man this brings back memories, playing as my Xbox avatar, literally mineing into hell itself, shooting my friends for no reason

I haven’t thought of this game in years. I remember playing it back around the time Minecraft came out on the 360. I don’t remember too much about the game but I did kinda like it even if I didn’t play it much. Probably would have played it more if it wasn’t for my friends. Almost every time I played it they were on and wanted to play it with me. I’d spawn in they’d give me a lot of stuff and we were gonna go hunt dragons. But every time we started to travel the friend said other friends wanted to join and then we’d wait and it turns out they weren’t coming or would take hours and he then just drop the whole thing even if the original plan was just us. And so I just left that day feeling like nothing was accomplished. This happened consistently. Which is probably why I didn’t touch it much after for a long while.

This game is way different than i remember wow

Bro i miss this game

i was not expecting a destiny 2 gameplay at the end

This game is so underrated, I had so much fun playing it.

Thank you for making this video

The nostalgia of playing the demo on my xbox360 that i still have to this day

Oh man I have so many minecraft-likes on my xbox360! Castle miner Z was always the most striking though. Love to see someone play it in this day and age.

Dude, 700 subs? only? I thought I was watching a professional video here, and well it is. but dude, you deserve more love, and god bless the algorithm for recommending this video to me

I remember doing a full lobby endurance run in 2015 on my old 360. When we reached hell on earth, we built a stone bridge across it and spammed our RPGs on the undead dragon.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeew, this takes me back.

I remember playing endurance and having the best hacker of the game join my game and randomly turn the whole spawn tower into lucky blocks. Me and my pal refused to touch it though altho did laugh at some the wild stuff the dude did with guns and stuff before he left. He’s a good guy and hyper talented, if you ever see giant block images on the page for castle miner Z from one single person. It’s him.

Oh wow I bought this game for the 360!! My nephew really wanted to play Minecraft but I couldn't afford it so I bought this one on sale. But he loved it!!! He told me about all of the crazy stuff like the guns and the different types of dragons and running into aliens. He still brings it up from time to time especially the feature to be able to have your avatar be the player.

i almost completely forgot about this game, omg! I used to play the hell out of it because I couldn't afford minecraft as a kid lol

It was fun jumping on thoes floating meteors

I spent hours playing this with my friends before the actual minecraft xbox port came out. It was still before the aliens got added. We used to just go as far as we could and the world would just start repeating. But you were still going further and further away from spawn

It was a mode I always wanted to beat but never got around to it. Its been years since I've even tried lol but I may return to the game again

Awesome video very underrated

damn this brings back memories

you did a good job, bro. you should keep on doing this! at first i thought this game was a minecraft mod... instead it's a cursed dragon fighting game. edited me being dumb and calling a game a mod.

Solid work

I love CastleMiner Z! :D

Blast from the past

Omg i used to play this game! I thought it was a fever dream, i could never find anything about it 😂

This game was so awesome. I first played it on the xbox in a friends house. I had forgotten about it untill I saw your video. Thank you.

Well now i wanna play this again

How long would it take to reach the undead dragon? Like 2 hours of gameplay or.... (Btw, huge memory unlock! Thanks man! 🎮❤️)

I remember this game. Played it a few times. Was fun.

Such nostalgia

this game is the most horrifying thing ever

Congratulations

Man i remember this game on xbox and man does it look a lil different

i remember playing this as a kid and getting a headache every time i played lol

this game and murder miners is what made the xbox 360 a commercial success change my mind

idk why this game is so nostalgic to me, I dont think ive put more than 10 hours into it

i remember playing with a british person and he kept saying ore land but i thought he said our land took me like 10 minutes to realize what he was saying, this mustve been like 2012 or 2013 maybe my username was craving germ. i miss those days if u out there ur a king

Castleminerz is one of my most favorite games to ever exist. Nothing else needs to be said, it’s just a really fun game.

do they still have it out there?

I remember on xbox it you bought their other games you would spawn with a bloodstone pick rpg light saber and some other things

I remember rubber banding my controller and letting it mine for a very long time

Great video!