20 Nov 2020
Featured Artist Beatmap Updates from the Mappers' Guild
by pishifat and Noffy

Featured Artist Beatmap Updates from the Mappers' Guild

by pishifat and Noffy

New beatmap packs! New medals! And new quests! Learn how mapping and Featured Artists collide through the Mappers' Guild.

What is this Mappers' Guild thing? In short, it's a way for mappers to earn rewards for mapping songs from osu!'s Featured Artists. If you're out of the loop, check out the Mappers' Guild wiki page and its website!

A lot has changed since our last update and now! Two artists are being announced per week and mappers have been grinding out maps like their lives depend on it.

In the last 8 months 85 quests have been completed, nearly 400 (yes, 400!) Featured Artist beatmaps have been ranked, and 22 new medals are now available to earn!

We've got a lot to cover so click on any link below to skip to a different section of this post!

New beatmap packs and medals

Medal hunters rejoice! We've set up a bunch of new Featured Artist beatmap packs and medals for you to unlock!

Just look at how much pink you could have on your profile:

Camellia Sets PackCamellia Challenges PackCelldweller PackCranky Pack 2Cute Anime GirlsELFENSJoN PackHyper Potions PackKola Kid PackLeaF PackPanda Eyes PackPUP PackRicky Montgomery PackRin PackS3RL PackSound Souler PackTeminite PackVINXIS Pack

Artist packs

Classic and modern beatmaps for each listed Featured Artist. Pass one difficulty of each set to unlock its medal!

Theme packs

A crossover of Featured Artist songs in convenient categories. Like the Artist packs, pass one difficulty of each set to unlock its medal!

Skill packs

Collections of beatmaps designed to test your skill. Pass the top difficulty of each beatmap without difficulty reduction mods to unlock its medal.

Mappers' Guild system developments

There's been countless changes to the Mappers' Guild system, but here's some of the most important changes since our last update:

  • Showcase mapsets - Ever notice how there's one or two maps ranked for a Featured Artist just before their announcement? Tier 1+ guild members of all modes are asked to create these! If you want to learn about Featured Artists early and have your own maps showcased, earn some points and your wish will come true!
  • Monthly Beatmapping Contest quests - If you've ever been a finalist in one of these contests, there's new quests made just for you! Rank your highly praised map for some extra Mappers' Guild points!
  • Create your own quests - Tier 1+ members of the guild can submit their own quests from the quest page! Quests only cost 25-100 points to create depending on their criteria, so send in your ideas!

MG quest page

Join the osu!dev Discord server's #mappers-guild channel to keep up-to-date with everything Mappers' Guild related!

Finished quests

There's a ton of quests to go over, so click any of the types below to skip to a different quest type!

Special quests

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For the Metal pack (osu!taiko, osu!, osu!catch) quest designed by Raiden, the mappers had to create and rank at least 8 mapsets from any of the following metal artists: Aether Realm, BLANKFIELD, Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, Inferi, Loki, Native Construct, Nekrogoblikon, Rivers of Nihil, or UNDEAD CORPORATION.

This quest was completed by Raiden, Greenshell, SILENCE PLAYER, radar, Nepuri, Vulkin, LZD, Capu, Daletto, Du5t, frukoyurdakul and -Hex-.

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For the Kola Kid short song mini-pack quest, the mappers had to create and rank one mapset for each Kola Kid song with a length below 1:00, each hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by eiri-, fieryrage and Acylica for osu!.

This quest was completed by xtrem3x, Axer and Vulkin for osu!taiko.

This quest was completed by -Joni-, MBomb, Dapuluous, JBHyperion, Nelly and Jemzuu for osu!catch.

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For the Camellia Hybrid pack (osu!, osu!catch) quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 6 mapsets of songs by Camellia. At least half of the mapsets must include difficulties of a game mode different from the other half, and each mapset must be hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by Seolv, Sinnoh, Daycore, Nelly, MBomb, Cris-, sdafsf, anna apple and fanzhen0019.

Mystery header

For the Mystery Drum and Bass double (osu!taiko) quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 2 mapsets of songs by an unannounced featured artist in the drum and bass genre, each hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by Capu, Cynplytholowazy, Raiden and Nepuri.

These beatmaps were featured in the Task Horizon featured artist announcement!

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For the Teminite collabs (osu!catch) quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 2 mapsets of songs that are collaborations between Teminite and another artist. The majority of difficulties on each mapset must be collaborations between two or more mappers.

This quest was completed by Absolute Zero, Dapuluous and JBHyperion.

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For the LeaF extended ver. double (osu!taiko) quest, the mappers had to create and rank 2 mapsets of songs marked as "extended ver." by LeaF, each hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by Axer, Reficul, Greenshell and tasuke912.

Mystery header

For the Mystery Rhythm Game double (osu!taiko) quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 2 mapsets of songs by an unannounced featured artist in the electronic genre (leaning towards rhythm game-y types of songs), each hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by Cynplytholowazy and komasy.

These beatmaps were featured in the kiraku featured artist announcement!

MBC banner

For each MBC finalists quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 1 mapset of any submission that reached the voting or judging stage in its respective month.

The MBC February finalists quest was completed by Acylica, Down and Sharu.

The MBC March finalists quest was completed by Cris-, Hazu-, Krisom and walaowey.

The MBC April finalists quest was completed by hypercyte and Zelq.


Artist-specific large packs

For each of these quests, the mappers had to create and rank between 5 and 8 mapsets of songs by the relevant artist.

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The UNDEAD CORPORATION Touhou pack (osu!) quest was completed by Trynna, eiri-, Zelq, Lafayla, Seto Kousuke and Mirash.

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The ginkiha pack (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Capu, Vulkin, Nepuri, komasy, xtrem3x, Hivie, radar, salchow, Ulqui, rubies87, Nerova Riuz GX and Cychloryn.

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The Panda Eyes pack (osu!taiko, osu!) quest was completed by Cychloryn, xtrem3x, Vulkin, Faputa, Cynplytholowazy, Capu, Stingy, radar, tasuke912, HiroK, salchow and Ciyus Miapah.

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This sakuraburst pack (osu!taiko, osu!) quest was completed by Cynplytholowazy, Raytoly, Faputa, iceOC, salchow, [Zeth], Nardoxyribonucleic, Cychloryn, Aisha, Volta, Marm and Kawashiro.

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The Celldweller pack (osu!) was completed by Daycore, PandaHero, Mirash, Pachiru, piroshki, Yugu and fieryrage.

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The ELFENSJoN pack (osu!) quest was completed by Hinsvar, Mocaotic, _Epreus, Affirmation, Hey lululu, Keqing, Agatsu, Kalibe, Kazato Asa and Kowari.

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The Zekk pack (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Capu, Raiden, Stingy, komasy, Hivie, Axer, Faputa and Nardoxyribonucleic.

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The Kola Kid pack (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Gamelan4, gaston_2199, Axer, Coryn, Etsu and Nepuri.


Artist-specific small packs

For each of these quests, the mappers had to create and rank between 2 and 4 mapsets of songs by the relevant artist.

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The goreshit mini-pack (osu!) was completed by Hinsvar, -Aqua, domSaur, tricolor, newton-, h3ct1c and PandaHero.

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The BilliumMoto mini-pack (osu!mania) quest was completed by Raveille, lenpai, FAMoss, - Aries -, -MysticEyes, Unpredictable, Scotty and Peter.

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The dark cat mini-pack (osu!catch) quest was completed by JBHyperion, Ascendance, wonjae, Absolute Zero, WildOne94 and Benita.

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The Monolithia mini-pack (osu!mania, osu!taiko) quest was completed by _Kobii, Faputa, Keiga, Scotty, Blocko, Kamuy and Cynplytholowazy.

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The Street mini-pack (osu!taiko) quest was completed by eiri-, tasuke912, Ulqui, Skull Kid and Trynna.

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The Silentroom mini-pack (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Ulqui, Vulkin, Genjuro, HiroK, _DUSK_, komasy, Nerova Riuz GX, tasuke912, [Zeth] and Nifty.

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The Venetian Snares mini-pack (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Gamelan4, Raiden, Axer, Nepuri, gaston_2199 and -Kazu-.

CircusP header

The CircusP mini-pack (osu!) quest was completed by eiri-, Noffy, Pachiru, fieryrage and Gero

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The Hyper Potions mini-pack (osu!) quest was completed by Cheri, -Sylvari, wafer and Niva.

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For the MIMI mini-pack quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 3 mapsets of songs by MIMI, each hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by Myxo, Nuvolina and Nozhomi for osu!

This quest was completed by Greaper, Secre, JBHyperion, Xinely, wonjae and Bastian for osu!catch.

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The Rivers of Nihil mini-pack (osu!, osu!taiko) quest was completed by Daycore, Mao, h3ct1c, FCL, SILENCE PLAYER, Gero and Raiden.

LeaF header

For the LeaF mini-pack quest, the mappers had to create and rank 3 mapsets of songs by LeaF, each hosted by a different user.

This quest was completed by Hey lululu, SnowNiNo_, Yugu, Flask, Icekalt, Chaoslitz and Regou for osu!.

This quest was completed by Nifty, Alchyr, Genjuro, _DUSK_, Vulkin and Ulqui for osu!taiko.

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The Azure of the Horizon mini-pack (osu!, osu!taiko) quest was completed by coco, Agatsu and Alwaysyukaz.

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The O2i3 mini-pack (osu!mania) quest was completed by Unpredictable, -mint-, Keiga, Scotty, Kamuy and Hydria.

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The Kurokotei mini-pack (osu!) quest was completed by Crissa, Cris- and Hazu-.

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The ICDD: Yomi yori Kikoyu, Koukoku no Tou to Honoo no Shoujo & Fusyoku Ressentiment, Fushiyoku no Sarugakuza. (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Vulkin, Capu, Nepuri and Raiden.

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The HyuN double (osu!) quest was completed by -Sylvari and Niva.

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For the Station Earth double quest, the mappers had to create and rank 2 or more mapsets of songs by Station Earth.

This quest was completed by Hey lululu, Entry, Chaoslitz and Flask for osu!.

This quest was completed by FAMoss and Faputa for osu!taiko & osu!mania.

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For the Frums double quest, the mappers had to create and rank at least 2 mapsets of songs by Frums.

This quest was completed by Gamelan4, Idealism, rubies87 and Cychloryn for osu!taiko.

This quest was completed by Blocko and Kawawa for osu!mania

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The Celldweller double (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Lime717 and Gamelan4.

PUP header

The PUP double (osu!catch) quest was completed by JBHyperion, Nelly and Jemzuu.

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The Rohi double (osu!taiko) quest was completed by Idealism, Axer, eiri-, Trynna, Vulkin and Hivie.


Single mapset packs

It's no surprise that of the 85 quests completed since our last update, the majority of them have been the newly implemented solo/single-mapset quests!

The requirements for each single-mapset quest is essentially the same: Create and rank 1 mapset of any song by a specified artist. Below is a list of all recently completed single-mapset quests!

Major contributors

While we would usually list each recently ranked Featured Artist song, a list of 400 beatmaps would be a bit insane.

Instead we'll be highlighting some of the big time contributors to the Mappers' Guild!

Each of these users have hosted 3+ ranked mapsets or created 10+ ranked difficulties since our previous update in March. Numbers below are for the period between our last update and today.

User Beatmaps Ranked Difficulties Ranked
eiri- 27 148
Capu 12 39
Raiden 10 42
Cheri 8 37
Jemzuu 8 42
komasy 6 29
Nepuri 6 17
FAMoss 6 23
Gamelan4 6 13
Cris- 5 15
Faputa 5 23
Daycore 5 22
Axer 5 23
Ulqui 5 26
Trynna 4 54
Mao 4 8
Niva 4 16
hypercyte 4 18
Nao Tomori 4 14
Hey lululu 4 9
Nuvolina 4 18
DTM9 Nowa 4 22
wonjae 4 13
Crissa 4 5
Agatsu 4 16
fieryrage 4 16
[Zeth] 4 9
gaston_2199 4 15
Zelq 4 12
Hivie 4 29
Zer0- 4 13
Lasse 3 18
tasuke912 3 20
Sinnoh 3 21
JBHyperion 3 29
Cynplytholowazy 3 24
Nelly 3 8
Pachiru 3 12
Genjuro 3 23
radar 3 14
Vulkin 3 18
rubies87 3 7
Noffy 2 12
Nozhomi 2 11
Nifty 2 11
Gero 2 10
Sonnyc 2 11
Nardoxyribonucleic 2 12
-Joni- 2 14
Blocko 1 12

It's unbelievable how much the community has been contributing to the Featured Artist program. Thank you to everyone who's participated, be it as a mapper completing quests or as a player unlocking medals.

We hope you enjoy everything huge amount of content here and we'll see you again in the next update!

—pishifat and Noffy

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thank you all for the contribution <3

"22 NEW medals" :D
You guys did great on making the challenge packs. In my opinion, a little too much lol

:o

i need to start mapping :/

Skill packs are STD Dan courses?

Niva VanillaKeksik

no, the Skill Packs mentioned in this article are these "Mappers' Guild Pack VII", "Mappers' Guild Pack VIII", and "Mappers' Guild Pack IX" pictured below. the osu!dan packs (STD Dan Courses) are unrelated to it

from being a small group of cherry picked mappers to becoming a publicly accessible system with lots of infrastructure that now gets us featured artist maps on a regular basis. people should not take this for granted.
pishi and the mappers guild really is an example of what community projects should be.

schoolboy Kagetsu

thats cool and all but can i have a new kagetsu ranked map 😢😢😢😢

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Lets gooo

the medal section right now is a bit too messy, there are so many medals they should be organised in other ways

i demand summer 2020 spotlights medal

Thank you Mappers' Guild for making all these maps ♥

that's cool, ss medals when

So many cool beatmap packs, gotta farm those medals

OwO this is awesome

ELFENSJoN - Hoshikuzu no Rinne not in a pack? WHYYY...

eiri going ham at this

when will the dark cat one have medal? :) i've always wanted a ctb dark cat pack and today is the day

eiri pro

astronickad fieryrage

hi! Fiery°

that's a LOT of medals

I think blue marble quest was missed lol

Edit: i saw it

Niva Plus4j

it's listed in the newspost as Station Earth

Plus4j Niva

Oh wait i saw it

Why can't unlock these medals on other gamemodes :( , fix this bug plz.

SquiddOSU Oktavia

Probably not a "bug", it's just them trying to limit the map to the mode it's designed for (since these maps could technically be easier or harder in other game modes).

FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yooo cool

thanks for compiling all this info, and thank you to all the mappers and modders who contributed. God bless you and your families.

“ Skill packs” wheres the other gamemodes?

please nominate my guild maps

Capu Vulkin

Ok

tatatat Vulkin

please nominate my guild maps

Capu tatatat

no

eiri-'s mapping race

thx for packs and medals

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thx for packs and medals