Introduction

Never toss a dwarf! We're going underground for this first challenge in this bi-weekly building competition! In many movies and other works, dwarves are known for their mining and their large underground strongholds. This challenge is about that! Building an underground dwarf fortress.

Inspiration

Erebor

Moria

Challenge

Easy mode Construct a underground dwarven fortress. It must have the following features and they must all be connected.

• A great hall

• A mine filled with gems

• A giant cavern filled with homes or bridges or any other dwarvish features

Hard mode With everything you must build on easy, you must also include:

• A great furnace

• A hall leading to a secret exit in the side of the mountain

• A bridge of Khazad-dûm (as seen in inspiration video 2) with a balrog standing on it

Rules

1. Submitting an entry To submit an entry, you must comment on this post and format your comment like this:

Title of submission

Easy or hard mode

Link to submission photos or video (preferably youtube or Imgur)

Comments

2. Vanilla only No mods that add new blocks or items are allowed. No resource packs are allowed. Any minecraft version is allowed and you may build with custom terrain, creative mode, world edit or etc as long as it doesn't add any new blocks to the game.

3. No preexisting builds We're going with the honour system here but if anything had already been built before the start of the contest, don't submit it.

4. Build teams are allowed There may be more that one person building for a challenge but only one person may submit their entry with their account

Points and leaderboards

No leaderboards yet 🙂

For points and judging:

There is only 3 winners each week. Each participant will get 1 point for submitting their entry. There are honourable mentions but they do not get any extra points.

Anybody that places Bronze with an easy submission gets 2 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 3 points

Anybody that places Silver with an easy submission gets 4 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 5 points

Anybody that places Gold with an easy submission gets 6 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 7 points

Schedule

Sunday, September 4th 2016: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, September 17th 2016: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, September 18th 2016: A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

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