LAST WEEK'S THEME: VOLCANIC ISLAND:

Gold

Akaed

Great build, with good features and the volcano looked spectacular in eruption. The village was very nice and cozy, complimenting the sinister volcano. Also, the use of cobwebs for the eruption was a nice touch.

Silver

ShaneH7646

Now, it might not look like he did much but that's because he was only doing easy mode. The volcano he built for easy mode looked very nice and epic. The fiery smoke I especially loved because it looked very dangerous, that volcano. Also, while I linked the album, if you go to his comment where he posted it, he also has a video showing how he built it!

Bronze

Qweertz

Another good build but the problem I found was with the village how it seemed very flat and plain besides the houses. However, still a good build deserving of third place as the volcano also looked very good!!

Honourable Mention(s)

Wauwosaurus

Now even though this wasn't a volcano, he explained in his comment how it started out as one then veered off into this. This is the reason why I didn't disqualify it completely however since it wasn't a volcano, it couldn't have placed at all. Still nice build for what he was trying!

Introduction

CATAPULT! We're going back to battles but this time it isn't world war II! We're going to the dark ages or medieval times! Build your greatest battle scene yet and have either a force take over your castle…. or die trying.

Inspiration

Catapult

Guide to build castles!!!

Pictures of castles!

Challenge

Easy mode Build a castle and attacking it are at least:

1 catapult

1 knight

1 archers

Hard mode Build a castle again but this time, half the castle must be in ruin from the attack. Attacking the castle is:

4 catapults (each try and make unique, they don't have to be too different but there must be minor changes)

2 knights

2 archers

Projectiles fired by the catapults

For both easy and hard mode, there can be more things attacking however they must be somewhat historically accurate. Build the battle you've always imagined!!!

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

Link to sheet. The leaderboards are on the 2nd page

For points and judging:

There is only 3 winners each week. Each participant will get 1 point for submitting their entry if in easy mode. In hard mode, they will get 2. There are honourable mentions but they do not get any extra points.

Anybody that places Bronze with an easy submission gets 3 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 4 points

Anybody that places Silver with an easy submission gets 5 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 6 points

Anybody that places Gold with an easy submission gets 7 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 8 points

Schedule (AST)

Sunday, November 27th 2016: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, December 10th 2016: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, December 11th 2016 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

Contest is now closed

LAST WEEK'S THEME: WORLD WAR II:

What a week… Honestly, if this had been any other week all of these builds would have gotten 1st place easily. It was difficult putting a placement on these but all of you who submitted these builds, give yourselves a pat on your backs, it was amazing to see these.

Gold

Akaed

This guy went all out this week. He built so much stuff and all of it looks really sweet. The detail on his build was very good. I especially liked the destroyer (I think that's how you call the ship, someone correct me if I'm wrong), the explosions in the background and the aerial shot really showed how great this build was. I could tell a lot of effort was put into this.

Silver

Bramboss

I literally thought he was building with a resource pack. Then I realized that it was all gigantified. The only drawback we had with this build was that although it's super super super impressive to build massive things with blocks, we also found it neat how the others managed to build quality things in a smaller area (which is also hard). But jeez, this would have won for sure had it been any other week. Great, great job!

Bronze

Rupder

The thing that I absolutely loved the most about this build was the fact he copied pictures from the battle. That was really neat to see. However, there seemed to be missing just a bit of detail in this build. The sea area seemed a bit too plain to look at and although the tank that was on fire looked great and cool, the shot with the tanks and the city wall seemed a bit too plain. If there would have been a bit more variation to the tanks, land or building behind it, that shot would have looked really cool

Honourable Mention(s)

Qweertz

Introduction

BOOOM! That was the sound of your exploding volcano you're going to build for this challenge. Volcanoes are giant forces of nature that spew out lava, ash and other terrible things as they explode! How will you demonstrate such an epic and powerful force?

Also, for this challenge terrain generators are banned as they can easily make volcanoes and basically complete the build challenge! Any builds completed with a generator (which we should be able to tell) will be disqualified!

Inspiration

Artwork

Real volcano

The story of krakatoa

Challenge

Easy mode Build a volcanic island! Your volcano must be a large mountain that has a crater in the middle. Make sure we can see the lava inside.

Hard mode After you build your volcanic island in easy mode, you can take the next step here! On the side of your island, construct a village. Then, after you take an image of the island, volcano and village, take another shot but of the volcano mid-explosion! Then, finally you need a third image of the lava flowing down the mountain! More images can be included of course!

This isn't required, but if you make your explosion look scientifically accurate and you explain to me what is happening, I'll be impressed!

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. This time no terrain generators are allowed as they can fully do the easy challenge!!!

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

Link to sheet. The leaderboards are on the 2nd page

For points and judging:

There is only 3 winners each week. Each participant will get 1 point for submitting their entry if in easy mode. In hard mode, they will get 2. There are honourable mentions but they do not get any extra points.

Anybody that places Bronze with an easy submission gets 3 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 4 points

Anybody that places Silver with an easy submission gets 5 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 6 points

Anybody that places Gold with an easy submission gets 7 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 8 points

Schedule (AST)

Sunday, November 13th 2016: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, November 26th 2016: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, November 27th 2016 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!