LAST WEEK'S THEME: CLIFF VILLAGE

Gold

Akaed

Wow. This build blew me away when I first saw it because it went against all I said before but still worked. I've always told people to vary the block choice and colour because usually, it's so bland with one colour. The best thing Akaed does here is not vary up colour (because that didn't happen) but vary up the block choice and the depth. The depth in this build gives it some shadows which provides additional tones of colour to the build and the block choice makes it so it isn't too similar still. Great build!

Silver

dAdanedhel

Now, on the opposite side of the spectrum we have this build, which uses variation but instead of really making his build different, he makes his towns different! Each town, if you notice, has a different theme and each one is very nice. Also, in each of his villages, the buildings vary in shape and size which really made it pop at us. Good job!

Bronze

abso1ute

This one really screamed village at us. Everywhere you looked there were houses hanging from the sides which were very nice. Also, the supports on the paths were a nice touch and made it seem realistic.

NOTE: We know he is using optifine grass here and have told him that in the future, we won't allow it but we'd let it slide for this one time so optifine (at least those grass textures) is still not allowed! And if any of you think he won because of it, it didn't affect it much. I can't speak for the other judges but for me personally, I felt the all grass blocks didn't fit as well because the ground was way too green. A bit of actual brown dirt might have been better.

Honourable mention

dermasbroo

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Introduction

Look up! Do you see anything? If you don't, that will change sometime later this week!

We're building skyscrapers that go up as far as the eye can see! Whether you want to build the traditional skyscrapers, cool steampunk ones (I don't really know if that would work but who knows?!), sci-fi ones or even make a gotham city to fly around on an elytra, it's up to you!

Inspiration

Skyscraper 1

Tunnel connecting

Challenge

Easy Mode: Construct one skyscraper that is at least 80 blocks tall. There must be a lobby to your building but besides that, there doesn't have to be any other interior (although if you want, you can).

Hard Mode: Everything in Easy Mode but now you have to build 2 others that connect to each other via bridges or tunnels. Again, interiors for the lobbies of the skyscrapers but also the interior of the tunnels (if you choose them over bridges).

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. 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. Any version of minecraft i.e. PS3, Xbox 360, Pocket Edition.

4. 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.

5. 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, April 2nd 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, April 15th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, April 16th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!