LAST WEEK'S THEME: REIMAGINE THE TEMPLE

Gold

Frosty-Winds

The sheer grandeur of this temple is incredible! It's really something that I would love to find in a jungle and explore! The exterior looks great, with a lot of detail but I really loved the interior. Here you can see these wonderful hallways and rooms and the cool traps. It'd be amazing to explore this in single player, first person, and navigate your way to the centre of this structure. Beside all that, it even uses almost the same palette as the original!

Small criticism though, the very entrance of the build was nice, but the flat grass around it wasn't. A few plants such as ferns, flowers or leaves would have made that area just a bit better. But that's only a very small part, good job!!

Silver

Akaed This link too

The Desert temple is gorgeous. With the statues on top and the giant building, it's really a wonderful sight. The interior with the maze and hieroglyphs was really well done as well. However, this is hard mode so you needed to submit the two temples this time. The jungle temple seemed a little too blah since it's basically four of the same towers sticking up in the air. The lake in the middle is nice and all but those towers just seemed a bit too ordinary and needed some other element to them. However, still two great builds which were challenging using the same blocks as the original! Good job!

Bronze

KingKowen This link too

I really liked the jungle temple which seemed really abandoned and made good use of the overgrown vines. The Desert temple was a build that really could have failed honestly. But you made it work. It was really neat that type of temple inside a beast like that. Also, in both, like the traps you used, especially in the desert temple. The interiors seemed a bit too cramped in some places (like bigger hallways might have been better) and also a bit repetitive in the jungle temple however still two great builds!

Honourable mentions

dAdanedhel

TehDarga

NoNicheNecessary

Introduction

Before we start this challenge, good news for all you redstoners! /u/Habeeb_M has started a Bi-Weekly redstone challenge over at the /r/mcchallenges subreddit. This mean that everyone who thinks building is not really their thing and are better at redstone will have a challenge that might better suit them. That doesn't mean you can't particpate at both though!!

And just so you all know, I am not really involved at all with this challenge so if you have any questions, I'll try and answer them but I probably won't be able to. However, I'm sure that /u/Habeeb_M will be hanging around his challenge and maybe this one to answer any questions you might have! Here is the link to the first challenge too! Go and show your love and support!

Anyway, on to the building challenge…

You're rich. You have all the money you could ever want. A dream car, an expensive dog, 4 kids, a husband/wife…. but where's your house?

This challenge you can get to build it but not just any house, this is a twenty-first century house. One of those cube houses with weird roofs that look completely slick and without any imperfections. This is going to be your modern house.

Inspiration

Example 1

Example 2

Bdub's house, I personally loved this build of his

Challenge

Easy Mode: Construct a modern house. No real guidelines here, build what you think is a modern house that could be found in the world today. A interior is not required, you just need to make a modern looking exterior.

Hard Mode: Same as easy mode. This time we're making the interior and you'll need to have these following rooms:

Indoor pool

Theatre room

An 'art' room (hang some paintings or something, I'll be more lenient on this room but it must contain some sort of 'art')

As you can see, for this challenge I'm not imposing too much of a guideline on what to build. I'm more looking at your take of a modern house. Also please note that this is a modern house and NOT A FUTURISTIC HOUSE. Whatever you build, I should be able to find a house in real life that could or does look similar.

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. 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 30th 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, May 13th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, May 14th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!