LAST WEEK'S THEME: COLOSSEUM

Gold

waklow

This is an example of going above and beyond the theme. We always set the theme in place but usually there's a lot of wiggle room. This build is perfect for showing that you can expand upon the original theme and make your build really unique. The build is very organic which we liked and also although there is detail, it's not too much so that the build feels busy. Also, for the interior, I personally loved the use of darkness. Great build!!

Silver

KingKowen

Another great build. This one we really liked because of how well the building design is. Also, the use of red and black to contrast the grey stone worked tremendously! The statues and fighting in the main arena was also really neat and well made. However, as always, terrain outside of your building is important and the superflat world that was showed when you had pictures of the exterior brought down the build a bit (although I understand as you mentioned time constraints). Still a good build!

Bronze

NoNicheNecessary

First of all, loved the statue outside of the build! The Arena looks really good and I like the choice of colour. Also, I see what you wanted to do with the villager spectators however, with them spread out here and there, it really makes it apparent how bare the stadium is. I believe that it would have looked better with no spectators or completely jammed pack with them rather than them just spread out. We also loved the exterior, which had lots of depth and really made the build for us! Good job!

Honourable mentions

dAdanedhel

Introduction

Where did all those block come from? All those thousands of blocks that have been placed in these build challenges…

They must have come from a factory! This is what we'll be building this week, factories to create the many different materials that we use in our builds, whether it be lumber, stone or ores! So get to building and creating!

Inspiration

Factory

Watch out for the pollution!

Challenge

Thanks to /u/dermasbroo for this challenge!

Easy Mode: Build a decorated (not just a simple stone box) factory with a theme inside (lumber milling, sewing, metal fabrication, car manufacture, etc)

Hard Mode: All mentioned above and a warehouse where the products are being placed before being transported, and a method of transportation, be it a horse drawn carriage, an early truck, or a train on rails transporting coal to the factory.

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, June 11th 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, June 24th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, June 25th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!