LAST WEEK'S THEME: RACE TRACK

Gold

Akaed

A simple yet effective build. The designs on the track look great and the course, while small, looks very nice and the stands and buildings around it are also very neat. My only criticism is that in some parts it felt a bit too flat or bare but that was only a very small number of spots.

Silver

StarTux

A very cool build with some cool terrain around the track. It's a great build however this build seems to have gone a bit too big. When you look at it, it seems like the track is too small for the mass of mountains and waterfalls. This is why (after some deliberation) we chose this as second because why it's an awfully good build, the terrain really seemed to dwarf the track here. Good build though! It was close!

Bronze

TrentGgrims

The colour of this track is phenomenal. The ice on the track blends nicely with the blue, red and wood on the outside and the design of the track looks very cool and seems like it would be super fun to play! Around the build however it's pretty bare but the track itself is great!

Honourable mention

TheWingedKuriboh

Introduction

Try and find your inner squirrel because this week we are building a treehouse!! This is personally one of my favourite themes in minecraft–nature, trees, plants–and I'm super excited for this one because while I'm okay at building this style, I know you guys and girls will be even better!!!

Inspiration

Kid's next door treehouse!

Giant tree–Avatar

Docm77's tree from his world tour!

Challenge

Easy mode Build a Giant tree. In the canopy, there must be one room with basic functions (crafting table, chests, brewing stand, etc.)

Hard mode Build a more Giant tree. The tree's trunk must be 30 blocks tall with the canopy being however big you see fitting. (To show the height, please take two screenshots, from the bottom of the trunk and the top to show how high it is). In the canopy, there must be three sections or rooms also with basic functions.

Note: The trunk is the wooden part, the canopy are the leaves.

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, March 5th 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, March 18th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, March 19th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

Contest is now closed!!!!

LAST WEEK'S THEME: QUEEN OF HEART'S CASTLE

Gold

StarTux

A very elegant build which really made good use of the colours available. This means that instead of using red for the entire build, they used grey and accented the roof with red, making it stand out but not too much, giving contrast to the build. Hedge maze was well done, especially with the heart in the middle and the inside was really nice; The lighting provided a neat atmosphere. Well done, a very good build!

Silver

cruznick06

Another cool build. One of the things I liked which is important for people to think about is the placement other build. I really liked this placement on top of the mountain, it looked really neat and grand there. The actual castle looked very good, with an interesting shape and the use of blocks fit the theme really nice. However, the one part that lacked was not the hedge maze but around it. It looked like a hedge maze was just plopped into a plains, which it was. It would have been nice to transition it into a plains from the hedge maze, adding leaves and trees so it wasn't such an abrupt transition. That's the only criticism I have and it was still a really good build! Good job!

Bronze

LordCommanderFang

For the silver entry, I talked about location of the build. This may be just me, but I reeealllly prefer builds in regular terrain instead of superflat. I like superflat as a testing world but as a build site, the build may look nice (like here) but my eyes are drawn to the outside where it's just flat.

This is a really good build though and I like the way LordCommanderFang went at it. It's not too often we see someone use a sphere in these build challenges, especially for the castles and here it added a really cool looking shape to the build. Also, the hedge maze was a good way to lead up to the castle and looked really good.

So besides the building in superflat and the landscape around the build looking dull (again this may just be me), I found the build to be really cool so good job!!

Introduction

Thanks to /u/KingSt3aLtH for this challenge!

Minecrafters, start your building! We're racing today in our challenge making the best racetracks that boats/horses have ever seen!

Inspiration

Interesting racetrack

Challenge

Easy mode Make a racetrack for boats or horses. No ovals or circles are allowed.

Hard mode Add all the normal things to your racetrack: Stands, podium, pitlane and a food and drink stand. Again, no oval or circle track.

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, February 19th 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, March 4th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, March 5th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!