They are hard to find, don't respawn, and only drop 50% of the time. I guess they are still super useful but it would be really hard to get a large amount of the boxes.

LAST WEEK'S WINNERS!!

Gold

Snow_Rabbit

Silver

SeanWasTaken

Bronze

AnthiumV

Honourable Mentions

Jabbatrios, whodatwitch, Akaed

Last week's challenge

Introduction

Ahoy me maties! I is a pirate that be on your mighty crew on your (hopefully) spectacularrrrg ship! Yes, that's right, we're going to be playing pirate for these two weeks building ships or coves! Let's get that pirate hat on and get to some building!

Also, thanks to /u/MajoraHS for the theme!!

Inspiration

Davy Jones

Battle!

Kraken!

Cove

Another Cove

And another Cove!

Challenge

Easy mode Construct a pirate ship. That's it for this week's easy mode. The ship can be whatever size you like but remember: The more detailed your ship is, the better!

Hard mode Two choices for hard mode!

1. Make a Pirate Cove. In this cove there must be two ships at least (although one of them can be a wrecked ship). The rest is up to you but make sure to fancy up your cove!

2. Make an open-sea battle! Two or more ships are engaged in a conflict and around them there is a mighty kraken!! So, for this option, you must construct two ships fighting and a kraken in the sea by them.

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, October 2nd 2016: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, October 15th 2016: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, October 16th 2016 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

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