LAST WEEK'S THEME: FACTORY

Gold

KingKowen

Great use of colour in this build! It's made to look like candy or sugar and it does the job! The machines and the assembly lines had enough detail so that we knew exactly what they did and their function and it looked good too. Just one small criticism is that the outside of the building seemed a little plain with the one block type. But still, great build!

Silver

abrightmoore

Not at all what I expected but I still loved it! It was a really neat take on the challenge and I loved the story of how the worlds are being made and the way that all the colours on the planets blended together looked really neat. The only criticism is that station itself was a little bland on the outside. Maybe another layer on the side would give it a bit more depth and look better?

Bronze

EveGiggle

Another really neat build. Loved the use of conveyor belts and how he used different blocks to represent different stages of the cooling process. Liked the colour too, the only problem was the use of stone for the floor and the walkways outside. It made the build, especially the outside, look really bland. A better floor pattern or the use of another block outside would have given it a better feel.

Honourable mentions

Radioactive_Bee

Introduction

The pyramids, the hanging gardens…

These are but two of the wonders of the world! This time, we will be recreating these amazing structures in our worlds! Are you ready to inspire people? Maybe your build will be a wonder of minecraft someday! Let's see!

Inspiration

The seven wonders

Challenge

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World : Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (also known as the Mausoleum of Mausolus), Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria

Easy Mode: Look at the inspiration image. This contains the seven wonders. You must build one of these wonders. Recreate it either in our time (if you can), the time it was in its prime or during its building process. Please specify which wonder it is.

Hard Mode: All mentioned above however….

Look at the image of whatever wonder you chose. After you build it and take screenshots of it, you must take a screenshot of the wonder which matches the image of it in the inspiration. This includes the terrain around the wonder and other structures around the wonder. Try to match the image the best you can. Again, specify which wonder it is.

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 25th 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, July 8th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, July 9th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

This is all just a guess but maybe the illagers are searching for the lost strongholds. Proof can be seen in that intent via the mock end portals made of wool seen in the woodland mansions. Perhaps these illagers wish to harness the powers of the end. Whatever the reason, they carved out the underground creating massive mineshafts whose sole purpose was to locate the end portal; hence why they left all the mineral ores exposed. Now I know that some of you may say that they've found strongholds intersecting with mineshafts. If this is the case, then the illagers have succeeded in finding the portal. However, the portal requires ender eyes which they lacked. As they search for more ender eyes they continue to conspire in their mansions. What do you guys think? Does this theory hold any weight?

Contest is closed!

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!