LAST WEEK'S THEME: CLIFF VILLAGE

Gold

Akaed

Wow. This build blew me away when I first saw it because it went against all I said before but still worked. I've always told people to vary the block choice and colour because usually, it's so bland with one colour. The best thing Akaed does here is not vary up colour (because that didn't happen) but vary up the block choice and the depth. The depth in this build gives it some shadows which provides additional tones of colour to the build and the block choice makes it so it isn't too similar still. Great build!

Silver

dAdanedhel

Now, on the opposite side of the spectrum we have this build, which uses variation but instead of really making his build different, he makes his towns different! Each town, if you notice, has a different theme and each one is very nice. Also, in each of his villages, the buildings vary in shape and size which really made it pop at us. Good job!

Bronze

abso1ute

This one really screamed village at us. Everywhere you looked there were houses hanging from the sides which were very nice. Also, the supports on the paths were a nice touch and made it seem realistic.

NOTE: We know he is using optifine grass here and have told him that in the future, we won't allow it but we'd let it slide for this one time so optifine (at least those grass textures) is still not allowed! And if any of you think he won because of it, it didn't affect it much. I can't speak for the other judges but for me personally, I felt the all grass blocks didn't fit as well because the ground was way too green. A bit of actual brown dirt might have been better.

Honourable mention

dermasbroo

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Introduction

Look up! Do you see anything? If you don't, that will change sometime later this week!

We're building skyscrapers that go up as far as the eye can see! Whether you want to build the traditional skyscrapers, cool steampunk ones (I don't really know if that would work but who knows?!), sci-fi ones or even make a gotham city to fly around on an elytra, it's up to you!

Inspiration

Skyscraper 1

Tunnel connecting

Challenge

Easy Mode: Construct one skyscraper that is at least 80 blocks tall. There must be a lobby to your building but besides that, there doesn't have to be any other interior (although if you want, you can).

Hard Mode: Everything in Easy Mode but now you have to build 2 others that connect to each other via bridges or tunnels. Again, interiors for the lobbies of the skyscrapers but also the interior of the tunnels (if you choose them over bridges).

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. 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 2nd 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, April 15th 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, April 16th 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

Your monthly reminder that yes, there are suggestions that do get over 100 upvotes from the Minecraft Community.

Here, are showcased all suggestions for the past month that have achieved an upvote notoriety beyond 100, as well as the 10 closest stragglers that were just shy of making the choice 3-digit beautymark.

This last month has gone through quite a load with the revealing of the colorful content set for 1.12… and that's in both meanings of the word! Especially in the last week-ish, we've been treated to concepts like Colorful Parrots, Colorful Beds, Colorful Customizations, etc!

Speaking of colorful things, as far as March goes, we've a jolly grand total of 92 Beautifully Colorful Suggestions!… with 14 of 'em ranking up the "echeladder" to the glorious status of being super starry 200+ & one even as a luminous 300+ post!

And whilst on the topic of this update, labelled "The Colorful Update", we have here 9 suggestions about parrots & 17 suggestions about colors!
That's almost a third of the top suggestions this month! The devotion in this community towards current updates is truly a marvelous spectacle unto itself!

Y'ALL'RE A RIGHT COLORFUL BUNCH, I TELL YEH~!
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<>If there was a suggestion that was missed in this, do let us know below. We haven't yet reached infallible perfection just quite yet, so some mistakes are still within the realm plausibility.<>

Beautiful Suggestions 100 and Beyond:

• 300✨ Lapis stays in the dang enchanting table.
• 200✩ Since 1.12 is the World of Colour, add Cherry Blossoms to forests to make it more colourful and interesting.
• 200✩ Rare piles of blocks in the end that represent what endermen have taken
• 200✩ Mid-clicking a mushroom block should give you a mushroom block instead of a mushroom
• 200✩ Rarely Bats spawn as a huge pack, creating the occasional "bat cave"
• 200✩ Green Apples will rarely fall from oak tree leaves instead of apples and when eaten, will give Luck II for 3 minutes.
• 200✩ Rivers generating in different heights.
• 200✩ Renaming an item with dye on an anvil makes the name colored.
• 200✩ Rarely, in the end, Endermen will spawn holding a Shulker.
• 200✩ When making a new world, you should be able to set gamerules
• 200✩ Smelting is 10% faster and the fuel lasts 10% longer in The Nether
• 200✩ Cooking a Pumpkin Makes Orange Dye
• 200✩ Brown Mooshrooms!
• 200✩ Fortune shears affect the wool drop when shearing sheeps
• If an anvil is dropped from high enough, it will break any transparent block it falls on.
• Creepers Change Skin Depending on Biome
• If you put two gates next to each other, they will behave like double doors.
• When a dyed bed explodes in the nether/end, the explosion particles are the same colour
• Rare Parrot Drops that can decorate/upgrade?/dye your Elytra
• Add a "Single Large Island in Ocean" or "Finite World" Preset
• Make pumpkins initially appear without a carved face.
• There should be a rare chance that bred animal can give a birth to two animals.
• You can have parrots sit on your Armor Stand
• Jukeboxes replay the record inside when powered by redstone.
• Spectating through the eyes of a Snow Golem shows the pumpkin helmet vision overlay.
• Parrots can follow you if you're flying with an elytra
• Mobs named 'Dinnerbone' and bats hanging on ceilings should have upside-down vision when being spectated in /gamemode 3
• A parrot named "jeb_" will rotate through colours like a sheep.
• Clicking on the "Adventuring Time" achievement shows you a list of all the biomes you have visited and need to visit.
• Zombie Pigmen that spawned from a pig struck by lightning shouldn't have swords
• If an Enderman stay on a wet farmland or sponge for a while, he will take damage from the wetty surface
• The Update is called "World Of Color", why not add rainbows!!!!!!
• A 'size-4' Slime has a 5% chance of dropping a Slime Block instead of spawning a 'size-2' Slime upon death
• NoAI chickens shouldn't lay eggs
• Skeletons should move slower when they have an arrow drawn
• The dragon should be woken up before you fight it
• Right clicking armor in your hand while armor is already equipped switches armor pieces (works with Elytra)
• When a sheep eat grass, they should heal them first; if they are full of health, then they grow wool.
• The ability to dye written books
• If you break a log ,using an axe enchanted with fire aspect , charcoal will be dropped instead of the log.
• Parrots Dismount With Sneak, Not Jump
• Glaciers/Icebergs
• Slimes should "jiggle" when hit.
• Have a small chance of villages being decorated with banners.
• 9 Blaze Powder creates a Blaze Block, that stores Blaze Powder and sets things on fire when touched.
• Sheep that spawn in flowered forests have colored wool
• Minecraft 1.12 update is about color right how about adding colorful fish in the sea or jellyfishes
• Improve villages
• Why dye when you can dispense? [/CatchyTitle]
• Bamboo forests
• Falling blocks should play a sound effect when they hit the ground.
• Parrot stands to leave them waiting for us
• The top log block in every tree should be an all-bark variant of that log type, which itself is only obtainable with silk touch. Otherwise it will drop a regular log.
• Mossy, Cracked, and Chiseled End Stone Bricks.
• Instead of negating Magma Blocks, Frost Walker should temporarily deactivate them.
• Parrots are pretty smart birds, it would be cool if they intentionally pressed buttons and flicked levers
• New Villager for the 'World Of Colour' update
• Shears harvest sponges quickly.
• Renaming an item should not damage Anvils
• Blizzards in cold biomes sandstorms in deserts
• Take "Auto-jump" off of Default, you should have to "opt into" Auto-jump, not "opt out"
• Remove the Purple Glow on Potions and replace it with an animations.
• Parrots should perch on fences like this
• Ash
• Beacons working as map waypoints.
• Make burning arrows be able to activate Nether Portal
• Find gold nuggets when fishing
• Putting a dragon egg on top of a beacon beam causes the sky to change to the beam's color.
• Sneak + F1 should hide the UI but not your hands
• Beacon beams should act as vertical boosters for elytras
• Prismarine Pillars
• Since the "World of Color" update is on its way, why not have different colors of buttons, trapdoors, bookshelves, crafting tables, and maybe even chests?
• Parrots can drop colored feathers which are used to make colored text in Books
• Instead of 'Biome Size' and 'Biome' being set by two sliders in a page of 'Customized World', instead give a whole page to adjust the size and rarity of every biome in the overworld.
• Decaying Bones for 1.12
• Bows should tell us how much damage they inflict, just like swords, axes, hoes, etc.
• Zombie Cyclops and Zombie Pigclops
• If this update is dubbed the "World of Color" update, then why not add in full RGB color coding?
• Ocelots should be hostile towards parrots
• The ability to rebind the keys that save and load hotbars in Creative Mode.
• Endermen named "Slender" will try to teleport in front of the player to make them look at it
• Magma Concrete Blocks
• Haste makes you draw bows back faster
• The clothes of ordinary "Steve" zombies should be ripped and tattered (for consistency with zombie villagers)
• When you craft a banner and a bed together you should get the banners colour and design on the bed.
• Sticky TNT: won't fall when ignited.
• Cleaning a sticky piston with a cauldron of water will change it to a regular piston.
• Naming any item "Dinnerbone" flips the item texture upside down
• Leads can be used to connect two animals or two fences
• Bosses should have dealth messages that appear in the chat
• Silverfish should drop clay
• (Villagers) The Arrow for "Next Trade" shouldn't appear anymore when you are on the last Trade.

Honorable 10 Suggestions:

• Pointer Entity: No Hitbox, No AI, Invisible, Less Lag
• Rare chance to find recipe books in dungeons that allow the player to craft uncraftable items
• 'Amethyst' – A new End Ore with unique properties that isn't just another tool tier
• The leaves in a snowy biome will gradually turn white when it starts to snow
• Corn: A unique crop with special advantages.
• There should be a gamerule to determine the light level limit in which mobs can spawn on.
• Chickens lay eggs more frequently on haybales
• /locate commands should locate biomes
• Red husk variant that spawns in mesas (with texture)
• Curses!

<> All Monthly Suggestion Posts are cataloged on the subreddit's TMS Catalog Wikipage.<>

*Note: You can eyeball some suggestions that have actually been *implemented on the SuccessfulSuggestions Wikipage! Maybe one of these will make it on there someday!