After they decided to remove my post on the minecraftforums, I have no other choice but to post this here

This is a warning for people who are looking to buy a "quality minecraft server" I will try to keep this as short as possible!

The host "Nodecraft.net" might seem like a good quality hosting company, which was my first thought, and I believed it for a long time, but in reality, they aren't. You would think an expensive host like this has GREAT qualities, well I have news for you, I've been with them for 2 years, and here's my experience:

1) OVERPRICED! $10 per GB of RAM. Which means $80 for 8 GB of RAM and ONLY 40 GB of SSD!

To put this in perspective, you get 3 GB RAM, and 50+ GB of Storage space for only $23 from other hosts. (Don't want to specify, it would look like advertisement, unless someone asks)

2) The "servers" crashes up to 6 and more times per month (Their actual device would go offline, so you wouldn't be able to start, restart or modify your server, that goes with the their FTP server aswell. And these crashes will always be anywhere from 1 to 16 hours

3) Once you put money into the co-op vault, (in my case, it was $130), you will NEVER be able to get it back (You can only use it for their server). EVEN if you no longer use their service and/or if they Terminate your server.

4) Theres lots of cheaper and better hosts out there.

5) They TERMINATE your service if you use more "SSD" space than allowed, with a 2 day warning. Which also means you lose all your co-op vault money. And why did I point this out, you may ask? BECAUSE YOU BEARLY GET ANY SPACE

6) They offer DDoS protection, but it doesn't even work. Me and my friend tested this with the program "LOIC" which is free to download, and done from your home computer. The result? The server lagged, every one of my players noticed it, pretty much made it unplayable. Just imagine what a real DDoS tool could do. While I was DDoS'ing myself, I contacted the support (Livechat) to see if they could "find" the reason. So he checked their devices, and came to the conclusion that there was infact, a DDoS attack on my server, but wasn't able to do anything about it, and couldn't trace it. In short terms, he told me to wait for it to get over.

Seriously, there are SO many other hosts out there to choose from, PLEASE trust me on this, and don't use Nodecraft

LAST WEEK'S THEME: APOCALYPSE

Gold

gpvmgamer

Buildings and landscape look very barren, old and abandoned. The leaves add a nice touch here. However, I felt that the camps with the 'people' really made this build great. Loved the whole layout of those camps and the tents! Great build!

Silver

abrightmoore

Interesting take on this challenge which does follow the theme as it is being destroyed. I found that the buildings were very eerie with the holes taken out and really added to the atmosphere. However, some of them seemed a bit plain and while I love looking at the images with them now, when I first looked at them, something seemed off. Maybe it just takes a while getting used to it or it might just be me! The cracks and crevices were nice and the incoming meteor look grand and epic.

Bronze

StarTux

Crater and the buildings were nice! However, the surrounding landscape, while varied in height, was not varied in blocks. The plain brown made it look a bit less nice than it probably should have and had there been some dead bushes or another block type in there, it probably would have looked a bit better! Great build though!

Introduction

"/u/kidmania01 ? Can I go to the zoo?"

Of course you can because this week we're taking a stab at creating our own zoo and giving some mobs a great place to live in!

Inspiration

Elephant enclosure

Safari!

Challenge

Easy mode Build a zoo. There must be 3 enclosure for at least 3 mobs of your choice. Between each enclosure must be a path for visitors to observe (you don't have to build visitors if you don't want to). Make sure your enclosure represents the habitat for whatever mob you chose!

Hard mode You must make at least 6 enclosures now for 6 mobs of your choice! (This time, at least 1 enclosure must be for a hostile mob!) Along with the paths for visitors (which you don't need to add), there must be an entrance to the park with a building serving as the ticket booth! Make sure your enclosure represents the habitat for whatever mob you chose!

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, January 8th 2017: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, January 21st 2017: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, January 22nd 2017 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!