LAST WEEK'S THEME: VOLCANIC ISLAND:

Gold

Akaed

Great build, with good features and the volcano looked spectacular in eruption. The village was very nice and cozy, complimenting the sinister volcano. Also, the use of cobwebs for the eruption was a nice touch.

Silver

ShaneH7646

Now, it might not look like he did much but that's because he was only doing easy mode. The volcano he built for easy mode looked very nice and epic. The fiery smoke I especially loved because it looked very dangerous, that volcano. Also, while I linked the album, if you go to his comment where he posted it, he also has a video showing how he built it!

Bronze

Qweertz

Another good build but the problem I found was with the village how it seemed very flat and plain besides the houses. However, still a good build deserving of third place as the volcano also looked very good!!

Honourable Mention(s)

Wauwosaurus

Now even though this wasn't a volcano, he explained in his comment how it started out as one then veered off into this. This is the reason why I didn't disqualify it completely however since it wasn't a volcano, it couldn't have placed at all. Still nice build for what he was trying!

Introduction

CATAPULT! We're going back to battles but this time it isn't world war II! We're going to the dark ages or medieval times! Build your greatest battle scene yet and have either a force take over your castle…. or die trying.

Inspiration

Catapult

Guide to build castles!!!

Pictures of castles!

Challenge

Easy mode Build a castle and attacking it are at least:

1 catapult

1 knight

1 archers

Hard mode Build a castle again but this time, half the castle must be in ruin from the attack. Attacking the castle is:

4 catapults (each try and make unique, they don't have to be too different but there must be minor changes)

2 knights

2 archers

Projectiles fired by the catapults

For both easy and hard mode, there can be more things attacking however they must be somewhat historically accurate. Build the battle you've always imagined!!!

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, November 27th 2016: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, December 10th 2016: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, December 11th 2016 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

Thought it was pretty neat

So Minecraft seeds really cool but the thing is I'm really not a very self-directed person especially when it comes to videogames. I've heard that there's an end objective to the game; is it like a story mode or is it more like Don't Starve? Also, what are your favorite aspects of Minecraft? Do you think it's a game that everyone can have fun at or is it only for patient organized individuals?