This contest is still open. Submit your entry by reading the comments below.

Introduction

Greetings, the nether is one common place both for easy transportation and resources. There is also the Nether Fortress, a naturally generated structure where mobs spawn. The challenge is to transform a nether fortress into a nether themed build on what you like. A nether castle, bridge, it's up for your creativity.

Challenge

Easy Mode: Transform a nether fortress in the nether.

Hard Mode: You are limited to resources that can only be obtained in the nether (quartz, magma, nether brick), one wood type which can craft into other wood items (spruce, oak, dark oak) and one stone type (diorite, stone, stone brick).

Progress: You must post atleast two (2) screenshots or four (4) seconds of video time showing before and after pictures of the build.

Seeds and Exposed: The fortress must not be completely exposed in netherrack and you may use any seed that has a nearby nether fortress.

Rules

1. Submitting an entry. Photo albums require a specific title [WBC #X] "Title" by Username and Youtube videos require any evidence that it is yours. You may submit in either option. Please also dictate if the submission is in what mode.

2. Purely vanilla. Use only the classic texture pack. Any mod that add anything new to the game and visual enhancements are not allowed. You may use any mode including creative and any generated terrain. Any minecraft version is allowed include test builds. You may use anything that is part of the normal game including commands.

3. No pre-existing builds. Things that have been built before the theme announcement will be disqualified. You may have multiple people to help you build instead, but only the commenter will receive the points.

4. Reporting a player. Private message me and attach any evidence. If proven guilty, the reported player will be disqualified until he or she can prove him / herself.

5. External programs. Only external programs that will help or guide you build the entry is allowed. They must not add anything new to the game.

You will be notified if you break the rules atleast 48 hours from the time of post.

Schedule

9 AM Monday: Theme will be announced. You will have 6 days to make your entry.

3 AM Sunday: Entries must be submitted. Submissions will be closed as announced. Judges will message their votes and a scoring system will be used to determine the overall winner.

8 AM Sunday: Winners will be announced. Submitting grants you points: 10/7/5/3/2 for easy and 13/9/6/4/3 for hard. (Gold/Silver/Bronze/Honorable/Non-Winner). Flair will be changed to Creative. Thread will be open for discussion before it will be unstickied for the next theme.

Time defaults to GMT 0 for easy conversion.

External Resources

Leaderboards

Also I'm very sorry for the delay.

Good luck!

1.9 added huge improvements to boats. Easily controlled, not crashing, and best of all, space for two. What I'm about to paste is material mostly from a post on /r/minecraftsuggestions I made, but I want to see the opinions of the wider audience of this sub.

With boats currently, you have two slots to put mobs in. If you were alone, I think you should have some kind of way to use that extra space. I propose, that if you shift right click with a chest, a crafting table, a furnace, or a dispenser, you can place them in your boat.

If you press the c key while in a boat, the GUI for the item in your boat pops up. This is because you can't rotate 360 in boats to right click on your desired tool.

The crafting table acts as normal.

The chest allows you to have storage equal to a single chest.

The furnace only has a slot for fuel, because, as long as fuel is in your boat, it will move 25% faster, and your hunger will deplete 50% slower while moving. The fuel will not burn if you are still.

The dispenser is a bit different. You can place it directionaly, behind you, to your left, or to your right. Pressing c would bring up a 2×2 dispenser inventory, and pressing space in your boat would fire a shot with an angle slightly upwards (10-15 degrees) and a cooldown of one second.

To remove the item, break the boat and everything will drop.

Ever since they allowed zombies to knock down wooden doors I've had trouble figuring out a system to keep them out which works for me, since buttons take too long and pressure plates can obviously be activated too easily. Usually I just use this system I came up with for an iron door or I just chance it with a wooden door. What do you all use?