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[ti]Pink ribbon[/ti]Minecraft Building Contest #1
Topic Started: Oct 16 2013, 09:47 PM (1,387 Views)
CJ
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Welcome to The Coffee House's first Minecraft Building Contest!

The object of this contest is to put your creative building skills to good use, by building the nicest Minecraft base you can. Rules for this contest are as follows:
  • The base must be "livable". That is, it must be safe from hostile mobs, and contain at least the following: a Crafting Table, a Furnace, a Chest, a Bed, and some means of creating food. Beyond that, let your imagination run wild!
  • Each person can submit up to three entries, but only their best one will count for the results.
  • The base must be your own work. It's fine to draw inspiration from somebody else's base, but outright copying is a no-no.
  • The base must be buildable in Vanilla Minecraft, so it mustn't use any extra blocks from any mods. Using Creative Mode is fine - and encouraged!
  • The contest closes on Wednesday, 23rd October 2013 at 11:59pm GMT. Prizes are as follows:

    • 1st place - 100 posts + a :pink-ribbon: Pink Ribbon (Ribbon is awarded only if at least 3 people enter)
    • 2nd place - 50 posts
    • 3rd place - 25 posts
    • 4th place - 10 posts
    • Everyone else - 5 posts
One last thing: I plan to enter this contest, so I will need somebody to judge this for me. If nobody wants to judge, then I'll withdraw my entry and judge the contest myself.
EDIT: Jimmy will be the judge for this contest.

Good luck - and have fun :creeper: !
Edited by CJ, Oct 17 2013, 01:33 AM.
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Can we use minecraft PE for iPad?
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CJ
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Yes, you can use the Pocket Edition if you want :) .
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Denis Pick
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I'll judge, since my building capacity involves a Dirt shack. Just remind me, as I'll forget :P


Also make me a sig for my server!!
Edited by Denis Pick, Oct 17 2013, 01:29 AM.
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Accepted :) .

Also, I'll make that sig for you :P . Is there any specific biome, text colour etc. that you'd like?
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be creative :o
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CJ
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Because I was asked how to submit entries:

Submit them by posting screenshots. Those screenshots should prove that the base contains everything required, but beyond that, you can post as many or as few as you want. It depends how much you want to show off :P .
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CJ
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Just a reminder here. Only three days left to enter!
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I'm still working on mine XD
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CJ
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Well, you're ahead of me. I still haven't started mine :P !

I can extend it if anyone needs any extra time.

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CJ
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I'm extending this. The revised deadline is Sunday, October 27th 2013 at 11:59pm GMT.

Also, I've started on my entry now :) !
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CJ
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Here's my entry! It's a two-level star fort, which occupies a space of 25x25 blocks. I built it in Creative mode, but the structure only uses basic materials, so it is feasible to build it in Survival mode, if you can find (or make) a sufficiently large flat space:

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The fort has entrances in two of the 'points' on the lower level. These are somewhat concealed, but the windows allow the player to look all around for mobs before leaving:

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The main ground floor area contains farms and an enchantment table. The two doors between the enchantment table and the farms would lead to mine shafts, but since I built this on a Superflat world, I didn't bother actually building the mines:

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The first floor contains all the other 'living' essentials. Here are the beds and crafting table (along with an Anvil):

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And here are the furnaces and chests (along with an Ender Chest):

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So, it's nothing spectacular, but it's a benchmark. I'm sure someone will be able to beat it :P .
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Oct 17 2013, 01:28 AM
I'll judge, since my building capacity involves a Dirt shack. Just remind me, as I'll forget :P
Did you forget? You can't judge and enter :P !

(Of course, that shack doesn't fulfill the requirements from the opening post, so it isn't even a valid entry anyway!)
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CJ
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Only one day left!

If anyone needs any further extensions, please say so. Otherwise, the contest will close at 11:59pm GMT tomorrow.
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I'm like, 1/3 done, so I might need a little bit more time
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CJ
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OK, then. How much longer do you think you'll need?
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I'll have it by the end of the month
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CJ
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OK, then :) .

I'll extend it to the end of the month, but that will be the final extension of this contest.
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CJ
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The deadline is now 1 day away.

Unless anyone's nearly finished and just needs an extra day or two to finish off, that really will be the final deadline for this contest.
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Let me show you into my house
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The required things in the house
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Right side
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This house is hard to make in survival, so I used creative mode to make it in, 25X25X25 house, with 5-7X5-7X5-7 cubes of lava and water inside, 18 of them total
Edited by CJ, Oct 31 2013, 01:38 AM.
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Yeah, I imagine it would be very difficult to make in Survival.

Anyway, I like it, especially the cubes of fluid. Only thing missing from the requirements list is some means of creating food, so could you please add that? Otherwise, you have everything :) .
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trees give apples so here's how to get food
Edited by CJ, Oct 31 2013, 01:39 AM.
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CJ
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Yep, that's fine. Thanks :) !
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Denis Pick
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cannot view the house because I lack twitter.
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CJ can provide the proper pics, right?
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CJ
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Yes, I can. Shall I edit them in?
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Go right ahead
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Done :) .
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Unless anyone else has a last-minute entry and wants/needs an extension, the final deadline will be in 90 minutes.
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