Minecraft Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #66: Steampunk island

Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #66: Steampunk island
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Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #66: Steampunk island

Posted: 03 Mar 2019 08:03 AM PST

LAST WEEK'S THEME: FLOATING ISLANDS

New Rule with shaders. You are still allowed to include them as bonus pictures however, now they must be a separate link. So, include all pictures to be judged in one album and all shader pictures + whatever in another album.

Great week guys, really tough to pick the winners so I'm sure some of you will have different opinions. Keep up the amazing quality!!

Gold

Team_ElJay

An awesome build that really has a good sense of scale. In your comments, you said that this was going to be a big castle and you weren't kidding. Really loved the the design which included more whiter blocks than I would have expected but made for an interesting colour scheme. In all honesty, the build reminded me of the wizard tower challenge because the castle felt so magical.

As for a critique, I feel you left a bit too much forest in that bourg area (the town outside the castle). I really loved most of it when you did close up shots of the area, but when zoomed out, it seemed a bit too much of birch trees.

Awesome build!

Silver

grayscaleneon

Although he does mentions that it's incomplete, there wasn't much that was missing and the architecture in this build was amazing. There was a lot of depth to the walls of both the castle and the walls around it and I loved the use of sandstone, it was a cool block to include in that stone palette (and so much of it!) to get the build away from the monotone grey.

I won't mention any negatives since the build wasn't really in the discussion for 1st as it was incomplete and you probably know where those faults were. If there would have been faults when it would have been complete, I can't predict those now.

Awesome job!

Bronze

UgandaForever

The main reason I liked this build was because of the colour palette I even less expected, which involved prismarine. Maybe I'm a sucker for those colour blocks but I think combined with the landscape you chose in the background, the castle really stuck out (in a good way).

A critique would be I found some places with dark prismarine to be really flat and boring. It would have been nice to spice those areas up a bit more (you're in a frozen biome, maybe add icicles?). Same with the roofs, felt a little flat and boring underneath.

Great and original build though!

Honourable mentions

I'm sorry those we've missed, if I could, I would put every build here this week

TehDarga

tortillakingred

MissLauralot

and last but definitely not least....

jegji

Introduction

Two challenges ago, we did floating islands but with natural formations. Consider this part 2 of that challenge.

Now, we'll still be building floating islands but these will have a steampunk theme!

Have fun building!

New Textures

Since we have a semi-official release of the new textures, they are now allowed (along with the old ones). However, if you use the new textures, please specify. I wouldn't want to think you're using a texture pack and disqualify you. I'm not as used to the textures, so I may not recognize them right away.

Inspiration

Steampunk

Challenge

Steampunk island

Build a floating island with a steampunk theme.

If any of you want to build some airship that's usually seen in steampunk images, go ahead. Technically, that's an "floating island" for this challenge and it's steampunk.

Rules

Submitting an entry To submit an entry, you must comment on this post and format your comment like this:

Title of submission

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. Shader pictures are not judged but can be added in a different album as bonus pictures None of those pictures will be accounted for when we judge the entries. Only vanilla screenshots.

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

6. New textures are allowed The new versions of Jappa's textures are allowed to be used along with old legacy textures.

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 2 points for submitting their entry. There are honourable mentions but they do not get any extra points.

Anybody that places Bronze with gets 4 points

Anybody that places Silver gets 6 points

Anybody that places Gold gets 8 points