Minecraft Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #78: Stronghold

Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #78: Stronghold
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Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #78: Stronghold

Posted: 18 Aug 2019 07:40 AM PDT

LAST WEEK'S THEME: CONSTRUCTION ZONE

Note on all these "placeholder" comments....

For some reason the last few challenges have seen many people posting placeholders in the comments. There is no limit for entries to this challenge. Posting a placeholder for a challenge like this gains absolutely no advantage. Besides, many of these placeholders never even completed their builds last challenge, cluttering up the comment section. So, all in all, all these placeholder comments are unnecessary and not allowed. When you finish your build, post it here. If you want to hype people up, post a little blurb beneath the main comment I make and you can discuss it with people there.

Gold

thepurp1eturt1e

After I looked at this build and decided it was my personal favorite, I happened to see a comment which described it as "the most simple yet beautiful build". I realized that's exactly how I would describe it too. It's not a "tough build" for instance. Anyone with a little practice could construct aqueducts like that. With a little imagination, that type of terrain could be made. With a little research and a few attempts, you could build those cranes. But everything fit so nicely together. The path and the stone cliff between both pieces of the aqueduct was especially nice and pleasing to the eyes rather than a regular landscape. I also really liked how the world border was used. That created an interesting effect on the outside of the build that I never would have thought possible.

Amazing build!

Silver

shop1126

From ancient times to modern times!

This build was ambitious but unlike some other ambitious builds we see here, this one actually managed to look complete and look awesome too! First thing I'd like to comment on is how well the scene looked even though it was in a superflat world. Personally, all of us judges don't like when the build is plopped into a superflat world and nothing else is done around it. This one managed to avoid looking very out of place because of the skyscrapers built around it!

As for the buildings, I really liked all of the construction equipment and tractors and the fact that it took place on different elevations also made the build much more interesting!

Great job!

Bronze

DLoew64

And from modern to fantasy!

I love really weird takes on challenges (and I wouldn't even consider this one weird!). This build had so many construction aspects to it that it made it look so real. The bottle being split in half and hovering over top. The cranes lifting in pieces of the ship. It looked really nice, but more importantly it looked super realistic. Not only that, but the ship looked really good and wasn't just some normal simple ship!

Good job!

Honourable mentions

fred0103

blueleader64

orange_phaidon

Introduction

Note: This is not a re imagining of a minecraft stronghold challenge

Who loves a castle? Well this time we're going bigger than that and building strongholds!

The main difference here is that your stronghold will hold more defenses and also contain more for the common people inside of it. But most of all, it's a heavily fortified fortress. Will it be a fortress of fear and hate? Or maybe one of hope and well-being? Up to you to decide!

New Textures

Since we have an 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

Stronghold(Harrenhal-Game of Thrones)

Challenge

Stronghold

Note: This is not a re imagining of a minecraft stronghold challenge

Construct a stronghold. This is heavily fortified base which should seem easily defensible. It must contain the main structure for troops (most likely some fort or bastion of some type) and another place for common people living there, either connected to the main structure or near it. All must be fortified.

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 can be added in a SEPERATE 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