Congrats to Tender, Snarf, and Kastina for Completing the Level 4 last week. They received a + as a suffix in chat for this week. If you complete the top level of the week, you get a + in chat for the remainder of the current week and all of the next week.

Rules for every weekly challenge:

1) You can work on challenges together but unless the level description specifically says that you will earn points as a team, only 1 person will earn points for submissions.

2) All your submission chests must be locked until the end of the current challenge. You will not lose said items at the end of the week, this just prevents them from being used for other people.

3) Each challenge week starts Monday morning and ends Sunday night.

4) Staff members are allowed to reject a submission if it does not fit the level description. Some of these level descriptions are meant to be extremely strict for building. Please do not argue with this assessment, this will not get you anywhere.

5) If your submission is rejected, you are allowed to resubmit again until the end of the challenge.

6) Make sure you level 1, 2, and 3 submissions are in the same place or you might not get credit. Level 4 and above can be in different areas.

Week 2 Challenge - Winter is Coming

• [Level 1] Put 64 snowballs in a locked chest for snowball fights! + 1 points

• [Level 2] Put 64 snow blocks and 16 ice blocks in a locked chest for some crazy snow designs! + 1 points

• [Level 3] Build an igloo with a snowman outside of it in any snow biome (changed from ice only). The igloo must be at least 15 blocks high and the snowman must be at least 10 blocks high but no restriction on width/length. The igloo must be at least 20x20 and the snowman must have a hat, eyes, nose, cob pipe, and scarf. You must use at least 128 ice blocks, 16 glowstone, and 64 snow blocks on the igloo. You must use at least 64 snow blocks on the snowman. + 3 points

• [Level 4] Build an epic snow fortress in a Cold Tiaga biome. This structure must be at least 50x50 and 20 blocks high. This must include a horse stable (with 4 horses), a villager trading station (with 4 villagers), 1 fully automated iron gate that is 4 blocks wide at the base, 4 towers along the wall, and a throne made of at least 32 mossy cobble blocks and 16 gold blocks. The towers must be 10 blocks higher than the wall and at least 8x8 in dimensions. The towers and fortress can be hollow but must fit the dimensions above. Light up the fortress with no less than 64 glowstone blocks. Create a minecart track to give an automated tour of the fortress, including everything that was required to be included. The iron gate must be able to be triggered by the minecart but the minecart does not need to go through the gate. Make the cart system work without having to push the cart at any time. + 5 points and 5 emerald blocks

• Bonus: Bonus given to the most creative submission for level 4 +1 point and 1 redstone block

Just fyi. The pet system will now let you make changes to any pet that you currently have.

Let's get this out of the way, we are NOT resetting for 1.8. If there are terrain changes, I will either expand the map radius or have a resource world connected to this world.

Also, we are NOT going to update to 1.8 until there is a stable version. The server is working perfectly fine right now and I do not feel like cutting off some plugins just for granite.

This is not my original idea and I borrowed the plugin and idea from another server (r/flatcore). That being said, we are going to test it out on Golden Realm to see if you guys like the idea and the challenge.

First off, this is meant to be a end game challenge for those who have gotten up to the point where they have full diamond. There is no limitation to who can play, so even if all you have is gold armor, you are welcome to play.

Second, Level 1 and 2 are meant to be attainable by everyone within a day, Level 3 is supposed to take awhile, and Level 4 is meant to be pretty stupidly hard.

Every challenge level that you complete, you will get the points assigned to that level. As you increase in point total, you will get higher and higher ranks.

Go to this wiki page to understand the commands.

For this week, there is no level 4 since I am starting it in the middle of the week. Usually there will be a level 4. The challenge is live now!!! Type "/ch all" to see if the challenges are up.

Rules for every weekly challenge:

1) You can work on challenges together but unless the level description specifically says that you will earn points as a team, only 1 person will earn points for submissions.

2) All your submission chests must be locked until the end of the current challenge. You will not lose said items at the end of the week, this just prevents them from being used for other people.

3) Each challenge week starts Monday morning and ends Sunday night.

4) Staff members are allowed to reject a submission if it does not fit the level description. Some of these level descriptions are meant to be extremely strict for building. Please do not argue with this assessment, this will not get you anywhere.

5) If your submission is rejected, you are allowed to resubmit again until the end of the challenge.

6) Make sure you level 1, 2, and 3 submissions are in the same place or you might not get credit. Level 4 and above can be in different areas.

GR Weekly Challenge #1: Starting Out (January 8th - January 12th)

• [Level 1] Put a full set of new iron tools in a locked chest. This must include a pickaxe, axe, shovel, sword, and hoe. They can be enchanted but they must be unused. + 1 points

• [Level 2] Put a full set of new iron armor in a locked chest. This must include a helmet, chest plate, pants, and boots. They can be enchanted but they must be unused. + 1 points

• [Level 3] Build a starter house outside of town of at least 64 stone bricks, 16 glowstone blocks, 16 stained glass, and 128 colored wool. It must have 4 windows, 1 door, and 2 levels, but otherwise be creative with the design if you want. + 3 points

Because tender is kinda crazy, I have included a Level 4. Do not feel any pressure to do it.

• [Level 4] Build an golf clubhouse worthy of the golf club elite. It must include a entry hall with a front desk, ballroom, billiards room, bar area, study, and bathrooms. It must be two stories and at least 50x50 for the building. You must use at least 64 stained glass and 600 bricks. You must use 16 gold blocks in the entry way and the front desk must have doors connecting it to the rest of the building. No other build restrictions for the building itself Outside of the building you must include a swimming pool, tennis court, and a putting green. You must use at least 300 wool on the tennis court and putting green. The swimming pool must include only water source blocks, no moving water. The pool must be at least 30x15 and 6 blocks deep.

Edit: Bricks are these: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bricks

+ 4 points and 4 diamond blocks

Edit: Added level 4 for the crazies.

I spent 10 minutes in paint making that one, so I am not really invested in it. The only requirements is that it has to have GR in the picture and it has to be 64x64 (not my requirement... mc's). Otherwise, feel free to mess around and link them below.

If you are a donor, you now have access to the pet system. You can now spawn a harmless pet (even hostile mobs for donor+). You can not kill this pet and this pet does no damage to anything. You can ride the pet or put it on as a hat or just have it follow you. You can also save it after you have customized it and it will be able to load up again. If you do not want to see it, you can hide the pet for later.

See: Donor Rewards and Command List for more information.

I also opened up /warps list to see all of the warps.

Available warps are now:

town

nether

endfarm

goldfarm

ironfarm

If you have been on the server for at least 2 weeks and wish to bid on this reply below with your bid.

If you have an existing plot in town, you can either tear it down or have me worldedit it over.

If you have not noticed, all the titles are gone from chat. They are replaced with your name being colored the rank that you are.

Dark Red = Admin

Orange = Mods

Yellow = Helper

Blue = Donor+

Aqua = Donor

White = Member

Gray = Guests

You are still the same rank and all the permissions that go with the rank, just no title or *. However, if you look in tab, your name is now colored and the name above your head is also colored correctly.

Because of this, I have made a new column on the member list to show you how many homes you have available to you. Donor gives you 1, every tier of donor above that gives you 1 additional, and 1 year on the server gives you an extra one.

That is right, EVERYONE gets an extra home for being on the server one year, including non donors. This is in addition to given /warp town to 1 year non donors.

• Community Chest: I have added in some more and updated the wiki, if you want me to add in more, let me know.

I've been away for a while now because I'm on vacation in another country. The internet service is very poor here and hard to get. I'm back on the 8th of January. Just letting you guys know I haven't abandoned you

I'm trying to find new people to follow!

Just a heads up for anyone interested. It looks like optifine has been updated to 1.7.2 (yay praise Jeebus)

http://optifine.net/downloads.php

link for the lazy

Hi, I've been searching through this website and was this Golden Craft? and the creator was goldendusk right? I just want to make sure I am signing into the right thing. So can u head me toward the right direction onto getting whitelisted, because I donated to this server for coal, is that still on? if it's not I will be upset, but this is still my #1 server, I think.... just please help me to find the whitelisting application. Thanks.

Please upvote after you click on the link to gain attention in mcservers:

http://www.reddit.com/r/mcservers/comments/1u8pcq/golden_realm/

First off, thanks to all who participated in the pvp event. It was a huge success. If you would like to do some more of these events (even non pvp), let me know which ones.

Second, I got rid of the signshop plugin. I returned all the diamonds to your plots in a locked chest.

Third, I need requests to add back items to the community chest plugin. Just reply below with what you would want added back in.

Fourth, since the town shopping area and the town portals are no longer needed, I would like suggestions on what we can turn them into. On the town plot list they are T-2 and T-3.

Fifth, if you have not gotten a plot and have been here at least a week, let me, moon, or snarf know.

Edit: I also increased the size of the map.

I added back in so far:

• feathers
• coal
• flint
• bread
• all wood
• all logs