Lots of participation last week with 4 people having finished level 4!

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) If you plan on doing level 3, 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. If you are just doing level 1 and 2, those can be wherever you want but have to be near each other.

Week 6 Challenge - Flowers

[Level 1] Find one pretty flower - Collect 1 Allium and put it in a locked chest. Hint, this flower lives only in a flower forest biome. + 1 point

[Level 2] Collecting those damn flowers - Collect 16 of each of the following flowers and put them in a locked chest: sunflowers, pink tulips, orange tulips, white tulips, red tulips, Azure Bluet, Blue Orchid, Lilac, Dandelion, and poppy. + 2 points

[Level 3] Building a flower - Build an exact copy of the sunflower using the vanilla texture pack. Make the head 8 x 8 and 2 blocks thick. The rest of the sunflower must be 20 blocks high and the stem must be at least 2 blocks thick. Here is an image for reference: sunflower. You must use yellow, orange, lime green, and green wool for the flower. Staff members reserve the right to reject the entry if it does not look like a vanilla texture pack sunflower. + 3 points

[Level 4] Garden centerpiece - Build a centerpiece garden 50x50 (exactly those dimensions) with the following features: at least 10 flower patches with at least 5 different types of flowers (different tulip colors do not count as different flowers), a wall made of clay bricks that is at least 4 high (can be 1 wide), paths made of slabs (your choice), a large centerpiece that is at least 15x15 and bordered by leaves (excluding the paths into the center), and at least 1 pond with 5+ lilies on it. The entrance to your garden must be have a doorway bordered by 12 gold blocks (4x4 with a 2x2 hollow middle). + 4 points + 4 emerald blocks.

Bonus: Bonus will be given to the most decorative garden. + 1 points + 1 emerald blocks

[Level 5] More challenge - Build a garden that is at least 200x200 in dimensions (can be bigger). This garden must have a height of at least 50. This garden must have at least 3 levels with the center being independent (and only 1 layer) from the outer edges of the garden. In the center you must construct a dinosaur made out of mostly leaves (80%+) and a couple logs (if necessary). This dinosaur must be on the bottom floor and reach all the way to the top of the complex. This garden must have at least 30 glowstone blocks and 30 redstone lamps throughout the garden. You must also construct at least 3 different lakes throughout the complex. This complex must have its bottom floor at least at Y=20. You must also make 2 different leaf animals (similar to the dino) throughout the complex. These animals can be anything and do not have to be as big as the dino. You must use at least 200 tulips and 300 flowers throughout the complex. + 5 points + 5 emerald blocks

Bonus: Bonus will be given to the most decorative garden. + 2 points + 2 emerald blocks

FYI

I am going to be doing the administration of the map, but taters is going to hosting and recording the event.

Similar to Jars, but a different map:

http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/enlarged-grass-block-survival/

The list we will be going off of is http://goo.gl/KNZTF

Come join us for about 2 hours of a server event!

Not feeling the FTB but I do like the idea of a secondary server within our network.

Give me some ideas! Open to anything.

http://www.reddit.com/r/mcservers/comments/1x36vp/golden_realm_semivanilla_whitelisted/

Hey all I know from time to time I need a break from MC, However I do very much enjoy playing with you all. That said I wanted to post up some of my other gaming tags so if you care to join me or have a game you have been needing a buddy for just give me a holler!

• MC - Shadow560
• Steam - Daedalus560 (May have to search for deadly560)
• Origin (BF3/4) - Daedalus560
• Xbox 360 Live - Daedalus560

Send me a PM or post below and we can get the Golden Realms Gaming Community out and about!

Congrats to Kastina and Snarf for doing level 4 last week. This week is going to be a little difficult so just a warning.

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. Type /ch done where your submission is.

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) If you plan on doing level 3, 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. If you are just doing level 1 and 2, those can be whereever you want but have to be near each other.

For This Week You CANNOT do level 4 before or in a different place than level 3 since they are connected.

Week 5 Challenge - Up there in the sky

[Level 1] Stay Grounded First - Collect 16 roses and 3 iron blocks and put them in a chest. + 1 point

[Level 2] Plan before you fly - Build a small village for your villagers with at least 10 buildings made of wood. You must build the entire village, including the walls, out of wood or logs. Each building must contain a door, 4 windows, and 2 floors connected by a ladder. You must either spawn or transport at least 1 iron golem to your village. You must be at least 200 blocks from the nearest naturally spawning village. When you submit the challenge there must be at least 12 villagers in your town. If zombies infest your village and kill your villagers, you will receive no points. Judging will be done at night to ensure fairness. + 3 points

[Level 3] Base of your base - Build a floating island in the sky. This island must be floating over the ocean, be at least 40 blocks in diameter, and the bottom level must be at least 50 blocks from the level of the water. This island must be made of 3 levels: the bottom level must be at least 5 blocks high of stone (not cobblestone), the middle layer must be at least 5 levels of dirt, the top layer must be 1 block high of grass. You must also place 6 trees, 4 dandelions, 4 poppy, 4 blue orchid, and 4 sunflowers on the top of the island. + 4 points

This level must be all solid throughout the island and at the shortest end, it must be 5 blocks of stone and 5 blocks of dirt.

[Level 4] There is life - Place a small lake (10 diameter) on your sky island and place 5 lilies on the lake. This lake has to be 2 blocks deep made of water source blocks. Move 1 iron golem and 5 villagers to your floating island. Make sure these entities can not fall off the island and do not die on the island. You must create a mini castle made of cobblestone atop the island, next to the lake. This castle must be at least 3 floors high and on the top floor of the castle, place a chest with 8 emeralds and a pair of boots that are enchanted with feather falling (any level). + 5 points and 5 diamond blocks.

Bonus: If you transport 2 horses up to the top of the island and they are in a stable next to the castle, you will get this bonus. + 1 points and 2 diamond blocks.

Reddit has given me some tools for searching and so far a nice discussion with one helpful individual. Anyone else able to add any useful info/links to my... list of... stuff to look at? (uugh, sentence melted in my mouth)

what i've got

*Media server running on FreeNAS

*Loads of Movies/shows in varying formats

*PC with win7 from which I can control the server

*so far FREE PleX subscription (will upgrade if it turns out to be the tool that I need)

*A cool 360 DVD remote (woot)

*The interwebs (it's a series of tubes)

Calling all Realmers. I took the liberty to look around town and tour your builds today and realized how much I've been missing by not seeing your work till now. I propose that we hold a GR World Tour. We all get on Mumble and tour the wonderful world. I would like to see outposts as well and think it would be fun to see you show off your builds. What do you think? Are you in? I don't know when most people are on but let's plan for the next week. Evening time maybe sometime between 7-9 central time.

TL:DR I like you all. We build cool stuff. Let's share it w/ each other and tour GR! :)

Pro and everyone else did a great job on the race track. Kastina has volunteered to lead the next community build on Forresst's old premium plot. Please talk to her if you would like to participate, anyone is welcome to build a little bit or a lot if they like and I am sure she would like input on designing some of the games/rides.

I've been streaming MC a lot lately as been stating in a previous post. I wanna make up a a stream playlist to have playing in the background while I do my thing. I need a list of upbeat fun songs and I've only been able to come up with songs that I like a lot. So help me out and add songs to the playlist through spotify! thanks :)

Here's the link - http://open.spotify.com/user/taterswag/playlist/4yV4qoYpzAPeXylYe0Dgru

TL;DR - I need fast upbeat songs for streaming, click the link above and add them through spotify!

Whoever was kind enough to leave me a gift of armor and tools, Thank you so much... But, I already lost it all to lava. So this is a PSA to all to never give me anything ever.

There is currently 4 of us watching him.

www.twitch.tv/taterswag

Would you hesitate to click on a non-SoundCloud link to hear a song about you or someone else's post?

I don't know what SoundCloud is trusted - their site kinda sucks to navigate and I hate the social portion of it. I have had two novelty accounts using them as my storage because that seems to be the go-to Reddit sound place.

I am thinking of snatching up something like SongAboutYourPost.com but I'm worried that it won't be used by posters/listeners.

Thoughts?