Camp officially begins in just a few days! As a warm up we wanted to share a fun 4th of July challenge for everyone to participate in. Show your pride in our independence with Minecraft. Create a flag, sign, anything you like that’s Minecraft related! We’d love to see what you come up with – […]
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Weekly Challenge: Treehouse
Last week we ventured underwater, this week we’re taking to the sky. Check out this awesome tutorial from The NeoCubest on how to build a treehouse. This is a great challenge for newbies and experts alike. Cant wait to see everyone’s amazing creations – please do share!
Weekly Challenge: Rube Goldberg Machine
Rube Goldberg Machine’s are advanced machines that complete simple tasks. The challenge this week is for you to take the most simple tasks in Minecraft and create a Rube Goldberg Machine to complete the tasks! Here are some sources of inspiration: We’re excited to see what you come up with so be sure to share!
Weekly Challenge: Making Music with Note Blocks
Note Blocks give you the ability to build creations that not only look amazing, but sound amazing too.. Note Blocks emit a colored musical note as well as an actual note you can listen to! By arranging notes through Note Blocks, you can create your own jingles or full-fledged songs in Minecraft. Here’s how to […]
Weekly Challenge: 8th Wonder of the World
This week we will be building the 8th wonder of the world. We’ve all heard of the 7 wonders of the world – if you could add a wonder what would this look like. Here are some cool examples. Can’t wait to see everyone’s creations – so be sure to share!
Weekend Challenge: Waterslide
Waterslides can be made in the middle of the ocean or in the middle of the forest. They can be made of any size and complexity. Get your creativity cap on and build something amazing! The challenge was adapted from the Let’s Build youtube video below. Follow along and by the end of it you’ll […]
Camp Trial: Rollercoaster Challenge
We’ve begun offering trials of the Summer of Minecraft experience on our servers so players can get a chance to interact with the counselors and try out the challenges. This week, we played a competitive design game to build a rollercoaster. Players divided into two teams lead by our counselors. Each team opened a chest […]
How To Hide Secret Passageways With Redstone Piston Doors
In this Weekend Challenge we are going to use redstone and piston to help us build unique passageways and entrances. Â If you’re unfamiliar with redstone, this is a great first project to get started! Piston doors make use of regular building blocks in Minecraft to help blend into the environment. Walking on the pressure plates […]
How To Make A Carrot Farm – Part 2: Easter Special!
Last weekend we embarked upon creating a carrot farm, if you missed it – check it out here: How To Make A Carrot Farm This week we will be building upon our creation. We have carrots – now lets get bunnies! Yup, thats right, we’re transforming into a bunny farm just in time for Easter! […]
How To Make A Carrot Farm
We hope everyone enjoyed our first weekend challenge: How To Make A Minecraft Skin Our challenge for this weekend will be getting the foundation of a farm started. We will build upon this project during subsequent weekend challenges! We hope you enjoy part 1 of this challenge, we will have an Easter themed Part 2 […]