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05Aug

MiniBuilders Summer 2015 – Car Challenge

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I am not quite sure where the month of July went but with August upon us. Thank you to all that participated in our last MiniBuilders challange on NuNu. Congrats to the winners, all that participated and all the judges who helped. August’s challenge brings us to Main (ma.gmmc.me). We have many MiniBuilders’ builds on this server and this challenge will be in MiniCity. MiniCity originated with last summer’s Sandbox Challenge. Feel free to visit and check out the great work from last year.

The car challenge will run from August 10-August 24th. Here are some rules you must follow:

One vehicle plot in the garage per child
Do not tamper with another mini builder’s vehicle, this will disqualify you.
Do not explore past the Mini City’s area.
All materials are not supplied and must be acquired. See note below for more information.
Adults may visit the Mini Builder’s area but they are NOT allowed to help.

As a reminder since we have not had a build challenge on main for quite some time:

We are using the Bank at Mini Builders. There is a CB to and from Mini Builders and Mini City for easy access. If you do not have an assigned vault, you will be assigned one upon signing up below.
All materials used for challenges will be acquired supplies. This means that all materials used for challenges must be obtained from mining, collecting or chosen from the Mini Builders’ Vault. As a reminder, you may not ask for the vault to be filled. Meaning, if someone was kind enough to drop off a chest of cobblestone to the Mini Builders vault, that is wonderful. But if that chest is empty, it is now time to visit the Mini Builders’ mine!
Reminder there is a Mini Builders’ garden, tree farm and animal farm at Mini Builders (not Mini City). This should help fill up those vaults and keep you well fed during the challenge.

So, you may be asking yourself, what do I do now? If you are a mini builder, take note of the following:

Sign up for the Mini Builders’ Car Challenge below and you will be assigned a vault.
Note that the Car Challenge starts on August 10. Do not build yet!
Start gathering supplies for the car challenge.

If you are NOT a mini builder:

Consider donating the supplies you acquired to the Mini City’s storage area, you will TP right into it.
Invite your kids or your friends or your friends’ kids to join us for our car challenge. Send them to the server rules to get them set up and have their kids’ sign up below.

To access the Mini City’ area, take the Mini City’ CB from the community floor (basement). The MB’s CBs are located to the right. Follow the stop light banners until you have arrived at the garage.

What are the prizes for the car challenge?

1st Place: 3 enchanted books of their choosing plus a special set of diamond armor

2nd Place: 2 enchanted book books of their choosing plus a special set of iron armor

3rd Place: 1 enchanted book of their choosing plus a special set of gold armor

Every child will get a prize for participating!

Happy Minecrafting! As a reminder, please sign up with the mini builder’s IGN below, not the adult’s. This is a challenge for the children of the server and we will use the IGN as a sign up for the vault as well so it must be case sensitive. This is a fun challenge, not a speed challenge. The number one goal is to have fun and maybe make a new friend!

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15Jun

MiniBuilders Summer 2015 – The Boat Challenge

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Welcome to the Mini Builders Summer 2015! Now that June has begun, we have a fun summer planed out for little ones on the server.

If you are not familiar with Mini Builders, take a look at its history. We are proud of mini builders. It is a great way for the kids to learn more about Minecraft and about each other! These kids are pretty creative.

So welcome to the inaugural Summer 2015 Mini Builders’ Build. A boat challenge. Similar to the previous boat challenge, each builder will pick out a boat lot and make a boat out any materials they choose. The challenge will run from June 22nd-June 30th. Here are some rules you must follow:

One boat plot per child
Do not tamper with another mini builder’s boat, this will disqualify you.
Do not explore past the Mini Builder’s area.
All materials are not supplied and must be acquired. See note below for more information.
Adults may visit the Mini Builder’s area but they are NOT allowed to help.

There will be some changes for Mini Builders moving forward:

There is now a Mini Builder’s vault. This vault is accessible by all. People may donate to this vault as they see fit and all materials can be used by any Mini Builder at any time. At no time should there be requests to fill the Mini Builder vault to anyone in the community.
All materials used for challenges will be acquired supplies. This means that all materials used for challenges must be obtained from mining, collecting or chosen from the Mini Builders’ Vault. As a reminder, you may not ask for the vault to be filled. Meaning, if someone was kind enough to drop off a chest of cobblestone to the Mini Builders vault, that is wonderful. But if that chest is empty, it is now time to visit the Mini Builders’ mine!
Each Mini Builder will be given their own personal vault at the Mini Builders’ Bank, Gringotts! Come on down to the Mini Builder’s area to check out this great build. Ride through the deep and dark vaults to discover the mysteries of Gringotts. You will get a vault assigned to you when you sign up for the Mini Builders’ challenge below.
In addition to Gringotts, there is now a Mini Builders’ garden, tree farm and animal farm. This should help fill up those vaults and keep you well fed during the challenge.
We will be having some mining parties! Join us on June 18th at 6 PM CST and June 20th at 2 PM CST to mine together and for some fun mining challenges!

So, you may be asking yourself, what do I do now? If you are a mini builder, take note of the following:

Sign up for the Mini Builders’ Boat Challenge below and you will be assigned a vault.
Join us for the mining parties on June 18th at 6 PM CST and June 20th at 2 PM CST.
Note that the boat challenge starts on June 22nd.
Start gathering supplies for the boat challenge

If you are NOT a mini builder:

Join us for the mining parties and consider donating the supplies you acquired to the Mini Builder’s Vault.
Consider donating any of your other excess items to the donation area, on the second floor of the Mini Builder’s building.
Invite your kids or your friends or your friends’ kids to join us for our first summer challenge. Send them to the server rules to get them set up and have their kids’ sign up below.

To access the Mini Builders’ area, Take the Mini Builders’ CB from the Mini Builder’s room adjacent to the Community CB room. (It’s the colorful one)

What are the prizes for the boat challenge?

1st Place: 3 enchanted books of their choosing plus a special set of diamond armor

2nd Place: 2 enchanted book books of their choosing plus a special set of iron armor

3rd Place: 1 enchanted book of their choosing plus a special set of gold armor

Every child will get a prize for participating!

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11Jun

MiniBuilders – A History

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One of the most important parts are the littlest ones in our community, the kids! With that in mind, Mini Builders was created in late 2013. The first build challenge was a way to make the Mini Builders area on main a place of their own, by building houses on a 20×20 plot.

After working on the outside of houses, the second challenge stepped inside for an interior design challenge. For this new challenge, the kids competed in age groups 5-10 and 11-16 as they decorated hotel rooms in the grand Mini Builder Hotel.

The third challenge ushered in the holiday season with a Holiday challenge. We saw some really creative holiday builds like a snowman, Christmas tree, candy canes and Santa Hat houses.

The fourth challenge was a team challenge. The red team and the blue team competed for a farming challenge. The teams had to build a farm and simply farm as much as the other team to win!

The fifth challenge brought some fun life to the Mini Builders area with the creation of the mini market. Each mini builder built a shop on a 15×15 plot. The kids got really creative and made stone, cake and many other shops. Following the build of the market, the mini builders took on the water with a boat challenge. As usual, there were some really creative builds and lucky for the kids, all the boats float!

As mini builders started warming up, we took a step forward on educating the children on Minecraft and created the Hogwarts School of Mining and Crafting. It is a “must visit” on Main if you have never seen it. Besides being a totally awesome build, it is a central location for everyone on the server, old and young, to visit as a reminder or learning for the first time, all the recipes that make all the things in Minecraft.

Check out this awesome video summing up Mini Builders:

A few fun mini game builds popped up in the Mini Builders area as well as a vault for the kids to store their items. Mini Builders also opened up to everyone on the server. Last summer, we invited the mini builders to a Summer Sandbox Challenge. With limited resources, each child had to be extra creative with what they built and they did not disappoint!

With NuNu, came a new challenge and a new Mini Builders area. Mini Builders 2 was born and the first challenge mirrored Main with a house challenge.

It has been a little while since we have done a Mini Builders and with summer upon us, expect a big announcement soon! We cannot wait to see what these kids can do.

24Nov

MiniBuilders 2

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New server, new players, new children, new Mini Builders.

With the creation of our new 1.8 server it’s been decided by the fabulous admins to create a new Mini-Builders area for our younger players.

For those of you who are new let me explain: Mini Builders was created on our main server as a place for our younger players to build, farm, mine, and take part in their own challenges for in-game goodies. The Mini Builders area is far out of the way in its own corner of the server and a community exclusively for the kids on the server.

Farms and the Mine: Two of the major lessons behind Mini Builders is trying to teach the new generation of players how to play the game and interact in a community. A farm and mine area have been prepared for the children to share. The “prepared” areas are ready for use, but the children will have to complete them in order to use them. We ask you to encourage your children to do this as a way of introducing them to the community-feel we actively encourage on this server.

Supplies: On this server the children will be able to bring supplies to and from Mini Builders as they please. Community chests have been set up for them in their own safe house. The chests are for “All” children to use and not to be labelled for individual use.

How to get there: A special room for the CB has been set on the bottom/community floor of the command tower. From here children will be able to acess the Mini-Builders area.

The 1^st challenge:

We decided to kick off the same way as we did with the old Mini-Builders: with a good old fashioned House building challenge. The children will have a fortnight (2 weeks) to build a house on their very own 20 x 20 plot.

Rules:

One plot per child.

Children are not to tamper with other’s builds, nor enter them without express permission when the owner isn’t there.

Children are allowed to bring their own supplies or acquire them on the Mini Builders site.

Do not explore from/out past Mini Builders.

No Adults allowed!

Prizes:

As always this isn’t a race and the aim is to have fun!

XxxMolly

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21Jul

Mini Builders: Summer Sandbox Challenge.

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Mini Builders is back!

I know our children have been doing nothing but talk about this, and the wait is over.

We have 2 challenges running over the next few weeks, the second is a big one I won’t go into details about yet, but the first is a warm up to help some of our newest children get used to the Mini Builders area.

For any of you new to Mini Builders, and the ones who already love it, we have made some big changes to the Mini builders rules which can be found here >> http://goo.gl/8B7zzo It is important you go over these with your children so they understand how it all works.

The Challenge

SUMMER SANDBOX CHALLENGE!

This warm up challenge is a nice and easy one (well sort of).

As with previous challenge we like to be assured you have read this article with your children, at the bottom is an agreement which will give you a special password. Once read and the password received all your child will need to do is WHISPER (please don’t say it loud in the chat) it to an admin and they will be shown where to go.

Each child will have a 10 x 10 sand box to get creative with, the only material they are allowed to use is sand. This said, there are plenty of things that can be crafted from sand and these are all allowed to be use in the challenge. This is a great challenge for them to learn some basic crafting recipes the following link is to the wiki page to give them a few ideas:

http://goo.gl/LfifGW

http://goo.gl/al1n3b

Stained glass WILL be allowed on the condition they source the dye themselves, and torches are allowed to light up any structures they create.

There is no limit or theme to this build; they are able to build whatever they want on their own 10 x 10 plot and as high as they want.

Only 1 plot per child.

No griefing other children’s builds!

Sand has been provided for them.

This is a week-long challenge running from the 21^st of July to the 28^th.

^{IMPORTANT! The area on which the sand box challenge is created was admin made and the children are advised not to dig down.}

Prizes for this challenge:

1st: 3 enchanted books of their choosing* 10 diamonds
2nd 2 enchanted books of their choosing* 10 gold ingots
3rd 1 enchanted book of their choosing* 10 iron ingots
Plus each child (even the winners) will receive a goodies chest just for taking part.

*They will receive a voucher (aka a written book) to be exchanged with an admin when they have decided which enchantment they want.

As always any Mini Builders challenge is about having fun with a little bit of learning thrown in.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to tag me on facebook, just remember I’m in a different time zone, so if it takes me a while to respond I’m probably sleeping.

xxMolly360

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15Jul

Mini Builders is Evolving

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Welcome to Mini Builders!

We have some exciting changes, as well as new build challenges planned.

For our newer server members, here is an introduction to Mini Builders:
We started off with a little section of the server where the kids were given their very first kids-only build challenge: building houses. We provided them with basic supplies and they crafted & built something *amazing!*

Mini Builders has grown so much from that first challenge. We now have a hotel, a Christmas build, farms, mines, a market, and a pier with boats. All of these were challenges presented to our server kids. They met & exceeded expectations with their ingenuity & creativity.

One thing we have found with a lot of our server kids is that they don’t always know how to craft things. With that in mind we built a Schoolhouse to show them how. Hogwarts & its crafting recipe classrooms have now replaced that original Schoolhouse. We have every crafting recipe hanging on the walls of those rooms, so the kids can learn how to craft anything, without having to open an internet browser.

CB Room to the Hogwarts Crafting Recipe Classrooms

The admin team & helpers have most recently added a couple fun builds for the kids:
“Funland”- an indoor “recreation” area,

Funland! Indoor archery, fishing, & boating!

and the “Mini-Games Globe” for hide & seek or role-playing.
(you may have heard an admin or 2 join in the hide & seek fun)

The Globe of Mini Games

Exciting new changes!

Here’s where the evolution of Mini Builders takes another step.

Materials
In the past one of the biggest rules at Mini Builders was to only use the supplies gathered at Mini Builders for the challenges and builds there. We are now lifting this restriction and allowing the kids to bring supplies from home.
With the previous rule we were providing the kids with some hard to obtain supplies in their shared vault. Now that they can gather supplies from anywhere, we will no longer be providing those supplies for them.
Vaults
With the ever-increasing amounts of prizes & goodies the kids receive for participating in & winning challenges, we have built an individual vault system inside our brand new Money Bin! The kids can store their prizes & supplies in their own special vault.

Scrooge McDuck stops by for a swim once in a while.
Opening the “doors”
Have you ever wondered what Mini Builders really looks like? Now you can come for a visit! Come check out what the kids have built in competition as well as the farms and community they worked on together.
During all build competitions access will again be restricted to just the kids, the admins, & judges. We will open it back up after judging is completed for each competition.

We are excited to share this fun kids area with all for viewing and even shopping in the Mini Market. We have some exciting new build competitions lined up for the kids to occupy some of their summer hours in the near future.

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