A Family Friendly Minecraft Server
Created by: Qkat19 and Woomytron
Come one, come all! The Some Awesome Minecraft Christmas Village is now open! Stroll and shop in the Christmas Market. Peek into Santa’s Toy Shop. Go for a skate, and then warm up by the fire. There’s a lot to do and explore, so please come and enjoy. Command Blocks to the Christmas Village can be found in the Christmas Shop in the Market and also the Secret Santa Shop in the mall. Have fun, be nice, and please DO NOT eat the Gingerbread House!
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Secret Santa is now a go! Located in the mall, feel free to come in, and with a signed book (books provided) with your name, put it in the chest which will go to the dispenser. After a day or two (so books can build up), you will be allowed to draw a book out which will have a random name for you to get a gift for (in the game of course).
Rules:
1.) If you put in your name, you must draw a name. That way every name is drawn.
2.) Gifts must be given to the name you draw out.
3.) No putting the book you receive back into the chest unless you draw your own name. Who you get is who you will be getting a gift for.
4.) If you are not going to be on around Christmas but still want to participate and get your gift delivered to whoever you got, let an admin know, and we can deliver it for you.
Hello all,
Today sees the launch of our second mini builders challenge. Once again, I ask you to read through these rules with your child so they are clear on the rules.
This challenge will be a decorating challenge. We have been working all weekend building a hotel at the mini builder’s sites, and your children’s job will be to decorate a room.
This time around, there will be a total of four winners :
Best room in age group 5-10
Best room in age group 11-16
Best hallway (On each floor there are two rooms; in between the two rooms is a hallway, and a bonus prize will be given to the pair with the best hallway.
Rules:
On arrival to Mini Builders, your child MUST SHOUT the secret password which is, “What color is creeper poo?” In doing so, they will get to choose a room and must place a sign above the front door.
Your child will now have access to a kids only vault with basic supplies. As with the previous challenge, we ask for your children to NOT bring their own supplies. Mini Builders has grown a great deal, and there may be no wood in the vault, but there are axes and a tree farm.
Children must NOT take any of the supplies off site; all supplies are to only be used for Mini Builders.
Children are only allowed one room each.
They can remove and replace any cobblestone but must not remove the red brick or glass windows.
Last rule: The same as before, this is not a race, and there will be two weeks to complete this challenge. Tt will end on December 16th.
If you or your child is unclear on anything, feel free to ask.
Mini Builders : Challenge 2
I am happy to announce the two winners of this challenge.
Congratulation to Huntersilly (Jenn) for winning the best room design and to Cat_grl (Amanda) for best lobby.
They will both be receiving a special (real life) prize from me, which should be with you in the next couple of weeks.
All of the children have a gift package for taking part; they just need to speak to an admin or Shirra to receive their gift.
xxMolly
For those who don’t know, I am the creator and Admin behind our Mini Builders challenge.
Mini builders was a simple concept; we as a server hold many games nights, but some are too late for our little ones to join in. The solution was to create a challenge designed just for them.
One of the things I noticed when becoming an admin was how different the children play Minecraft than adults. An adult will easily set themselves goals. “Today I will mine,” or “Today I will gather resources to build a house.” Children’s minds don’t quite work like that; they will picture a build in their mind but will not always want to spend hours collecting wood and stone to build it. Sometimes they simply do not have the time to do this with school and homework. I also learned some children just don’t know simple crafting recipes; this sparked the creation of the GMM School, a place where any child can learn any crafting recipe.
So the First Mini Builders challenge was born. With all I had seen and learned in mind, I set a house building challenge. The children were given a storage hut filled with supplies and a 20×20 plot to build on. What followed shocked us all. Without the hassle of collecting resources, the children could just create and build with no restraint on their creativity.
If fantastic builds were not enough, they shocked us one more time; the children, between themselves, grew their very own community in their very own corner of the server. It turned out, with a little encouragement, the children grew, planted, and mined all the resources they would need for the next challenge, and we hadn’t even confirmed there would be another.
But now we are starting Challenge 2, “Interior Design.” With help from the server community, a hotel was built, and now the children each have a room to design. We can’t wait to see what they come up with.
If your Mini Builders are wanting to join in, head over to our Facebook page and check out the rules for entry.
Thanks for reading,
Molly360
Your admin staff would like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Go check out the Thanksgiving build by our Mrs. Adnamaxoc in the market for your holiday feast!
Saturday, November 2nd, the Minecraft server was proud to partake in the annual Extra Life charity event, 25 hours of gaming to raise funds for the Children’s Miracle Network which aids over 170 children’s hospitals all over the United States and Canada.
For the event, we hosted a community build where the incredible members of our server worked together to create an amusement park. Imaginations soared as players came up with creative ways to recreate popular rides and attractions using a vanilla server.
Some of the displays you’ll find are a piggy carousel, a fun house, roller coasters, bumper cars and more. Not at all surprising with this group, the ideas keep flowing, so we left it up for a while to watch the map grow!
As a team, the community was able to raise over $1,300 for this worthy cause, and we’re proud to say that the majority of participants and donations came from this wonderful group of Minecraft people! It just goes to show how a simple Facebook group has gone from a bunch of strangers with a common interest to a community of people who care and support one another. We are people who see each other online every day. Our kids play together in a virtual world we built together. It’s so much more than just a game. Thank you all for your continued support and for making our group one of my favorite places on Facebook!
Special Thanks to:
Stephen Lapage aka “Strangeth0ughts”
Stephen was our Donor of the Year! By supporting everyone in the group, his total donations reached $240 toward our team goal. Then he went on to become a team member and raised another $75.00. Thank you so much Stephen, not only for your generous contributions, but for providing the comic relief on the server that we love. You rock!