Here at Some Awesome Minecraft, we like to do things a little different for our Easter celebrations. While we still decorate for the holiday with cute bunnies, chicks, and pastel colors, our Easter “Egg” Hunt is rather special.
Join us Saturday, March 26th @ 2:30pm EDT on the Main Server for our annual “Easter Egg” Head hunt! (Time zone conversions: 11:30am PDT / 12:30pm MDT / 1:30pm CDT / 2:30pm EDT / 6:30pm UK)
The Colosseum is currently closed, but will re-open at the time of the Event.
The admins will be hiding a variety of player & decorative heads around the Colosseum for you to hunt down & collect.
Keep an eye out for these 3 *special* heads:
Whoever finds either the ToRiMiLi, Serverus, or the SomeAwesome head will get a special prize book that they can turn in for 35 XP Levels! (Each *of these 3* heads will earn a prize separately, you do not need the full set.) There is only 1 of each of these heads hidden, so show an admin when you find it to receive your prize book! (Only 1 prize will be awarded per head – whoever finds it first gets the prize.)
Holiday Areas Now Open!
NuNu Holiday Area
As always, our Holiday areas will be open throughout the weekend, with fun & souvenirs including some “Easter Egg” heads, especially if you cannot make it to our official head hunt.
Easter “Eggs”
Our Easter Villages have these and more fun themed items for trade. Bring your wool, cobble, & emeralds when you come for a visit.
On NuNu, we also have an adorable map to add to your collection:
Feeling Lucky? Come join our St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on both Some Awesome Minecraft servers for a chance to win a prize!
Grab *1* Lucky Coin!
Both Holiday Areas have a Pot’o’Gold where you can grab 1 “Lucky Coin” to rename with your IGN & toss into the Wishing Well. On Friday, March 18th, we will draw a random winner from those coins on both servers! The winner on each server will get to choose 1 item from the Creative Mode inventory.
On Main, that *does* include some very special new items! (Only 1 entry per player, extra entries will be removed.
Only one prize per winner, the same player cannot win on both servers.)
Make a wish & toss in your named Lucky Coin!
As always, we have some fun villagers with themed trades available, including Bart Enderman in the Pub! Bring your sticks, white wool, cobblestone, iron & gold ingots for trades.
On NuNu you can also grab your keepsake holiday map!
Keepsake Map!
May your Troubles be Less and your Blessings be More and nothing but Happiness come through your door.
Here it is! For the 3rd year, our official Secret Santa & Christmas Stockings event! 😀
~~Secret Santa~~
We have such a fun & amazing community here that our Secret Santa events are always a hit. Leaving someone presents is basically a daily thing on our servers, but the randomized drawing of Secret Santa makes it so you may get to know a completely different player when leaving a Secret Santa gift.
We have some changes, so even if you’ve done this before, please READ all the way through! 😉
WHAT is Secret Santa?
A Gift exchange, but more! You submit your name into a pool of others, when submissions are closed, you’ll be given a random name. That person will be whom you are giving a gift to!
If you submit your name, you’re not only committing to giving someone else a gift, but you should receive one as well!
HOW do we get started?
Inside the trunk of the giant Christmas Tree in the holiday area, is where you start the submission process. From ~now~ until Monday, Dec. 7th, you will be able to join the Secret Santa event by grabbing a book* (provided via button), sign it with your name (Step 1), and drop it into the chest (Step 2).
You are welcome to submit names on behalf of other players (family/friends) if they cannot get on & do it for themselves (put their name as the book title). However please keep in mind: 1. You should have their permission first. 2. If they cannot get online to give their gift, you will be the one responsible for the gift. *Fine print: Please ONLY grab these books for this purpose & for nothing else. Thanks!
What’s next?
At this point, some people already start planning for the gift they’re going to give or build. Others wait until they know who will be receiving their gift so they can customize it to that player’s needs or likes.
Beginning Monday, Dec. 7th: the Admin team will work on randomly assigning Santas to recipients. This way we can make sure everyone has someone & that you don’t get your own name! 😉 We will let you know the name of the player you’ve been assigned sometime on Dec. 7th or 8th. This will be the person you are giving a gift to. ~The Fine Print!~ When you submit your name/signup, you are agreeing to provide a gift for someone else. If you are too busy to get online to submit your own name and have someone do it for you, please only have your name submitted if you will be available to give a gift later. 😉 We try to avoid such sadness as missed giving opportunities.
Finally: GIFT! 😀
Go forth & GIFT! Now is your time to customize something special for your recipient. YOU choose how you will reveal the gift! You can give it early, or you can wait until just before Christmas. We do ask that all gifts be given (delivered, built, etc) by Dec. 24th at the latest.
Tips:
Join the Event! 😀 We will have opportunities for people to list their needs/likes so that a Secret Santa might get to know a little more about the player they are giving to.
Make sure your name & IGN are listed on the group’s IGN doc (click here) so it’s easier to match gift suggestions to players in-game.
If you are building a gift for your recipient, pick an area that won’t be in their way. For purely decorative builds, maybe around the edges of their land would be best (i.e.: don’t place a fountain in the middle of/blocking their tree farm). If they need a new farm or animal pens, then a place they can get to them easily would probably be great.
If you are wanting to leave a chest of goodies for your Secret Santa recipient, we will have options available where you can leave gifts *under the Christmas tree*. Of course you’re welcome to build them a decorative present at their place with the chest of goodies hidden inside. 😀
Gift Ideas (a few things that have been done before):
Pixel art of something the receiver likes (pick a fandom, any fandom!)
Completing or helping with a large build they’re in need of
Chest of goodies: favorite blocks, colors, supplies needed, specially named items for decor, hard-to-get items
We look forward to another great holiday season of fun gift-giving here in our Awesome Community!
~~The Stockings Were Hung…~~
All the good little Steves & Alexes are hoping to get something special in their stockings this season! While you’re at the Holiday area, hang your stocking by the fireplace & you’ll get a gift from the Admins after Christmas! ^_^
There are buttons for red or green stockings, choose your color and rename your stocking* with your IGN on one of the anvils. Using the item frames provided, hang it on the brick wall around the fireplace. Only stockings hung before Christmas morning will be eligible for gifts. *Fine print: Only ONE stocking per player. Please only use/take 1 item frame.
After Christmas morning, the admins will collect the stockings & you will be able to make ONE Christmas wish. It can be any one item (not a stack), or enchantment that you wish (from creative inventory, not an item that needs to be summoned). Addendum: A power shovel or power pick is a valid option for your item. 😉
~Holiday Area OPEN for December!~
As usual, our Holiday area isn’t without other amenities! We have festive decor to enjoy and custom villagers to trade with. This holiday our villagers have such things as festive goodies, custom outfits, banners, & more.
Trades: cobble, emeralds, diamond blocks, sticks, & white wool
See the “Gingerbread Man” with your cobble for some special treats; check where you sit on the Naughty or N’ice list with “List Checker” (bring diamond blocks & emeralds, trust me); Santa’s Elf has your custom tailored Santa Suit (he likes sticks), and Santa’s Elf2 has some of our most Festive banners for trade (bring white wool)!
Note: the collectible Christmas Map is also now available!
Don’t forget to download the Some Awesome community’s favorite Christmas Texture pack: XmasBDCraft 2014 from Sphax!
Come celebrate Valentine’s Day with us! The holiday area has been decorated for Valentine’s Day 2015. Stop on by and leave a Valentine’s wish for someone special on one of our heart walls (Valentines (read: signs) provided).
Come visit on February 14th for holiday goodies!
Swan sculpture/boat built by super couple, Sirhcxoc and MandaLin
It’s time to hang our Christmas Stockings again! Head over to the Secret Santa booth in the Holiday area and collect your stockings from the chests provided.
Rename your stocking with your IGN using the anvils, and hang them on the candy cane pillars surrounding the Christmas Tree. Item frames have been provided for hanging your stockings, but please do not remove them.
After Christmas morning you will be able to turn in your stocking for ONE Christmas wish. It can be any one item or enchant that you wish.
It’s Christmas time once again and we’re bringing back Secret Santas! The Secret Santa area is in the giant Christmas Tree outside the Command Tower. (Yes you can finally go in there!)
If you weren’t here for last Christmas, here’s how we do it:
1. Grab a book, write your name in it & “Sign” it. (books provided)
2. Drop the book into the chest in the Christmas tree trunk.
We’ll keep the drop open for 1 week for everyone who wants to participate to get their names in.
3. Next week you’ll be able to get a random name back!
4. When you get the name, you get to come up with some goodies or fun build to gift to the person whose name you have!
Some fun ideas from last year’s Secret Santas:
~personalized art
~special rooms/builds
~personalized items
~items & blocks
***SECRET SANTA UPDATE*** December 5th
Attention! If you added your name (or had someone else put your name) into the mix for Secret Santa this year, you may now go to the Christmas Tree to collect the name of your Secret Santa.
PLEASE NOTE:
* You may only take ONE book.
* If you added your name to a book (or had someone else do it for you) you MUST take a book.
*If you are giving items (in a box) to your Secret Santa, let one of the Admins know and they can set you up with a locked box (and a key) under the Christmas Tree.
* You have until December 25th to build/give your gifts. They may ONLY be opened (presented) on/after Christmas.
* BE SURE TO READ INSIDE of the book you get. Some people signed books for others so the signed name, may not be the name of your Secret Santa.
* If you put someone else’s name into a book, it is your responsibility to make sure that person knows they need to log on and collect a name from the tree. If they do not, you will need to take an extra book.
* Please check the IGN doc to make sure your IGN is listed so everyone knows who their Secret Santa is. (Added by request of Mrs. Hope)
