#planetone

Runner Up - bparo2012 - Acacia Cottage

Coords: X -582, Z +935

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For a self professed newbie to the game, bparo2012 has done an excellent job of a simple, humble acacia cottage situated not far from spawn’s south tunnel. It’s elegant and has a nice use of colour, mixing almost all the wood types in a way that doesn’t feel overpowering. While this is a fantastic first time effort, unfortunately the lack of decorations indoors has meant it has missed out on the top spots.

bparo2012 has received the runner up prize of 4 gold and a commemorative wooden shovel for participating!

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3rd Place - gatsegev - Abandoned Home

Coords: X -935, Z +1291

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Loved this take on the theme from gatsegev. An abandoned home in the woods, filled with vines, leaves and rotten floorboards and a lonely crafting table being the only evidence of habitation. The cracked stone bricks are an excellent touch. Compared to some of the other builds on this list however, it falls flat in its scale and in the details. Great thinking behind this one though, and for that it earns 3rd Place.

gatsegev earns the 3rd Place prize of 8 gold and a commemorative wooden shovel for participating!

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2nd Place - TheAchi - The Tavern

Coords: X -781, Z +1578

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A fantastic showing of TheAchi’s talent, this tavern has a fantastic exterior and detailed interior, with lower and upper floors. The tavern, and the town around it is a great medley of form and function, being lived in and used for purpose. I’m loving the details of the build - the great use of wooden stairs and logs, the lanterns and the inventive use of a bed as a beer label! Achi unfortunately misses out on the top spot here by a hair, but this was a VERY TOUGH decision to make. The Tavern is functional, and features a variety of drinks players can purchase. Be sure to pay him a visit!

TheAchi earns the 2nd place prize of 12 gold and a  commemorative wooden shovel for participating!

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1st Place - leeass - House in the Woods

Coords:  X -1446, Z -603

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This is hands down, an absolutely stunning build. Located in a scenic forest, with excellent exterior and interior details, this cozy build embodies “home”. A good mix of wood types, and various other aesthetic touches, and not to mention you can experience some great sunsets on the balcony. Excellent work Leas, you are well deserving of the prize.

leeass wins the top prize of 16 gold and UltraDonator rank for a week, which includes access to all player particle effects!

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Once again, a really big thank you to everyone who participated and we hope to get more entries in next month’s building competition! The theme will be released on 1st May 2020.

If you’re finding this post and you don’t know what Planet One is, we’re a minecraft server with balance tweaks to make the game more meaningful, and encourage trade between other players. We are lightly whitelisted - to come on and check us out, all you have to do is join our discord using the link below and introduce yourself!

Planet One Discord (apply for whitelist here): https://discord.gg/6ggUbJX

Our original incarnation, now known as Season 1, was started in April 2019 and intended to be a no resets, long term survival server, but it had some pretty glaring issues:

The seed was discovered and used by some players to locate and raid structures early in the map’s history.

No incentive to engage in the map’s economy - once players had endgame gear, there was no reason to keep playing, leading to inactivity.

Players both felt simultaneously isolated and cramped due to a bloated spawn region but limited claims system.

Teleports were the only money sink, but were used so rarely by players that they didn’t do what they needed to.

Players had no agency in the world, looking to admins for guidance and ownership of something bigger.

Due to rising inactivity and general boredom, we’ve decided to opt for a map reset and to revamp the server into what we’re calling Season 2. Season 2 has some pretty big changes coming:

No central spawn area - players randomly spawn in the wilderness around a 5k radius map.

Towny claiming system - to encourage the development of player communities around the map that are truly in their control.

Biome-based ore distribution and crop growth - to encourage inter-city trading and specialisation.

No mending enchant - to promote a local enchanting and tool building economy.

No teleportation - to motivate local trading and vanilla transportation.

Keepinventory off - because dying should mean something.

Daily play rewards - the more you engage with the world, the more advantages you get.

Ruins and relics - player-built structures dotted around the world from Season 1, and secret powerful items hidden around the map for you to find.

And we’ll be evaluating these changes and more as we continue in the Open Beta.

The Open Beta is essentially a “working copy” of Season 2, using the old world from Season 1. We’ll test the plugins, the game balance and other things. Some important things to note for returning players:

Vaults no longer work - place gold in your Ender Chest instead.

Make sure your bed is set - otherwise you’ll random spawn in the wilderness!

KeepInventory is off - dying means something!

Band together with others and make a town - check out the Towny commands for how to do that, and let me know if anything doesn’t work.

Farms, items, wealth etc WILL NOT come to Season 2 - just notable player built structures. Which leads me to...

Don’t be afraid to build! - If you build something great, let me know and it might come through to Season 2 as a ruin!

I’m very excited to see what you guys make of the Open Beta and I welcome all of your feedback and bug reports. If something doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll aim to fix it ASAP.

Check out the Open Beta’s Dynmap here - can you see your base?: http://planetone.space:8123/index.html

For those who’d like to join the Open Beta - to be whitelisted, visit our Discord and introduce yourself! - https://discord.gg/FEca2Pa

I’ll keep updating this devblog as I go. Happy playing!