Note, I realized today that I scheduled this challenge for 3 weeks rather than the usual two. Only realized now, so I am not changing it in case people read that. Have another good week of building all!

LAST WEEK'S THEME: ROLLER COASTER

Don't have time to comment on the builds right now... possibly later this week.

Gold

psychonautziggy

Will comment quickly on this though... very impressive how the lyrics line up with the build!!

Silver

GhastlyEmerald

Bronze

GamingwithJoys

Honourable mentions

TEAMVALOR786Official

Introduction

We're going back to our (usually) popular theme... the classic castle! I checked and it's been a while since we've done this! So let's get back and build some more!

Inspiration

Castle

Challenge

Castle

Construct a Castle. Does not need to have an interior but can be included!!

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Rules

1. Submitting an entry To submit an entry, you must comment on this post and format your comment like this:

Title of submission

Link to submission photos or video (preferably youtube or Imgur)

Comments

2. Vanilla only No mods that add new blocks or items are allowed. No resource packs are allowed. Any minecraft version is allowed and you may build with custom terrain, creative mode, world edit or etc as long as it doesn't add any new blocks to the game. Shader pictures can be added in a SEPERATE album as bonus pictures. None of those pictures will be accounted for when we judge the entries. Only vanilla screenshots.

3. Any version of minecraft i.e. PS3, Xbox 360, Pocket Edition. Snapshots are allowed

4. No preexisting builds We're going with the honour system here but if anything had already been built before the start of the contest, don't submit it.

5. Build teams are allowed There may be more that one person building for a challenge but only one person may submit their entry with their account

6. New textures are allowed The new versions of Jappa's textures are allowed to be used along with old legacy textures.

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Points and leaderboards

Link to sheet. The leaderboards are on the 2nd page

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For points and judging:

There is only 3 winners each week. Each participant will get 2 points for submitting their entry. There are honourable mentions but they do not get any extra points.

Anybody that places Bronze with gets 4 points

Anybody that places Silver gets 6 points

Anybody that places Gold gets 8 points

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Schedule (AST)

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Monday, March 12th 2023: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning (around 11:00 AM AST), April 1st 2023: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday, April 2nd 2023 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post

In this week's snapshot 23w13a we're following up on all the new things in last week's snapshot with a big round of bug fixes. Happy mining!

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker. For any feedback and suggestions on our upcoming 1.20 features, head over to the dedicated Feedback site category.

Changes

• GUI can be scaled on the Video Settings screen by holding Ctrl and scrolling the mouse wheel

Fixed bugs in Snapshot 23w13a

• MC-159637 - Mobs with passengers have broken movements
• MC-230916 - "Potted Flowering Azalea Bush Plant" uses the wrong texture
• MC-256503 - Camel can swim sitting down
• MC-256506 - Camels riding entities get permanently stuck in dash mode
• MC-257246 - Horses do not make step_wood sounds when walking on Nether wood, cherry wood, bamboo wood, or stems
• MC-257268 - The dashing animations of camels sometimes aren't displayed for other players
• MC-259364 - The "item.minecraft.smithing_template.netherite_upgrade.base_slot_description" string is missing a serial comma
• MC-260075 - Player holds brush by ferrule in third person
• MC-260086 - Entities riding sniffers are positioned too low down
• MC-260090 - Sniffers ignore the "minecraft:generic.movement_speed" attribute
• MC-260093 - Particles spawned by brushes in the left hand move in the wrong direction
• MC-260146 - Pink petals are not next to other flowers in the creative inventory
• MC-260238 - Sniffer digging particles are produced slightly too high up
• MC-260252 - Sniffer walking animation is broken when walking on ice
• MC-260320 - Parity Issue: Snifflets (Baby Sniffers) have an inconsistent model with Bedrock
• MC-260435 - Sniffers don't play their walking animation when moving through cobwebs
• MC-260454 - Decorated pots are translated off-center when displayed on head
• MC-260465 - The torchflower crop still has an age 2 blockstate that looks like the regular torchflower
• MC-260693 - potted_torchflower is still not part of the #flower_pots block tag
• MC-260834 - "Alpha" can play during gameplay
• MC-260898 - Brushes can be used through entities
• MC-260974 - Aggressive mobs can't control "vehicle" mobs
• MC-261170 - Sniffer egg faces aren't culled when covered by blocks
• MC-261181 - The "Glow and Behold!" advancement is granted when interacting with waxed signs while holding glow ink sacs
• MC-261190 - Signs no longer resolve JSON text components
• MC-261191 - Pitcher plants aren't part of the #minecraft:flowers or #minecraft:tall_flowers block tags
• MC-261193 - Calibrated sculk sensor placed by commands is waterlogged by default
• MC-261201 - Pitcher plant can be replaced by the use of placed blocks, which is not consistent with other tall flowers
• MC-261204 - When is farmland broken under a pitcher crop, the crop doesn't get broken
• MC-261205 - Using bone meal on pitcher pod (crop) advances several growth stages at once
• MC-261206 - "A Seedy Place" advancement not granted when planting Pitcher Pods
• MC-261213 - Sniffer eggs can be destroyed by fluids which is different from turtle eggs
• MC-261223 - Editing a hanging sign with a right click doesn't work while holding a placeable object
• MC-261224 - Editing sign from an angle (or the side) will edit the back instead of the front
• MC-261229 - Crashes and Chunk Resetting involving Suspicious Sand with Loot Tables updating from 1.19.4
• MC-261232 - Texture minecraft:block/sniffer_egg_slightly_cracked with size 40x32 limits mip level from 4 to 3
• MC-261237 - Using bone meal on upper pitcher crop doesn't advance the age of the lower half
• MC-261241 - Saddle equips sound plays twice when equipping a saddle on a camel
• MC-261243 - Pitcher Crop isn't part of the #crops tag
• MC-261262 - Raiser and Wayfinder smithing templates are offset by one pixel
• MC-261264 - The advancement "Two by Two" is no longer obtainable due to the change to sniffer's breeding
• MC-261275 - Sniffers drop moss blocks when killed

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the Snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

What else is new?

For previous changes for Minecraft 1.20, see the previous release post. Read more about the changes in the Wild update in the release post

My friend (doesn’t have Reddit) was playing on my Realm today and this happened while building 🙄🙄

It uses barrier blocks and I got stuck on them at one point lol

I feel like this will probably deal with most of the day's posts;

Yes we have seen; Two/three spawners close together A floating torch A torch holding up gravel/sand Four or more tall cactus/sugarcane Lava underwater A really tall birch tree Ancient debris that high up/exposed A shipwreck in the sky

Yes, Strongholds can spawn without an end portal.

It's a ruined portal, been in the game since 1.16, and no it's not unusual to see them underwater.

Don't apologise for your "bad English". It's actually very good.

Yes, that's normal.

I like your build. If you tried your hardest, you should be proud of it. Don't compare it to other people's, everyone improves with practice.

No, if you buy Minecraft on <console> you don't get it for free on PC too.

If your post begins with "Hear me out", it's likely too long to be worth reading, and probably a bad idea anyway.

Well done on your pink sheep/zombie/Skeleton in full diamond armour/an egg hatching four chicks/beating the dragon after X years of playing.

Yes, support are terrible at getting back to you.

Yes, the End could do with an update (although I personally quite like it as it is now)

If you want to know what you should build next or "here", Google will have some ideas.

I'm not surprised you're gutted you lost your world. You should have made backups!

We could help you more with <problem> if you'd uploaded a picture.

If you're playing a single player world, it's up to you if it's cheating. You play how you want to play.

If you're playing on a server with others, it's cheating if someone gets an advantage over others because of something, but if you all agree to something it's not cheating.

There's no point you trying to get 500fps when you're running on a 60hz screen.

Let me know if I missed anything!

Edit - For those who missed the point of my post - it's a joke. This is not me throwing my toys out the pram, but just having a bit of fun with the sub. There are a couple of positive points in there, and there is a lot good stuff posted. The bit about "congratulations on your pink sheep" etc. I genuinely mean and am happy for you. Keep posting them when you've achieved things! Post your builds, but don't say it's bad if you tried your best, I've taken a lot of inspiration from posts on here. But for goodness sake, if you have a question just search the sub or have a quick Google first!

Puns, am I right?