OFFICIAL EVENTS AND CONTESTS


SKIN CONTESTS
The Deep Space Skin Contest has come to a conclusion and the winners have been announced! Congratulations to the winners, and to all participants; you did an excellent job!

1st Place: Aspirin60 with their God of Universes which uses beautiful shades of blue to create an intergalactic god.
2nd Place: Spectral with their Deep and Spacious skin which is described as having a "tentacle sac of a light source".
3rd Place: FallingGuy with their Milkomeda Anguimorpha; a frightening reptilian creature, ready to hunt down every living thing!

God of universes by Aspirin60

Deep and Spacious by Spectral

The Milkomeda Anguimorpha by FallingGuy

Did you miss the Deep Space contest? Well, don't worry because this month, like every month, we have a brand new skin contest for you to enter in. Our community poll ended and you've chosen Medieval Times for this month's theme. Will you make a noblewoman or poor peasant? Or maybe you want to take the Medieval Fantasy route and make a warlock or a dragon! 🐲




PROJECT CONTEST
WOOOO HOOOO! We're having a project contest this month, and it's a special one too!! Planet Minecraft is collaborating with Meraki, a build team who started a futuristic space exploration project titled 2048, which you can now be part of through this contest. Don't miss it!

"2048 is a Minecraft Build "Collection" with a focus on community collaboration. In order to unite Minecraft community, 2048's storyline will be shaped along the journey by participants from all around the world as they present their interpretation of the story." -Meraki

Aside from the cool theme, this contest offers grand prizes! There's $350 worth of prizes in the pool. Keep in mind that this time around, there will be no separation of Team and Solo contests. You can enter alone or work with friends!

Check out the details page for more info on prizes and rules.






COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CONTESTS

In Secretive hut your task is to build a cabin in any style! Steampunk, modern, log, dirt, etc.. In this event, jessy999 challenges you to build a small but cozy retreat.

More open community events are:

Type	Title + Link	Host	Deadline
Build contest	The Ultimate Tree House Building Contest	Sir_Craftypants	August 20
Themed skin contest	Dungeons and Dragons	Bleucheeseman Spamme	August 13
Skin palette challenge	Palette Challenge #1	Wildcard_Gamer	August 15

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

This week, we passed 2.5 MILLION members!

Did you join as a member just recently and are you one of the last 0.1 million? Or did you join us quite some time ago? No matter when you joined, we're happy to see you around, we hope you're having fun and would love to see you stick around for quite some time to come. 😁


BEANS
PMC member Nighthearted is on a roll this week! They posted five new phenomenal skins this week, including this seagull and their Creeper Aww Man, but the most popular skin this week was.. Beans? Beans. With well over 5000 vies, 300 downloads and 100 diamonds on the first day. 😵 We guess Minecrafters like thos beans.


Beans by Nighthearted

FANDOM FUN
Planet Minecraft saw some great submissions in which the creators drew inspiration from movies, games and series. Check out The Black Pearl ship from Pirates of the Caribbean by lamborghiniMiura, which has a schematic available! Or perhaps you're more into The Elder Scrolls, Fonta shared a great recreation of Winterhold from Skyrim! Game of Thrones fan? Check out the screenshots shared by Leonex showing off their Great RPG world with ice wall, reminding us of the fantastic lands of Westeros.

The Black Pearl by lamborghiniMiura

Winterhold by Fonta

RPG world with an ice wall by Leonex

wb_sunnySUMMERY SNAPSHOTS
The Summer Vacation Community Event has ended. We'll publish a full conclusion post about the event sometime soon. While last week we hoped to reach over 400 entries in this event, we ended up with 476 entries, how cool! You guys definitely submitted a lot of great entries; make sure to check your trophy case for your participant's badge.

While waiting on the event conclusion, make sure to check out Sprezzatura's summer themed blog submission which features beautiful photos of bumblebees in their natural habitat. Their submission also happens to be their first submission on the site since joining in May! Here on Planet Minecraft, we encourage all kinds of creativity coming from the Minecraft community and this blog is a great example of just how much fun that can be(e). 🐝