Welcome to the weekend! In this week's weekly we cover some new community contests, some colorful art, some castles, skins with various styles of cloaks, a pack that adds a new mode of transportation, a new vibrant pack and more! We hope you have a really great weekend!

OFFICIAL EVENTS AND CONTESTS

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in the Review stage of the Sunshine after the Rain Event. Stay tuned for a written summary of our top picks from the event!

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CONTESTS

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DinowCookie just posted her results for her Experimadness Minecraft skin redesign contest and her mystery mob skin event, and has already launched a new event, 100 Remakes! Dinow dug deep into her skin history to find 100 of her old skins that need a makeover! You must visit the thread, find a skin you want to remake, and when finished with your skin, be sure to tag it with "100remakes" and include a preview of the original in your description!

Extra: Anyone who creates a remake for this event before Sunday August 8th will be entered into a raffle for a digital gift! (steam game, editing software, etc). Sweet!

Deadline: August 7

! 24 Hour Event Alert ! On July 16th, there will be a 24 hour skinning event! During that 24 hours, your goal is to create a new, original skin from scratch. No presets, templates, edits or recycling of other skins is allowed. Check out the forum thread to read up on all of the details and rules, and to be prepared! This is Zypher Solina's second time hosting a 24 hour event they've named Skin Jam. Check out Volume 1s' compilation from May!

NEW! 🌈 r a i n b o w is celebrating 100 subscribers and hosting a skin challenge where you create a skin using just two colors! You're allowed to use any shade of the two colors. Deadline: July 22

COMMUNITY CONTESTS AND EVENTS ENDING SOON: 😁 (Skins) Type Title + Link Host Deadline Palette Contest Sundown Palette Contest 🌆 Fishkiss July 15 Palette Contest Galaxy Palette skin contest BlossomRuna July 16 🎮 (Server) Type Title + Link Host / Server Date Bedrock Festival bedrock festival of the arts IronsmithMC July 16 For a complete list of community hosted contests and events be sure to check out the community event calendar!

⭐OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

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ART GALLERY 🎨

chickenpants93 published 2 new art blogs this week, one that includes the art you see above. There are several pencil sketches and digital drawings in this blog, all with such a cool cartoon style! They have a variety of blog types in their submissions including interviews, art, and comics!	In their first blog post this week, Vera- posts their first edition of what they call geometric beauty! In this series, they aim to take designing of members profiles and turn them into geometric construction. The above geometric art is of Pythagoras_314's profile picture. We're curious to see more!
DinowCookie was inspired by the trend of creating "merchandise" for yourself, and created an adorable dinosaur hoodie! In her wall post she states that her mom actually made this hoodie for her in real life! Aegeah's 7-year-old art blog was updated this week! We're unsure of which drawing the added, but we particularly liked the ferret-like creature you see above!	In a wall post, wqtermxlon shared a couple of drawings including this adorable watermelon sitting and looking as cute as ever!

CASTLES 🏰
Take a look at the best maps from this week and you'll find a common theme on the first page; castles! Another thing they have in common is they all include free downloads! This week's featured maps may all be castles, but they each have a different style. FALL Studios Villager trading castle contains an entire village. The village and castle are enclosed in a wall that acts as defense to project them from zombies and other foe. All of the houses and the castle are furnished and the chests you'll find are filled with LOOT! Sweet!

Fantasy Palace by Krevelir has a medieval feel, and floats on an island! It has many corridors, secret rooms and a main tall tower which can be accessed through an epic bridge. Take a tour and explore the gorgeous interior, made of cobble and decorated with candles for the ultimate moody atmosphere.

This quaint castle is similarly perched on an island, but has less of a gothic feel with its bright white exterior.Created by Krysot, it contains several farms including: a pumpkin and melon farm, underground mob farm, villager breeder, dripstone as well as a bee farm! This map also comes with a sizeable ship for exploration! ⛵

CLOAKS & CAPES
Browsing the skin section this week, we saw several styles of cloaks and capes! From drab to fab and capes in between, it's amazing what you skin creators can do with pixels!

We LOVE the color palette and shading in cloak man by GingerPie. This cloak features a draped shoulder and and oversized hood for ultimate comfort!

Aspirin60 accomplishes such a detailed, realistic looking royal red cloak with an HD skin. Their skin, DinowCookie's king is part of DinowCookie's 100 remake event. Click here to see the original king and here to read more about the event!

wqtermxlon's skin, sunflower remains, wears a tattered and torn cape as if the character has been wearing it for a while. The skin is a submission in Fishkiss's palette contest which ends July 15th!

PLUSHIE PLAYERHEADS

Minecraft playerheads are decorative blocks that can add a lot of flair to your world. From cakes, to money bags, and christmas gifts, there is basically a decorative block for anything you're in search of. FishStacks and CornCobDog teamed up to create something even better than playerheads - plushies! By adding a body to the playe rheads with the steve model skin, you get an adorable stuffed animal version of your own skin, or a fan skin!

A NEW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION Scale caves and cliffs like a professional with this data pack by Hashs. This simple but very useful pack adds grappling hooks as a new way to move quickly through deep caverns and steep cliffs! WEEEE! To use your new mode of transportation, hold right click to launch, and release to reel yourself in. You can craft one using copper, iron and string or find one when you explore a dungeon or mineshaft! You can also enchant your grappling hook with unbreaking and mending to extend its lifespan.

A NEW PACK
This bright, retro color pack has cartoony textures for an RPG feel! Lootylinte's latest version of their Aluzlon pack was submitted this week and supports Java 1.16.5. We love their unique art style and the eye catching colors! They have several different versions of their pack including a Bedrock version, and a few PVP versions!



There is no official interview this week, however, here is a list of community interviews:
Interview with aquarine by Winds_