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Update : Poll Embeds on Wall Posts!
You can now share forum polls directly to your wall! Head to any forum poll thread or create your own and click Share Poll to Wall. Your post will be pre-filled with a live poll embed showing the current results, voting status, and a link back to the full thread.

A clean way to surface interesting forum discussions without leaving the conversation behind.

psst... pro-tip: you can also paste the poll bbcode into other useful locations like your content descriptions or profile custom widgets.

🍂 Our Fall Festival is almost here!

Join the community in celebrating the season with contests, games, and fun activities hosted by fellow members. Whether you’re building, crafting, or just enjoying the vibes, there’s something for everyone.

🍂 Design an NPC for the Fall Festival! 🎃

Help bring our upcoming October in-game event to life by creating a festive NPC skin! Think scarecrow farmers, pie vendors, wandering storytellers, anyone you'd meet at a cozy Fall celebration. Give them a name, a location in the festival, and maybe even a few fun lines of dialog. Your creation could become part of the festival world!


Learn more and join the Skin Jam Here!

We're gearing up for an exciting Fall Festival on Planet Minecraft, and we need your creativity to make it spectacular!
Join the Planting Season Jam by contributing builds, blogs, or art inspired by autumn themes like harvest, cozy vibes, and festive celebrations.

How to Participate:

• Builds & Assets: Create structures or decorative items that capture the essence of fall.
  
• Blogs & Art: Share stories, ideas, or artwork envisioning the perfect fall festival.

Submission Guidelines:

• Theme: Focus on autumn-related concepts—think pumpkins, falling leaves, and harvest festivals.
  
• Format: Provide your creations as Minecraft maps, schematics, or blog posts.
  
• Compatibility: Ensure builds are compatible with Minecraft Java version 1.21.5.

For full details and inspiration prompts, check out the Planting Season Jam FAQ.

Let's collaborate to craft an unforgettable fall festival experience! 🍂

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🎆 Come join PMC's New Year's Flash Jam and welcome 2025 in style! 🎉

Get involved in a community-led PMC tradition—SSPBL's palette contests are back, and Season 9 is in full swing! Week 1 just wrapped up, and now you can step in and help decide who advances to Week 2!

PBL is an exciting, bracket-style competition where participants face off in weekly rounds, each with a fresh and challenging palette that pushes their skinning skills to the limit. The best part? YOU get to vote on who moves forward, so your voice shapes the competition! Oh and watch for a twist...

Head over to CAST YOUR VOTES and help crown the Season 9 champion!

Happy Friday, PMC!

We've revamped our Site Rules with new sections focused on Social Interactions and Moderation— to help make the platform more welcoming and transparent for everyone.


✅ What’s new?

• Our content rules remain the same, but the Social section is all about outlining what’s already been happening naturally but wasn't documented! This is to help newcomers understand how to engage positively and give everyone a clearer reference point. Ideally, if it helps prevent even small misunderstandings or frustrations, it's a win.
  
• The Moderation section provides some insight into our responsibilities and actions. It's one small step towards offering transparency so you know how we keep the community fun, safe, and respectful. We're working on a larger update to this end.
  

We’re also compiling FAQs to make your PMC experience even smoother for both new members and exploring features of our platform! You can help us out by posting in this forum. Just prepend your thread title with “FAQ:” and—bonus points!—if you can provide the answers in your thread. Every contribution helps the community grow stronger and helps us understand what needs to be answered!

Let’s keep building an awesome community together.

I think about leaving this site.
First of all, I don't play Minecraft anymore. Each new update only confuses me. It's not as fun as it used to be, I have no motivation to play alone and my irl friends stopped playing it. What's the point of being an active user on a Minecraft fansite if I'm not a Minecraft fan?
I lost my passion for skinning too. I wanted to quit it a few months ago but Skin Fight kept me active. You can see in the low amount of posted content that I struggle to get motivated to make a skin. I feel some pressure to post skins instead of genuinely enjoying it. I wanted to open commissions or join the SF staff in the future, but this perspective is too far to keep me active now.
The third reason is not the most important but it's the reason why I started to think about leaving now. Recently many cool people including one of my closest friends were banned or left. I know that it happens, but it was quite shocking to see two people on my sidebar locked. I learn to keep in touch with former PMC members through Discord so this site is slowly losing its important social aspect to me. Right now the only thing that keeps me here is the fact that some of my friends and acquaintances don't use Discord and I wouldn't be able to keep in touch with them if I left.
This is not a final goodbye post. I am not leaving yet, maybe I'll change my mind and be active again.

So many friends left when I was away... :(

I came back from my vacation, it was amazing but now I am really tired... Going online after a break and seeing all the weird things that happened is difficult.

I am leaving this website.

I didn’t think I’d ever have to make a post like this, but here I am. I’ve considered my options and decided that the best thing for me to do is step away from all of this entirely, so I will be (most likely) permanently leaving. Before I go, there are a lot of things I need to address. Trigger warning for mentions of pedophilia, sexual assault, etc.

A few days ago I was informed about a Discord server. This server is full of people who are saying disgusting things about me. Almost all of the people on this server are members of this site. There are a few members in particular who are greatly involved in this, however, I cannot name them as it would create more of a commotion than there already is. I will be addressing their actions though. These people have been creating rumors and accusations, all of which are false.

These things include but are not limited to: being called a pedophile, saying I am attracted to children/babies, being accused of sexually assaulting one of my friends, having used my ex-boyfriend for sex, etc.

I want to start by saying how disgusting it is to even consider accusing someone of something so major, especially without proof. Pedophilia is an incredibly serious crime, and to toss around the term as if it isn’t is not okay. For those of you who don’t know what pedophilia means, “sexual feelings directed toward children” (definition from Oxford Languages). The amount of you who seem to not understand the depth of this word is shocking, and the reason why I included the definition. I am not sexually attracted to children/babies in any way, shape, or form. I have never said or done anything that could make someone possibly say this. There’s an edited screenshot circulating - someone edited a comment of mine to make me say something about loving babies. This image is fake, along with any other images like this that exist.

I have never sexually assaulted anyone. This is, again, an incredibly serious crime to be accusing someone of. An anonymous user in the hate server said that I “SAed (sexually assaulted) them when I met up with them IRL (in real life)". This is not true. I have met up with online friends before, but I have never sexually assaulted or harassed any of them or anyone.

To address the last point, I have never manipulated or used anyone for sex. This is an entirely baseless rumor, just like the others. I can go into more detail on why this isn’t true but I’d rather not publicly talk about my sex life just to prove some deranged lies incorrect.

This is beyond harassment, this is defamation, “the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel” (definition from Oxford Languages), and it is a crime. At this point and time, I have decided not to pursue legal action, but if any of this continues, I will not hesitate to. There will be consequences to the actions of those who are spreading such malice.

From my understanding, this all began because I blocked a group of individuals. Blocking people is not a reason for harassment, especially on this level. Everyone has the right to block whoever they want, for whatever they want, and they do not have to specify why. If you get upset from being blocked, take that as a time to self-reflect. Think about what you could've done to be blocked, instead of blaming the other person.

Now that I’ve addressed this and explained my side of the story, I hope you all can believe and trust me. To those who are spreading the rumors/accusations, I hope you realize how disgusting you are for doing this. Nothing I could’ve done to you would’ve warranted this level of harassment. I understand that the intent of all of this was to upset me, and while I admit that it did, I am not backing down. I am leaving the site for my benefit and because I can no longer be bothered to deal with such ridiculous things.

Planet Minecraft is supposed to be a joyful and welcoming community, and after my four years here all I have to say is I am greatly disappointed it has come to this. I must specify that this isn’t the only reason I am leaving. I’ve had to deal with countless kinds of harassment on this site, prior to this - lots of which was left undealt with, despite my reports. If Cyprezz/Paril are reading this, you and your moderators need to do better. Do better to ensure that your community is a safe environment for everyone.

Sometimes we need a reminder that there is a real person behind the screen, behind every screen. We're all human beings with feelings and thoughts that deserve to be valued and taken seriously.

The last thing I want to say is thank you, to all of my friends, mutuals, and supporters. I am so genuinely appreciative of all the members who have stood with me through this and all the other hardships I’ve faced over the years.

If you wish to stay in contact with me, DM me, and I will give you some of my other platforms so we can stay in touch. I've drafted all my content and closed my guestbook so your best (and only bet) at contacting me would be via on-site DMs. I will stay logged in for around 24 hours after I’ve posted this so I can reply to messages. After that, I am logging out without the intent of returning.

Goodbye

-Spongie

ZHONGCHIIIII YAOIIIIIIIII

Inactivity notice:
I'm leaving soon and I'm going to be inactive for two weeks or more. You can find the explanation in a wall post posted yesterday. I will be also completely inactive on Discord, even if my status says otherwise I won't reply, it's someone else using my PC.
Goodbye!