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Happy Saturday, PMCer's! We hope you're enjoying your week so far. Who else wishes the pink buttons were still around? Did anyone click the floating hearts in the header? They exploded into tiny little hearts! It was raining love <3 It was a relatively quiet week this week, but we were behind the scenes working on the text editor update which is now live!


credit_card General Editor Highlights

• font_download Unified Font : Editor text uses the same font as the website!
• wb_iridescent Spoilers are easier to work with & harder to break. You can use the unfold_morearrows to move spoilers.
• Ω Over 700 special character & icons are now available. Click Ω
  to access them. They are text based which allows you to resize them
  with the font size & color them with the font color picker
• color_lens Advanced Color Pickers on text color & background.
• grid_on Table management & STYLES! Working with tables will be MUCH easier now. Besides being easier to create, edit and delete rows & columns you can now MERGE & RESIZE them! You can also change the table background style... none, site (default) & material are currently available.
• history Auto saves periodically so that you can restore or recover posts. Location independent (wall post, thread, submission, etc)
• zoom_out_map Better Fullscreen : Now fullscreen won't take up the actual fullscreen... why? Because if
  you have a large monitor having text span across a thousand yards is
  going to be unpleasant to read & work with. No more!
  

image Advanced Media Support in Editor

• perm_media Advanced Media : Images, Video & Audio | All media is visible in the editor AND playable!
• image Image Dimensions
  : you can now set the width & height of an image / gif. Can define
  one or both dimensions. Define one and it will maintain the aspect
  ratio.
• videocam Video Support : Youtube, .mp4, .webm, .avi, .gifv!
• audiotrack Audio Support : .mp3, .wav, .ogg
• edit Edit Media : Select media element & click the image icon. Right-click the media if it's video / audio.

There are always bugs & tweaks to be made after an update that needs to support many different locations & purposes on the website plus devices, browsers & operating systems. If you found a bug with the editor or have a feature suggestion, please open a ticket.



OFFICIAL CONTESTS AND EVENTS

Community Pixel Project
There are a whopping 62 pixel dividers now! We have animated dividers that range anywhere from hammers and hearts to furry friends like bunnies and deer. We will continue to add to the collection in batches!

Fanskins Contest
Is there a PMC member you admire? Try making a skin based on their online persona, avatar or profile and submit it into the Fanskin Contest! Hurry, though! There are only 2 more days left!

Watercraft Project Contest
All aboard this project contest! Definition of Watercraft: a mode of transportation, vehicles or craft that travel through water whether it's on or under it. Watercraft can be based in reality or out of your imagination!
Deadline: February 25th

Animal Whisperer Blog Contest
Calling all writers! In this blog contest, your job is to write a story between 300-2500 words... from the perspective of an animal!
Deadline: March 4th



COMMUNITY CONTESTS AND EVENTS
CONTESTS ENDING SOON:

Themed contest	Around the Clock	Inspirinq	February 17 - 1 Day Left!
Reshade contest	bubble tea || reshade contest	mcrjellyfish	March 14th
Reshade contest	a reshade contest	dumbledied	February 17 - 1 Day Left!
Themed contest	The Plant Skin Contest	PKMNmastercass	February 18
Reshade contest	50 Subs - Angel	Wildcard_Gamer	February 20
Reshade contest	weak / + rc	anxieuse	February 20

!NEW!

Reshade contest

celeste // 200 sub rc

Naimarra

March 15

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
kimandjax was featured in an article on minecraft.net for their project Kiel Cathedral. The build is a tribute to their furry friend, whom they lost not too long ago (our condolences). It's a heart warming story you don't want to miss.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

We have moved to a new website! Be sure to check it out at www.epicquestz.com!

We are in the process of transferring our map downloads from the old website to the new one. Until this is complete, you may find that some of the links are broken. If so, you should go directly to our website.

Feel free to sign up to our forums too - the bigger the community, the better!

We’re back with 3 official contest this month, as well as MANY other ongoing community events! In this edition of The Wall Post Weekly, we cover events and contests recently launched as well as community events and contests ending soon!

OFFICIAL EVENTS AND CONTESTS
Community Pixel Project
The Community Pixel Project is off to a GREAT start! There are already 50+ pixel dividers, all very unique! Head on over to see your fellow PMC member's creative creations! There is no deadline for this event!

Watercraft Project Contest
Create a mode of transportation - on top or underneath - of water! Yachts, cruise liners, submarines, pirate ships, dolphin rides, sail boats, tubs, canoes, arm floaties and all other forms of watercraft are fair game!
Deadline: February 25th

Fanskins Skin Contest
There’s been a little confusion on what Fanskins actually are - this contest is about creating a skin of a PMC Member based off of a persona, avatar, profile design, username or combination of them. A fanskin is NOT reshading or altering your favorite skin that someone else made.

Reminder: do not give away any personal information. Your age and location are not needed in order for someone to make a fanskin of you.
Deadline: February 18th

Animal Whisperer Blog Contest
Your task is to create an original story from the perspective of an animal in your chosen form of writing. Entries must be between 300 and 2500 words. Visit the contest page for complete rules and details!
Deadline: March 4th

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CONTESTS
SKIN CONTESTS
DragonsDungeon is celebrating his 6 year anniversary on PMC by throwing his own Palette Challenge! Pixel trophies, a free skin, and steam prizes are up for grabs! Create a skin using the beautiful palette he’s provided!
Deadline: March 1st




Round 8 of Carcharodontosaurus ' Bin-Skin Contest is coming to an end! This round's theme is Slow Heavy Metal Music Playing. Get yer entries in before it's too late!
Deadline: February 11th

SKIN RESHADE CONTESTS
Marma’s Reshade Contest ~ ❤ features a skin with pretty pink Valentine’s attire. Top 3 winners receive a skin made by Marma!
Deadline: February 14

mcrjellyfish’s bubble tea || reshade contest: entry MUST be tagged with jellytea100!
Deadline:February 17

dumbledied’s a reshade contest NEEDS entries. Their reshade features shades of reds and pinks!
Deadline: February 17


PROJECT CONTESTS

Ace_Monkey_Ilium launched a project contest, City Buildings.
Build a skyscraper, office, residential, industrial or other type of bulding specified in their forum thread!


As always, you can visit the Community Event Calendar for a COMPLETE list of contests and events happening on the site!


WEBSITE UPDATES
Submissions Page Quick Comment
A quick comment action with comment counter is now beside Diamonds & Favorites on all submission pages.

Mirror Download Dialog
Any maps, mods or texture packs with mirror downloads will now display a dialog exposing the full url and letting you know that you're about to leave PMC.

Forums
We revamped the main thread listings on forums with a cleaner, easier to read and brighter style.
Added forum feeds into the side column of all individual submission pages.

Project Support for more Bedrock Formats
Projects now support world upload formats in .schem & .nbt formats on top of the .zip, .schematic, .mcworld formats we already supported. Not only does the site allow the formats, Schemagic aka "PMCView3D" allows you to preview these maps on PMC. If a .zip contains multiple .nbt files, you'll be presented with a selection menu. Soon we will reorganize the main menus to help guide Bedrock users to content they can use without conversion tools.

Upcoming Feature
We are close to releasing a new text/bbcode editor for ALL of our content creation systems including submissions, threads, wall posts, widgets, PMs and more. It will enhance existing features as well as introduce new capabilities plus better Mobile support! When we launch, hopefully, next week, we'll include a list of highlights.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Skin Team Top Notch JUST Released their second FREE skin pack, Elves! This pack includes all different types of elves including Aquatic Elves, Dark Elves, Forest Elves, High Elves and more! Thank you for another amazing skin pack, Team Top Notch!



IG-FredMcWaffe was featured on Minecraft.net for their project The Republic of Union Islands. In the article, they give insight into Fred’s inspiration and highlight his build process and tools that he uses to create his maps. A good read! Congratulations on your feature!





pixel art credit: creeper2357

OFFICIAL CONTESTS AND EVENTS!

Upcoming Project & Skin Contests
First off, there are just a FEW SHORT HOURS left to get your votes in for the next themes for the project contest & skin contest! So go VOTE! Now! Even if you have no intentions on participating in the event, vote on the theme YOU want to see the community challenged with!

Community Pixel Project!
There will be rounds in this event. This round’s focus is dividers. Your divider can be anything you want! It can be animated by blinking or bouncing or have no animation at all. Our goal is to create a library of pixel art available for the PMC community to use freely in our posts & profile pages! So keep this in mind. Who knows, maybe your pixel art will be featured in a Wall Post Weekly or by your favorite PMC member! Visit the Community Pixel Project Thread for tips, tricks, and a list of pixel art programs to get you started!



COMMUNITY CONTESTS AND EVENTS

Wildcard_Gamer’s Retro Palette Skin Contest is coming to an end - you have less than a week to work with the palette he’s given you!
Deadline: February 8th

Mollymakesmagic’s Diversity Skin Contest also ends on February 8th! If you signed up already, don’t forget to submit your skin!

Round 8 of Carcharodontosaurus ' Bin-Skin Contest is looking for participants! This round's theme is "[url=Slow Heavy Metal Music Playing]Slow Heavy Metal Music Playing[/url]".
Deadline: February 11th

As always, you can visit the Community Event Calendar for a COMPLETE list of contests and events happening on the site!



NOTABLE WEBSITE UPDATES

The update on Jan 25th, added the ability to easily perform actions on submissions from the listings both on Desktop and Mobile. You now have the ability to diamond, favorite & add to collections right from submission preview pages. If you diamond or favorite, it also increments the view counter, assuming you didn’t already view it. We hope to continue making it easier to provide feedback on submissions.

Prior to the update, 1,500-2,000 diamonds were given per day by the community. After the update, the new “normal” average is between 2400-2900!

As a result of this website update, a spam war broke out which caused a small spike in diamonds and favorites as pictured below:

neat.


On the Jan 31st, we added a "Data Pack" category under "Mods" and moved Texture Packs, Projects & Mods tagged with variations of "datapack" into it. If you have a data pack and want it moved to join the others, please comment below.

* There is a main menu option under : Minecraft > Data Packs.
* Data packs will identify themselves in the listings as "Data Packs" not "Mods".
* Download buttons on Data Packs will say "Download Data Pack".
* Data pack pages are titled "Minecraft / Data Packs" and link to the other data packs.

This is still a temporary solution before fully supporting data packs but it's a big step towards organizing them in one place and supporting the growth of the data pack community.


OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

PMC Member Paul_zero was featured on Minecraft.net for their build Victorian Chateau - Rosegold which is available for Download! The article covers the inspiration behind his build, and goes into depth about his building process! After reading the article, download the chateau and get an up-close look! It’s complete with an interior, too! Congratulations, Paul_Zero!


Victorian Chateau

Also featured on Minecraft.net in an article called “Host a Dinner in Minecraft” was PMC Members a blue car for their Pig Suit Skin and vampbites for their skin, enderman hoodie! This article gives you tips on how to host your own dinner party with friends in Minecraft as well as suggests some delicious recipes to serve to your guests. Cute!

We didn’t have a Wall Post Weekly this past week, so we’re sending out this mid-ish week reminder about the polls that are up for the next official Project Contest and Skin Contest themes! There are some awesome new themes to choose from! You have 4 more days left to vote, so go vote!!



COMMUNITY CONTESTS!
In addition to the polls, there are a few community contests ending soon!

Pickleaxe257’s Food Skin Contest needs entries! The theme is FOOD but with a twist! Your skin must represent the Poisonous version of the food you choose. Example: Poisonous Pickle.
Deadline: January 31st

Who would you rather be? Is a reshade contest By Chabilulu! They've equipped you with a maroon and pink skin with a striped shirt. Use the tag "CherryTreeRC" in your submission!
Deadline: February 1st

Have a favorite song? Then KawaiiCornz’s Musical Inspiration skin contest is for you! Create a skin based on your song of choice!
Deadline: February 1st

Ophelia, a reshade contest by connorrr needs some support! They’ve provided an adorable skin with glasses and overalls to re-shade!
Deadline: February 5th


As always, you can visit the Community Event Calendar for a complete list of Community Contests anytime!

A quick Congratulations to lentebriesje who received a certificate for their project The Earth 15000:1! It is the LARGEST scale recreation of Planet Earth in Minecraft! Way to go!


Credit for the Llamas

Notif war is fun and I was going to let it play out for the weekend but can already see it's becoming an issue. Will throttle / cap it tomorrow. Good times. If you're getting spammed and don't like it I'm sorry. Please know it's just a temporary xp boost and I'm well aware and will adapt site accordingly. Weeeee!

Sneak a peak : Checking everything again before releasing a new main listing design!

Desktop Edition



Mobile Edition

MOVIE NIGHT!
First, we would like to thank everyone that attended PMC Movie Night last night! It was a blast chatting and watching short Minecraft animations and A Wizard’s Tale together! There certainly was never a dull moment! Special thanks to the producer, StingrayProductions , for not only producing the movie, but attending movie night as well. Your director commentary through the movie was appreciated, and we all learned a little more about the behind-the-scenes work! We can’t wait to see what other movies you produce!

There were a steady 45 members the entire movie! Some members popped in a little late because of school, while others had to leave to do laundry. There were a total of 114 members throughout the evening. It sure was fun and lively the entire time! Participants should see something special in their trophy case!

If you missed movie night, don’t worry! We WILL be having another one! You can catch the short Minecraft Animations and A Wizard’s Tale over on PMCTV, Channel 6. We will continue to run the short clips and movie until the next movie night!

SKIN CONTESTS ENDING SOON:
ChocolateGhast’s Galaxy Skin Contest ends TOMORROW. Create an abstract skin of a galaxy or an alien from another galaxy!

Greystokey’s Themed contest, Key Words ends in 3 Days! In this contest, you have to make a skin that represents ALL of these words: Stone, Wolf, Edge.
Deadline: January 22

Any Roblox fan’s? Marjory’s Themed contest, Mineblox is for you! IThis contest requires you to put at least 3 ROBLOX items on your character. Ends in 3 days and NEEDS participants!
Deadline: January 22

New CONTESTS THAT NEED SIGN UPS:
Carcharodontosaurus themed contest Slow Heavy Metal Music Playing is Battle #8 of their Bin Skin Contest.
Deadline: February 11

Wildcard_Gamer is in need for participants in his 50 Subscriber skin-reshade contest, Angel.
Deadline: February 20th. Their also hosting a Retro Palette Skin Contest, which ends on February 8th!


GAMES AND CHALLENGES
DinowCookie’s Collection Competition is a unique challenge, in which your goal is to create a collection following the theme and rules of the round. This round’s theme is FREESTYLE. Create a collection containing 20 submissions (from other members!) all centering around a theme of your choosing. She’s created a couple of collections as examples: A Black Collection and A Japan Collection!

Read how to create collections in this blog post!

We will feature the winning collection on PMC’s Profile!
Ends January 25th

For a complete list of Events and Contests, please visit the Community Event Calendar!


OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:
Paril updated the dynamic header of the website. It should run MUCH smoother for everyone on desktop or a potato.

PMC Member len-kun created this amazing Splatoon Avatar template! It includes your choice of hair & eye color, hair style, expression and more!



This morning, DinowCookie hinted towards the completion and release of Skin Team Top Notch’s second skin pack! We’re at the edge of our seats in excitement, wondering what theme they’ve chosen! Any guesses?

Have a fantastic weekend!!!

Happy Friday, Everyone! We LOVE the excitement from the Community for Movie Night tonight! zoomy888 edited their profile picture to include a bucket of popcorn, DinowCookie, and _Phrozenbit_ are ready with popcorn by their sides! Let us know if you change your profile picture to include popcorn, or post a photo of your popcorn/movie treats by tagging us in a wall post! We'd love to see!

MOVIE DETAILS:

As you may have seen, A Wizards Tale won the majority vote, so that's what we will all be watching together! The movie will be broadcasted on PMN - Channel 6 on PMCTV at 5PM EST!






IMPORTANT TO NOTE: AT ANY TIME if you skip ahead/behind in the movie, you will no longer be watching "with" everyone. You will be viewing it by yourself. If you happen to skip ahead/behind, Click the "Watch" button located above the chat box. This will bring you back to Live-view mode, and you'll be watching with everyone again :)



If you have ANY ISSUES please comment on this post or TAG PMC. Hope to see you there!!

Pixel Art Credit: Chromatix

Happy Sunday! In case you haven’t heard, we’re having a Planet Minecraft Community Movie Night next Friday!! Head on over to the poll to vote on which movie we will be watching. If you’ve already voted, please read: After a comment by the producer of the films, we’ve added a couple more movies to the poll. We also learned that some of the movies are SUBTITLES ONLY. We personally feel it’ll be fun regardless of voice acting, but if it changes your mind, please review the options again and re-vote! Poll runs through Thursday. We’re looking forward to seeing you on Movie Night!




[size=140%] COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CONTESTS[/size]

THEMED SKIN CONTESTS:
spygron 's Animals Skin Contest ENDS TODAY! If you’ve signed up, get those entries in! If you have some spare time today and are up for a crunch-time challenge, you can still participate!

PKMNmastercass’ Gemstone Skin Contest still has slots left! Make a skin based off of one of the gemstones. The following are still available: Garnet, Carnelian, Aventurine, Tanzanite, Tiger's Eye, Pyrite.
Deadline: January 16th.

From Around the World by CaelChan is one in which you pick a country and skin something that represents/is a core part of that country’s culture! Maybe it’s your own country or a country you hope to visit someday. A great contest that will come together to represent all parts of the world through Minecraft Skins. Cool!
Deadline: January 17th.

ChocolateGhast’s Galaxy Skin Contest has 1 week left. Create an out-of-this-world skin representing a galaxy far, far away!
Deadline: January 20th.

PALETTE SKIN CONTESTS:
An Intelligent Moron Palette Contest - Rounds! Features a “coffee shop” palette.
Deadline: January 18th!

Wildcard_Gamer’s Palette Contest Retro Palette ends on February 8th. Their palette features 8 beautiful retro colors. Palette can be downloaded here.

RESHADE SKIN CONTESTS:
Louloute is celebrating 700 subscribers with a reshade contest. Reshade the skin shown below!
Deadline: January 18th.


Chabilulu is also hosting their own Reshade Contest in celebration of their 600 Subscribers. It's called Who Would You Rather Be?
Deadline: February 1st.

GAMES AND CHALLENGES:
DinowCookie is hosting a Collection Competition! In this unique challenge, your goal is to create a collection following the theme and rules of the round. This round’s theme is Freestyle. You get to choose the theme of your collection, which must include around 20 submissions. Read how to create collections in this blog post!
Round 1 Ends January 25th. Get collecting!

PLEASE VISIT The Community Event Calendar for a COMPLETE List of Events!



WEBSITE UPDATES
The homepage was reorganized and all new tabs have appeared.

• My Feed : Content from your subscriptions.
  
• Community Feed : NEW! Content from EVERYONE! You can filter what content you want to see.
  
• Trending : Sorted view of content defaulted to sort by Trending.
  
• Subjects : See "cards" of last 4 submissions of every subject type.
  
• Quick Menu : NEW! It's a quick menu to put everything a click or touch away. So convenient!
  

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

PMC Members Shannooty and Aegos were featured in an article on Minecraft.net for their South and East Asian style build Nakawaza Pagodas. A spectacular, in-depth interview of their perfect pagoda project!

There's a fun beepbox trend on PMC. Check out FireBellFairy's spoopy boop, kitt-chan's rendition of the Firebells’ spoopy boop, TimeLxrd's bo0p beep, or Aspirin60's beat b0op. We enjoy listening to your creative melodies!

Skin making team Top Notch is open for applications! They’re currently looking for intermediate/expert skin creators, apprentices ready to learn, render artists, and mentors!

A1yssa, TomConn, infectism Acier and Kaos_Kitten we see you in the Introductions forum! Thank you for consistently welcoming new members into the community.

Random Tuesday Update!
The homepage was reorganized and all new tabs have appeared.

• My Feed : Content from your subscriptions.
  
• Community Feed : Content from EVERYONE! You can filter what content you want to see.
  
• Trending : Sorted view of content defaulted to sort by Trending.
  
• Subjects : See "cards" of last 4 submissions of every subject type.
  
• Quick Menu : A brand new quick menu for members. So convenient!
  

Let me know what you think? Feedback, suggestions, bugs, typos? Missing anything on the quick menu that you'd like?

Quick Menu Preview:

How is everyone's new year going so far? Did you set resolutions or goals for the year? Let's hear what they are!

2018 was a big one for Planet Minecraft. We launched PMCSkin3D and added powerful features to it over the months. We added a Youtubers section, started hosting Official Events, began publishing a Wall Post Weekly, overhauled the website design, added advanced collection features, introduced seasonal site themes with PMC pets (Topper and Batty!), and most recently added an Activity Feed. In addition to these updates there were countless small improvements across the site which collectively evolved PMC this past year. A BIG thanks to all of you for your continued support. Together we’re a community to be proud of!

We have many exciting plans for the upcoming year, which we're already developing behind the scenes.


COMMUNITY EVENTS

There are 4 days left to submit an entry to Momu's Skin Reshade contest, Holy Reindeer RC. Reshade contests are a great way to practice shading and get feedback!

Peridot XJ9 is hosting another Pokemon themed skin collection contest! This one runs until January 12th,
which is a little under a week away. Select a Pokemon from the Hoenn Pokedex and make a skin that resembles your chosen pokemon! spygron's Animals Skin Contest also ends a week (January 13th). Create a skin of your favorite animal or your pet!

LaurenAngels_ challenge, Skinning Dares for you to Try, has dozens of ideas to fuel your imagination. If you’re stuck in a creativity block, read over their list of challenges! We dare you!

Other Contests and Events Ending Soon:

Themed contest	Gemstone Skin Contest	PKMNmastercass	January 16
Themed contest	Galaxy Skin Contest	ChocolateGhast	January 20
Reshade contest	Who would you rather be?	Chabilulu	February 1
Collection Competition	The Collection Competition	DinowCookie	(Round 1) Jan 25

For a complete list of Community Events and Contests, visit the Community Event Calendar!

Interested in hosting your own contest but not sure where to start? Refer to this tutorial for an in-depth guide that will get you on the right track to hosting a successful contest or event!

OFFICIAL CONTESTS AND EVENTS

Bad news and good news. Bad news - due to how busy December was, PMC will not be hosting any official contests for the month of January. Good news, we will be focusing even more on promoting community hosted contests and events. We will be back on schedule in February. Use this month to support your fellow PMCer’s by participating in their events and contests.

The Winter Wonderland Community Event has come to an end. We had a total of 536 entries! Yesterday we published the Winter Wonderland Event Conclusion. We're open to suggestions for future event themes! Head on over and let us know your ideas in the comment section!

Congratulations to the winners of the Five Elements Skin Contest and thank you to everyone who participated. There were a variety of artistic representations of the five elements. Some represented individual elements while others represented all five elements. All of the entries can be viewed here.




OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

PMC Member andyisyoda was featured on Minecraft.net for their modern builds! You may know/recognize them from YouTube. The interview includes a blurb about his 20+ hour live stream which resulted in a house complete with tennis course and bowling lanes.

wldscarlet is in search for artists and builders to work together with 18 other talented members on their Wellandel project, an immersive story-driven MMORPG. For more information about the Wellandel project and the application process visit their Blog!



Sir_Arzie is celebrating their 100 YouTube Subscriber achievement with this epic build, Geisha 100 Men Slayer! They’ve included a download with this build! Congratulations on your milestone, Sir_Arzie!