Hi everyone!
An update on what I'm working on at the moment!
After some discoveries I had during the construction of the BWU I've started in initiative called Project Gemini.
It's a research project that has the objective to design and build very optimized self-assemblying structures with a completely different architecture from the Universal Modules.
Its result won't be a practical application, but a general framework that will be the base of a new generation of self-replicating machines that will be able to quickly extend to any size and without lag!
Technical details are reserved for now, but here are some screens to let you see what's happening...
Let me know if you are interested to know more!

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!

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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, Ray_Savage , 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!

RadioCoyote’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? soyjak’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! FishyBusiness edited their profile picture to include a bucket of popcorn, DinowCookie, and anonpmc2558251 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

The Brownian Worm Units are out now!
This is a turning point in self replicating technologies!
Find out more about how it works here.

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:
ziggy like stardust 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:
Zqinab is celebrating 700 subscribers with a reshade contest. Reshade the skin shown below!
Deadline: January 18th.


Chabileo 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, kodayne's rendition of the Firebells’ spoopy boop, Lydia Deetz'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, Stubbs1, Noibat Acier and Kaos_Kitten we see you in the Introductions forum! Thank you for consistently welcoming new members into the community.

A new self-replicating modular machine is coming to town!
This new marble in the field of universal modules can be very dangerous, like the World Distruction Unit,but is much more complex and capable!
Actually a work in progress, this module is being tested now!
Codename: BWU

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!

Eli the Zeratoed 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?	Chabileo	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!

Greetings, PMCers! We hope everyone had a great holiday! Judging by the results on this poll by Caustic1 that asked what your favorite part about Christmas is, spending time with family is by far what the majority of you enjoy most! You sweet people, you. "The Food" came in close second, nom nom, with "Gifts" at a close third. What was your favorite gift you received/gave?

With the holiday season ending, so are a lot of the contests and events. In this edition of The Wall Post Weekly, we highlight the results of concluded events, emphasize those that are ending soon, and summarize this weeks activity.

OFFICIAL CONTESTS AND EVENTS


Did you see the article on Minecraft.net, Snowtacular Skins?! The article features our Winter Wonderland Event! Better yet PMC Members and event participants A1yssa, k1smet_, khajiity, BleedingBlack and ziggy like stardust were for their skin submissions (Christmas Lights, Penguin PJs, Christmas Penguin, Rainbow Haired Christmas Girl, Whoever Thought of Giving Snowmen Hats and Scarves was a Psychopath, respectively). Congratulations to all!

Speaking of the Winter Wonderland Event.....tomorrow is your LAST DAY to submit an entry! Make sure your submission relates to the theme! Anything wintry! Projects, Skins, Blogs or Artwork! There are some really creative and original submissions already (522 to be exact!). All participants receive a small pixel present to add to their trophy case!

The Five Elements Skin Contest is in the Final Judging phase! The judges will be wrapping up soon! Good luck to the finalists and thank you to all of the members who participated!

COMMUNITY EVENTS

DinowCookie's Secret Santa event was a success! Check out this collection to see a variety of gifts made by our talented members! Friendly note: If you haven't given your gift yet, better late then never! Your Secret Santa has been looking forward to their gift for quite some time. We all are busy, but try to pull through!

Wildcard_Gamer's Ugly Chrismas Sweater Community Collection is ending in 3 days. Use one of your favorite skins (made by you) and give it an ugly sweater!

TODAY is the last day of Carcharodontosaurus' Bin Skin Contest! Create a quality “garbage” skin that follows the guidelines. This battle's theme is Horrible Character Customization – with special rules. You must use 3 pieces from the sheet given by Carcharodontosaurus (see below) Ready, set, go!

WilliamJT's Skin Reshade Contest, For Glory!, wraps up on January 3rd. In their first ever hosted contest, your goal is to reshade the medieval skin they're provided. Their goal is to get 5 entries – let's help them get to their goal!

Other Community Events and Contests Ending Soon

Themed event	Pokémon Hoenn collection contest	Eli the Zeratoed	January 12
Themed contest	Animals Skin Contest	Spygron	January 13
Themed contest	Gemstone Skin Contest	PKMNmastercass	January 16

Christmas Themed Community Events and Contests Ending Soon

Reshade skin contest

Holy Reindeer RC

Momu

January 10

Visit the Community Event Calendar Page for a full list of Events and Contests!


WEBSITE UPDATES

In case you missed it....

There is now an Activity feed! Watch and discover new content and members with a feed of activity from PMC Community Members! Simply go to the “Community” drop down on the main navigation bar and select “Activity”. You also have the ability to sort by specific activities including but not limited to: Diamonds given, members subscribing, submissions favorited, etc.


TOPPER!
Tomorrow is your last day to find Topper! Topper will be easier to find because it's the end of the month. If you haven't noticed, Topper also learned even MORE emotes! Check out this blog post for a list of Topper's Emotes!


OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
In the beginning of December, FC Creations submitted an un-decorated big, beautiful spruce tree for anyone to decorate! Throughout the month, they posted various YouTube videos showing their own progression! Check out their series "Mega Christmas Tree", to see several time lapses as well as the end result of this impressive work of art!



Congratulations to anonpmc2558251 for their successful server launch with 59 players in just 4 days. Their server offers two different types of Minecraft gameplay: Redstone Freebuild and Survival. Together they are setting an excellent example of how to setup and promote a new server on PMC.

That's it for now. Have a safe and fun New Years!

WEBSITE UPDATES

ACTIVITY FEED
Watch and discover new content and members with a feed of activity from PMC Community Members! WHY didn't we have this sooner?! Simply go to the “Community” drop down on the main navigation bar and select “Activity”.


Hazaa! You can pin the Activity feed to your nav bar by hovering over “Activity” and clicking the pin icon. Topper is in shock. You also have the ability to sort by specific activities including but not limited to: Diamonds given, members subscribing, submissions favorited... etc. Kiss hours of free time good bye! You're welcome.

  topper, in shock.


TOPPER!

Speaking of Topper, have you noticed anything about Topper lately? Last week, Cyprezz reached out and asked the community for help with emotes and many of you responded with adorable (some, ambiguous) ideas! We implemented all of the animated suggestions and will continue to add them! Which Topper Emote is your favorite so far?

Side note: If you want to be Topper, check out these Topper Skins! Here's an idea: Flood a server with Toppers!




Side note #2: Topper should be behaving now, pacing back and forth on the header (except profiles). That goober just wanted to be all over the place!

OFFICIAL CONTESTS AND EVENTS

WINTER WONDERLAND Community Event! We've been noticing some winter/Christmas skins and projects that have not been entered in the Community Event. The event is OPEN to all mediums as long as it fits the “Winter” theme! You can submit up to 5 entries!

The Five Elements Minecraft Skin Contest is nearing its' last days! You have 3 more days to work on/submit an entry!

COMMUNITY EVENTS

There are a few unique events up on the calendar including Romto_'s Serial Skinner game (season 1 sign ups are full, but keep an eye out for season 2 sign-ups!), LaurenAngels_ Skinning Dares for You to Try Challenge, and DinowCookie's Looking Glass Seeking Game! These games and challenges are a fun and different way to be involved in the community! We're looking forward to seeing what types of entries and successes everyone has!

Christmas/Winter Themed Community Events and Contests Ending Soon

Themed Contest	Fantasy	Merida_the_Brave	December 23
Reshade skin contest	Christmas Elf	IDfuq	December 24
PMC Skin Club event	The 25 Days of Skinner's Christmas	Miku	December 25
Skin calendar	Winter Skin Calendar!	yelloe	December 25
Blog contest	Absolute Zero	SpideyBoi	December 25

Other Themed Events and Contests Ending Soon:

Character contest	OC contest	anxii	December 25
Themed contest	Bin Skin: Horrible Character Customization	Carcharodontosaurus	December 30

Wildcard_Gamer's own Elemental Skin Contest ended – the results can be found on their blog post. Congratulations to Kaos_Kitten, DinowCookie and ArcaneKnight!

Visit the Community Event Calendar Page for a full list of Events and Contests!

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
PMC Member Elgringau was featured in an article on Minecraft.net. They were interviewed for their piece, The Human Hive. The concept behind their build was to “create a structure that would renew the link between nature and civilization
while shifting its main sources of energy” (hence the solar panels and glasshouses). Read more about their build in their interview and on their submission page (which includes a download!).


Have a great Holiday weekend!

OFFICIAL CONTESTS AND EVENTS

The Winter Wonderland Community Event is 2 weeks in! We're very close to 300 entries ranging from skins bundled up in coats, hats, gloves, and scarves to wintry scenes with penguins, snowmen, presents and... snow! You still have plenty of time to participate in this event and remember, you can enter up to 5 times!!

The Five Elements Skin Contest has 10 days left. You have 5 Elements to choose from, which one will you pick!?


COMMUNITY EVENTS


Christmas Themed Contests and Events Ending Soon:

Reshade skin contest	Christmas Elf	IDfuq	December 24
PMC Skin Club event	The 25 Days of Skinner's Christmas	Miku	December 25
Skin calendar	Winter Skin Calendar!	yelloe	December 25
Blog contest	Absolute Zero	SpideyBoi	December 25

PMC member canday (who has a rather festive profile!) Recolor Contest ends in 3 days! In this contest, you're provided with a grey scale skin. You get to color it with up to 4 of the 15 provided palettes. We love this unique concept!

Other Contests and Events Ending Soon:

Themed contest	Elements of Earth	Wildcard_Gamer	December 17
Themed contest	Theme: Fantasy	Merida_the_Brave	December 23
Character contest	OC contest	anxii	December 25

For a complete list of events and contests, please visit the Community Event Calendar!

WEBSITE UPDATES

MENTIONS
After a small hiccup, we've implemented mentions! That's right, you can now tag your fellow PMC Members simply by typing the “@” symbol and then the PMC member name! Not quite sure how to spell a member's name? The system autocompletes for you, pulling up suggested usernames based on what you've typed! Woo!



TOPPER EMOTES!
On the previous Wall post Weekly, we asked you what emotes you'd like to see – instead of creating the emotes for you on our end, we're giving you the opportunity to make them yourselves! Details can be found on Cyprezz's forum post!


OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Minecraft Skin Team Top Notch released their first Skin Pack - Village and Pillage! It's a completely FREE skin pack that consists of 12 Village and Pillage themed skins! Top notch is currently working on their second project – we're looking forward to seeing what they come up with next!


Render by PixelFrosty

Roman_95 completed their Red Alert 3 Alliance Side Collection. They've been hard at work for 8 months in between their dinosaur and dragon builds. Their collection includes Vehicles, Aircraft, Vessels, and Structures – all intricately detailed and available for download so you can get an up-close look! Congratulations on the completion of your Red Alert Collection!



In their first ever blog post, UFO made a tutorial on how to use the clipboard and clone mode in PMCSkin3D! They use screenshots to help explain these features, and their explanations are easy to follow. If you're overwhelmed, confused, or don't know how to use the clipboard and clone mode, this is very helpful!

PMC Member Crazyarchitektor and Leonex were featured on Minecraft.net for their fantasy castle project. They go into depth on how long it took them (hint: it wasn't overnight!), the materials used, and inspiration behind it! A good read!

That's all for now! Have a great weekend!

Hey Paril​ did we just add mentions to the site?

A top notch collaboration effort on this versatile free community skin pack! 12 professional quality skins with a equally impressive presentation.

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