Calling all gamers! Join us every other week for an exciting new online program: the Minecraft Monday Build Challenge!
Put your creativity to the test during our biweekly build challenge and earn a place in our Minecraft Hall of Fame! Every other Monday afternoon we will post a new Minecraft Build Challenge for our participants to complete. You will have two weeks to craft your tools, mine for resources, and build your dream project brick-by-brick. As long as your project includes all of the features required by that week’s challenge, it will be entered into our biweekly Minecraft contest. All of the submissions will be voted on by the other players and the submission with the most votes will be entered into our Minecraft Hall of Fame!
Welcome to the Redstone Challenge! For this weeks Minecraft Monday Build Challenge, we put together a series of redstone challenges that range from easy to hard. See how many of these redstone contraptions you can finish over the next two weeks!
Send in screenshots of your work to join the voting! The submission with the most votes will be entered into our Minecraft Hall of Fame!
Complete the Restone Challenges!
See how many of the following redstone chllanges you can finish...
Hidden Staircase!
Difficulty: Extra easy
Make a staircase that is hidden behind blocks by using redstone!
A Car!
Difficulty: Easy
Make yourself a redstone car that actually moves!
Chicken Farm!
Difficulty: Medium
Make yourself a chicken farm that auto-cooks your dinner!
Elevator!
Difficulty: Medium-Hard
Build a redstone powered elevator. Water elevators don't count!
Minecart Storage!
Difficulty: Hard
Make a storage system that uses redstone to auto-deposit!
Calculator!
Difficulty: Very Hard
Make yourself a calculator that can run simple equations!
Have Fun!
You have two weeks to make something awesome. Get inspired by your favorite books, shows, movies or games and have fun with it!
That’s it! If you finished some of the Redstone Challenges, send us a screenshot of your work on (or before) Sunday to join the Challenge 23 voting!
Pixel Art Challenge
Frequently Asked Questions
How Does It Work?
- Step 1: Check out this week’s challenge!
- Step 2: Complete the challenge in survival mode or creative mode! You can play on the UYC Realm or on your own world!
- Step 3: Submit your screenshots to info@uxbridgeyouthcentre.com
- Step 4: Win the voting and join our Hall of Fame!
The Build Challenge will be different every other week and can include a variety of challenges, ranging from castles to pixel art. The Build Challenge type and list of features will always be listed on this page. The challenge will always be listed under a heading starting with “Challenge” (ex. Challenge One: Starter Base). A new Build Challenge will be announced every other Monday at 1pm and will conclude on the Sunday evening of the second week (11:59pm). Voting will take place throughout the following two weeks and the winner will be announced with the new challenge details.
Once a project is complete, submit your screenshots to the UYC (e-mail screenshots to info@uxbridgeyouthcentre.com) and you will be considered for our Hall of Fame. Voting will take place for two weeks after the submission deadline (Sunday night) and the winner will be added to the Hall of Fame (Ex. Submissions for the first challenge will be voted on during the second challenge).
How Do I Submit My Work?
When you’re done your project, please send us an email with a screenshot of your project.
Please send your submissions to info@uxbridgeyouthcentre.com
Screenshot Tips:
F1: Pressing F1 in-game will hide your HUD & Arms for a full screen screenshot
F5: If you’re into selfies, press F5 to put your character in your screenshot!
Screenshot Options:
- In order to take screenshots in Minecraft, you just need to click the “F2” button on the top of your keyboard. You will then find the screenshot in the .minecraft\screenshots folder inside your AppData/Roaming folder (to find this folder, open your File Explorer [click the folder icon] and type the following into the white bar at the top: %appdata%\.minecraft\screenshots
- If the option above is too tricky, you can try clicking the “Print Screen” (Prt Sc) button while playing. You can then open a Paint program and paste your screenshot into the program (Edit>Paste or Ctrl+v)
- Windows 10 users will have a built-in option using the WindowsKey+G and using the Game Capturing option.
- If none of those options work, let us know where your project is and we’ll take a screenshot for you!
Please contact us at info@uxbridgeyouthcentre.com with any questions about our Minecraft Monday Build Challenge!