Contest Entries:

Faction : IrishWristwatch

Description :

My faction's base was created throughout the map by only two people. Our base required collecting A LOT of material, along with not dying while doing it. It is a very simple and clean base that is large enough for 20 people. Simple patterns and a good amount of color contrast.

Image Gallery : http://imgur.com/a/E1PpX

YouTube Tour : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9gsgkm1vv8

World Map Image : https://i.imgur.com/jXs5fYA.jpg

Faction : NightsSucces

Description :

The base got +90% built by myself, including resource collection and grinding. I started my own faction with a few friends this map because of the contest, and even though it isn't the prettiest base, I think that it turned out quite well after all the stuff that happened to us (getting raided halfway through the map, having 2-3 security breaches with a lot of guys logged off inside the base and so on).

It's the first base I built, and our first real map for all of us, so it is quite an achievement to get this established as a small faction. (We started the map with 4-5 members, people started joining later throughout the map).

It didn't get quite finished because I've been busier in the last 2-3 weeks, but the parts that are finished look really nice.

I also think that there is a good contrast showing the underground part of the map and the aboveground part, with introduction of glass the higher it got and usage of more stone bricks, to make it look sturdier.

Image Gallery : http://imgur.com/a/DZs9d

YouTube Tour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfpxK2hgOAM

World Map Image : https://i.imgur.com/Y5lpdvX.jpg

Faction : fluffy

Description :

We're a small faction that doesn't PvP. Yet we managed to provide the biggest pig zombie grinder (38 portals) on the server to the public. We also offered to store valuables at our faction in locked chests that are accessible using a key. We saved quite a lot of diamonds from getting lost in raids. In addition to the huge pig zombie farm, we own five spawners in three different locations. The two off site locations are shared with ShadowTrade (they payed the initial claiming costs and were awesome neighbours). They can use the grinder even if we're not online. One of the grinders is build in a way that we can rent it out to any other player using a lock system. Late in the game we added 2 spawners to our main claim where we also provide it as a public XP farm (it's on the north side of the base). And of course there is our iconic free food machine where we served ~92000 baked potatoes to everyone.

Public services:

2x XP grinder (Zombie+Skeleton / Pig Zombies)

end portal

public enchantment table

free food

rentable rooms/flat with key locks

rentable vaults with key locks

public safe rooms/trading rooms

Technical features:

a visitor's entrance that allowed us to show the base to 40 different visitors.

timed lock for the pig zombie farm

lots of safe rooms inside the base and doors to limit base access to potential intruders

automatic & semi-automatic farms

lockable railway station to our neighbours

sorting of grinder output

We can reroute the pig zombies to street level

(hopefully) v-glitch-safe backup room with cows and sheep

people-counter

iron farm

our new archer tower design

Aesthetic features:

we grow all six types of trees indoors

everything labeled with renamed items in item frames

remodelled the road on our claim

artificial mushroom island with two hidden chests

grotto of shrooms

large parts of base visible to the public

individual log out rooms

Our base bar for chillout

Pet Zombies

(almost) no untinted glass

Image Gallery :

YouTube Tour:

World Map Image : https://i.imgur.com/OAfFAsb.png

Faction : ReCharge

Description :

Our faction base is the best because it combines both style and functionality. The theme for the build was Egyptian. Our base has three traps that went unused, people were scared that the whole outside of our base was a fall trap and that made less people come to our base. We also have 6 safe rooms outside our base that came in handy when there was a big fight outside. Hope you like it!

The base itself includes...

2 zombie spawners

1 skeleton spawner

a zombie pig man grinder with 44 max size portals

Horse stables

Secret horse exit in the hills

Villager/Iron Golem farm

Subclaim room with 30 sub-claims

End portal/Nether portal

Cow/Chicken/Sheep farm

Sugar cane/Tree farm

Farm with everything

6 safe rooms

world map

3 traps (two that drop around 10 blocks and allow us to kill, and one suffocation trap.)

Auto farm

Beacons with speed II throughout base to make it faster to get around

Image Gallery : http://imgur.com/a/xTmVi

World Map Image : https://i.imgur.com/oG1XJ0B.png

Faction : WhySoMean

Description :

We've put a lot of biomes together into 1 small area, which is very unique. Each biome has its own job. For example the Nether Biome has it's job to send us to the nether/netherwart farm. The forest biome has the job to brew potions. The ice biome has the job to fish. The Farmer's Biome has the job to breed cows, and get our potatoes, carrots and wheat. We put all the things you need for a faction server into 1 beautiful base, based upon the Minecraft biomes.

You should look for the little details, like the terraining of the water in the ice biome, the tall grass we put in, or the hanging leaves. It makes the base even more beautiful because of those little details. You almost think you're walking in a real biome. You should also keep in mind that this base was created by 2 players only, that means it took us a lot of work to do all of this instead of having a faction with 10+ builders.

Image Gallery : http://imgur.com/a/e5dCQ

World Map Image : https://i.imgur.com/qOdzQz1.png

Faction : LightBrigade

Description :

It may not be the biggest base on the server, But I would say it's the nicest. With a claim of about 76 x 72 blocks people would say it's quite small for what it's packing. It is a eye catcher. The exterior of our lovely humble villa is gorgeous. From all the small details all along the walls to the sprawling towers overlooking the great lands below. To our quaint tree that resides in the courtyard of our villa. But our base is just superficial beauty on the outside. The inside of our base is also a thing of true beauty. With windows that sprawl along the entire base it is far from short of views. In the attic of the west and south buildings is where we stored our villagers and held our firework launcher. Like most of the base we tried to keep it as free from clutter as we could. Only needing the essential to having a beautiful yet functional base. As we leave the our lovely villa into our sub levels you enter our art gallery. This is also where we house our state of the art 5 tone alarm system so we know when intruders enter our courtyard. Along with a modest sugar cane farm besides a villager spawner and sorter. As we head towards the next floor we have our villager holder, where we house the finest traders in the land. Now we move down to the next floor where our residents live. Each room big enough to house all the needed amenities for a minecrafter, along with a public area for brewing pots,smelting large qualities and extra storage. As we find out way down a long stairway to the main floor we turn and see our grand room. What first catches our eyes is the massive tower holding the weight of the base, which doubles as a water drop to safe rooms with a hidden piston exit. Behind the massive pillar is where we store our modest supplies, with end portal near by. On either side of the storage is where we flaunt our massive Light Brigade logo. Complete with a truly fancy floor and warm walls. As we walk pass our end portal we go down to our small auto reed farm, netherwart farm, and into our dual spider grinder room. We need to head back up and go down the other set of stairs which leads us to our massive auto harvest farm and our simulated free range pasture. We continue down to our lowest level where we house our compact 24 portal 14x14 wide gold farm encased in nether brick and obsidian. Our final destination is our large tree farm that provided all the lovely wood for the entirety of the base.

Image Gallery : http://imgur.com/a/91lc8

World Map Image : https://i.imgur.com/UeZRxcu.jpg

Faction : Wayo

Description :

We decided to join Map 16 and play to have fun. We spent most of our time trading and coming up with insane traps around our base (and in the nether). We also created a faction-defining villager trading system, having every possible enchanted book in the game in a villager at some point or another. Due to some of our member's youtube channels, we were camped almost continually from the start, making it very challenging to build outside our base… Yet we managed to build a giant lava lake for defense and aesthetics, along with several statues of our leader. We also traded & raided to obtain many beacons and enough end frames for our end portal. When we started to run low on gold, we created a massive pigmen farm that has a special way of using zombie swarming to double efficiency (watch the video). We hope you like our base and we’re sorry we could not show off more of Suba12345’s secret areas within our base…we just don’t know where they all are yet (because he is a psychopath)!

Image Gallery : http://imgur.com/a/CRHR2