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Image of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, a gigantic spaceship, created in the video game Minecraft. The ship is docked in a hangar that is in grey tones and overlooking the ice and snow planet of Hoth.
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Build Challenge: Star Wars x Minecraft

I’ll just come right out and say it: I’ve loved Star Wars almost my entire life. It’s a beloved franchise that has allowed countless people to escape and travel to worlds found in a galaxy far, far away. It's inspired all of us to think we can open automatic doors using the Jedi Mind Trick and has brought immense joy worldwide. In celebration of May the 4th, it was only fitting that we combine the magic of Star Wars with the creativity of Minecraft.

For this challenge, participants were asked to submit builds themed around Star Wars – whether that be a favorite scene, ship, place, etc. The builds needed to be of a decent size and, thanks to Darth Bane, participants got to employ the Rule of Two and work in pairs.

So, before I begin asking if you’ve ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise… reveal these winners we must.

1st place: Ashwood

Completely blowing us away, Ashwood recreated the Vuutun Palaa, a Lucrehulk-Class battleship that was controlling the droid forces during the Naboo invasion seen in Episode I: The Phantom Menace. In Ashwood’s words, they had “been building ships for a long time, and so far this has been the most challenging one since this isn’t a simple space pizza, it’s a space donut… jokes aside, it has parts that are very angled and difficult to make it out of blocks. My recreation of it has an extreme diameter of 1129 blocks and is using up all the current height limit of 383 blocks (it’s insanely big).” 

Image of the Vuutun Palaa, a giant Lucrehulk-Class space battleship from Star Wars recreated in Minecraft. First seen in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the ship is made out of grey blocks in a curved pattern with a globular object in the middle mirroring the Death Star from other films. It is sitting motionless amongst the black emptiness of space.

2nd place (tie): BADMAN [The Specialist] & Nate Oh Potato

While we normally don’t have ties, it was just impossible to choose between all the amazing submissions we received. BADMAN [The Specialist] and Nate Oh Potato’s submissions were simply too incredible to NOT change things up a bit.

BADMAN [The Specialist] gave us a massive city based on structures found on the planets Kamino and the infamous Tatooine. The sheer scope, size, and detail in this is so impressive and makes us feel like we are right there in that world. From the ships, buildings, lighting, and wait… that’s no moon… I want to jump into hyperspace and travel there right away. Punch it, Chewie!

Image of a Star Wars inspired planet taking inspirations from the fictional planets of Kamino and Tatooine. Tall circular towers sprout up amongst a city lit by neon, seemingly floating atop of water, with starships speeding into port while a Death Star ominously lurks in the sky like our own moon.

Nate Oh Potato took “inspiration from film shots from A New Hope, Rogue One, Battlefront 2, and LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga” with their submission of the Great Temple and Rebel Base found on the planet Yavin IV. Their build not only included impressive exterior shots of the surrounding base where they got as close to 1:1 scale as they could, but they also did an interior and ships like Y-wings, A-wings, X-wings, and U-wings. 

Image of the planet Yavin IV recreated in Minecraft with the temple base, similar to the pyramidesque temples found in Cambodia and Central America, surrounded by a lush jungle and a wisp of mist on the ground. Blue and red lights scatter the ground in front of the temple showing where there are tons of small spaceships docked on the ground while five are shown flying in with a sunset sky in the background.

3rd place (in no particular order): kill_Switch & SkyBlue2929, M.Yoda, ShadowScythes, mokie, ChomChom, judedude, Ky & PoeticWhisper

The duo of kill_Switch & SkyBlue2929 delivered a recreation of the Echo Base Assault on Hoth seen in Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. This was another submission that came with an intricate amount of detail, as well as an exterior and interior that even came with a full-on Millennium Falcon. 

Image of the Echo Base Assault on the planet Hoth from Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back recreated in Minecraft. On this ice and snow planet, there are AT-AT attackers walking towards the mountainous base in assault, while some TIE Fighters and X-wings spaceships are scattered about mid-air in battle.

M.Yoda, which is a rather fitting username for this contest, submitted a Y-wing. These legendary starfighters have been in use since the Clone Wars, but were famously seen in Episodes IV – VI.

Image of a Y-wing starfighter space ship from Star Wars recreated in Minecraft. It's a vessel that is shaped like a blocky capital Y with the tips of the Y thinned out. There are various shades of grey used as well as white, sand, purple, and orange to bring this legendary craft to life.

ShadowScythes gave us Boba Fett’s Starship, “the personal ship of the feared bounty hunter Boba Fett, inherited from his father Jango.” As every good Mandalorian knows, this is the way. 

Recreation of Botta Fett's Starship in Minecraft. It's a vertical space ship that is oval shaped and is made with orange, tan, green, grey, and white blocks.

Mokie took us to the richly forested Wookie home planet, Kashyyyk, and incorporated some Tatooine-inspired elements in their build challenge submission. 

Image of the recreation of the Star Wars planet Kashyyyk in Minecraft. The Wookie home planet, it is richly forested with lush greenery, some surrounding mountains, and a large, decaying AT-AT Empire invader ground vessel in a lake.

Rogue One also inspired ChomChom’s submission, this time with a recreation of the planet Scarif. While those of us who have seen the movie know what happens to this planet at the end, let’s take this time to just enjoy how magnificent this build of the Galactic Empire’s Imperial security complex is. 

Image of the recreation of the Star Wars planet Scarif from Rogue One in Minecraft. This is a top down shot of the Galactic Empire's Imperial security complex that has a large tower surrounded by water with roads going out from all sides like wheel spokes that attach to smaller islands with additional bases.

judedude delivered an impressive Republic fleet “from The Clone War show and movies. It holds two Jedi Cruisers, Republic Gunships, and transports along with fighters. This is one of the largest builds I’ve ever done, and all ships were built by hand. I decided to do this because of my love for this era and Star Wars, along with Minecraft itself.”

Image showing a recreation of various Republic fleet ships from the Star Wars Clone Wars animated show. There are some cruiser ships, gunships, transport ships, and fighters all in various shades of grey and textured blocks. The various space ships are floating in the sky with some white puffy clouds in the distance.

Finally, Ky & PoeticWhisper recreated their “beloved R2-D2”. If you zoom in, you can really appreciate the attention to detail on the astromech droid who has been a friend to many in the Star Wars universe. I daresay, this is the droid I am looking for!

Image of the recreation of the astromech droid R2-D2 in Minecraft. It is a cylindrical shaped robot with a rounded dome top mostly made with white and grey blocks with accents in blue throughout the body.

Interested in joining the next challenge? Check out our Discord server and learn what the next theme is!

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