Community Roundup: December

Wind down the year with these!

As the world slows down, we’ve discovered it’s become the best time for finishing off projects and catching up on things you may have missed. Fortunately, we’ve helped with the challenging “finding things” part of catching up today, so you can skip right to the good stuff. 

Busy making lists this year

Instead of making our own list, we’ve found several lists already made for us. Get ready to sift through the latest ones and see if you agree with the authors! 

• Gamepur’s ready to declare the “best” mobs in Minecraft. Will they change their mind after the upcoming Caves & Cliffs? Who knows!

• RockPaperShotgun boldly sifted through many community shaders and provided this list of “the best.”

• Are you feeling restless? Try a new world seed via GameSkinny, fresh for December.

• Gamepur went the other direction with these seeds, claiming they are “The best seeds if you want the hardest possible challenge, and the worst if you just want to play the game.” 

• New year, new you! Revisit this collection of community-made skins from earlier this year and start 2021 in style!

The safest ways to travel over the holiday

What’s the smartest way to travel these days? In Minecraft, obviously. Check out these community efforts and explore maps inspired from real world locations!

• Community member Philip Mitchell is recreating the city of Edmonton (in Canada)! Read more about it here.

• Reitaku University (Japan) students took the initiative after the pandemic canceled their plans, recreating the historical sites that the school planned to visit in Minecraft instead.

• CornellCraft joins the club of college campuses now available to visit Minecraft-style.

Quick things to peek at

How do you dream away the winter days and count down the time to spring? We do it by looking at your art!

Specifically, we’re hanging out a lot these days in the official Discord’s brand new community art channel devoted to ray tracing. That’s how we discovered the above image by DerEnthusiast. If you want to check out inspiring Minecraft art or want to post your own, this has become a popular place to be during December!

Finally, we would like to close out the year with this heartwarming story about how Minecraft brought one set of long-distance friends closer together. This is just one of many stories that take place every day in our community, and we hope it will inspire you to make 2021 even better together with your friends. 

That’s all for now, but be sure to keep sharing the fantastic Minecrafty things you’re doing online, and we may just include it in a future roundup!

 

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Nova Barlow

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