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Happy Saturday! In this edition of the weekly we cover a couple of updates data packs, a few space themed player skins, some mob texture packs, a ship build bundle, and even more ships just in case!
📰 New! We're going to be creating a collection each week that includes every submission mentioned in the weekly! This not only makes it easier to browse that weeks featured submissions, but should also be more convenient for you to leave feedback by perhaps giving them diamonds and/or favorites! We do hope you're more inclined to visit each submission and show your fellow PMCers some support! 💎
 OFFICIAL EVENTS AND CONTESTS |
| Step aboard for a voyage back to the days when royal navies hoisted their sails and when pirates spread fear across the deeps. Create a player skin that looks seaworthy and fit for adventure! It could be a highly decorated naval officer, leading the proudest of armadas. Or it could be a bone-chilling, cutthroat buccaneer seeking wealth and notoriety. The theme can be historical, fictional, or even a mix of both. Be creative, and make a character you would imagine seeing on a great wooden ship in the middle of a briny ocean! Deadline: August 23 |  Banner by CornCobDog and knoblepersona This month's contest theme, Seven Seas, is brought to you by IllageIdiot and voted for by the community in this poll and then won the tie breaker poll! |
 COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CONTESTS |
| 100 remakes, but YOUR skins! Event chosen by the community in the Dinow's next event? poll On part 1 dinow & friends collected over 200 old skins! Now it's time for part 2: out of all the submissions I selected 100 skins that would be fun, challenging or otherwise interesting to remake! Win a participation badge, first remake trophy, and possibly more! Part 2 Deadline: September 26 |  |
In this player skin tournament contest, hosted by kittywomp, there will be two teams, Sunlight and Midnight. Thecontest is ocean-themed, but don't think that that means that all you'll be doing is shading in a bunch of different varieties of blue! There will be five rounds of this tournament, and no one will get eliminated (unless they break the rules of the contest or Skindex/PMC). Does that mean that, if you enter, you're going to make five skins? Yes. However, all of the rounds are different, and sometimes, you'll start with a base or something like that to start you off. Deadline: TBD |  Be sure to tag your entries with: 1kOceanTourney and @ kittywomp in the description of your entry. |
| The Stream Server Palette Battle League, being hosted by Bureine, is a skin battle league where around 32 skin creators face off in a bracket-style competition of skin battles using pre-made palettes, which are made unique every week, until only one is left standing! Sign ups are now open for SEASON 2! Check out this collection of Season 1's skins! |  |
COMMUNITY CONTESTS AND EVENTS ENDING SOON
| 😁 (Skins) Type | Title + Link | Host | Date / Deadline |
| Tournament! | PMC Fighter 🥊 | Carcharodontosaurus | August 22 ⚡ |
| Themed Contest | Minimal Monsters Skin Contest! | Tacoshet | August 21 |
| Themed Contest | OCs in the Future: Themed Contest | Noodle | August 21 |
| Art to Skin Contest | Art to Skin contest! (Cob's 100 subs special) 🎨 | CornCobDog | August 27 |
| Themed Contest | Skin Contest: Superheroes | _xform5 | August 28 |
| 🎨 (Art) Type | |||
| Themed Contest | ᖴᗩᑎTᗩᔕY ᖴIᖇEᖴᒪIEᔕ: ᗩᖇT ᑕOᑎTEᔕT | Crois | August 23 |
| 💾 (Mod & Data Pack) Type | Title + Link | Host | Date / Deadline |
| Datapack Contest | Relics: powerful and mysterious magical items! 🔮 | Pleasenotme | August 27 |
| 👽 (Other) Type | Title + Link | Host | Date / Deadline |
| Texture Pack Contest | Industrialization Contest | The-Pringles-Guy- | August 21 |
Part 4 of Chiaroscuro's Writing Extravaganza, Again event ended this week and participants have published Part 4 of their stories! 📚 This event is a very unique writing event where each participant was given a prompt at the beginning and wrote chapter 1 based off of their prompt. Each proceeding chapter is written by a new member where they continue the story. These members have dedicated a lot of their time into this event! You can see the entire collection here. Here are some of the part 4 stories from this event:
 Part 4 by Overlord_Aqua_2 |  Part 4 by lyliaa |  Part 4 by Lemilas |
 Part 4 by Wolf_with_Scarf |  Part 4 by Chiaroscuro |
⭐OTHER HIGHLIGHTS |
ART GALLERY🎨
 Krysalis crafted this 3D model of a highland cow using blockbench! They state that the highland cow rules over the cow kingdom with great wisdom and power. 🐮 This is just 1 of 4 of their art blogs; the others feature a 3D model of a lobster, giant squid, and wombat! |
How cool are these creator cards by CornCobDog?! It's their second volume and features 5 PMC members! Each card comes with a brief description of the member. They released this volume as a celebration of their 200 subscriber milestone. You can check out their first volume here! | ||
The adorable pixel paintings above are a part of kodayne's latest art blog they create this week! The art blog also features Amongus fanart characters of some PMC Members, MS Paint creations, as well as other various digital doodles! You can check out their other art blog from two years ago that features some summery mosaics!  Who doesn't love a classic, old-fashioned pencil sketch?! This Princess Peach 👑 and Mario drawing is 1 of 3 in F I N N L E Y's latest art blog. |  This art feature is by Shire12, who created an entire art blog this week dedicated to BBS Ghosts character doodles! Shire explains the premise of the show: a comedy series about a married couple - Alison and Mike - who have inherited an old massive mansion.After an accident, Alison suddenly is able to see ghosts, and there’s quite a few of them living in her house! Robin, the character pictured above, is Shires Favorite character in the show. Check out the blog to see all 9 ghosts they've drawn so far! |
SHOWCASE YOUR REDSTONE BUILDS!
mshailz created a forum thread for all of you Redstone Engineers, where you get to show off one or two of your BEST or proudest redstone builds! Every Sunday she will showcase 5 builds in the thread for PMC to see. Cool!
Mshailz states: "I thought the Redstone forums could get some love as well as Redstoners, so I have decided to make a Redstone Builds Showcase. 🤩"
UPDATED DATA PACKS 📈
| Tired of mining netherite? Spice your nether mining experience up with Netherite Dungeons by CivetKitty! This data pack replaces every ancient debris vein with unique dungeons! The pack contains 76 different structures, several challenges and...killer bunnies 😱 The update log indicates there were 8 new rooms added with a couple of new features! | How about an entire NEW DIMENSION?! The Cursed woods by spajdern is a moody dimension that adds several new biomes, mobs, bosses, structures, items and more! And, good news: this week's update makes this pack compatible with 1.17 AND added the Decrepit Marauder boss (inspired by DOOM eternal) and a new mob. Sweet! |
SPACE THEMED PLAYER SKINS 🪐
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| Our first feature is one of Zulphiroo's space suit skins! There skin also comes in a red or blue version. Suit up in your color of choice and board the Spaceship Orion by _Bender1995_! | Singularity, FishStacks entry for DinowCookie's 100 remake contest! This skin is a remake of MelsBov's black hole skin, or number 65. It's a completely different style but encompasses the origina | This bright neon astronaut is Obscurum's latest submission. The skin is an entry to CactiFern's Palette Contest. Contestants are allowed to hueshift, however, obscurum chose to challenge themselves by limiting themselves to the colors in the palette only! |
MAGNIFICENT MOB PACKS
Some of the top texture packs this week have one thing in common; they involve Minecraft mobs! A couple of them switch out a vanilla mob for a different model, while another makes it so you can wear some of your favorite passive mobs, or even decorate your house with them! Check them out below:
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| From the maker of Boom Bots, we present to you Strurtles - BEDROCK edition! This pack by ShrimpSnail replaces the striders with a new mob called Struttles! 🐢 The Java Edition includes a few variations; Normal, Cold Boi, Lava, Ancient, Torkoal, and Shiny. Bedrock edition of Strurtles currently only contains the normal variant but more will come in a future update! | This pack also replaces a vanilla mob - the Iron Golem! Based off of actual Minecraft concept art, oXoloti created a Warden Mob Model, and we are impressed! It's nearly identical to the art! Bedrock players - good news! This pack is also a Bedrock Pack! Java players, check here for the Data pack by Da_Trixta. |
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| This texture pack by ItzFxby adds mob hats and includes hanging, sleeping and sitting versions of some of your FAVORITE mob creatures! It currently has most variations of foxes, axolotls, squid, cats, parrots, bees, turtles, pandas, rabbits and more! 🎩 You can place them on invisible item frames or armor stands as an adorable decoration, or wear them on your head! | Improved Hostile Mobs is Acidpop's latest pack which changes the appearance of hostile mobs - and they are CREEPY. This pack will certainly intensify your experience by the mere fact that the mobs are so much horrifying in appearance than their vanilla counterparts. |
SHIP BUILD BUNDLE
Ahoy, mateys! This unbelievable build bundle will have you shakin' in yer boots! 🏴☠️ RoyStitch compiled all of his SAIL SHIPS into one big bundle - and he's made it available to download for free! You'll find all sorts of sail ships including replicas of the Pirates of the Caribbean.: ・Damaged Black Pearl ・Black Pearl ・Damaged Queen Anne's Revenge ・Queen Anne's Revenge And some original designs form small sail ships, to bigger ones! Shiver me timbers! |  |
Some other spectacular ships from this week:
M.S. MagicCOMMUNITY INTERVIEWS
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OFFICIAL INTERVIEW
This week's interview is with.....
LocalToybot! Violet has been a member of Planet Minecraft for quite some time and has reached level 73 and are classified as a "Legendary Witch!". Violet has participated in several Community Events and has a variety of submissions ranging from skins, to art blogs, and even a mod with nearly 25,000 downloads! Violet certainly lives up to their Legendary title, having been around for nearly 8 years! We hope you enjoy reading this interview with them!
Check out their latest 3 skins:
And some of their 3D Modeling!
1) Thank you for agreeing to an interview! We noticed you started creating skins again after 2 months, and seems you’ve been intermittently making submissions on and off over the years. What keeps you coming back to PMC? What inspires you to start creating again?
Thank you for the opportunity!
I'm just about always working on something, whether it be skins, models, builds or something else. Even when I'm not actively posting, I visit the site daily! It's always just a matter of time until I make something suitable to post here.
PMC has always been 'the' go-to in my mind for seeing what people in the community are working on. No other place has the organization, the membership, the kindness, etc; as well as more novel things like the seasonal events or leveling.
My inspiration comes largely from the community around me, with such a large host of talented people, I'd be hard-pressed to not find at least one person whose work inspires me at a given moment.
I also find inspiration in the things I enjoy! The shows I watch, music I listen to, games I play; I absolutely love making fanart and similar things based on the media I love.
3) You were the primary 3D modeler for this project; in fact, you state in this blog from last year that you’ve been modeling for about 7 years (8 years probably now). How did you get into modeling? What modeling software do you use?
Getting into modeling was a strangely linear path for me! I began making skins in late 2014 after being inspired by a few friends; from there I began trying out resource pack work, and then modeling followed soon after, being inspired by a past friend. It quickly cemented itself as my go-to, and I've never stopped modeling since!
Its diversity of expression has allowed me to try so many different styles and forms, and I find endless enjoyment in experimenting with what I can make. I initially used Techne from 2014 to about 2019, but have adopted Blockbench as my program of choice in the past few years. I would heavily, heavily recommend it to anyone wanting to look into Minecraft modeling!
4) What projects or 3D models are you currently working on?
I jump from project to project quite frequently, lately I’ve been doing a lot of character models; some of which I’ve put in my modeling blog on my profile!
5) Are you hoping to make a career out of 3D Modeling?
Absolutely! It has been my favorite artform to work in for years, and as I have gained experience and knowledge, the path to it becoming a full career has become clearer and clearer.
6) Fairly recently you released your BioShock Pack which indicated is about 25% complete. Are you still working on this pack and planning to update it any time soon?
I've not done active work on it for some time, but I fully intend to update it soon enough! I keep an outline of everything I'd like to add, and as soon as I feel ready I will begin on the next update.
7) You’ve been a member of PMC for quite some time. Over the years you’ve seen people come and go. Is there any member from the past that’s had an impact on your Minecraft journey such as creating skins or 3D modeling?
In a community filled with such talented people as this one, there's never been a shortage of people who have inspired me over the years, a very small selection of those are:
Endermanne, whose high-quality work was a large inspiration to me when I began making skins.
Dutch_Emperor, who had such a unique skin-making style that I still love and draw inspiration from.
shinadafan2012, a still-active skin-maker, who has been doing excellent work for years, and I've looked up to their work for quite some time.
_twili, a good friend of mine, has been doing incredibly great work for ages. She's also recently returned to the site after an extended absence, and has been posting a whole host of excellent projects since then.
8) If you could be a character in any of your favorite shows, which one would it be and what sort of character would you play?
I find that I relate quite a lot to Lake from Infinity Train. They are shown to be someone who fights for everyone to make their own choices, something I can only aspire to; and their journey of discovering and asserting their identity is something that really resonated with me.
9) What other games do you enjoy playing besides Minecraft?
I really enjoy Team Fortress 2, and the BioShock series! (No points for guessing that one).
Outside of those mainstays, I've also been playing more indie games like Night in the Woods, Smile for Me, and Celeste as of late, all of which being games I've loved.
10) What music do you enjoy listening to?
I like just about every form, but genres like death metal have been very common in my listening habits lately (Shoutout to Dethklok!). Bands that don't stick to one style are also favorites of mine; ones like Ween and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard especially.
Bands with more out-there styles are also really fun; Ed the Dog and Winona Forever are particular favorites of mine for that reason.
11) ...is your favorite color Violet?!
It is, though I also really enjoy deeper blues!
12) Anything you’d like to add?
I’m so pleased to have been picked for this interview, and I’d like to give a sincere thank you to PMC for the years I’ve spent in this kind and talented community.
Check out their latest 3 skins:
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And some of their 3D Modeling!
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1) Thank you for agreeing to an interview! We noticed you started creating skins again after 2 months, and seems you’ve been intermittently making submissions on and off over the years. What keeps you coming back to PMC? What inspires you to start creating again?
Thank you for the opportunity!
I'm just about always working on something, whether it be skins, models, builds or something else. Even when I'm not actively posting, I visit the site daily! It's always just a matter of time until I make something suitable to post here.
PMC has always been 'the' go-to in my mind for seeing what people in the community are working on. No other place has the organization, the membership, the kindness, etc; as well as more novel things like the seasonal events or leveling.
My inspiration comes largely from the community around me, with such a large host of talented people, I'd be hard-pressed to not find at least one person whose work inspires me at a given moment.
I also find inspiration in the things I enjoy! The shows I watch, music I listen to, games I play; I absolutely love making fanart and similar things based on the media I love.
2) You had a very popular Minecraft Mod, Steve’s Universe, that was submitted 6 years ago. You indicate the coder of the project left so the mod therefore has not been updated. Do you have any plans to start this project back up again with a new team? It serves to never say never in regards to old projects returning, but the mod unfortunately looks to stay in permanent limbo. If I met/formed a team who were interested however, I would love to revive the mod in a new form! |  |
3) You were the primary 3D modeler for this project; in fact, you state in this blog from last year that you’ve been modeling for about 7 years (8 years probably now). How did you get into modeling? What modeling software do you use?
Getting into modeling was a strangely linear path for me! I began making skins in late 2014 after being inspired by a few friends; from there I began trying out resource pack work, and then modeling followed soon after, being inspired by a past friend. It quickly cemented itself as my go-to, and I've never stopped modeling since!
Its diversity of expression has allowed me to try so many different styles and forms, and I find endless enjoyment in experimenting with what I can make. I initially used Techne from 2014 to about 2019, but have adopted Blockbench as my program of choice in the past few years. I would heavily, heavily recommend it to anyone wanting to look into Minecraft modeling!
4) What projects or 3D models are you currently working on?
I jump from project to project quite frequently, lately I’ve been doing a lot of character models; some of which I’ve put in my modeling blog on my profile!
5) Are you hoping to make a career out of 3D Modeling?
Absolutely! It has been my favorite artform to work in for years, and as I have gained experience and knowledge, the path to it becoming a full career has become clearer and clearer.
6) Fairly recently you released your BioShock Pack which indicated is about 25% complete. Are you still working on this pack and planning to update it any time soon?
I've not done active work on it for some time, but I fully intend to update it soon enough! I keep an outline of everything I'd like to add, and as soon as I feel ready I will begin on the next update.
7) You’ve been a member of PMC for quite some time. Over the years you’ve seen people come and go. Is there any member from the past that’s had an impact on your Minecraft journey such as creating skins or 3D modeling?
In a community filled with such talented people as this one, there's never been a shortage of people who have inspired me over the years, a very small selection of those are:
Endermanne, whose high-quality work was a large inspiration to me when I began making skins.
Dutch_Emperor, who had such a unique skin-making style that I still love and draw inspiration from.
shinadafan2012, a still-active skin-maker, who has been doing excellent work for years, and I've looked up to their work for quite some time.
_twili, a good friend of mine, has been doing incredibly great work for ages. She's also recently returned to the site after an extended absence, and has been posting a whole host of excellent projects since then.
8) If you could be a character in any of your favorite shows, which one would it be and what sort of character would you play?
I find that I relate quite a lot to Lake from Infinity Train. They are shown to be someone who fights for everyone to make their own choices, something I can only aspire to; and their journey of discovering and asserting their identity is something that really resonated with me.
9) What other games do you enjoy playing besides Minecraft?
I really enjoy Team Fortress 2, and the BioShock series! (No points for guessing that one).
Outside of those mainstays, I've also been playing more indie games like Night in the Woods, Smile for Me, and Celeste as of late, all of which being games I've loved.
10) What music do you enjoy listening to?
I like just about every form, but genres like death metal have been very common in my listening habits lately (Shoutout to Dethklok!). Bands that don't stick to one style are also favorites of mine; ones like Ween and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard especially.
Bands with more out-there styles are also really fun; Ed the Dog and Winona Forever are particular favorites of mine for that reason.
11) ...is your favorite color Violet?!
It is, though I also really enjoy deeper blues!
12) Anything you’d like to add?
I’m so pleased to have been picked for this interview, and I’d like to give a sincere thank you to PMC for the years I’ve spent in this kind and talented community.
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Hs this is long
Thank you for featuring my highland cow! I really appreciate it. :)
Thx XD
Miss MPC how it's going with the thing?
How much time does it take to make one forum post?
How much time does it take to make one forum post?
New news thingy lets goooooooo
Thank you soooo much for the feature :D
it truly means alot to me!
it truly means alot to me!
I think violet stinks, I've known them for 7 years and they've never done anything good for me. Day in and day out it's been yeah I'll get the box plans ready Milk don't worry for them to only send me a file that says "GOOGLE JUMPSCARE" in scary blood red zalgo text. Nice to see them do well i guess though
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Thanks for featuring our event! Our writers have been doing great work and it's good to see their efforts be noticed.
hey chiaroscuro, was your name inspired by the tale of desperaux?
No, I got it from my art history classes, but I do remember reading that book way back.
wow I got in the weekly this is such an honour woahhhh
Love seeing this every week 😁 and thank you for mentioning my Redstone Builds Showcase Thread!
tysm for the mention ;w; <333 Wonderful weekly, as always!!
mentioning works again, thanks yall 👍
Finally, the pinging works!
pmc weekly among us edition
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