Craft Down Under News #4 - December 9, 2024
It's time for the fourth edition of the Craft Down Under news - and the silly season is upon us!
With that in mind, it's time to mention our latest giveaway...
Rank Gifting Holiday Event
Celebrate the holiday season with our Rank Gifting Holiday Event! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or simply the joy of the holidays, everyone is welcome to join in the festivities. Let’s spread cheer and give back to the community that makes CDU so special!Receiving a Rank
Want to receive a gifted rank? It’s simple! Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a rank contributed by another community member. Here's what you need to know:
- Link Your Account: Use /mclink in #botspam on the Discord or create a ticket if you're experiencing issues.
- Rank Eligibility: You won’t receive a rank that is less than or equal to any rank you already own.
- Fair Play: The giveaway is not weighted—everyone has an equal chance in each pool. Some pools may exclude users with ranks equal to or higher than that pool.
To contribute a rank to the giveaway pool:
- Visit our store and check out the new "Gifting Event" category.
- Purchase a rank from this category. Ranks bought here are automatically added to the giveaway pool.
When you gift a rank, you’ll earn points and secure a spot on our leaderboard. At the end of the event, contributors will receive exclusive prefixes—and even ranks—based on their total contribution compared to other participants.
- Top Gifter: Luminary - Includes Eternal Rank
- Top 3 Gifters: Radiant - Includes Ascended Rank
- Top 10 Gifters: Shimmer - Includes Partner Rank
- All Gifters: Twinkle - No Rank Included
Event Duration
This event ends on Christmas Day, so don’t miss your chance to grab seasonal prefixes and give back to the community that makes CDU amazing. Some ranks have already been added to the pool as a thank you to our incredible members. Let’s make this holiday season one to remember!
CDU Build Battle: November 2024 Results!
The indefatigable PRofessor Penguin would like us at the newsletter team to report on the great success of the last monthly CDU Build Battle, Fall Fever!
This wonderful spooky edifice is Pumpkin Manor, and it was built by the competition winner, TooTicky2! Spectacular, isn't it?
If you'd like to check it out, it's at (6322, -8459) on the Project Architect server!
But as one month's Build Battle ended, another one has just begun - and the theme is simply wonderful:
If you're interested in participating in the December Build Battle, head on over to #build-battles on the Discord server and check out the rules! Submissions close on Christmas Day and voting ends on the last day of December, so make sure to not miss out!
Let's take a look at some of the trending topics and modpacks within the wonderful world of Modded Minecraft, shall we?
- Archmodder Direwolf20 recently showed off a new upcoming feature in his pack JustDireThings - Polymorphic Wands!
- The folks at CyberFuel Studios continued their exploration of Minecraft Forever Factory, the hotly anticipated sequel to Mechanical Mastery, by setting up an early-stage storage and autocrafting system!
- Meanwhile, ChosenArchitect has just begun his journey into the massive All The Mods 10 modpack!
For our next New Modpack feature, let's talk about a brand new addition to the CDU server portfolio: Monifactory!
Added to the Craft Down Under server family on November 19th, the name of this pack might be familiar to some of the more hardcore members of the community - that's right, it's a 1.20 remaster of the beloved Nomifactory, which was itself an homage to notoriously challenging progression pack Gregtech.
This modpack is not only a remaster but adds its own features and quality-of-life additions, such as retextures of old items and the removal and replacement of tired mods and mechanics.
If you're one of those people who enjoys staring wistfully at tech trees and planning your way through one tech upgrade to the next - Editor Espilae is exactly this sort of person - then you should try Monifactory out. Right now!
Let's take some time to shine a spotlight on one of our most popular and well loved Modpacks - BigChadGuys Plus!
Pokemon as far as the eyes can see. Berries of all colors hanging from the trees and too many biomes to count. Modpack creator Joe has spent an insane amount of his time perfecting this modpack to be the amazing experience it has become.
BCG+ gives you the opportunity to get completely lost in any adventure that you could imagine, whether you're looking to settle down in your cozy farm and enjoy the seasons, wanting to battle pokemon with other players in gyms, or you want to fly with wings and explore what the world has to offer.
This modpack is always busy with players ready to help one another succeed and find pretty much anything and everything you are looking for! We can not get enough of BCG+ and hope that you can get a chance to hop on and see what all the fun is about.
For this week's Staff Spotlight, we had a Moderator volunteer, and that Moderator was Mika!
Many of you know or have seen Mika if you have ever interacted with the Craft Down Under Discord due to their pretty consistent activity within the community.
Mika did mention that in their almost 10 months as staff they have yet to grow tired of helping and getting to know everyone in the servers from staff to players. If you think you have seen them not only helping but also playing in the servers you most likely spotted them in the VaultHunters world where they have accrued approximately 1100 hours of play time!
Now let's look at some fun facts that Mika shared, including their height which is at six feet seven inches tall! That is just one inch off of your average door frame height, kind of perfect huh? Aside from that fun fact, another one of Mika's many skills is that they are a chef four days of the week! They're always making many wonderful things, including pizzas and dishes like carpaccio and bruschetta!
We want to thank you Mika for everything you do for Craft Down Under and if any of you see them out there, don't be afraid to say hi!
That's all from us here at Craft Down Under News! See you in two weeks!
