Over the last 6 to 8 months we’ve seen the involvement with our builders dwindle. We get it though – we’re all busy with other things to do (and games to play!). The Builder role is a great role to have, as it allows earlier access to development worlds and projects, plus voting in the creative competitions. We did realise that it wasn’t a great deal though, so we’ve decided as a mod and staff team to change up a few things!

A change that will take place straight away is that we’re decreasing the amount of outright competition wins needed to get the role, being reduced from 4 to 3!

From the January competition we will be adding a second, parallel creative monthly competition, just for Builders! Each competition world will have a number of gold bordered plots, reserved for Builders to enter. The builders will also be competing for their own prize – a $50 JB HiFi voucher for the winner of the Builders Creative Competition, each season! Obviously, builders will only be able to cast votes for the regular competition, not for the new Builder competition.

One thing we have decided to also add is a role expiry, which will come into effect immediately. For the current builders, the expiry timer starts for you too. If there is no continued contribution to competitions or other builds, or communication with the mod and staff team for 4 months, their role will expire. If a player wants to get their role back, they’ll need to re-apply by reaching out to us in a Discord ticket, or through in game mail if they don’t have Discord access. We’ll ask that they let us know why they haven’t been around and what they’re able to commit to. We’ll then have a chat as a mod and staff team.

Expired builders will still be able to build in the Builders Creative Competition, but they’ll have a handicap of 15 points – that’s equivalent to a first place vote.

If you have any questions, please let us know. We hope this is a good change!