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Announcement: Submission Directions


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Submissions

The Submission test is the process by which freebuilders apply to become a Builder by building a Ponyville house in one of the plots in the Submissions world. Becoming a Builder grants build privileges to the majority of our worlds, including Equestria, Cloudsdale, Canterlot, the builder-only freebuilder Plains, and more. You have four attempts at the submission test; fail all four, and you are a freebuilder forever. People taking the Submission test have yellow names in chat and are called CMCs (and so the test is also sometimes known as the CMC test).

What is a Ponyville house?
By "Ponyville house", we mean one of the yellow-roofed background houses in Ponyville, such as the yellow-roofed houses here:
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Or here:
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Do not build: one of the Mane 6's houses, a cloud house, a barn, a store, an apartment building, or anything else that is not a Ponyville house. Anything else will be automatically rejected. Houses should have interiors that look like a pony (or person) would live in them. This is not Survival; do not make a bunch of chests and furnaces and crafting tables. We do not care about a house that would be a good base in Survival, we care about how it looks. Houses without interiors will be rejected automatically.

We strongly recommend going to /warp Ponyville and looking at the houses there; those are the kinds of houses we want to see from you.

Note: The shape of your house should be complex. Ponyville houses have lots of extrusions and overhangs. Simple square, rectangular, or L-shaped houses are not likely to be approved.

Taking the test
Once you are CMC rank (yellow name), you will have 7 days to complete your submission house.

1. Warp to /warp submissions to enter the Submissions world.
2. Find an empty plot of land. Plots are defined by a square of yellow wool on the ground. Once you place a block on a plot, that plot is yours, and no one else can modify your plot and you will not be able to build outside your plot. Each plot has a number on a sign in front of this; if you destroy the sign, make sure to write the number down. Plots vary slightly in size, so choose the plot that's right for you!
3. Build a Ponyville house. You may use screenshots from the show and houses from our own Minecraft Ponyville as examples. Do not copy anyone else's house, whether in Submissions or Ponyville. Houses that are not Ponyville houses will be rejected automatically. Copying someone else's house, will also give result in you being banned.
4. When you are done with your "first draft" of your house, it is a good idea to ask for critique. Ask in global chat for Builders to come and critique your house, but be nice about it. Remember, you are asking them to do you a favor. However, do note that it will be admins who ultimately review your house, not builders, and there may be differing standards amongst individuals. Do not ask admins to critique your house. You may also post in the Critique Requests forum.
5. Once it's complete, make a post in the Submissions forum (this forum) telling us you have completed your house. Do not post if it is not complete. Make sure it includes your plot number. Posts without plot numbers will be rejected automatically. You may continue improving your house after you have posted up until the 7 day time limit, at which point you will automatically be demoted back to freebuilder. Houses that are not posted after this point will be removed without review.
6. After your submission has been posted, a group of admins will eventually come and review it. This may takes several days or even a few weeks, depending on how many submissions there are and whether any admins are available. Do not ask admins to review your house. Do not make another thread in submissions or bump your own thread. We review submissions in chronological order of posting, so bumping your own thread will only get it moved down the queue.

There are three possible responses to your submission: Approve, Reject, and Improve. Approval means you will become a Builder and your name will be green. Build permissions will be instated immediately, but forum permissions may take some time to appear. Rejection means you will be demoted back to freebuilder with one of your four tries used up. Improve means that your house was close, but not quite there, and you will get another week starting from the review date to make your house better (you only get one improve per house!). Approve or Reject also means your house will be removed and saved as a schematic.

Becoming a CMC
To become a CMC, tell an admin in global chat that you are ready to take the submissions test. They will ask you a few questions to confirm that you have read these instructions (i.e. "Where and what will you build?" to which the correct answer would be "A Ponyville house in Submissions."). Once you have answered the questions correctly, they will promote you to CMC. Your 7 days begins from the moment of promotion.

You only have 4 attempts
You have four tries at the CMC test, after which you are freebuilder forever, so make sure you are ready before attempting the test. If you fail the first try, practice before trying again. While we have given out additional tries in the past, they are extremely rare and only in exceptional cases, so although you can stay hopeful if you fail all your tries, you should not expect that we will ever give you another chance.

Starting additional CMC attempts has the same process as the first one.

Finally, remember to have a good attitude for the test; your behavior is as important as your building ability to whether or not we will approve.