From the winner, "Deep Sea," created by BlockWorks. Image: BlockWorks
Planet Minecraft just finished its eleventh Project Contest, which challenges Minecraft players to create Minecraft worlds around a theme. The theme for this latest contest, almost as if in honor of Motherboard's ongoing Hell or Salt Water week of stories about oceans, was "Underwater Wonderland."The goal was to create the most beautiful, impressive Minecraft world in creative mode, an editor within the game that lets players float around freely and use whatever materials they want without having to worry about the survival aspects of the game.The results are magnificent, as ambitious Minecraft projects often are. Coming in at first place are a group of nine builders that go by the name BlockWorks. Their world, Deep Sea, which includes mysterious lifeforms, submarines, and a huge industrial complex built on the seabed "explores the parallels of Deep Space and the Ocean depths," according to their description.Amazingly, it only took BlockWorks six days to build everything you see in the video tour above.Participants could use special editing tools and get help from other players, but not custom texture packs, which change the appearance of the building blocks that come with the game. That means you could create everything you see here, just by playing Minecraft—if you had the skill to do it.You can find the rest of the winners and all the other entries in the Underwater Wonderland contest on Planet Minecraft. The creation that came in at second place, The Kraken's Lair, doesn't have a video presentation, but it's still worth checking out the images here. True to its name, it has a kraken.