2025 Homecoming Base Contest Winners!

[Easter Bunny]

Hello again, everyone - we made it!
 

We’re thrilled to finally unveil the winners of the 2025 HC Base Building Contest!
 

To every builder who poured their heart, time, and talent into an entry: thank you. You turned this contest into a true celebration of everything we love about this community.
 

I can't even begin to tell you how many judging records this contest broke. The number of eyebrows raised, double takes taken, and jaws that hit the floor - all completely off the charts! I'm not exaggerating when I say that many of these showdowns were truly hair-splitting (and yes, hare-splitting, too).
 

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In the spirit of growth and transparency, we’d like everyone to know that we're offering participants the option to request a copy of their judging evaluation.
 

If you’re interested in receiving constructive feedback and using it as a tool to sharpen your skills - we’re happy to share your evaluation. This can be a great opportunity to understand how your work was received, and where you might grow for future events.
 

That said, a gentle reminder: no matter how thoughtfully given - critique can sometimes sting. If you know you’re likely to take the feedback to heart in a way that may cause more hurt than help, we encourage you to consider whether requesting your assessment is right for you. This offering is meant to support, not discourage.
 

If you’d like your feedback,  just DM @Easter Bunny, here or on Discord.
 

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And now, finally, without further ado...

Let’s meet your 2025 Champions!
 

 

Spoiler

2025 Base Building Fantasy Champions:
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers each
 

@Laucianna | @Wispur | @Zaldra
Elysian Temple
DIVINE-29035 | Excelsior

The first ever winner of our Base Building Grand Champion title
& 2025 Base Building Nature Champions:
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers each
 

@Squidget | @Dropout | @Juxion
The Cascades
GARDENS-18790 | Everlasting

2025 Base Building Novice Champion:
Awarded 750 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Lunar Shade
Ethereal Wanderers
ETHEREAL-14692 | Torchbearer

2025 Base Building 'Other' Champion:
Awarded 750 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Allatum
Absolute
FORMS-32911 | Everlasting

2025 Base Building Realism Champion:
Awarded 750 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Lukester
Midtown
MIDTOWN-29367 | Everlasting

2025 Base Building Sci-Fi Champion:
Awarded 750 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Shard Warrior
The Watchtower
PARAGON-15105 | Excelsior

But wait! There's MORE ...

 

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Introducing The Base Building Spirit Awards!

Capturing the Heart of Base Building on Your Shard

 

The Spirit Award honors one recognition-worthy base on each shard that, while not a top winner, stood out for its passion, creativity, and spark. It’s not just about polish or technical complexity - it’s about showing up, playing along, and creating something memorable.
 

This award goes to a base that may not have taken the top prize but made the judges stop and smile, saying, “Now this is what base building is all about.”
 

We define base building spirit as:
 

• Creativity: Doing something unique, unexpected, or clever with your space - even if it’s not perfect.
• Effort & Enthusiasm: A sense that you enjoyed the process and poured yourself into the build, no matter your experience level.
• Shard Personality: A build that reflects the community, humor, or style of your shard - intentionally or otherwise.
• Participation: Showing up. Submitting a base when you didn’t have to. Playing along. That counts more than you might think.

To all our Spirit Award recipients: thank you for showing up and sharing your passion. Some builds whisper instead of shout - and still manage to echo.
 

Spoiler

Base Building Spirit: Everlasting 2025
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Aalya
Dryad's Tree
DRYAD-20249 | Everlasting



 

Base Building Spirit: Excelsior 2025
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Electronuts
The Black Tower
THEBLACKTOWER-32812 | Excelsior



 

Base Building Spirit: Indomitable 2025
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Ms Recoil
Clumsy OAF
TEXT-8505 | Indomitable

 

Base Building Spirit: Reunion 2025
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Robot Henri
New Dawn (Cyber City)
ALFIE-4931 | Reunion



 

Base Building Spirit: Torchbearer 2025
Awarded 125 Prismatic Aethers each
 

@SupaFreak | @Nymloir
Zynavia
NOV-3012 | Torchbearer



 

Base Building Spirit: Victory 2025
Awarded 250 Prismatic Aethers
 

@Lemming
Protectors
VICTORY-248 | Victory

 

To our winners: you earned this. We’re in awe of what you built - congratulations!


 

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Special Thanks

Huge gratitude to our judging panel - BBB, Deep Six, Garbage Wizard, Gem, and Interrabang - for your time, passion, and thoughtful evaluations. And thank YOU to everyone who participated, supported a builder, or toured the entries. You continue to make this contest something truly special.
 

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What’s Next?

If you didn’t win this year, don’t let that discourage you! The skill, artistry, and fun on display this year has us inspired - and we hope it inspires you, too. We encourage everyone to keep building, keep experimenting, and keep sharing your creations with the community!

 

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Until next time - 
Happy Building!

❤️ Easter Bunny, Dacy & the 2023 Base Building Champions
      BBB | Deep Six | Garbage Wizard | Gem | Interrabang

Edited 2 hours ago by Easter Bunny

[Laucianna]

Woohoo!!!!!!! 💛 Big thanks to @Wispur @Zaldra5 and the rest of the Elysian Guardians 💛

[Wispur]

2 minutes ago, Laucianna said:

Woohoo!!!!!!! 💛 Big thanks to @Wispur @Zaldra5 and the rest of the Elysian Guardians 💛

 

Congratulations!!! 🎉

[ZamuelNow]

Congratulations to all the winners!  As a fellow entrant, I've been slowly working through the complete list and been enjoying what I've been seeing.

[Allatum]

Thank you for the contest! It was a joy to see a lot of these entries, and the variety of vision and work from the build community as a whole. We can only go up from here!

[lemming]

I always enjoy touring thru the various bases during these competitions and always get some good inspirations for modifications to my own set of bases.

[Matsiyan]

The creativity and effort in the bases submitted was absolutely amazing. It’s a real joy to see the visions and implementations people come up with.
 

You can share your appreciation by leaving comments in the Base Directory Guestbook.

Edited 10 hours ago by Matsiyan

[Apocalyptical]

Amazing stuff folks! Congrats! All these bases are absolute works of art! 🔥🔥

[ScarredSilencer]

Wooo!! Grats to the winners, yus! :3 All very cool bases!! Will be checking them out later! =w =

[Goblinman]

Time to make characters on all the servers so I can see the winners!

[Mini-Nukette]

Congratulations to all the well deserved winners!

[Conviction]

Congratulations to all the winners! I can’t wait to see them!

[Bigwheela]

Congrats to all the winners!!!  so many fun bases to see

[Dacy]

I'm late to the party, sorry! I just wanted to note that Novice bases actually got a separate evaluation from the judging scorecard. I will be sending those out, they are not scored, but each has two different advanced builders commenting on different aspects of the base, from the technical to how you used the space to some of the artistic.  I will be sending those out to all who registered as a Novice base; if you want your judging evaluation scorecard, you need to request that.

[CaptA]

How do we request the scorecards? I entered in "Realistic". 

[Dacy]

You basically just did. 🙂 I'll let EB know, if he's not already seen this.

[particleray]

Congrats everyone. Count me in as someone interested in their score card as well

[Lunar Shade]

I would like my grade card as well.  thank you 🙂

[Suenamiii]

I would like my evaluation. Thank you.

[GM Impervium]

Just a note/reminder to all our winners: You have to log in after a maintenance day to be eligible to be granted your prizes! This isn't a policy thing, it's an "evil spaghetti code won't let us" thing. Thanks... and again, Congratulations!

[Laucianna]

4 minutes ago, GM Impervium said:

Just a note/reminder to all our winners: You have to log in after a maintenance day to be eligible to be granted your prizes! This isn't a policy thing, it's an "evil spaghetti code won't let us" thing. Thanks... and again, Congratulations!

Now we have to log into the game to get prizes! Outrageous!