Block party: eight brilliant Minecraft models to attempt at home

Professional Minecraft modeller Adam Clarke suggests eight great builds for Guardian readers - send us your best screenshots

With lockdown entering its fifth week, Minecraft is proving a useful venue for friends and families to meet up, play together and work on collaborative projects. The game is widely used in schools throughout the world to teach everything from sustainable farming to the history of art, and Microsoft recently made the many lessons and exercises in its Minecraft Education programme available to everyone with an Office 365 account.

If you have the game at home and are looking for new projects to attempt - maybe as part of your home schooling timetable - here are eight ideas that will test and expand your modelling skills.