ok, I'm getting very frustrated with this.
It wont accept a texture map, some blocks just wont project, it has something to do with the UVs, you were right. If I make changes it fixes some and changes others. So a simple lambert with a granite texture will do. the background was too dark so I opened it up to the "sky" a bit more. Anyway, I have run out of time, so this will probably be my last post for this comp.
Maybe I'll do better in the next one. 
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.