That’s correct! Thank you all so very much for waiting so patiently, we’re pretty much good to go on finally updating LibraryCraft to 1.21! The plugins are ready (with a few changes having to come in the background) plus 121Spawn almost read to go, but all things going well, 1.21 will be coming to the server in just over a week, ideally being ready for play on the 19th September! Just in time for school holidays.

To make this work, the server will be unavailable for play, likely for a few days, from Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th August. It’s longer than we’ve had before, but we’ve got some work to do! The actual updates, world uploads and preloads, testing, plugins set up and more testing. Hopefully we’re quicker a little faster, but that’s what we’ve decided so far.

What will change?

• Obviously, we’ve got 121Survival! It’s a brand new world, with a brand new inventory. This time around we’ve gone with a sprawling Amsterdam spawn area. It takes up a large space, but all of the important stuff is close by, after some valuable feedback from players. A huge thanks to Meowlicky, CopperJay, Nemo and JohnsanGeezo for putting this together. It’s looking like one of the best spawn areas yet!
• You will not be able to transfer items over from 120Survival. Like normal, the world will be completely separate.
• 120Survival will still be available, but play will most likely be all on 121Survival. 119Survival, Skyland and OldSurvival will be backed up and removed.
• 1.21Survival won’t appear on Dynmap for a few weeks, to encourage natural exploration.
• The map will most likely be around 10000×10000, the same as 120Survival.
• The Nether and the End will be blocked from access for a week or two at the start, to discourage people from speedrunning. Take your time! It’s a long season.
• Public Nether and End gates will not appear in the spawn area straight away. These will come in the first few weeks. These will be housed in separate buildings right at Spawn.

• The /gwarp 120Spawn will be removed and replaced with /gwarp 121Spawn. If you want to go to 1.20 Spawn, you’ll need to use the gate at the Warp Ship.
• Claims will still exist in 120Survival, however if you need more claim blocks, you can either play more (as you earn more blocks the more you play), or unclaim some land in 120Survival.
  • As was the rule in all our previous Survival worlds, you are NOT allowed to claim areas of land to reserve resources for collection later. Claims are for builds only.
  • You are also not allowed to claim any villages, Trial Chambers or Ancient Cities. These are for everyone to enjoy.
• We will be protecting the trial chambers closer to spawn, to stop people destroying them in order to get the new copper and tuff blocks. We’re still figuring out the final rules for the trial chambers, so more info to come on them. One thing we do know is that you will not be allowed to destroy the trial spawners at all. Leave them there so players can redo the trial chambers.

Remember, if you find yourself unwhitelisted from the 16th, don’t panic! Just be patient, and check the website, and Discord if you have it. Bring on 1.21 and all the new stuff!