Author: John Geijsman

The LibraryCraft League is back in 2026!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

With the Minigames server all updated and ready to go with new minigames, it’s time for season 5 of the LC League!

Like the AFL, it’s a round robin style tournament that will be on for a number of weeks. Each registered player will get the opportunity to verse each other player in the competition, but there’s a difference. This isn’t just one minigame, it’s four – BedWars, Duels, Hunger Games and TNT Run. Each week will be on a different map.

Starting Monday April 13th, matches will be played each week. During the school holidays they can happen on any day, but when school is back, it will be limited to strictly between Friday afternoons and Sunday nights – no matches during the week, so you can all focus on school! This is so it’s fair to everyone that can’t play during the week. You won’t be able to verse every person on every map, as it’d take forever – if we get 16 players registered, it’ll be a 16 week competition, plus more for a finals series.

Like with our other tournaments, it’s up to each player to sort out their matches. Matches will be available on the LC League Island (image above) in the Minigames Lobby at the start of each week.

If matches are not played between Friday afternoons and Sunday nights, they cannot be delayed to the following week or weekend. The player that puts the least amount of effort in to scheduling a match will be forfeited.

Points & Scoring

Each match you play earns you points, regardless of if you win or not!

Win: 2 points
Lose: 1 point
Forfeit: 0 points

You need to actually play to get a point! The opponent of the forfeited player will get an automatic 2 points.

Once you’ve played your match, it is the responsibility of the players to confirm the results in the League Discord channel, or in an in game mail to Johnsan from the Survival world if you don’t have Discord access.

IMPORTANT: You’re better off playing and losing instead of forfeiting. You’ll improve your chances of getting into the finals series.

Prizes

Up for grabs are some netherite blocks and mega crate keys for the top three at the end of the finals series, and the top two (winner and runner-up) get an exclusive rank on the server itself for the following year – League Champion, and League Runner-Up.

Also up for grabs this year are some JB HiFi vouchers! $100 for the League Champion, and $50 for the League Runner-Up.

Registration

To register, send JohnsanGeezo a mail in game. Registration is free, but you need to be available to play every weekend in order to complete your matches and get those points. Registrations close Sunday 12th April at 9pm. No registrations will be taken once the competition has started.

Once registered, you’ll get the LC League Discord role and access to the League channel. For those that are not the right age for Discord, you’ll get your matches through the standard /mail system. The Round 1 match-ups will be available on Monday April 13th, to be played that week, as it’s still school holidays! From Round 2 it will go back to between Friday after school and Sunday night.

Ladder

The LC League page will be updated on the website that will include the weekly draw (the matches), and the current ladder, plus this information and a little more, so make sure you keep an eye on that! Again, the weekly draw won’t be announced until Monday April 13th.

Last season was a lot of fun, so make sure you register for the fifth annual LC League competition, and ask in game or in Discord if you have any questions.

April 2026 School Holiday Social Session!

On By John GeijsmanIn Meet Ups

We’re almost through Term 1, 2026, so it’s time to announce another school holiday social session!

We’ve had questions about it already, so here’s everything you need to know.

Where: Fremantle Library
When: Wednesday 15th April, 2 – 5pm
Cost: FREE!
Bring: Just yourself! We’ve got board games and some laptops, but if you have your own laptop ready to go, bring it along.

As always, please tell us in a mail or in Discord if you plan on coming so we can get an idea of how many people to expect.

See you there!

Minigames are back!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

That’s right, after a long two weeks, the Minigames server is back with some new fun to get stuck into, and we can’t wait for you all to check it out!

The new and improved PVP area has been extended back and has two wings – Duels to the left, and Hunger Games to the right.

Duels

Brand new to LibraryCraft, Duels introduces 1 on 1 action with limited kits. There’s four different kits, each with their own arena – Sword, Axe, Mace and Crystal. Crystal is still getting set up, but the others are good to go! The arenas are very bare bones – just you and your opponent!

Click the sign to join the queue you want. Each kit has its own queue.

It’s crucial that you do not start a different minigame while you are in a queue. If you join a queue, wait at the signs. If you want to do something else, click the queue sign again to leave the queue, or you will be dragged into a duel that will not work, and you will be stuck.

If you disconnect from the server while in a duel, you will log a loss and the match will end, so it’s best to finish the duel off! As always, please only disconnect from the Minigames Lobby.

You’re also able to customise the layout of each kit, just for you! We’re looking at bringing the Crystal gamemode soon, plus 2v2 arenas for each kit as well. They’ll come in the next few weeks or so.

Hunger Games

Hunger Games was one of our original minigames back in the day, and now it’s returned! Each of the maps can have up to 8 players, and they’re familiar maps! TowersPVP and CliffGames are now in HG mode as they were back in the early days.

Head through the gate of the world you want and right click the sign in the lobby area to join the match. At the start of the match you’ll be frozen in place, but as soon as the countdown is done, you need to go hunting around the map for chests! They’re located all around the map. It’s first in, best dressed! Gear up, take out your opponents and be the last man standing to win.

Parkour

Lastly, the parkour course has had a complete redesign!

Thanks to our resident parkour design master/chief parkour tormentor Meowlicky, we have a brand new Parkour course that wraps around the Minigames Lobby. There’s also a new way to get to it! Jump over to the starting platform and stand on the first pressure plate to get the timer started!

That’s it! We’re really excited for you all to see it, so let us know what you think!

February Coastal Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Another month down! We’ve had a bit of a disrupted last week or so as we’ve been updating LibraryCraft to 1.21.8, but it’s coming along nicely. Survival and Creative are back open for play again, and Minigames is almost ready. Before all that though, it’s time to announce the results for the February Monthly Competition! We had a theme of Coastal last month, and we had some very highly detailed entries!

Let’s take a look at the results!

1st Place: legocraftmlb

Locking in a second win in a row, legocraftmlb has gone with another real life location in the 12 Apostles! There’s more microscale like last month’s build. Another very nice build – well done!

2nd Place: Kyletendo

Kyle is back in the competition with a very cool looking shark sighting at a beach. The brick built shark looks excellent – nice work on building it at a 45 degree angle! It was also very clever building the wall facing the gate, so there was a nice reveal coming around the build.

3rd Place: legofanatic212

The battle of the LEGO fans! Legofanatic212 went with a cliffside gorge, and it looks great. Simple, yet very effective!

Honourable Mentions

No honourable mentions this time around!

Leaderboard

Here’s what the leaderboard looks like so far in season 1, 2026! To make it easier to see each change every month, podium players will be highlighted in blue, and honourable mention players for each month will be in green!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. legocraftmlb – 30 pts
  2. Kyletendo – 10 pts
  3. Roseblossom_ – 10 pts
  4. legofanatic212 – 6 pts
  5. MarshyMS – 5 pts
  6. WingedPhoenix – 1 pt
  7. WoodyToucan – 1 pt

Congratulations to all our winners and entries!

In Game Prize Collection

The 121Survival Competition Prize Collection Point is housed in the cave under 121NewSpawn.

It will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention. A new feature in this area are the lights. The light will be lit if you have a prize to collect. When you collect your prize, please turn the light off!

Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them!

LC Survival and Creative Servers are back!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

That’s right! We’re almost completely back! The Survival and Creative servers are back online and open to play, however the Minigames server is still in maintenance mode while we get things prepared.

The Survival world now includes the Happy Ghasts and harnesses, and the March Creative Competition is finally open for building!

Once Minigames is ready to go we’ll be opening that too. There will be a few select people in and out of that server while we set it up and test, so please be patient with us! We want to make sure our new minigames are properly ready to go.

So, for those of you that don’t like reading things, let me make it very easy for you!

Survival (121NewSurvival, Main Lobby) – ONLINE
Creative (Competition Worlds, Flat Creative etc) – ONLINE

Minigames (All Minigames) – MAINTENANCE MODE (UNABLE TO JOIN)

We’ve got to set up the new Minigames, create the arenas, do some testing and make sure everything is working as it should. We’re working hard on it, but it’ll take a little bit more time! For now, have fun with the Happy Ghasts!

LibraryTale – the 18+ Hytale server is here!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

That’s right, LibraryCraft now officially has a sister server! A week or so ago we announced that a new server was being worked on, specifically for 18+ players in WA playing Hytale. Well, it’s ready to go!

All the information you need to know is on the LibraryTale page of this website! It’ll also be visible at the top menu. That page will have a separate form to fill out for joining, with Hytale specific information.

LibraryTale is a whitelisted and age verified server, so we do ask for ID to verify that you’re over 18. Why? Because adults need a safe space to game too!

If you have any questions, reach out to us in an email!

LibraryCraft is getting an update next week!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

That’s right folks, next week we’ll be doing a few changes! The main one is that we’ll be updating to version 1.21.8! We can’t go any higher than that as we’re still waiting on other core plugins to be updated, but 1.21.8 is ready.

From Tuesday March 3rd the server will be in maintenance mode while we update the servers and do some testing. We’re unsure how long it will take, but it might be a few days. It’s important to note that the current Survival world will NOT be changing! It’ll just be a minor version update, but it does mean that we’ll have Happy Ghasts to play with!

An important point of difference is that you won’t be able to find them in the Nether naturally. Rather you’ll have to craft them manually.

Another thing we’ll be doing is a pretty big overhaul of the minigames.

KitPVP has been fun for a while, but it’s also been problematic of late, and some aspects of it just weren’t suited to the maps we had, or what our players wanted, so we’ve decided to change it up for two different PVP options!

We’ll put in a Duels option for the 1 on 1 PVP fans featuring completely different kits and arenas, plus the return of Hunger Games! HG was a plugin we had at the very beginning of LibaryCraft, and it’s back in development, which is very exciting. With Hunger Games you’ll need to explore a brand new map for chests which contain loot. Then it’s last player standing!

As of right now we’ve turned off the KitPVP maps and have updated the PVP area in the Minigames Lobby. Meowlicky, _Heebyy and CopperJay have changed the build to suit our new setup, so you can get an idea of what is coming!

We’ll also be completely rebuilding the Parkour course as the new build got in the way. New things! Hooray!

If you have any questions, let us know! We’re pretty excited about these changes – we’ve been working very hard in the background to get it all lined up. More information will be out soon on the new PVP modes.

March Creative Competition – History

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

It’s almost March! We’re flying through each month so it’s time for a new competition theme. The third theme for 2026 is a suggestion from _Heebyy. In March, we want to see you all build to the theme of History. Choose a moment in history that you think will translate well to being built in Minecraft and just do your best!

Remember, each month counts in terms of points, so do your best, and make sure you finish your build! Votes tend to go towards builds that are completed.

JohnsanGeezo will be away this weekend, so the February map will still be available until Monday afternoon.

The March Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the February gate at 5pm on Monday March 2nd.

Season 1, 2026 Prizes

As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:

  • 1st Prize: 4x diamond blocks, 1x mega crate key & 15 Emerald Points
  • 2nd Prize: 3x diamond blocks, 1x mega crate key & 10 Emerald Points
  • 3rd Prize: 2x diamond blocks, 1x mega crate key & 5 Emerald Points
  • Honourable mention (1 vote): 1 Emerald Point & 1x diamond block

Each month the Emerald Points are tallied up and can be seen in the Emerald Hall on the Survival Lobby world.

At the end of the season (June and December), the grand prizes are awarded to the final top three Emerald Points winners from across the 6 months of competition. This season we’re giving away:

  • 1st Prize: $250 worth of LEGO! It’ll be in the form of a LEGO store voucher, sent online. Nice and easy!
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

The 2026 Head Games are Over!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

The Head Games is over for another year! It was a shorter run this year, but still quite successful, with 14 players registering! We got a whopping 1,423 heads submitted during the course of the competition, with one player submitting 44% of the entire heads submitted alone! But one question remains – after a total of 1,225.5 points awarded, who gets the prizes and what were they?

Note that all of the prizes were in block form – not single ingots, so there was a lot that was donated!

The final leaderboard is viewable in game, but the top three were:

3rd: CopperJay – 101.5 pts

Copper gets to take home:

  • 1736x Iron
  • 136x Copper
  • 24x Diamond
  • 28x Gold
  • 12x Coal

2nd: Parkour_ninja77 – 113 pts

Parkour’s prizes were:

  • 1745x Iron
  • 202x Copper
  • 47x Diamond
  • 43x Gold
  • 14x Coal

And the winner….

1st: Meowlicky – 636 pts

Meow gets a massive haul of prizes, taking home:

  • 1761x Iron
  • 234x Copper
  • 90x Diamond
  • 69x Gold
  • 21x Coal
  • 1x Netherite

That’s a lot of loot! Well done to everyone for competing and submitting heads. We’ll be back with a new activity soon!

LibraryTale – A special new server coming soon!

On By John GeijsmanIn LibraryTale

We’re very excited to announce that we’re working on something new! As you all know when players turn 18, they’re either invited to join the moderator team (on the rare chance), or they’re removed from the server. We’ve often felt that this was a shame to see them go, especially if they were active on the server, so we’ve decided to do something about it!

As some of you may know, over the last few weeks, Hytale was released in early access. For those that aren’t aware, Hytale was developed by Hypixel Studios, the team behind Hypixel, one of the biggest Minecraft servers in the world. It’s got many similarities to Minecraft, but also a lot of differences! There’s building, mining, exploration, plenty of mobs, farming, and great combat.

Ok, on to the announcement! We’re in the process of setting up a brand new server called LibraryTale! This server has replaced the LC Modded server and will be running, you guessed it, Hytale! It’ll also be only for 18+ players in Western Australia.

It’s not ready yet, so we aren’t taking whitelist applications for it yet, so stay tuned.

So how do people get access?

If a LibraryCraft player has aged out of the server, they’ll automatically have the option to be whitelisted in the LibraryTale server. If someone is keen and they’re of age, they’ll just need to provide us with their Hytale username!

For everyone else 18+, we’ll be getting a separate page on the website just for LibraryTale, which will have a separate join form. This is still in development, but we will be asking for full name and age verification. We’ll announce when the page is ready soon! We’ve still got some testing to do.

Will LibraryTale have a website?

No. To save costs, there will be a LibraryTale page within this website. The LibraryCraft website will only be used for communications about the LibraryCraft server.

All communications about LibraryTale will instead be done through a new, separate LibraryTale Discord, accessible by whitelisted LibraryTale players only.

It’s also important to note that Hytale is still in early access, so there’s bound to be changes that happen to LibraryTale from time to time, but we’ll make sure they’re discussed in the LibraryTale Discord.

That’s it! More information will come as we know it. For now we’ll be continuing our testing and setup, but stay tuned! If you have any questions, please get in touch with us.