Author: John Geijsman

June’s Player of the Month is…

On By John GeijsmanIn POTM

It’s June! Half way through the year, end of financial year is coming. Here is June’s Player of the Month! We had just the one nomination this month.

If you’d like to nominate someone for Player of the Month, you’ll find the link to the form in the menu option at the top of the site. On to the winner!

Congratulations to ToastTheFroggy_! Commonly known as Frilly, they will get a special rank in the server for a month, with [POTM] visible after their username and two Mega Crate keys to spend in 119Survival. It’s the second time for Frilly too! Well done!

Here’s the nomination text:

Frilly is one of my favourite people. They’re so cool. She’s been my friend for over two years now and she’s very nice and funny. They deserve player of the month because they’re just that good.

Nominations are now open for next month!

June Creative Competition – Sport

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Hey there sports fans, this one is for you! It’s also the last competition round for Season 1, 2023!

The June Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the May gate which will close to building at 9pm on Wednesday May 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of June 1st, so get thinking about what you’d like to build. Thank you to CountDoDo for creating the very clever gate build!

Season 1 Prizes

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

  • 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

Each month the Emerald Points are tallied up and can be seen in the Emerald Hall on the Survival Lobby world. At the halfway point of the season (March for Season 1 and September for Season 2) we give away prizes to the current top three Emerald Points winners:

  • 1st Place: 1x $25 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 2nd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher

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. These are the big ones! This season we’re giving away:

  • 1st Prize: $350 worth of LEGO! The winner would let us know what to order (dependent on availability of course), up to $350 and we’ll get it delivered to you.
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

Exciting times!

The LC Create Server is Changing!

On By John GeijsmanIn LC Modded

We’ve hit a bit of a lull recently with the LC Create server, with some performance issues hampering the ability for players to have a good experience, so we’ve had a chat to our modded server players, and they’ve been great in providing some feedback! Thanks team 🙂

We’ve decided to swap out the LC Create modpack for something new, and something we reckon you’ll all have a lot of fun with – Vault Hunters! Created by a team led by Iskall85 (from Hermitcraft), this modpack is (according to the VH wiki):

…a Minecraft RPG modpack created by Iskall85 and his team. This modpack allows the player to develop their own talents and abilities. It features over 2 billion different items in combination that can be looted inside the mysterious and dangerous Vaults. These items are armors and weapons and idols (totems), that boost the player’s different attributes and stats. The end goal of the pack is to collect 25 unique artifacts, and forge them together to access the final vault.

https://vault-hunters.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_Hunters

There’s an enormous amount of custom armour, shields and weapons (some are visible in the image above), plus as you progress through the vaults, you gain skill points to level up your character’s abilities, plus knowledge points to spend on unlocking mods. The mods included in the pack will be a huge help towards both running vaults, plus overworld survival. Mods like:

  • backpacks and pouches that can auto-pickup filtered items
  • Colossal chests
  • Sortable storage interfaces
  • Easy Villagers
  • Create
  • Single block animal farms to stop lag in it’s tracks and faster breeding (imagine breeding 40 cows in one click with a stack of wheat)
  • Botania for a whole lot of nature and magic, and heaps more.

We’re really excited about this, and by the sounds of the feedback, you are too! The LC Create server has been taken down and we’re in the process of setting up the LC Vault Hunters server. We’ve got a bit of testing to do, but stay tuned with more information – we’ll have it out as soon as we can.

The Curse of the Broken Language (+ HUGE Giveaway Raffle!)

On By John GeijsmanIn Giveaways

A long time ago, back before the world existed, there was an all powerful god, Enderiel.

Enderiel, the dragon god, lived in a forgotten realm called the End. Wanting more from his existence, Enderiel brought the first world, known as the overworld, to life. A world full of trees, caves, lakes and oceans, mountains and more, teeming with life of all kinds.

Enderiel also had two sons, Biblos and Moberion. Biblos, the firstborn, and the god of knowledge and learning, was a kind and loving god. Showing love for his firstborn, Enderiel gave custody of the overworld to Biblos. Wanting to pass on his love of knowledge and learning to others, Biblos made sure there were many ways for the inhabitants and visitors to learn. Tool and weapon smithing, cooking, transport, farming, even rudimentary electronics. The first world, while primitive, was full of goodness.

Moberion, the god of chaos and destruction was not of a similar mind. Moberion thrived on desolation and despair, and this overworld, this veritable safe-haven of learning and beauty needed to change. In his realm, known by mortals as the Nether, experiments began. The first experiments, while simple, provided some interesting results. Stemming from the humble overworld pig, what came from them tended to be a mixture of results. Some accelerated the pig trait, causing the pig to be more like a large, angry boar, while others almost humanised them, but filled with more anger than normal. Moberion called these creatures hoglins and piglins. The interesting aspect was when these mobs (for that is what Moberion called his minions) were brought back to the overworld with the use of the magical and celestial portal system, they became undead, zombified.

After further experiments, Moberion seemingly perfected his mob army. Skeletons and zombies, two separate halves isolated from the zombified piglins, giant spiders – often a subject of fear for many overworld dwellers, and the four legged explosive abomination known as the creeper, being the lead variants in the mob army. Over time, these have grown into other variants. There are some chosen few followers of Moberion that are brought back to life after death as Wither Skeletons, with the chief underlings of these chosen few, turned into the feared and destructive Wither. These mobs wander the worlds aiming to destroy overworld dwellers in order to strengthen Moberion’s power.

Biblos saw how Moberion corrupted the overworld, and was furious. A war broke out between the two brothers, causing the overworld to shake and turn. Giant chasms formed in the world, leading from the surface to the depths below. Oceans bubbled, throwing up new lands, not seen before, each different to the last. The war has lasted for millennia, and still rages today.

Meanwhile, civilisations rose and fell. The first of these civilisations, known only as the Ancients, were the first to follow the three gods. The vast majority followed the teachings of Enderiel and Biblos.

The followers of Enderiel live on in the form of Endermen. Primarily living in the End with Enderiel, occasionally these tall, mysterious creatures will be seen in both the overworld and the Nether, as observers on behalf of Enderiel. Overworld dwellers know to take care around the revered Endermen, being mindful not to look directly at the emissaries of Enderiel, or face their wrath. For those overworlders that travel to the End (for it is possible, but not easy), they get the opportunity to face a part of Enderiel himself. Should you best this form of Enderiel – you wouldn’t stand a chance against his full form, he willingly gives up a part of his life force in a stunning display of power and light.

Not as much is known about the followers of Biblos, and where they go after they pass on. All we do know is the cities of the Ancients can ocassionally be found deep in the bowels of the overworld. Long destroyed after centuries of earth shaking tremors, the ruins of these mysterious civilisations sit in the silent darkness, with an enormous frame looming overhead. It is rumoured that these frames were the means of getting the floating temple realm of Biblos, but the way to open them has been lost to history. There are portals that still naturally form, however they also disappear at random, with no real way to predict it.

After the mysterious destruction of the Ancient Cities, Biblos set giant guardians in place to stop mere mortals from crossing the boundary between the overworld and the Temple. These Wardens, though blind, are the most feared creatures to walk the face of the overworld. Make too many noises in their Ancient City homes and they will rise from the ground to say hello, and that is definitely something you don’t want.

There are a few other mysterious realms aside from the overworld, and only a little is known about them. These realms seem to be focal points for the spawning of portals, known by the overworlders as lobbies. One of the lobbies has more regular portals, focusing more around worlds where overworlders are able to test their building skills with unlimited building supplies.

The other lobby world has been around since the days of the Ancients. These portals were set up as a gladiatorial style competition. It is said that the Ancients used these competitions as a way to see who the guardians of the gates were, before the days of the Wardens. A tournament of the ages, with the finest warriors from across the overworld competing to serve Biblos himself in a contest of strength, skill and determination. Modern day civilisations still follow these traditions with regular tournaments, as a way to honour those that came before.

As was said before, the war between Biblos and Moberion still rages to this day, and it has recently escalated again. Biblos gave the people the written word to use, but Moberion has recently corrupted this language with evil, with some language being turned into symbols. In order to restore the language, Biblos has set all overworld dwellers are task.

This task will not be easy, but the possible reward is massive. In order to assist you, Biblos has given the cipher to decode Moberion’s new alphabet, but this is also a good opportunity for him to see how the overworld dwellers perform.  Here is how it will work.

In one week’s time, seven (7) signs with the cipher will be scattered around the following locations:

  • Survival Lobby x2
  • Creative Lobby x2
  • Minigames Lobby x2
  • JohnsanGeezo’s base x1

One sign will be released each day between Friday 26 May and Thursday June 1. You will need each of the seven signs to decipher the clues.

On Monday June 5, three (3) signs each with a code will be hidden in the following locations:

  • 119Survival Spawn
  • Creative Lobby
  • Minigames Lobby

Use the ciphers to decode those three signs, then follow the instructions you find. All the information you need will be there.

You will have a maximum of five (5) entries to submit, to go into a random draw to win 1x $100 JB HiFi Voucher.

Entries will close on Sunday July 30th.

Biblos needs you. Will you answer the call?

The LC Create Modpack is getting tweaked!

On By John GeijsmanIn LC Modded

UPDATE: It’s ready! The new modpack is available from the LC Create Player’s Guide. Enjoy the new additions!

If you’re trying to log in to the LC Create server today, you may find it offline – that’s because we’re in the process of updating it to add some new mods to enhance the experience.

We’re adding a couple of Create supportive mods and something a little different:

  • Create Crafts & Additions: adds a bridge between electricity and kinetic energy!
  • Create Deco: more decorative blocks specific for Create
  • Gliders: We’ve realised that finding elytra is much harder now, so we’ve added Gliders in to the mix to make it easier to at least glide down large drops. It’s a lot of fun with a very cool animation too.

We would have loved to include Create Slice & Dice for Farmer’s Delight compatibility, but there have been some issues with that mod, so we’ve had to leave it out.

All things going well the server will be back up and running by the end of the day! Stay tuned to this post – it’ll be updated when we’re good to go, and when the new modpack is available.

A New PVP Survival Map is coming tomorrow!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds, Survival World

We got some great feedback from some players over the course of the two weeks of PVP Survival 3, and like always, we wanted to know what you think, because you lot are important, and you’ve got some great ideas. We’re doing a restart of PVPSurvival.

Play has dropped, which we feel (and we’ve been told) is normal for a PVP Survival map. It’s not a bad thing! Some of you were so stacked it was hard for newer players (or players with less gear, like me) to get a decent foothold in the map.

After some great feedback, here’s what we’re going to do. A rotation of different maps, around for a shorter amount of time. In no particular order:

  • No enchants
  • Nether Only
  • No diamonds
  • No meats
  • Super small 500×500 world
  • Map that gets smaller every day

There’s also a few ideas that will need a bit more thought and possibly another plugin:

  • Limited biomes, or a single biome
  • A kill counter on screen
  • Battle Royale – last man standing. This one would also be a registerable event.

The next map will be (funnily enough) PVP Survival 4:

  • 1000×1000 map
  • same rules as last time, but we’re also adding:
  • No enchants at all (items created or found, plus potions). Just bare armour and tools.
  • It’ll be around for 2 weeks (may be extended slightly if play is still popular). We’ll play it by ear but if this one is anything to go by, 2 weeks will be fine.
  • If you die, you surrender your gear to that player that caused your untimely (or timely) demise.
  • No more than 3 members in your team.
  • We’ve also completely removed the /tp commands in the world. No more tping to people! It’s a very small map, so you can walk it. Or use a boat. Or a horse.

In terms of when the first map will roll out, we’re hoping to have it out and ready for after school tomorrow! Stay tuned!

April Food Build Competition Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

2023 is going so fast! Time to announce the winners for April’s Food competition. We also forgot something last month! March marks the mid-season point for the competition, so some prizes are up for grabs for the top three after the March competition.

Like I said last month, we’ve had a lot of fun with the competitions this year, and they’re all competitions that were suggested by our players. This one was suggested by cramski!

On to the results!

1st Place: RatherQuenched

Coming in with his first win is RQ with these whoppers! It also comes in a simple but eye-focusing viewing box. Congrats RQ!

2nd Place: Strawfolk

Notching up a second place two months in a row, Straw has chosen to create a floating smorgasbord of options. I particularly like the chips in the very stylish wire basket.

3rd Place: RubyBird12

Ruby opted for a great looking lunch box! I’d be pretty happy if this was my lunch!

Honourable Mentions

We have two honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They each get a diamond block! Remember, there’s a new way to collect your winnings!

ItsLittle

Tadpole32

Well done to all our entries!

Mid-Season Prize Winners

Lastly, there’s the Mid Season winners from last month! Here’s how the leaderboard looked after March (not including this month’s results):

  • toothless_spy – 25 pts
  • Noodles257– 15 pts
  • Strawfolk – 15 pts
  • RubyBird12 – 15 pts
  • RatherQuenched – 5 pts
  • LordSquid_ – 5 pts
  • GalaxyOcean – 5 pts

To split up the three on 15 points, we go by the number of votes gathered since the start of the season. That’s 18 votes for Noodles, 14 for Strawfolk and 5 for Ruby. The winners are toothless_spy, Noodles257 and Strawfolk. Woo! Toothless, you get a $25 JB HiFi Voucher, with Noodles and Straw getting a $10 one each.

Congratulations to all our winners and honourable mentions! I’ll send out the winnings for the top three this afternoon, and will reach out to the mid-season winners on Discord to arrange collection.

Current Leaderboard

Including the April results, here’s what the leaderboard looks like, taking into account the vote counts for those that are tied. A bit of a shuffle in the top three…

  • Strawfolk – 25 pts
  • toothless_spy – 25 pts
  • RatherQuenched – 20 pts
  • RubyBird12 – 20 pts
  • Noodles257 – 15 pts
  • LordSquid_ – 5 pts
  • GalaxyOcean – 5 pts

Prize Collection

To make things a little easier on me, a Competition Prize Collection Point has been set up in 119Survival! Instead of prizes being deposited at bases, they’ll all be left at a central prize collection point at my 119Survival Base. There’s a public pwarp – JohnsanGeezo.CompCollectionPoint – that will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention.

I’ve tweaked it a little again, with redstone lamps and a lever at each spot. Once you have collected your prize, please turn the light off. The redstone torches indicate that you have a previous prize to collect.

Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them! The prizes from January and February have now been cleared.

PVP Survival Round 3 is Open!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds, Survival World

That’s right! PVP Survival is back for round 3! Here’s what you need to know.

  • There is no sign-up required – just go through the gate on the Warp Ship to get there.
  • You’ll enter a Rules lobby. Make sure you read all the signs as you go through.

Rules

  • If you want to play on this world, you AGREE to the PVP rules. If you don’t want to be killed by another player while on this world, don’t enter it.
  • The world is small – 3000 x 3000 blocks.
  • No camping or spawn killing – kill and move on.
  • No logout location traps. If you saw someone log out, you aren’t allowed to set a trap for when they come back.
  • No claims at all, or dynmap.
  • No accepting teleport requests from players on a different world. All players need to go through the Rules Lobby.
  • RTP is blocked.
  • It’s a separate inventory to regular Survival.
  • Graves are turned off. If you die with richeties, you run the risk of losing them.
  • No asking for items back. We will not be rolling back inventories.
  • Looting from chests is fine, but hide them well.
  • No griefing. No destroying bases for the fun of it. You can make a two block hole to get in to someone’s base, but that’s it.
  • The world is temporary – Term 2 plus school holidays, then it gets deleted.
  • Again, the world is opt in only. If you come to PVP survival, you understand that you could be killed on sight.
  • No Nether or End.
  • No PVPing in the world’s entry point. It’s the cemetery pictured above.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in game, or in the #pvp-survival-chat in Discord!

Have fun!

We’re swapping out Empires…

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds, Survival World

While we’ve been nice and busy lately, we’ve not seen a lot of play on the Empires world, so we’ve decided to back it up and then bring it back later in the year. In the mean time, the Empires players have asked to keep the lore going, but we want to offer something else…

We’ve chatted as a mod team and have decided to try PVP Survival again. In the coming week we’ll be getting a small world set up for PVP Survival. We’ve had some fun with it in the past, along with some server side issues, but we believe they’re all sorted, so we’re giving it another go.

Here are the rules we’ll go by, as well as the standard server rules.

RULES

  • If you want to play on this world, you AGREE to the PVP rules. If you don’t want to be killed by another player while on this world, don’t enter it.
  • The world will be small – 2500 x 2500 blocks.
  • No camping or spawn killing – kill and move on.
  • No logout location traps. If you saw someone log out, you aren’t allowed to set a trap for when they come back.
  • No claims at all, or dynmap.
  • It’s a separate inventory to regular Survival.
  • Graves will be turned off. If you die with richeties, you run the risk of losing them.
  • No asking for items back. We will not be rolling back inventories.
  • Looting from chests is fine, but hide them well.
  • No griefing. No destroying bases for the fun of it. You can make a two block hole to get in to someone’s base, but that’s it.
  • The world will be temporary – Term 2 plus school holidays, then it gets deleted.
  • Again, the world is opt in only. If you come to PVP survival, you understand that you could be killed on sight.
  • No Nether or End.
  • No PVPing in the world’s entry point. It’ll be obvious.

If rules are broken, you will be removed from the world and may face jail time. Please make sure you follow them!

We’ll be spending a bit of time getting a world set up over the next few days, with the aim for it to be ready by the weekend. We’ll also have another channel set up in Discord for it as well.

If you have any questions, please ask us in chat or in Discord!

May Creative Competition – Small

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

What do you think of when you think of small as a topic? This one should be fun!

The May Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the April gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday April 30th.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of May 1st, so get thinking about what you’d like to build. Another thank you to Kisney for creating the beautiful gate build in a pretty short amount of time!

Season 1 Prizes

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

  • 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

Each month the Emerald Points are tallied up and can be seen in the Emerald Hall on the Survival Lobby world. At the halfway point of the season (March for Season 1 and September for Season 2) we give away prizes to the current top three Emerald Points winners:

  • 1st Place: 1x $25 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 2nd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher

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. These are the big ones! This season we’re giving away:

  • 1st Prize: $350 worth of LEGO! The winner would let us know what to order (dependent on availability of course), up to $350 and we’ll get it delivered to you.
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

Exciting times!