Author: John Geijsman

January Use Redstone Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’re already a month in to 2024! Time flies when you’re having fun. We’ve had a huge Christmas holidays with loads of action all over LibraryCraft, including our biggest Monthly Competition to date. We got a huge amount of entries for this competition – many of you really know how to use redstone in your builds! It was a great mixture of redstone as both contraptions and design elements.

We also held our first Builder Creative Competition this month, with builders entering their own competition with the same theme. We’ll get to the builder competition after the main competition’s honourable mentions.

Unfortunately we did have to disqualify a couple of entries for not sticking to the rules – one player and one builder, so make sure you read all the rules for each competition before you start!

Let’s take a look at the results for the main Emerald Points Competition first.

1st Place: RubyBird12

While relatively unassuming from the outside, the beauty of this build lies within. Ruby has created a museum of music, with four genres of music created using note blocks! This was fantastic to explore and listen to. It must have been a lot of work getting it all tuned! Well done Ruby. With that win, it makes her 3rd win, so Ruby is now a Builder! Congratulations Ruby!

2nd Place: 0_Mad_0

Mad has secured 2nd place two months in a row with a digital number display and Redstone monster! This was really cool to play with and the use of flowing lava as the monster’s tongue was great.

3rd Place: CopperJay

CopperJay went with a redstone trimmed and detailed mansion! With smaller redstone details dotted around and a striking amethyst roof, this would be a great build to see in 120Survival!

Well done to our three winners! We also had seven honourable mentions this round. This was clearly a really tough competition to judge!

qbio

_m1cro_

YanMan_

GmanPig47

Pepsi_Goat

MatthewG19000

Essie_Bessie

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had two points scorers for the first month of Builder competition! To find out more about the Builder competition, read the post! It’ll also cover the rest of the Builder role.

1st Place: Meowlicky

Meow went with a quartz hall of wonders, featuring a song and a dancefloor! This took a fair bit of work, with Meow logging a big number of hours on this build. We particularly liked the large redstone torch on the roof. It’s very exciting to see builders being able to enter competitions again!

2nd Place: JtripleM

J is back with a massive sticky piston pushing a cake into the air, complete with some redstone wire and a huge lever. The details on the cake really show some freeze frame motion. This was a really clever entry.

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like after a month of competition.

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. RubyBird12 – 15 pts
  2. 0_Mad_0 – 10 pts
  3. CopperJay – 5 pts
  4. qbio- 1 pt
  5. _m1cro_ – 1 pt
  6. YanMan_ – 1 pt
  7. GmanPig47 – 1 pt
  8. Pepsi_Goat – 1 pt
  9. MatthewG19000 – 1 pt
  10. Essie_Bessie – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. Meowlicky – 15 pts
  2. JtripleM – 10 pts

In Game Prize Collection

The 120Survival Competition Prize Collection Point has been upgraded! It’s now housed inside Skull Rock.

Instead of prizes being deposited at bases, they’ll all be left at a central prize collection point at John’s Pirate Cove Base. There’s a public pwarp – JohnsanGeezo.PrizePickup120 – that will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention.

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

February’s Player of the Month is…

On By John GeijsmanIn POTM

We’re already a month down in 2024 and on to our second POTM. This year is already flying by!

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. It can be an act of kindness in the server, politeness, etiquette or something similar. Note that this is only applicable to actions in the server, not in Discord. 

The Player of the Month will get POTM role in both the server and in Discord, plus two Mega Crate keys to use in the server.

On to this month’s winner…

We had five nominations this month.

_m1cro_
Always fun to be around and always nice.

THEblossomfallen
She is kind, helpful, got a great sense of humour and is a great builder. She helps everyone out when they need it.

ToastTheFroggy_
Frilly is really fun to play with, and we’ve been working together to build our base! We just started a huge terraforming project and she’s been helping a lot. They’re funny, kind and one of my best friends! ❤

cold_hand
Cold is nice and plays some PVP games with me every now and then while showing good sportsmanship.

Evoka
Evoka is kind, caring and very generous to everyone on LC. They gave me free stuff when I really needed it and they are always welcoming to new players. They are a great role model to other players and I think they really deserve POTM.

A massive congratulations to THEblossomfallen for being awesome! Blossom, you’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.

Nominations are now open for next month!

Introducing 1.20 Skyland!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds, Survival World

A couple of weeks ago we opened the LC Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt and it’s been a lot of fun! We’ve already had nine players complete it with more to come. We thought we’d also up the stakes a bit.

If you complete the Scavenger Hunt, not only will you get the golden shulker box full of goodies (check out the post linked above), but you’ll also get access to the newest Survival world to LibraryCraft, Skyland. Thanks to an incredible map by Flamedek_, Skyland is a 2k x 2k floating island world containing 13 different custom islands to explore and build on. There’s also a few other fun builds to find.

To get there, head through the large portal at the end of the Scavenger Hunt! You’ll know it when you see it. Note: Access isn’t an automatic thing. Johnsan will need to allow you access only after you have completed the Hunt.

There’s a few things to be aware of with Skyland:

  • Skyland is inventory linked with 120Survival, so you’ll have the same inventory – it will carry over between worlds, just like the Nether.
  • Skyland is an opt in world. If you don’t want to play on it, that’s fine! This is important for the next point.
  • The void is real, and you can die in it. If you die in the void, you can collect your grave yourself, but we won’t get involved. If you lose your gear, you lose your gear, so be careful.
  • There are no ores in Skyland. You’re more than welcome to dig and build etc, but ores have been removed. You’ll need to get your ores from 120Survival and bring them over if you need any.
  • You can claim your builds (and we would love to see some awesome builds in this stunning custom world), but don’t decimate a whole island just for resources. Grab your bulk resources from 120Survival instead.
  • There’s no bridges between worlds, so if you want to travel you’ll need an elytra until bridges are built. Make them nice though! We know you lot can build awesome things – you’re better than a simple dirt bridge or wooden plank bridge! Show us what you can do.

We’re really excited by this world and we’re looking forward to seeing what you can do with it! If you’re stuck with the Scavenger Hunt and really want to get it done, feel free to ask the team for some help. We’ll not give you the answers, but we’ll get you in the right direction!

February Creative Competition – Something You Love

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’re a month in! February is going to be here very soon, which means time for another theme! Next month we’re giving the Valentine’s Day idea a twist, with Something You Love.

If you love it, let us know! If it’s not as obvious, leave a sign or two.

Remember, each month counts in terms of points, plus there’s the Builder Rank Competition too – the GOLD bordered plots are for Builders only – do not claim these if you are not a builder. If you do, we will clear them without warning, regardless of whether there’s builds on it or not. This will be the case each month going forward.

The February Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the January gate which will close to building at 9pm on Wednesday January 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of February 1st, so get thinking about your build! A huge thanks to minywire for the gate build this month! It’s a massive Minecraft themed cat scratching post!

Season 1, 2024 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

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: $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 parallel Builders Creative Competition will be judged at the same time, with the overall winner each season getting a $50 JB HiFi voucher.

The LibraryCraft Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt is here!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Survival World

School Holidays are almost over, but we’ve still got plenty of fun planned in LibraryCraft! Many of us are big Hermitcraft fans, so we thought we’d do something fun to get people exploring and possibly score some good loot in the process.

For those of you that don’t know what Hermitcraft is, it’s a private server created for and by YouTube content creators and Twitch streamers. The hermits create massive and intricate builds and have a heap of fun together, all while creating content for their channels. Season 9 has just wrapped up in the last month, and the builds were incredible.

We’ve decided to place a few of the builds around the 120Survival Map for you to find and explore (seen in the partial images above), but there’s a twist, and it all starts in the new Map Room, seen below, located at 120Spawn. The ruins themselves are a combined creation of two of the current hermits, Bdoubleo100 and Grian!

Not long after this article is published, the stairs to the room below the globe will be opened. The big map in the centre of the room shows the rough locations of the eight locations to find.

Each of these locations will have a sign with an alphabet cipher. You’re going to need a pen and paper with you for this, and it will take a while, so take your time! There’s no end time to this challenge.

Write down the symbols and letters that you find. The eight signs will have a selection of letters you need.

On three of those eight locations will also be some extra coded signs that make up some X, Y and Z coordinates. With these coordinate signs will also be another word. When you get to the coordinate location, think about those words – the final location’s information will be waiting for you to decode.

At your final location (you’ll know it when you see it) there will be a button to press. ONLY PRESS IT ONCE! You’ll be given a piece of paper with a code word. That code word will need to be mailed to JohnsanGeezo in order to collect your prize. What’s the prize? A shulker box full of goodies, including the heads of six of the builders of the locations to find – Bdubs, Grian, Scar, Ren, Gem & Pearl. Your name will also go up in the Map Room to show you’ve completed it.

Edit: You’ll also now get access to 120Skyland, a custom floating island Survival world!

We’re really excited for you all to check out the scavenger hunt. We had a heap of fun putting it together. A massive thank you to the Hermits for building incredible things to explore! It’s always awesome checking out what the pros can do.

Albany Competition – Winning Entries!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Meet Ups

We’ve had a brilliant day in Albany last week, with heaps of people coming to Albany Library to say hi and see what the server is all about, plus play some great board games and get stuck into the Nintendo Switch!

Firstly, thank you so much to Albany Library for having us – we had a blast! We set everyone there a challenge – build something tropical in 30 minutes and we got some excellent entries. Well done to everyone who entered! We had builders that had never touched Java Edition before, and some more seasoned players. You all did really well! It took us a while to get our top three, but here they are.

If you see your build below, please get in touch with Albany Library and they’ll be able to connect you with your prizes! We’ve got a LEGO set for 1st prize (21319 Central Perk), and a $20 EB Games voucher for 2nd and 3rd.

In the top three we had two Albany locals new to the server, and one player that we’ve had for a long time – one of our first whitelisted actually! We really hope all the players we’ve had in the competition that are new will join the server really soon! It’ll be great to see them online.

1st Place: Albany Local

We loved the detail in this build – the cake and food options in the beach hut, the swimming hole, and the beaches on the sand!

2nd: Albany Local

The coral reef was so vibrant in this one, and the trees are really well built. Well done!

3rd: imaginemode

Imaginemode came up with a brilliantly detailed pineapple, that also included some honey blocks for the fruit inside, and a two block Spongebob Squarepants living inside! Super clever and the banners were a spot on detail. Well done imagine!

Again, thanks so much and a well done to all our entrants. If you met us at Albany Library on Friday, you can apply to join the server if you have a Java Edition account of your own! We’d really love to see you be a part of this awesome community.

We’re running a 1 Day competition in Albany!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Meet Ups

As you’ll hopefully know by now, we’re heading to Albany for a big day of LibraryCraft fun on Friday! We’ll be there all day, chatting to people and playing on the server, and we’ll also be running a competition for those of you that are there on the day – you can see the map in the image above!

The theme for the competition is Tropical. You’ll need to put your name down for a slot (the links are in the original article linked above) in order to compete. You’ll be limited to 30 minutes to build in one plot.

Players that are online but not in the building on the day will not be able to compete – this is for players in the building using our logins. Otherwise it’s too hard for us to keep an eye on build times.

There will be some prizes available for the winners of the competition, including some LEGO!

We’re really looking forward to seeing heaps of people there on the day. We can’t wait!

January’s Player of the Month is…

On By John GeijsmanIn POTM

It’s a new year, and a whole new 12 months of Players of the Month! Let’s get stuck in.

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. It can be an act of kindness in the server, politeness, etiquette or something similar. Note that this is only applicable to actions in the server, not in Discord. 

The Player of the Month will get POTM role in both the server and in Discord, plus two Mega Crate keys to use in the server.

On to this month’s winner, and the first for 2024!

We had four nominations this month.

microsoftmaster
they are very nice to me and everyone they talk to

blossomfallen
she is very nice, cool, and generally cares about others

strxww
This player has shown many values of kindness. They gave me stuff when I asked for nothing in return and has been very helpful, kind and loyal. They are a great role model for everyone and deserves the POTM.

straw is really cool! We hang out a lot when they’re online, and help each other with stuff.

A massive congratulations to strxww for being awesome! Straw, you’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.

Nominations are now open for next month!

January Creative Competition – Use Redstone

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Christmas is around the corner, and so is the new year! That means a restart to the creative competition season, and in this case, the start of the parallel Builder Creative Competition! To kick it off, we’re going with a theme of Use Redstone.

This doesn’t mean complicated laggy redstone contraptions! If, like me, you’re no good at redstone contraptions, you can incorporate redstone blocks and wire as a primary part of your build. This should be fun!

We’re adding another rule to this month though – all redstone contraptions MUST have an on/off switch. They can’t be running constantly. If we do find them running constantly, we will break them in order to stop them.

It’s the first competition of the season, so make it count by starting off right!

The GOLD bordered plots are for Builders only – do not claim these if you are not a builder. If you do, we will clear them without warning, regardless of whether there’s builds on it or not. This will be the case each month going forward.

The January Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the December gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday December 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of January 1st, so get thinking about your build! A huge thanks to vinemon for the gate build this month! It’s a lot of fun.

Season 1, 2024 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

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: $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 parallel Builders Creative Competition will be judged at the same time, with the overall winner each season getting a $50 JB HiFi voucher.

January School Holiday Social Session

On By John GeijsmanIn Meet Ups

We’re already hanging out in Albany on the 19th January (which we’re very excited about), but one thing we always get asked at school holidays is if we’re having another social session. Yes, we are – on Tuesday 23rd January!

Like last time, this session will have a bit of everything – a few laptops for jumping in game, a couple of laptops for Vault Hunters, board games, and just space to hang out! We’ll also have the main doors open for people to come and check out what we’re all about.

Where: Fremantle Library
When: Tuesday 23rd January, 1 – 5pm
Bring: Just yourself! We’ve got the board games and some laptops, but if you have your own laptop ready to go, bring it along.

See you there!