The LibraryCraft Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt is here!

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!

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!

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…

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

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

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!

LibraryCraft Group Photo 2023

It’s been a long time since we’ve done this, so let’s do another group photo! There’s three dates to choose from, with the most popular option being the one we go with.

  • Monday 8th January, 2:30pm
  • Monday 15th January, 2:30pm
  • Monday 22nd January, 2:30pm

There are TWO ways to cast your vote:

  1. If you have Discord, respond to the official poll in the #polls channel.
    OR
  2. Send JohnsanGeezo a mail in game with your chosen date/s.

Please only vote using ONE method. Don’t vote in Discord and in game. Use one or the other!

Voting will close on Friday 5th January.

If you can make more than one, let us know. The photo will be taken at JohnsanGeezo’s Pirate Cove base.

LibraryCraft is coming to Albany!

We’re taking LibraryCraft on the road in January! We’re heading to Albany Library on January 19th for an all day social session, and we’d love to see you there! During January, Albany Library have heaps of fun activities for kids of all ages.

During the day there’ll be two sessions – 9am to 12 noon, and 1pm to 4pm, and a bunch of stuff going on! We’ll have a special themed Creative competition just for the day – prizes to be confirmed – plus board games, server fun and more. Check out the image below for everything happening at Albany Library during January!

This will be the perfect opportunity to come and check us out, as the LibraryCraft day is for the public too – come and say hi and ask any questions you have!

If you want to be a part of the competition day, you’ll need to book in for one 30 minute slot. You can’t book more than one. You will also need to be physically at the event in order to compete – this is a special one, just for the event!

See you there! Let us know if you’re going to be coming and tell your friends!

November Skyscraper Build Competition Results

It’s results time again! The November Skyscraper Build Competition has wrapped up and we’ve had some really big builds! We’ve just got one more competition to finish off for the year before we launch into Season 1, 2024. Man, it’s weird writing that!

Also, we announced last week some changes to the Builder rank in the server and one of those changes comes into effect this round – will we get a new Builder? Read on to find out.

On to the results!

1st Place: Meowlicky

He’s done it! Win number 3 for Meowlicky means that he’s scored the Builder role after over a year of competitions. And what a build to do it with! A massive skyscraper. This one dominated the skyline.

2nd Place: Smaug12345

Smaug has created a beautiful and clean, twisting tower. This was a beauty to see first up as you enter the world. Well done Smaug!

3rd Place: FantasticFun

FantasticFun has come up with a wood based design, similar to the Empire State Building, with a nice landscaped area below. There’s also a simple interior. Well done Fan!

A massive congratulations to our three winners! We also had two honourable mention this rounds, so more points scorers for the leaderboard!

Enderkitty543

microsoftmaster

Current Leaderboard

Here’s what the leaderboard looks like after November. Another swap at the top! It’s coming down to the wire! 1st and 2nd was actually a very close battle, with both builders scoring the same amount of points, but only being split out by number of votes scored across the year. It’s going to come down to the last competition of the year!

  1. Meowlicky – 51 pts
  2. Smaug12345 – 51 pts
  3. qbio- 25 pts
  4. FantasticFun – 6 pts
  5. cold_hand – 6 pts
  6. YanMan_ – 6
  7. qetzi – 5 pts
  8. EnderKitty543 – 2 pts
  9. microsoftmaster – 2 pts
  10. Pepsi_Goat – 1 pt
  11. sirRubyBird12 – 1 pt
  12. strxww – 1 pt
  13. Ezrafixpros – 1 pt
  14. imaginemode – 1 pt
  15. lielahh – 1 pt
  16. MegRose – 1 pt
  17. CheetahWildcat – 1pt

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!

Head Games Season 4 – Now with LEGO prizes!

To sweeten the pot a little (and because we had these stashed in the cupboard), we’re adding some LEGO to the prize pool for the Head Games Season 4!

Get to the top three in the Head Games and you’ll also score:

  • 1st: 31132 Viking Ship & the Midgard Serpent
  • 2nd: 76394 Fawkes, Dumbledore’s Phoenix
  • 3rd: 76181 DC Batman Batmobile: The Penguin Chase

Huge! Make sure you read the article linked above for more information about the competition. It’s only a diamond block to register!