This one is a little delayed, but we’ve had another bunch of Player of the Month nominations!
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 four nominations this month.
TurtleWasFound Turtle is the best! They are kind, funny and they always help me, even if they’re getting nothing in return. They are really awesome and they always say nice things about everyone. Turtle is a really great friend to have on LC and I am glad I met them. Turtle definitely deserves POTM 🙂
Smaug12345 I think Smaug deserves POTM because they are very kind and have a good sense of humour. They are very good at building stuff and look out for everyone!
Kyletendo I am nominating Kyle because he ticks all of the boxes for the player of the month, he is patient, kind and caring. He’s always willing to help out and always knows what to say. Kyle deserves to be player of the month.
SnakeArmyYT He always helps me out with my projects when I need help, and shows me around when I don’t know where to go.
A huge congratulations to TurtleWasFound for being awesome! Turtle, you’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.
In the last few weeks, one of the most game changing mods for Minecraft – Distant Horizons – got a major update and it’s incredible. Distant Horizons uses levels of detail for terrain distance. You can have your render distance set at a very small amount, and then use Distant Horizons to pre-render the rest. It just renders them in a progressively lower amount of detail the further away it gets.
I’ve used this mod before and it was great, but didn’t have shader compatibility. It’s not perfect, but now it’s able to be used with some limited shaders, as long as you use a bunch of other mods with it. I’ve spent a few nights tweaking and changing settings (it’s not perfect and you need a pretty beefy PC to do it well), but I’ve finally got it sorted and it is nothing short of amazing. Check out a few screenshots below! If players want their base and surrounds captured like this, send me a mail in game, or a ticket in Discord.
Near the end of each financial year we conduct an evaluation survey, to give you a big chance to let us know what you think about LibraryCraft. In order for us to make this server the best it can be, and to get some information for the 2023/24 Annual Report, we ask for your input, in addition to getting loads of feedback during the year.
This year, we’re doing something special and very important. As many of you may know, LibraryCraft turns 5 this year! We’ve had the absolute pleasure of seeing a lot of our players stick with us for many years, and we’ve also seen lots of changes in our players for the better. This year, the evaluation survey will be also looking into the social impact of the server – how have our players benefitted from being a part of the community?
LibraryCraft is promoted by libraries all across WA, so this survey will provide feedback to our partner councils on the program, plus allow us to promote the server in a different way, in order to grow. We’ll be gathering information from the surveys, plus Discord as well. All information will be kept anonymous in the final report.
It’s important that we also get thoughts from the parents, as they’re a crucial part of getting onto the server to start with.
We’re also offering an incentive to give us your thoughts in the Players Survey!
Two player entries will be randomly selected to receive a $50 JB HiFi voucher each! Entries are able to be received from now until 29 April 2024.
The information we receive is incredibly valuable to us as it can help us improve the server and the programs that happen in and around it, as well as seeing how important it is in the community. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
What an amazing year of competitions so far! So many to check out. Well done to everyone who has entered so far!
Next month is April and we’re going back to a favourite previous theme from way back in early 2021, with Sky. Floating plots for everyone! Each plot has a couple of glowstone blocks in the corners for you to start your build.
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.
The April Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the March gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday March 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of April 1st, so get thinking about your build! Thank you to Kisney for the gate build this time around – the Up house is fantastic!
Season 1, 2024 Prizes
As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:
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.
We’ve had a lot of requests over Term 1 for another social session, so here it is! We’ll be hanging out together again at Fremantle Library on Tuesday April 9th.
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.
It was a big one last time, so this one is sure to be a lot of fun! Importantly, 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.
Where: Fremantle Library When: Tuesday 9th April, 2 – 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.
Another month down, and another huge amount of really exceptional entries this time too. We had four players score first place votes, which is pretty massive!
We also held our second 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.
Let’s take a look at the results for the main Emerald Points Competition first.
1st Place: Smaug12345
Smaug has crafted a stunning orca breaching out of the water, and it looks incredible! On the other side is a breakdown of some of her favourite things. Unreal. With that win, it makes her 3rd win, so Smaug is also now a Builder! Congratulations Smaug!
2nd Place: CopperJay
CopperJay decided on a stunning river valley scene. This was beautiful. Well done CopperJay – it looks so natural!
3rd Place: TurtleWasFound
After accidentally deleting the whole build, Turtle came back with a Flappy Bird arcade machine. It’s awesome!
Well done to our three winners! We also had another seven honourable mentions this round. Another really tough competition to judge!
Sushi_m4n
_m1cro_
strxww
GmanPig47
FantasticFun
SNAKENATOR250
BlurryRex
Builder Creative Competition Results
We had three 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 back to back with a build of the (then current) LibraryCraft logo! Brilliant work Meow. Sorry to change the logo on you half way through!
2nd Place: toothless_spy
Toothless came back strong with a brick version of the Mona Lisa. Very clever!
3rd Place: RubyBird12
Lastly and true to form, Ruby built one of her birds. Incidentally, when we ran the same theme last February, Ruby won with these!
Leaderboards
Here’s what the leaderboards look like after a month of competition. We’re all tied up in the top for the players! We then go by individual vote counts.
Player Emerald Points Competition
CopperJay – 15 pts (11 votes)
RubyBird12 – 15 pts (10 votes)
Smaug12345 – 15 pts (8 votes)
0_Mad_0 – 10 pts
TurtleWasFound – 5 pts
_m1cro_ – 2 pts
GmanPig47 – 2 pts
SNAKENATOR250 – 1 pt
strxww – 1 pt
qbio – 1 pt
YanMan_ – 1 pt
FantasticFun – 1 pt
Pepsi_Goat – 1 pt
MatthewG19000 – 1 pt
Essie_Bessie – 1 pt
Sushi_m4n – 1 pt
BlurryRex – 1 pt
Builder Competition
Meowlicky – 30 pts
JtripleM – 10 pts (7 votes)
toothless_spy – 10 pts (6 votes)
RubyBird12 – 5 pts
Congratulations to all our winners and entries! You’ve all done incredibly well. Prizes will be able to be collected on Monday afternoon from the Skull.
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!
Another month, another bunch of Player of the Month nominations!
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 four nominations this month.
cold_hand They are online quite often and they are always happy to help out.
YanMan_ Yan’s a very fun guy to be around! He’s really funny and great at building. Yan’s just an all round cool and snazzy guy.
Smaug12345 Smaug is always really kind and helpful, she is awesome! Smaug is a great friend and helps me out if I need it.
Ezrafixpros Because he has helped me and many players. Ezra has been very kind and if you need some help he will usually help.
A massive congratulations to Smaug12345 for being awesome! Smaug, you’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.
After almost five years of LibraryCraft, we’ve got a brand new logo and we’re very excited! Still honouring the split grass block and bookshelf design, this custom version took a lot of versions, tweaks and changes, but we’re finally able to reveal it. Hooray!
Over the next few weeks you’ll see the old logo being swapped out with the new one. We’re looking forward to it!
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, in 2024 it’s four – BedWars, KitPVP, TNT Runand Spleaf. Each week will be on a different map, with the exception of KitPVP, which has a new, dedicated map!
Starting Friday April 5th, matches will be played each week, but 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.
KitPVP Changes for 2024
As KitPVP is now a cumulative scoring system, not per match, it makes it a little harder to set up, so we’re doing things a little differently for PVP. The new map (seen above) called 10Themes Arena will be limited to 3 players in the world – the two players and a moderator. This world is a priority world for the League players that need it, plus a mod.
The moderator will be in at the same time to run the stopwatch and do the count of deaths. You’ll have 5 minutes to play! You’ll also know who the moderator is before the match starts.
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 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 diamond 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 each weekend in order to complete your matches and get those points. Registrations close Monday 25th March 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. The first match-ups will be available on Friday March 29th, to be played the following weekend, from Friday April 5th.
Ladder
The LC League page will be updated on the website that will include the full season draw (the matches), and the current ladder, plus this information and a little more closer to the date.
Last season was a big one (and a lot of fun), so make sure you register for the third annual LC League competition, and ask in game or in Discord if you have any questions.
It’s been ages between these, but we’ve got a new submission! If you’re a LC player and want to do one, use the ticket option on the LC Discord.
How long have you been playing Minecraft?
Back in 2016 I begged my parents to get me Minecraft on my iPad, and I’ve been playing ever since!
What made you start playing Minecraft?
Minecraft was actually pretty popular at my school, so I felt like I was missing out. I also watched Minecraft YouTube at the time. Unspeakable Gaming was actually how I learnt to craft basic tools.
The Gadget Guy (loves making little redstone contraptions around their base to make life easier)
The Resource Hoarder(everything gets stored in piles and piles of chests, even if they don’t need them)
The Monument Builder (they always have to have the biggest build on the server)
The Autofarmer (farms have to have pistons, daylight detectors, the works)
The Explorer (no set base, everything they have is in their inventory. They just walk)
The Subterranean Hermits (their entire base must be underground)
The Artist (all the pixel art!)
The Competitors (minigames is their jam – PvP, Spleef, Parkour, all that)
The Code Wizards (whether it’s command blocks or crazy complex redstone)
The Mod Fans (Vanilla Minecraft? Nah – bring on the mods and plugins)
The Medieval Builders (villages, ships, the lot)
The Modern Architect (modern houses, modern resource packs, lots of concrete)
The Challenge Fan (Skyblock, Survival SuperFlat, Hardcore Mode – bring on the challenges)
The Long Gamers (using the same world since 1.8 or before – such dedication)
The Minimalist (a simple house and a few farms will do fine)
Despite not being a great Minecraft player, I think I’m the Challenge Fan! I love playing game modes like OneBlock and SkyBlock, though I do love regular survival.
Do you start a world the same way every time, or mix it up?
In the early game, I start mostly the same – Getting tools, building a starter base, but in late game, I think its always good to have some variety.
What’s your favourite ever build you’ve created?
My favourite build has got to be the skyscraper I made with my cousin in year 4. It was so tall! It was such a shame when it burned down…
How many times have you beaten the EnderDragon?
To be honest, only once! Beating the dragon seems like such a big challenge to me, so I’m glad I’ve done it before.
What does your LC base look like? What are some of it’s features?
I have two bases in 1.20 – my old cherry blossom cottage, and an underground base.
My cottage has the basic necessities – enchantment room, bedroom, storage room. My underground base is way cooler though, with a big room for storage and smelting! It also has a water elevator that goes straight down to my mine.
What’s your favourite block?
My favourite block has got to be slime. It’s so bouncy!
How about your favourite mob?
Its got to be the squid, they’re so brainless, its like a mirror image of me!
What’s your favourite thing to do in LibraryCraft?
My favourite part of LC is socialising and making new friends! Everyone here is so friendly, making the experience 10x better.
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