Author: John Geijsman

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!

March Medieval Build Competition Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Another month done! Time to announce the winners for March’s competition. We went Medieval!

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 JTripleM.

On to the results!

1st Place: toothless_spy

Toothless has created a stunning castle and market! It’s fantastic. Securing this win means that toothless is now one of our official server Builders! He’ll not be able to enter the competitions any more, but will become a judge and will be helping out with builds around the server. We’ve got some exciting things we’re working on! Congrats toothless!

2nd Place: Strawfolk

Straw has crafted this beautiful hillside village. There’s so much to see! I love that jetty design.

3rd Place: GalaxyOcean

This one turned out amazing. A Viking longship from Galaxy just looks incredible. The shields are spot on!

Honourable Mentions

We have four 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!

Noodles257

RatherQuenched

Sup3rNinja

LVMcFish

Well done to all our entries!

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 original 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.

Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them! There’s a few from January and February still, marked with a redstone torch. Anything left over from January & February will be removed, should we need the space.

Here are the Empires with some new additions!

On By John GeijsmanIn Uncategorized

We’ve just closed off the second round of registrations for Empires, and here’s what’s changed! If your empire is listed in red, your empire has a new member. Remember to read on to find out what needs to happen next.

The Troll Empire: Meowlicky, dirtyfoot & Little445
Export: Wood

The Northern Caverns: CountDoDo& blossomhasfallen
Export: Moss, glowberries, dripleaf, azaleas & amethyst

The Langdon Empire: osacr_ & superheroflash
Export: Copper & gold

Osaqua: AquaQuokka, ScrpMtlAlchemist & MarbleMango6153
Export: Meats, leather, wool, carpet & string

Isle of Shroom: LordSquid_, _pluto_9 & Sup3rNinja
Export: Enchanted books

Young Dragons: Grey_Wolf_Gamer, Pixelater3000 & Smaug12345
Export: Iron

Glowing Quartz: kurutrancy & RubyBird12
Export: Warped & Crimson stems, shroomlights & Quartz

Flying Fish: Jish_Le_Fish & Imaginemode
Export: Gunpowder & Prismarine

The Yanboonana Exporting Extravaganza: YanMan & _boonana
Export: Terracotta & concrete

Frogs: Slimecraft47 & CometCraft42
Export: Slime balls & slime blocks, flowers, dyes, honey and honey blocks

Strawberryfields Easter Bunny Trading: Strawfolk, Kisney & GalaxyOcean
Export: Crops & eggs

Carbon Industries: qetzi. DatSpiffinBrit & Noodles257
Export: Coal & Mud

Vine’s Quenching Potions: vinemon & RatherQuenched
Export: Potions

That’s it!

What now?
Now it’s back to playing! For the new players, get in touch with your other Empires crew and see what needs to happen. Find your Empire and get stuck in. There’s a bunch of players in need of some builds!

Also, don’t forget the Temple Scavenger Hunt! There’s a bunch of temples around that have a secret message. Decode it and you’ll get a nice reward. The reward isn’t available in the current map, so it’s worth it!

April’s Player of the Month is…

On By John GeijsmanIn POTM

A new month means a new Player of the Month! We had just the one nomination this month, so it’s a much simpler process!

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!

Your winner is…

YanMan_

YanMan_ is always so nice and he apologies when he doesn’t need to and he is a amazing builder. He will always help you with what ever you need. He is the BEST!!! Most of all he is a really really reallly really great friend. YanMan_ should get POTM!

Congratulations to YanMan_! Yan will get a special rank in the server for a month, with [POTM] visible after his username and two Mega Crate keys to spend in 119Survival.

Nominations are now open for next month!

School Holiday Board Games Social Session @ Fremantle Library!

On By John GeijsmanIn Meet Ups

Over the weekend we had a fantastic afternoon of board games at Fremantle Library. It was so popular it was requested we do it again during the school holidays, so we are!

Where: Fremantle Library
When: Wednesday 12th April, 1 – 5pm
Bring: Just yourself! We’ve got the board games, but if you have one you’re desperate to play, bring it along.

Like some of you saw over the weekend, we’ve got a pretty massive selection of games at Fremantle:

  • Unstable Unicorns
  • Uno
  • Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
  • Exploding Kittens
  • One Night Ultimate Werewolf
  • Scythe
  • Chess
  • Secret Hitler
  • Connect 4
  • Guess Who
  • Pandemic
  • Game of Life
  • Risk
  • Mysterium
  • Hues & Clues
  • Pictionary
  • Twister
  • Catan & 5-6 Player Expansion
  • Jenga
  • Forbidden Island
  • New Phone Who Dis
  • Munchkin HP
  • Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit
  • Carcassone
  • Ticket To Ride
  • Cluedo
  • Qwirkle
  • Battleship
  • Trivial Pursuit
  • Upwords
  • Punderdome
  • House of Danger
  • Bananagrams Junior
  • Zombie Dice
  • Yahtzee Classic
  • Monopoly

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in Discord or in an email! We’re looking forward to seeing a whole bunch of people there again!

April Creative Competition – Food

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Who’s hungry?

The April Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the March gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday March 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of April 1st, so get thinking about what you’d like to build. A massive thank you to Kisney for creating the incredible 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!

LC Empires – Second Round of Registrations!

On By John GeijsmanIn LC Empires

We had a bit of interest over the last couple of months about how to join the LC Empires map. Unfortunately we couldn’t add new players to the map at the time, but that’s all changing now!

We’ve decided to open registrations up again for LC Empires. Importantly, new empires will not be created – new players will be added to existing empires, especially those that need a bit more support, or are in high demand.

For those of you that have forgotten what Empires is, read on. Some of the information below has been tweaked for round 2 of regos.

What is LC Empires?

Empires is very much story and lore based, and works primarily on trade. Each empire is responsible for the creation and export of one type of thing – dyes, iron, honey, copper, wood and a lot more. In order to get that item, you don’t farm it yourself, but create a trade system with the empire that exports it. It’s also highly encouraged to get access to the LibraryCraft Discord server if you want to participate. Communication between Empires can happen a lot easier and faster, and a lot of news and communication with the mod team will happen through Discord as well. 

  1. LC Empires is a 5k x 5k vanilla map, with the Nether enabled, but not the End.
    The End is disabled so trade routes and roads can be established. Elytra and shulkers will be available after a while with a shopkeeper, but not straight away.
  2. Pwarps are not to be used.
    Travel is to be encouraged and used at all times! Horses, boats etc as trade routes, and then Elytra after a while.
  3. This won’t be a world that is open to everyone, at any time. If you don’t register, you don’t get to take part.
  4. Empires will be made up of two to four players, depending on requirements.
  5. PVP will be on, but it will strictly not be a free-for-all.
    This is not PVPSurvival. Lore and storytelling is crucial, and story should be a primary focus. Story should revolve around empires, the builds and the characters in them.
  6. Declarations of war are a must.
    No starting a PVP battle because you want to steal from players or just be a nuisance. A conversation should be had between the two parties to come to an agreement that a rivalry could be fun to do.  Talk about it first! Even Empires SMP is semi-scripted and planned. At all costs should PVP be avoided – come to some other arrangement if you can. Note that any declarations of war/rivalry should not be happening until well into the map/story.
  7. No claims allowed.
    If a player messes up once on this world (breaks one of the LC Empires rules), they will be removed from it for good. If it breaks a server rule, jail may happen too. This means no stealing, griefing etc. Again, this is a story based map. No random PVPing, stealing or griefing for the fun of it. Talk to each other and determine whether it would work with the story.
  8. A biome map will be released for Empires players only, to plan locations.
    The seed will not be released. Once teams are made up and preferences set, the biome map will be shared.
  9. Each Empire can have a Discord channel for private discussion, plus there will be a new role for registered players, plus a group channel.

How do I register for the second round?

Firstly, and importantly – if you are already a part of LC Empires, you do NOT need to register again! Your empires will not be changing, we’re simply adding more players to the map.

If you are NOT a part of Empires and would like to register, either open a ticket in Discord OR send JohnsanGeezo a mail in the Survival server asking to register for Empires. Registrations will be open until 9pm Tuesday 4th April. You’ve got 2 weeks!

New Collaborative Project – The LC 64 Storey Treehouse!

On By John GeijsmanIn Builds, New Worlds

It’s time to do another collaborative creative project! To celebrate the WA Tree Festival, something that many of our local councils are a part of, we’re going to be doing something a little more literacy based! One of my favourite book series (and I know I’m not alone) is the Treehouse series, by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. We thought we’d do our own version, so being Minecraft, we’ll be doing the LibraryCraft 64 Storey Treehouse during April! Here’s how it’s going to work.

The rooms themselves will be done in a custom competition world, accessible through the new, and very unmissable treehouse portal in the Creative Lobby, seen above! Note: this isn’t a competition! We’d love to have everyone come and design a room. It can be a room from the books, or something you thought of yourself. Once the rooms are done, the Builder and Mod teams will piece them together in a massive tree for everyone to explore. So…

Saturday April 1st: The LC Treehouse world will open for players to begin building rooms! (Yes, we know it’s also April Fool’s Day, but this is not a joke.) The world for building rooms will be open until Saturday 15 April, 9pm. We ask that you don’t build outside the square box we’ve provided in each plot.

From April 16 to 30 we’ll piece it all together into a huge custom tree for people to explore.

If you want to do multiple rooms, you definitely can, we just ask that you finish one room off before you start another. Get excited! This one should be fun.

February Something You Love Build Competition Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

It’s time to announce the winners and honourable mentions for February’s Something You Love competition.

Remember, there’s a new way to collect prizes! Read on…

1st Place: RubyBird12

Ruby has locked in her first win with this beautiful guitar, amplifier, microphone and even a tune that’s played! Well done Ruby, this was great.

2nd Place: toothless_spy

Toothless has made a PC setup complete with Minecraft being shown on screen! I love the detail in this one.

3rd Place: RatherQuenched

King of the meme builds, RatherQuenched went with the couple in bed meme for this one, and it worked out so well!

Honourable Mentions

We have four honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They each get a diamond block! They’re getting harder and harder to judge each month!

Smaug12345

Grey_Wolf_Gamer

Noodles257

Strawfolk

Well done to all our entries!

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 original 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.

Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them! There’s a few from January still, marked with a redstone torch.

LCBBS Round 2 – The Bases and the Swaps

On By John GeijsmanIn Builds

We had another great response to the LibraryCraft Big Base Swap, with 9 bases submitted. Before getting in to the bases and the swaps, a few little rules, in addition to the ones in the post linked before.

  • All players involved will get a /mail from JohnsanGeezo with your new base coordinates, and who the previous owner was (in case you didn’t see it here).
  • Claims will be transferred by JohnsanGeezo. No need to change them.
  • Remember, this is for modification of bases, not destruction.
  • The items you take from your new chests are only to be used to modify the base, not to stock yourself up, or to be sold. Treat your new base as you’d like someone to treat your old one.
  • When the claims are transferred, all existing trusted players will be temporarily removed. In order to maintain security (new owners don’t necessarily know who should be trusted), no other player apart from the new owner will be given trust access at any level. Please do not ask to be trusted in a base that is currently a part of the LCBBS. The new owners will say no. Once the swap goes back, trust goes back under the control of the original owner.
  • You will not have any access to your old base. You also can’t ask for temporary access, just for a second. Try not to use your /pwarp commands to get back there – have a bit of fun and trust the new owner! Surprises can be exciting.

Ok on to the bases that were submitted! Bring on some photos…

Little445

CountDoDo

Kisney

RubyBird12

CheetahWildcat

RatherQuenched

Smaug12345

Grey_Wolf_Gamer

JohnsanGeezo

Time for the swaps! Because we have an odd number of participants, the list order has been randomised, and we’ll be rotating in a circle. So…

Smaug12345 takes Little445‘s base
Little445 takes CheetahWildcat‘s base
CheetahWildcat takes Grey_Wolf_Gamer‘s base
Grey_Wolf Gamer takes CountDoDo‘s base
CountDoDo takes RatherQuenched‘s base
RatherQuenched takes JohnsanGeezo‘s base
JohnsanGeezo takes RubyBird12‘s base
RubyBird12 takes Kisney‘s base
Kisney takes Smaug12345‘s base

Let the swaps begin! By the time you see this the claims will be swapped over and work can begin. You cannot ask to swap back for a whole month.

What you can do is talk to the original owner and see what they’d like you to do! You don’t need to follow their requests, but it might give you somewhere to start.

Have fun everyone!