The LibraryCraft League is back for 2023!

On March 7, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Time for another season of the LC League!

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 2023 it’s four – BedWars, PVP, TNT Run and Spleaf. Each week will be on a different map.

Matches will be played each week, but strictly between Friday afternoons and Sunday nights – no matches during the week! 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.

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.

Prizes

Up for grabs would be some diamond blocks and mega crate keys for the top three at the end of the series, and the top two (winner and runner-up) would 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 3rd April at 9pm. No registrations will be taken once the competition has started.

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 massive, so make sure you register for the second annual LC League competition, and ask in game or in Discord if you have any questions.

OneBlock is here!

On March 3, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

We’ve got another minigame added to the server and it’s a variation on possibly the most requested minigame on LC – OneBlock!

What’s OneBlock? Similar to Skyblock, you start on a single block floating in the sky. As you mine that block, it reappears as something different. As you level up (by breaking the block again and again), new items will be included. Be warned though, mobs will appear too, and some will be hostile!

To create a new island, use /ob join in the Minigames Lobby. This will place you on a small island, like the one pictured above. Yep, we realise it’s not just a single block, but this is still not bad. The centre block (the OneBlock) is the magic one that will reappear. If you mine the others around it, they’ll drop as normal but won’t reappear, so be careful!

Some commands and things to know about this gamemode:

/ob join to start your first island or go back to it from another world in the Minigames server.
/ob IDreset to clear your island. Then use /ob join to start a new one.
If you die in the void, you will lose your items. There’s no graves in this world!
Use /ob invite [username] to invite that player to play with you. NOTE: This will mean they LOSE their island. Players can’t have their own island AND play with someone else.
If you just want to visit, use /tpa.
Be careful with letting others on to your island – they will be able to interact with chests and break items. There are no claims on this world. Only let players on that you trust.
There is no Nether or End in this game, as it’s not needed! Nether and End blocks will appear as a late game level. Nether Portals won’t go anywhere, so don’t waste your obsidian.

If you have questions, ask in Discord or in game! Enjoy!

LC Create Terms & Conditions Form now available!

On March 3, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn LC Modded

We’re edging ever closer to the release of LC Create, and the first stage is already upon us! One of the important steps to get access is completing an extra Terms & Conditions form. You can read all about the requirements and the Create server itself on the LC Create page.

It’s important that both the player AND parent read through this form carefully and sign it to say you understand it. Like it says in the form, LC Create is a privilege for our older players and we’re so excited to be able to offer it.

You can find a PDF version of the form here, or if that doesn’t work for you, there’s an alternate .docx version.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask us in Discord or in an email.

March’s Player of the Month is…

On March 2, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn POTM

Time to announce the POTM for March! We had three nominations this round.

Here’s the nominations.

Dirtyfoot

Although some people think that dirty is quite mean in bed wars I think that he really helped me get better at it. Not only that but he is always up for helping out around my 1.19 base.

RubyBird12

Ruby’s really nice, kind and good at building. Ruby’s also good at giving directions and is never angry at losing at bed wars

FazerSheep99

Fazer is an incredibly generous player. He has done so many things from being a great sport in bedwars to giving things to others. Fazer definitely deserves to be POTM.

Congratulations to FazerSheep99! Fazer 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!

Board Games Social Session @ Fremantle Library!

On March 1, 2023March 1, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn Meet Ups

Something that’s been a hot topic on Discord recently is a LibraryCraft Board Games Social Session! Well, we’ve got something planned for this term. Here’s the information you need to know:

Where: Fremantle Library
When: Saturday 25th March, 1 – 4:30pm
Bring: Just yourself! We’ve got the board games, but if you have one you’re desperate to play, bring it along.

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!

March Creative Competition – Medieval

On February 24, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

This one should be a fun one as the whole server’s feel is generally medieval themed!

The March Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the February gate which will close to building at 9pm on Tuesday February 28th.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of March 1st, so get thinking about what you’d like to build. It can even be something modern with a medieval feel. Get creative!

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!

New PVP Map – Magical Oasis!

On February 24, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

It’s been a while, but we’ve got a brand new PVP map! A map concept originally by Meowlicky, it was taken over by RubyBird12 with some assistance from CountDoDo pretty early on and has transformed into the image above – a perfectly named Magical Oasis!

The map has been added to the HungerGames setup as a PVP option for a maximum of four players. There’s loads of hidey holes, as well as open spaces to run and cramped spots for a close quarters battle. This will be a fun one, as the entire island is also hollow, to allow for some cave battles too.

Well done to the team for building this great map!

Do you have an idea for a big creative project? Need a map for it? Project worlds can be made available for you in the Creative Server. Project worlds are limited to the project team and the mod team, and you’ll need to submit a written book to Johnsan’s current main Survival base with the following information:

What is the project? What’s it for, the name, what it will look like etc.
An idea of the size and layout, so we can create a worldborder to fit.
What surface you need – void, superflat, water, whatever. We won’t upload custom worlds from players. We can create a world for you instead.
If you have Discord we can set up a channel for your team, so the mods can assist and provide advice where needed.
A schedule of work – how long it will take, what will happen each week etc. If a project hasn’t had any progress for a period of time, we may decide to remove the map from the server.

If you have questions about Project worlds, feel free to get in touch! Have fun in the Magical Oasis!

Spleaf has come to LibraryCraft!

On February 22, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

We’ve had a few requests for this one recently, so we’ve listened and brought it back! Spleaf (otherwise known as Dripleaf Spleef or Dripleaf Runner) is now available for testing and playing in the Minigames server. It’s as yet untested but should be fine.

You’ll find the gate to Spleaf under the massive dripleaf next to TNT Run in the Minigames Lobby. The game is easy! Run around the dripleaves and try not to fall through them. Fall through and you’re out.

Make sure you read the signs properly and follow the rules! Let us know how it goes in Discord or in game. Have fun!

The LibraryCraft Big Base Swap is back!

On February 13, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

That’s right! This was a heap of fun last time we ran it, so we’ve decided to do it again. The LibraryCraft Big Base Swap is an opt-in base swap. Players will be assigned a different existing base on 119Survival to modify and call their home for a while.

To be a part of the fun, simply place a signedbook (signed with YOUR username) into the chest that’s in the house behind the statues at 119Survival (the one with the big red arrow above it in the image below). The book must also include the coordinates of your base.

Here are some important rules:

You are not being forced to do this! It’s only if you want to.
No clearing out items from chests before you leave. You can only take tools, one set of armour, netherite ingots, your elytra and rockets. Everything else must stay behind. Everything.
If you have multiple bases, you must give up your best 119Survival base.
No destruction for destruction’s sake. Feel free to talk to the original owner to see the direction they wanted to take, but it’s also up to you if you want to do something different. Remember though – you are modifying bases, not completely rebuilding. No tearing down what’s there already.
No swapping back straight away! You must have the new base for at least 1 month before asking to swap back. You can of course stay swapped for longer. Remember, be nice to each other.
The draw will be chosen by John.
Mods will be allowed to participate! You might get a mod’s base…
Whatever you do not use during the swap must stay at the base! No blatant robbery.

The LCBBS Round 2 is now open for entrants! Registrations will close at 9pm on Sunday 5th March. Plenty of time to build a base if you haven’t yet…

Your new base name (and location) will be in your mail the following morning. The deed to your new property (the book) will be in a chest at that base. Don’t lose it! You’ll need to swap them over again at the end.

Before you leave your base, make sure you leave a book with some ideas or guidelines for your base, for the new owner!

LibraryCraft: Now with Build Battles!

On February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, New Worlds

That’s right! You asked for it, we delivered! The Creative server is now home to a build battle minigame and arena. We thought it’d fit better in the Creative server.

To start with we’ve got one arena that can hold up to 18 players. It’s a 10 minute build timer and you can vote on the topic to build on. More of these topics can be added, so feel free to suggest more! After the timer has elapsed, you’ll be teleported to each plot to vote.

You can automatically change the floor block type, add lots of different particles, change the time of day, add rain and of course build! There’s also a couple of commands to use: