Here are the winners for September’s Colours competition, where we asked players to build something using two colours! It was a fun one to check out!
1st Place: Meowlicky
Meow has secured his first win with a cracking piano! I love this build – so cool! Well done Meow!
2nd Place: YanMan__
The first to use a veto, where if you don’t like the theme you can veto it (once per season) and do something else, YanMan has got second place with this stunning rainbow falling into a pot. I love that it’s still based on colour! Very clever. He’s called this one the Pot of Integrity
3rd Place: TYP3D
TYP3D decided to take inspiration from a famous Japanese print – The Great Wave off Kanagawa, using some really clever texturing in blue. This one was great to watch rise from the surface. Well done Typed!
Honourable Mentions
We have five honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They get a diamond block each, now in 119Survival!
CometCraft42
GalaxyOcean
toothless_spy
RubyBird12
Belphegors_bruh
Well done to all our entries! Prizes will be delivered very soon.
The October Halloween builds are looking incredible. We can’t wait to see what else is to come!
With some new mods added to the team, let’s do another one of these! If you’re a LC player and want to do one, use the ticket option on the LC Discord, or reach out in a mail in game.
How long have you been playing Minecraft?
I am a returning player to Minecraft. I first played in 2012 and remember horses being added to the game as this was a huge deal at the time. I eventually stopped regularly playing a few years later in 2015 to other games but I have now returned!
What made you start playing Minecraft?
I started playing after watching Achievement Hunter Let’s Play videos. I would watch these all the time. I’d build some worlds with friends for a couple of days before we would restart and do it all again. Soon after, I moved on to watching other YouTubers playing minigames I was obsessed with these videos and would play the minigames with my friends too.
Once I found servers it was a whole other ball game. I played survival games for the rest of my time on Minecraft as my friend and I loved the PvP gameplay. I became a member of the community and a moderator/ I also played a prison server when I wasn’t on survival games. Great times and made so many friends doing it.
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)
The Competitor would be where I land. Minigames are my thing. They maximize the fun!
Do you start a world the same way every time, or mix it up?
I usually stick to what I know so probably the same every time. I keep things very simple and hoard resources.
What’s your favourite ever build you’ve created?
Wooden shack. I am not much of a builder so this is where I am going to need the LibraryCraft community to help to make me better.
How many times have you beaten the EnderDragon?
I don’t think I have beaten the EnderDragon before ☹
What does your LC base look like? What are some of it’s features?
Remember how I told you about that wooden shack?
What’s your favourite block?
My favourite block(s) are copper. I like the colour contrast on them.
How about your favourite mob?
My favourite mob is the Panda. Also, my favourite animal. My Minecraft username used to be named after a Panda and you will see me rocking the skin that I have had since 2013 on LC.
What’s your favourite thing to do in LibraryCraft?
It’s only been a few weeks and I already have a few things I like to do on LC and I can’t decide. First, is talking to the awesome people that play on the server. Whenever I get on there is someone to say hello and play some Minecraft with. Second, is seeing everyone’s builds especially for the competitions. So much creativity and talent! Last, is the minigames. I’ve had a great time with some people on the server already with these.
Thanks for reading. Make sure to say hello if you see me on the server or discord!
This school holidays we’ve added a twist to the LC Treasure Hunt.
Find yourself a buddy because this round is partnered!
We thought what better opportunity to get everyone involved and have a server-wide competition that everyone can get involved in. It’s also a brand new hunt created by Kisney! All you seasoned players (you know who you are) – introduce yourself to a newbie and make a team. Want to name your team? Sure, go for it! You know we love to see you get creative…
Prizes
On completion, each team member will receive:
A custom pirate hat
2 Diamond Blocks, and
2 Mega Crate Keys
Rules of Entry:
Team Registration must be sent in advance to JohnsanGeezo via in game mail.
Teams must consist of 1 seasoned player and 1 newbie. No exceptions.
Starting point is at Treasure Island on the Survival Spawn World where you’ll find all the extra info.
The Hunt will be available for the entirety of Term 4 and the Christmas School Holidays, so registrations can happen any time during this time.
Terms & Conditions:
Registrations for the Treasure Hunt commence Monday 3 October, with the competition kicking off during Term 4.
Players will need to submit a written book with all clue locations and code words for each clue to JohnsanGeezo’s mailbox at his 119 Base (public pwarp available).
All clues must be done by BOTH members of the team.
Some clues may require you to use the internet.
‘Seasoned Players‘ are defined as ‘players that joined LibraryCraft BEFORE the 1.18 server upgrade.
‘Newbie Players‘ are defined as ‘players that have joined LibraryCraft AFTER the 1.18 server upgrade.
If you are having trouble creating a team, submit a ticket in Discord and the Mods will help.
As the competition relies on a team effort, screenshots may be requested by the Mods to ensure a fair distribution of team work, so make sure you take them!
Teams can ask for a Discord channel to discuss all aspects of their competition with each other. If you do not have Discord we recommend downloading it prior to the commencement of the competition. The invite link is available in the server using /discord.
All information about the competition will be available via the website, the sign at Treasure Hunt gate, in Discord and across the server.
Read all instructions about teams, registration and competition rules carefully.
It’s time to announce the Player of the Month for October! Thanks to everyone who nominated someone. Like last month we’ll go through all the nominations (not saying who the nominator was) and then announce the winner. Some you’ll be able to guess, but others are a mystery, which is great!
ToastTheFroggy__ (Frillymelon_)
When I first joined survival I didn’t know where to go, and they guided me to a forest which was really helpful! Also they were kinda my first friend I met here 😀
Meowlicky
Amazing to new players and really nice
They are such a great person I think they really deserve this nomination and they should keep doing what they do because it is good.
CometCraft42
Comet is a lovely person to be around, they are so creative and nice. They always play bed wars with me and always stands up for me. Comet is amazing and I think they should def be POTM
And the winner is ToastTheFroggy_! Congratulations, and well done to everyone nominated! It’s been such a pleasure reading all the nominations. Toast (Frilly) will get a special rank in the server for a month, with [POTM] visible after his username, a POTM role in Discord, and two Mega Crate keys to spend in 119Survival!
We’ve just announced the October Halloween competition, but we want to get everyone excited for what is coming next.
In November we’re teaming up with the WA Maritime Museum again! They’ve given us a specific challenge – build an entry statement to the Fremantle Harbour. Just like the Statue of Liberty is the entry statement to New York, we want to see what you can come up with for Freo! What should be there to welcome people to Fremantle?
We’ve got some 50×50 water plots ready to go! Also, the winning builds will be put on show on a big screen in the WA Maritime Museum during the January Holidays.
All building must be done on the November Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Judging will happen during the first week of December. The WA Maritime Museum staff will be judging the entries as well, with each WAMM vote counting for two moderator votes.
As per normal, the November Comp world gate will replace the October gate which will close to building at 9pm on Monday October 31st.
The gate will open on the morning of November 1st!
Prizes
The top three designs will win an extra special prize, just for November, thanks to the WA Maritime Museum. Regular Emerald Points prizes will be given out as usual.
We’re a few days in to 1.19.2 and a few days away from a new month! We’re going an October classic – Halloween.
This one should be good!
The October Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the September gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday September 30th.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of October 1st, so get planning! Just as a reminder, here are the major prizes for this season!
Season 2 Prizes
As you know, each month we give away the following prizes:
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 (September for Season 2 and March for Season 1) 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. This was a highly requested prize last year, so we’re thrilled to be able to offer it.
We’re heading back to the WA Museum on Sunday October 16th to take part in Dino Lab!
The WA Museum is celebrating all things Dinosaurs – there’s plenty of awesome dino related stuff to get stuck into:
Make your own amber fossil
Make a dino comic
competitions
live raptors from the WA Birds of Prey Centre
Virtual Reality & Gaming
plus LibraryCraft and more!
We’ll be around with a special Dino Lab World for players to come in and build their best dinosaur skeleton, or dinosaur related build. It should be a lot of fun! Come along, check out the event – it’s completely free!
That’s right! The 1.19.2 Update is all done. The world has been preloaded and we’re good to go.
There are still a couple of things we’re waiting on, and there’s bound to be a few little issues here and there, so please be patient with us as we sort out the teething problems. If you see something is not quite right, please tell us!
You can report issues either in Discord with a ticket, or sending JohnsanGeezo an in game mail.
A couple of things to note:
The Survival Lobby now has it’s own isolated inventory.
1.18Survival and 1.19Survival have separate inventories. No items will be carried over.
We’re still waiting on a couple of plugins to be updated, so for now you won’t get access to custom heads or be able to see the NPCs at Spawn or in the Emerald Hall.
You’ll be able to use /tpr on the new world to teleport to a random location on the map. It’s a different plugin so should be more reliable.
The End is inaccessible for now, to allow people to take their time and get settled. We’re trying not to encourage speedruns this time around, after some feedback we received!
Lastly, a huge thanks to our amazing build team for the stunning Ancient Roman Spawn Island! Massive shout outs to CountDoDo for the design and layout, and Kisney, crazycollie and JohnsanGeezo for getting it built with Count!
The LibraryCraft servers will be down for updating and maintenance for the next few days. This is so we can all get stuck into 1.19.2! Please be patient with us, and make sure you read the messages here, on Discord and on the server listing in Minecraft. They’ll be up to date with where we’re at.
In the mean time, take a look at the stunning new 1.19Survival Spawn that’s ready to be uploaded! We’re going with an Ancient Roman style look, thanks to one of our builders – CountDoDo! Thanks also to crazycollie, Kisney and JohnsanGeezo for building the map with Count. We can’t wait for you to explore it!
That’s right – it’s time! Thank you all for waiting so patiently. We know it’s been tough! The plugins are pretty much good to go – fingers crossed we don’t have any hiccups, but we’ve waited long enough. One plugin still isn’t ready yet, and that’s CustomHeads, but it’s a cosmetic one, so we can do without it for now. All things going well, 1.19.2 is coming to LibraryCraft next week, just in time for the school holidays! Things will change, new things will come, but it will be amazing. Here’s what you need to know. Make sure you read this whole post!
What will change?
A few things…
Survival Worlds:
1.17Survival will be removed and (hopefully) available for download some time in the near future. While 1.17Survival was a popular map, since 1.18Survival it’s hardly been used, and it needs to go to make room for…
1.19Survival! A brand new world (and new inventory) with the new Ancient Cities, with a fresh and incredible looking spawn area. Check out the image above for a sneak peek! We’re going with a Ancient Rome style Spawn Island, thanks to the hard work of CountDoDo and a few of the Builder & Mod team.
The current 1.18Survival will still be accessible, with it’s inventory, but the 1.19Survival world will have a separate inventory. There’s no link to them at all. No transferring items.
The 1.17Survival gate on the Warp Ship will become the gate for 1.18Survival, and 1.19Survival will be opposite it. We’ll give it a bit of a facelift, so you’ll know which one is which when you walk through the gate…
Plugin tweaks:
1.19Survival won’t appear in Dynmap for a few weeks, to encourage natural exploration.
Server/Gameplay changes
The map will most likely be a 5000×5000map.
Public Nether and End gates will not appear in the spawn area until after someone has made it there with regular gameplay. The End will be larger – most likely 10k X 10k.
The /gwarp 118Spawnwill be removed and replaced with 119Spawn. If you want to get to 1.18Survival, you’ll need to use the Warp Ship Gate.
The Trade Island will be coming back in 1.19Survival! We found it harder to find shops, so there’ll be a main island somewhere that they can all be located together. This may not be set up from the start, depending on how much time John has!
Any claims in 1.17Survival will be deleted and claims blocks returned to the player that owned it, so you should have some spare for the new world. If you run out again, you’ll need to remove some old claims from 1.18Survival.
As was the rule before, you are NOT allowed to claim areas of land simply to reserve resources. Claims should be forbuilds only. If claims are found with no building on them, they will be removed by moderators.
Players are also not allowed to claim villages. Villages are for everyone to enjoy. If you want the villagers, take them, but do not claim the whole village, or even a part of it. There are only so many of them! This is also the case for Ancient Cities.
So when will it happen?
All things going well, John will begin the update process on Monday 19th September. That’s this coming Monday! During this time the whitelist will be reset so only John and select staff can access it. This is so the servers can be updated, the new world installed and the world (plus Nether and End) preloaded to stop lag. We’ll run some tests, make a few final tweaks to the new spawn area and then open it up. If you find yourself unwhitelisted, don’t panic! Just be patient. The process could take a couple of days – we’re just not sure. The server’s MOTD (the little message that appears on your server list screen) will be updated to reflect what’s going on.
That’s it! If you have questions, get in touch with us on the LibraryCraft Discord or with an email. Bring on 1.19 and the Warden!
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