Our third Annual Report, for 2021/22 is now available. Click the image below to download a copy. Thank you all so much once again for your support of the program during the last 12 months! We’ve seen some incredible growth and opportunities and we can’t wait to see what’s in store for the next 12 months of LibraryCraft!
EDIT: Report edited to include a player favourite highlight that was missed – Creative Writing in Discord!
It’s been a while between these! Time to get back into them. If you’re a LC player and want to do one, use the new ticket option on the LC Discord.
How long have you been playing Minecraft?
I’ve been playing Minecraft since the 1.8 update, so 2015? I remember trying to kill zombies with saplings and feeling achieved when I had made a bed!
What made you start playing Minecraft?
I remember watching youtubers like dantdm, and thinking the game looked so cool. Me and my brother eventually convinced our parents to get it, and I have been playing ever since.
What type of Minecraft player are you?
We use the following list – based off Mumbo Jumbo’s video – 20 Different Types of Minecraft Player, with a couple of modifications.
I think I’m a resource hoarder. I have so many chests just full of dirt and grass in both the library craft worlds and have blocks that I’ll probably never use.
Do you start a world the same way every time, or mix it up?
I used to always start my worlds the same way. Get wood, build a simple oak house and mine. But now I like to challenge myself and do different things, like my 118 starter base is actually a small raft in the middle of the ocean.
What’s your favourite ever build you’ve created?
My favourite builds are definitely the ones I have done for the LibraryCraft monthly comps. Some of my favourites are my December 2021 beach party, February art gallery build, and the March modern house.
How many times have you beaten the EnderDragon?
I’ve never beaten the ender dragon. It’s definitely a goal of mine, but I like to relax in my worlds and build and have fun.
What does your LC base look like? What are some of it’s features?
My current 118 mega base is a large hall in a massive 1.18 deep slate cave. I challenged myself this time to experiment with some things I have never done before and I think it turned out alright!
What’s your favourite block?
My favourite block is definitely deepslate. It is so unique with the bricks, tiles and polished variants and I can’t wait to use more it in my 118 base.
How about your favourite mob?
My favourite mob, now that’s a hard one. I really like all the pets in my 118 world. I have an axolotl, dog, cat, horse, and I am on the hunt for a parrot. I like all the tameable animals.
What’s your favourite thing to do in LibraryCraft?
My favourite thing to do in LibraryCraft is to play survival and do fun projects with other people. For example, CountDodo, AquaQuokka and I built a massive railway all through the 118 world called Azure Rails. I also really like the creative competitions and having fun there.
Time to give away some tickets to Pixel Expo! We’ve got five tickets to give away to our whitelisted players. If you are whitelisted during the time of this competition, you’re eligible to win! A general admission ticket to Pixel Expo usually costs $30, so this is a good option to save some cash.
We will be selecting five players using computerised random selection to receive a ticket each to Pixel Expo. To enter, complete the form before Sunday August 7th, 9pm. We’ll need your real name and your username. That’s it! You’re limited to one entry per whitelisted player.
Full terms and conditions are visible at the bottom of the form. Good luck!
That’s right! The LibraryCraft team will be at Pixel Expo on September 3, with some exciting things to get stuck into! We’ve also got five free tickets to the expo to give away to our players! More information on that below.
We’ve got a huge booth with plenty to do – spot the differences will be making a come back, plus two new maps to get stuck into. We’ve got Pixel Island, and the Pixel Creative Competition!
Using a beautiful map from firehart, we’ve got Pixel Island to get creative on. This island will be a limited run Creative island. We’re inviting players to build something on the map, but you’ve only got a couple of days to do it! The map will be open to building on September 2nd and 3rd only, then locked to building but open to explore until the 9th. So building will be available the day before Pixel Expo and the day of the expo, with some laptops available at the LibraryCraft booth. Come down and say hi!
In addition to the regular monthly Creative Competitions, we’re running a bonus one in the lead up to Pixel Expo. We’ve even got a theme! The theme for the competition is Retro Gaming. What will you build? We’ve even got a bigger competition map!
The competition will be open from August 1st to 26th. Why not a whole month? That’s a great question! In the last week of the competition we’ll be judging the entries, with the winners to be announced at Pixel Expo! If you want to find out who wins, you’ll want to be at the expo.
The prizes for this competition are a $50 JB HiFi Voucher for 1st place, and a $25 JB HiFi voucher each for 2nd and 3rd, plus regular in game loot for the top three and anyone who scores a vote. In game loot includes diamond blocks and a mega crate keys for the podium players, and a diamond block for anyone who scores a vote.
Both gates will be available in the Creative Lobby – August 1st for the Competition, and September 2nd for Pixel Island.
Yep, we’ve got five tickets to give away to our whitelisted players to attend Pixel Expo for free! We’ll be announcing how to enter this in the coming days. Keep an eye out on the website and Discord for more information.
Each year in August we celebrate National Science Week – it means some exciting competitions with a bit of a science-y twist. We’ve had Underwater Bases in 2020, Farms in 2021, and this year we’re doing Glass Required, to celebrate NSW’s schools theme in 2022 of Glass: More than meets the eye.
So what does Glass Required mean exactly? We want to see you create something that requires glass to function. Think outside the box though – we don’t want to see things like houses because of windows. Get creative!
The August Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the July gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday July 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of August 1st, so get thinking!
But what is up for grabs?
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:
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:
Exciting times!
Over the last couple of months we’ve been working through the feedback we received in our 2022 Evaluation Survey, and it’s time to get everyone’s thoughts on what we’re thinking!
We’ve had some preliminary chats with the players on Discord to get an idea of what would be good and we think we’ve come up with some great ideas. A new page has been created on the website – Evaluation Feedback 2022. It’s also available on the right hand side of the top menu of the site. This page has a summary of what’s been talked about, and a few polls to get some more feedback from the player group as a whole.
These include:
Plus workshops, real life meetups, server resource packs, minigames news, tweaks to Discord and more.
The three polls and the Evaluation Feedback page will be available until Sunday 7th August, 9pm, so it’s your chance to tell us what you think of the things we’re planning over the next few months! If you’re a player in LibraryCraft, we want to hear from you. You can also get in touch with us through Discord, or by sending an email to the server as well (seen on the right hand side of this page).
We’re back! Thanks for the patience 🙂
That’s right folks, our database server has gone down for an unknown reason. We’re working on it, but for now you won’t be able to connect. As soon as we have a solution we’ll post in here and on Discord.
Please be patient with us!
We’ve hit the midway point of 2022, so it’s results time! Not just the June results, but it’s time to announce the winners for the whole Emerald Points Season 1 2022 competition.
June first though – we gave builders an Open Build! Build anything you like. These are always tough to judge and this one was no different.
With a single vote between 1st and 2nd, cramskii is back! We’ve not seen competition entries from cramskii since September last year, and what a way to come back – with a top spot on the podium! Cram has crafted a beautiful twisting treehouse. This one was lovely to walk through and explore. There’s even farms down the centre of the trunk.
Toothless has gone big this month with an incredible hotel! Not only is it great to look at from the exterior, but each room is fully furnished too! Amazing.
Meowlicky is back with a unique build – a McLaren Museum! This would not have been easy to build, and as a McLaren F1 fan, I really enjoyed walking through this one.
We have a whopping five honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They each get a diamond block! What a round!
Well done to all our entries! Prizes will be delivered in the coming week.
On to the big one – Season 1 2022 results! Here’s the final ladder.
It’s not settled though! CountDoDo and _pluto_9 are now Builder rank and so are ineligible to win the prizes. That means we have had a last round change in the ladder! It just goes to show that ever single month counts. Here’s your new top three!
What a result! Toothless takes home a brand new gaming monitor, Kursed gets a $100 JB HiFi voucher, and cramskii gets a $50 JB HiFi voucher. We’re very excited for Season 2, 2022. Bring it on! I’ll be in touch with the Season 1 winners to arrange prize collection.
Hey everyone!
It’s me CountDoDo! Since its a bit of a heavy load for the mods this school holidays, I am going to be in charge of hosting the BedWars Tournament, with help from cramskii & qetzi. This post will outline all the info so make sure to read it all! (Disclaimer: A lot of this post is copy and pasted, I give credit to JohnsanGeezo for making it).
Every match (yes that means the Grand Finals too) will be a double elimination knockout. You have to lose twice in order to be out of the competition. If you lose once, you can still come back and win the entire competition! Every match will be played on Forest, NOT Castle, Forest. There will be no grace periods, and the matches will run as normal BedWars matches
The Tournament will go for just over a week, from:
Sunday 3rd July to Monday 11th July
Registrations for the tournament will close at 9pm on Sunday, 3rd of July. The brackets will be public and available on Monday, 4th of July.
There are 2 ways you can register, either:
React to this message on the LibraryCraft Discord.
OR
Send an in-game mail to CountDoDo in the SURVIVAL WORLD, saying you want to join.
Once the competition has started, participants will have to schedule their matches themselves, play them, and then message the results of their match to CountDoDo. They can do this either by posting on the Discord in tournaments or mailing CountDoDo in-game.
FORFEITING:
If you cannot play your match during the allocated time, you will be forced to forfeit the match. As soon as you realise that you can’t play the match report it! Its very hard to manage tournaments when there are forfeits at the last second.
Once a new match has been confirmed and the players have been tagged/messaged in game/Discord, you have 24 hours to PLAY the match, or it will be deemed a forfeit. The player that is causing the delay will be the player that has to forfeit. If this can’t be determined, there will be a random 50/50 decision by a random wheel.
PRIZES:
The prize for this competition is a $50 JB-HiFi Voucher for the winner organised by the mods! The runners up may get a prize of diamonds, but don’t count on it, its not confirmed yet.
FAQ (I will be using the FAQ John has written before with changes for this tourney (I did not write this part)
What should I report to CountDoDo?
Can I report to LightKLibrary or JohnsanGeezo?
Nope, to lighten the load on the moderator team, CountDoDo will be in charge of the matches for this tournament, so send your results to him.
Are you sure we can’t delay the matches we can’t play to a different week?
Yes. You must complete your matches in the tournament week. This is so results and prizes can be finalised in a timely fashion, and stops a lot of confusion.
Can we use a different map, like Castle?
No, all matches must be played on Forest, so it’s fair for everyone.
Can we have longer grace periods before PvP starts?
No, the default game settings must be used. All matches must be played fair and according to the rules. If exploits or cheats are seen to be used, the player using them will instantly forfeit the match, and the player will be placed in jail according to server rules.
Can another player (registered or not registered) play instead?
No, Unfortunately due to the small size of the tournament this year, there will be no substitutes. Whoever causes the most delay in coming to a match or cannot attend will be the one who has to forfeit
Is there a limit?
No! There is no limit for players joining, the brackets may look a little different, but we don’t want to exclude anyone!
Ok, what are the brackets?
They’re not made yet – you need to register first!
Good luck!
In early June we announced a new competition coming to LibraryCraft – the Builder Competition. Our Builder rank players don’t get to enter the competitions any more, and sometimes there’s a bit of down time for build projects. We want to be able to let them show off the crazy build skills so one of our awesome team came up with the idea!
This year we’ll have three 2 month competitions – July to August, September to October and November to December. Only Builders will be able to build, but anyone is allowed to check out the progress! The plots are much bigger – 100×100! Each plot is pre-assigned to the four builders. There’s even a bonus build in the middle to explore too!
Voting will also happen in September by the mod team, with points being tallied up over the whole year, just like the main Emerald Points competition. Prizes are a $50 JB HiFi Voucher for 1st, and a couple of mega crate keys each for 2nd and 3rd.
On to the reason you’re here! The theme for this competition is:
We want to see what the Builders interpret as Twisted. It could be anything….
This one will be fun! The world will be available July 1st.
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