July means the start of a new season of competition! The leaderboard has been wiped clean. Prizes for the new season will be announced during July when we’ve finalised them, but they’re pretty good…
On to July’s theme! We’re going with Ultimate Biomes. We all know the biomes we have, but how would you improve them? New features or structures? New plants or animals? Let us know!
The July Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the June gate which will close to building at 9pm on Thursday June 30th.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of July 1st, so get planning!
The LC Evaluation Survey for 2022 is closed, and we got some excellent feedback from almost 50 responses! The mod team will be going through all of the feedback (yep, all of it!) and seeing what we can do over the next week or so. We’ll update everyone with our thoughts and plans! We got some great feedback on the server, Discord, workshop ideas and in person meet-ups.
What we have done is choose our two winners! These two players will receive a $50 JB HiFi Voucher each.
The winners are quipp and _boonana! Congratulations! We’ll be in touch through Discord to arrange for prize pickup.
Just like that, May is over! It’s time to announce the winners for the Treehouse competition.
1st Place: Kursed7280084
After six podium places over the last year, Kursed has finally secured top spot for the first time! The winning entry is a simple house hanging from a not-so-simple tree! There’s some nice detailing inside too. Congratulations to Kursed!
2nd Place: toothless_spy
Toothless is in the top three again with this massive tree with a hidden underground dwelling. There’s even a farm in the depths of the tree.
3rd Place: LordSquid__
Making his competition podium debut is LordSquid with this Nether inspired treehouse! I love the two halved build – the red and green Nether design is really striking. There’s even a secret armoury. Well done Squid!
Honourable Mentions
We have three honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They get a diamond block! I’m also pretty sure these are all players that have never secured a vote before! Great to see some exciting new players in the monthly competitions.
Freddiephoenix
albuman1
Pokewastaken_
Well done to all our entries! On to the June free build competition and the end of Season 1 2022! Prizes will be delivered very soon.
As many of you will know by now, 1.19 The Wild Update, the next big thing in Minecraft will be launching tomorrow, June 7! There’s plenty to get excited about:
the Deep Dark
The Warden
Mangrove swamps
shriekers
sculk blocks
mud
boats with chests
Allays
goat horns
Frogs and froglights, and
tadpoles!
Click the image to get the full info on this version from the Minecraft website. A lot of you (like me) are excited to get stuck into it, but it won’t be available on LibraryCraft just yet. If you try to connect to LibraryCraft using 1.19, it won’t work. You’ll need to use 1.18.2 until an announcement comes up on this site. So why does it take so long? Here’s the process we need to go through:
First, there’s the general release to Vanilla. That’s tomorrow, so we’re close to ticking the first step off.
Bukkit (the first iteration of the core system our server runs on) developers update Bukkit to 1.19.
Once stable (a few weeks at least) it goes to Spigot (the slightly better version of Bukkit our version is based on). Spigot developers update Spigot with 1.19. Spigot is also what our plugins use.
Once Spigot is stable (a bit more more time again), it goes to Paper – the system we use. Same thing…that gets updated and tested etc etc.
At the same time, all the Spigot plugin developers get their plugins updated and compatible with 1.19. Some do this, some don’t.
We have to wait until at least our major plugins work before doing anything. Otherwise it causes major headaches for John.
Once the required plugins are sorted, then John can update the server. The whitelist gets shortened for this step, so only John can access the server. Don’t worry, you’ll see a message appear before this happens, and you’ll be warned well in advance. There’s a lot of restarts in this stage, and even more testing.
So the server is updated! Hooray! Let’s play! Hold on. Not yet. John will then expand the 1.18 Survival world so we have more land to explore, which will include the new goodies.
The world gets a preload – John tells the server to explore! Normally, players exploring new territory do this, but it takes a while, and it’s a huge load on the server, so it’s much better for performance to do it first.
Once that’s done, there’s a little bit more testing, before the whitelist goes back to normal.
In amongst all that is a lot of testing, long hours and responding to the relentless excitement from players asking when it will be ready! Please go easy on us. We’re excited to play on 118Survival (soon to be renamed 119Survival as much as you all do. It just takes a LOT of time and a LOT of work to get there.
Once we’re good to go, an announcement will appear on this site. There will also be regular updates in Discord, so if you want to be up to speed, get in touch with the community there.
Something that we’ll be implementing in July is the Builder Competition! There’s more builders now, and not only do they miss out on entering the competitions, sometimes there’s not a lot of building for the server required due to a bigger team. This is an idea that one of the mod team came up with – just the four Builders having a creative build challenge, with some crucial differences. Knowing what our build team can do, this is going to be exciting to watch!
Instead of monthly builds, there are quarterly builds – 3 months each. 3 month competitions from Jan-Mar, Apr -Jun, Jul-Sept and Oct-Dec. For the remainder of this year, we’ll do three 2 month comps: Jul-Aug, Sep-Oct, and Nov-Dec.
They’ll be themed, with the themes being a surprise up until a week before, just like the regular comps.
The builder team will also have bigger plots. Most comps are either 40×40 or 50×50. These will be 100×100 to begin with.
Players can access the world, but not build. Just spectating!
Voting (yep, voting) would be from the judges and mod team only.
Instead of two seasons through the year, we’ll go for a full year season, with points being tallied up over the whole year.
Top prize is a $50 JB HiFi Voucher, and a couple of mega crate keys each for 2nd and 3rd.
This kicks off in July, so be ready for some epic builds!
To finish off Season 1, 2022, we’re going with a popular option – just like this post has no images, the competition this month has no theme! You can build what you want (as long as it fits with the LC rules).
The June Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the May gate which will close to building at 9pm on Tuesday May 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of June 1st, so get thinking about what you want to build!
It’s that time again! We’d love to 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 2021/22 Annual Report, we’re asking for your input.
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 Vouchereach. Entries are able to be received from now until 17 June 2022.
The information we receive is 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.
Thank you so much to everyone who came and had a chat to us at Game Lab at the WA Museum on Sunday! We loved chatting to every one of you, and seeing all of your builds! The votes are in for the Game Lab Build Competition we held on the day. We had 22 entries plus a handful of extra ones from some of our existing players, so it was a lot of fun to explore! The prizes are:
The Mega Crate keys are for the crates that are at 1.18 Survival Spawn. The Mega Crate in particular has a chance of dropping some serious loot. Netherite swords, more diamonds, bottles of enchanting, and more.
The Survival rewards will only be claimable if the player is whitelisted in the server and contacts JohnsanGeezo in game.
On to the results!
1st Place: PainedLawyer482
There’s not a lot of time to build something in the competition, with only 15 minutes to get something out there, but PainedLawyer482 has created a really nice floating island, complete with some ores. Well done!
2nd Place: GamingKitty
A classic brick and oak stair house, with some nice planter boxes out the front for Kitty!
3rd Place: KolyaGG
From the surface, Kolya’s build isn’t much, but head down in to the vault and there’s more to see.
That’s it! Thanks very much to everyone who entered, and has joined the server already! We’ll be reaching out to the winners to sort out prizes later today.
Another month done! It’s time to announce the winners for April’s Time Travel competition.
1st Place: CountDoDo
True to form, CountDoDo has opted for an incredible D-Day landing scene. It’s a beauty! It was exciting to see this one come together. Securing this win means that Count 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 Count!
2nd Place: toothless_spy
This month toothless decided to go for a cross section of the Great Pyramid of Giza. There was so much in it! Traps and mazes galore. This was a fun one to explore. Well done!
3rd Place: Kursed7280084
Kursed has secured a podium place again with a stunning Viking scene! I love the details inside the buildings.
Honourable Mentions
We have one honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They get a diamond block!
Imaginemode
Well done to all our entries! On to May’s treehouses! Prizes will be delivered very soon.
To celebrate the new custom models now included in LibraryCraft, we’ve come up with an activity for more people to get their hands on one – a classic Spot the Difference!
The images above are of John’s NewSurvival Farm. There are 13 differences in the 2nd image. If you get them all, you’ll score yourself a very cool looking custom medal! It’s one of a kind.
How to Enter
To allow everyone to participate fairly, we’re doing things a bit differently. You have two options!
Check out the images and note down the 13 differences. If you get them ALL correct, you’ll win the medal in Survival. If you don’t get them all correct, no medal! Sorry. 🙂
To submit there’s two options:
Discord Users: Open a new ticket and put your answers in the ticket. Easy!
Non-Discord Users: Send an email to whitelist@librarycraft.net including your MC username and your answers. Add “Spot the Difference Answers” in the Subject line. NOTE: Don’t use in game /mail! It won’t be long enough!
There’s no time limit for this one, so take your time!
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