Author: John Geijsman

January Aussie Landmarks Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’re a bit over a month into 2026, so it’s time to announce the first results for a 2026 Monthly Competition! We had you guys building Aussie Landmarks this month, and we had some really great entries!

Let’s take a look at the results!

1st Place: legocraftmlb

Formerly known as SUNNYBOY2013, legocraftmlb has gone with all the detail in the Sydney Harbour Bridge, even going microscale and adding some of the surrounding harbour buildings, Opera House, and traffic on the bridge itself! This was brilliant to explore. A massive well done!

2nd Place: RoseBlossom_

Rose went with the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse on mainland Australia! Not just the lighthouse, but some very nicely manicured gardens around it. Well done Rose!

3rd Place: MarshyMS

Relatively new to LibraryCraft, Marshy went with a Perth icon, the Belltower! This one has a difficult shape, but it’s been really well represented, and even has some working bells inside! Well done Marshy!

Honourable Mentions

We had three entries that got honourable mentions this time around!

WingedPhoenix – The Big Peanut, Kingaroy QLD

WoodyToucan – Wave Rock, Hyden WA

legofanatic212 – Busselton Jetty, Busselton WA

Leaderboard

Here’s what the leaderboard looks like to kick off season 1, 2026! To make it easier to see each change every month, podium players will be highlighted in blue, and honourable mention players for each month will be in green!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. legocraftmlb – 15 pts
  2. Roseblossom_ – 10 pts
  3. MarshyMS – 5 pts
  4. WingedPhoenix – 1 pt
  5. WoodyToucan – 1 pt
  6. legofanatic212 – 1 pt

Congratulations to all our winners and entries!

In Game Prize Collection

The 121Survival Competition Prize Collection Point is housed in the cave under 121NewSpawn.

It will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention. A new feature in this area are the lights. The light will be lit if you have a prize to collect. When you collect your prize, please turn the light off!

Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them!

February Creative Competition – Coastal

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

School holidays are almost over and with February comes a whole new school year, but never fear! We’ve got a new competition theme for you! New year, new season of competition! Our second theme for 2026 is another one from yanman! In February, we’re asking you to build to the theme of Coastal. We’ve got a lot of coastline in Western Australia, with plenty of diversity, so we’re looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Remember, each month counts in terms of points, so do your best, and make sure you finish your build! Votes tend to go towards builds that are completed.

The February Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the January gate at 9pm on Saturday January 31st. The February competition will open for building on February 1st.

Season 1, 2026 Prizes

As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:

  • 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
  • Honourable mention (1 vote): 1 Emerald Point & 1x diamond block

Each month the Emerald Points are tallied up and can be seen in the Emerald Hall on the Survival Lobby world.

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. This season we’re giving away:

  • 1st Prize: $250 worth of LEGO! It’ll be in the form of a LEGO store voucher, sent online. Nice and easy!
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

Introducing Enderpearl Golf and the LibraryCraft Country Club!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

Something you may find in your travels of 121NewSurvival is the expansive LibraryCraft Country Club. Nestled in the hills of a plains biome is a sprawling Spanish themed estate surrounded by fields and trees. You’ll also be able to reach it from the new golf themed ship soon to be docked at 121NewSpawn! The Country Club will play host to Enderpearl Golf, a new vanilla feature coming to LibraryCraft! It’s almost ready, but we thought we’d better tell you about it now, as you can’t really miss the Country Club! The original build is by Kaizen87, but we’ve modified it to suit our needs, as well as some heavy terraforming.

There are going to be a few options. The Collaborative Survival Course will take you across the world, visiting other players’ bases and central locations. This is a course created by everyone! Each player is allowed to have ONE hole at their base. They’ll be connected by custom portals and start at the Country Club.

The other options are the smaller, standalone 9 hole custom courses. These are able to be designed by a small group of players (minimum 3 players). There are 8 custom courses available for purchase to build.

There’s also going to be a couple of example courses, with 3 – 4 holes. One will be to the northwest of the Country Club, to test out your enderpearl skills, and one will be in the ocean by 121NewSpawn, to test out the Riptide I tridents (your drivers).

Hole Building

If you want to build a hole at your base, or a custom 9 hole course, purchase a corresponding ticket at the Course Creation Shop within the Country Club, then get in touch with John or one of the mods to collect your kit. Each kit will contain everything you need to create a teebox and a hole, to our specifications. There’s lots of information at the shop on specifics.

Playing and Equipment Hire

In order to play, visit the Pro Shop to hire some equipment. Your scores won’t count if you do not hire the equipment first! A diamond will get you a shulker full of the gear you need – a Riptide I trident, some enderpearls, some feather falling boots, a ball marker, and a book and quill for noting down your scores.

These items (and their shulker) MUST be returned to the Pro Shop after you have finished playing! Penalties will apply for people who steal from the Pro Shop. If you don’t return them, your scores won’t be logged! We’ll have leaderboards in the Country Club for each course.

To play, put on the boots, place your enderpearls in your offhand, and the trident in your main hand. Stand in water and hold right click to charge the trident. Release right click to release the trident and propel yourself into the air. Just after releasing the trident, right click again to launch the enderpearl.

If there’s any questions, let us know! As soon as it’s ready, an announcement will be made in game and in Discord. Stay tuned!

The Head Games is back in 2026!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Survival World

That’s right, it’s been almost two years, but the Head Games is back! Another ship has docked in the Spawn port and it leads to our brand new Head Games HQ, built by Meowlicky and CopperJay!

Nearly every mob has a chance to drop it’s head on death. Each head (for the most part – there are some that won’t count), is worth points! Some are better than others – the points list is available from the 2026 Head Games HQ. We’re changing it up a bit this time around, so make sure you take the time to read the post properly!

The competition is open for registrations only from now until 9pm, Sunday 18 January, 2026. It costs 1 DIAMOND BLOCK to register. NAME your diamond block and place it in the chest on the platform by the gate.

Competition will be open for head submissions from 9pm Sunday 18th January until Sunday 15 February, 9pm. We’re only giving you a month to submit heads!

Whoever has the most points at the end of the competition (Sunday 15th February, 9pm), will win – 1st, 2nd and 3rd! In the past there have been a HUGE amount of goodies to win and you can donate prizes as well! Treasure blocks like diamond, netherite, gold, iron, coal and more. Add them into the prize pool chest (the one by the podiums) at the new Head Games HQ (the HGHQ).

Each registered player will get a chest at the HGHQ – located in the centre of the colosseum, which will be functional after 9pm on Sunday 18th January. Add VALID heads into your chest to submit them.

Some things to note:

  • Don’t submit heads that do not score points
  • Don’t submit non head items
  • Don’t name the heads – leave them as they are
  • Heads from the /heads plugin are different and do not count
  • Farms to collect heads are allowed, but ONLY if the mobs die by a player’s hand – handheld weapons only
  • Points will be calculated each Monday, with a hologram leaderboard available at the HGHQ, in the centre of the HQ.

To register, simply put 1 DIAMOND BLOCK WITH YOUR USERNAME ON IT into the chest at the HeadGames HQ.

Let the games begin!

December Christmas & End of Season 2, 2025 Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Just like that another season done! We’re well into the January school holidays and 2026 has just begun, so let’s find out who won in December, and who took out the whole of season 2, 2025! We went with a December staple of Christmas, and got some very festive builds!

Let’s take a look at the results!

1st Place: legofanatic212

Getting his first win, legofanatic has gone with a classic Christmas winter theme, complete with candy cane lined path, a giant snowman and a Christmas party in the house! There’s even lyrics to a modified Frosty the Snowman in the snowman’s body. Nice work lego!

2nd Place: WoodyToucan

Woody went with an assortment of Christmas builds – Santa with his sleigh outside a workshop, candy canes, snowmen, presents under a tree and even a very clever Christmas pudding!

3rd Place: Parkour_ninja77

Entering his first competition, Parkour has gone for a classic – presents under a rather nice Christmas tree. Well done Parkour, and welcome to the competitions!

Honourable Mentions

SUNNYBOY2013

Final Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like at the end of season 2 of competition. To make it easier to see each change every month, podium players will be highlighted in blue, and honourable mention players for each month in green!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. legofanatic212 – 31 pts
  2. _Heebyy – 30 pts
  3. WingedPhoenix – 26 pts
  4. SUNNYBOY2013 – 16 pts
  5. strxww – 15 pts
  6. WoodyToucan – 11 pts
  7. TapuFini888 – 10 pts
  8. Jaxzebunny – 6 pts
  9. Pompadoo2000 – 5 pts
  10. Parkour_ninja77 – 5 pts
  11. Flicky2016 – 2 pts
  12. FantasticFun – 2 pts
  13. JohnVivian – 1 pt

Congratulations to all our winners and entries, and a big congratulations to legofanatic212, _Heebyy and WingedPhoenix! You three get the big three – A LEGO voucher for legofanatic (seems appropriate!), and some JB HiFi vouchers for Heeby and WingedPhoenix. We’ll reach out to you in game or Discord to sort out your prizes!

Everyone has once again done incredibly well this season! It’s so much fun to judge these. Prizes will be able to be collected from the Prize Cave at 121NewSpawn as soon as you read this!

In Game Prize Collection

The 121Survival Competition Prize Collection Point is housed in the cave under 121NewSpawn.

It will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention. A new feature in this area are the lights. The light will be lit if you have a prize to collect. When you collect your prize, please turn the light off!

Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them!

January Creative Competition – Aussie Landmarks

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to talk about the first competition theme for 2026! New year, new season of competition! A few weeks ago we asked you for some suggestions for themes you wanted to see, so our first theme is one from yanman! During January, we’re asking you to build an Australian Landmark. It can be something iconic, or something a little more left of field.

Even if it’s obvious, please put a sign with the landmark and the state it’s in on the corner of your build.

Remember, each month counts in terms of points, so do your best, and make sure you finish your build! Votes tend to go towards builds that are completed.

We’re putting the Builder competition on a bit of a hiatus at the moment, but we’ll look at bringing it back later in the year – at the moment all of our builders are either creating their bases or other things for the server during 2026!

The January Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the December gate. John is away camping until the afternoon of January 1st, so you’ll have a little extra time to finish your December builds. That also means the January competition won’t open until later in the day on January 1st.

Season 1, 2026 Prizes

As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:

  • 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
  • Honourable mention (1 vote): 1 Emerald Point & 1x diamond block

Each month the Emerald Points are tallied up and can be seen in the Emerald Hall on the Survival Lobby world.

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. This season we’re giving away:

  • 1st Prize: $250 worth of LEGO! It’ll be in the form of a LEGO store voucher, sent online. Nice and easy!
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

A Special Christmas Activity – with prizes for everyone!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

Christmas is only a week away, so we’ve decided to celebrate with a fun Christmas activity!

In dock right now at 121NewSpawn is the Christmas Ship! During this map, every now and then a special ship may arrive in port to bring on a new activity, and the Christmas Ship is the first one of this special fleet! The Christmas Ship was created by CopperJay and Meowlicky, so congratulate them on their amazing work too!

From now until January 1st, a special Christmas activity will be on offer – go through the gate on the Christmas Ship to get to the Christmas Maze! This multi-level Christmas themed maze isn’t just for something to do – everyone who completes it gets a prize.

These special crates are similar to the Daily Crates, but with a difference – players are only allowed to open them once. Once you’ve got yours, that’s it!

Firstly, and visible throughout the maze (and at the dock) will be a double-set of 8 Christmas themed banners (in a rather festive red bundle) to be used in your bases!

Complete the entire maze and you’ll reach the final Christmas Crate. Inside that is an equal chance to get one of the following:

  • 6 Diamond blocks
  • a Trident
  • a Beacon
  • a Nether Star
  • 16 sponges, or
  • a Mace.

Note that some of the normal commands won’t work in the maze. Ones like /tpa, /pwarp and a couple more won’t work. To get to the maze you’ll need to use the portal on the Christmas Ship, and to leave you’ll need to use a /gwarp. Also, when running the maze, please disable any minimap mod you may have on your client.

Happy mazing, and Merry Christmas from the LC Team!

121NewSurvival – The Bases so far!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

We’re a few weeks into the 1.21.5 New Survival map, and it looks like people are having fun getting some bases set up, including some rather big plans! We thought we’d take a quick tour of some of the bases so far and see what’s what. If we’ve not included you, we’re sorry! Make sure you send us your pwarp name so we can include you in the list next time. We’ll make sure we do these again. This is a longer post than normal, but there’s plenty of pictures!

bearNbubbles & Flicky2016

It’s great to see one of the pre-made islands being purchased! You can take a look at the options for these at 121NewSpawn. A few diamond blocks and you can have one too! I also like that the bases have been decorated with some very nice festive decorations!

cold_hand

Cold has decided to take over a small village. Ever the king of dirt, we’re excited to see what this will end up being!

CopperJay

While there’s not a lot of building that’s occured apart from some interesting terrain changes, Copper has gotten settled with some crop farms to start with.

CountDoDo

Always one to go for a larger community style base, Count has decided to undertake DoDoGrad, complete with a government system and (in Count’s own words) “different People’s Commisariats for stuff like agriculture, industry, forestry and internal affairs.” Hopefully DoDoGrad grows soon!

Cronic_

Hidden in a compact valley/bowl, Cronic has most of the build underground, but it was difficult to get a good image! Down the hole are some more farms and a giant rocket. This is one to keep an eye on!

Endrock6

Perched on the edge of an ice mountain, End has gone for a modern aesthetic for his storage and some minor living arrangements, with a lot of farms and other infrastructure co-located with Meowlicky in an ocean.

_Heebyy

An impressive start to a house by a river for Heebyy! This one looks very picturesque.

JohnsanGeezo

I’ve decided to go massive this year with a huge dragon skeleton being unearthed in a badlands biome. So far there’s been over 350,000 terracotta removed by hand from what I’m calling the Arcane Archaeology Pit, with a LOT more to come. The start of the head is just visible – I’m not even halfway down yet! After that will come a massive magician’s tower, even taller trees (reaching about where I was to take the image), and more. The story is that the magician found the skeleton and is slowly melting it down to get the magic from the bones.

Legofanatic212

So far Lego has created a perimeter wall in a very cold biome!

Meowlicky

Seemingly intent on trying to bankrupt the world (I kid, of course), Meow has inlaid ancient debris through his entire floor, and is slowly going through the process of filling the armour stands with diamond armour. This is a not-so-subtle flex of his grinding abilities. His base also houses a functioning End portal!

Meow and End also have this expansive farming area deep in an ocean biome, to further increase their wealth.

minywire & blueysnow

Neighbours perched on the edge of a steep cliff, Miny and Bluey have the beginnings of a very quaint suburb, and what a view!

Parkour_ninja77

Parkour has taken to the forest with a unique treehouse build with some very large windows for a great view!

RoseBlossom_

Rose has also decided to start some farms by the edge of a river, with a good amount of area for expansion in the future!

SUNNYBOY2013

Sunny is making some dramatic changes to a village split by a large valley. This one is starting to look really exciting!

thatjab

Jab has gone for a desert location, deciding to dig down deep for what appears to be an underground build as well.

x_box360

Also perched on the edge of a large drop, xbox has gone in amongst an ever-beautiful cherry tree forest.

yanman_

Last, but not least, yanman is also braving the snow with a couple of stunning houses and some basic farms.

We’re very excited to see what is to come for this world, and the bases we’ve already seen! If you want to submit another location, let us know in a /mail or a Discord ticket and we’ll add you to the list for the next installment, whenever that may be!

Happy building!