I’ve had notification that our host’s servers are currently down with an issue. For now, LibraryCraft is temporarily offline while we wait for Apex Hosting’s systems to come back online. I’ll write a message here when they’re back! Stay tuned.
EDIT: And we’re back!
We’ve met a bunch of our moderators, time to meet some of our players! First up is JtripleM.
How long have you been playing Minecraft?
I think I’ve been playing Minecraft since about 2012-2013 which makes that about 7-8 years now. It feels very weird to know it’s been that long!
What made you start playing Minecraft?
What made me start playing Minecraft was one of my mates. I remember going over to his house and playing this new game he got called Minecraft on his PS3.
I remember me and him being terrified of Herobrine and constantly watching YouTube tutorials on how to spawn him into the game back in 2013!
What type of Minecraft player are you?
We’ll use the following list – based off Mumbo Jumbo’s video – 20 Different Types of Minecraft Player, with a couple of modifications.
Good question! So many options on the list but the one that describes me the best I reckon is a Medieval Builder. As most of you probably know by now, I love building in Minecraft, probably my favourite thing to do actually and I really love the medieval style! If you’ve seen my current survival base, it is a castle. I’m planning to build a village and medieval trading ship at the dock!
Do you start a world the same way every time, or mix it up?
I usually start off my survival worlds by mostly exploring the first day whilst collecting materials such as wood and iron. I usually run out of time in the day and end up being chased by zombies and other monsters. Usually spend my first night in a dirt hole in the ground!
What’s your favourite ever build you’ve created?
That’s a hard one! I really like some of my builds so it’s hard to pick my favourite one. I think my favourite build on the LibraryCraft server would have to be either the PVP lobby or the Empire State Building with King Kong climbing up the side. Both builds were really fun to make!
How many times have you beaten the EnderDragon?
I could not tell you how many times I’ve defeated the EnderDragon because I actually don’t know! I know that sounds a bit cocky but I think it’s my mission in Minecraft to kill the dragon. I load up a new world and everything I do is preparation to that big mission! A Minecraft world isn’t complete without killing the dragon in my opinion.
What does your LC base look like? What are some of it’s features?
My LibraryCraft base looks like a Medieval village (well, will look like one soon). I have a Medieval Castle with stone castle walls all the way around but are yet to add many buildings. We have a dock where I am also planning to build a medieval trading ship! We have storage rooms, bedrooms, enchanting rooms, everything a good base needs is in our castle!
What’s your favourite block?
That’s a tough question but I think my favourite block would have to be the spruce log block. This is my favourite block because it is my favourite block to build with and can be made into so many other handy/good things such as spruce planks, spruce stairs, sticks etc.
How about your favourite mob?
My favourite Minecraft mob is definitely the Zombie. The only reason this is my favourite is because it is pretty easy to defeat and can’t ruin my newly built house. Looking at you creepers!
What’s your favourite thing to do in LibraryCraft?
My favourite thing to do in the LibraryCraft server is definitely building new things and lobbies for the server as a builder. The thing I love about building for the server is that it can be anything you want, with such a wide variety of block choices, you can go crazy!
Around a month ago a group of 12 players took part in the LCBBS – the LibraryCraft Big Base Swap, where pairs of players swapped bases and modified them in their style. It was great to see the excitement in the chat and Discord, so now here’s some of the results! Not every base was able to be worked on (life sometimes gets in the way and that’s okay), but here are some of the bases with the biggest changes. You can see the previous images in the first post about the LCBBS.
This was a fun one – I took on Zashu’s base, and added a fallen temple area in the corner, a new mega portal, a hidden super smelter behind the Among Us spaceman, a stable for the animals under a cliff, a chicken coop, and the biggest job of all, clearing out the huge chest monster that covered the entire base!
Zashu went all out with my base, completely redesigning the house, and adding so much more! I honestly love it. It’s incredible! A campfire area, large outdoor table, bridge, more farms, ship and…
…even a full private library in the basement. It’s phenomenal. Thanks Z!
Now known as sweedish and thanks to _keq, Cotal’s base had a huge overhaul, with heaps of aesthetic changes that look great.
The farms underground are also beautiful to check out.
To be perfectly honest I’m not sure what’s changed here – I think the portion in the centre at the bottom is new, as well as the big torch? Either way, it looks cool! Nice work Flash.
On the other side, Cram changed heaps in Flash’s base, with more terrain changes and details galore. It looks excellent.
Jish’s base (thanks to B4C0N), got a good overhaul, with most noticeably (to me at least) saw the farm areas getting an overhaul. It looks great!
TurtleBoy got a good deal, scoring a couple of excellent builders in JtripleM and CrazyCollie1205. The changes here are pretty monumental! I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Wow.
That’s it! We’ll be sure to do the LCBBS again in the next Minecraft version, with all that beautiful new cave world generation. Thanks to everyone who took part!
It’s the final month of Season 1, 2021’s Emerald Points Competition – we’re finishing the season off by heading to the Nether!
Here’s the rules.
Judging will take place during the first week of July 2021. The June Comp world gate – located on the Warp Ship – will replace the May gate which will close to building at 9pm on Monday May 31st.
The gate will open on the Warp Ship on the morning of June 1st.
The April Wild West Competition has been wrapped up, the moderators have submitted their votes, so here’s the results, plus the honourable mentions. We had a few less entries this month, but they were still all great to explore!
Count notches up win number two with a phenomenal train build – the classic train going over a large bridge that’s been destroyed is almost a staple Wild West scene, and it’s been executed really well. Great job Count. There’s even a bonus croc!
Formerly known as frankie8_, _pluto_9 has created a stunning Wild West town, with a hotel, Sheriff’s office, stable, cemetery and train line running through. It must have a good water source nearby, as the greenery just pops. Well done Pluto!
Kursed also built a small settlement, with plenty of livestock around (including someone auctioning off a rare jeb_sheep (a sheep that cycles through various colours). I love the mineshaft that was included here too.
Three other builders also scored votes but didn’t quite get across the line.
Congratulations to all our winners and honourable mentions! The winnings will be sent out soon! Good luck with all your library builds – they’re looking great so far.
As some of you may know, on Thursday Mojang released the latest snapshot for 1.17 development. Given the size of 1.17, they’ve decided to change a few things up and split 1.17 into two releases.
The Summer Update focuses on blocks and mobs, and then the Holiday release for World Generation. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is around September. There will be updates to our plugins during that time so we will get the blocks, but they won’t automatically generate in the game. Some will – like amethysts and copper, but the rest will only be available in Creative Mode. Mobs that we’ve seen in snapshots already will appear though.
Because the world generation won’t happen until at least the start of 2022 for us (we need to wait for plugin updates to happen first, which take some time), we won’t add a new world just yet. OldSurvival and NewSurvival will stay for the time being.
As the Survival worlds are preloaded with a worldborder, all of the explorable land has been explored, so nothing new will spawn in the current worldborder of 5k x 5k, so we’ll be expanding the NewSurvival worldborder to 7.5k x 7.5k. If you want those new items, you’re going to need to go exploring in the new areas!
For the other items that won’t naturally spawn, they’ll be available in an AdminShop, for a price of diamonds. When Update 2 comes out and is available for us in 2022, OldSurvival will go, NewSurvival will become 116Survival, and 117Survival will appear, in all it’s worldgen glory! Speaking of those AdminShops…
We’ve noticed over the last year that our economy has stagnated. Balances are being collected in order to be the richest, some shops are asking for payment in diamonds or emeralds, shops are mostly empty (save 2 or 3), or prices are exorbitant. There’s a solution that the Mods and I have come up with.
We’re planning on using two new plugins: The Diamond Bank and Shopkeepers. The Diamond Bank allows for storage of diamonds in a digital vault. Holding diamonds in your hand, enter /deposit and they’ll be safely stored away. Entering /withdraw will get them out. Shopkeepers uses villagers with custom selling interfaces – much like what you see already, but players can add the items they want to sell, for either an amount of diamonds, or to trade. They work really well, and shopkeepers are also able to be changed to different mobs. Check the Shopkeepers link above to see it in action.
Anyway, here’s what we’re proposing. There’s two choices. To vote, log in to the server and cast your vote by selecting Option 1 or 2.
When we get 1.17 Update 1 in September, we:
We do the same thing (without the AdminShop Villagers) when 1.17 Update 2 comes out in 2022.
So – the choices are we change to the new system in September (Option 1), or January 2022 (Option 2).
We think this will revitalise the economy system and make mining for diamonds all the more crucial! Diamond trading works extremely well on other servers, without the need for complicated economy systems. Diamonds are also much more versatile in the game! We think this’ll be an awesome change. It might take some getting used to, but we can do it!
To celebrate 2021’s National Library & Information Week, happening from May 17 – 23, we’re asking our players to build their best Library! I’m very excited about this one.
Here’s the rules!
Judging will take place during the first week of June 2021. The May Comp world gate – located on the Warp Ship – will replace the April gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday April 30th.
The gate will open on the Warp Ship on the morning of May 1st.
We had a very excited response to the LibraryCraft Big Base Swap, with 12 bases submitted. This is great, as it’s a clean six pairs. Before getting in to the bases and the swaps, a few little rules, in addition to the ones in the post linked before.
Ok on to the bases that were submitted! Bring on some photos…
Time for the swaps! By popular request, these were done randomly.
JtripleM & CrazyCollie1205 swap with Turtleboy2929
JohnsanGeezo swaps with Zashu
SuperHeroFlash swaps with Cram__
B4C0N swaps with Jish_Le_Fish
Cotal__ swaps with Lowkeq__
vinemon swaps with pokemon_boy2020
Let the swaps begin! By the time you see this the claims will be swapped over and work can begin. You cannot ask to swap back for a whole month. Have fun everyone!
The what? It’s the LibraryCraft Big Base Swap! To mix things up and see what can happen, we’re running an opt-in Big Base Swap. Players will be assigned a different existing base on NewSurvival to modify!
To be a part of the fun, simply place a named book into the chest that’s in the Old Auction House (now the LCBBS Building) at NewSurvival Spawn Island. The book must also include the coordinates of your base.
Here are some always-important rules:
The LCBBS is now open for entrants! Registrations will close at 9pm on Thursday 15th April. 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.
March is all done – time for the results! Most of the building happened underground this month, so pictures are a little trickier, but there’s at least one underground image for each of the winners. It also marks the mid-season point for the competition, so some prizes are up for grabs for the top three at the moment.
Here’s the top three, and some honourable mentions.
Count is back in the top three with an innovative exterior design. The road and powerlines are great, and I love the overturned truck! Inside there’s story galore, with almost every character having a sign for speech. Count, you’re a brilliant storyteller!
Fresh after a slight username tweak, Bacon has built a smoking underground bunker in what seems to be a dead forest. I particularly like the large pipes leading into the textured green lake. Inside there’s iron blocks galore (which looks great with my textures), and a very clinical and orderly build, with much more below.
Three other builders also scored votes but didn’t quite get across the line.
Lastly, there’s the Mid Season winners! Here’s how the leaderboard looks after March:
To split up the two third places, we go by the number of votes gathered since the start of the season. So that’s 10 votes for JtripleM and 18 for B4C0N! The winners are Count, Collie and B4C0N. Woo! Count, you get a $25 JB HiFi Voucher, with Collie and B4C0N getting a $10 one each.
Congratulations to all our winners and honourable mentions! I’ll send out the winnings for the top three this afternoon, and will reach out to the mid-season winners on Discord to arrange collection.
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