We’re almost through Term 1, so it’s time to announce the next school holiday social session!
We’ve had questions about it already, so here’s everything you need to know.
Where: Fremantle Library When: Thursday 17th April, 2 – 5pm Cost: FREE! Bring: Just yourself! We’ve got board games and some laptops, but if you have your own laptop ready to go, bring it along.
As always, please tell us in a mail or in Discord if you plan on coming so we can get an idea of how many people to expect.
Update: Happy April Fool’s everyone! Unfortunately the Hermits won’t be joining us, but it had you going for a while! Pearlescentmoon or any of the hermits – if you’re for some random reason reading this, we’d LOVE to give you a tour!
Huge news everyone! This Saturday we’re getting some very special visitors to LibraryCraft.
A while ago I reached out to PearlescentMoon from Hermitcraft, asking if she wanted to visit LibraryCraft and have a tour. It’s been over a year since I emailed, but last night I got a response! She’s going to be visiting us on Saturday morning around 11am, and apparently she’ll try to bring a friend or two!
If you want to say hi and maybe even get a photo with them (online of course), get online on Saturday!
We’re going back in time to revisit a theme we ran back in 2020, our first year of Creative Competitions – Underwater City! This theme was held back in August 2020 as a part of our National Science Week partnership and we had some awesome designs to check out then, so we’re hoping for some more underwater goodness this time around! We’ve even got a new custom water world for it.
Remember, each month counts in terms of points, plus there’s the Builder Rank Competition too – the GOLD bordered plots (this time they’re bamboo bordered) are for Builders only – do not claim these if you are not a builder. If you do, we will clear them without warning, regardless of whether there’s builds on it or not.
The April Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the March gate which will close to building at 9pm on Monday March 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of April 1st (no joke!), so get thinking about your build!
Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.
Season 1, 2025 Prizes
As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:
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
The parallel Builders Creative Competition will be judged at the same time, with the overall winner each season getting a $50 JB HiFi voucher.
Like the AFL, it’s a round robin style tournament that will be on for a number of weeks. Each registered player will get the opportunity to verse each other player in the competition, but there’s a difference. This isn’t just one minigame, it’s four – BedWars, KitPVP, TNT Runand Spleaf. Each week will be on a different map, with the exception of KitPVP, which has a dedicated map.
Starting Friday May 2nd, matches will be played each week, but strictly between Friday afternoons and Sunday nights – no matches during the week, so you can all focus on school! This is so it’s fair to everyone that can’t play during the week. You won’t be able to verse every person on every map, as it’d take forever – if we get 16 players registered, it’ll be a 16 week competition, plus more for a finals series.
Like with our other tournaments, it’s up to each player to sort out their matches. Matches will be available on the LC League Island (image above) in the Minigames Lobby at the start of each week.
If matches are not played between Friday afternoons and Sunday nights, they cannot be delayed to the following week or weekend. The player that puts the least amount of effort in to scheduling a match will be forfeited.
KitPVP
As KitPVP is a cumulative scoring system, not per match, it makes it a little harder to set up. The map (seen above) called 10Themes Arena will be limited to 3 players in the world – the two players and a moderator. This world is a priority world for the League players that need it, plus a mod.
The moderator will be in at the same time to run the stopwatch and do the count of deaths. You’ll have 5 minutes to play! You’ll also know who the moderator is before the match starts.
Points & Scoring
Each match you play earns you points, regardless of if you win or not!
Win: 2 points Lose: 1 point Forfeit: 0 points
You need to actually play to get a point! The opponent of the forfeited player will get an automatic 2 points.
Once you’ve played your match, it is the responsibility of the players to confirm the results in the League Discord channel, or in an in game mail to Johnsan from the Survival world if you don’t have Discord access.
IMPORTANT: You’re better off playing and losing instead of forfeiting. You’ll improve your chances of getting into the finals series.
Prizes
Up for grabs are some netherite blocks and mega crate keys for the top three at the end of the finals series, and the top two (winner and runner-up) get an exclusive rank on the server itself for the following year – League Champion, and League Runner-Up.
Also up for grabs this year are some JB HiFi vouchers! $100 for the League Champion, and $50 for the League Runner-Up.
Registration
To register, send JohnsanGeezo a mail in game. Registration is free, but you need to be available to play every weekend in order to complete your matches and get those points. Registrations close Sunday 20th April at 9pm. No registrations will be taken once the competition has started.
Once registered, you’ll get the LC League Discord role and access to the League channel. The first match-ups will be available on Wednesday April 23rd, to be played from Friday May 2nd. Plenty of time to get your first match sorted.
Ladder
The LC League page will be updated on the website that will include the full season draw (the matches), and the current ladder, plus this information and a little more closer to the date.
Last season was a lot of fun, so make sure you register for the fourth annual LC League competition, and ask in game or in Discord if you have any questions.
We’re moving through 2025 pretty quickly and it’s great to see excitement for the competitions as well as everything else in LibraryCraft! It’s time to announce the third competition theme for the year. This one should be interesting – Seasons.
Remember, each month counts in terms of points, plus there’s the Builder Rank Competition too – the GOLD bordered plots are for Builders only – do not claim these if you are not a builder. If you do, we will clear them without warning, regardless of whether there’s builds on it or not.
The March Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the February gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday February 28th.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of March 1st, so get thinking about your build!
Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.
Season 1, 2025 Prizes
As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:
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
The parallel Builders Creative Competition will be judged at the same time, with the overall winner each season getting a $50 JB HiFi voucher.
It’s about time we added something new to Minigames, and this is it! Way back in 2012, a Minecraft player by the username of three_two gave us Cluster Chunk. Given that it was over 12 years ago, the game we know and love was extremely different!
The original world download no longer exists, but it has recently been given a bit of exposure by xisumavoid of Hermitcraft fame, when he recreated it for HC10. It looked like a lot of fun, so it’s been rebuilt with a few necessary tweaks for LibraryCraft, and is now ready to go!
But what is it?
Cluster Chunk is BedWars at it’s core, but with some big differences. It can be played solo, or in two teams of up to 4. The classic Red vs Blue!
After sides are chosen, you’ll be sent to a platform in the sky, just above your cluster. Drop through the hole to get going. That platform will also be where you respawn if your bed still exists.
Each cluster is made up of a select amount of Survival blocks. Mine them carefully! There are also zombie and passive mob spawners included, plus regular survival mobs may spawn! There’s some decent loot chests for each team as well – Armoury, Engineering and Alchemy.
Note that the chest in the image above has been relocated to the starting platform – we had some issues in testing! Using the items around you, gear up, make your way to the other team’s cluster and destroy their bed. Every block in your cluster is able to be destroyed and used.
This version of BedWars is a bit more of a challenge, and likely a longer game, so think about your strategies! This was also the reason for us turning Survival settings on in regular BedWars too.
We don’t anticipate too many issues, but as always, get in touch with us through in game mail or Discord if there are any problems, or tweaks you think would be good. This is going to be a fun one!
The map is able to be joined like any other BedWars map – just click the sign!
We’re already a month into 2025, so it’s time for a fresh start with competition! We kicked off the year with Island and we got some awesome builds to check out! With so much height in many of these builds it was a struggle to get the images in one hit, so apologies if the best angle isn’t there!
As always, we’ll get to the builder competition after the main competition’s honourable mentions.
Let’s take a look at the results for the main Emerald Points Competition first.
1st Place: Heebyy_
Getting his first win, Heebyy designed some subtly detailed islands that resemble those seen in Thailand! These were really well done. The gradients look great. Well done Heebyy!
2nd Place: GmanPig47
GmanPig47 went with a series of floating islands that could be a lot of fun for some parkour – one of the LibraryCraft staples! The difference and detail in these was excellent!
3rd Place: HatCatWolf1
Rounding out the top three, HatCatWolf1 went with a some floating islands and some very aesthetic bridges in between, plus a lot of detail at ground level. Judging only went on the floating island part, but it’s still excellent!
Well done to our three winners! We also had four honourable mentions this round.
FantasticFun
m1cro
WoodyToucan
ZacWild5
Builder Creative Competition Results
We had a full podium for this month’s Builder competition! To find out more about the Builder competition, read the post! It’ll also cover the rest of the Builder role.
1st Place: CopperJay
Copper went with a microscale volcanic island this time, and it looks excellent! Well done Copper!
2nd Place: Meowlicky
Meow went with a smaller version of the classic central end islands. This one looked great. Super simple, but very effective, especially with the black glass!
3rd Place: Smaug12345
Smaug went with a nicely detailed aquarium table that looks a little like a map of a world. Very clever.
Leaderboards
Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 1, 2025!
Player Emerald Points Competition
_Heebyy – 15 pts
GmanPig47 – 10 pts
HatCatWolf1 – 5 pts
FantasticFun – 1 pt
_m1cro_ – 1 pt
WoodyToucan – 1 pt
ZacWild5 – 1 pt
Builder Competition
CopperJay – 15 pts
Meowlicky – 10 pts
Smaug12345 – 5 pts
Congratulations to all our winners and entries! Prizes will be able to be collected from the Prize Greenhouse at 121Spawn as soon as you read this!
In Game Prize Collection
The 121Survival Competition Prize Collection Point is housed inside the large greenhouse just at the west end of 121Spawn.
It will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention.
Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them!
We’re already a month into 2025, so it’s time to announce the second competition for the year. We’ve had a lot of action in the January world, and we’re expecting big things from this one, as it’s Medieval. We’ve got a lot of medieval style builds in LibraryCraft – it’s almost a Minecraft staple after all, so take a look around for some inspiration! There’s the Medieval Games world available to check out that should provide some interesting ideas!
Remember, each month counts in terms of points, plus there’s the Builder Rank Competition too – the GOLD bordered plots are for Builders only – do not claim these if you are not a builder. If you do, we will clear them without warning, regardless of whether there’s builds on it or not.
The February Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the January gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday January 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of February 1st, so get thinking about your build!
Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.
Season 1, 2025 Prizes
As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:
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
The parallel Builders Creative Competition will be judged at the same time, with the overall winner each season getting a $50 JB HiFi voucher.
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to 2025! It’s the start of another new year and more fun in LibraryCraft! So who won in December, and who took out the whole season? We went with the December staple, Christmas, and we got some brilliant builds yet again!
As always this year, we’ll get to the builder competition after the main competition’s honourable mentions. This month wraps up the second season of 2024 competition, so we’ll get to the final season winners at the bottom!
Let’s take a look at the results for the main Emerald Points Competition first.
1st Place: yanman_
Getting his first win, yanman has crafted a stunning and very decorated Christmas Square! It was a joy to walk through this as the book at the front suggests, and see everything, from built and furnished houses, empty ones for sale, and people moving in! Well done Yan!
2nd Place: FantasticFun
Rounding out a successful 2024, FantasticFun has crafted a beautiful Castle of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from the Nutcracker! A great idea Fan, this one looks brilliant!
3rd Place: ZacWild5
Rounding out the top three, Zac went with a huge Christmas Tree that doubles as Santa’s Christmas Toy Factory Treehouse!
Well done to our three winners! We also had four honourable mentions this round.
blossomfallnt
Grey_Wolf_Gamer
RoseBlossom_
sus_minecrafter
Builder Creative Competition Results
We had just the one points scorer for this month’s Builder competition! To find out more about the Builder competition, read the post! It’ll also cover the rest of the Builder role.
1st Place: CopperJay
The detailing around the water is just beautiful. What an effect!
Final Leaderboards
Here’s what the leaderboards look like at the end of season 2 of competition.
Player Emerald Points Competition
RoseBlossom_ – 41 pts
FantasticFun – 40 pts
ZacWild5 – 36 pts
Kyletendo – 28 pts
WoodyToucan – 16 pts
yanman_ – 15 pts
EnderKitty543 – 11 pts
KuruTrancy – 2 pts
blossomfallnt – 1 pt (4 votes)
Grey_Wolf_Gamer – 1 pt (3 votes)
_m1cro_ – 1 pt (2 votes)
HeyItsGreee – 1 pt
Doomwet – 1 pt
strxww – 1 pt
AlexJellyBean – 1 pt
sus_minecrafter – 1 pt
Builder Competition
CopperJay – 85 pts
Smaug12345 – 45 pts
RubyBird12 – 5 pts
toothless_spy – -10 pts
Congratulations to all our winners and entries, and a big congratulations to RoseBlossom_, FantasticFun and ZacWild5! You three get the big three – A LEGO voucher for Rose, and some JB HiFi vouchers for Fan and Zac. CopperJay also gets a voucher for taking out the Builder competition. For our major prize winners – I’ll be in touch!
Everyone has done incredibly well this season, it was our biggest yet! Prizes will be able to be collected from the Prize Greenhouse at 121Spawn as soon as you read this!
In Game Prize Collection
The 121Survival Competition Prize Collection Point is housed inside the large greenhouse just at the west end of 121Spawn.
It will have protected chests for each player that won a prize – podium OR honourable mention.
Please make sure you collect your items quickly, or you will risk losing them!
Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s crazy that we’re here already, but it’s time to announce the first competition for 2025 – Island! We’re leaving the rest up to you. It just has to link back to the theme of Island. If it’s tricky to pick, let us know with some signs or a book and lectern.
Remember, each month counts in terms of points, plus there’s the Builder Rank Competition too – the GOLD bordered plots are for Builders only – do not claim these if you are not a builder. If you do, we will clear them without warning, regardless of whether there’s builds on it or not.
The January Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the December gate which will close to building at 9pm on Tuesday December 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of January 1st, so get thinking about your build!
Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.
Season 1, 2025 Prizes
As you know, each month we give away the following prizes to regular players:
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
The parallel Builders Creative Competition will be judged at the same time, with the overall winner each season getting a $50 JB HiFi voucher.
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