Author: John Geijsman

EOFY Creative Competition Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Back in mid-April we announced a massive, multi-month Creative Competition to round out the 2024/25 Financial Year. It took the focus of the Creative builders for a while, and we’ve got some simply incredible entries out of it!

As a reminder, we had set up a 100×100 plot for each player to build on, with no set theme. The prizes were also bigger too, with a $125, a $75 and a $50 JB HiFi voucher going to 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.

There were a few extra necessities though – only completed builds were going to be judged. Players needed to finish their build, then mail JohnsanGeezo in Survival to say it was complete, plus add a lectern on the corner of the build with a description. If builds were completed, they’d get two points in the main Emerald Points Creative Competition too.

Builders were able to enter as well, with a much bigger plot! We asked the builders to do a 100×100 design which we would then tile across the massive border plots. The winning build would get some in game loot as a prize.

Ok, enough writing – let’s dive in to the top three and an honourable mention for the main competition, followed by the builders!

1st Place: HeyItsGreee

I made this based on a dream. There is the clock at the top of the build in the sky and clocks on the floating islands which shows the time you have in a dream. There is also a bed under the build which shows dreams 🙂 I also added many hidden rooms that are based on dreams you may have 😀 The eyes show when you close your eyes at night to go to sleep. (I tried to make everything mean something lol)

This build is incredible! There is so much to see and in such an amazingly artistic style. This was an absolute pleasure to look through! A massive congratulations to you Greee! Wow.

2nd Place: _Heebyy

In Central America from the 14th century, Aztecs ruled the land until the Spanish invaded Mexico in 1521, killing the people and destroying the culture. The remains of the Aztecs are still scattered around Mexico through the jungle.

In my build we show these remains and the stories they once held, but maybe, maybe we don’t know as much as we thought about the Aztecs. Maybe it wasn’t the Spanish who killed them? Maye it was something worse? Something much worse?

There is so much detail in this build. From easter eggs all over the place, to a hidden chamber underneath with a very clever all seeing eye. This was spectacular to explore.

3rd Place: RubyBird12

Yea so… this is a portrait of Billie Eilish. I’ve always loved music and her music brings me so much joy. I also really wanted to do a really massive pixel art 😉

Pixel art at this scale is always really cool to see – it’s amazing how many different blocks go into crafting the perfect picture! Some serious dedication here Ruby! Well done.

Honourable Mention: WingedPhoenix

Welcome to Micro’s extremely spoopy forest! My aim was to create a haunted house and a cult, as well as a cellar guardian (the hooded eye) and then add extra easter eggs here ‘n’ there. See if you can find em! As you journey through the forest look for cobwebs…

Builder Competition

1st: CopperJay

Here is a wonderful river surrounded by foresty biomes. However, remnants of an old civilisation still remain, hidden in the shadows. Take a look around all the paths, caves and shadows in the build, as there may be a few hidden details… Hope you enjoy 🙂

This build is so picturesque! It’s also amazing that it tiles so well, for such a detailed build. You can explore the build and forget where the seam is so you end up looping back on yourself. Stunning job Jay!

2nd: Meowlicky

Welcome to the redstone cliffs. Excellent views and good heights, with a slight chance of cloudy. I’ve built the redstone cliffs, a mining and steampunk place. Hidden on both ends with cloud and fog, who knows how far these cliffs reach? There’s even talk of a monster in these parts.

This was a very imposing build – with the right shaders and render distance it just looms out over the whole map. I love the hanging tube tunnel and the monster weaving through! Well done Meow.

A huge congratulations to all our players who completed entries! These were an absolute pleasure to walk through and explore. It’s amazing to see what you can do when you have a bit more time!

Greee, Heebyy and Ruby, your vouchers are ready for collection at Fremantle Library! I’ll reach out to you all in Discord or through the server to tee up a time for collection.

CopperJay, you can expect a delivery ready for collection in the prize greenhouse soon!

Want some free loot? Winners Announced!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Giveaways, Survival World

Update: The closing date has come and gone, and our five winners are:

  • Ezrafixpros
  • HeyItsGreee
  • Dragoncosmo222
  • Meowlicky
  • Endrock6

You’ll find your prizes waiting for your collection at the Prize Greenhouse!

We’re in the middle of getting a big activity set up for people to get stuck into in 121Survival, but while we’re working on it, we thought we’d get you warmed up a little!

Wonder what we’re giving away? It’s a shulker box filled with loot! There’s a catch though.

While the loot is decent, there’s only 5 shulker boxes to give away. The winners will be chosen at random at 9pm on Monday 21st July.

What do I do?

At 121Spawn there are three greenhouses. In each of those greenhouses is a sign with a keyword. Make sure you write them down! You’ll need them later. Get all three and they will direct you to a final location, where you will need to read the instructions on the wall and press a button. Only press the button ONCE! It will give you a named piece of paper, unique to you.

Do not give it to other players, or you will both forfeit your entries. This giveaway is easy enough for everyone to do solo!

Send a /mail to JohnsanGeezo with the unique word on the paper, plus the three keywords. That’s it!

Good luck!

The LC Modded Server has a new modpack!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

Over the last couple of days we’ve refreshed the LC Modded server with a brand new modpack, All The Mods 9: To The Sky! It’s already seen a massive amount of play, so it should be a popular one, especially as we’re launching in to the school holidays this weekend!

The big difference this time around is that the world is a skyblock world, so every player has their own island, 4,000 blocks away from each other! ATM9TTS is a modpack that has a massive amount of mods to explore – enough for every type of modded player. There’s technology, magic, farming, building, boss battles, grinding and a whole lot more.

Some of the bigger mods included are Create 6, Powah, ForceCraft, AE2, Botania, Thermal Series, Mekanism, Immersive Engineering, Croptopia, Ars Nouveau, Pipez, Sophisticated Backpacks & Storage, Dank Storage, Chipped, Waystones, Mystical Agriculture, Easy Villagers, Modular Routers and a lot more.

It sounds like a lot to figure out, but there’s a massive quest system that goes into every one of the mods, so it’s also good for the new players.

We’ve also got Simple Voice Chat installed, so you can add that to your modpack manually too, or just use the LibraryCraft Discord voice channels.

There’s some important entry requirements which can be found at the LCModded page, but it’s going to be a lot of fun!

July Creative Competition – Transport

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

The end of June means the end of the first season of Emerald Points Competition for 2025, with July being the start of Season 2! For the start of a new season we’re going with Transport. It’s not all that straight forward so we want to see some out of the box (or block?) thinking with this one. There’s been lots of different transport themed builds in LC over the years, so there’s some options to go with!

Extra Builder Rank Requirement

One of the requests this year from the Builder team is to give them a bit more of a challenge, so each month we’ll also be adding in an extra requirement, just for the Builder rank players! Regular competition players do not need to do this.

Include three different types of transport in your build.

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 July Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the June gate which will close to building at 9pm on Monday June 30th.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of July 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:

  • 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

Each month the Emerald Points are tallied up and can be seen in the Emerald Hall on the Survival Lobby world. It’s also been given a rather large revamp, thanks to Meowlicky, one of our builders!

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.

May Steampunk Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’ve had an extremely quiet May Creative Competition this year, with everyone seemingly focused on the big End of Financial Year Creative Competition, or Survival play. The builds in the EOFY competition are looking incredible!

We only had one player complete a build in the May Steampunk competition, but they were banned just over a week ago for x-raying in the server, so unfortunately we don’t have any completed builds this time around! We did however have a couple of entries for the Builder Competition, so we’ll go straight to them.

Builder Creative Competition Results

To find out more about the Builder competition, read the post! It’ll also cover the rest of the Builder role.

1st Place: Meowlicky

This time around, Meow went with a steampunk factory build. There’s also a decent amount of redstone inside, allowing for an illusion that the cogs on the side of the building are turning. Very clever!

2nd Place: Smaug12345

Smaug went with the beginnings of a very steampunk styled tower – it could potentially be used for a lighthouse or a statue, but also looks a little like the start of a large decorated piston.

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 1, 2025! 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. _Heebyy – 25 pts
  2. Evoka – 15 pts
  3. Imaginemode – 15 pts
  4. FantasticFun – 12 pts
  5. GmanPig47 – 10 pts
  6. Kyletendo – 5 pts
  7. HatCatWolf1 – 5 pts
  8. JellyBombs24 – 1 pt
  9. _m1cro_ – 1 pt
  10. WoodyToucan – 1 pt
  11. ZacWild5 – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. Meowlicky – 40 pts
  2. CopperJay – 30 pts
  3. Smaug12345 – 25 pts

Congratulations to our winners and entries!

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!

July School Holiday Social Session!

On By John GeijsmanIn Meet Ups

Term 2 has flown by, with it being halfway done at the time of writing, so it’s time to announce the mid-year school holiday social session!

We’ve had questions about it already, so here’s everything you need to know.

Where: Fremantle Library
When: Tuesday 8th July, 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.

See you there!

June Creative Competition – New End Biome

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

For June we’re revisiting another older theme – New End Biome! We’ve seen some dramatic changes in the LC Survival End in recent worlds, so we’ve got high hopes!

Extra Builder Rank Requirement

One of the requests this year from the Builder team is to give them a bit more of a challenge, so each month we’ll also be adding in an extra requirement, just for the Builder rank players! Regular competition players do not need to do this.

Include a custom built End Portal.

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 June Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the May gate which will close to building at 9pm on Saturday May 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of June 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:

  • 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

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.

April Underwater City Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

It’s term 2! The April school holidays have come and gone, we’re all still probably recovering from a chocolate overload, so let’s go through the competition results! This month we had a few less entries overall, and unfortunately many of them didn’t stick to the theme of Underwater City or weren’t finished, so there were even less, resulting in incomplete podiums for both competitions. It’s very important that all players read the theme and understand the rules of the competition. It’s even more important to try to get your build finished!

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: Imaginemode

Easily the standout this round was from our longest currently whitelisted player, Imaginemode! Having been with us since the very beginning in late 2019, Imagine has created a very cleverly build and storied underwater city based around a build from LibraryCraft worlds of long ago called Dodoville! A brilliant build to explore, Imagine! Well done!

2nd Place: FantasticFun

Fan went with a very prismatic build, complete with giant octopus terrorising a house! This one would have been great to see a little more completed, but it was still a very aesthetic build. Nice one Fan!

Well done to our two winners!

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had a just the one entry for this month’s Builder competition, being saved by a pretty fleshed out story. To find out more about the Builder competition, read the post! It’ll also cover the rest of the Builder role.

1st Place: Meowlicky

Meow went with an underwater ruined throne tower from a buried city that was wiped away after a dam broke. It was interesting seeing the build detail underground too. Nice idea Meow – it’d be great to see this one completed one day in Survival!

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 1, 2025! 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. _Heebyy – 25 pts
  2. Evoka – 15 pts
  3. Imaginemode – 15 pts
  4. FantasticFun – 12 pts
  5. GmanPig47 – 10 pts
  6. Kyletendo – 5 pts
  7. HatCatWolf1 – 5 pts
  8. JellyBombs24 – 1 pt
  9. _m1cro_ – 1 pt
  10. WoodyToucan – 1 pt
  11. ZacWild5 – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. CopperJay – 30 pts
  2. Meowlicky – 25 pts
  3. Smaug12345 – 15 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!

LC is BACK – April Competition Extended to 9am 1 May!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds

Sorry for the delay everyone! The server is back – given we lost precious time working on finishing April’s competition, the April competition world will be left open until 9am tomorrow morning, May 1st.

Thanks for your patience!

Sorry folks, the server is currently being worked on in the background, so won’t be available to play on for the next little while. We’re working on it and will update this post when we know more!

May Creative Competition – Steampunk

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

For May we’re doing a theme we’ve not done before, but have high hopes for – Steampunk! With all the copper in the game, it should be a lot of fun to see what is built. For those of you that aren’t sure of what steampunk is, it combines a bit of a historical setting with steam powered machinery instead of modern technology. Think copper, gears, steam engines etc.

Extra Builder Rank Requirement

One of the requests this year from the Builder team is to give them a bit more of a challenge, so each month we’ll also be adding in an extra requirement, just for the Builder rank players! Regular competition players do not need to do this.

Include some redstone. It has to do something! It can’t just be pointless.

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 May Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the April gate which will close to building at 9pm on Wednesday April 30th.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of May 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:

  • 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

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.