Edit: We’re open again! Thanks for your patience.
Sorry players! We’ve decided to lock off the server tonight so we can expand the 121Survival world. We realised we didn’t have a badlands, warm ocean or desert! We’ll be expanding the world to include them.
We’ll update this post when it’s ready to go!
We’re only a day into 1.21Survival and there’s already a big buzz of excitement with a new map and everything it brings! Now that we’re under way, it’s time to introduce the Chamber Cave.
As we’ve said before, nine trial chambers close to spawn have been protected from destruction and can be run when you like, but first they need to be unlocked! In these protected chambers, you won’t be able to place or break blocks, but will be able to interact with the mobs and vaults.
Located at 121Spawn, the Chamber Cave contains the gates to these nine trial chambers, but they’re not open yet. For each chamber gate, 12 players will need to submit items from a specific theme. Some will be easy to gather, others harder. Once the submissions from each player have been fulfilled correctly, the gate will be opened by staff for the trial chamber to be played! The next gate’s items will then be published not long after.
Check the gate frame for the ingredients you’ll need to submit. The player indicators will be updated regularly so you know who is submitting items, and if they’re done.
Rules:
As an example, the first gate has the theme of Agriculture!
12 players will need to submit the following EACH:
So collect everything you need, head to the Chamber Cave and drop them in the chest in the centre. Once 12 players have submitted everything they need, the gate will open and the trial chamber will be able to be run!
Any questions, just ask in Discord or in game!
Yep! We’re updated and ready to go! It’s been a bit of a longer process this time around, but it’s sure to be worth it. Please note that we’re on version 1.21, not 1.21.1. That’ll come soon, as we’re still waiting on a few plugins to sort themselves out.
There’s a couple of little things we’re still preparing and there’s going to be some teething issues from time to time, so please be patient with us. The most important thing you can do is tell us! If you see something that’s not quite right, please let us know in a Discord ticket, or in game if you don’t have Discord.
A few things to note:
Finally, a massive thanks to the build team for creating our new Amsterdam inspired 121Spawn! A huge shout out to Meowlicky, CopperJay & JohnsanGeezo for getting stuck in. It looks insane! Easily our best spawn yet. Extra thanks to Meowlicky for getting the design and layout started!
Always popular, we’ve decided to do not one, but two school holiday social sessions this time around! One at Fremantle in week one of the school holidays, and the second one at Victoria Park Public Library! That one will be a little different…
The good news is that by the time these roll around, we should be well and truly on 1.21.1. A new Survival world to get stuck into!
First up, we’ll be hanging out on Tuesday 24th September from 2 – 5pm at Fremantle Library! That one will be a social session like we’re used to – a few laptops for jumping in game, board games and just space to hang out.
With the Fremantle event, 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.
Where: Fremantle Library
When: Tuesday 24th September, 2 – 5pm
Cost: FREE!
Bring: Just yourself! We’ve got the board games and some laptops, but if you have your own laptop ready to go, bring it along.
In the second week of the school holidays we’ll be heading down to the Victoria Park Public Library to hang out there! This one is a little different, with bookings being essential, a small cost set by the library, and a tour happening for new people interested in joining the server.
Where: Victoria Park Public Library
When: Tuesday 1st October, 10am – 12 noon
Cost: $3
Bookings Essential
John will be doing a bit of a server tour for new families wanting to join and there’ll be some laptops available for people to try their hands at some creative building in a special world in the server. It’s a shorter session, but this one will be focusing on the new players coming in.
Either way, they’re going to be a lot of fun! See you there!
That’s correct! Thank you all so very much for waiting so patiently, we’re pretty much good to go on finally updating LibraryCraft to 1.21! The plugins are ready (with a few changes having to come in the background) plus 121Spawn almost read to go, but all things going well, 1.21 will be coming to the server in just over a week, ideally being ready for play on the 19th September! Just in time for school holidays.
To make this work, the server will be unavailable for play, likely for a few days, from Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th August. It’s longer than we’ve had before, but we’ve got some work to do! The actual updates, world uploads and preloads, testing, plugins set up and more testing. Hopefully we’re quicker a little faster, but that’s what we’ve decided so far.
/gwarp 120Spawn will be removed and replaced with /gwarp 121Spawn. If you want to go to 1.20 Spawn, you’ll need to use the gate at the Warp Ship.
Remember, if you find yourself unwhitelisted from the 16th, don’t panic! Just be patient, and check the website, and Discord if you have it. Bring on 1.21 and all the new stuff!
We missed it last month, so let’s get back into choosing a new Player of the Month.
If you’d like to nominate someone for Player of the Month, you’ll find the link to the form in the menu option at the top of the site. It can be an act of kindness in the server, politeness, etiquette or something similar. Note that this is only applicable to actions in the server, not in Discord.
The Player of the Month will get POTM role in both the server and in Discord, plus two Mega Crate keys to use in the server’s current Survival world.
On to this month’s winner…
We had three nominations for this month.
_Heebyy
Snake is very awesome, nice and helps loads of people! They always have nice conversations with people and are very helpful! Snake deserves POTM!
Evoka
They are a fun and playful person to be on the server with, always happy to help out or play games. They really have earned the player of the month award in my eyes.
RoseBlossom_
Rose is always nice and very helpful to everyone, always a good sport in mini games and overall a strong contender for player of the month in my humble opinion
A huge congratulations to _Heebyy for being awesome! You’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.
Nominations are now open for next month!
Another month down! It’s already getting nearer to the end of the year. It’s just flying by! After a special theme last month, we’re going with Games! We all love playing them, either in the digital form, plus board and card games, so we want to see how you go with building them! Let us know with a sign on the corner of your plot with the name of your game too.
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 September Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the August gate which will close to building at 9pm on Saturday August 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of September 1st, so get thinking about your build!
A big thanks to Backward_Nemo for the gate build this time around. It’s perfect!
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:
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 the start of a new season of competition – the leaderboards reset! So who won in July? We went with a library classic – Books, and we got some brilliant entries. You are all so creative!
As always this year, 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.
Scoring his first win, Zac opted for a twist on the theme, making “The Greatest Bookshop in the World”. This was a beautifully designed build that is nothing short of spectacular inside! Well done Zac! This was a beauty.
Getting back to back 2nd place, Rose created a double sided build based on All The Light We Cannot See. It’s very well done!
Rounding out the top three, EnderKitty opted for a more classic tale, with Rapunzel in her tower. This one looks great!
Well done to our three winners! We also had four honourable mentions this round.
We had two points scorers 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.
Jay designed a very detailed New Beijing Marketplace from The Lunar Chronicles. This was a fun one to explore!
Smaug went with Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle. Nice work Smaug!
Here’s what the leaderboards look like for Season 2 so far!
Player Emerald Points Competition
Builder Competition
Congratulations to all our winners and entries! Prizes will be able to be collected from the Skull as soon as you read this!
The 120Survival Competition Prize Collection Point is housed inside Skull Rock.
Instead of prizes being deposited at bases, they’re all left at a central prize collection point at John’s Pirate Cove Base. There’s a public pwarp – JohnsanGeezo.PrizePickup120 – that 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!
Good news! Our fifth Annual Report, for 2023/24 is now available! Click the image below to download a copy. Thanks again to everyone for your support of the program! It’s been another exciting year of growth and heaps of fun. We’re looking forward to the next 12 months!
We’re a month into the second half of 2024 already! Where has the time gone? August each year in Australia means National Science Week and for us it’s no different. The schools theme this year is Species Survival – More than just sustainability. According to the NSW website:
The theme aims to highlight the importance of science and innovation in ensuring the survival and thriving of different species in an ever-changing world.
For our August competition we’ve decided to do something inspired by this, with Impossible Creatures. Create a hybrid animal for a specific purpose. An example could be a bowerbird and a shark – it hunts for treasure deep in the ocean!
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 August Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the July gate which will close to building at 9pm on Wednesday July 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of August1st, so get thinking about your build!
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:
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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