Author: John Geijsman

June Larger than Life & End of Season 1 Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

So who won in June? We went little, but big in June with Larger than Life. It was good to get back into the full block list and a whole heap of colour with this one, 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 first 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: CopperJay

Getting two wins in a row with this beautiful beetle on a leaf, CopperJay now has three wins, which means one thing – CopperJay now gets Builder Rank! Well done CopperJay, you’re just in time to start helping out with getting ready for the next Survival Spawn area.

2nd Place: RoseBlossom_

With a first time scoring votes this season, Rose has gone straight to 2nd place for the month with this beautiful winter scene with giant snowflakes. A very unique build!

3rd Place: RaptorMaster713

Rounding out the top three, RaptorMaster713 went with some giant mushrooms under a cherry blossom tree. These look excellent!

Well done to our three winners! We also had two honourable mentions this round.

Kyletendo

Subscriber77679

Builder Creative Competition Results

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.

1st Place: RubyBird12

Ruby decided to go with a little mouse – I love the ears!

2nd Place: Smaug12345

While Smaug may not have finished this build either, it had potential to maybe be a fish?

Final Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like at the end of season 1 of competition.

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. CopperJay – 70 pts
  2. qbio – 16 pts
  3. RubyBird12 – 15 pts (10 votes)
  4. Smaug12345 – 15 pts (8 votes)
  5. BlurryRex – 11 pts
  6. 0_Mad_0 – 10 pts
  7. Zacwild5 – 10 pts
  8. RoseBlossom_ – 10 pts
  9. RaptorMaster713 – 10 pts
  10. _m1cro_ – 8 pts
  11. Sushi_m4n – 7 pts
  12. TurtleWasFound – 6 pts
  13. SNAKE_AND_COKE – 3 pts
  14. GmanPig47 – 3 pts
  15. strxww – 2 pts
  16. Pepsi_Goat – 2 pts
  17. Subscriber77679 – 2 pts
  18. RatherQuenched – 1 pt
  19. YanMan_ – 1 pt
  20. FantasticFun – 1 pt
  21. Kyletendo – 1 pt
  22. MatthewG19000 – 1 pt
  23. Essie_Bessie – 1 pt
  24. LittleMezzBro – 1 pt
  25. GrayWolfGamer – 1 pt
  26. FireyCubes – 1 pt
  27. Typ3d – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. Meowlicky – 65 pts
  2. Smaug12345 – 50 pts
  3. RubyBird12 – 30 pts
  4. toothless_spy – 11 pts (6 votes)
  5. JTripleM – 10 pts

Congratulations to all our winners and entries, and a big congratulations to CopperJay, qbio and RubyBird12! You three get the big three – A LEGO voucher for CopperJay, and some JB HiFi vouchers for qbio and Ruby. Meowlicky also gets a voucher for taking out the Builder competition. For our major prize winners – I’ll be in touch! If you’re at the Social Session tomorrow, you can pick up your prizes then. If not, I’ll send you a mail!

Everyone has done incredibly well this season, it was our biggest yet! Prizes will be able to be collected from the Skull as soon as you read this!

In Game Prize Collection

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!

July’s Player of the Month is…

On By John GeijsmanIn POTM

Another month down, which means 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.

On to this month’s winner…

We had three nominations for this month.

Meowlicky
We’ve been friends for a while now, and it’s always fun when he logs on and tries to annoy me specifically. He’s a great builder and very funny. I enjoy his company.

RoseBlossom_
Rose is encouraging, kind, enthusiastic and always happy to help other players. They have helped me out multiple times with material gathering, building, and various other things. Rose definitely deserves POTM for their kind and friendly attitude towards other players on the server.

CopperJay
Because Copper is generally just really nice and friendly and an amazing builder. They definitely deserve POTM.

A huge congratulations to RoseBlossom_ for being awesome! Rose, you’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.

Nominations are now open for next month!

July Creative Competition – Books

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’re almost through June – the last month in Season 1 of the Emerald Points Competition for 2024, so it’s about time we announce the next month’s competition theme. This theme kicks off Season 2!

In July we’re going with Books. Build us a scene from your favourite book or book series! This one should be awesome.

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 Sunday June 30th.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of July 1st, so get thinking about your build! A massive thanks and a big throwback to JtripleM for the gate build this round! This was one of his incredible builds from a couple of years ago, and it fit perfectly. It’s well worth checking out.

Season 1, 2024 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.

July School Holiday Social Session

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Like last time we’ve had a lot of requests over the term for another social session! We love doing them each holidays, so here’s the information you need for July’s one! We’ll be hanging out together again at Fremantle Library on Tuesday July 9th.

Like last time, this session will have a bit of everything – a few laptops for jumping in game, board games, and just space to hang out! We’ve also got some new LibraryCraft stickers to give away!

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 9th July, 2 – 5pm
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.

See you there!

OldSurvival is almost here!

On By John GeijsmanIn Survival World

We’re a little under two weeks away from the July school holidays, which means OldSurvival is almost back! If you aren’t sure what we’re talking about, about a month ago we announced we’d be bringing back OldSurvival – the 1.15.2 map we first started LibraryCraft on, back in April 2020. It’s our 5th birthday this year, so we thought – after a brilliant suggestion from a couple of players – to bring back an old map.

Well, it’s back on the server and almost open to players!

Like we said in the first article, there’s no existing player claims on the map at all, rather all builds have been claimed by the mods. If you had a claim in that world years ago, it’s gone now. If you did have a base in that map, we’ll give it back to you. Just let the mods know which one it was and we’ll transfer the claim over.

For those areas that have a player we’ve not seen for a long time, we’re going to be opening these up auction style! If you’ve got a plan for a build that you want to take over, either send JohnsanGeezo a mail in game with the coordinates and your idea, or open a ticket in Discord and let us know there. If we don’t get any other applications in a couple of days, then the build is all yours. If we do, we’ll choose the best option. If you take over a build, we just ask that you take a before and after photo, and place a sign down so we know who the new owner is.

There’s also loads of unexplored areas to settle down as we’ve widened the old 5k x 5k worldborder to get some new items generating.

Remember though, this world won’t have the Nether or the End turned on, as it’s temporary, and there also won’t be /rtp either – 120Survival will remain the primary Survival world, until 121Survival comes in a few months! When that happens, OldSurvival will be closed for good.

We’re looking forward to the holidays!

May Sand Castle Results

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Time to deliver the May results! We went coastal in May with Sand Castle. This was a trickier one for a bunch of people as we had a limited block palette. We had a few people use some blocks that weren’t allowed, so they weren’t able to get any votes, but what we got was very impressive!

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.

1st Place: CopperJay

CopperJay has scored a second win with this brilliant lion and cub – something rather unique but still well within the block restrictions. Well done! This would have been tricky to do!

2nd Place: Zacwild5

Zac built a very nicely detailed sandcastle with quite an intricate design in mind. This was a nice one!

3rd Place: _m1cro_

Rounding out the top three, micro created something that would look like a lot of fun to explore in a Survival world! I like the different spin on a design here.

Well done to our three winners! We also had one honourable mention this round.

Typ3d

Builder Creative Competition Results

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.

1st Place: Meowlicky

Meowlicky went with a stunningly detailed Poseidon build. We particularly liked the bucket and spade at the top. Very cool!

2nd Place: Smaug12345

While Smaug may not have finished this build, it started promising!

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like after five months of competition. A bit of a shake up at the top!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. CopperJay – 55 pts
  2. qbio – 16 pts
  3. RubyBird12 – 15 pts (10 votes)
  4. Smaug12345 – 15 pts (8 votes)
  5. BlurryRex – 11 pts
  6. 0_Mad_0 – 10 pts
  7. Zacwild5 – 10 pts
  8. _m1cro_ – 8 pts
  9. Sushi_m4n – 7 pts
  10. TurtleWasFound – 6 pts
  11. RaptorMaster713 – 5 pts
  12. SNAKE_AND_COKE – 3 pts
  13. GmanPig47 – 3 pts
  14. strxww – 2 pts
  15. Pepsi_Goat – 2 pts
  16. RatherQuenched – 1 pt
  17. YanMan_ – 1 pt
  18. FantasticFun – 1 pt
  19. Subscriber77679 – 1 pt
  20. MatthewG19000 – 1 pt
  21. Essie_Bessie – 1 pt
  22. LittleMezzBro – 1 pt
  23. GrayWolfGamer – 1 pt
  24. FireyCubes – 1 pt
  25. Typ3d – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. Meowlicky – 65 pts
  2. Smaug12345 – 40 pts
  3. RubyBird12 – 15 pts
  4. toothless_spy – 11 pts (6 votes)
  5. JTripleM – 10 pts

Congratulations to all our winners and entries! You’ve all done incredibly well. Prizes will be able to be collected from the Skull as soon as you read this!

In Game Prize Collection

The 120Survival Competition Prize Collection Point has been upgraded! It’s now housed inside Skull Rock.

Instead of prizes being deposited at bases, they’ll all be 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!

June’s Player of the Month is…

On By John GeijsmanIn POTM

Another month down, which means 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.

On to this month’s winner…

We had three nominations for this month.

TurtleWasFound
Turtle is awesome and a great friend to have on LC! They 100% deserve POTM.

Ezrafixpros
Ezra is a generally nice guy. Always happy to help out or play games with anyone. They always help out with new players and have nice conversations with everyone.

toothless_spy
On my time on the server (so far) this player has been the most helpful player I’ve met. We have built an iron farm on the server, and he has helped me get geared up. I would love to nominate this player to spread the awareness of the greatness he has brought to the server!

A huge congratulations to Ezrafixpros for being awesome! Ezra, you’ll find a chest in the Prize Pickup area with your megacrate keys.

Nominations are now open for next month!

June Creative Competition – Larger than Life

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

It’s the last month in Season 1 of the Emerald Points competition, so we’re going big, by going small!

Next month we’re doing Larger than Life. Think of something small, then make it bigger! There’s also no limit to blocks, so go nuts!

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 Friday May 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of June 1st, so get thinking about your build! Thank you to Bina82 on Planet Minecraft for the gate build. It’s an oldie, but a goodie!

Season 1, 2024 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.