It’s been a while since we’ve had a new theme, as the last competition went for two months while John was away, but it’s great to be back! November is almost here, and with it comes a brand new competition theme! In November we’re going with Dream Home. Build us your dream home! You’ve got a good amount of space, so we’d love to see some front and backyards too, if you can fit them.

There’s also no extra builder requirement this time, as it’s your dream home, not ours!

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 November Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the September/October gate which will close to building at 9pm tomorrow, Friday October 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of November 1st, so get thinking about your build!

Something that we’ve decided to do in this competition should be exciting for you all! We’re very close to being able to update to a newer version of the server (either 1.21.5 or 1.21.8). We’re imagining that this will happen in the next month (all things going well), so this month, prizes will be claimable with a mail to JohnsanGeezo to be redeemed the new world only! When the new world is ready for play, your prizes will be put in the new prize collection point when it is ready to go.

Season 2, 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 & 1x diamond block

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.

That’s another month of competition down! We’re in our regular quieter season at the moment, but we’ve still had some great entries for the Haunted theme! This was also a very tight competition. We didn’t get any builder entries, because they’ve been busy planning our next Survival spawn area for the new Survival map! Yes, work has begun on the update!

Let’s take a look at the results for the main Emerald Points Competition.

1st Place: WingedPhoenix

After a number of competitions entered, WingedPhoenix (previously known as m1cro and microsoftmaster) has got a win! Phoenix created a rather spooky and fun-to-explore Factory of Reanimation. This one has loads of details to check out, plus a lot of red! I think something bad happened here…

2nd Place: legofanatic212

Legofanatic went with a brilliantly crafted graveyard with spooky tree. The graves around the build all contain usernames of some of our players and mods! Simple, but very effective.

3rd Place: Dragoncosmo222

Dragon built a large glass fronted house with a graveyard out the front, and a large ghost hovering over one of them. It’s a shame the inside of the building was empty, but a cool concept nonetheless!

Honourable Mentions

We had one entry that got honourable mentions this time around!

JohnVivian

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 2, 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!

Congratulations to all our winners and entries!

A minor change to this season as we’ve had a number of players forfeit their in game prizes. If you would like your prize, please get in touch with JohnsanGeezo via /mail or a ticket in Discord and it’ll get set up in the greenhouse!

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!

It’s the start of a new season of competition! We kicked of Season 2 with Transport and we had some beautiful builds. These were really impressive! This month we unfortunately didn’t get any builder entries, so hopefully we’ll see some entries from them next month!

Let’s take a look at the results for the main Emerald Points Competition.

1st Place: strxww

Straw kicked off the new season with a beautiful mountainside build with a cable car running to the top! This was really well crafted! So well, in fact, that it secures Straw’s third competition win! That means that we have a new Builder! A massive congratulations to Straw! Welcome to the Builder team. We’ll be in touch with a Discord ticket for what happens next.

2nd Place: TapuFini888

Early in July we saw a couple of our original players re-join after a long time away! It was great to see both Fini and marginalin coming back and getting stuck into a competition! Unfortunately marginalin didn’t get to finish his build, but Fini did, and it looks stunning! A highly textured and detailed fishing dock! This was great to explore.

3rd Place: _Heebyy

This month Heebyy went with a train! I’m very impressed that it’s not just a straight train and track – there’s a slight curve! I love this grass texture look too. Nice work!

Honourable Mentions

We had two entries that got honourable mentions this time around – this was a difficult competition to judge!

WoodyToucan

WingedPhoenix

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 2, 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!

Congratulations to all our winners and entries!

A minor change to this season as we’ve had a number of players forfeit their in game prizes. If you would like your prize, please get in touch with JohnsanGeezo via /mail or a ticket in Discord and it’ll get set up in the greenhouse!

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!

School holidays have come and gone and we’re already a month into the second season for 2025! As a part of the End of Financial Year competition, the winning build from a Builder rank got to choose the theme for August. CopperJay took it out with a stunning build, and has chosen Haunted for August’s theme! It’s a theme we’ve not done before too, so that’s a bonus!

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 ghost!

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 Thursday July 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of August 1st, so get thinking about your build!

Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.

Season 2, 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.

Just like that another season done! It’s cold and we’re a few days into the July school holidays, so let’s find out who won in June, and who took out the whole season! We also had players able to earn a couple of extra points by completing a build in the EOFY competition, so it could be a last minute shake up! We went with New End Biome, and while we didn’t get a lot of entries as people were focused on other activities in the server, we still got some very interesting builds!

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 2025 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: WoodyToucan

Getting his first win, Woody has designed a striking new End Biome, complete with stripes of various materials! This would be a fun biome to pillage. I also like the classic End elements visible throughout the build – dragon heads, end crystals, even a couple of elytra to collect. I’d imagine this would be a rare biome to find, but it would look pretty great in the world! Well done Woody!

2nd Place: Kyletendo

Kyle didn’t quite finish his build, but I did like the new design of end crystal island! Seeing more of these around the map would be great.

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: CopperJay

I really like this one – one thing the End lacks is colour. There’s not a huge variety! Bringing in some colour in to the land itself looks excellent.

2nd Place: Meowlicky

I can just see this monumental spire looming into the sky with the spiral cloud above it! This was very cool – the brick built phantoms around it are great! It’s almost like it’s where they come from. Very nice Meow!

Final Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like at the end of season 1 of competition. To make it easier to see each change every month, podium players will be highlighted in blue, and honourable mention players for each month in green! Also, those players that got completed builds in the EOFY competition are highlighted in purple.

Congratulations to all our winners and entries, and a big congratulations to Heeby, WoodyToucan and Evoka! You three get the big three – A LEGO voucher for Heeby, and some JB HiFi vouchers for Woody and Evoka. Meowlicky also gets a voucher for taking out the Builder competition. For our major prize winners – I’ll be in touch!

WoodyToucan came in with one competition entry to win the month and score second place in the overall standings! A huge switch up in the leaderboard!

Everyone has done incredibly well this season! It’s always fun to judge these. 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 has 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!