We’re doing something a little different in May’s competition and limiting your block choices dramatically!

Next month we’re doing Sand Castle. Think about how your builds would look if they were made of sand on the beach!

With this build, you’re limited to the following items:

• Sand
• Sandstone (and variants)
• Red sand
• Red sandstone (and variants)
• Orange and brown concrete powder
• brown terracotta
• string for support if need be

You can use other coloured concrete powders for very minor details, but that is it! No wood, grass, stone etc. Just the listed items above. There will be the block options visible by the gate. If other blocks are used in your build, it won’t be eligible to receive votes.

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 Tuesday April 30th.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of May 1st, so get thinking about your build! Thank you to Nemo for the gate build and the theme idea! Very cool.

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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 halfway point of the season (March for Season 1 and September for Season 2) we give away prizes to the current top three Emerald Points winners:

• 1st Place: 1x $25 JB HiFi Voucher
• 2nd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher
• 3rd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher

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. These are the big ones! 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.

We are flying through the year, with three months down, and it seems like these competition entries are getting better and better! We had another huge amount of entries, with five different players securing first place votes this year. You’re really pushing our judges – well done!

This month we asked you to build a scene from your favourite movie, TV series or YouTube series, and you delivered! Votes were really tight, having to be split to vote count for 2nd and 3rd.

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

After a number of spots in the top three, CopperJay finally gets a 1st place, with a beautiful build from Lord of the Rings. The Council of Elrond looks great, in a very nice looking landscaped area! Congratulations CopperJay!

2nd Place: BlurryRex

BlurryRex went with the Hallelujah Mountains from Avatar – the ships look great! Well done Blurry.

3rd Place: Sushi_m4n

Rounding out the top three, Sushi built something from Star Wars, complete with a TV and couch. This was really well done.

Well done to our three winners! We also had another seven honourable mentions this round. Another really tough competition to judge! See if you can pick the movies, and ask the creator in game if it’s right!

TurtleWasFound

_m1cro_

SNAKENATOR250

RatherQuenched

LittleMezzBro

Gray_Wolf_Gamer

strxww

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had three points scorers for the third month of 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: Smaug12345

Straight in to the Builder Competition and Smaug scores a win, with a very imposing Balrog from Lord of the Rings.

2nd Place: Meowlicky

Meow went with a very detailed Trench Run scene from Star Wars.

3rd Place: RubyBird12

Finally, and even though it wasn’t finished, we could see where it was going – Ruby went with Simba and Mufasa playing at night. This would have been great to see finished!

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like after three months of competition.

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!

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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!

What an amazing year of competitions so far! So many to check out. Well done to everyone who has entered so far!

Next month is April and we’re going back to a favourite previous theme from way back in early 2021, with Sky. Floating plots for everyone! Each plot has a couple of glowstone blocks in the corners for you to start 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 April Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the March gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday March 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of April 1st, so get thinking about your build! Thank you to Kisney for the gate build this time around – the Up house is fantastic!

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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 halfway point of the season (March for Season 1 and September for Season 2) we give away prizes to the current top three Emerald Points winners:

• 1st Place: 1x $25 JB HiFi Voucher
• 2nd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher
• 3rd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher

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. These are the big ones! 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.

Another month down, and another huge amount of really exceptional entries this time too. We had four players score first place votes, which is pretty massive!

We also held our second Builder Creative Competition this month, with builders entering their own competition with the same theme. 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: Smaug12345

Smaug has crafted a stunning orca breaching out of the water, and it looks incredible! On the other side is a breakdown of some of her favourite things. Unreal. With that win, it makes her 3rd win, so Smaug is also now a Builder! Congratulations Smaug!

2nd Place: CopperJay

CopperJay decided on a stunning river valley scene. This was beautiful. Well done CopperJay – it looks so natural!

3rd Place: TurtleWasFound

After accidentally deleting the whole build, Turtle came back with a Flappy Bird arcade machine. It’s awesome!

Well done to our three winners! We also had another seven honourable mentions this round. Another really tough competition to judge!

Sushi_m4n

_m1cro_

strxww

GmanPig47

FantasticFun

SNAKENATOR250

BlurryRex

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had three points scorers for the first month of 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

Meow went back to back with a build of the (then current) LibraryCraft logo! Brilliant work Meow. Sorry to change the logo on you half way through!

2nd Place: toothless_spy

Toothless came back strong with a brick version of the Mona Lisa. Very clever!

3rd Place: RubyBird12

Lastly and true to form, Ruby built one of her birds. Incidentally, when we ran the same theme last February, Ruby won with these!

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like after a month of competition. We’re all tied up in the top for the players! We then go by individual vote counts.

Congratulations to all our winners and entries! You’ve all done incredibly well. Prizes will be able to be collected on Monday afternoon from the Skull.

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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!

Time for season 3 of the LC League!

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, in 2024 it’s four – BedWars, KitPVP, TNT Run and Spleaf. Each week will be on a different map, with the exception of KitPVP, which has a new, dedicated map!

Starting Friday April 5th, 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 Changes for 2024

As KitPVP is now a cumulative scoring system, not per match, it makes it a little harder to set up, so we’re doing things a little differently for PVP. The new 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 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 diamond 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 each weekend in order to complete your matches and get those points. Registrations close Monday 25th March 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 Friday March 29th, to be played the following weekend, from Friday April 5th.

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.

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Last season was a big one (and a lot of fun), so make sure you register for the third annual LC League competition, and ask in game or in Discord if you have any questions.

We’re already a month in to 2024! Time flies when you’re having fun. We’ve had a huge Christmas holidays with loads of action all over LibraryCraft, including our biggest Monthly Competition to date. We got a huge amount of entries for this competition – many of you really know how to use redstone in your builds! It was a great mixture of redstone as both contraptions and design elements.

We also held our first Builder Creative Competition this month, with builders entering their own competition with the same theme. We’ll get to the builder competition after the main competition’s honourable mentions.

Unfortunately we did have to disqualify a couple of entries for not sticking to the rules – one player and one builder, so make sure you read all the rules for each competition before you start!

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

1st Place: RubyBird12

While relatively unassuming from the outside, the beauty of this build lies within. Ruby has created a museum of music, with four genres of music created using note blocks! This was fantastic to explore and listen to. It must have been a lot of work getting it all tuned! Well done Ruby. With that win, it makes her 3rd win, so Ruby is now a Builder! Congratulations Ruby!

2nd Place: 0_Mad_0

Mad has secured 2nd place two months in a row with a digital number display and Redstone monster! This was really cool to play with and the use of flowing lava as the monster’s tongue was great.

3rd Place: CopperJay

CopperJay went with a redstone trimmed and detailed mansion! With smaller redstone details dotted around and a striking amethyst roof, this would be a great build to see in 120Survival!

Well done to our three winners! We also had seven honourable mentions this round. This was clearly a really tough competition to judge!

qbio

_m1cro_

YanMan_

GmanPig47

Pepsi_Goat

MatthewG19000

Essie_Bessie

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had two points scorers for the first month of 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

Meow went with a quartz hall of wonders, featuring a song and a dancefloor! This took a fair bit of work, with Meow logging a big number of hours on this build. We particularly liked the large redstone torch on the roof. It’s very exciting to see builders being able to enter competitions again!

2nd Place: JtripleM

J is back with a massive sticky piston pushing a cake into the air, complete with some redstone wire and a huge lever. The details on the cake really show some freeze frame motion. This was a really clever entry.

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like after a month of competition.

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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!

We’re a month in! February is going to be here very soon, which means time for another theme! Next month we’re giving the Valentine’s Day idea a twist, with Something You Love.

If you love it, let us know! If it’s not as obvious, leave a sign or two.

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. This will be the case each month going forward.

The February Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the January gate which will close to building at 9pm on Wednesday January 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of February 1st, so get thinking about your build! A huge thanks to minywire for the gate build this month! It’s a massive Minecraft themed cat scratching post!

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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 halfway point of the season (March for Season 1 and September for Season 2) we give away prizes to the current top three Emerald Points winners:

• 1st Place: 1x $25 JB HiFi Voucher
• 2nd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher
• 3rd Place: 1x $10 JB HiFi Voucher

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. These are the big ones! 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.