August Glass Required Competition Results

It’s time to announce the winners for August’s Glass Required competition, a special theme just for National Science Week 2022! The requirement for this month was to build something that required glass to function.

1st Place: toothless_spy

Something suited to Christmas as well as this one, toothless has gone with a beautiful snow globe, complete with an elf workshop underneath! With this win, toothless locks in his third competition win!

First and second place this month was actually a tie for points, with toothless only just scraping in with one extra vote received. A close one!

2nd Place: ScrpMtlAlchemist

With a first time on the podium, Scrap has gone with a glass prism throwing out a rainbow. This was really clever and it looks great as well. Well done Scrap!

3rd Place: GalaxyOcean

3rd Place this month goes to GalaxyOcean with a very clever ship in a bottle! This was one I didn’t think of, but it’s well suited to the theme.

Honourable Mentions

We have three honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They get a diamond block!

Pixelater3000

This one is a kaleidoscope – brilliant!

Meowlicky

Dragon_Gal

Well done to all our entries! Prizes will be delivered very soon.

Don’t forget there’s the veto option each month if you don’t like the theme idea. This can only be played once per season, so choose wisely!

September Creative Competition – Colour

It’s September! Time for a new month of competition and a new theme! At the end of this round there’ll be some mid-season prizes to give away too. Got to be in it to win it! This month the theme is Colour.

Each build is limited to two colours – a primary one and a secondary one. That’s it. Gradients are allowed, but they need to be as subtle as possible. It needs to be clearly the same base colour, and as limited use as you can. This may test people!

The September Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the August gate which will close to building at 9pm on Wednesday August 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of September 1st, so get planning! Just as a reminder, here are the major prizes for this season!


Season 2 Prizes

As you know, each month we give away the following prizes:

  • 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

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 (September for Season 2 and March for Season 1) 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: $350 worth of LEGO! The winner would let us know what to order (dependent on availability of course), up to $350 and we’ll get it delivered to you. This was a highly requested prize last year, so we’re thrilled to be able to offer it.
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

Exciting times!

July Ultimate Biome Competition Results

Season 2, 2022 is underway! It’s time to announce the winners for the first competition of the season, July’s Ultimate Biomes.

1st Place: cramskii

We’re not sure what biome this is as there was no sign left to explain what it was – could be a dark oak biome – but whatever it is, it’s beautiful! With huge mushrooms and plenty of canopy, this was a pleasure to walk through.

2nd Place: GalaxyOcean

New to the server, Galaxy created this rather unassuming black box. Curious? Drop through the End portal at the top and you come across a custom End dimension. It’s brilliantly executed and got a lot of people talking! Well done Galaxy!

3rd Place: RubyBird12

3rd Place for July actually ended up in a tie between RubyBird12 and Kursed7280084! When there is a tie, we go back to the amount of individual votes scored – this time Kursed got 3 and Ruby got 4, so 3rd place goes to Ruby!

Ruby has opted for an ultimate Flower Forest, and there’s a stunning amount of colour here, as well as a giant parrot!

Honourable Mentions

We have a whopping six honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They get a diamond block! See if you can guess what biomes these players have chosen.

Kursed7280084

Grey_Wolf_H4X0R

TheFlamer47

_Eve___

ScrpMtlAlchemist

Pixelater3000

Well done to all our entries! On to the August Glass Required competition to celebrate National Science Week! We’ve not got many entries in this one yet, so make sure to enter and check the competition poster carefully for specifics on the theme. Prizes will be delivered very soon!

The Pixel Expo Competition and More!

That’s right! The LibraryCraft team will be at Pixel Expo on September 3, with some exciting things to get stuck into! We’ve also got five free tickets to the expo to give away to our players! More information on that below.

We’ve got a huge booth with plenty to do – spot the differences will be making a come back, plus two new maps to get stuck into. We’ve got Pixel Island, and the Pixel Creative Competition!

Pixel Island

Using a beautiful map from firehart, we’ve got Pixel Island to get creative on. This island will be a limited run Creative island. We’re inviting players to build something on the map, but you’ve only got a couple of days to do it! The map will be open to building on September 2nd and 3rd only, then locked to building but open to explore until the 9th. So building will be available the day before Pixel Expo and the day of the expo, with some laptops available at the LibraryCraft booth. Come down and say hi!

The Pixel Creative Competition

In addition to the regular monthly Creative Competitions, we’re running a bonus one in the lead up to Pixel Expo. We’ve even got a theme! The theme for the competition is Retro Gaming. What will you build? We’ve even got a bigger competition map!

The competition will be open from August 1st to 26th. Why not a whole month? That’s a great question! In the last week of the competition we’ll be judging the entries, with the winners to be announced at Pixel Expo! If you want to find out who wins, you’ll want to be at the expo.

The prizes for this competition are a $50 JB HiFi Voucher for 1st place, and a $25 JB HiFi voucher each for 2nd and 3rd, plus regular in game loot for the top three and anyone who scores a vote. In game loot includes diamond blocks and a mega crate keys for the podium players, and a diamond block for anyone who scores a vote.

Both gates will be available in the Creative Lobby – August 1st for the Competition, and September 2nd for Pixel Island.

Free Ticket Giveaway!

Yep, we’ve got five tickets to give away to our whitelisted players to attend Pixel Expo for free! We’ll be announcing how to enter this in the coming days. Keep an eye out on the website and Discord for more information.

August Creative Competition – Glass Required & Season 2 2022 Prizes!

Each year in August we celebrate National Science Week – it means some exciting competitions with a bit of a science-y twist. We’ve had Underwater Bases in 2020, Farms in 2021, and this year we’re doing Glass Required, to celebrate NSW’s schools theme in 2022 of Glass: More than meets the eye.

So what does Glass Required mean exactly? We want to see you create something that requires glass to function. Think outside the box though – we don’t want to see things like houses because of windows. Get creative!

The August Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the July gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday July 31st.

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

Season 2 Prizes

But what is up for grabs?

As you know, each month we give away the following prizes:

  • 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.

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 (September for Season 2 and March for Season 1) 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: $350 worth of LEGO! The winner would let us know what to order (dependent on availability of course), up to $350 and we’ll get it delivered to you. This was a highly requested prize last year, so we’re thrilled to be able to offer it.
  • 2nd Prize: $100 JB HiFi Voucher
  • 3rd Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher

Exciting times!

June & Emerald Points Season 1 2022 Results

We’ve hit the midway point of 2022, so it’s results time! Not just the June results, but it’s time to announce the winners for the whole Emerald Points Season 1 2022 competition.

June first though – we gave builders an Open Build! Build anything you like. These are always tough to judge and this one was no different.

1st Place: cramskii

With a single vote between 1st and 2nd, cramskii is back! We’ve not seen competition entries from cramskii since September last year, and what a way to come back – with a top spot on the podium! Cram has crafted a beautiful twisting treehouse. This one was lovely to walk through and explore. There’s even farms down the centre of the trunk.

2nd Place: toothless_spy

Toothless has gone big this month with an incredible hotel! Not only is it great to look at from the exterior, but each room is fully furnished too! Amazing.

3rd Place: Meowlicky

Meowlicky is back with a unique build – a McLaren Museum! This would not have been easy to build, and as a McLaren F1 fan, I really enjoyed walking through this one.

Honourable Mentions

We have a whopping five honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They each get a diamond block! What a round!

Slimecraft47

Yanabananaa

Grey_Wolf_H4X0R

LordSquid__

qetzi

Well done to all our entries! Prizes will be delivered in the coming week.

Emerald Points Season 1 2022 Results

On to the big one – Season 1 2022 results! Here’s the final ladder.

  1. toothless_spy – 60 pts
  2. Kursed7280084 – 35 pts
  3. CountDoDo – 25 pts
  4. _pluto_9 – 15 pts
  5. cramskii – 15 pts
  6. Meowlicky – 10 pts
  7. Yanabananaa – 10 pts
  8. qetzi – 5 pts
  9. LordSquid_ – 5 pts

It’s not settled though! CountDoDo and _pluto_9 are now Builder rank and so are ineligible to win the prizes. That means we have had a last round change in the ladder! It just goes to show that ever single month counts. Here’s your new top three!

  1. toothless_spy – 60 pts
  2. Kursed7280084 – 35 pts
  3. cramskii – 15 pts

What a result! Toothless takes home a brand new gaming monitor, Kursed gets a $100 JB HiFi voucher, and cramskii gets a $50 JB HiFi voucher. We’re very excited for Season 2, 2022. Bring it on! I’ll be in touch with the Season 1 winners to arrange prize collection.

forest

Surprise School Holiday BedWars Tournament!

Hey everyone!

It’s me CountDoDo! Since its a bit of a heavy load for the mods this school holidays, I am going to be in charge of hosting the BedWars Tournament, with help from cramskii & qetzi. This post will outline all the info so make sure to read it all! (Disclaimer: A lot of this post is copy and pasted, I give credit to JohnsanGeezo for making it).

Every match (yes that means the Grand Finals too) will be a double elimination knockout. You have to lose twice in order to be out of the competition. If you lose once, you can still come back and win the entire competition! Every match will be played on Forest, NOT Castle, Forest. There will be no grace periods, and the matches will run as normal BedWars matches

The Tournament will go for just over a week, from:

Sunday 3rd July to Monday 11th July

Registrations for the tournament will close at 9pm on Sunday, 3rd of July. The brackets will be public and available on Monday, 4th of July.

There are 2 ways you can register, either:
React to this message on the LibraryCraft Discord.
OR
Send an in-game mail to CountDoDo in the SURVIVAL WORLD, saying you want to join.

Once the competition has started, participants will have to schedule their matches themselves, play them, and then message the results of their match to CountDoDo. They can do this either by posting on the Discord in tournaments or mailing CountDoDo in-game.

FORFEITING:
If you cannot play your match during the allocated time, you will be forced to forfeit the match. As soon as you realise that you can’t play the match report it! Its very hard to manage tournaments when there are forfeits at the last second.

Once a new match has been confirmed and the players have been tagged/messaged in game/Discord, you have 24 hours to PLAY the match, or it will be deemed a forfeit. The player that is causing the delay will be the player that has to forfeit. If this can’t be determined, there will be a random 50/50 decision by a random wheel.

PRIZES:
The prize for this competition is a $50 JB-HiFi Voucher for the winner organised by the mods! The runners up may get a prize of diamonds, but don’t count on it, its not confirmed yet.

FAQ (I will be using the FAQ John has written before with changes for this tourney (I did not write this part)

What should I report to CountDoDo?

  1. Report if you are unable to schedule a match during the allocated week.
  2. Both players must report the results after the match, in either Discord (#tournaments) or using in-game mail. CountDoDo will then update the bracket, so the next match can be scheduled.

Can I report to LightKLibrary or JohnsanGeezo?
Nope, to lighten the load on the moderator team, CountDoDo will be in charge of the matches for this tournament, so send your results to him.

Are you sure we can’t delay the matches we can’t play to a different week?
Yes. You must complete your matches in the tournament week. This is so results and prizes can be finalised in a timely fashion, and stops a lot of confusion.

Can we use a different map, like Castle?
No, all matches must be played on Forest, so it’s fair for everyone.

Can we have longer grace periods before PvP starts?
No, the default game settings must be used. All matches must be played fair and according to the rules. If exploits or cheats are seen to be used, the player using them will instantly forfeit the match, and the player will be placed in jail according to server rules.

Can another player (registered or not registered) play instead?
No, Unfortunately due to the small size of the tournament this year, there will be no substitutes. Whoever causes the most delay in coming to a match or cannot attend will be the one who has to forfeit

Is there a limit?
No! There is no limit for players joining, the brackets may look a little different, but we don’t want to exclude anyone!

Ok, what are the brackets?
They’re not made yet – you need to register first!

Good luck!

July Creative Competition – Ultimate Biomes

July means the start of a new season of competition! The leaderboard has been wiped clean. Prizes for the new season will be announced during July when we’ve finalised them, but they’re pretty good…

On to July’s theme! We’re going with Ultimate Biomes. We all know the biomes we have, but how would you improve them? New features or structures? New plants or animals? Let us know!

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

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of July 1st, so get planning!

May Treehouse Competition Results

Just like that, May is over! It’s time to announce the winners for the Treehouse competition.

1st Place: Kursed7280084

After six podium places over the last year, Kursed has finally secured top spot for the first time! The winning entry is a simple house hanging from a not-so-simple tree! There’s some nice detailing inside too. Congratulations to Kursed!

2nd Place: toothless_spy

Toothless is in the top three again with this massive tree with a hidden underground dwelling. There’s even a farm in the depths of the tree.

3rd Place: LordSquid__

Making his competition podium debut is LordSquid with this Nether inspired treehouse! I love the two halved build – the red and green Nether design is really striking. There’s even a secret armoury. Well done Squid!

Honourable Mentions

We have three honourable mention this round, with players scoring some votes, but not enough to make the podium finish. They get a diamond block! I’m also pretty sure these are all players that have never secured a vote before! Great to see some exciting new players in the monthly competitions.

Freddiephoenix

albuman1

Pokewastaken_

Well done to all our entries! On to the June free build competition and the end of Season 1 2022! Prizes will be delivered very soon.

Introducing the Builder Competition!

Something that we’ll be implementing in July is the Builder Competition! There’s more builders now, and not only do they miss out on entering the competitions, sometimes there’s not a lot of building for the server required due to a bigger team. This is an idea that one of the mod team came up with – just the four Builders having a creative build challenge, with some crucial differences. Knowing what our build team can do, this is going to be exciting to watch!

  • Instead of monthly builds, there are quarterly builds – 3 months each. 3 month competitions from Jan-Mar, Apr -Jun, Jul-Sept and Oct-Dec. For the remainder of this year, we’ll do three 2 month comps: Jul-Aug, Sep-Oct, and Nov-Dec.
  • They’ll be themed, with the themes being a surprise up until a week before, just like the regular comps.
  • The builder team will also have bigger plots. Most comps are either 40×40 or 50×50. These will be 100×100 to begin with.
  • Players can access the world, but not build. Just spectating!
  • Voting (yep, voting) would be from the judges and mod team only.
  • Instead of two seasons through the year, we’ll go for a full year season, with points being tallied up over the whole year.
  • Top prize is a $50 JB HiFi Voucher, and a couple of mega crate keys each for 2nd and 3rd.

This kicks off in July, so be ready for some epic builds!