Category: Competitions

EOFY Creative Competition Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Back in mid-April we announced a massive, multi-month Creative Competition to round out the 2024/25 Financial Year. It took the focus of the Creative builders for a while, and we’ve got some simply incredible entries out of it!

As a reminder, we had set up a 100×100 plot for each player to build on, with no set theme. The prizes were also bigger too, with a $125, a $75 and a $50 JB HiFi voucher going to 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.

There were a few extra necessities though – only completed builds were going to be judged. Players needed to finish their build, then mail JohnsanGeezo in Survival to say it was complete, plus add a lectern on the corner of the build with a description. If builds were completed, they’d get two points in the main Emerald Points Creative Competition too.

Builders were able to enter as well, with a much bigger plot! We asked the builders to do a 100×100 design which we would then tile across the massive border plots. The winning build would get some in game loot as a prize.

Ok, enough writing – let’s dive in to the top three and an honourable mention for the main competition, followed by the builders!

1st Place: HeyItsGreee

I made this based on a dream. There is the clock at the top of the build in the sky and clocks on the floating islands which shows the time you have in a dream. There is also a bed under the build which shows dreams 🙂 I also added many hidden rooms that are based on dreams you may have 😀 The eyes show when you close your eyes at night to go to sleep. (I tried to make everything mean something lol)

This build is incredible! There is so much to see and in such an amazingly artistic style. This was an absolute pleasure to look through! A massive congratulations to you Greee! Wow.

2nd Place: _Heebyy

In Central America from the 14th century, Aztecs ruled the land until the Spanish invaded Mexico in 1521, killing the people and destroying the culture. The remains of the Aztecs are still scattered around Mexico through the jungle.

In my build we show these remains and the stories they once held, but maybe, maybe we don’t know as much as we thought about the Aztecs. Maybe it wasn’t the Spanish who killed them? Maye it was something worse? Something much worse?

There is so much detail in this build. From easter eggs all over the place, to a hidden chamber underneath with a very clever all seeing eye. This was spectacular to explore.

3rd Place: RubyBird12

Yea so… this is a portrait of Billie Eilish. I’ve always loved music and her music brings me so much joy. I also really wanted to do a really massive pixel art 😉

Pixel art at this scale is always really cool to see – it’s amazing how many different blocks go into crafting the perfect picture! Some serious dedication here Ruby! Well done.

Honourable Mention: WingedPhoenix

Welcome to Micro’s extremely spoopy forest! My aim was to create a haunted house and a cult, as well as a cellar guardian (the hooded eye) and then add extra easter eggs here ‘n’ there. See if you can find em! As you journey through the forest look for cobwebs…

Builder Competition

1st: CopperJay

Here is a wonderful river surrounded by foresty biomes. However, remnants of an old civilisation still remain, hidden in the shadows. Take a look around all the paths, caves and shadows in the build, as there may be a few hidden details… Hope you enjoy 🙂

This build is so picturesque! It’s also amazing that it tiles so well, for such a detailed build. You can explore the build and forget where the seam is so you end up looping back on yourself. Stunning job Jay!

2nd: Meowlicky

Welcome to the redstone cliffs. Excellent views and good heights, with a slight chance of cloudy. I’ve built the redstone cliffs, a mining and steampunk place. Hidden on both ends with cloud and fog, who knows how far these cliffs reach? There’s even talk of a monster in these parts.

This was a very imposing build – with the right shaders and render distance it just looms out over the whole map. I love the hanging tube tunnel and the monster weaving through! Well done Meow.

A huge congratulations to all our players who completed entries! These were an absolute pleasure to walk through and explore. It’s amazing to see what you can do when you have a bit more time!

Greee, Heebyy and Ruby, your vouchers are ready for collection at Fremantle Library! I’ll reach out to you all in Discord or through the server to tee up a time for collection.

CopperJay, you can expect a delivery ready for collection in the prize greenhouse soon!

Want some free loot? Winners Announced!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Giveaways, Survival World

Update: The closing date has come and gone, and our five winners are:

  • Ezrafixpros
  • HeyItsGreee
  • Dragoncosmo222
  • Meowlicky
  • Endrock6

You’ll find your prizes waiting for your collection at the Prize Greenhouse!

We’re in the middle of getting a big activity set up for people to get stuck into in 121Survival, but while we’re working on it, we thought we’d get you warmed up a little!

Wonder what we’re giving away? It’s a shulker box filled with loot! There’s a catch though.

While the loot is decent, there’s only 5 shulker boxes to give away. The winners will be chosen at random at 9pm on Monday 21st July.

What do I do?

At 121Spawn there are three greenhouses. In each of those greenhouses is a sign with a keyword. Make sure you write them down! You’ll need them later. Get all three and they will direct you to a final location, where you will need to read the instructions on the wall and press a button. Only press the button ONCE! It will give you a named piece of paper, unique to you.

Do not give it to other players, or you will both forfeit your entries. This giveaway is easy enough for everyone to do solo!

Send a /mail to JohnsanGeezo with the unique word on the paper, plus the three keywords. That’s it!

Good luck!

July Creative Competition – Transport

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

The end of June means the end of the first season of Emerald Points Competition for 2025, with July being the start of Season 2! For the start of a new season we’re going with Transport. It’s not all that straight forward so we want to see some out of the box (or block?) thinking with this one. There’s been lots of different transport themed builds in LC over the years, so there’s some options to go with!

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 three different types of transport in 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 July Competition world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the June gate which will close to building at 9pm on Monday June 30th.

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

Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.

Season 1, 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.

May Steampunk Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’ve had an extremely quiet May Creative Competition this year, with everyone seemingly focused on the big End of Financial Year Creative Competition, or Survival play. The builds in the EOFY competition are looking incredible!

We only had one player complete a build in the May Steampunk competition, but they were banned just over a week ago for x-raying in the server, so unfortunately we don’t have any completed builds this time around! We did however have a couple of entries for the Builder Competition, so we’ll go straight to them.

Builder Creative Competition Results

To find out more about the Builder competition, read the post! It’ll also cover the rest of the Builder role.

1st Place: Meowlicky

This time around, Meow went with a steampunk factory build. There’s also a decent amount of redstone inside, allowing for an illusion that the cogs on the side of the building are turning. Very clever!

2nd Place: Smaug12345

Smaug went with the beginnings of a very steampunk styled tower – it could potentially be used for a lighthouse or a statue, but also looks a little like the start of a large decorated piston.

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 1, 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!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. _Heebyy – 25 pts
  2. Evoka – 15 pts
  3. Imaginemode – 15 pts
  4. FantasticFun – 12 pts
  5. GmanPig47 – 10 pts
  6. Kyletendo – 5 pts
  7. HatCatWolf1 – 5 pts
  8. JellyBombs24 – 1 pt
  9. _m1cro_ – 1 pt
  10. WoodyToucan – 1 pt
  11. ZacWild5 – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. Meowlicky – 40 pts
  2. CopperJay – 30 pts
  3. Smaug12345 – 25 pts

Congratulations to our winners and entries!

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!

June Creative Competition – New End Biome

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

For June we’re revisiting another older theme – New End Biome! We’ve seen some dramatic changes in the LC Survival End in recent worlds, so we’ve got high hopes!

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 custom built End Portal.

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 Saturday May 31st.

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

Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.

Season 1, 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.

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.

April Underwater City Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

It’s term 2! The April school holidays have come and gone, we’re all still probably recovering from a chocolate overload, so let’s go through the competition results! This month we had a few less entries overall, and unfortunately many of them didn’t stick to the theme of Underwater City or weren’t finished, so there were even less, resulting in incomplete podiums for both competitions. It’s very important that all players read the theme and understand the rules of the competition. It’s even more important to try to get your build finished!

As always, 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: Imaginemode

Easily the standout this round was from our longest currently whitelisted player, Imaginemode! Having been with us since the very beginning in late 2019, Imagine has created a very cleverly build and storied underwater city based around a build from LibraryCraft worlds of long ago called Dodoville! A brilliant build to explore, Imagine! Well done!

2nd Place: FantasticFun

Fan went with a very prismatic build, complete with giant octopus terrorising a house! This one would have been great to see a little more completed, but it was still a very aesthetic build. Nice one Fan!

Well done to our two winners!

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had a just the one entry for this month’s Builder competition, being saved by a pretty fleshed out story. 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 an underwater ruined throne tower from a buried city that was wiped away after a dam broke. It was interesting seeing the build detail underground too. Nice idea Meow – it’d be great to see this one completed one day in Survival!

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 1, 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!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. _Heebyy – 25 pts
  2. Evoka – 15 pts
  3. Imaginemode – 15 pts
  4. FantasticFun – 12 pts
  5. GmanPig47 – 10 pts
  6. Kyletendo – 5 pts
  7. HatCatWolf1 – 5 pts
  8. JellyBombs24 – 1 pt
  9. _m1cro_ – 1 pt
  10. WoodyToucan – 1 pt
  11. ZacWild5 – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. CopperJay – 30 pts
  2. Meowlicky – 25 pts
  3. Smaug12345 – 15 pts

Congratulations to all our winners and entries! 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 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!

May Creative Competition – Steampunk

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

For May we’re doing a theme we’ve not done before, but have high hopes for – Steampunk! With all the copper in the game, it should be a lot of fun to see what is built. For those of you that aren’t sure of what steampunk is, it combines a bit of a historical setting with steam powered machinery instead of modern technology. Think copper, gears, steam engines etc.

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 some redstone. It has to do something! It can’t just be pointless.

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 Wednesday April 30th.

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

Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.

Season 1, 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.

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.

March Seasons Results

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

It’s almost Easter and the April school holidays, as well as the start of a new month, so let’s talk competition results! After we unfortunately lost some data last month from a problem with our server hosts, we had to forfeit that round. We quickly moved on to March’s Seasons competition and by the look of the results, the builds didn’t disappoint!

As always, 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: Evoka

It’s been a long while since Evoka first joined LibraryCraft, but after many, many hours played we had an entry in a Creative competition with Evoka coming out of the gate strong! Evoka built a corner of the plot for each season, and it was beautifully executed. Well done on the win Evoka! Now’s your chance to keep building in the competitions!

2nd Place: _Heebyy

Heebyy went with a gorgeous winter riverscape build. The custom trees were very well done, but the slightly frozen river and snow layering looked just awesome.

3rd Place: Kyletendo

Rounding out the top three, Kyletendo designed a large wooden house under a massive mossy and mushroom covered tree. The house was fun to explore! Nice work Kyle!

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

FantasticFun

JellyBombs24

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had a couple more exciting looking entries 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

Copper’s design this time around was Lothlorien, a forest from Lord of the Rings. In autumn, the leaves of the tees turn to gold and in spring the gold leaves fall off. It looks like we’re about to go into spring! I love the little animals dotted around. So good!

2nd Place: Smaug12345

It’s a real shame this one wasn’t quite finished – it would have been spectacular! Smaug decided to go with the Aboriginal seasons of Bunuru and Birak. The tree looks amazing, but it would have been great to explore this one as a completed build.

Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like so far for season 1, 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!

Player Emerald Points Competition

  1. _Heebyy – 25 pts
  2. Evoka – 15 pts
  3. GmanPig47 – 10 pts
  4. Kyletendo – 5 pts
  5. HatCatWolf1 – 5 pts
  6. FantasticFun – 2 pts
  7. JellyBombs24 – 1 pt
  8. _m1cro_ – 1 pt
  9. WoodyToucan – 1 pt
  10. ZacWild5 – 1 pt

Builder Competition

  1. CopperJay – 30 pts
  2. Smaug12345 – 15 pts
  3. Meowlicky – 10 pts

Congratulations to all our winners and entries! 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 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!

April Creative Competition – Underwater City

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

We’re going back in time to revisit a theme we ran back in 2020, our first year of Creative Competitions – Underwater City! This theme was held back in August 2020 as a part of our National Science Week partnership and we had some awesome designs to check out then, so we’re hoping for some more underwater goodness this time around! We’ve even got a new custom water world for it.

Remember, each month counts in terms of points, plus there’s the Builder Rank Competition too – the GOLD bordered plots (this time they’re bamboo bordered) 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 Monday March 31st.

The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of April 1st (no joke!), so get thinking about your build!

Prizes will be awarded in 121Survival.

Season 1, 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.

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.

The LibraryCraft League is back for 2025!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions

Finally! It’s time for season 4 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, 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 dedicated map.

Starting Friday May 2nd, 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

As KitPVP is a cumulative scoring system, not per match, it makes it a little harder to set up. The 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 from the Survival world 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 netherite 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 every weekend in order to complete your matches and get those points. Registrations close Sunday 20th April 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 Wednesday April 23rd, to be played from Friday May 2nd. Plenty of time to get your first match sorted.

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.

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