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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to 2025! It’s the start of another new year and more fun in LibraryCraft! So who won in December, and who took out the whole season? We went with the December staple, Christmas, 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 second 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: yanman_

Getting his first win, yanman has crafted a stunning and very decorated Christmas Square! It was a joy to walk through this as the book at the front suggests, and see everything, from built and furnished houses, empty ones for sale, and people moving in! Well done Yan!

2nd Place: FantasticFun

Rounding out a successful 2024, FantasticFun has crafted a beautiful Castle of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from the Nutcracker! A great idea Fan, this one looks brilliant!

3rd Place: ZacWild5

Rounding out the top three, Zac went with a huge Christmas Tree that doubles as Santa’s Christmas Toy Factory Treehouse!

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

blossomfallnt

Grey_Wolf_Gamer

RoseBlossom_

sus_minecrafter

Builder Creative Competition Results

We had just the one points scorer 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

The detailing around the water is just beautiful. What an effect!

Final Leaderboards

Here’s what the leaderboards look like at the end of season 2 of competition.

Congratulations to all our winners and entries, and a big congratulations to RoseBlossom_, FantasticFun and ZacWild5! You three get the big three – A LEGO voucher for Rose, and some JB HiFi vouchers for Fan and Zac. CopperJay also gets a voucher for taking out the Builder competition. For our major prize winners – I’ll be in touch!

Everyone has done incredibly well this season, it was our biggest yet! 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!