LC Vault Hunters is Updated!

Huge news! It’s been a while (we were focused on 1.20 Survival!), but the LibraryCraft Vault Hunters server has been updated to the latest version, 3.11.4.

No idea what we’re talking about? LC Vault Hunters is a modded 1.18.2 server for LibraryCraft players aged 13 – 17. You can read more about it at the LCVH page.

So what’s been added? A lot! The last update we had was the new Vault decor blocks, new mob dungeons, and a lot more. Now we’ve also got:

  • Buffs to a lot of items (key pieces have been tripled, higher trinket chances and more)
  • Potions have had a major rework, with new vials that can now also be used in the overworld (you can only recharge them inside vaults)
  • 5 new vault themes
  • New armour sets
  • New talents
  • The hydrovoid modifier on jewels (tools can break liquids and completely void them – very useful in the overworld)
  • The vault clock now starts when the player leaves the vault room
  • and loads of bug fixes.

You can read the full patch notes on the official Vault Hunters website.

If you’re the right age and have logged at least 12 hours of play on the main LibraryCraft servers, then reach out to us either in Discord, or in game using /mail send JohnsanGeezo.

If you’ve played before, update your install to the latest release through CurseForge and you’re good to go!

LC Vault Hunters Terms & Conditions Now Available!

We’re getting so close to the release of the LC Vault Hunters server, and the first stage is now here! One of the important steps to get access is completing an extra Terms & Conditions form. You can read all about the requirements and the Vault Hunters server itself on the LC Vault Hunters page.

It’s important that both the player AND parent read through this form carefully and sign it to say you understand it. Like it says in the form, LC Vault Hunters is a privilege for our older players and we’re so excited to be able to offer it.

If you have previously completed this form for the LC Create server, you don’t need to complete this one. This is just for new players to the modded server.

You can find a PDF version of the form here, or if that doesn’t work for you, there’s an alternate .docx version.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask us in Discord or in an email.

The Launch Date for LC Vault Hunters!

We’ve had a solid few weeks of testing the LibraryCraft Vault Hunters modded server, and it’s gone quite well! So well, in fact, that we’ve decided to announce a launch date!

We’re super excited to announce that the LCVH Server will be going live on Friday 23rd June, after school!

For those of you that were whitelisted on the LC Create server, you’ll automatically be whitelisted on the Vault Hunters server! Hooray! Again, this server is for previously whitelisted players aged 13 – 17. There’s a couple of other requirements to be whitelisted on the LCVH server, which you can see at the LC Vault Hunters page of the website.

Release Dates

The new Terms of Use form will be available on Friday 16th June. This is so the new players can apply to be a part of it and be ready to go.

The instructions for download will be released on the LC website on Wednesday 21st June.

The LC Vault Hunters server will be available for play after school on Friday 23rd June!

If you have any questions about the LC Vault Hunters server, please get in touch with us on Discord, or via an email to whitelist@librarycraft.net.

Get excited!

The LC Create Server is Changing!

We’ve hit a bit of a lull recently with the LC Create server, with some performance issues hampering the ability for players to have a good experience, so we’ve had a chat to our modded server players, and they’ve been great in providing some feedback! Thanks team 🙂

We’ve decided to swap out the LC Create modpack for something new, and something we reckon you’ll all have a lot of fun with – Vault Hunters! Created by a team led by Iskall85 (from Hermitcraft), this modpack is (according to the VH wiki):

…a Minecraft RPG modpack created by Iskall85 and his team. This modpack allows the player to develop their own talents and abilities. It features over 2 billion different items in combination that can be looted inside the mysterious and dangerous Vaults. These items are armors and weapons and idols (totems), that boost the player’s different attributes and stats. The end goal of the pack is to collect 25 unique artifacts, and forge them together to access the final vault.

https://vault-hunters.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_Hunters

There’s an enormous amount of custom armour, shields and weapons (some are visible in the image above), plus as you progress through the vaults, you gain skill points to level up your character’s abilities, plus knowledge points to spend on unlocking mods. The mods included in the pack will be a huge help towards both running vaults, plus overworld survival. Mods like:

  • backpacks and pouches that can auto-pickup filtered items
  • Colossal chests
  • Sortable storage interfaces
  • Easy Villagers
  • Create
  • Single block animal farms to stop lag in it’s tracks and faster breeding (imagine breeding 40 cows in one click with a stack of wheat)
  • Botania for a whole lot of nature and magic, and heaps more.

We’re really excited about this, and by the sounds of the feedback, you are too! The LC Create server has been taken down and we’re in the process of setting up the LC Vault Hunters server. We’ve got a bit of testing to do, but stay tuned with more information – we’ll have it out as soon as we can.

The LC Create Modpack is getting tweaked!

UPDATE: It’s ready! The new modpack is available from the LC Create Player’s Guide. Enjoy the new additions!

If you’re trying to log in to the LC Create server today, you may find it offline – that’s because we’re in the process of updating it to add some new mods to enhance the experience.

We’re adding a couple of Create supportive mods and something a little different:

  • Create Crafts & Additions: adds a bridge between electricity and kinetic energy!
  • Create Deco: more decorative blocks specific for Create
  • Gliders: We’ve realised that finding elytra is much harder now, so we’ve added Gliders in to the mix to make it easier to at least glide down large drops. It’s a lot of fun with a very cool animation too.

We would have loved to include Create Slice & Dice for Farmer’s Delight compatibility, but there have been some issues with that mod, so we’ve had to leave it out.

All things going well the server will be back up and running by the end of the day! Stay tuned to this post – it’ll be updated when we’re good to go, and when the new modpack is available.

LC Create Terms & Conditions Form now available!

We’re edging ever closer to the release of LC Create, and the first stage is already upon us! One of the important steps to get access is completing an extra Terms & Conditions form. You can read all about the requirements and the Create server itself on the LC Create page.

It’s important that both the player AND parent read through this form carefully and sign it to say you understand it. Like it says in the form, LC Create is a privilege for our older players and we’re so excited to be able to offer it.

You can find a PDF version of the form here, or if that doesn’t work for you, there’s an alternate .docx version.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask us in Discord or in an email.

Everything you need to know about LC Create!

It’s been great to see a heap of buzz around the LC Create server, since we announced it in early January! We’ve done a lot of testing and have come up with a really solid mod pack experience. We’re actually now in the process of building the spawn area, and it’s looking great! You can see a few work in progress images below.

So what do you need to know? Read on! We’ve got some entry requirements, a modified sanction system and specific rules that will need to be followed, plus some changes to the modpack. We’ve also got a launch date!

Entry Requirements

This server is strictly 13 – 17 year olds in Western Australia only. We won’t be letting players on before they are 13, or because of experience with the installed mods. You need to be a minimum of 13 years old.

You will also need to have logged a minimum of 12 hours of play in the main LibraryCraft server network first. That doesn’t include AFK time. This is so everyone who is in LC Create understands the rules and how the main server runs.

As there’s a few more freedoms in this server, we’re still ensuring that the environment is as ChildSafe as we can possibly make it. In order to do this, we’ve decided to add another step to the process, in the form of a Server Terms of Use form that both the player and their parent has to sign. This form is still being developed, but will be made available to players once we’re ready to go. As this is a different server than what you and your parents originally agreed to participate in, we’re making extra sure that everyone knows the rules.

So, if you can see the extra LC Create channels on Discord, and you have completed the Terms of Use form, you will have access when the server launches. Note that the Discord channel access list has changed! If you had access before, you may not necessarily have access now, depending on the amount of hours you’ve played in the main server network. Once you have logged the hours, get in contact with us with either a ticket in Discord, or via the whitelist email.

Additional Rules

In addition to the main rules, which will also be in effect for LC Create, we have added the following:

  • Tunnel bores (mechanical drill rigs) to be no bigger than 5×5 drills.
  • You cannot start your tunnel bore and then log off. If your tunnel bore is in operation, you should be with it. A good practice is to follow the bore with torches to light up the tunnels. You can then collect the ores it misses.
  • Tunnel bores should not be used within 1000 blocks of spawn.
  • Tunnel bores not to be used near populated or built up areas. Unwanted tunnels probably won’t be the aesthetic people are after!
  • Password protected voice chat groups will not be permitted.
  • As a courtesy to others, please ask in chat before joining voice chat groups. The only exception to this rule is for mods and staff.
  • TNT columns or blocks not to be used. Use TNT sparingly.

Modified Sanction System

What is a sanction system? It’s the consequences for breaking the rules. In the main server network it’s a warning, jail time and then a ban if it escalates. For LC Create, it is different.

Failure to follow the server rules (including the additional rules) will result in:

  • 1st offense: Written warning (in game/Discord)
  • 2nd offense: Permanent ban on LC Create

If the issue is deemed serious enough, it will also result in jail time or a ban in the main LibraryCraft server network as well. A first offense may receive a greater loss of privileges in some cases.

Note: players that have received bans in LibraryCraft will not be permitted to play on LC Create.

Important differences between LibraryCraft & LC Create

There are some important differences between LibraryCraft and LC Create.

  • There is no option to roll back inventories. If you lose something, we won’t be able to get it back! Be careful.
  • Graves will spawn on death but will not keep experience orbs, and backpacks will be placed next to the graves. If you die in the void, you will lose your backpack.
  • TNT will be on, but use it sparingly.
  • Claims should be used as they will protect your items and builds!
  • A separate Player’s Guide will be made available closer to the release date. Make sure you familiarise yourself with it!
  • The worldborder has been set to 6k x 6k. Plenty of room to explore!

Changes to the Modpack

To make the modpack workable for as many different types of setups as we can manage, we’ve made some tweaks to it for balance and optimisation.

  • We’ve removed William Wythers’ Overhauled Overworld & Oh The Biomes You’ll Go and replaced them both with Terralith for overworld terrain generation.
  • It Takes a Pillage removed as the structures were far too rare.
  • The Nether is now generated with BetterNether.
  • And a few other tweaks and changes here and there!

Please note that not every PC will be able to run the modpack. We’ve optimised it as best we can, and have had some success with low end PCs already, but each setup is different, and we can only provide limited support for set up.

So when is this all happening?

Release Dates

The Terms of Use form will be available Friday March 3rd.

The LCC Player’s Guide and link to the modpack (to be found in the Player’s Guide) will be available on Thursday March 9th. This is so it can be installed and you can have a read, ready to go because…

The LC Create server will be available for play after school on Friday March 10th!

If you have logged enough hours in LC, are the right age and have completed the Terms of Use form, you will be whitelisted, ready to go on Friday. If you believe you have enough hours, please get in touch with us in Discord or via the whitelist email and we will verify.

If you have any questions about anything LC Create related, you can reach out to us in Discord, or via an email to whitelist@librarycraft.net.

I’ll leave you with the teaser trailer to get excited!

Presenting the LC Create Teaser Trailer!

We’re well underway with testing the setup for the LC Create server, and to get everyone excited, we’ve released a teaser trailer, showcasing what we’ve been up to in a test world!

You can check out the video below.

Included in the video is:

  • some of the amazing world generation now using Terralith (the big town in the video was all naturally generated)
  • Some of the furniture options (beds, kitchens, sofas)
  • Plenty of Create goodness (windmills, elevators, trains, contraptions and even a ship using hidden train parts)
  • Special crops and trees thanks to Farmer’s Delight and Colourful Azaleas
  • New armour types from BetterNether
  • Backpacks
  • The incredible and spooky Nether using BetterNether
  • The beautiful End using BetterEnd

There’s plenty we haven’t included, such as Graveyards, Distant Horizons, proximity chat, huge dungeons and more, but this should be enough to get you excited! We certainly are!

More information will be coming soon – we’ve got a date planned, but we’re still finalising a few things before we announce it. It’s not far off though!