Category: Survival World

The LibraryCraft Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt is back for 2026!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Survival World

Something that was a lot of fun back in 2024 was the LibraryCraft Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt. Nine builds from Hermitcraft Season 9 were placed all over the Survival map for players to find. It was exciting to see incredible builds from the Hermits in our own server!

Well, we’ve been working hard at it, and it’s coming back in 2026! There were some amazing builds in Hermitcraft Season 10, and many of us are Hermitcraft fans, so we thought we’d do it again.

For those of you that don’t know what Hermitcraft is, it’s a private server created for and by YouTube content creators and Twitch streamers. The hermits create massive and intricate builds and have a heap of fun together, all while creating content for their channels.

Like last time, we’ve decided to place a few of the builds around the 121NewSurvival Map for you to find and explore, seen in the partial images above. This time there’s a change, to make it easier for everyone to get involved. This time around there’s no clues and codes to decipher! Like last time though, it all starts in the brand new Map Room, seen below. You may recognise the Map Room as the Shrine to Sal, made by Grian.

To get there, use the HermitCraft airship currently docked (hovering!) at 121NewSpawn!

The big map in the centre of the room shows the rough locations of the ten locations to find. Yep, we’ve added a couple more this time! We’ll give you the first one for free, as it’s a bit tricky for players without elytra to access.

Inside the Map Room will be a special loot chest that behaves a bit like a Daily chest. These will also be found somewhere in each Hermitcraft build. These special loot chests will allow each player to open the chest once only. You won’t be able to collect items for friends.

Each location will have a loot chest with a unique item for that location. Your task is to find the chest at each location and collect one of each item. The Map Room chest will give you a special shulker box for all your special items! We will be able to verify that each player has interacted with each loot chest.

To finish the scavenger hunt, add your name to the end of the shulker box with the 10 unique items and drop it in the chest on the Airship at 121NewSpawn. Send JohnsanGeezo a mail so he knows you’re done and we’ll be in touch with what happens next!

Prizes

But what are the prizes you ask? This time around it’s different, but still pretty fun! We’ve put together a selection of build options from the HC10 world to put into your own base. It’s not open slather – you will be able to explore a world with some of the build areas on offer – they’re different to the trail, and it will be up to you to make them fit your build, but you will be able to modify them if you like. Each player that completes the challenge and collects all 10 unique items will be able to have their choice of one build in their base area. The gate to this world will also be found on the HC airship at 121NewSpawn.

We’re really excited for you all to check out the scavenger hunt. We had a heap of fun putting it together. A massive thank you to the Hermits for building incredible things to explore! It’s always awesome checking out what the pros can do.

The Head Games is back in 2026!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Survival World

That’s right, it’s been almost two years, but the Head Games is back! Another ship has docked in the Spawn port and it leads to our brand new Head Games HQ, built by Meowlicky and CopperJay!

Nearly every mob has a chance to drop it’s head on death. Each head (for the most part – there are some that won’t count), is worth points! Some are better than others – the points list is available from the 2026 Head Games HQ. We’re changing it up a bit this time around, so make sure you take the time to read the post properly!

The competition is open for registrations only from now until 9pm, Sunday 18 January, 2026. It costs 1 DIAMOND BLOCK to register. NAME your diamond block and place it in the chest on the platform by the gate.

Competition will be open for head submissions from 9pm Sunday 18th January until Sunday 15 February, 9pm. We’re only giving you a month to submit heads!

Whoever has the most points at the end of the competition (Sunday 15th February, 9pm), will win – 1st, 2nd and 3rd! In the past there have been a HUGE amount of goodies to win and you can donate prizes as well! Treasure blocks like diamond, netherite, gold, iron, coal and more. Add them into the prize pool chest (the one by the podiums) at the new Head Games HQ (the HGHQ).

Each registered player will get a chest at the HGHQ – located in the centre of the colosseum, which will be functional after 9pm on Sunday 18th January. Add VALID heads into your chest to submit them.

Some things to note:

  • Don’t submit heads that do not score points
  • Don’t submit non head items
  • Don’t name the heads – leave them as they are
  • Heads from the /heads plugin are different and do not count
  • Farms to collect heads are allowed, but ONLY if the mobs die by a player’s hand – handheld weapons only
  • Points will be calculated each Monday, with a hologram leaderboard available at the HGHQ, in the centre of the HQ.

To register, simply put 1 DIAMOND BLOCK WITH YOUR USERNAME ON IT into the chest at the HeadGames HQ.

Let the games begin!

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!

Visit the Medieval Fair!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds, Survival World

To bring in the Christmas Holidays, we’ve brought a Fair to LibraryCraft! The Medieval Fair is home to a selection of vanilla minigames and it’s open right now!

The minigames on offer are:

  • an Elytra course
  • a Boat race track
  • Archery challenge
  • Hide and Seek in the massive castle, and
  • Medieval Parkour!

Parkour is the only one that is controlled by a plugin – the rest are vanilla only, with everything being BYO – bring your own boat, elytra, bows and arrows. It’s inventory linked to 121Survival.

If you can think of any other vanilla games you’d like to see on this world, let us know! The gate to it is at the south end of 121Spawn.

OldSurvival is almost here!

On By John GeijsmanIn Survival World

We’re a little under two weeks away from the July school holidays, which means OldSurvival is almost back! If you aren’t sure what we’re talking about, about a month ago we announced we’d be bringing back OldSurvival – the 1.15.2 map we first started LibraryCraft on, back in April 2020. It’s our 5th birthday this year, so we thought – after a brilliant suggestion from a couple of players – to bring back an old map.

Well, it’s back on the server and almost open to players!

Like we said in the first article, there’s no existing player claims on the map at all, rather all builds have been claimed by the mods. If you had a claim in that world years ago, it’s gone now. If you did have a base in that map, we’ll give it back to you. Just let the mods know which one it was and we’ll transfer the claim over.

For those areas that have a player we’ve not seen for a long time, we’re going to be opening these up auction style! If you’ve got a plan for a build that you want to take over, either send JohnsanGeezo a mail in game with the coordinates and your idea, or open a ticket in Discord and let us know there. If we don’t get any other applications in a couple of days, then the build is all yours. If we do, we’ll choose the best option. If you take over a build, we just ask that you take a before and after photo, and place a sign down so we know who the new owner is.

There’s also loads of unexplored areas to settle down as we’ve widened the old 5k x 5k worldborder to get some new items generating.

Remember though, this world won’t have the Nether or the End turned on, as it’s temporary, and there also won’t be /rtp either – 120Survival will remain the primary Survival world, until 121Survival comes in a few months! When that happens, OldSurvival will be closed for good.

We’re looking forward to the holidays!

120Survival like you’ve never seen it before!

On By John GeijsmanIn Survival World

In the last few weeks, one of the most game changing mods for Minecraft – Distant Horizons – got a major update and it’s incredible. Distant Horizons uses levels of detail for terrain distance. You can have your render distance set at a very small amount, and then use Distant Horizons to pre-render the rest. It just renders them in a progressively lower amount of detail the further away it gets.

I’ve used this mod before and it was great, but didn’t have shader compatibility. It’s not perfect, but now it’s able to be used with some limited shaders, as long as you use a bunch of other mods with it. I’ve spent a few nights tweaking and changing settings (it’s not perfect and you need a pretty beefy PC to do it well), but I’ve finally got it sorted and it is nothing short of amazing. Check out a few screenshots below! If players want their base and surrounds captured like this, send me a mail in game, or a ticket in Discord.

Click the images to get a full screen look!

Introducing 1.20 Skyland!

On By John GeijsmanIn New Worlds, Survival World

A couple of weeks ago we opened the LC Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt and it’s been a lot of fun! We’ve already had nine players complete it with more to come. We thought we’d also up the stakes a bit.

If you complete the Scavenger Hunt, not only will you get the golden shulker box full of goodies (check out the post linked above), but you’ll also get access to the newest Survival world to LibraryCraft, Skyland. Thanks to an incredible map by Flamedek_, Skyland is a 2k x 2k floating island world containing 13 different custom islands to explore and build on. There’s also a few other fun builds to find.

To get there, head through the large portal at the end of the Scavenger Hunt! You’ll know it when you see it. Note: Access isn’t an automatic thing. Johnsan will need to allow you access only after you have completed the Hunt.

There’s a few things to be aware of with Skyland:

  • Skyland is inventory linked with 120Survival, so you’ll have the same inventory – it will carry over between worlds, just like the Nether.
  • Skyland is an opt in world. If you don’t want to play on it, that’s fine! This is important for the next point.
  • The void is real, and you can die in it. If you die in the void, you can collect your grave yourself, but we won’t get involved. If you lose your gear, you lose your gear, so be careful.
  • There are no ores in Skyland. You’re more than welcome to dig and build etc, but ores have been removed. You’ll need to get your ores from 120Survival and bring them over if you need any.
  • You can claim your builds (and we would love to see some awesome builds in this stunning custom world), but don’t decimate a whole island just for resources. Grab your bulk resources from 120Survival instead.
  • There’s no bridges between worlds, so if you want to travel you’ll need an elytra until bridges are built. Make them nice though! We know you lot can build awesome things – you’re better than a simple dirt bridge or wooden plank bridge! Show us what you can do.

We’re really excited by this world and we’re looking forward to seeing what you can do with it! If you’re stuck with the Scavenger Hunt and really want to get it done, feel free to ask the team for some help. We’ll not give you the answers, but we’ll get you in the right direction!

The LibraryCraft Hermitcraft Scavenger Hunt is here!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Survival World

School Holidays are almost over, but we’ve still got plenty of fun planned in LibraryCraft! Many of us are big Hermitcraft fans, so we thought we’d do something fun to get people exploring and possibly score some good loot in the process.

For those of you that don’t know what Hermitcraft is, it’s a private server created for and by YouTube content creators and Twitch streamers. The hermits create massive and intricate builds and have a heap of fun together, all while creating content for their channels. Season 9 has just wrapped up in the last month, and the builds were incredible.

We’ve decided to place a few of the builds around the 120Survival Map for you to find and explore (seen in the partial images above), but there’s a twist, and it all starts in the new Map Room, seen below, located at 120Spawn. The ruins themselves are a combined creation of two of the current hermits, Bdoubleo100 and Grian!

Not long after this article is published, the stairs to the room below the globe will be opened. The big map in the centre of the room shows the rough locations of the eight locations to find.

Each of these locations will have a sign with an alphabet cipher. You’re going to need a pen and paper with you for this, and it will take a while, so take your time! There’s no end time to this challenge.

Write down the symbols and letters that you find. The eight signs will have a selection of letters you need.

On three of those eight locations will also be some extra coded signs that make up some X, Y and Z coordinates. With these coordinate signs will also be another word. When you get to the coordinate location, think about those words – the final location’s information will be waiting for you to decode.

At your final location (you’ll know it when you see it) there will be a button to press. ONLY PRESS IT ONCE! You’ll be given a piece of paper with a code word. That code word will need to be mailed to JohnsanGeezo in order to collect your prize. What’s the prize? A shulker box full of goodies, including the heads of six of the builders of the locations to find – Bdubs, Grian, Scar, Ren, Gem & Pearl. Your name will also go up in the Map Room to show you’ve completed it.

Edit: You’ll also now get access to 120Skyland, a custom floating island Survival world!

We’re really excited for you all to check out the scavenger hunt. We had a heap of fun putting it together. A massive thank you to the Hermits for building incredible things to explore! It’s always awesome checking out what the pros can do.

The Head Games is coming back!

On By John GeijsmanIn Competitions, Survival World

That’s right, it’s been over two years, but the Head Games is coming back for the Christmas holidays and Term 1, 2024!

Nearly every mob has a chance to drop it’s head on death. Each head (for the most part – there are some that won’t count), is worth points! Some are better than others – the points list will be made available when the competition begins on Saturday December 16th.

Whoever has the most points at the end of the competition (Friday April 7th, 2024), will win – 1st, 2nd and 3rd! In the past there have been a HUGE amount of goodies to win and you can donate prizes as well! Treasure blocks like diamond, netherite, gold, iron, coal and more, plus other goodies too. Drop them into the prize pool hopper at the new Head Games HQ (the HGHQ) by 120 Survival Spawn.

Update: There’s also now three LEGO sets for the top three points scorers!

  • 1st: 31132 Viking Ship & the Midgard Serpent
  • 2nd: 76394 Fawkes, Dumbledore’s Phoenix
  • 3rd: 76181 DC Batman Batmobile: The Penguin Chase

Each registered player will get a chest at the HGHQ with a hopper – the pig’s head statue holds the entrance, which will open on December 16th. Drop VALID heads into your hopper to submit them.

Some things to note:

  • Don’t submit heads that do not score points
  • Don’t submit non head items
  • Don’t name the heads – leave them as they are
  • Heads from the /heads plugin are different and do not count
  • Extra point heads will be offered from time to time
  • Farms to collect heads are allowed, but ONLY if the mobs die by a player’s hand – handheld weapons only
  • Points will be calculated each Monday, with a hologram leaderboard available at the HGHQ.

To register, simply drop 1 DIAMOND BLOCK with your name on it into the central hopper at the HeadGames HQ by 9pm December 15th.

Let the games begin!

The Dynmap is back!

On By John GeijsmanIn Survival World

That’s right, the dynmap is back for 1.20 Survival! Now you can have a live overhead map of the Survival maps – that includes 1.20 and 1.19 Survival, Biblos’ Temple, and the Survival Lobby.

It’s also had a bit of a facelift, so it looks much cleaner. One feature we’ve not used as much but can make use of in this version are map markers. Easily findable, these will allow us to pinpoint bases and other key locations on the map as they appear.

If you’d like a marker set at your base, mail JohnsanGeezo in game, or open a ticket in Discord and he’ll set one up. You’ll need to provide your base coordinates and what you want it to be called.

Lastly, the dynmap can be found in your browser of choice at:

http://lcsurvival.apexmc.co:4895