We’re only a few days away from a new year, which means a brand new competition! The slate has been wiped clean. To kick off 2022 we’re asking you to build in the sky, with a floating island!
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the January Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Judging will happen during the first week of February.
The January Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the December gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday December 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of January 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build.
More information on the prizes will be published in the coming weeks. Bring on a new year in LibraryCraft!
It’s almost Christmas! Where has this year gone? This December we want to see your interpretation of an Aussie Christmas. What does Christmas mean to you? How do you celebrate it? What do you think of when you think “Aussie Christmas”?
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the December Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Judging will happen during the first week of January. We’ll also be announcing the season’s top three!
The December Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the November gate which will close to building at 9pm on Tuesday November 30th.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of December 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build. Let’s finish this season off strong!
November has crept up on us. This year is just flying by! We want you all to build a scene from your favourite movie or TV show.
There’s a couple of extra bits of information that are super important:
When claiming your plot, please place a sign near the plot sign to reserve your chosen show or movie.
You cannot choose a movie or show that has been chosen already. Get in quick! Any disputes can be settled by the mod team, to see who placed their sign first.
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the November Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Judging will happen during the first week of December.
The November Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the October gate which will close to building at 9pm on Sunday October 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of November 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build. Players Choice votes will also be open as usual.
On to October! We’re going with a pretty specific theme this time around. Aquariums!
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the October Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Judging will happen during the first week of November.
The October Comp world gate – located in the Creative Lobby – will replace the September gate which will close to building at 9pm on Thursday September 31st.
The gate will open in the Creative Lobby on the morning of October 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build. Players Choice votes will also be open as usual.
We’ve had some exciting and big builds happening for August, and we’re looking forward to checking them out properly when we judge, but it’s on to September!
Enchanted Garden should be fun, as it allows you to make use of those beautiful new blocks that have appeared since we’ve updated to 1.17.1!
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the September Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Judging will happen during the first week of October.
As per normal, the September Comp world gate – located on the Warp Ship – will replace the August gate which will close to building at 9pm on Tuesday August 31st.
The gate will open on the Warp Ship on the morning of September 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build. Players Choice votes will also be open as usual.
July’s WA Landmarks competition has only just begun, and the builds are looking excellent, but I want to get everyone excited for what is next. August means National Science Week, and as we did last year, the August competition is bigger than most.
In August we’re celebrating National Science Week’s 2021 theme of Food: Different by Design, so we’re asking you to build your best Farm. (Thanks to Keralis from HermitCraft S7 for the unbelievable build above!)
We have changed the plot sizes for this competition, with big 104×50 sized plots. (Don’t ask about the extra 4…)
Here’s the rules, with some extra ones!
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the August Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Farms can be animals or crops
Each base MUST include:
Farms need to be carbon neutral. Generation of power can be by water wheel, wind turbine, solar panels etc. Anything carbon neutral.
Farms need to show evidence of
Irrigation
Harvesting
Storage
Transport of resources in and out (roads, gates etc)
Homestead/living (can be partial, or a facade if need be)
Judging will happen during the first week of September.
As per normal, the August Comp world gate – located on the Warp Ship – will replace the July gate which will close to building at 9pm on Saturday July 31st.
The gate will open on the Warp Ship on the morning of August 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build. Players Choice votes will also be open as usual.
Prizes
The top three designs will win an extra special prize, just for August! Regular Emerald Points prizes will be given out as usual, along with diamond blocks.
*Please note that the LEGO Minecraft set has been opened once to be built for review on bricktasticblog.com, before being broken down and bagged. All parts including spares are included.
We’re almost at the end of one of our biggest monthly competitions with August’s Underwater Base builds! It’s been brilliant working with the WA Maritime Museum, and getting all of your questions. You’ve come up with some great ones! We’re really excited to get the responses back.
Next month we’ll be getting back to our normal monthly competitions, with Space!
This one is going to be fun! We’ve got a special space world ready to go with rectangular plots all ready. The plots are 50 wide, 50 tall and 100 long, so there’s plenty of room. Like with August, we’re using our new method of competition claims.
Click the sign on the bottom corner of each plot to claim it. It will cost you $5. Please don’t remove the corner blocks or the sign! The central glass blocks can be used to start your builds.
It doesn’t have to be spaceships! If it’s space related, it’ll work – go full science fiction.
Rules
All building must be in Creative Mode
This is a Single Player Competition – Team builds are not allowed
Builders can claim ONE plot only
All entries must be built on the September Comp world
Designs must be your own – no copying from online!
Judging will take place during the first week of October. The September Comp world gate – located on the Warp Ship – will replace the August gate which will close to building at 9pm on Monday August 31st.
The gate will open on the Warp Ship on the morning of September 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build.
It’s the end of July tomorrow, which means the end of our first Emerald Points Competition season! It all comes down to this. We’ve had an amazing few months of builds – Ships, Treehouses, Winter and Gates. Next season will be just as awesome, and the points tally will reset, but there’s also a few other big things coming up! We’ll let everyone know who wins mid way through August.
The July world will be changed to Adventure mode on Friday night, so make sure you get your last changes in! The August world will go live on Saturday morning.
In case you forgot, the prizes for the end of Season 1 are:
1st Prize: 1x Steelseries Apex 3 Gaming keyboard
2nd Prize: 1x $50 JB HiFi Voucher
3rd Prize: 1x $30 JB HiFi Voucher
August Creative Competition – Underwater Bases
The August world will also have a new method of claiming plots of land – similar to how shops are purchased in the Trade Hall. Right click an available plot’s sign to give yourself access to the plot. Please limit yourself to one plot only.
Make sure you submit a question for the WA Maritime Museum Science team to be eligible to win one of the amazing prizes they’ve provided. This is a very unique opportunity to ask questions of the team who have been to the deepest parts of WA’s coastline, so make sure you don’t waste it! The first wave of questions are due on Sunday August 2nd, with another wave due mid August, in case you missed out.
Survival Build Competition
Tomorrow also means the end of the Survival Build Competition. It’s been around 5 months since we started it and we have some amazing entries!
From Friday night the Build Competition Entry world will be set to Adventure mode so changes can’t be made. This means that any home that’s used as a regular base needs to be moved to the regular Survival world. Please contact JohnsanGeezo in game or Discord to get this sorted out.
The prizes for the Survival Build Competition are:
1st Prize: $50 JB HiFi Voucher
2nd & 3rd Prizes: 1x $25 JB HiFi Vouchers each
LibraryCraft Head Games
August also brings a new competition – the Head Games! Each mob will now have a chance (some much rarer than others) of dropping their head on death. Registration costs one diamond, and you need to name it with your name (using a nametag) before dropping it down the central hopper at the Head Games Headquarters (the HGHQ). JohnsanGeezo will also be adding in one diamond BLOCK to the winnings pot for every player that enters. So far we have 8 players, so that’s a lot of diamonds!
The competition will go until the end of November, and the prizes will go to 1st, 2nd and 3rd. All heads must be submitted into your own hopper, located on the second floor of the HGHQ. Thanks to Vinemon for creating the building!
It’s just under two weeks until the end of July, and we have had some great entries in the Gates competition so far, but I want to get everyone excited for what is next.
In August we’re teaming up with the WA Maritime Museum to celebrate National Science Week. 2020’s theme is Deep Blue, so we’re asking you to build your best Underwater Base. Builds must be themed around one of the following topics:
Research Base (underwater research in shallow and deep water)
Camoflaged Base (hiding from the monsters of the deep)
Exploration Base (searching for a new place to live)
We have created a brand new custom world just for this competition, with huge 100×100 sized water plots. Each plot has a small section of beach.
The WA Maritime Museum has also provided some extra video content for players, covering some deep sea exploration missions in WA. This content will be useful in getting the most out of your builds! Each player will also be able to ask questions of the expedition team themselves.
Rules
All building is in Creative Mode
Builders must choose ONE topic above
Builders must use ONE plot only
All building must be done on the August Comp Map
Designs must be your own
Single player entries only – no team builds
Each base MUST include:
A way to get inhabitants and supplies from the Base to the surface (each plot has a section of land)
Living Quarters
Research laboratories (plants and animals)
Water and Air filtration systems (use your imagination)
Ocean access for marine life study and exploration (shallow and deep water)
Submersible craft or ROV (remotely operated vehicle)
Judging will happen during the first week of September. Judging will be based on both aesthetics (how it looks), and functionality. The WA Maritime Museum staff will be judging the entries as well, with each WAMM vote counting for two moderator votes.
As per normal, the August Comp world gate – located on the Warp Ship – will replace the July gate which will close to building at 9pm on Friday July 31st.
The gate will open on the Warp Ship on the morning of August 1st, so get planning and designing now – you’ll only have a month to build. Players Choice votes will also be open as usual.
Prizes
The top three designs will win an extra special prize, just for August, thanks to the WA Maritime Museum. To qualify for these prizes, a question must be submitted to the WAMM Science team. More information on this is available in game. Regular Emerald Points prizes will be given out as usual – it’s the start of a new season, so points will get reset!
The moderators have done another round of voting so here are the top three for June! We had over 25 entries this round. That’s huge!
Like every month, each moderator chose their top three and submitted the votes to me. I then tally them up with each vote getting a score – 15 points for a 1st choice vote, 10 points for 2nd, 5 points for 3rd. The points were added up and the three top points scorers got the wins.
1st Place: Xx_Aidan_xX
In the space of a solid 5 hours of building, Aidan created a beautiful snowglobe! The shaping of this is stunning.
2nd Place: _xXDedukKingXx_
King once again reached for the skies with a large floating castle and a dragon.
3rd Place: TapuKoko888
Koko submitted a very clever Santa’s village. There was so much detail, including a hidden underground Santa’s hideout, and Santa’s sleigh!
Honourable Mentions
Like last month, there were a few players that scored some votes, but missed out on the top spot.
FrankieSquid8 created this cozy winter house with a very nice interior.
Rodger500, built a series of igloos and a roaring campfire amongst the snow.
EpicCracker29, submitted a very nice winter village with a couple of houses, an igloo and a great looking beacon housing.
Finally, ___cosmic__ included a beautiful secluded campsite amongst snow covered trees.
There were so many more entries that were all fantastic builds – a massive congratulations to all who entered. Check out the video above.
The Winter world will be available for a little while longer to get any final Player’s Choice votes in. The top three Players’ Choice builds will get some extra in game cash.
We’ve got one more month to go before the end of the very first season of the Emerald Points competition. The tally so far is:
_xXDedukKingXx_ – 35 points
Tapukoko888 – 20 points
Xx_Aidan_xX – 15 points
toothless_spy – 10 points
IcyDragon27 – 5 points
EvaLPS – 5 points
It’s still anyone’s game! Any of the current placeholders above can sneak in to get a prize at the end of July. It’s getting exciting now. In August we start again with a new season and new prizes!
Congratulations to all! Let’s keep building – we’re looking forward to seeing the Gates!
LibraryCraft 