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We have updated today to a new plugin to protect your doors, trapdoors, gates, chests, barrels, shulkers, signs, armor stands and any other, past and future! Bolt is replacing LWC as our do-it-all option. Check the Tips & Tricks page for the new commands, or read on for the most important changes. The new basic command to change a protection is /lock. A quick /lock public lets you set a door or chest to public access. For the more advanced features, you can rely on /bolt to access them all. ...

Support for Minecraft 1.21 has been added to the network, letting you join with the latest game version. We're still running on 1.20.6 as we work through updating the game, we'll let you know when the worlds make the jump over. In other news, the guild tasks for June have arrived! With only half the time to complete them, they have been made fairly simple.

The update to Minecraft 1.20.6 is now live on all servers! It's recommended that you change your game client to match to get the smoothest results. As you know, several areas had to close for extra maintenance, including all of the science areas and Moosemart. Some of these will be fixed earlier than others. To follow the current process, you can access our new Status page. You can also get updates as they happen on Discord, in the #cl-status channel. Thank you for your patience!

We're preparing to update the game servers to 1.20.6. If everything goes according to plan, this will happen next Saturday, the 8th. Unfortunately, due to extensive changes to the syntax of commands, several areas will have to close. Science areas and the guilds will be impacted, plus other utilities that rely on commands. While we will try to bring things up as quickly as possible, some areas will be closed for possibly weeks or months. Some closures could also happen before the 6th to ...

For June, we're trying something a bit different! UHC is an encore with better settings, while the guilds have a surprise in store. UHC Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland Let's try this again! UHC with an expanding world, take 2! The world starts small and will gradually open up through the month. The world border will only expand while people are active in the world, so you will have to practice your survival skills if you're hoping to travel a bit! ...

Minecraft has reached its 15th anniversary, while the Creeper's Lab has been around for over 12 of these! To celebrate this, various promotions are currently live. I've compiled all the ones I've found below, maybe there's something for you in there! Minecraft is now at least 50% on all platforms. The base game usually doesn't get any rebates, so if you wanted an extra alt, this is your chance. The mobile and console versions are also on sale, if you wanted to play ...

You want to play some TNT Tag or racing, but there's nobody to play with? We've got a solution for you: a recruitment system for all minigames! /join and /recruit will be your two new best friends. The lobby area of each minigame now has a summon that lets you invite everyone to join you, even if they're in other worlds! When a call has been sent, anyone interested can type a simple /join to join you! If multiple calls have been sent, a simple command like /join tnttag will l ...

It's May Day, not to be confused with Mayday! No need to look for help, here is your regular rotation of challenges. UHC Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks The results for last month's Race Away and the Random Challenges are now available on the wiki. Kenorland UHC returns, with a twist! The world starts small and will gradually open up through the month. The world border will only expand while people are active in the world, so you will have to practice your survi ...

Minecraft 1.20.5 has been released today by Mojang. Due to a change in the plugin providing us with multiple versions support, we'll be adding compatibility for it tomorrow. To play with us until then, you need to stay with 1.20.4 or lower. .4 remains the recommended version for the best results. Please note that this new game version includes significant technical changes that will take a while for us to process. These will have a big impact on features such as the guilds and science; ...

The rumor that's been growing and growing in the past several days turned out to be true: Microsoft is purchasing Mojang, makers of Minecraft, for $USD 2,500,000,000. Official statements: Mojang, Notch (mirror), Microsoft, press release.

The Minecraft development team, including Jeb, is still there. Only Notch, Carl and Jakob (co-founders and company heads) have left, so this won't have any impact on the game on the short term. Now, of course, what does this mean for the game an ...

One day late and a fool short, here's your rotation of challenges for April! Race Away Random Challenges Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland It's Race Away time! Run, run the furthest you can while going East, increasing your X coordinate. Whoever gets the farthest out within the month wins! This time, you might find the foliage to get in the way. Get an axe and fight your way through all this plant life! Keep in mind that you're allowed to go up to 1 ...

Lost to many in the update shuffle was St. Patrick's Day last Sunday. Did you hunt down the Leprechauns? No? Don't worry, you've got another chance! The event will be rerun this weekend, during Events Night. Make your way to the Hunter's Lodge, find the hideout of the leprechauns and clean the place! You can trade the various drops back at the safehouse. Another special will take place at the end of the month, for Easter! Zombie Jesus will rise from the dead, on the 31st ...

At long last, the Creeper's Lab has made the jump to Minecraft 1.20.4! This is now the recommended version to play, so I suggest you update your client today. Please read on for some useful information on what changed. There were several technical challenges with this update, which is why it took so long to happen. There are no gameplay changes or new items, so you can carry on with your usual building or exploration. Some of you had been getting weird error messages while getting disc ...

The main phase of the Chinese New Year event has concluded, with the festival goers heading back home. It's now time for you to collect your valuables out of storage (you did this, right?) and bring them back into the survival servers. You can still make purchases with the yen you've already gathered, along with upgrading your equipment. Do you still have leftovers from last year? Time to dust them off, they're also valid! This will close at the end of the month. Thanks for pa ...

This public service announcement is targeted at our long-time community members: when helping out new players with getting whitelisted, remember that they're creating an Interordi Account, not a forum one! In fact, the forums will now redirect you to the accounts page to add the Minecraft IDs. Interordi Accounts were introduced over two years ago and are now the main entry point for newcomers. The clean, simple interface is easier to navigate and lets people do what they want right away ...

Chinese New Year has come once again and this year, it's the Year of the Dragon! This means the Year Dealer has a new book for you. Starting on 1 February 2024 through 24 25 February 2024 at 5 pm EST you have the chance to complete the challenge of defeating all the Zodiac Years and their "God" for 15 Merit Points! Find some special shrine offerings and cash it in up to 5 times to receive 5 Merit Points each time, for a total of up to 40 Merit Points at the end of the event! * Note: Th ...

This is as real as it gets: the Creeper's Lab is now listed on the Official Minecraft Server List! This gives us an additional online presence while being a new location that people can vote for us. But what's all this vote stuff, anyway? Voting is possible on some Minecraft servers list. Its main purpose is to let players give their stamp of approval on their favorite server, which they can do daily. This affects the ranking of this server, more votes raising it to a higher posit ...

The player levels that are part of your profile have been rebalanced! Most of you should have gained some levels due to this. The player levels are calculated by your in-game activity. Some of the values have been changed to improve the numbers: Guilds earnings were raised. Horsemen Areas were revised. Achievements are now based on their relative rarity. To expand to this last point, Creeper's Lab achievements are now split in two groups: core and advanced. Advanced achievements are ...

Happy new year, everyone! As is tradition, here is a fresh batch of monthly challenges for you: Grindatron in Kenorland Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Also, a reminder: won't forget to trade in your advent baubles and get any items left under the Christmas tree in Central! Kenorland The six-times-a-day grind is back with the fan favorite Grindatron! Every four hours, a new block or item is given as the target. The players must find it or craft it, then come back to ...

If you're planning out your projects for the next year, consider looking at our list of public building sites! The main list is now included in our wiki with more information about each entry, its location and how to get there. Give it a look! Thanks to Exodio for doing a lot of the early work on this!

To give our brave Kenorland challengers a chance at surviving, new safe points have been added to the world. Each one is located 500 blocks away from spawn, in the four cardinal directions, and comes equipped with its own glass dome, bed and chest. If you're looking to explore an area that's in better shape, any of these could make for a good staging ground!

Some are already doing their yearly recaps, but we at the Creeper's Lab prefer to complete the year first. And what better way is there to complete it than with our traditional offerings? This month: The Advent Calendar returns Christmas cards coming up Anarchy in Kenorland Hunter's Lodge Guilds Advent Calendar A favorite of many is coming back this year: the Advent Calendar! As before, there is a mix of new and returning items to be scored daily. For those not familiar with it, ...

Let's follow up on a few things, including the end of our Halloween event and the current hunt for achievements! Our Halloween event has wrapped up with a grand total of 35 participants. Of these, about half managed to complete the main museum display and earn the maximum amount of Merit Points available! It's fair to say that this has been a great success. Thanks again to Reb and Sora for setting this one up! If you haven't done so yet, remember to go pick up your inventory ...

It's been entirely too long since the last update, but here we are at last: 50 new achievements are now waiting for you to score them, making for a grand total of 200! That's right, an extra fifty targets are now live for you to hunt down at your leisure. As always, you get the achievements for completing various tasks across the survival servers, some more obvious than others. Achievements are announced every 30 minutes in-game. You can follow your progression from your player pr ...

The Creeper's Lab has reached another milestone today, reaching its 12th year! How exciting is that? Let's look back at what happened in the past year! Just this past year: More building contests Integration of Interordi and Discord accounts New exciting events like the Chinese New Year and Buddhist Scavenger Hunt Improved in-game text formatting Siralan joining in as an affiliate The update to Minecraft 1.20 Moosemart search within the Companion That's plenty of ex ...

We leave the orange and pumpkin spice behind (never!) to look at a fresh set of challenges for November: Race Away Halloween event Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Get the most out of these before the start of the holidays season! Kenorland Race Away is currently on hold while our yearly Halloween event is ongoing. If you have tasks to complete or haven't started yet, now's your chance! Race Away will resume on 19 November for its finale in a stormy setting. Sci ...

It's time for our yearly tradition of an Halloween event! Can you dig it? You better, because it involves archaeology! This year's event takes place in Seasonal, which temporarily will take the place of Kenorland at the Challenge gate of the lobby. The concept of the event goes as such: you start with a fresh inventory in a custom world, with the task of unearthing ancient artifacts at various digsites. Find these, complete a museum's display, face one extra final challenge, ...

Do you like earning achievements and tracking your progress? Do you play games on multiple systems and platforms? Would you like to get an overview about all this in a single location? Then discover the latest creation of Doctacosa - Osmium! Osmium is a new system designed to let you track your achievements and gameplay statistics, combining multiple sources into one. You have games on both Steam and GOG? View all your progress in the same place! Of course, your favorite (and not so favorit ...

It was hinted at the beginning of the month, it has now happened - Race Away has leveled up!! To shake things up in this race, the base speed of all players has been doubled! If you're behind and want to make a comeback, or if you haven't started running at all, you're now faster than ever! However, not all is well. The world reacted angrily to this change and the weather now appears to be a permanent thunderstorm. Do you have what it takes to avoid the additional danger? Goo ...