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Most players here will be familiar with doorgunnerjgs, a regular that's been with us for many years. Unfortunately, I have to inform you that he passed away last week, on January 31rd, at the age of 79. As you might be aware, door was invited to play with us by his son, Exodio (hi Uncle Sal!). His grandsons have also spent quite a bit of time with us: AlphaSniper828, Aaranvor, KylosaurusRenx and AwesomeBoyStar and dinosaureats, plus other friends and relatives. These would sometime mee ...

Whenever you're exploring and you face tall grass, you're never sure what's hiding behind it. Worse, if you're playing in science areas, you can't hit mobs through it. What a bother. We have added a new server plugin to solve exactly this: if you try to attack an enemy through any tall plant, your hit will carry instead of being stopped by the scenery. Thanks to GodofRandom23 for the suggestion!

Welcome to the second month of the year already, with a fresh set of challenges: Ongoing Chinese New Year Grindatron results Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland Seasonal The Chinese New Year celebrations continue on Seasonal! To give everyone a chance at participating, Kenorland will be taking a break this month. Go face the Zodiac, mingle with the festival goers and earn shinies! Read the full news post on this event to learn about all the details! Grindatron resul ...

Scattered across Laurasia are many sites with lore and history. These places are near and far. Rich with stories of travel and triumph. Be one of the first three to find all 8 and return to Central with a token from each one to win a prize! When and Where: Starts Jan 29th (Sunday) at 8am PST. and closes Feb 5th (Sunday) at 6pm PST. The event will start at Roen's shop in the commercial district of Central called "The Noble Llama". From central station take the oak and spruce checkered ...

This Saturday, at the start of Event Night, Groovy would like to invite you to an event. The event will take place on the newly completed Buddha island (which he asks you not visit until the event). The event will be a scavenger hunt locating 8 special items hidden accross the island. Specific details will follow on Event Night. First, second and third prize will get very nice shulkers full of goodies as well as the traditional merit points awards for events. Additionally, anyone who fin ...

Chinese New Year has come once again and this year, it's the Year of the Rabbit! This means the Year Dealer has a new book for you. Starting on 22 January 2023 through 22 February 2023 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: This e ...

To better integrate your online identity, we now have a proper way to link up the accounts you use for the Creeper's Lab and Discord! The process to do this is simple: login to your Interordi Account, go to edit your profile and look for the "Link Account" button next to Discord's logo. Confirm your identity on their site, and that's it! You will gain the new Validated rank on Discord, with a mark next to your name. Blue checkmarks are so last year, right? This is why these v ...

Happy New Year to all! Here's your monthly rotation of challenges and events: Grindatron returns to Kenorland Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland Grindatron returns! New year, new targets - so many targets. Once every four hours, in fact! See what's requested, find it, then return it to spawn before the window closes. Be careful to manage your energy properly! Each player earns the amount of Merit Points matching the targets they have completed through the ...

The network has been updated to 1.19.3, which contains bug fixes and improvements as usual. Java players, it's recommended that you use the latest version for the best results, but we have also kept the compatibility with previous versions up to 1.19.2. Bedrock players, you always want to be on the latest one! One specific game setting has been changed for Superia: in that world only, lava will now behave like water with the lavaSourceConversion game rule. If you're hoping to creat ...

Support for Minecraft 1.19.1 has been added to the network as it's been officially released. You are free to update to 1.19.1 or remain on 1.19 for now. Should you join using the newest version on Java Edition, you will see this notification on the corner of your screen: This is normal and caused by us still running 1.19 internally; there's nothing to be worried about. The plan is to test how our custom chat system interacts with the new verified messages introduced by Mojang in t ...

The month of August begins with a brand new Seasonal challenge from Twixxi, which will take over as a guest spot in the Kenorland rotation. Plus, regular updates to guilds and horsemen quests! Seasonal: A quest for Funky Dance Moves! Take it away, Twixxi! The (lesser known) Explorer's Guild invites you to take part in a special treasure hunt this month! A new, naturally generated 1.19 world is now available on the Seasonal server. The fifteen different Music Discs have been removed from ...

I've updated tonight all game servers to the latest Minecraft version, 1.14.4. This includes several performance improvements, and the game will hopefully run smoother for all. It's incompatible with the previous one, so be sure to change the game version in your launcher before you resume playing!


Region markers are back

The region markers had been gone from Laurasia's map for a while due to incompatibilities, but they're now back in place. Large player-claimed a ...

Our wiki, the Creeperpedia, now allows you to login using your Interordi Account! This is the same information that you used when you first registered and is shared with the forums and other tools. It gives you a single identity across our network instead of having to remember various usernames usernames and passwords. The introduction of Interordi Accounts here will replace the previous login method, which relied on Discord. The Creeperpedia is our main reference along the forums on what to ...

For our last major anniversary update, I'm happy to announce something completely new: the Creeper's Lab Companion, a mobile and desktop app to let you quickly access the essentials! As its name suggests, once installed (or accessed online), the Companion's goal is to assist you in finding the information you need. That way, you don't need to browse the full website and interrupt your play! The Companion currently lets you do the following: Useful links View the maps ea ...

It's time for a new building contest! The theme is fancy houses!

I've developed a new building ground near Central for this, called Oak Hills. To find it, go to Central then take the overland train line toward Victoria. Continue past the desert settlement. You'll arrive at a fork, where you need to take the line identified as "Oak Hills". The next stop is your destination!




Each contestant can use a single 20x20 lot as building ground. There are currently 9 availabl ...

It's time for a new building contest, with a fresh concept! StTheo invites you to build none other than an underwater base, made out of multiple interconnected modules. The top three winners can win 50, 30 and 15 Merit Points respectively. The contest starts today and will last three weeks, thus ending on Monday, 4 October. Get in early to showcase your creativity! Here's StTheo with the full details and rules. Background The barely functional remains of an underwater base have be ...

A special message from Groovy! Ever want a creative world where you can go to test a redstone contraption? Check out a block color palette? Build without worrying about gathering resources? That's what the Sandbox is for. The Sandbox is a new affiliate server hosted by GroovyBanana and can be found in the lobby in the affiliates section. This new server is available to members of trusted rank or higher and the same rules of Creeper's Lab apply there, the big ones being no gri ...

The Brixton Estate building contest has wrapped up, and it's time to look at the winners! Without further delay: 1st Place: NicDaKermit 2nd Place: AlexTheTrain 3rd Place: Exodio Your prizes have been placed outside the front door of all builds. Remember that every participant could earn a little something, so be sure to make the detour to claim your goodies! Tokens can be traded at the vendor next to the Nether portal. See the contest results page for the full list of entries. Due to th ...

The server versions have been updated tonight, with your usual bug fixes and improvements. Java players, you will now be required to use 1.16.4 to access the survival servers. Yes, Optifine has been updated. Bedrock players, you will need the latest version on your platform, which should be 1.16.100 as of this writing. If you haven't been auto-updated yet, go check on that!

Today, I'm extremely happy to announce the next big step for the Creeper's Lab: Minecraft Bedrock Edition support! The two main versions of Minecraft, Java and Bedrock, have been aiming for feature parity for some time now. While we're not quite there yet, the two are getting close enough where it's getting realistic for both sets of players to meet each other online at last. This means that players of Bedrock Edition on both Windows 10 and mobile can now jump in with us! ...

I know that many of you have been waiting for this, and I'm happy to announce that the science areas are all back online, including the Creeper Citadel! For players that have already completed part of the challenges, some items have been overhauled and you're eligible for a trade. You can find the full list here; to trade them in, please head to the underground of the Post Office at the Citadel. Some new item trades have been added at Moosemart, they will be added later today to th ...

Last week, I made a call for fresh blood to join the staff group. First things first, I'd like to thank everyone who applied: this got more attention than I was expecting, which is good sign that the community is healthy and that people want to get involved more!

With that said, this leaves us with a few nominations:
- Both **MineshaftBob** and **xLordItachix** are being promoted to the op status!
- To replace them, **BiGsTiVo** and **Twixxi_** are joining the group as helpers!
- ...

All contest areas are usually set around a given theme and have been designed to have a cohesive look amongst all buildings. New additions after the contests are usually welcomed, as long as they stick to the known theme and follow the same rules as the existing entries.

To help keep that unified, clean look, I'm adding an extra guideline today: at the staff's discretion, builds within former contest areas that don't belong are subject to be removed after two months of inac ...

To battle!

Everyone interested in PvP is invited to join us this Saturday to try out our new PvP minigame! Introduced last week, this location gives you five fighting classes to chose from. You don't need to (nor can!) bring in any items, everything that you need is provided to you!

This will be in a free-for-all format, with no extra rules set in place. Simple, straight fun! All you need to do is drop in starting at 9pm Eastern time, this Saturday, to see who's the best at f ...

The game servers had been mostly down for the past two days as we experienced some hardware issues on our dedicated server. A technical team reviewed it and improved its cooling, which should mean the end of our troubles.

All game servers are back online and waiting for you. Sorry about the trouble!

I've started the update process for 1.14 and performed a dry run to see how the new version will work with our current setup. Unfortunately, a major complication has shown up: the plugin that's currently in place to track the player statistics is not compatible with 1.14 and its author has abandoned it. While it would be possible to move forward without it, it's tied to a lot of systems: achievements, player profiles, griefing tracking, and more. Considering that the achieveme ...

I've pushed a series of improvements to the website to polish up the new version that was launched in January. These include higher resolution images for mobile and 4K display users, corrections to the sidebar and improved navigation among other things.

I've received little feedback on the website changes since the last revamp, and I'd like to hear from you, especially if you're viewing the site on your phone or tablet. Is there anything that stands out, in good or bad ...

After a few months of planning and work, I'm happy to release today a brand new website for the Creeper's Lab!

The previous design had been in use for over four years, and I thought it was time for a renewal, going through each page one at a time. At first glance, you might think that nothing's changed, but that's definitely not the case!

The behind-the-scenes structure of the website was overhauled to a new, more modern system. Various sections have been reorganize ...

The tests I've conducted so far have been promising. While I still have some work left before it happens, I can now say that we'll be updating to Minecraft 1.13 Tuesday next week, the 23rd. I'll use the time before then to finish some needed software development along with ensuring that things are as stable as possible. A few minor items will likely be missing at first, but will be added back in when either myself or the original plugin authors take care of it. Those who have ...