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 ...

Spooky month begins! Our traditional Halloween event will start later this month, so you can look forward to it. For now, you can turn your attention to: Race Away Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Also, please note that we still have problems with the update to Minecraft 1.20.2. For now, Java players, use 1.20.1 for the best results. Kenorland Race Away makes a return in a brand new setting! This wetter location could cause slowdown on some computers, but I expect it to pl ...

Consider this a general announcement for all Minecraft players: the main Minecraft wiki that many have come to rely on has moved to a new host! You'll now find it at minecraft.wiki. The move of the wiki away from Fandom aims to reduce the amount of irrelevant content, ads and open the door to more improvements. For more on the subject, you can read their own announcement and FAQ. To save you the trouble of having to remember this new address, some people have developed a useful browser ...

We enter the period of Pumpkin Spice everything. Unfortunately, we can't have this taste ready for you in-game. Fortunately, we can still give you some challenges: UHC encore Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland Almost no one earned points in last month's Kenorland! Too high of a challenge for you, maybe? Then let's do an encore with different settings. This month features the same world. The usual difficulty setting is a challenge in itself, so it has ...

Our contestants braved the nearby apocalypse, reached Granite Town and made some interesting builds. It's time for the results! Although there were few entries, all the completed ones had obvious care put into them. This leaves us with our results! 1st place: AlexTheTrain 2nd place: xLordItachix 3rd place: RedPandaDragon Thank you everyone! You can see the full list of entries along with screenshots and judges comments on the contest results page. See you for the next one! As a reminde ...

A quick reminder to all our players that you have a week to go for the current building contest, with the goal of creating a hardened town. If you need to finish your entry, or claim a lot to start building, keep the deadline in mind!

Do you like watching videos and curated visuals of people's builds? We have fresh content for you, check it out below! GenuineXray has been working on his base for quite a while now and put together a nice overview of the various builds, with shaders enabled. Check the video and maybe get inspired a bit! Thanks to Xray for sending this in. If you're interested in more videos, our own YouTube channel has several of them! In case you missed them, xKamachi and AlexTheTrain have recen ...

"Please listen closely as our menu options have recently changed." The main menu for the website has been reorganized to make it easier to browse through. It was put together years ago with options being gradually added, with the whole losing clarity over time. This new version brings the most useful links front and center! Those looking for information about our events and contests will now find a new "Events" section regrouping it all. If you're after your profile, achievements and g ...

Now that people have had the chance to gather some pink petals, it's time to look to our newest set of challenges! This month: UHC Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks And don't forget about our ongoing building contest! Kenorland This month features our first appearance of UHC for this year. A world set to hard mode, four objectives, dying kicks you out for a week. Do you have what it takes? You have four goals to complete: Crafting a bookshelf Crafting an enchantm ...

The Creeper's Lab Companion, our app, has a new feature that many of you might be interested in: Moosemart search, letting you quickly check through all available trades. Also, an improved layout! The Companion has a section dedicated to let you quickly find what you're after. In the Search section, you will now find a new Moosemart tab. This lets you look for all the trades available within our large shop's multiple floors. You're looking for lanterns? Search for "lante ...

Some of you have asked, now it's time for the answer: yes, our next building contest is ready! This time, you will be building a hardened town, following Stone Ville's destruction! The Granite Post, July 18th, 20XX The mysterious disaster that ruined Stone Ville has left the authorities confounded. Despite the best efforts of the army, sent by the government to try and take back control, Stone Ville remains unsafe and off-limits. The nearby town of Granite Town has been evacuated ...

BOOM! It's time for a new round of TNT Tag! Come with us to try and outlast everyone else in the arena. Merit Points and special prizes will be given to the top three winners. This is easy to learn; everyone is welcome. This will take place in the minigames wing of the lobby, this Saturday at 10pm Eastern time. See you then! This event will be run by AndrewDowning. Interested in running your own events such as this one? You can do that by yourself! Check out our pre-made templates, the ...

The game servers have been updated to officially support Minecraft 1.20! Read on for some information related to the new content. With the servers update done, it's highly recommended that you update your Java client to 1.20.1 for the best results. Bedrock players, the latest version on your platform of choice is the right one. One of the new elements of this update lies in the new dig sites, filled with mystery items and sherds to be uncovered. As our main worlds are fully explored, t ...

Half of the year is gone already (noitsnotrealshutup), so onward to the other one, with a fresh rotation of challenges Death Seeker Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland This month sees the return of Death Seeker, where surviving the first death could be your biggest challenge! Try to score as many unique death messages as possible within the month; nametag usage doesn't count. Merit Points will be awarded in decreasing order based on the amount of unique death m ...

Some good news today for potential Patreon backers: billing will now happen on your anniversary date of joining rather than the first of the month, avoiding a potential double billing issue. Additionally, there's a new trial mode for the cosmetic perks, so you can try them out without having to pay. Read my full update on Patreon for the details! The yearly postcard for backers at Level 5 and higher is coming up in a few days. If you wanted to back me, or increase your current pledge, n ...

A set of improvements is now live for the chat system, with improvements for in-game, Discord and IRC. On the menu: better displays and a wider selection of commands! When you're playing in-game, the status of the chatters from Discord and IRC will display in-game instead of a generic or tag. This includes both the status along with the color, matching what you're used to see within Minecraft. This excludes the "Trusted" status, as it's not defined on other platforms. To he ...

Minecraft 1.20 has been released today for both Java and Bedrock, and we now support the latest version. But beware - Cimmeria will be resetting soon! UPDATE: 1.20.1 also works as-is. A year to the day after the release of 1.19 comes 1.20, with the latest additions to the game. As you might know by now, we aren't ready to update yet as we're depending on various plugins and tools to be prepared by their respective authors. You can play using any recent Minecraft version for now; J ...

The new month brings new challenges to you! Which ones will you attempt? Randomizer Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland Your goal is to place and break a bed of each color, for a total of 16. Easy, right? Except that, in the spirit of Games Done Quick, all item drops have been randomized! Breaking something like sand won't get you sand - it will be a surprise! And so will everything else, so the actual challenge is to find the materials you will need. And no, t ...

This is a heads-up to everyone who might not have migrated their Mojang Accounts to Microsoft ones yet: you have until 19 September at 11am (Eastern time), after which you will no longer be able to login. This has been announced back in 2020 and most everyone here has already done it. Still, you might want to double-check just to make sure: if you don't do it, you will not be able to play anymore!

May Day! Not the emergency kind, though, just the first of a new month. On your plate this time: Race Away Advancements Hunt results Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland It's been a while, so I hope you've kept your running shoes handy, for it's Race Away time! The goal of this challenge is simple: run East on the X axis, as far as you can, and get farther out than anyone else! The higher your ranking, the more points you earn! If you die, you get sent ...

The network has been updated to Minecraft 1.19.4! This brings the usual optimizations and bug fixes. Notable changes are better horse breeding mechanics and an array of new accessibility settings. No new blocks or items are included in this one. Updating is recommended for all, especially if you had problems with stability or auto-completion in commands.

Easter brings along two challenges for you to tackle: Peter Cottontail and Thumper are back for an encore at Easter Island, while Zombie Jesus roams at the lodge! Reb and Sora have conspired to bring you some more festivities. The first event is an encore of last year's scavenger hunt, where you need to locate eggs and cross a maze for a prize. Last year's basket has been replaced with the chance to earn Merit Points instead. For the details, please see last year's news post ...

I'm happy to add today a feature that many of you have asked about before: news notifications in the Companion, the Creeper's Lab app! The Companion already let you read the news. What is added today is the ability to get a notification as soon as a news post is published, making sure that you don't miss out on anything. To enable this, make sure that the Companion is installed on your favorite platform, then use the "Enable Notifications" in the main menu. This is completely ...

Welcome to April, month of fools! Now that we've left the silliness aside, here's a return to more grounded activities.: Vanilla advancements Hunter's Lodge Horsemen Quests Guilds tasks Kenorland Hello everyone, Groovy here, I've got another challenge for you this month, which I think is going to be a lot of fun. It's very simple, there is a new vanilla world and your objective is to get as many advancements as you can. There are 105 advancements in total to go f ...