🪐 Planets

Everyone can create their own automatically protected worlds known as planets. Owners control who can access and how others can interact with their worlds in addition to other settings like game rules and warp locations. Templates define the initial world state, including rare seeds and incredible custom builds.

🛠️ Tools

Our server offers a wide variety of open-source and in-house developed tools, including:

• WorldEdit - A beloved in-game map editor. We want all players to take advantage of this excellent open-source tool, so we wrote a guide on how to start using it.
• /heads - Obtain 80,000+ textured heads to decorate with.
• /specialitems - Obtain blocks with special states that are otherwise tedious to get, such as glowing invisible item frames, snowy grass, and end portal matter.
• /bm - Easily create and save banner configurations.
• /fw - Fireworks are delightful but can be tricky to craft. Our in-game editor helps players create, modify, save, and share firework configurations.
• /skin - Change how your character looks with a few clicks for this play session, which is useful for roleplay purposes.

🏆 Our Advantage

We offer one of the best creative server experiences, period. This is primarily the result of the thoughtfully designed planets system and immediate access to tools.

We trust our players with access to most game mechanics, and we only ask that they’re used responsibly.

• Entities can be spawned.
• Redstone is allowed.
• NBT items are allowed.
• Litematica is allowed, except for competitions like build events.

There are common restrictions and design decisions we avoid that other servers embody. For example, we don’t:

• Have ranks denoting your building skill. You should have the freedom to make what you want without judgement of your building style or skills.
• Restrict key features like WorldEdit, putting them behind a skill-based rank or paywall. We believe in empowering creativity, not gatekeeping essential tools.
• Keep you locked in. Planet owners can download their worlds (/p export) from the server to their device at any time, allowing them to take their creations with them, no questions asked.

🏛️ Leadership

The owner of Libre Galaxy Games is Martin, a university student pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Systems and Analytics. He has over half a decade of experience running casual and professional Minecraft servers, which has taught him how to cultivate high-quality community members and conflict resolution.

As a self-motivated technologist, Martin codes plugins for the server, develops https://libregalaxy.org, and uses Linux on his personal and server hardware. After first playing Minecraft during his childhood, his love for the game has continued as a platform for creative expression. This vision informs how he develops the player experience and tools on Libre Galaxy Games, a server he always wished existed.

⚠️ Limitations

We believe in being transparent with our community. As such, we must note:

• Players are welcome to request additional planet slots and expanded world borders. However, these requests will only be accepted if deemed to be genuinely necessary by our team.
• Planets may be deleted after 6 months of no planet owner activity. This is less likely if 1) significant effort was put into creation(s) that are easily identifiable, especially if they are enjoyed by the community and or 2) the planet owner is a well-known person in the community.
  • Please consider that storing thousands of Minecraft worlds consumes significant storage. While we have sufficiant storage, it’s necessary to clear out unused worlds so everyone has a chance to create worlds now and into the future.
  • This is in response to a lesson learned from another creative server (not associated with us) who had to shut down due to explosive hosting costs regarding an ever increasing disk size. They used a plot system where all player builds were in a single world, making it nearly impossible to target the deletion of specific chunks, which our world system luckily solves.
• As a busy university student, Martin, the owner, has severely limited time. Server updates may roll out slower than anticipated. Additionally, many updates are related to the server’s “backend” and may not be apparent to players (ex. in the form of new or modified features). He may not be able to log in every week, and is usually unable to play with community members. However, he is almost always able to respond within 24 hours to messages sent on the Libre Galaxy Discord server.

🤝 It’s Better All Together

We support the latest Java and Bedrock editions of Minecraft, meaning everyone can play together regardless of the device they use.

Additional Commands

Useful commands you’re likely to use include:

• /flyspeed [1-10] - Adjust your flight speed.
• /gmc - Alias for changing into gamemode creative
• /gms - Alias for changing into gamemode survival
• /gma - Alias for changing into gamemode adventure

ℹ️ The dimensions of a planet are 201x384x201.

🎯 Our Goals

Provide the best creative game-type server, period.

Achieved through the following initiatives:

• Unique & high-quality in-house developed features / tech stack
  • Planets system
  • VexelCore API
    • Player cache manager
    • Menu API
• Martin, the server’s “owner” (following traditional server lingo) and lead developer, has over 5 years of experience in professional server leadership across a variety of projects

Foster a safe and welcoming community for all to enjoy.

Achieved through the following initiatives:

• Sensible Community Guidelines
• Active moderation across our platforms
• Community leaders foster a culture of respect, inclusivity, and

Encourage ethical technology values such as open sharing (licensing) and collaboration.

Achieved through the following initiatives:

• Community made planet templates (planet made worlds created to be )
• Contributor role given to community members who created an approved planet world template
• Official builder roles given to community members collaborating on official build projects, such as planet world templates
• Planet owners can assign groups to players in their world, enabeling extensive control over the amount of trust allocated to their collaborators
• Other gaming ethical technology principles as outlined earlier in the page

Empower players with mini-server-like planets so they can take ownership of their own unique digital space.

Achieved through the following initiatives:

• Planet worlds are highly customizable

Preserve Minecraft history by updating old maps and making them widely accessible.

Achieved through the following initiatives:

• Publicly published legacy console edition maps
  • Many of which were made available on websites that are no longer online. Their pages are only accessible through tools like the Wayback Machine (which is at risk of shutting down). Those pages are linked to file download websites that are at risk of removing uploads deemed old/inactive or of shutting down all together.

Nurture Minecraft as a platform for creation in many avenues.

🧱 What to Build

You can make anything you want! Not sure where to start? Here are a few ideas:

• Parkour Course
• PVP Arena
• PVE Arena
• Adventure Map
• Roleplay Area
• Mini-Game
• Structures
• Ice Boat Race
• Spleef Arena
• Skin Contest Area
• Obstacle Course

Looking for a random suggestion? Try using /whattobuild!

FAQ

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How do I get started?

Create your planet (personal world) using /p create and selecting a planet world template.

Please refer to the tutorial in the /spawn area for futher details.

How do I use WorldEdit?

Please refer to our guide ⬇️

WorldEdit Guide

Why can’t I see WorldEdit selection particles?

You may have particles disabled in your client settings. You may also have the visualizer toggled off. Try /wesv toggle to turn it back on.

How do I ban a player from my planet?

Players can be banned from your planet using the group assignment menu. Use /p group <username> and select banned.

If a player was banned by mistake, simply open the group assignment menu and select another group to assign, such as default.

Does Libre Galaxy Games support Axiom?

No, we do not support Axiom because it does not meet our open-source software requirements and requires a commercial license,

What clients and mods can I use while I play?

Modifications can have a wide range of functionality, such as improving performance or adding new content to the game. However, not all mods are allowed everywhere on Libre Galaxy Games. You may use the modifications below at your own risk. They are trusted modifications that are unlikely to result in a punishment, but user discretion is still advised. These rules may change at any time.

Global

Mods Types:

• Performance

You may use any mod that helps run the game smoother, such as Sodium, Lithium, Phosphor, and Dynamic FPS.

• APIs

You may use any mod that provides code for another mod to work, such as the Fabric API.

• Client Managers

You may use any mod that helps you manage and configure your client, such as Mod Menu.

• Non-Gameplay Changing Client Tweaks

You may use any mod that doesn’t provide you with any unfair advantages and is used for utility purposes, such as Remove Reloading Screen, Paginated Advancements, and No Chat Reports.

• Accessability

You may use any mod that one might use for accessability purposes, such as Zoomify.

How do I set rules for my planet?

All players on Libre Galaxy must abide by our Community Guidelines. Planet owners may wish to create additional rules, typically communicated though signs at the planet spawn, as they see fit. The additional rules must not break the Community Guidelines.