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Hello and welcome to the new home of Love Tropics! We are so happy to have you. On this new site you can find everything, from our latest news, all of our beloved Love Tropics minigames, and the Live event page where you can watch our event as it happens.

It feels only fitting that with this fresh start, we offer a look back at our history:

After Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico in 2017, a few modders who worked on the Tropicraft mod at the time got together and decided that they wanted to help. After all, a trip to Puerto Rico is what brought Tropicraft into existence, so it felt fitting to give back. We set out to raise $3,000 over the course of a weekend. Having never organized a livestream or fundraiser of any sort, we just kind of winged it and got everyone we knew together to help out.

That weekend, we raised over $10,000 in aid for the island's inhabitants, and Love Tropics was born. We immediately felt that giving and caring nature of the gaming—and especially Minecraft—community that weekend, and knew that it could not be a one-time event.

Around the same time of year in 2018, we set out to raise $10,000 to help rebuild homes on the island. We ended up raising over $35,000. Magic!

In 2019, as the world was truly awakening to the existential threat of climate change, we broadened our horizons beyond Puerto Rico and never looked back. We're now proud to have worked with such a variety of fantastic organizations who are all working across borders, socioeconomic and gender barriers, as well as languages and cultures to fight for our planet and its inhabitants - in particular those living in the Earth's tropics and subtropics.
We are proud to have partnered with Direct Relief, Team Rubicon, Cool Earth, Oceana, Osa Conservation, Project Seagrass, Sustainable Harvest International, and Women’s Earth Alliance over the last 8 events.
Love Tropics is a labor of love. Everything we do, we do because we care. We do not make any money from this event - all money we earn through Twitch subs or other incidentals are donated right back during the event each year. We hope by setting this example, we can show the world that those with the resources, time, and desire to give back can do so using whatever means they have at their disposal. In our case, that means is Minecraft; the massive amount of passion, blocks, and lines of code put forth by our team of incredible volunteers each year are astounding.

We hope you enjoy our new website, and hope to see you at this year's event! If you'd like to keep up with the very latest in Love Tropics news and events happening, join us on Discord and keep an eye on our socials for more announcements!
<3 Cojo and the Love Tropics Crew

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It's that season again!

No, not Spring or Autumn. That's so hemispheric. The season we're thinking of transcends the boundaries of Earth's annual cycles. This particular season is blocky, humid, and oh so much fun: It's Love Tropics season once again!

tl;dr:

What: Love Tropics 48 hour charity livestream supporting Pachamama Alliance

When: November 21-23, 2025. 18:00 UTC / GMT, 19:00 CET, 1:00pm EST

Where: https://lovetropics.org or https://twitch.tv/lovetropics

event info:

We are thrilled to welcome you back to our 9th (!!) Love Tropics, taking place November 21-23, 2025.

This year we are honored to raise funds for and bring awareness to a truly inspiring organization, Pachamama Alliance. In their words:

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With roots in the Amazon rainforest, we equip people around the world with inspiration and training to regenerate the planet’s ecosystems, bring justice to their communities, and restore our relationships with the Earth, each other, and ourselves
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Specifically, funds raised during our 48-hour charity livestream marathon will help cover costs for Indigenous students to participate in EVA - La Escuela Viva de la Amazonía, or The Living School of the Amazon. These programs bring together students from all over the Amazon and integrate ancestral wisdom with contemporary knowledge to prepare Amazonian youth for the various challenges they and their communities are uniquely faced with. Lessons include:

Territorial Governance
Human and Nature Rights
Youth Leadership
Community Communication
Reforestation and Forest Conservation
Project Design and Field Research

Using these skills, students return to their home communities after 9 months of learning to integrate what they have learned, spreading the knowledge and compounding the benefits of the program.

Why we chose Pachamama Alliance and EVA

As consumerism continues to grow, so too does the marginalization of Indigenous groups. We were inspired by the cooperation and coordination that we saw with Pachamama Alliance, specifically with their work with the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (ASHA), a region home to more than 35 Indigenous nations and nationalities. In addition to these nations, this region is the most biologically diverse terrestrial ecosystem on the planet, and we believe ASHA's work to bring together legal teams, Indigenous communities, and civil society organizations should serve as an inspiration and roadmap for others to follow.

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United to permanently protect over 35 million acres of the Amazon forest, defend collective rights, and promote socio-ecological alternatives and transitions from the Amazon to the world
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All over the world, Indigenous populations are being pushed out of their homes, either by force or necessity as consumerism drives a demand for oil, wood, coal, and other rare earth minerals that pollute native waterways, soil, and air. Sadly, we cannot snap our fingers and course correct all the wrongs we see happening. What we can do is to prepare those who will succeed the current generation for the future; by supporting EVA, we can give today's students the tools they need to best navigate, survive, and thrive in the coming decades so they can become tomorrow's leaders and spread what they know to everyone around them.

Much like Love Tropics, no effort goes far without a community behind it. We believe in the work Pachamama Alliance is doing to bring together and support Indigenous communities, and we are thrilled to support their EVA initiative for this year's event.

We hope to see you there!

links:

For more information about EVA or Pachamama Alliance and the amazing work they do, here are some helpful links:

EVA: https://cuencasagradas.org/en/eva/

https://confeniae.net/programas/escuela-viva-amazonica-eva/

Pachamama Alliance: https://pachamama.org/

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