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Elizabeth "Lizzie" (born: October 7, 1992), better known online as LDShadowLady, is an English YouTuber known for her Minecraft gameplays. She is best known for her Minecraft single-player series, Shadowcraft and Shadowcraft 2.0, and her quirky sense of humor. She plays different games with her husband SmallishBeans.
She appeared in a brief cameo in the 2025 movie A Minecraft Movie.
Personal life[]
Elizabeth "Lizzie" D was born on October 7, 1992, in England. Her mother is a nurse and her father is a doctor. She has a younger sister, Maddie. Lizzie was raised Catholic. Growing up, her mother suffered from alcoholism.[1] She went on to graduate from Liverpool university with a degree in Computer Animation and Visualisation in late April 2015.[2] She briefly worked as a primary school teacher, but quit after her students found her YouTube channel.[3]
Lizzie identifies as bisexual, and came out publicly on June 27, 2021.[4] She married fellow youtuber, Smallishbeans on May 11, 2019.[5] They met at GameFest in 2011.[6] He proposed to her in early November 2017.
Together with her husband, they have a Finnish Laphund dog called Meri. Their Calico or tortoiseshell cat, Buddy, passed away in January 2023.
Lizzie has dyed her hair over 10 times most of which being pink, the hair color she is most known for.
Lizzie is good friends with YouTubers Dangthatsalongname, Joey Graceffa, Soupforeloise, and TheOrionSound.
YouTube Career[]
LDShadowLady first appeared on YouTube in Zack Scott's Scottland Minecraft series.
TrollCraft (Ended)[]
TrollCraft was a Minecraft series, in which some of her friends joined and participated in fun collaborations and even a mini roleplay. For the most part, it was about pranking the other players, while in the meantime, they had competitions and such, much like Crazy Craft 3.0. The first one to discontinue the server was Lizzie, or so people believe. The series ended on June 14, 2017.
Crazy Craft 3.0 (Ended)[]
LDshadowlady started at Crazycraft 3.0 and invited several friends. In the series, each player could use creative mode to build their houses and have fun exploring doing quests and pranking their neighbors. Players could also invite others to special events and competitions. It has also been discontinued.
The private server contained several mods and opportunities for the players. On the server, Lizzie's house was built to resemble the Disney castle in Paris, France.
MC Championship[]
MC Championship is a Minecraft Tournament for YouTubers and Streamers run by the Noxcrew, in which 10 teams of four compete in a series of 8 minigames decided by the participants. A point multiplier makes each game worth more as each round passes, incentivizing teams to vote for games they might be bad at early on in the event.
In the end, the two teams with the most points face off in a round of ‘Dodgebolt’ to decide the winner of the tournament. This makes it possible for a team to win despite potentially having less points than the runner-up. LDShadowLady debuted in MCC1.
- MC Championship 1: Team Red Rabbits
- Teamed with Smajor1995, SmallishBeans, Yammy
- MC Championship 2: Team Orange Ocelots
- Teamed with Smallishbeans, PeteZahHutt, Vikkstar123
- MC Championship 3: Team Lime Llamas
- Teamed with Strawburry17, Joey Graceffa, Smallishbeans
- MC Championship 4-5: Did not participate
- MC Championship 6: Team Red Rabbits
- Teamed with Smallishbeans, Steph0sims, TheOrionSound
- MC Championship 7-9: Did not participate
- MC Championship 10: Quig, Smajor1995, Shubble
- MC Championship 13: Mefs, KatherineElizabeth, Quig
- MC Championship Pride 2021: Smallishbeans, CaptainPuffy, Vikkstar123
ShadowCraft (Ended)[]
Her once main Minecraft series on her channel was a modded single-player survival series called ShadowCraft, in which at least one of her animals always seemed to meet a dire fate in almost every episode. She has had to expand her animal graveyard before, to show respect for her later deceased pets. The series had over 73 episodes.
Lizzie tried her hand at the dinosaur mod in the mod pack she used and created a Jurassic Park themed site within her world. Many of her dinosaurs have either escaped and killed other occupants of the park, died of various means, or simply mysteriously vanished. The most 'regular' animals Lizzie had put inside her treehouse neighboring the park were still alive.
Lizzie announced that ShadowCraft would be put on halt, with season two recorded on May 7, 2015, but ended later because the mod-pack had corrupted.
Minecraft Versus (Ended)[]
Lizzie and her husband, Joel, are currently in a competition with each other. They competed against each other in various challenges and the victor wins the privilege of lighting up a Redstone lamp on their deemed 'Totem Pole of Victory'. Before the series had mysteriously ended, Lizzie was winning with 14 victories with Joel having only 4 victories.
Challenges that they've competed in have included: the Cake challenge (making a Minecraft cake), the Animal Challenge (taming various tame-able Vanilla Minecraft animals), the Hippie challenge (collecting various Vanilla Minecraft flowers), the Monster challenge (collecting various aggressive mob drops), the Sheep challenge (dying sheep with every color of dye), and the Weapons Challenge (making one of each kind of sword), the Nether Mob Drops challenge (collecting the mob drops of creatures in the nether).
Captive Minecraft (One-time series)[]
In a multiplayer series, Lizzie, HuskyMudkipz, and Vikkstar123 came together to tackle the challenge of Captive Minecraft. Within nine episodes, they completed the challenge with Lizzie having gotten 14 achievements, Husky getting 7, and leaving Vikkstar with 9 achievements earned.
Enchanted Oasis (Ended)[]
iHasCupquake, a friend of Lizzie's, ended the first season of her Oasis series on her channel. When preparing for the second season, she extended an invitation to Lizzie, Mitty, and Annie to join the second season, turning the single-player series into a semi-multiplayer series called Enchanted Oasis. The girls usually recorded on their own in the server and then come together in a few episodes to face new challenges together.
Lizzie's first episode included her roleplay of finding the oasis was actually two weeks later everyone else's. Although late, her way of 'finding' the Enchanted Oasis consisted of her trying to go back in time. After several failed attempts, she gave up and succumbed to the lateness of the episode and joined the others.
iHasCupquake canceled her Enchanted Oasis series, uploading a video officially confirming this and explaining why.
Mini-Games (Discontinued but may continue in the future)[]
Lizzie has played many Minecraft mini-games with her friends such as Hide and Seek, Block Hunt, Draw My Thing, Build Battle etc.
One Life (Seasons One & Two Ended)[]
One of Lizzie's new additions to her channel, the series 'One Life' is a challenge series where she and her friends are all trying to survive the Minecraft world with only one life. Their objective is to be the last one to survive, but really, they all just have fun and build lots of creative things! In her last One Life episode titled "The Purge," she decided to fight fellow One Life participant Joey Graceffa to the death, causing her death to occur and the series to come to an end.
Disney Princess Challenge (Discontinued)[]
The Disney Princess Challenge was where Lizzie creates one of the Disney princesses in the Sims 4 and has to play by the story of that princess. There were certain guidelines for each princess, e.g. Princess Belle must have the bookworm trait and love an ugly sim, and when married can transform into a handsome sim. Lizzie put it on pause but mentioned that it will resume in the future. She then said that the files were accidentally deleted on Joel's stream.
Build Battle (Discontinued)[]
Build Battle is a server game on Hypixel where many people judge you based on the category of the build. For instance, the theme is a cow, you try to build a cow, then the other players rate it, (you also rate other player's builds) Lizzie, along with her multitude of friends played this game often in the year 2014.
Ultra Hardcore (Few time-series)[]
In her first Ultra Hardcore (more commonly known as UHC) series, she was on a team with Vikkstar123, and ChildDolphin. ChildDolphin was the first to perish on the team, but due to lag issues, Lizzie died in the same episode a few minutes later. Vikkstar123 died after the carnage, ending their team's chances at victory.
During Lizzie's second attempt at an Ultra Hardcore competition, her partner, Zack Scott, died by Lizzie's hand. A few minutes later, a Creeper exploded next to Lizzie, causing her to also perish.
Lizzie was also taking part in UHShe Season 8 Halloween 2017 edition with her partner, StacyPlays.
FunCraft (Ended)[]
This series is rather like CrazyCraft and TrollCraft in it's cast and the fact that they can use creatively to build their houses. It is said that during this series they will try to be more legitimate in the gather of materials. The mod-pack in this series in entirely collected by Lizzie, and she even made some of the mods! Many of her fans dislike her house, calling it "boring" and "cookie-cutter" but Lizzie sticks by her building. She is trying to collect all of the little animal girls and has made a mini town for them.
Supernatural Secrets (Ended)[]
Lizzie's newest sims series, Supernatural Secrets, is where she creates two sims with Supernatural powers in the Sims 4.The series started on October 1, 2018. In the series the two sims, Eva and Maddie, have to hide their powers from the outside world, including their oblivious roommate, Nora. There are certain guidelines if you would like to try this challenge/series on your own, they are located in the description of every video for Supernatural Secrets.
Kingdom Craft (Ended)[]
Kingdom Craft is a Minecraft Factions series started by Lizzie. The series has 9 kingdoms, each a different biome and is owned by one of her friends. Lizzie's husband SmallishBeans, SeaPeeKay, Shubble, Dangthatsalongname, TheOrionSound, LaurenzSide, Yammy, and Joey Graceffa are all in the faction series. Lizzie created The 'League of Villains' and invited Oli and Joel.
X Life (Ended)[]
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X Life is a Minecraft SMP where you start with one heart, and every time you die your hearts go up by one until you have 10 hearts. If you have ten hearts and you die, you will be banned from the server. This series contains some of her good friends like SeaPeeKay and Dangthatsalongname, along with some newer people like PopularMMOs and fWhip.
LDShadowLady was a member of the one heart club, but eventually moved to the two heart club when she died from fall damage while looking for pandas (she missed the water). Then, while making a bubble elevator, she had to go to the Nether to get a magma block and some soul sand. She got stuck in two bungee-cord-like substances causing her to bounce up and down. Joel came to save her with slime blocks, but she still fell to her death. She then lived in the rundown three heart club-tent. However, in Katherine's video, Lizzie then moved into the three heart clubhouse, which is a cactus.
She participated in the Gladiator battles later on, in which she died to an End Troll. However, she got 30 diamond blocks and three nether star blocks. Later on in the series, Lizzie cursed Jack (another player of the server), so that when she died, Jack would also die. However, the same would happen vice versa, and Jack took advantage of that as he was about to be executed. This was when Lizzie realized she made a grave mistake.
When Jack did get executed, Lizzie was also there, and everyone else watched in horror as they saw the life drain away from her. She then had five hearts, which were pink, and Lizzie liked that. But that life was very short, as an hour later, she would die again for the same reason she died last time: Jack jumped into a pool of lava for the December doors, which resulted with Lizzie being of six hearts. When Lizzie did the December Doors, she was much luckier than Jack, and received 30 emerald blocks, which is very ironic.
Empires SMP (S2 Ended)[]
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Season 1
June 12, 2021 — January 29, 2022
Empires SMP is a 1.17 server where players establish their own empire to go to war with other empires, or trade with one another for goods and resources. She founded the Ocean Kingdom which was themed after colorful coral as well as giant lily pads. This series contains most of Lizzie's friends that appeared on X Life, as well as introducing newer people such as Pixlriffs, TheMythicalSausage, and PearlescentMoon. There is a demon, Xornoth, who goes around corrupting the server by building red tentacles coming out of the ground.
Season 2
June 25, 2022 — May 19, 2023
Season 2 is very similar to the original season, but with new Empires and set in version 1.19. This time Lizzie founded an empire based on the many sects of the animal kingdom called "Animalia" in a birch forest biome. She played the mayor of "Critter City," a calico cat that disguises herself as a human in order to fit in with the other emperors.
In Empires S2, there was a crossover with Hermitcraft and Empires through a rift that was in both of the servers.
Last Life SMP (Ended)[]
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Last Life is a vanilla hardcore SMP server created by Grian. The SMP is described as 'hardcore with a twist'. The first season of the series, which Lizzie did not take part in, was called Third Life. The rules were slightly altered and the name was changed to Last Life for the second season. Last Life is filmed once a week, for three hours. All of the players play at the same time. During the SMP, Lizzie teamed with bigbst4tz, ZombieCleo and Rendog. Lizzie was eliminated in episode 7.
Afterlife SMP (Ended)[]
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Afterlife SMP is a survival multiplayer series that begun on March 4th, 2022. The Afterlife SMP is a modified server that is a sequel to the X Life SMP, and still maintains the Harcore aspect of each member only having 10 lives. However, in this SMP there are additional modifications including the Origins mod, which gives each player an "origin" (generally based on a Minecraft mob) that includes special abilities and either positive, neutral, or negative traits. For each of the player's 10 lives they will obtain a new random Origin, and have the option to re-roll 3 times total over the course of the server.
| Life | Origin | Description | Death |
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| 1 | Racoon | Short (1.5 blocks tall), Eats trash | Episode 3 (Fell into the void) |
| 2 | Floran | Fed by sunlight, Grows plants | Episode 5 (Fell into the void) |
| 3 | Goolien | Based off of slime | Episode 6 (Killed by LaurenzSide's Lava) |
| 4 | Kangaroo | Can jump very high | Episode 7 (Killed by a baracuda) |
| 5 | Birb | Built-in wings, Eats seeds | Episode 8 (Killed by a Zombie) |
| 6 | Enigma | Kills any mob/player by looking at it for long enough. | Episode 10 (Killed by a Guardian) |
| 7 | Zombie | Based off of Zombies | Episode 11 (Burned to Death) |
| 8 | Crawler | Extremely Small (0.25 Blocks), Climbing, Enhanced Jump (using Flap) | Episode 11 (Blown Up by Creeper) |
| 9 | Phantom | Based off of Phantoms | Episode 11 (Killed by Freshwater Eel) |
| 10 | Villager | Based off of Villagers | Episode 12 (Killed by Iron Golem) |
Secret Life SMP (Ended)[]
Secret Life is a vanilla hardcore SMP server created by Grian, which contains 17 content creators. This is Lizzie's sequel to Last Life, although the SMP is the fifth season of the "Life Series" which contains Third Life, Last Life, Double Life and Limited Life. Secret Life is filmed once a week for three hours and is posted every Friday. All of the players play at the same time. Lizzie was the first player to be eliminated when she fell in the void, in episode 6.
Minecraft S.O.S (Ended)[]
Minecraft SOS is a vanilla hardcore SMP server where dead players can be revived via Fate Coins. Fate Coins are obtainable through server events and difficult advancements. As the series went on, Fate Coins would become more difficult to obtain and the cost to revive a dead player would increase. Lizzie did not make it to the finale, as she died during one of the server events in episode 10.
Wild Life (Ended)[]
Wild Life is the sixth season of the Life Series created by Grian. It follows the basic rules of the Life Series, with the twist this season being that each episode would have its own surprise modification. Lizzie was eliminated in episode 8, the finale, making Wild Life her highest placement in the Life Series.
Impossible Minecraft (Ended)[]
Impossible Minecraft is a hardcore SMP where the players will try to beat the game using McMakistein's Impossible Difficulty datapack. Lizzie has made 3 episodes, but towards the end of the series Lizzie got sick and could not record much footage to make a finale episode. She has left episode 1 as a one-off video, while episodes 2 and 3, which are now unlisted, can be accessed through the Impossible Minecraft playlist on her channel.
Minecraft Misadventures[]
Minecraft Misadventures is an SMP created by Lizzie herself. In this series, the players their own RPG world with settlements, dungeons, and various other structures. There are also other mechanics in this series, such as quests, coins, mounts, reputations, and more.
Trivia[]
- Lizzie's favorite flowers are daffodils.
- Lizzie is lactose intolerant.[7]
- Lizzie's most popular series on her channel was ShadowCraft, which made a return on May 16, 2015, late due to her new PC arriving, but the modpack corrupted and later ended.
- Although she is known online as Lizzie, as a child, she was nicknamed Beth by her family. They still refer her as Beth.
- Lizzie has admitted to being a Slytherin (Joel is a Hufflepuff).
- Lizzie loves to dye her hair various, kawaii colors. The colors she has dyed it before have been pink, blue and pink, Pink and orange, and a dark pink.
- Lizzie dislikes the color yellow despite Joel mentioning that she loved it in one of his building videos.
- Lizzie has become friends with fellow Minecraft YouTubers PopularMMOs and GamingWithJen.
- Lizzie's channel name was inspired from the youtuber NDTitanLady - Natalie Duncan.
- Lizzie's alt/bedrock account is called PrincessWifi
- She is one of the 32 YouTubers to be featured in Kris Madas' YouTuber Intro Challenge. She is also one of the YouTubers to have their intro in it.
- She had once answered a question if she is going to join the Dream SMP, and she has answered that she won't be joining it as she plays Minecraft in a different way than the SMP members and due to its more darker lore and more competitiveness of the server.
- She also has a song, "Deal with Destiny", which she sang with Scott (Dangthatsalongname) in the Empires SMP, released in 2021 on Spotify and other music sites.
- She later premiered "Empires SMP: The Musical" on June 19, 2022, which included "Deal with Destiny" alongside 28 other songs based on season 1 of Empires SMP
- She voiced her own character in Minecraft: Story Mode, along with other YouTubers such as DanTDM, CaptainSparklz, Stacyplays, Stampylonghead, and Bigbst4tz2.
- She is one of the 4 YouTubers to make an appearance in A Minecraft Movie, with the other YouTubers being DanTDM, Aphmau, and Mumbo Jumbo.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: July 4, 2015
- 2 million subscribers: May 1, 2016
- 3 million subscribers: May 4, 2017
- 4 million subscribers: June 21, 2018
- 5 million subscribers: May 7, 2020
- 6 million subscribers: June 3, 2021
- 7 million subscribers: December 20, 2022
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: March 26, 2017
- 2 billion views: August 5, 2019
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ruioYbQiQ
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160307011745/https://twitter.com/ldshadowlady/status/592603542877249536
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJdb6Kx8X0
- ↑ https://twitter.com/LDShadowLady/status/1409266245275422727
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzYRtGaFOi0
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ https://youtu.be/OTxYU7I3hVE?t=20