Posted on 01 October 2016 - 11:10 AM

My last chapter of minecraft is coming to a close, I'll explain this in a another post. It might end in a few weeks or a few months. This post is intended to share my experiences with this game, how it has impacted me as a person, how it has shaped me as person, and how it has become such a large part of me.
So it begins:

In November 12, 2012, after poring over endless hours of davidr64yt's "x's adventures in minecraft, paulsoaresjr's "how to survive and thrive in minecraft" and various others, and pleading with my dad from dawn till dusk, he relented and finally gave in, purchased the hit game from Mojang with his credit card. He was encouraged by the fact that twenty million people had bought and were actively playing Minecraft at that time, and the overview video of Minecraft provided by Mojang seemed to promise to promote creativity and thinking. So he regarded it as educational.
I was overjoyed by his decision. I knew I could walk in a virtual world and build whatever I imagined, take similiar paths that my youtubers had, tackle the worst demons of hell and emerge victorious, loaded down with spoils of war.
Starting small, I didn't fully realize at the time what I was supposed to be doing. How did my idols first start? They seemed to cut all the boring, dull footage of gathering resources out, so I was left with not an inkling of a clue of what I should be doing when I spawned in a new world. Should I cut the tree or kill the pig? Walk around or find a cave?
Slowly and gradually, from lulling myself to sleep with dozens of various types of tutorials and dulling out my eyes from squinting at the tiny font of the MinecraftWiki, I learned the game. I developed a sense of what to do. What to mine first. What to do when a creeper is chasing you in a cave. Start an animal breeding farm. I built a small dirt hut as my first ever sufficient shelter, as my first night had been spent fleeing from mobs. I formed a new plan whle crouching in dim torchlight.
My dirt hovel turned into a wooden shack, complete with fence gates. After mining more, a stone, two roomed house emerged. Doors, fencing, an animal pen, a barn, a farm, chest rooms, were steady add-ons. Finally, I discovered a surface waterfall that penetrated deep into the earth. After poking around some, I found it lead straight into the yearned-for y=12 coordinate, and the universally desired blue gems were winking at me the wall. I threw my hands up in joy.
Eventually, I depleted my newfound cave of resources and adventure. All the ore veins that could be mined had been picked clean, the spawners had been deactivated, the mineshafts stripped of ores, chests, cobwebs, spawners. The nearby caves also met the same fate. All the animals in my area were dead or penned up in my farm. The land was free of trees, except for the ones that hadn't gotten acquainted with my diamond axe yet. All around, there was nothing but a jungle to my left. Hungry for action to lesson my boredom, I ventured into the jungle, my inventory packed with my belongings, more valuables stuffed into an ender chest. I also broke my bed and carried it along, ready to start a new civilization.
The jungle, after days of trampling through brush and getting caught on vines, revealed nothing. It emerged into a plain almost identical to my old one. Tired of traveling and spiritless, I mined into a small mountain, divvied out my possessions into chests, and pressed "Save and Quit" for the last time.
Here it was when I met multiplayer. Here it was when I met skyblock, factions, minigames, and, most importantly, player versus player combat, which was an extremely new phenomenon.
It really started on several tf2 styled servers with kits enabled, but I don't recall much and didn't impact me the most. The first major server I ever consistently started playing on was Search n' Destroy.
The goal was very simple, as it was modeled after Black Ops' Search n' Destroy. Join a server. Get divided into two teams of 40+ players. Pick a kit. Kill the other teams' members, get to their center, fuse their bomb. Kill all oppositon or successfully blow up the bomb, and you win. Credits earned from a win would enable you to purchase the different kits.
The server started a new version of the game, one where there were four different teams of twenty or so, you had infinite lives, and your sole objective was to blow up the other teams' bombs. The game flourished, and youtubers such as BajanCanadian and PauseUnpause recorded series on it.
As any other game(mode), I, and many others, got bored of it, and moved on. A while after I quit, Mineplex bought the server, then called RedWarFare, and twisted Search n' Destroy into their present day gamemode, Minestrike.
I poked around youtube and minecraft server lists, looking for a new server with an interesting game to call my new home. XRPMX13's SG server, where CaptainSparklez recorded dozens of SG matches, attracted me for a while, but the gamemode had been replicated so many times but in so many similiar ways I didn't stay for long. Some economy/government styled servers I did play, but most were extremely corrupt with the money systems and favoring, which of course discouraged me.
I finally landed on a soon-to-be-home skyblock/factions/pvp/economy server, Dragon's Doom. It was here I met Bestisaac12, TwrocksMC, and iron_oxide. Three inseperable friends. Bestisaac owned an enormous "empire" in skyblock, complete with spawners, loot chests, fighting gear (skyblock had pvp enabled) a head room of fallen adversaries, and luxury rooms purely made for asthetics. He sponsored me, gave gifts every other day, and helped my island grow into a fortress almost as mighty as his.
TwrocksMC shared my island, and we conversed over everyday life, sharing our grievances, feelings, in real life events. He took over the island when I was gone, I protected it when he was. With him, our island prospered.
iron_oxide, along with bestisaac, taught me and showed me what pvp was. He was untouchable with a sword, would dominate the server's monthly hosted SG games, formed my fighting squad when we raided islands. For 2013, he still impresses me with how handy he was at melee.
Our reign continued for months. We traded with each other, sent money and supply packages to each other, borrowed from each other. iron_oxide joined bestisaac's island, twrocks with me. Together we asserted our dominance over everyone else in the server. We flexed our muscles and raided any colony we felt threatened us. We pushed through a deathban suggestion, meaning anyone we killed would be out of the running for a few hours. When people tried to raid either one of our islands, we were all there, a fearsome squad of full enchanted iron/diamond descending down on a soon-to-be cowering chain-covered player.
And one day the server reset without warning.
We didn't even know skyblock could reset. But just with one line of code, one confirming press of a button or instant of voice, six months of sweat, friendship, money, work, gone. I never saw ANYONE that I knew on that server again. No one. It was as if the reset and also reset the community, and brought in a foreign civilization. I didn't know what it was like to be a nobody. I was left on the tiny default-set island that everyone gets on joining for the first time, with meager supplies, just enough to start fresh. But I didn't want to. I left, confused and upset.
Minecade was the next major competitive server I played, and boy, was it a home.That was an ordeal saved for another thread. This was really where I picked up pvp from.
And now, the bookmark is at Badlion. I don't know how many more pages there are till the end, but it's soon.

Last edited on 01 October 2016 - 11:28 AM by chay_on9jai

Oh wow. dont quit @Jahmyr we like you (heart emoji)

You played this game for 4 years and now youre going to quit? come on even if badlion or other shit went down there will be better stuff for Player versus player and skywars. Never give up. Youre a good pvper. You are #10 Horse and youre very good at bow there is people that will miss you in this community. There will be CTF soon. I came from a server that was shitty and had a kit called pinkmenslap and I used to play that all day long it was sick. Badlion is improving.. Never give up, mineman.

Posted on 01 October 2016 - 11:21 AM

See ya :( loved to see you on the forums. o/

Posted on 01 October 2016 - 11:24 AM

yeah. His english skills gave me orgasms

Posted on 01 October 2016 - 11:40 AM

@chay_on9jai that was minecade
@Genocado im not quitting rn lol

Posted on 01 October 2016 - 12:04 PM

good.

Posted on 01 October 2016 - 06:23 PM

This thread was amazing to read.

Posted on 01 October 2016 - 11:33 PM

I wish my MC adventure was this awesome…

Posted on 02 October 2016 - 12:46 AM

I never exactly knew who you were, I just knew your previous name was major49er and I remember you because you were rather active on Minecade but never actually bothered to know you more.

Very interesting thread, I really miss the glorious times of Minecade and even have 30+ days worth of playtime there. It's kind of sad to see the server I played so much on die off just like this, and I hope Badlion doesn't.

Posted on 02 October 2016 - 01:17 AM

tl;dr