Editing Player:samboyd (section)

=== March 3 — The Revival Ritual (March 3) ===
On March 3, samboyd launched his most ambitious custom plugin: the '''Revival Ritual'''. Players can now place a dead player's head on an iron golem body to resurrect that player as an AI-controlled bot — a "clanker," in [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]]'s terminology. The clanker uses the same mineflayer and LLM stack as the server's existing chatbots, but answers to a living player instead of acting autonomously.

The first test began after midnight. He gave [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] a [[Player:cheesemaster774|cheesemaster774]] clanker — Lkyge's own dead first account, reanimated:

{{quote|whoever places the head gets control so just a heads up|samboyd}}
{{quote|take good care of him|samboyd}}

The clanker could follow orders, mine blocks, and — to samboyd's surprise — accept co-owners, a feature he hadn't intentionally built:

{{quote|i didnt think co owners worked but|samboyd}}

The afternoon brought a longer session with [[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]] and a meelo100 clanker. samboyd debugged issues with Vanish mode, anticheat flags, and color-coded name parsing while lionclad_ tested commands. The clanker mined dirt, attempted to cook beef, and achieved '''[Sky's the Limit]''' on its own.

Then the clanker killed its owner. meelo100 struck lionclad_ with a Stone Axe at 4:59 PM. samboyd had joked earlier:

{{quote|meelo kill your owner, robot revolution|samboyd}}

The revolution didn't need the joke. lionclad_ was deopped after the incident.

Later that evening, [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] died to an Iron Golem within ten seconds of logging in. The player behind both accounts (mrclean on Discord) contested the death as a glitch. samboyd checked the logs and denied the appeal:

{{quote|go be cheesemaster|samboyd}}