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=== March 3 — Rise of the Clankers ===

March 3 logged '''24 deaths''' — shattering February 23's record of 17 — but only '''five were permanent'''. The other nineteen were the opening act of [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]]'s '''Revival Ritual''' plugin, which resurrects dead players as AI-controlled "clankers" that living players can command.

The first clanker was a [[Player:cheesemaster774|cheesemaster774]] bot, summoned after midnight for [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] to test. It could follow orders, mine blocks, and — to samboyd's surprise — accept co-owners, a feature he hadn't intentionally built. By afternoon, [[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]] had a meelo100 clanker that alternated between obedience and chaos: mining dirt on command, achieving '''[Sky's the Limit]''' on its own, and dying twelve times in two hours to mobs, its owner, and creative-mode debugging. Then, at 4:59 PM, the clanker killed lionclad_ with a Stone Axe. samboyd had joked earlier: ''"meelo kill your owner, robot revolution."'' The revolution didn't need the joke.

The real deaths followed familiar patterns. [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]] added two more kills with ''[Yolo]'' — swagertoast after 34 minutes of vulgar chat, and TeeKayYo after 6 minutes, the latter voluntarily sharing coordinates and choosing the mace as his execution weapon: the server's first consensual PvP death. Two players died to Iron Golems: imaidenr, who had completed 69 villager trades in a 3.5-hour session, and Lkyge, whose 9-hour, 39-advancement, 4,454-mob-kill run — the most accomplished single life on the server — ended ten seconds after logging in. Lkyge contested the death as a glitch. samboyd checked the logs and denied the appeal: ''"go be cheesemaster."''