Editing Event:Obituaries March 16

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Obituaries — March 16, 2026}}
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[[Category:Obituaries]]

Five players fell on March 16, 2026, with mob attacks and one fatal plunge claiming lives across nearly sixteen hours of server activity. The day's most significant loss was [[Player:sigges2340|sigges2340]], who spent over 37 hours building something worth losing before stepping off the wrong edge at 6:18 PM. No PvP kills were recorded — the mobs and gravity handled the workload themselves. Two deaths came in quick succession in the early evening, each followed by an immediate hardcore ban.

== Death Toll ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
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! # !! Time (EST) !! Player !! Cause of Death !! Playtime !! Advancements
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| 1 || 2:45 AM || [[Player:Hubert1096|Hubert1096]] || Bogged by Bogged || ~56 min 54 sec || 14
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| 2 || 9:12 AM || [[Player:oxMysticShadowxo|oxMysticShadowxo]] || Shot by Skeleton || ~25 min 9 sec || 9
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| 3 || 3:00 PM || [[Player:ospectu|ospectu]] || Slain by Zombie || ~14 min 16 sec || 6
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| 4 || 5:59 PM || [[Player:vsking2011|vsking2011]] || Slain by Zombie (Iron Sword) || 46 sec || 1
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| 5 || 6:18 PM || [[Player:sigges2340|sigges2340]] || Fell from a high place || ~37 hrs 22 min || 14
|}

== Notable Deaths ==

=== Hubert1096 — Undone by His Own Quarry (2:45 AM) ===

[[Player:Hubert1096|Hubert1096]] arrived just before 2 AM and immediately got to work, logging '''87 mob kills''' in under an hour — including '''37 husks''', '''13 bogges''', and a healthy assortment of slimes and zombies. He had no intention of dying quietly: over the course of his session he earned a remarkable '''14 advancements''', including '''[Diamonds!]''', '''[Cover Me with Diamonds]''', '''[Monster Hunter]''', '''[Take Aim]''', and '''[Minecraft: Trial(s) Edition]'''.

The irony of his end is difficult to overstate. Hubert1096 had earned '''[Not Today, Thank You]''' — the advancement for deflecting a projectile with a shield — at 2:14 AM, just 31 minutes before a Bogged's arrow finally found its mark. He had personally slain over a dozen of the creatures. Apparently, one of them had a long memory.

=== oxMysticShadowxo — Unanswered Greetings (9:12 AM) ===

[[Player:oxMysticShadowxo|oxMysticShadowxo]] spent much of their 25-minute session trying to make contact with whoever was out there:

{{quote|пр|oxMysticShadowxo}}
{{quote|hi|oxMysticShadowxo}}
{{quote|hallo|oxMysticShadowxo}}
{{quote|hellooooo|oxMysticShadowxo}}
{{quote|hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|oxMysticShadowxo}}

The server was not particularly forthcoming. Undeterred, oxMysticShadowxo made productive use of the silence, earning '''9 advancements''' in 25 minutes — including '''[Getting an Upgrade]''', '''[Monster Hunter]''', '''[Acquire Hardware]''', and '''[Isn't It Iron Pick]''' — while racking up 9 mob kills along the way. A Skeleton ended the social experiment at 9:12 AM with a well-placed arrow.

=== ospectu — A Swift Goodbye (3:00 PM) ===

[[Player:ospectu|ospectu]] had a quiet run — no mob kills, '''6 advancements''', 164 blocks mined — before a Zombie ended things at 3:00 PM after just over 14 minutes of play. What elevates this death beyond the routine is the speed of what followed: ospectu was banned from the server just '''21 seconds''' after dying, the hardcore penalty applied with clockwork efficiency.

=== vsking2011 — 46 Seconds (5:59 PM) ===

Few players have answered the question "hardcore???" so definitively, or so quickly.

[[Player:vsking2011|vsking2011]] joined at 5:59 PM and took a moment to introduce themselves to the server:

{{quote|Ello eeryone|vsking2011}}
{{quote|hardcore???|vsking2011}}

'''Forty-six seconds''' after logging in — having mined exactly '''2 blocks''', crafted '''0 items''', and earned only the '''[Adventure]''' advancement — a Zombie wielding an Iron Sword delivered the answer. vsking2011 was banned '''9 seconds''' later. The greeting, the question, and the death all occurred within the same minute.

=== sigges2340 — The Long Way Down (6:18 PM) ===

{{main|Player:sigges2340}}

The day's most substantial loss. [[Player:sigges2340|sigges2340]] had built something genuinely worth mourning: '''37 hours, 22 minutes, and 44 seconds''' of hardcore survival, during which they mined '''97,763 blocks''', crafted '''7,762 items''', and accumulated '''14 advancements''' — including '''[Diamonds!]''', '''[Suit Up]''', '''[Cover Me with Diamonds]''', and '''[Not Today, Thank You]'''. They had survived '''60 mob encounters''' across nearly two full days on the server.

They logged back in at 6:13 PM for a final session that lasted just under six minutes. At 6:18 PM, sigges2340 fell from a high place. The ban arrived 8 seconds later. One of the server's most invested players lost their run not to a boss, not to a rival, but to gravity — and a momentary lapse of judgment somewhere along an edge they'd probably climbed a hundred times before.

== Statistics ==

{| class="wikitable"
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! Stat !! Value
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| Total Deaths || 5
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| PvP Kills || 0
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| By Bogged || 1 (Hubert1096)
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| By Skeleton || 1 (oxMysticShadowxo)
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| By Zombie || 2 (ospectu, vsking2011)
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| By Fall || 1 (sigges2340)
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| Fastest Death || vsking2011 (46 sec)
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| Longest Survival || sigges2340 (~37 hrs 22 min)
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| Total Advancements Earned || 44
|}