Editing Event:Obituaries March 7

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Obituaries — March 7, 2026}}
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March 7, 2026 logged eleven deaths across an active afternoon, with five players wiped out in the span of less than three hours between noon and 2:46 PM EST. The day's defining performance belonged to [[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]], whose sixty-four-minute session included diamond armor, '''111''' villager trades, the day's only PvP kill, and a death that could only be described as earned — courtesy of the iron golems he had spent the afternoon hunting. Forty advancements were earned across the server's eleven fatalities, and [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] capped the noon hour by falling off the edge of the world entirely.

== 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 || 10:27 AM || [[Player:ItzNicemushin|ItzNicemushin]] || Shot by a Skeleton || ~3 min 40 sec || 3
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| 2 || 12:19 PM || [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] || Fell into the void || ~36 min 55 sec || 2
|-
| 3 || 12:47 PM || [[Player:gamejava|gamejava]] || Blown up by a Creeper || ~2 min 36 sec || 2
|-
| 4 || 12:52 PM || [[Player:Orange1good|Orange1good]] || Fell from a high place || ~9 min 54 sec || 1
|-
| 5 || 1:30 PM || [[Player:Icebladeeee|Icebladeeee]] || '''Slain by [[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]]''' using Stone Axe || ~1 min 43 sec || 3
|-
| 6 || 2:16 PM || [[Player:wonllob92|wonllob92]] || Slain by a Drowned || ~17 min 13 sec || 4
|-
| 7 || 2:22 PM || [[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]] || Slain by an Iron Golem || ~1 hr 4 min || 12
|-
| 8 || 2:46 PM || [[Player:RubydaCherry4L|RubydaCherry4L]] || Slain by a Zombie || ~2 min 55 sec || 1
|-
| 9 || 4:30 PM || [[Player:Noir_Veta|Noir_Veta]] || Shot by a Skeleton || ~5 min 6 sec || 5
|-
| 10 || 4:37 PM || [[Player:brushey21|brushey21]] || Fell from a high place || ~1 min 4 sec || 0
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| 11 || 8:52 PM || [[Player:MeoPlayit|MeoPlayit]] || Slain by a Zombie || ~16 min 6 sec || 7
|}

== Notable Deaths ==

=== Lkyge — Into the Void (12:19 PM) ===
{{main|Player:Lkyge}}

[[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] is no newcomer to Xandaris, and March 7 was shaping up to be a substantial day — nine sessions spread across the early morning and afternoon, including at least one stretch exceeding two hours. By the time the final session began at 11:50 AM EST, they had already earned '''[Suit Up]''' (diamond armor equipped) and '''[Sky's the Limit]''', suggesting they were operating well above the ground floor of progression. Then, somewhere past the edge of whatever they were exploring, the floor simply was not there.

Falling into the void is among the more definitive ways to go in Minecraft. There is no water bucket save, no ledge to catch, no last-second grapple. Whatever brought [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] to that particular drop — the session logs show zero mob kills and zero blocks mined, pointing to travel rather than combat — it ended without ceremony. Their cumulative death counter still reads zero, a streak that ran out quietly at 12:19 PM. Nine sessions, and it ended like this.

=== Icebladeeee — One Minute and Forty-Three Seconds (1:30 PM) ===

[[Player:Icebladeeee|Icebladeeee]] earned '''[Stone Age]''' at 1:29 PM. They were dead at 1:30 PM. The gap between crafting enough stone to matter and being killed by someone wielding a stone axe is rarely measured in individual minutes.

[[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]] made the kill, catching [[Player:Icebladeeee|Icebladeeee]] at the most vulnerable moment in any Xandaris session — the first ninety seconds, when a player has nothing. After the kill, TH_Xxain offered what may be the most efficient post-PvP statement the server has recorded:

{{quote|i need this sry|TH_Xxain}}

He then pivoted immediately to the logistical:

{{quote|what can i do with heads|TH_Xxain}}

The server had no immediate answers for him on that front.

=== wonllob92 — All Poison (2:16 PM) ===

[[Player:wonllob92|wonllob92]] was having a productive run. Eight cows and three sheep dispatched, '''[Acquire Hardware]''' checked off at 2:11 PM, iron tools in hand and a session going exactly how early sessions are supposed to go. Then they found the stew.

{{quote|wow|wonllob92}}
{{quote|3 sus stew|wonllob92}}
{{quote|all poison|wonllob92}}

Three suspicious stews. All of them poisoned. [[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]], standing somewhere nearby, responded with appropriate alarm:

{{quote|oh hell no|TH_Xxain}}

Whether wonllob92 ate any of the stew or simply went pale at the discovery, the timing was brutal — a Drowned finished them off at 2:16 PM, roughly thirty seconds after the revelation. The poison likely helped. It was a fine seventeen-minute run right up until it wasn't.

=== TH_Xxain — The Thirteenth Golem (2:22 PM) ===

[[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]] joined at 1:18 PM with what appeared to be a plan. Over the next hour and four minutes, they executed it with unusual efficiency. The advancement timeline tells the story: '''[Stone Age]''' at 1:21 PM, '''[Getting an Upgrade]''' at 1:22 PM, '''[Sweet Dreams]''' at 1:39 PM, '''[What a Deal!]''' at 1:43 PM, '''[Acquire Hardware]''' and '''[Diamonds!]''' both at 1:53 PM, '''[Cover Me with Diamonds]''' at 2:08 PM, '''[Isn't It Iron Pick]''' at 2:19 PM. Woven into that timeline: a PvP kill on [[Player:Icebladeeee|Icebladeeee]] at 1:30 PM, '''111 villager trades''' by session's end, and the methodical elimination of twelve iron golems.

At 2:16 PM, with wonllob92 freshly dead nearby, TH_Xxain checked in with the server:

{{quote|i am half dia rn|TH_Xxain}}

At 2:22 PM, they earned '''[Surge Protector]''' — surviving a lightning strike near a lightning rod. It was the twelfth advancement of a session that already had more highlights than most players see in a week. Seconds later, iron golem number thirteen settled the score.

The kill list — '''iron_golem:12''', horse:5, sheep:1, pig:1, wolf:1 — explains everything. TH_Xxain had been hunting iron golems for an hour. The iron golems, apparently, were keeping count. He finishes the day as Xandaris's longest survivor ('''~1 hr 4 min''') and its advancement leader ('''12'''), which feels like appropriate recognition for a run that good.

=== MeoPlayit — Seven Advancements, One Zombie (8:52 PM) ===

[[Player:MeoPlayit|MeoPlayit]] arrived at 8:36 PM and made excellent use of sixteen minutes. '''[Stone Age]''' at 8:38 PM, '''[Getting an Upgrade]''' at 8:39 PM, '''[What a Deal!]''' — a villager trade, remarkably — at 8:49 PM, and finally '''[Monster Hunter]''' at 8:52 PM. The '''[Monster Hunter]''' advancement requires killing at least one of every type of hostile mob. [[Player:MeoPlayit|MeoPlayit]] completed it at the exact moment a zombie was completing them.

Seven advancements in sixteen minutes is a genuinely solid pace. MeoPlayit had tools, a trade under their belt, and a hostile mob kill résumé to show for it. The zombie that ended the session was, technically, the last checkmark on the Monster Hunter list — which makes it both the cause of death and the achievement that triggered the final advancement banner. A fitting, if painful, way to go out.

== Statistics ==

{| class="wikitable"
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! Stat !! Value
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| Total Deaths || 11
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| PvP Kills || 1 ([[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]] → [[Player:Icebladeeee|Icebladeeee]])
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| By Skeleton || 2 ([[Player:ItzNicemushin|ItzNicemushin]], [[Player:Noir_Veta|Noir_Veta]])
|-
| By Zombie || 2 ([[Player:MeoPlayit|MeoPlayit]], [[Player:RubydaCherry4L|RubydaCherry4L]])
|-
| By Drowned || 1 ([[Player:wonllob92|wonllob92]])
|-
| By Creeper || 1 ([[Player:gamejava|gamejava]])
|-
| By Iron Golem || 1 ([[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]])
|-
| By PvP || 1 ([[Player:Icebladeeee|Icebladeeee]])
|-
| By Fall || 2 ([[Player:Orange1good|Orange1good]], [[Player:brushey21|brushey21]])
|-
| By Void || 1 ([[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]])
|-
| Fastest Death || [[Player:brushey21|brushey21]] (~1 min 4 sec)
|-
| Longest Survival || [[Player:TH_Xxain|TH_Xxain]] (~1 hr 4 min)
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| First-Time Players || 7 of 11
|-
| Total Advancements Earned || 40
|}