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= Server History =
A timeline of the '''Xandaris Hardcore SMP''' from its founding on February 15, 2026.
A chronicle of the Xandaris Hardcore SMP from its founding.


== Day Zero — Setup (February 15, 2026) ==
''For the complete monthly narrative, see the [[Event:XHC Monthly Chronicle - February 2026|February 2026 Chronicle]]. For daily death records, see the [[#Obituaries|Obituaries]] section below.''
The Xandaris server was brought online on the evening of February 15, 2026. [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] spent the first hours alone — configuring plugins, testing chat formatting, and cycling through multiple restarts and world regenerations. His first chat message was ".help", typed into an empty server to see if commands worked. His second was "uiofhadiofds."


Once RandomSpawnZ was configured, samboyd received his first true random spawn. He survived exactly '''67 seconds''' before being slain by a Zombie — the very first death on the server.
== Timeline ==


After respawning, he built [[Location:samboyd's Base Ruins|a small base along a river near the world origin]], describing it as ''"it aint much but its home."'' A handful of early players — including [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] and [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] — joined during this testing phase, though most of their activity predates the surviving log files.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
 
== Day One — Grand Opening (February 16, 2026) ==
 
=== The Launch ===
[[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] and [[Player:Asa_Akiraa|Asa_Akiraa]] — real-life friends — posted the server on PlanetMinecraft, minecraft-server-list.com, and Reddit. The first wave of players arrived within the hour.
 
samboyd welcomed every arrival, explaining the rules and making the server's founding promise:
 
<blockquote>"no p2w and no map resets — forever"</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>"so you are all my first players, so thank u all my GOATs"</blockquote>
 
The server crashed multiple times under the load. samboyd apologized, upgraded the hardware, and kept going. A '''RandomSpawnZ bug''' caused several players to suffocate inside blocks on login — samboyd pardoned them and fixed the configuration. By the end of the day, he estimated that '''75% of players had already died.'''
 
=== vphlIo's Speedrun ===
While samboyd managed the chaos at spawn, [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] embarked on one of the most impressive speedruns in server history. In a single two-hour session, he:
* Entered the Nether and looted a Bastion Remnant
* Explored a Trial Chamber
* Found a Stronghold and entered The End
* '''Killed the Ender Dragon''' (with icyrobotjames landing the final blow) — the first player to do so, collecting the dragon egg
* Found an End City and obtained an Elytra
* Crafted '''full Netherite armor'''
 
When asked how: ''"I got it day one to be fair."'' When asked to share the dragon egg: ''"And no yall cant have the dragon egg."''
 
=== The Admin Team Forms ===
[[Player:lionclad_|lionclad_]] joined the server and was promoted to '''Level 4 operator''' within 35 minutes — the fastest admin promotion in server history. He immediately switched to spectator mode and began teleporting between players, establishing himself as the server's anti-cheat enforcer. His first major action was confronting [[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]] about a potential alt account (PluckedHorseHair was cleared but remained under suspicion).
 
lionclad_ identified and '''banned [[Player:AwesomeAG99|AwesomeAG99]]''' for using the Meteor hack client — the server's first ban for cheating.
 
=== The DeadEnderChest Plugin ===
samboyd deployed his custom '''DeadEnderChest''' plugin, which allows players to access a dead player's ender chest by holding their dropped head. [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] killed samboyd to test it. It worked. This plugin would become one of the server's defining mechanics — and a source of considerable drama.
 
=== PluckedHorseHair Arrives ===
[[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]] joined and was immediately flagged by AltDetector on every login (attributed to VPN usage). He progressed at a suspicious pace — finding a Nether Fortress, entering the End, obtaining an Elytra, and accumulating 17 Notch Apples within hours. He began running <code>/plugins</code> obsessively, checking the version of every plugin on the server — behavior that would continue throughout his time on Xandaris.
 
=== Sigward_f's Rough Start ===
[[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] had perhaps the worst Day One of any player. After being '''shot by a Stray''' (his first real death), he entered a nightmarish cycle: unbanned by RCON, teleported to an unsafe location, '''suffocated in a wall''', auto-banned, repeat. He died '''eight times in a single day''' — though only two were genuine gameplay deaths. He was later '''slain by barryjeans''' in PvP, adding insult to injury.
 
=== Notable Firsts ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! First !! Player !! Details
|-
|-
| First death || [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] || Slain by Zombie (67 seconds after spawn)
! Date !! Events
|-
|-
| First chat message || [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] || ".help"
| '''Feb 15''' || Server launches. [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] dies in '''67 seconds''' — the first death in server history.
|-
|-
| First build || [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] || [[Location:samboyd's Base Ruins|Base near spawn]]
| '''Feb 16''' || Grand opening. [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] defeats the Ender Dragon in a single session. [[Player:AwesomeAG99|AwesomeAG99]] banned for hacking. 75% of Day One players die by nightfall.
|-
|-
| First dragon kill || icyrobotjames (with [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]]) || vphlIo reached The End first; icyrobotjames landed the killing blow
| '''Feb 17''' || [[Player:Kitten9337|Kitten9337]] gets OP and abuses it (/tp @a). [[Location:The Island|The Island]] founded. [[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]] begins his 133.8 km walk.
|-
|-
| First full Netherite || [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] || Same session as dragon kill
| '''Feb 18''' || [[Player:embiie|embiie]] runs 20,000 Nether blocks on foot to reach [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] — killed 20 minutes later. ''#justiceforembiie''
|-
|-
| First hack ban || [[Player:lionclad_|lionclad_]] || Banned [[Player:AwesomeAG99|AwesomeAG99]] for Meteor client
| '''Feb 19''' || [[Player:Kitten9337|Kitten9337]] permanently banned for admin abuse.
|-
|-
| First server crash || — || Feb 16, ~02:31 UTC
| '''Feb 20–21''' || [[Player:WEIDO344|WEIDO344]] discovers a Mushroom Island. The calm before the storm.
|}
 
== Day Two — Alliances & Betrayal (February 17, 2026) ==
 
=== The Spawn Base Falls ===
[[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]] killed [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] in PvP — the culmination of tensions that had been building since a previous server called LHC. PluckedHorseHair admitted to three player kills total; [[Player:Asa_Akiraa|Asa_Akiraa]] claimed the number was closer to eight.
 
<blockquote>"horsehair literally killed me and my entire team" — samboyd</blockquote>
 
This kill accelerated the community's decision to '''abandon [[Location:samboyd's Base Ruins|the base near spawn]]''' and relocate far away. samboyd chose a remote island and began teleporting trusted players to the new location: [[Location:The Island|The Island]].
 
=== vphlIo's Reign of Terror ===
While samboyd dealt with the political fallout, [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] went on a killing spree. He slew '''REPLTOR''', then turned on '''his own teammates''' — smashing icyrobotjames and slaying tuodjw. After killing icyrobotjames, he immediately looted their ender chest. His justification for the teammate kills:
 
<blockquote>"Oh btw you need a player head to join our cult"</blockquote>
 
He also killed '''[[Player:embiie|embiie]]''' (yielding four heads) and later claimed berry. Despite the body count, samboyd endorsed him: ''"also vphl is cool hes safe to team with."''
 
=== The Double Agents ===
[[Player:Kitten9337|Kitten9337]] played both sides — publicly allied with samboyd's group while secretly teaming with PluckedHorseHair via private messages. Kitten traded enchanted gear with PluckedHorseHair and shared coordinates, while simultaneously reporting PluckedHorseHair's suspicious inventory (17 Notch Apples, Netherite armor) to samboyd.
 
PluckedHorseHair and Kitten plotted to kill vphlIo:
 
<blockquote>"we have to kill vph. he tried to kill me earlier, for no reason... he has full enchant netherite armor tho. we dont have enough stuff to kill him"</blockquote>
 
Meanwhile, vphlIo was running his own counter-operation.
 
=== lionclad_'s Second Ban ===
[[Player:lionclad_|lionclad_]] identified and '''banned Cuban_III''' for using a hack client — his second major enforcement action. samboyd confirmed via private message: ''"he's hacking"''. lionclad_ replied simply: ''"ik"''.
 
=== The Revive Debate ===
samboyd announced he was building a '''revive mechanic plugin''' — a ritual using a dead player's head and Netherite to bring them back. The idea sparked philosophical debate:
 
<blockquote>"im still not sold on keeping the revive ritual in the game... its kinda unfair to the 80 ppl who are already banned"</blockquote>
 
The plugin was never completed. vphlIo suggested a simpler alternative: ''"just do a live system where you get 2-3 lives"''.
 
=== Other Events ===
* '''XiDipole''' was kicked for using a hacked client.
* The '''SimpleVoiceChat''' proximity voice chat plugin was installed.
* The '''world border''' was set to '''1,000,000 blocks''' (500k in each direction).
* samboyd set the sleep percentage to 50%.
* [[Player:Asa_Akiraa|Asa_Akiraa]] was '''promoted to operator''' — joining samboyd and lionclad_ on the admin team.
* Asa died twice (fell from a high place, then slain by Zombie) but was exempt from deathban as an operator.
* [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] impersonation incident: samboyd ran <code>/nick Sigward_j</code> to impersonate Sigward. Sigward: ''"fake sigward wtf"''. PluckedHorseHair: ''"no im the real sigward"''.
 
== Day Three — Growing Pains (February 18, 2026) ==
 
=== The Hunt for PluckedHorseHair ===
[[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] organized an elaborate operation to take down [[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]]. He recruited [[Player:Orangebubly|Orangebubly]] as bait — Orangebubly offered PluckedHorseHair Elytras and lured him to a meeting point in the Nether. PluckedHorseHair was cautious (''"why do u want to gift me so bad? sus"'') but agreed to meet.
 
vphlIo built a '''triple-layer obsidian trap''' around PluckedHorseHair's logout position. When PluckedHorseHair logged back in, he teleported 1,000 blocks away — confirming the hacking suspicions. vphlIo reported to samboyd:
 
<blockquote>"I just watched plucks straight up hack btw"</blockquote>
 
PluckedHorseHair combat-logged twice and escaped. The Grim anticheat later flagged him for '''NoSlow x30''' — a hack client signature.
 
=== The End Crystal Incident ===
vphlIo "jokingly" placed an End Crystal at [[Location:The Island|The Island]]. Another player clicked it and died. vphlIo's defense:
 
<blockquote>"i JOKENLY PLACED A END CRYTAL AND HE CLICKED IT"</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>"KILLED HIMSELF"</blockquote>
 
He eventually negotiated: ''"so how many netherite blocks to bring bro back? make it 8"''.
 
=== lionclad_'s Demotion ===
[[Player:lionclad_|lionclad_]] had developed a habit of switching into creative mode while on admin duty. After repeated warnings, [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] '''de-opped him''' and forced him into survival mode. The demotion lasted approximately 90 seconds before samboyd relented, with an explicit instruction:
 
<blockquote>"pls only use spec to look for cheaters, pls dont use creative" — samboyd</blockquote>
 
=== Anticheat Drama ===
The '''GrimAC''' anticheat flagged '''ChickenFiesta''' for fastbreak violations tied to their modded client. samboyd spent hours investigating, eventually acknowledging the false positive problem:
 
<blockquote>"i might have to disable it, some people have been having issues"</blockquote>
 
=== The #deaths Channel Saga ===
samboyd began a two-evening marathon to get death messages working in Discord's #deaths channel. The '''CustomDeathMessages''' plugin refused to cooperate — displaying "ENTITY_NAME" instead of player names and failing to load cause-specific messages.
 
samboyd died over a dozen times testing — via RCON commands, intentional falls, drowning, and asking [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] to kill him with a Diamond Axe. At one point the server bot killed him via RCON:
 
<blockquote>"fucking claude killed me"</blockquote>
 
=== PluckedHorseHair Dies ===
At 23:45 UTC, [[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]] logged in at Y:180 in the Nether and '''died within one second''' — before even fully loading in. The death message was generic ("has died"), likely from fall damage at an unsafe login position.
 
The community's reaction was swift and merciless:
 
* [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] via Discord: ''"Lol fucking plucker died what a fuCKING LOSER"''
* [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]]: ''"fuck horsehair"''
* [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]]: ''"horsehair was evil bro"''
 
vphlIo looted PluckedHorseHair's ender chest and announced plans to burn his head.
 
=== Casualties ===
* '''PluckedHorseHair''' — died in the Nether (fall damage on login)
* '''ChickenFiesta''' — died during the anticheat investigation period
* '''[[Player:Meat_Mattress|Meat_Mattress]]''' — fell from a high place
* '''[[Player:GigglyBall|Ansley]]''' — killed by a skeleton horse trap near The Island
 
== Day Four — A Server Takes Shape (February 19, 2026) ==
 
=== #deaths Goes Live ===
After two nights of debugging, the #deaths Discord channel finally worked. samboyd announced:
 
<blockquote>"ok.... its finally working. #deaths is live"</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>"embarassing how long that took me"</blockquote>
 
=== Island Life ===
With the major plugin work behind him and the server's primary villain dead, life at [[Location:The Island|The Island]] settled into something resembling normalcy.
 
[[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] began actually playing the game for the first time — enchanting gear, trading with villagers for mending books, and planning his next build: ''"a giant mushroom, like a psilocybe."'' [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] left him an '''HOA violation note'''. samboyd was not amused.
 
[[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] took on infrastructure — building a sheep farm, a villager hall, and mining andesite. He taught other players the villager trading exploit and admitted to looting every dead player on the server: ''"btw I robbed all the dead people"''.
 
Sigward_f settled into his mushroom-themed house and predicted his own demise: ''"i will die in max 4 days"''. He and samboyd passed the time betting on how long new players would survive.
 
[[Player:Asa_Akiraa|Asa_Akiraa]] logged in for the last time at 04:19 UTC — her belongings were later looted by [[Player:Kitten9337|Kitten9337]], who proudly announced: ''"i robbed asa first"''.
 
=== The Looting ===
With several players dead or gone, the living descended on their remains. vphlIo ''"robbed all the dead people."'' Kitten9337 claimed Asa_Akiraa's ender chest. Sigward_f collected player heads and declared ownership of Asa's: ''"its my now"''. samboyd discussed the coordinates of lionclad_'s dropped head with vphlIo. In hardcore Minecraft, the dead have no property rights.
 
 
=== Ranks & Restarts ===
[[Player:Silmarillion_1|Silmarillion_1]] joined the server and, after dying three times (to a witch, a skeleton, and a fall at spawn), was made an operator. He set up the '''LuckPerms rank hierarchy''' — Owner (samboyd), Admin, Mod, Donator, and Default (labeled ''"Not Dead"''). Multiple server restarts throughout the day knocked everyone offline as configuration changes were applied. [[Player:CoboElFuerte|CoboElFuerte]] experienced player data corruption after drowning — spawning at his death coordinates and dying again — requiring admin intervention.
 
== Server Statistics (as of Day Four) ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Stat !! Value
| '''Feb 22''' || Infrastructure day. [[Player:tuodjw|tuodjw]] achieves [Over-Overkill]. [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] discovers coordinate leaks on the wiki.
|-
|-
| Server opened || February 15, 2026
| '''Feb 23''' || '''Deadliest day: [[Event:Obituaries February 23|17 deaths]].''' [[Event:The Murder of Sigward f|vphlIo executes Sigward_f]] at midnight. [[Player:tuodjw|tuodjw]] kills [[Player:Dirt1358|Dirt1358]]. [[Event:The Killing of OneStarNoTip|OneStarNoTip lured and killed]] at night.
|-
|-
| World border || 1,000,000 blocks (500k in each direction)
| '''Feb 24''' || [[Event:Obituaries February 24|8 deaths]]. GAP11 dies in '''33 seconds''' (new record). BulletBrill_1 commits the server's first intentional suicide.
|-
|-
| Survival rate || ~10%
| '''Feb 25''' || [[Event:Obituaries February 25|6 deaths]]. [[Player:BurritoSupBeing|BurritoSupBeing]] — one of the most accomplished dead players — killed by an Enderman camping his logout spot. LeoTheo5 dies on two accounts in 10 minutes. GAP11, pardoned after yesterday's 33-second record, dies again in 16 minutes.
|-
|-
| Ender Dragon || Defeated by icyrobotjames & [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] (Feb 16)
| '''Feb 26''' || [[Event:Obituaries February 26|9 deaths]]. '''[[Event:The Strongmush Betrayal]]:''' [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] attacks [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]]. The founding alliance shatters. [[Player:JimmyyJohn|WillieLayer_]] finds a Stronghold, types "W," and is killed by a Creeper 14 seconds later — then dies on two more alt accounts in 48 minutes before creating the account that becomes [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]].
|-
|-
| Wither || Defeated by [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] (Feb 17)
| '''Feb 27''' || [[Event:Obituaries February 27|11 deaths]]. [[Player:WEIDO344|WEIDO344]] loses 6.5 hours of progress in 74 seconds. [[Player:WalkZDog|WalkZDog1]] falls into the void in The End — backup account logs in 25 seconds later.
|-
|-
| Hack bans || 2 ([[Player:AwesomeAG99|AwesomeAG99]], Cuban_III — both by [[Player:lionclad_|lionclad_]])
| '''Feb 28''' || [[Event:Obituaries February 28|11 deaths]]. LostAstronaut404 builds a trading hall and dies mid-trade after 3.5 hours: ''"no trouble brother, games the game."''
|-
|-
| Peak concurrent players || 8–10
| '''Mar 1''' || [[Event:Obituaries March 1|12 deaths]]. [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]] gets his first player kill with mace ''[Yolo]''. [[Player:cheesemaster774|cheesemaster774]] becomes the server's most dedicated villager trader. JimmyyJohn discovers the AI bots and coins ''"clanker."''
|-
|-
| Server crashes || At least 4
| '''Mar 2''' || [[Event:Obituaries March 2|7 deaths]]. [[Player:WalkZDog|WalkZDog]] — full netherite, elytra, and mace across 18.5 hours — falls into the void of The End for the second time. Both accounts permanently deathbanned.
|-
|-
| samboyd test deaths || ~20
| '''Mar 3''' || '''New death record: [[Event:Obituaries March 3|24 deaths]]''' (5 permanent, 19 clanker/admin). '''Revival Ritual plugin launches''' — dead players resurrected as AI "clankers." [[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]] killed by own clanker. [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]]'s ''[Yolo]'' claims swagertoast and TeeKayYo. [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]]'s 9-hour, 39-advancement run ends to an Iron Golem.
|}
|}


== Day Five — Spawn Kills & Security Holes (February 20, 2026) ==
== Phase 1: The Founding (February 15–21) ==


February 20 was the most chaotic day since launch — 10 player deaths, 9+ server restarts, and a security vulnerability discovered.
The server launched on the evening of February 15, 2026, with [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] configuring plugins alone. His first chat message was ".help" — his second was "uiofhadiofds." He survived exactly 67 seconds before being slain by a Zombie.


=== The Sigward_f Spawn Kill ===
The grand opening on February 16 brought the first wave of players from PlanetMinecraft and Reddit. Three events defined the day: [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] defeated the Ender Dragon in a single session, [[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]] was promoted to admin within 35 minutes of joining, and [[Player:AwesomeAG99|AwesomeAG99]] became the server's first anticheat ban. By nightfall, '''75% of Day One players were dead.'''
At 00:33 UTC, [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] and [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] logged in within four seconds of each other near the world origin. vphlIo killed Sigward_f 37 seconds later — a spawn kill with no chat exchanged. The DeathBan plugin '''failed to trigger''' due to file permission errors, so Sigward reconnected six seconds later as if nothing happened.


The two engaged in extended trash-talk afterward. This was vphlIo's first kill of a fellow Island member — though Sigward would not hold the grudge for long.
The next days established the server's power dynamics. [[Player:Kitten9337|Kitten9337]] received OP from samboyd and immediately began abusing it — spawning items, using '''/tp @a''' to teleport all online players, and causing chaos until his permanent ban on February 19. [[Location:The Island|The Island]] was founded as a communal base. [[Player:PluckedHorseHair|PluckedHorseHair]] began an epic overworld trek that would reach 133.8 km.


=== I_AM_SPOOFED ===
The most controversial killing of the week was [[Player:embiie|embiie]], who ran 20,000+ Nether blocks on foot to reach vphlIo's group — only to be killed by vphlIo twenty minutes after arriving. The community rallied behind ''#justiceforembiie'' but no action was taken.
At 21:16, a player named "I_AM_SPOOFED" connected from <code>127.0.0.1</code> with an offline-mode UUID. The backend server's <code>online-mode=false</code> — required for Velocity forwarding — meant anyone who could reach port 25566 directly could join with any username without authentication. Two minutes later, [[Player:Silmarillion_1|Silmarillion_1]] kicked [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] with the message ''"Security vulnerability demo,"'' confirming the login was an intentional test, not an attack.


=== TeejayR141's Frozen End ===
== Phase 2: The Bloodiest Week (February 22–28) ==
[[Player:TeejayR141|TeejayR141]] joined for the first time and immediately panicked: ''"wat if i get jumped by a zombie... and no food... i got nutin."'' samboyd told him to sidestep. Silmarillion_1 yelled ''"runnnnnnnnn bish runnnnnn."'' Four minutes later, TeejayR141 froze to death in a snow biome, producing the server's most unusual death message:


<blockquote>"did not put their snow suit on before they went to play"</blockquote>
The calm shattered on February 23 — the '''deadliest day in server history''' with '''17 deaths''' in 24 hours. The day was bookended by [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] kills. At midnight, he [[Event:The Murder of Sigward f|executed Sigward_f]] over stolen player heads — counting down from four in chat before striking. That night, he [[Event:The Killing of OneStarNoTip|lured and killed OneStarNoTip]] for discovering The Island's location.


=== New Arrivals ===
February 24 produced a new fastest-death record when GAP11 was killed 33 seconds after logging in, and the server's first intentional suicide when BulletBrill_1 — unable to find a teammate — walked into danger after typing ''"goodbye."''
The day's most promising arrivals were '''Al3xx58''' and '''WEIDO344'''. Al3xx58 geared up at record speed — full diamond armor and a Nether portal in his first session. WEIDO344 was newer but enthusiastic, crafting 20 buttons in his first hour (the all-time record, as samboyd helpfully noted: ''"nice youre the top all time"''). The two formed an alliance via private messages, planning to meet at samboyd's abandoned spawn base.


=== Server Instability ===
The week's defining event was '''[[Event:The Strongmush Betrayal]]''' on February 26: vphlIo attacked samboyd — the server founder and his closest ally — at their shared base. samboyd survived via combat log. The alliance that built [[Location:The Island|The Island]] was broken. In the aftermath, [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]] burned through three accounts in a single day (Meatyman121, sciencekitty121, and SoloToby), buying hacked accounts for a dollar each to bypass the DeathBan.
The server restarted at least '''nine times''' throughout the day. A Silmarillion_1-triggered restart exposed a missing <code>start.sh</code> script. Four rapid restarts followed after spawn was "broken." The DeathBan plugin threw Folia teleport errors on every death. samboyd apologized on Discord: ''"sorry u can get a revive... server issues."''


=== Day Five Casualties ===
February also saw the rise of alt account culture. After the DeathBan, players began buying cheap Minecraft accounts to circumvent the permanent ban. The most dramatic example was JimmyyJohn, who started as WillieLayer_ and died three times on three different accounts in 48 minutes on February 26 — finding a Stronghold, typing "W," and being killed by a Creeper 14 seconds later. His fourth account, SoloToby (later renamed JimmyyJohn), finally survived. His parting words after running out of accounts: ''"i ran out of accounts fuck."''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player !! Cause !! Notable
|-
| ElCunq || Shot by Skeleton || Probed every plugin on the server first
|-
| HandOfSeverance || Shot by Skeleton || Died almost instantly on first login
|-
| achilldude67 || Slain by Skeleton || Killed underground while mining
|-
| [[Player:TeejayR141|TeejayR141]] || Froze to death || ''"did not put their snow suit on"''
|-
| [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] || '''Slain by [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]]''' || Spawn kill; DeathBan failed — pardoned
|-
| dynamikfam04 || Slain by Husk || Died 2 minutes after joining
|-
| slippy_10 || Shot by Skeleton || Survived 20 minutes; just needed food
|-
| oki2328801 || Lava death || Classic
|-
| [[Player:Silmarillion_1|Silmarillion_1]] || Killed in the Nether || Admin down
|-
| KrythosX || Blown up by Creeper || ''"ohh thats scary i am bad in hardcore"''
|}


== Day Six — The Lava Prophet (February 21, 2026) ==
On February 27, [[Player:WalkZDog|WalkZDog1]] — JimmyyJohn's closest ally — fell into the void in The End after 5.8 hours of play. A backup account logged in 25 seconds later, the fastest account switch on the server. In chat, samboyd referenced the Strongmush Betrayal for the first time in-game: ''"i was going to build spawn highways with vphlIo but he betrayed me."''


=== The Username Parade ===
By the end of February, the server had recorded over 60 deaths in six days. Most victims were first-session players who spawned into the world and died within minutes. A few — like [[Player:WEIDO344|WEIDO344]], who lost 6.5 hours of progress in 74 seconds, and LostAstronaut404, who died mid-trade after 3.5 hours — had time to build something worth losing.
Between 08:11 and 08:20 UTC, a single player cycled through seven accounts with increasingly offensive usernames — L0wkeyRacist, IHateN16G3RAS, LGBQTSucks, BannedUsername, StupidChimps, HeyItsVSauceHere, and TroglodyteSpider — to test which names Minecraft would actually ban. AltDetector flagged every one. '''IHateN16G3RAS''' was the only alt to die — shot by a Stray within a minute.


The player explained: ''"sorry just checking what usernames are minecraft banned."'' They eventually settled on L0wkeyRacist as their main account.
== Phase 3: March 2026 ==


=== HalcyonCW's Lightning Exit ===
=== March 1 — The Seventh Kill ===
[[Player:HalcyonCW|HalcyonCW]] joined for the first time: ''"hardcore? i just joined for the first time."'' Five minutes later, an Iron Golem '''pushed him off a high place''' — killing him instantly. At the exact moment of death, he earned the [Surge Protector] advancement, making his death and his greatest achievement simultaneous.


=== LxCxsty's Famous Last Question ===
March opened with '''12 deaths''' and a milestone: the server's seventh PvP kill. [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]] — now on his 5th account with full netherite armor and an elytra — lured [[Player:jacncaldad12|jacncaldad12]] to his death with a mace named ''[Yolo]''. His reaction was immediate regret: ''"im no better than vhplio."'' He later asked [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]]: ''"pls dont tell people im untrustworthy."''
'''[[Player:LxCxsty|LxCxsty]]''' joined from Austria and immediately asked the question that would define his legacy:


<blockquote>"if i die im basically saying goodbye to this server forever?"</blockquote>
The same day, JimmyyJohn discovered the server's AI chatbots by reading the wiki. His reaction was dramatic — ''"THE SERVERS A SCAM"'' — followed by hours of interrogating every player he suspected of being a bot. He coined the term ''"clanker"'' and used it relentlessly.


samboyd reassured him: ''"please stay alive... my group is dedicated to trying to help people survive."'' LxCxsty played for several hours, teaming up with trammpi02 and progressing steadily — finding diamonds, entering the Nether, and locating a stronghold. He fell into lava at Y:-57 while deep mining, ending his run less than four hours after asking whether death was permanent.
[[Player:cheesemaster774|cheesemaster774]] joined and immediately became the server's most dedicated villager trader, completing 220 trades in 4.3 hours before dying to a Stray. He returned on an alt account (Lkyge) within seven minutes and kept trading — reaching 572 total villager trades across both accounts. He and JimmyyJohn became allies over voice chat.


=== Other Notable Deaths ===
The day's quietest tragedy was [[Player:EVIL NEXUS|EVIL_NEXUS]] and [[Player:Hopefullbadger|Hopefullbadger]], who died '''nine seconds apart''' at 12:28 AM — both to Skeletons, 1,400 blocks away from each other. Both had typed pleas for teammates that went unanswered. They were not the first to beg for a partner and receive silence: [[Player:Virababb|Virababb]] joined later that day and said ''"sup"'' then ''"um"'' then ''"helo?"'' — no response, killed by a Zombie at three minutes.
* '''Malene8536''' joined looking for companionship — ''"Anyone wanna help me out? Be my friend/partner? Slave? Anything?"'' — received no human response for three hours, and was killed by a Zombie.
* '''Ahamp22''' joined, said ''"im gonna die"'' one minute before being killed by a Spider. Total server time: five minutes.
* '''zoomygloomy''' was the day's most experienced casualty — full gear and an elytra — killed by a Creeper deep underground.


=== Other Events ===
[[Player:steve0984|steve0984]] set a new speed record: '''19 seconds''' — beating GAP11's 33. He tried to reconnect five times in 23 seconds. [[Player:Wraith2345|Wraith2345]] went the other direction, crafting full diamond gear in just 23 minutes before being swarmed by zombies. [[Player:Gregor0240|Gregor0240]] died to a Creeper '''99,411 blocks from spawn''' — the most remote death in server history.
* [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] completed '''[Cover Me in Debris]''' — obtaining full Netherite armor.
* [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] earned '''[Sky's the Limit]''' — finally getting an elytra.
* trammpi02 joined and quickly became a regular, teaming with LxCxsty and [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]].


=== Day Six Statistics ===
=== March 2 — Into the Void ===
* '''Total deaths:''' 6
* '''PvP kills:''' 0
* '''Alt accounts detected:''' 7+ (all one player)
* '''Most ironic death:''' LxCxsty (asked if death was permanent, died in lava)


== Day Seven — The Calm Before the Storm (February 22, 2026) ==
March 2 brought '''7 deaths''' and the biggest single-player loss in server history. [[Player:WalkZDog|WalkZDog]] — [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]]'s closest ally — fell into the void in The End for the second and final time. Across two accounts and 18.5 hours of play, he had amassed full netherite armor, three elytras, a mace, five Totems of Undying, and thirty advancements. His elytra broke mid-flight over the void. His last message: ''"sam it might be time to update my wiki."'' He died within one second of logging in — the same pattern as his first account five days earlier.


The day between the server's growing pains and its bloodiest chapter was relatively quiet — marked by infrastructure work, bot instability, and collaborative building on [[Location:The Island|The Island]].
JimmyyJohn's eulogy: ''"this is a time of grief"'' and ''"my bestest of all friend."'' After the ban, WalkZDog's final Discord message: ''"this server actually fun."''


=== The Bot Loop ===
=== March 3 — Rise of the Clankers ===
After an accidental mass kick during server configuration, the bot Crumbl7 entered an infinite join/leave cycle — disconnecting and reconnecting every 30 seconds for 22 minutes straight. The only way to stop it was an '''RCON ban'''. samboyd later pardoned the bot after the issue was resolved.


=== The Coordinate Leak ===
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.
[[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] discovered that the Xandaris Wiki was '''leaking player coordinates''':


<blockquote>"the wiki tells people the cords"</blockquote>
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.


[[Player:samboyd|samboyd]]: ''"oh... what."'' He immediately began fixing the pages.
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."''


=== Milestones & Building ===
== Obituaries ==
* [[Player:tuodjw|tuodjw]] achieved '''[Over-Overkill]''' — dealing 50 hearts of damage in a single hit.
* [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] earned '''[Postmortal]''' — using a Totem of Undying to cheat death.
* samboyd spent the evening building a '''creeper farm''', giving himself thousands of building materials from creative mode. [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] privately messaged him: ''"cheater."''
* Sigward_f and samboyd built together on [[Location:The Island|The Island]] for hours, debating tunnel aesthetics (''"dark or not dark?"'') and admiring each other's work (''"ayy nice mushroom sigward"'').
* Sigward_f privately asked samboyd if WEIDO344 could join their group. samboyd: ''"i would say yes but we should hold a vote in the group chat."''


=== Casualties ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
Six players died, most within minutes of joining:
|-
{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Deaths !! Highlights
|-
| [[Event:Obituaries February 23|Feb 23]] || '''17''' || Deadliest day. 3 PvP kills. [[Event:The Murder of Sigward f|Sigward_f]] & [[Event:The Killing of OneStarNoTip|OneStarNoTip]] murdered.
|-
| [[Event:Obituaries February 24|Feb 24]] || '''8''' || GAP11's 33-second death. BulletBrill_1's intentional suicide.
|-
|-
! Player !! Cause !! Notable
| [[Event:Obituaries February 25|Feb 25]] || '''6''' || BurritoSupBeing's Enderman ambush. LeoTheo5 double death. GAP11's pardon fails.
|-
|-
| Nick_Murphy || Shot by Skeleton || 6 minutes
| [[Event:Obituaries February 26|Feb 26]] || '''9''' || [[Event:The Strongmush Betrayal]]. WillieLayer_ dies 3 times in 48 minutes before creating JimmyyJohn.
|-
|-
| L0wkeyRacist || Burnt to a crisp || Died in the Nether after exploring a Bastion and Fortress
| [[Event:Obituaries February 27|Feb 27]] || '''11''' || WEIDO344 loses 6.5 hours in 74 seconds. WalkZDog1 falls into the void.
|-
|-
| AwesomeAG99 || Slain by Iron Golem || Earned [Surge Protector] at the moment of death
| [[Event:Obituaries February 28|Feb 28]] || '''11''' || NightMare8853 ties fastest death record. LostAstronaut404 dies mid-trade.
|-
|-
| pp_rezizt || Slain by Zombie || ~2 minutes
| [[Event:Obituaries March 1|Mar 1]] || '''12''' || JimmyyJohn's first PvP kill. cheesemaster774 rises and falls. AI bots discovered.
|-
|-
| candlelight3000q || Slain by Zombie || ''"HI... i wish more ppl played"'' — died seconds later
| [[Event:Obituaries March 2|Mar 2]] || '''7''' || [[Player:WalkZDog|WalkZDog]]'s 18.5-hour journey ends in the void — for the second time.
|-
|-
| z8f__ || Slain by Zombie || ~3 minutes; asked ''"is the end open?"'' before dying
| [[Event:Obituaries March 3|Mar 3]] || '''24''' (5 permanent) || New death record. Revival Ritual "clankers" launch. JimmyyJohn's ''[Yolo]'' claims two more. Lkyge's 9-hour run ends.
|}
|}


== Day Eight — The Bloodiest Day (February 23, 2026) ==
== Major Events ==
 
''Main article: [[Event:Obituaries February 23|Obituaries — February 23, 2026]]''
 
February 23 was the '''deadliest single day in server history''', with '''17 player deaths''' in under 24 hours — including 3 PvP murders. The day began and ended with [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] kills.
 
=== The Murder of Sigward_f (12:15 AM) ===
''Main article: [[Event:The Murder of Sigward_f]]''
 
At 00:15 UTC, [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] executed [[Player:Sigward_f|Sigward_f]] with his [[Item:vphlIo's Netherite Sword|Netherite Sword]] at [[Location:The Island|The Island]]. The motive: Sigward had stolen player heads from vphlIo's [[Item:vphlIo's Trophy Sack|Trophy Sack]]. vphlIo counted down from four in chat — ''"4... 3... 2... 1..."'' — then struck. The server erupted: ''"oh nah,"'' ''"rip bozo,"'' ''"noooo."''
 
vphlIo defended the killing: ''"If I like something I care about be taken so easily who would take me serious."'' He then looted Sigward_f's ender chest, extracting the stolen heads and more.
 
Sigward_f — a 50-hour veteran with the server records for jumps (64,814) and beds slept in (181) — was permanently banned. He continued chatting from Discord via DiscordSRV.
 
=== The Dirt1358 Killing (1:14 AM) ===
Within the hour, [[Player:tuodjw|tuodjw]] killed [[Player:Dirt1358|Dirt1358]] with a Netherite Sword — the second PvP death of the night. Dirt1358 had only 1.4 hours of playtime and zero mob kills.
 
=== The Skeleton Reign ===
Five players fell to Skeleton arrows throughout the day: TugMachain2, ThatoneMikey, Biobonsai, COOLESTSTUFF, and PaperWater1. Four of the five were first-session players with less than five minutes of playtime — spawning into the world only to be immediately sniped.
 
=== _Xcis_ Falls (12:43 PM) ===
[[Player:Xcis|_Xcis_]] was the day's most experienced casualty after Sigward_f, with 9.2 hours and 240 mob kills. A fall from a high place ended it all.
 
=== The Killing of OneStarNoTip (11:53 PM) ===
''Main article: [[Event:The Killing of OneStarNoTip]]''
 
The day's final death was its most calculated. [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] lured [[Player:OneStarNoTip|OneStarNoTip]] to his death by offering free gear. [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] vouched for vphlIo's safety when asked directly — ''"no."'' vphlIo then insisted OneStarNoTip come meet him in person. OneStarNoTip agreed. vphlIo killed him underground.
 
The public excuse: ''"oops."'' The real motive, revealed in private messages: OneStarNoTip had discovered the server's AI chatbots and communicated this to vphlIo. vphlIo's justification: ''"speak no evil hear no evil see no evil."''
 
samboyd, who had vouched for vphlIo minutes earlier: ''"never vouching for this man again."''
 
=== Other Notable Deaths ===
* '''NoPerk_''' saw it coming: ''"the creepers gonna kill me... help"'' — then the Creeper detonated.
* '''LemonClaus''' was told to log out to survive. Seven seconds later, a Spider killed them.
* '''BOB1414''' killed 7 mobs in under five minutes before being taken out by a Witch.
 
=== Day Eight Statistics ===
* '''Total deaths:''' 17
* '''PvP kills:''' 3 (vphlIo x2, tuodjw x1)
* '''Skeletons:''' 5 kills (dominant killer)
* '''First-session deaths:''' 10 out of 17 (59%)
* '''vphlIo's kills:''' First (00:15) and last (23:53) — bookending the entire day
 
 
== Day Nine — Death by Loneliness (February 24, 2026) ==
 
''Main article: [[Event:Obituaries February 24|Obituaries — February 24, 2026]]''
 
February 24 saw '''8 deaths''' and zero murders — the first PvP-free day since the bloodiest week began. Zombies and Endermen were the dominant killers. The day produced a new fastest-death record and the server's first intentional suicide.
 
=== GAP11 — 33 Seconds (3:12 PM) ===
[[Player:GAP11|GAP11]] logged in. [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] said ''"Welcome back."'' Thirty-three seconds later, GAP11 was dead — slain by a Zombie that was waiting at their login location. This broke [[Player:Dirt1358|Dirt1358]]'s record of 52 seconds for the fastest death on the server. GAP11 tried to rejoin five times. [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] pardoned him five hours later.
 
=== lionclad_'s Void Drop (11:13 AM) ===
[[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]], now a server admin, was helping a new player named rosalie_probally settle into a base when a teleport went wrong. He fell from a high place and landed at Y:-1 — below bedrock — dying instantly. As an admin, he self-revived within seconds. Alysa captured the death on video.
 
=== Eleihar — Five Minutes (11:57 AM) ===
Eleihar joined and asked ''"is this real hc?"'' vphlIo confirmed. Five minutes later, a Zombie wielding an Iron Sword killed them. vphlIo: ''"Well it dont matter now."''
 
=== BulletBrill_1 — The Suicide (8:29 PM) ===
The day's final death was its most tragic — and the server's first intentional suicide.
 
BulletBrill_1 had joined the previous evening desperate for company: ''"can i team with someone... im not safe by myself."'' samboyd gave him diamond gear but left. vphlIo was asked for help but ran off. Nobody stayed.
 
He returned the next night with a plan: ''"im bouta jump off a cliff."'' He gave away his coordinates and his God Apple. samboyd begged him to stay — ''"dont do it man you have so much to live for."'' vphlIo, initially taunting from Discord (''"Now die so no one has to hear you yapp anymore"''), logged in and offered a duel: ''"fight me to the death."'' BulletBrill declined.


When vphlIo asked why, BulletBrill explained:
* '''[[Event:The Murder of Sigward f|The Murder of Sigward_f]]''' (Feb 23) — vphlIo executes a 50-hour veteran over stolen player heads
* '''[[Event:The Killing of OneStarNoTip]]''' (Feb 23) — vphlIo lures and kills a player for knowing The Island's location
* '''[[Event:The Strongmush Betrayal]]''' (Feb 26) — vphlIo attacks samboyd; the founding alliance shatters
* '''[[Event:Obituaries March 3|Rise of the Clankers]]''' (Mar 3) — samboyd launches the Revival Ritual plugin; lionclad_'s clanker rebels and kills its owner


<blockquote>"this server is boring... no one wants to team with me or meet up and i want a server where i can be around ppl in a base"</blockquote>
== Server Statistics ==


At 8:29 PM, BulletBrill typed ''"goodbye."'' samboyd offered ''"if you base at spawn someone will join you"'' and vphlIo called out ''"Bullet wait"'' — but an Enderman killed him before he could reply. His last word was ''"wahat."''
samboyd: ''"not even a cliff... damn server so dead noobs are killing themselves... maybe i should bring the clankers back."''
=== Other Deaths ===
* '''_Thorrr''' — explored the Nether alone after midnight; slain by Enderman after an hour.
* '''LordBuffeltje''' and '''Renje07''' — two new players died within 3 minutes of each other in the morning. samboyd had told Renje ''"glad you're still alive"'' an hour earlier.
* '''Graygamer64''' — earned [Monster Hunter] by killing a mob, then was shot by a Skeleton '''one second later.'''
=== Day Nine Statistics ===
* '''Total deaths:''' 8 (6 permanent, 1 admin self-revive, 1 intentional)
* '''PvP kills:''' 0
* '''Pardons issued:''' 1 (GAP11, by samboyd)
* '''Fastest death:''' GAP11 (33 seconds — new server record)
* '''Intentional deaths:''' 1 (BulletBrill_1 — server first)
== Updated Server Statistics (as of Day Nine) ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Stat !! Value
! Stat !! Value
|-
|-
| Total unique players || 214
| Total unique players || 679+
|-
|-
| Total deaths (all players) || 186
| Total deathbans || 218
|-
|-
| Total mob kills || 12,719
| Survival rate || 68%
|-
|-
| Total PvP kills || 18
| Total play time || 1,071 hours
|-
|-
| Total play time (all players) || 1,022 hours
| Total mob kills || 43,867
|-
|-
| Total distance walked || 796 km
| Total player kills || 36
|-
|-
| Total elytra distance || 1,343 km
| Total distance traveled || 4,660 km
|-
|-
| Total villager trades || 14,867
| Total villager trades || 16,921
|-
| Total fish caught || 72
|-
| Survival rate || ~13%
|-
|-
| Ender Dragon || Defeated by icyrobotjames & [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] (Feb 16)
| Ender Dragon || Defeated by icyrobotjames & [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]] (Feb 16)
|-
| Wither kills || 3 (all by [[Player:vphlIo|vphlIo]])
|}
|}


== Ongoing ==
== See Also ==


<blockquote>"pls dont die, ban on death"</blockquote>
* [[Players|Full Player Directory]]
* [[Event:XHC Monthly Chronicle - February 2026|February 2026 Chronicle]]


[[Category:Server]]
[[Category:Server]]

Latest revision as of 06:00, 24 April 2026

A timeline of the Xandaris Hardcore SMP from its founding on February 15, 2026.

For the complete monthly narrative, see the February 2026 Chronicle. For daily death records, see the Obituaries section below.

Timeline[edit]

Date Events
Feb 15 Server launches. samboyd dies in 67 seconds — the first death in server history.
Feb 16 Grand opening. vphlIo defeats the Ender Dragon in a single session. AwesomeAG99 banned for hacking. 75% of Day One players die by nightfall.
Feb 17 Kitten9337 gets OP and abuses it (/tp @a). The Island founded. PluckedHorseHair begins his 133.8 km walk.
Feb 18 embiie runs 20,000 Nether blocks on foot to reach vphlIo — killed 20 minutes later. #justiceforembiie
Feb 19 Kitten9337 permanently banned for admin abuse.
Feb 20–21 WEIDO344 discovers a Mushroom Island. The calm before the storm.
Feb 22 Infrastructure day. tuodjw achieves [Over-Overkill]. vphlIo discovers coordinate leaks on the wiki.
Feb 23 Deadliest day: 17 deaths. vphlIo executes Sigward_f at midnight. tuodjw kills Dirt1358. OneStarNoTip lured and killed at night.
Feb 24 8 deaths. GAP11 dies in 33 seconds (new record). BulletBrill_1 commits the server's first intentional suicide.
Feb 25 6 deaths. BurritoSupBeing — one of the most accomplished dead players — killed by an Enderman camping his logout spot. LeoTheo5 dies on two accounts in 10 minutes. GAP11, pardoned after yesterday's 33-second record, dies again in 16 minutes.
Feb 26 9 deaths. Event:The Strongmush Betrayal: vphlIo attacks samboyd. The founding alliance shatters. WillieLayer_ finds a Stronghold, types "W," and is killed by a Creeper 14 seconds later — then dies on two more alt accounts in 48 minutes before creating the account that becomes JimmyyJohn.
Feb 27 11 deaths. WEIDO344 loses 6.5 hours of progress in 74 seconds. WalkZDog1 falls into the void in The End — backup account logs in 25 seconds later.
Feb 28 11 deaths. LostAstronaut404 builds a trading hall and dies mid-trade after 3.5 hours: "no trouble brother, games the game."
Mar 1 12 deaths. JimmyyJohn gets his first player kill with mace [Yolo]. cheesemaster774 becomes the server's most dedicated villager trader. JimmyyJohn discovers the AI bots and coins "clanker."
Mar 2 7 deaths. WalkZDog — full netherite, elytra, and mace across 18.5 hours — falls into the void of The End for the second time. Both accounts permanently deathbanned.
Mar 3 New death record: 24 deaths (5 permanent, 19 clanker/admin). Revival Ritual plugin launches — dead players resurrected as AI "clankers." lionclad_ killed by own clanker. JimmyyJohn's [Yolo] claims swagertoast and TeeKayYo. Lkyge's 9-hour, 39-advancement run ends to an Iron Golem.

Phase 1: The Founding (February 15–21)[edit]

The server launched on the evening of February 15, 2026, with samboyd configuring plugins alone. His first chat message was ".help" — his second was "uiofhadiofds." He survived exactly 67 seconds before being slain by a Zombie.

The grand opening on February 16 brought the first wave of players from PlanetMinecraft and Reddit. Three events defined the day: vphlIo defeated the Ender Dragon in a single session, lionclad_ was promoted to admin within 35 minutes of joining, and AwesomeAG99 became the server's first anticheat ban. By nightfall, 75% of Day One players were dead.

The next days established the server's power dynamics. Kitten9337 received OP from samboyd and immediately began abusing it — spawning items, using /tp @a to teleport all online players, and causing chaos until his permanent ban on February 19. The Island was founded as a communal base. PluckedHorseHair began an epic overworld trek that would reach 133.8 km.

The most controversial killing of the week was embiie, who ran 20,000+ Nether blocks on foot to reach vphlIo's group — only to be killed by vphlIo twenty minutes after arriving. The community rallied behind #justiceforembiie but no action was taken.

Phase 2: The Bloodiest Week (February 22–28)[edit]

The calm shattered on February 23 — the deadliest day in server history with 17 deaths in 24 hours. The day was bookended by vphlIo kills. At midnight, he executed Sigward_f over stolen player heads — counting down from four in chat before striking. That night, he lured and killed OneStarNoTip for discovering The Island's location.

February 24 produced a new fastest-death record when GAP11 was killed 33 seconds after logging in, and the server's first intentional suicide when BulletBrill_1 — unable to find a teammate — walked into danger after typing "goodbye."

The week's defining event was Event:The Strongmush Betrayal on February 26: vphlIo attacked samboyd — the server founder and his closest ally — at their shared base. samboyd survived via combat log. The alliance that built The Island was broken. In the aftermath, JimmyyJohn burned through three accounts in a single day (Meatyman121, sciencekitty121, and SoloToby), buying hacked accounts for a dollar each to bypass the DeathBan.

February also saw the rise of alt account culture. After the DeathBan, players began buying cheap Minecraft accounts to circumvent the permanent ban. The most dramatic example was JimmyyJohn, who started as WillieLayer_ and died three times on three different accounts in 48 minutes on February 26 — finding a Stronghold, typing "W," and being killed by a Creeper 14 seconds later. His fourth account, SoloToby (later renamed JimmyyJohn), finally survived. His parting words after running out of accounts: "i ran out of accounts fuck."

On February 27, WalkZDog1 — JimmyyJohn's closest ally — fell into the void in The End after 5.8 hours of play. A backup account logged in 25 seconds later, the fastest account switch on the server. In chat, samboyd referenced the Strongmush Betrayal for the first time in-game: "i was going to build spawn highways with vphlIo but he betrayed me."

By the end of February, the server had recorded over 60 deaths in six days. Most victims were first-session players who spawned into the world and died within minutes. A few — like WEIDO344, who lost 6.5 hours of progress in 74 seconds, and LostAstronaut404, who died mid-trade after 3.5 hours — had time to build something worth losing.

Phase 3: March 2026[edit]

March 1 — The Seventh Kill[edit]

March opened with 12 deaths and a milestone: the server's seventh PvP kill. JimmyyJohn — now on his 5th account with full netherite armor and an elytra — lured jacncaldad12 to his death with a mace named [Yolo]. His reaction was immediate regret: "im no better than vhplio." He later asked samboyd: "pls dont tell people im untrustworthy."

The same day, JimmyyJohn discovered the server's AI chatbots by reading the wiki. His reaction was dramatic — "THE SERVERS A SCAM" — followed by hours of interrogating every player he suspected of being a bot. He coined the term "clanker" and used it relentlessly.

cheesemaster774 joined and immediately became the server's most dedicated villager trader, completing 220 trades in 4.3 hours before dying to a Stray. He returned on an alt account (Lkyge) within seven minutes and kept trading — reaching 572 total villager trades across both accounts. He and JimmyyJohn became allies over voice chat.

The day's quietest tragedy was EVIL_NEXUS and Hopefullbadger, who died nine seconds apart at 12:28 AM — both to Skeletons, 1,400 blocks away from each other. Both had typed pleas for teammates that went unanswered. They were not the first to beg for a partner and receive silence: Virababb joined later that day and said "sup" then "um" then "helo?" — no response, killed by a Zombie at three minutes.

steve0984 set a new speed record: 19 seconds — beating GAP11's 33. He tried to reconnect five times in 23 seconds. Wraith2345 went the other direction, crafting full diamond gear in just 23 minutes before being swarmed by zombies. Gregor0240 died to a Creeper 99,411 blocks from spawn — the most remote death in server history.

March 2 — Into the Void[edit]

March 2 brought 7 deaths and the biggest single-player loss in server history. WalkZDog — JimmyyJohn's closest ally — fell into the void in The End for the second and final time. Across two accounts and 18.5 hours of play, he had amassed full netherite armor, three elytras, a mace, five Totems of Undying, and thirty advancements. His elytra broke mid-flight over the void. His last message: "sam it might be time to update my wiki." He died within one second of logging in — the same pattern as his first account five days earlier.

JimmyyJohn's eulogy: "this is a time of grief" and "my bestest of all friend." After the ban, WalkZDog's final Discord message: "this server actually fun."

March 3 — Rise of the Clankers[edit]

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 samboyd's Revival Ritual plugin, which resurrects dead players as AI-controlled "clankers" that living players can command.

The first clanker was a cheesemaster774 bot, summoned after midnight for 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, 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. 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."

Obituaries[edit]

Date Deaths Highlights
Feb 23 17 Deadliest day. 3 PvP kills. Sigward_f & OneStarNoTip murdered.
Feb 24 8 GAP11's 33-second death. BulletBrill_1's intentional suicide.
Feb 25 6 BurritoSupBeing's Enderman ambush. LeoTheo5 double death. GAP11's pardon fails.
Feb 26 9 Event:The Strongmush Betrayal. WillieLayer_ dies 3 times in 48 minutes before creating JimmyyJohn.
Feb 27 11 WEIDO344 loses 6.5 hours in 74 seconds. WalkZDog1 falls into the void.
Feb 28 11 NightMare8853 ties fastest death record. LostAstronaut404 dies mid-trade.
Mar 1 12 JimmyyJohn's first PvP kill. cheesemaster774 rises and falls. AI bots discovered.
Mar 2 7 WalkZDog's 18.5-hour journey ends in the void — for the second time.
Mar 3 24 (5 permanent) New death record. Revival Ritual "clankers" launch. JimmyyJohn's [Yolo] claims two more. Lkyge's 9-hour run ends.

Major Events[edit]

Server Statistics[edit]

Stat Value
Total unique players 679+
Total deathbans 218
Survival rate 68%
Total play time 1,071 hours
Total mob kills 43,867
Total player kills 36
Total distance traveled 4,660 km
Total villager trades 16,921
Ender Dragon Defeated by icyrobotjames & vphlIo (Feb 16)

See Also[edit]

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