Player:samboyd

samboyd is the founder, owner, and server operator of Xandaris. He manages the server infrastructure, plugins, Discord integration, and community — spending most of his time in spectator or creative mode doing admin work rather than playing survival.

Overview

samboyd
Status	Alive (Server Owner)
First Join	February 15, 2026
Deaths	23
Play Time	73.1 hours (server record)
Mob Kills	504
Distance Walked	68.2 km
Distance by Elytra	111 km
Animals Bred	260 (server record)
Role	Server Owner / Operator

History

Day Zero — Setup & The 67-Second Death (February 15)

samboyd was the first player to join the Xandaris server on February 15, 2026, during the initial setup phase. His earliest logins were brief testing sessions — configuring plugins, checking chat formatting, and typing test messages like ".help" and "uiofhadiofds" into the void.

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

Undeterred, he established a small base along a river near spawn, describing it as "it aint much but its home."

Day One — Grand Opening (February 16)

February 16 was the day Xandaris went public. samboyd and Asa_Akiraa posted the server on PlanetMinecraft, minecraft-server-list.com, and Reddit, triggering the first wave of new players.

samboyd spent the day welcoming every arrival, explaining the rules, and watching helplessly as most of them died:

"so you are all my first players, so thank u all my GOATs"— samboyd

"if you stay alive ill give you rank for free"— samboyd

He established the server's core promise early: "no p2w and no map resets — forever."

The server crashed multiple times under load. samboyd apologized, upgraded the hardware, and kept going. He also deployed his custom DeadEnderChest plugin, which lets players access a dead player's ender chest by holding their dropped head and running a command. He had Sigward_f kill him to test it.

By the end of the day, he estimated that 75% of players had already died.

Day Two — The End, Netherite & Betrayal (February 17)

The pace picked up on Day Two. vphlIo defeated the Ender Dragon, and samboyd teleported to the End portal to earn the [The End?] advancement shortly after.

samboyd also completed the [Cover Me in Debris] challenge, acquiring a full set of netherite armor, and earned [Crafting a New Look] from armor trimming.

The day's biggest drama came from PluckedHorseHair, who had been a thorn in samboyd's side since a previous server (LHC). PluckedHorseHair killed samboyd in PvP when he briefly switched to survival mode — the third time a player had slain him. samboyd later reflected:

"horsehair literally killed me and my entire team"— samboyd

This incident accelerated the decision to relocate the community far from spawn to The Island.

samboyd also began building a revive mechanic plugin using player heads and netherite, though he remained conflicted about whether it was fair to the 80+ players already banned.

Meanwhile, Kitten9337 privately warned samboyd that some players thought he was admin-abusing by spending time in creative mode near other players.

Day Three — Anticheat Drama & #deaths (February 18)

samboyd kicked XiDipole for using a hacked client and spent hours troubleshooting anticheat issues with chickenfiesta, whose modified client kept triggering fastbreak flags.

The community continued to bleed players. samboyd pardoned several who had died to a spawn bug (suffocating inside blocks due to a RandomSpawnZ misconfiguration) and repeatedly pleaded with survivors:

"pls dont die, ban on death"— samboyd

He spent the entire evening testing the CustomDeathMessages plugin and Discord integration for the #deaths channel, dying over a dozen times via RCON commands, fall damage, and asking friends to kill him. At one point:

"fucking claude killed me"— samboyd

— referring to the server bot executing a /kill command via RCON during testing.

Day Four — Island Life & Building (February 19)

After an embarrassing number of test deaths, the #deaths Discord channel finally went live. samboyd announced:

"ok.... its finally working. #deaths is live"— samboyd

With the major plugin work behind him, samboyd began actually playing the game — enchanting gear, looking for mending villagers, and planning builds at The Island. He announced his next project: "a giant mushroom — like a psilocybe."

He also received an HOA violation note from Sigward_f, which he did not appreciate.

Silmarillion_1 joined and set up the entire LuckPerms rank hierarchy, promoting samboyd to the Owner group.

Life at The Island settled into a rhythm: breeding villagers, worrying about podzol spreading, betting with Sigward on how long new players would survive, and dreaming about the future of the server.

Day Five — Sigward's Death (February 20)

On February 20, Sigward_f — samboyd's trusted ally and frequent executioner — was spawn-killed by vphlIo near the world origin. Both logged in seconds apart at nearly the same coordinates, and vphlIo struck within 37 seconds. The DeathBan failed to trigger due to file permission errors, so Sigward continued playing.

New player slippy_10 also joined the server on this day.

Stats

Stat	Value
Play Time	73.1 hours (server record)
Deaths	23
Mob Kills	504
Player Kills	0
Distance Walked	68.2 km
Distance by Elytra	111 km
Animals Bred	260 (server record)
Villager Trades	106
Top Blocks Mined	2,042 stone, 972 deepslate
Items Crafted	2,932 sticks, 2,400 spruce planks
Top Mobs Killed	187 zombies, 178 cows
Top Tool	Diamond pickaxe (3,899 uses)
Killed By Players	6 times

samboyd has more play time than any other player by a wide margin — 73.1 hours to vphlIo's 38.8. He has bred 260 animals (server record), reflecting his farming-focused playstyle when not doing admin work.

Relationships

• Asa_Akiraa — Co-admin and promotional partner. They posted the server on listing sites together.
• vphlIo — Close ally and beta-tester from their previous server (LHC). vphlIo said samboyd's house was "the best." They share a base at The Island.
• Sigward_f — Trusted builder and neighbor. Kills samboyd on request for plugin testing. Left him an HOA violation note. They privately bet on how long new players will survive. Was spawn-killed by vphlIo on Day 5.
• Kitten9337 — Moderator who warns samboyd about admin abuse optics.
• GigglyBall — IRL friend who repeatedly dies and gets pardoned.
• PluckedHorseHair — The "server villain" who killed samboyd and his team on a previous server. Eventually mellowed out after vphlIo trapped him.
• OrangeBubly — Early player who beat the Ender Dragon. Eventually left for another server.
• Silmarillion_1 — Co-admin who set up LuckPerms. Promoted samboyd to Owner rank.

Advancements

• [The End?] — Enter the End dimension (Feb 17)
• [Cover Me in Debris] — Get a full suit of Netherite armor (Feb 17)
• [Crafting a New Look] — Craft a trimmed armor piece (Feb 17)
• [Subspace Bubble] — Travel 7 km in the Overworld via the Nether (Feb 18)
• [Surge Protector] — Protect a Villager from an undesired shock (Feb 19)

Server Contributions

samboyd built or deployed the following systems:

• DeadEnderChest — Custom plugin allowing players to loot a dead player's ender chest via their dropped head
• Death messages & #deaths Discord channel — Spent two full evenings getting this working
• RandomSpawnZ configuration — Random spawn for new players
• VotingPlugin + NuVotifier — Server voting rewards
• SimpleNicks + LPC — Colored nickname system using MiniMessage gradients
• Anticheat (GrimAC) — Later disabled due to false positives
• World border — Set to 1,000,000 blocks (500k in each direction)
• Simple Voice Chat — Proximity voice chat plugin
• PlayerStats — Player statistics commands (/stat)

Notable Quotes

• "it aint much but its home"
• "no p2w and no map resets — forever"
• "so you are all my first players, so thank u all my GOATs"
• "pls dont die, ban on death"
• "just need some players to stay alive is all"
• "horsehair literally killed me and my entire team"
• "considering i died 4.2bn times testing that plugin"
• "is it admin abuse when god smites a mortal?"
• "i feel like i need one account for admin and one for survival... but i only have one account"
• "fucking claude killed me" — on the bot executing /kill via RCON

Trivia

• His very first chat message on the server was ".help" — testing if commands worked.
• He voted for his own server on PlanetMinecraft on opening night.
• He seriously considered buying a second Minecraft account on G2A for $12 so he could play survival without OP.
• He previously played on a server called LHC, where he died AFK at his wither skeleton farm.
• He once tried to name The Island "Epstein's Island."
• His favorite building material combination is pale oak with mushroom stem.
• Has died 23 times — more than any other player — though most were from plugin testing.
• 73.1 hours of play time in 5 days averages to 14.6 hours per day on the server.
• Bred 260 animals — nearly 3x the second-place player.