Player:samboyd

samboyd is the founder, owner, and server operator of Xandaris. He manages the server infrastructure, plugins, Discord integration, and community. samboyd spent most of the server's early history in creative and spectator: fixing bugs, installing plugins, and maintaining server stability.

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.

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. 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.

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.

The Murder of Sigward_f (February 23)

Main article: Event:The Murder of Sigward_f

On February 23, samboyd witnessed vphlIo execute Sigward_f at The Island. vphlIo discovered that Sigward had been taking player heads from his trophy collection and confronted him. samboyd attempted to intervene — "dont kill him" — but vphlIo counted down from four and killed Sigward with his Netherite Sword.

samboyd's reaction was immediate grief:

"sigwards always been a good basemate i would give him the benefit of the doubt before killing him"— samboyd

"he was borderline innocent"— samboyd

He expressed fear about living near vphlIo: "its just if i live in close proximity to you then a disagreement will cost me my life." He also blamed himself for bringing Sigward to The Island:

"i tried to protect him after the HOA incident... i never should have let him come back. no one to blame but myself. his swedish blood is on my hands"— samboyd

Minutes later, vphlIo's ally tuodjw killed Dirt1358, who had been trash-talking vphlIo from Discord. samboyd's response to losing two players in one night:

"i lost em all"— samboyd

Despite his distress, samboyd took no admin action against vphlIo. When vphlIo asked "do you plan on ending me?" samboyd said no. When vphlIo asked "Do you find me a bad person? maybe evil?" samboyd again said no. He chose to maintain the alliance rather than risk a confrontation with the server's most powerful player, although he did opt to establish his main base elsewhere, away from The Island.

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). Despite vphlIo murdering Sigward_f, samboyd chose not to punish him — acknowledging "we have different standards on what warrants permabanning someone."
Sigward_f — Trusted builder and neighbor. Killed samboyd on request for plugin testing. Left him an HOA violation note. They privately bet on how long new players will survive. Murdered by vphlIo on Feb 23 — samboyd blamed himself: "his swedish blood is on my hands."
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"
"pls dont die, ban on death"
"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?"
"fucking claude killed me" — on the bot executing /kill via RCON
"dont kill him" — failed attempt to save Sigward_f
"he was borderline innocent"
"his swedish blood is on my hands"
"i lost em all" — after both Sigward_f and Dirt1358 were killed
"stole your sweetroll?" — to tuodjw after killing Dirt1358

Trivia

His very first chat message on the server was ".help" — testing if commands worked.
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.
Bred 260 animals — nearly 3x the second-place player.
When vphlIo asked "Do you find me a bad person? maybe evil?" after the murders, samboyd said no — despite privately mourning "im still mourning my hb."