Hello, everyone. I've heard some and experienced some awesome and crazy stories in my time playing minecraft. Please post yours, and if you have some PVP stories, do tell, as those are some of the very best. Here is one of mine, thank you. (I got this idea from reading a story and posting one of my own on a thread by thecraww)
~Admiralwaffles
I lived in a town called "Sparta." Quite generic, I know. We had our ups and downs and the like, but we were still rather productive and sustained our well-being. I was a well-known figure, if I say so myself, and our town had around 20 people in it. Usually 8 or more people were online, so our square was usually busy with trade and talkative players. The server itself had a few grumpy ol' people, but not any huge imbeciles. This was my first server, but around it's 3rd restart, so I knew most everyone. Our name, Sparta, had to do with our fighting styles, how awesome Spartans are, and our pit in the middle of our town. That's pretty much the backstory.
Our allies were repeatedly attacked by a town of a name I do not recall. They were neutral to us but we treated them as potential enemies because of our allies' feelings regarding them. There was a group of 3 hunters scouting and harvesting the local livestock when they saw a figure of that Town (I'll call it Town.) He had iron armor, standard issue and a very much so damaged diamond sword, also standard issue. The hunters called to base and seeing him so close to our base, they decided to attack the Town member (who was a scout.) On the plains, the hunters outnumbered and quickly killed the scout, who in the end, tried to flee. I watched as I ran to the spot. Taking the Scout's items, we quickly returned home. Outraged, Town was not pleased. They sent an envoy to Sparta. (Now you might be able to see where this is going.) The envoy asked our alliance or neutrality and demanded the Scout's items.
A diamond sword was well sought after, even if it was damaged. The iron armor could be used to strengthen our warriors and our allies urged us to deny their request. Eventually, our town leaders were swayed. The envoy was waiting in the town square, still rather raged. The Lord Commander of the Spartan town gave the orders. The envoy was surrounded in the square. The Lord Commander stepped up to the envoy and said, "This alliance is madness. For... THIS IS SPARTA!" I rushed forward, with a lightly enchanted iron sword of Knockback I, hitting the envoy and thus sending the envoy flying back, then falling down the deep depths of our Spartan Pit. Around the square the whole Spartan legion was whooping its approval.
The Town's leader was deeply enraged and promptly declared war and vengeance. After days of fighting, the last battle had come. Sparta and its allies rushed toward the Town's capital. After a bloody battle, we took the capital. I won't go into detail, for that's another story.
Played on the Battle for Conwy Castle server once. Ah, the memories...
Basically, it's pure PVP large scale battles in castles. Basically land grab: You wanted to own more territory than the opponent. Lots of fun if you don't mind the lack of building.
In particular:
The map was a castle map, with 1 attacker spawn to the south. The whole thing was laid out like a ring, with flags on towers at corners and midpoints. In the center was the kings room, with 2 more flags. The whole thing seemed to have been bulit with parkour in mind, lots of alternate routes.
The attackers(hereby known as Red) managed to breach the gate house(They usually do).
What happened next could only be described as something out of ww2 Stalingrad.(Not a usual occurrence, usually the defenders(Blue) get overrun within 10 minutes.)
Basically we ended up in a draw in our own castle.
It wasn't a static one either. All the flags changed sides at least once, and at least 6 did multiple times.There were small raiding parties that would go around and steal flags and ambush the occasional hapless player(s). There was also artillery firing constantly; the Reds hadn't left their siege weapons unmanned. There were in equal measures sniping bow fights and brutal close quarters combat. There were frantic rushes to patch flags captured by a raid before they spawned in more players(the flags were spawn points), and careful parkour sections to bypass large enemy mobs.
The battle raged back and forth across the castle for the whole 20 minutes of the match before finally ending in a draw.
As for the OP:Could you please detail the fall of said Town? I'm sure it will be quite interesting.
Played on the Battle for Conwy Castle server once. Ah, the memories...
Basically, it's pure PVP large scale battles in castles. Basically land grab: You wanted to own more territory than the opponent. Lots of fun if you don't mind the lack of building.
In particular:
The map was a castle map, with 1 attacker spawn to the south. The whole thing was laid out like a ring, with flags on towers at corners and midpoints. In the center was the kings room, with 2 more flags. The whole thing seemed to have been bulit with parkour in mind, lots of alternate routes.
The attackers(hereby known as Red) managed to breach the gate house(They usually do).
What happened next could only be described as something out of ww2 Stalingrad.(Not a usual occurrence, usually the defenders(Blue) get overrun within 10 minutes.)
Basically we ended up in a draw in our own castle.
It wasn't a static one either. All the flags changed sides at least once, and at least 6 did multiple times.There were small raiding parties that would go around and steal flags and ambush the occasional hapless player(s). There was also artillery firing constantly; the Reds hadn't left their siege weapons unmanned. There were in equal measures sniping bow fights and brutal close quarters combat. There were frantic rushes to patch flags captured by a raid before they spawned in more players(the flags were spawn points), and careful parkour sections to bypass large enemy mobs.
The battle raged back and forth across the castle for the whole 20 minutes of the match before finally ending in a draw.
As for the OP:Could you please detail the fall of said Town? I'm sure it will be quite interesting.
Love that server! I use to be 16 on the toplist, but I haven't been playing much anymore.
I play on a lava survival server. So many stories, so I'll just tell you one of my favorites:
I had recently lost my stuff, and at the most inopportune moment. The lava was rising fast, so I hopped up the nearest tree. Someone was living there.
"Can I come in?" I frantically typed.
"Sure!" And I was let in for the remainder of the round.
For the next 5 rounds, we made houses together, shared resources, and exchanged jokes. We were having a great time.
That is, until the spiders came.
We were walking along, gathering some wood when a group of spiders attacked. We tried to fend them off, but the spiders got to them. I tried to save them, but they kindly denied and sacrificed themselves for me. They were stuck at spawn for the rest of spawn. As a homage to her, I built a large obsidian monument in my survival world. I put flowers by it every day.
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Pointing out fallacies to undermine an argument is also a fallacy...
If by OP, you mean Admiral Waffles, the server was called "Embarker Towns," later called "Embarker Guilds."
I was in several of Mr. Waffle's factions, at the time. Unfortunately, the server owner, despite being insanely awesome and maintaining the best server I've ever played on, was never recognized by the community, and it went offline, due to lack of donations. The server was expertly balanced (No over powered donations and everyone had equal chances), custom coded, well maintained, and had an awesome community.
If by OP, you mean Admiral Waffles, the server was called "Embarker Towns," later called "Embarker Guilds."
I was in several of Mr. Waffle's factions, at the time. Unfortunately, the server owner, despite being insanely awesome and maintaining the best server I've ever played on, was never recognized by the community, and it went offline, due to lack of donations. The server was expertly balanced (No over powered donations and everyone had equal chances), custom coded, well maintained, and had an awesome community.
Hope that helps set the stage and whatnot.
Oh.
Well, that's a real shame, that. Real shame.
So, do YOU have any stories from the trenches?
We were a relatively peaceful faction with close alliances will all the powerful groups in the region, such as the ones including moderators (Not that they had any advantages, they were just quite skilled) and Waffle's Sparta. Things were pretty chill.
However, the peace couldn't last forever because wars are simply fun.
One member of our faction was killed in the wilderness by a neutral group, Mintaga. We used it as an excuse to declare all out war. With all our connections, we thought it would be simple, especially when all the diamond armored reinforcements showed up from our allies. Though, it seemed our opponents had built quite a secure little castle. Note: Ender Pearls were disabled. We exchanged arrows for a bit and began running out of resources. Therefore, we assumed that our enemies were running out of resources too (Hunger bars had just been added to Minecraft, and everyone hated them). They also couldn't /spawn with members of an enemy faction close by.
We built several small camps at various strategic points: A tree house near the wall, a cliff a hundred or so blocks away, and a tiny fort on a close by island. Gathering resources entertained us for a bit, but our allies soon grew bored and left. We somehow managed to maintain the siege for a day and half (Friday afternoon to Saturday night) because of having players from different timezones, pretending their were more of us than the two half afk players that were usually had outside their wall, and eating any animal within a five hundred block radius.
Eventually, our opponents ran out of food and several of them logged on at once and stormed the three of us that were online. That was a nightmare. I combated them for five or so minutes with a bow from a distance, while my other faction member sprinted sprinted off to somewhere, and the third person, a mercenary we paid with armor and a weapon, simply pledged his allegiance to the enemy (Just like he had to us ).
At this point, I nearly spamming our allies for back up, in between dodging allies.
Finally, a good friend of mine, Whitewhalefish, showed up in iron armor, saw what was happening, and immediately told me their was no chance of victory, and had to leave. We began running through a canyon towards the ocean were he said he left boats, but the leader of the enemy faction leader, Blackreaper, strolled up to one edge of the mountain to our left holding a bucket of lava.
The liquid fire poured down the side, towards us at the bottom of the canyon, slowly cutting off the exit.
Arrows whizzed over our heads as we sprinted towards the boats, barely making it passed the lava.
They tried swimming after us, but we /spawn'd the second we were out of range.
The next day, word around the server was that the other group's farm had been completely empty, and we thought we had almost completed the first "Multi-Day Siege in Minecraft History" (I have no way to check this).
Anyway, we attacked our new rivals on sight for a while after that and seemingly forgot about the conflict when the server map got reset after a month or so.
That's it, I suppose. AdmiralWaffles was hanging around for the first Friday night of the siege, I thing.
By the way, have yet another story....
I was on defense on an island map, with attackers out to sea in ships. The island had about 5-6 flags, one of which was the imposing Fort Rumrage. And I really do mean imposing. It was three stories about tall on a small cliff, but it still managed to look like an unmovable, cannon totting brick. There were about four invading ships.(Remember that, it's going to be important.)
So we managed(somehow) to beat off the Attackers(Blue this time) off the island. And that's when we got cocky.
We counterattacked their ships. Heck, we succeeded in capturing them, blasted husks though they were when we finally ousted the Blues.
So I had just died and respawned from capturing the last ship, and I'd taken new class(not a donater, so swordsmen for me). I looked at the map board(which maps out which flags were captured, and thus where we could respawn) to get back in and finish off the Blues.
And that's when I saw something that chilled my blood.
All four ships were marked in valiant crimson.
All five or six island positions glared a chilling azure.
We tried to take back the island. What else could we have done?
And we nearly succeeded before the round was over. I think we captured Fort Rumrage in the final two minutes, but by then it was too late to capture more.
Yes, we lost that one. Lost it trying(and succeeding, nearly) to siege our own fort.
Quite the embarrassing end.
If by OP, you mean Admiral Waffles, the server was called "Embarker Towns," later called "Embarker Guilds."
I was in several of Mr. Waffle's factions, at the time. Unfortunately, the server owner, despite being insanely awesome and maintaining the best server I've ever played on, was never recognized by the community, and it went offline, due to lack of donations. The server was expertly balanced (No over powered donations and everyone had equal chances), custom coded, well maintained, and had an awesome community.
Hope that helps set the stage and whatnot.
Which town was involved in that war? Pre-me or post-me?
Sorry for the inactiveness on this forum, guys. I've been playing a RP server and it's mostly based on enjin, hopefully tonight we can all gather round the campfire and tell stories.
MineZ's pretty good if you get a lucky spawn near a town so you can forage. Otherwise you're doomed.
Of course, that also happens to be where most of the zombies are. Ditto for bandits.
There was this sea-side town I was foraging in when I met another person, who I tried to make friends with. Briefly. He attacked me on sight, pushing me over a fence into the sea. He then had to go the longish way to dive in, though, which gave me a little time to get a head start.
Note to self, never dive when being chased, it slows you down.
Thankfully I had a snowball(In MineZ, throwable zombie lure. More useful than you think!)
I chucked it against a small pier as we passed, attracting over a few zombies onto him. He managed to overcome that, but it gave me enough of a headstart to reach a lighthouse and get inside. I think he was expecting me to run upstairs, because when he came in(I was by the door, with a wooden sword) I managed to get in the first-and last-strikes.
It was exhilarating and scary all the way.
~Admiralwaffles
I lived in a town called "Sparta." Quite generic, I know. We had our ups and downs and the like, but we were still rather productive and sustained our well-being. I was a well-known figure, if I say so myself, and our town had around 20 people in it. Usually 8 or more people were online, so our square was usually busy with trade and talkative players. The server itself had a few grumpy ol' people, but not any huge imbeciles. This was my first server, but around it's 3rd restart, so I knew most everyone. Our name, Sparta, had to do with our fighting styles, how awesome Spartans are, and our pit in the middle of our town. That's pretty much the backstory.
Our allies were repeatedly attacked by a town of a name I do not recall. They were neutral to us but we treated them as potential enemies because of our allies' feelings regarding them. There was a group of 3 hunters scouting and harvesting the local livestock when they saw a figure of that Town (I'll call it Town.) He had iron armor, standard issue and a very much so damaged diamond sword, also standard issue. The hunters called to base and seeing him so close to our base, they decided to attack the Town member (who was a scout.) On the plains, the hunters outnumbered and quickly killed the scout, who in the end, tried to flee. I watched as I ran to the spot. Taking the Scout's items, we quickly returned home. Outraged, Town was not pleased. They sent an envoy to Sparta. (Now you might be able to see where this is going.) The envoy asked our alliance or neutrality and demanded the Scout's items.
A diamond sword was well sought after, even if it was damaged. The iron armor could be used to strengthen our warriors and our allies urged us to deny their request. Eventually, our town leaders were swayed. The envoy was waiting in the town square, still rather raged. The Lord Commander of the Spartan town gave the orders. The envoy was surrounded in the square. The Lord Commander stepped up to the envoy and said, "This alliance is madness. For... THIS IS SPARTA!" I rushed forward, with a lightly enchanted iron sword of Knockback I, hitting the envoy and thus sending the envoy flying back, then falling down the deep depths of our Spartan Pit. Around the square the whole Spartan legion was whooping its approval.
The Town's leader was deeply enraged and promptly declared war and vengeance. After days of fighting, the last battle had come. Sparta and its allies rushed toward the Town's capital. After a bloody battle, we took the capital. I won't go into detail, for that's another story.
Basically, it's pure PVP large scale battles in castles. Basically land grab: You wanted to own more territory than the opponent. Lots of fun if you don't mind the lack of building.
In particular:
The map was a castle map, with 1 attacker spawn to the south. The whole thing was laid out like a ring, with flags on towers at corners and midpoints. In the center was the kings room, with 2 more flags. The whole thing seemed to have been bulit with parkour in mind, lots of alternate routes.
The attackers(hereby known as Red) managed to breach the gate house(They usually do).
What happened next could only be described as something out of ww2 Stalingrad.(Not a usual occurrence, usually the defenders(Blue) get overrun within 10 minutes.)
Basically we ended up in a draw in our own castle.
It wasn't a static one either. All the flags changed sides at least once, and at least 6 did multiple times.There were small raiding parties that would go around and steal flags and ambush the occasional hapless player(s). There was also artillery firing constantly; the Reds hadn't left their siege weapons unmanned. There were in equal measures sniping bow fights and brutal close quarters combat. There were frantic rushes to patch flags captured by a raid before they spawned in more players(the flags were spawn points), and careful parkour sections to bypass large enemy mobs.
The battle raged back and forth across the castle for the whole 20 minutes of the match before finally ending in a draw.
As for the OP:Could you please detail the fall of said Town? I'm sure it will be quite interesting.
Love that server! I use to be 16 on the toplist, but I haven't been playing much anymore.
Now if only the OP will continue his story...
I had recently lost my stuff, and at the most inopportune moment. The lava was rising fast, so I hopped up the nearest tree. Someone was living there.
"Can I come in?" I frantically typed.
"Sure!" And I was let in for the remainder of the round.
For the next 5 rounds, we made houses together, shared resources, and exchanged jokes. We were having a great time.
That is, until the spiders came.
We were walking along, gathering some wood when a group of spiders attacked. We tried to fend them off, but the spiders got to them. I tried to save them, but they kindly denied and sacrificed themselves for me. They were stuck at spawn for the rest of spawn. As a homage to her, I built a large obsidian monument in my survival world. I put flowers by it every day.
Because google is rather sparse on lava survival servers.
If by OP, you mean Admiral Waffles, the server was called "Embarker Towns," later called "Embarker Guilds."
I was in several of Mr. Waffle's factions, at the time. Unfortunately, the server owner, despite being insanely awesome and maintaining the best server I've ever played on, was never recognized by the community, and it went offline, due to lack of donations. The server was expertly balanced (No over powered donations and everyone had equal chances), custom coded, well maintained, and had an awesome community.
Hope that helps set the stage and whatnot.
Oh.
Well, that's a real shame, that. Real shame.
So, do YOU have any stories from the trenches?
We were a relatively peaceful faction with close alliances will all the powerful groups in the region, such as the ones including moderators (Not that they had any advantages, they were just quite skilled) and Waffle's Sparta. Things were pretty chill.
However, the peace couldn't last forever because wars are simply fun.
One member of our faction was killed in the wilderness by a neutral group, Mintaga. We used it as an excuse to declare all out war. With all our connections, we thought it would be simple, especially when all the diamond armored reinforcements showed up from our allies. Though, it seemed our opponents had built quite a secure little castle. Note: Ender Pearls were disabled. We exchanged arrows for a bit and began running out of resources. Therefore, we assumed that our enemies were running out of resources too (Hunger bars had just been added to Minecraft, and everyone hated them). They also couldn't /spawn with members of an enemy faction close by.
We built several small camps at various strategic points: A tree house near the wall, a cliff a hundred or so blocks away, and a tiny fort on a close by island. Gathering resources entertained us for a bit, but our allies soon grew bored and left. We somehow managed to maintain the siege for a day and half (Friday afternoon to Saturday night) because of having players from different timezones, pretending their were more of us than the two half afk players that were usually had outside their wall, and eating any animal within a five hundred block radius.
Eventually, our opponents ran out of food and several of them logged on at once and stormed the three of us that were online. That was a nightmare. I combated them for five or so minutes with a bow from a distance, while my other faction member sprinted sprinted off to somewhere, and the third person, a mercenary we paid with armor and a weapon, simply pledged his allegiance to the enemy (Just like he had to us ).
At this point, I nearly spamming our allies for back up, in between dodging allies.
Finally, a good friend of mine, Whitewhalefish, showed up in iron armor, saw what was happening, and immediately told me their was no chance of victory, and had to leave. We began running through a canyon towards the ocean were he said he left boats, but the leader of the enemy faction leader, Blackreaper, strolled up to one edge of the mountain to our left holding a bucket of lava.
The liquid fire poured down the side, towards us at the bottom of the canyon, slowly cutting off the exit.
Arrows whizzed over our heads as we sprinted towards the boats, barely making it passed the lava.
They tried swimming after us, but we /spawn'd the second we were out of range.
The next day, word around the server was that the other group's farm had been completely empty, and we thought we had almost completed the first "Multi-Day Siege in Minecraft History" (I have no way to check this).
Anyway, we attacked our new rivals on sight for a while after that and seemingly forgot about the conflict when the server map got reset after a month or so.
That's it, I suppose. AdmiralWaffles was hanging around for the first Friday night of the siege, I thing.
That ought to be made into a movie.
Especially the retreat, sounds like something out of Indiana Jones!
I was on defense on an island map, with attackers out to sea in ships. The island had about 5-6 flags, one of which was the imposing Fort Rumrage. And I really do mean imposing. It was three stories about tall on a small cliff, but it still managed to look like an unmovable, cannon totting brick. There were about four invading ships.(Remember that, it's going to be important.)
So we managed(somehow) to beat off the Attackers(Blue this time) off the island. And that's when we got cocky.
We counterattacked their ships. Heck, we succeeded in capturing them, blasted husks though they were when we finally ousted the Blues.
So I had just died and respawned from capturing the last ship, and I'd taken new class(not a donater, so swordsmen for me). I looked at the map board(which maps out which flags were captured, and thus where we could respawn) to get back in and finish off the Blues.
And that's when I saw something that chilled my blood.
All four ships were marked in valiant crimson.
All five or six island positions glared a chilling azure.
We tried to take back the island. What else could we have done?
And we nearly succeeded before the round was over. I think we captured Fort Rumrage in the final two minutes, but by then it was too late to capture more.
Yes, we lost that one. Lost it trying(and succeeding, nearly) to siege our own fort.
Quite the embarrassing end.
Which town was involved in that war? Pre-me or post-me?
Pretty sure you walked around the enemy fort once or twice before returning to Sparta or something.
Edit: Nevermind, I mentioned you in the story.
Double edit: Reply to this if you would like to see a server like that I mentioned in my stories:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1772754-looking-for-a-simple-factions-server/
Of course, that also happens to be where most of the zombies are. Ditto for bandits.
There was this sea-side town I was foraging in when I met another person, who I tried to make friends with. Briefly. He attacked me on sight, pushing me over a fence into the sea. He then had to go the longish way to dive in, though, which gave me a little time to get a head start.
Note to self, never dive when being chased, it slows you down.
Thankfully I had a snowball(In MineZ, throwable zombie lure. More useful than you think!)
I chucked it against a small pier as we passed, attracting over a few zombies onto him. He managed to overcome that, but it gave me enough of a headstart to reach a lighthouse and get inside. I think he was expecting me to run upstairs, because when he came in(I was by the door, with a wooden sword) I managed to get in the first-and last-strikes.
It was exhilarating and scary all the way.