What do you like about Minecraft?
What I enjoy most about Minecraft is the freedom the game allows you to have. A sandbox game as large as Minecraft gives players no correct way to play the game, only ways that are fun. Building, adventuring, pvp'ing, and challenges are all different ways to play the game, but the most alluring to me is the challenge. Although Minecraft is not a challenging game in itself there are many ways for the player to push themselves. Whenever I play Minecraft, my main goal is to build big and build everything. I enjoy pushing myself to make impressive structures and farms within the game.
What do you consider your best skills in Minecraft?: I consider my best skills in Minecraft to be my overall determination and perseverance. I've spent a large portion of my time playing this game on a raiding server where I was the faction leader of a well-respected faction. I was the one responsible for the overall design of the base, the grueling collection of obsidian, sand walls, water walls etc, and when my base was raided (and trust me we were raided or at least attempted frequently) I would always bounce back and make a bigger better base. This mindset carries on with me when I play regular survival and I tend to aim large, as stated before, and really push for every new base to be better than the last.
I also believe myself to be a solid team player that is interested in learning. I'm more than willing to work together with others on projects and help others when they need it. I have what I would consider an above-average understanding of Minecraft, but I know that there is still much more for me to learn about the game, especially on the tech-savvy side. I understand redstone basics and mob spawning and all that jazz, but I really want to learn about the in-depth stuff that allow the people on the zipkrowd server to completely optimize their grinders. How the game code works is what I would like to learn if given the opportunity to play.
*What do you consider your weakness in Minecraft?: Well, nobody is perfect and it wouldn't be fair for me to only highlight myself in a positive manner. If you're going to accept me onto your server then you should know the entire package. Whenever I have play vanilla Minecraft I usually try to build many things by myself, but this requires a large investment of time and typically causes me to burn out quickly (a couple of months). This is why I plan to take a different approach when playing on this server, and that is to focus much more intensely on the community aspect. I'm always friendly and approachable on a server, but I tend to isolate myself from the others in physical distance. I don't want to isolate myself on this server as I have in others because it will needlessly make it more difficult on myself, and instead I want to enjoy the community aspect and work together with everyone even more than I have on other servers.
Why should we let you join Witch Craft?: I believe that you should allow me to join the Witch Craft server because I possess the drive to work hard and contribute. As I mentioned before I was a part of a great faction on a Raid server and everyone there was good friends and we all made our jokes and had a great time. Within that server I would say that I successfully formed a community. Everyone in my faction worked hard towards our goals, and there was nothing I took more pride in on that server than working together with my faction mates and making an awesome, completely legitimate obsidian base consisting of thousands of obsidian blocks. What I'm trying to say is that I love working with a community on large projects and reaping the benefits together. I also know two of your current members, Vmac and Fishy. I played with these two on their own server and enjoyed playing with them because they had a fantastic understand of Minecraft and how to "succeed". I believe I too am one of these types of players and will fit right in with everyone else.
How often will you be playing?: I expect to be able to play at least once a day every day for a couple of hours. I'm currently a senior in high school, and academics do come "first" (Typically last due to procrastination but hey, it gets done right?). Obviously some days will vary due to school, sports, clubs etc.. but I expect to be an active member.
What is your history in Minecraft?:I started playing MC before one had the luxury of a cushy pillow, red-woven blankets, and safety at night, so around Beta 1.3-1.4 If I recall correctly. My actual history within the game and what I've done I'll leave in a spoiler in case you are interested
My History goes something like this: SSP
Friends Vanilla Server
Savage Realms Towny Server- Regular Towny server, this was my first experience with a really large server involving many players. I enjoyed it a great deal, but I prefer a smaller server with a community.
Savage Realms Raids Server - I played on this server for several versions (each version lasting approximately 6 months) I played for almost all of Version 1, and a good deal of Version 3. I was the faction leader of the faction Vortux, and we were a 100% legitimate faction on the server (or at least I pushed everyone in my faction to be legit, but I may have missed some dupers). Such an example is when a admin joined my faction on an alt, and I destroyed his entire stash of Sharp 4 duped swords he was allowed due to his status as admin because I believe in fair play. Anyways, I was heavily active on this server for a large portion of my Minecraft life.
Redux Survival Server - This is where I met Vmac and Fishy, two members that are currently apart of your server. I think I played on here for about a month or so until eventually I got burnt-out from playing too much MC and decided to take a break.
Fall Damage UHC - When I came back to MC after my break I joined another vanilla server, except this one had the UHC plug-in. I'm not sure exactly how long I played on this server for, but it eventually died out when the owner mysteriously vanished. We're still not quite sure where he went.
I haven't played MC after Fall Damage so this will hopefully be the next server on my list.
Give us an example(s) of your Minecraft creations; builds, redstone creations, screenshots, videos?: Unfortunately this is really tricky for me. I don't play SSP because I "need" to play with other people, and as a result all of my creations are on past servers that I have played on. Also, I don't tend to take screenshots because I assume that my creations will be there the next time I log on. I do have some builds from a long time ago that "showcase" some of what I built, but I can assure you I know more than what these offer. Anyways here are some screenshots that are over a year old.
The obsidian related pictures are apart of my faction base and the other was a small portion of my base on the survival server. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of the finished product as the survival server is down, and I'm not longer apart of the raid server.
Note, I pulled these pictures straight from my application to the Redux server because I do not posses any new pictures of anything I've built.
Write a paragraph (or paragraphs) about yourself? Well, I would like to make mention that I have created many different variants of minecraft farms. Automatic wheat farms, cocoa farms, blaze grinders, endermen grinder, item grinder, villager-breeding and trading stations etc.
Outside of Minecraft I'm an "academically-talented" student. I'm pretty excited to be accepted into all of my colleges that I applied to (Including Carnegie Mellon University and Northeastern University, if you know about them then you'll know they are well-respected universities). I'm a varsity captain of the tennis team at my school, and chess team, but all that school-related stuff is boring. I've been playing on computers since I was 2, and I've been playing video games from age 4, so they've been a big part of my life. I hope to major in computer engineering and work in the field of video game design/development if possible. I also enjoy and respect athleticism in general as well as Parkour. I consider myself a jack-of-all-trades kind of a person. I'm fairly good at a lot of different things, but I can always find a friend who is better than me in at least one.
Any other questions you may have: I do have questions, but I'll learn the answers if given the opportunity to join the server. Otherwise the questions can just be tossed away if rejected.
* = Added the question into the application
Well, I hope that you guys find me a good fit, and maybe Vmac and Fishy will chip in a good word . Thanks for reviewing, I hope it wasn't too length as it took me quite awhile to write haha. (I hope I didn't miss one of those 'put oranges are great in your application' types of requirements. I checked the post like 3-4 times looking for one, but couldn't find it, would suck to get denied for that)
-Rie
Riewelll! Haven't heard from you in ages! Glad to see you back!
I have been looking to get involved in a server like this! Love this about ZipKrowd. So many Mindcrack ones!
Name: Landon
IGN: F1shyBanana_36 (Made it a while ago. Can't wait for that name changing!)
Timezone and Country: United States, and I am currently UTC -5 until daylight savings time ends. Then I will be UTC -6.
Do you plan on recording on the server? I may or may not. It really all is up to my inspiration. I might do server tours once a week or similar. My upload is fairly slow for my standards. It is around half a megabyte when uploading.
What do you like about Minecraft? I like the openness of it. The ability to do whatever you want when you want. I can hop on a PvP server and do that for a bit or I can hop on my SSP and do some repetitive stuff while watching some YouTube. The feeling you get after completing a build is also something that keeps me going as well. The pride I felt after completing momentous builds on my own is just great. The quick hop on for it is also a feature I love. That is really something that keeps from playing stuff like Battlefield 4. You have to wait ages just for the game to load.
What do you consider your best skills in Minecraft? When I started playing Minecraft, I usually considered myself a builder but have really transformed to a big farm guy. I pride my farms in being massive and efficient while still maintaining great style. I think I have converted to a big farm guy because of the fact that I can watch YouTube or movies while I do repetitive stuff which is great for me. The thing about building those giant farms is you do not really have to pay a lot of attention to building them as you would if you were building a house or something else. When you build a house, you really have to focus on the design of it and don't want to be too distracted. I have done some just builds without the reason of covering a farm or something and I can definitely say it was not nearly as enjoyable as making a farm. I guess I could say my best skill overall would have to be making farms with a nice polished look. I can get the farm done quickly cause it basically it just like watching TV, and building with a purpose.
Why should we let you join WitchCraft? I do meet the requirements you have stated. I also feel my devotion to Minecraft could be benefit all of the members. I play loads everyday and basically is what I fill my time with after school stuff has been taken care of. Time is a very essential element when it comes to what we do on this server as most of the projects will most likely take loads of it. I feel because I have so much of it, I can help the server out a lot. Also, I do consider myself a fair person to a have a debate with and try to focus on solving the problem instead of taking out other issues and off topic stuff, which I have noticed loads of people tend to do, me included sometimes. So I feel conflicts can be resolved very easily through me. That may sound a bit self centered but I do not intend it to be in the least the best.
How often will you be playing? As I have stated before, I can play a lot. My life has been consumed by my PC in the last two years. Between Reddit, Tinkering with my PC, and Minecraft, I am almost always on when not at school. I have put at least 5000+ hours into this game. The summer is almost all the time except when I have sports and hanging out with friends a bit.
What is your Minecraft history? I found out about Minecraft on my own when I discovered in the Google Play store. I faintly remember building my cobblestone castle. Also, Not knowing how to get rid of water in my underwater tunnel. Good times. I then switched to PC when I built my own around late 2012. I really did build the PC for Minecraft though. I then found out about Mindcrack while looking through prank videos on Youtube. Loved them to this day and they introduced to ZipKrowd. Been apart of many Mindcrack servers but want a change to ZipKrowd.
Give us an example(s) of your Minecraft creations; builds; redstone creations; screenshots; videos? Here is an album full of my SSP accomplishments: http://imgur.com/a/3zcnA
Write a paragraph (or paragraphs) about yourself: I live in Minnesota so you can get some of my Minnesota Nice! I am in 8th grade. Bit old for it but whatever. I play one sport and otherwise lift year round. American Football is that sport. I play line on D and O if you care. My favorite subject is school is Math. I plan on probably being a programmer when I am older, Maybe making indie games on the side. Anything with computers will be fine for me however.
Any questions you may have? Nope! Learned about the server from Macaulay. Hope you see this quick and like it!
I am looking for someone to make me a Banner and Logo for my Youtube channel. My Minecraft name is "F1shyBanana_36" without the quotes. My skin is Chewbacca. I just want a sort of cartoony picture of the skin. I want him in a sort of pool or hot tub with Aviaters on and a tequila glass. I want him leaning against the side of the pool with his arms over the sides. The banner can really just be the word 'FishyGames' with a white background. Make sure it complys with the size requirements of Youtube!
If any of you can do this, I will be very thankful!
IGN: F1shyBanana_36
Age: 13
Will you follow the rules: Yes. They seem to be reasonable.
Why You: I play a lot of FTB and know the most of the mods. Even when reaching endgame I try and find other things to do to challenge myself. I like Gregtech for this reason because it makes me have to slow down a bit and I dont get to endgame as quick. I enjoy playing with others and I have gotten quite sick of playing in SSP.
How often can or will you be on: I am in Middle school so I usually can not get on in the morning but in the afternoon, I get on. I usually play all afternoon as rarely have more than one homework assignment. Do you work well with others: I try to be kind to one another. Do you tend to rage, and if so, towards what: I have never raged in Minecraft or FTB ever. If say, I blew up a ton of machines, I would usually just end up staring at the screen and getting off for the rest of the day, but I always come back the next day with inspiration.
Note: Friend of vMacaulayyyx and played on the same Vanilla server as him and Cow.
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Riewelll! Haven't heard from you in ages! Glad to see you back!
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Name: Landon
IGN: F1shyBanana_36 (Made it a while ago. Can't wait for that name changing!)
Timezone and Country: United States, and I am currently UTC -5 until daylight savings time ends. Then I will be UTC -6.
Do you plan on recording on the server? I may or may not. It really all is up to my inspiration. I might do server tours once a week or similar. My upload is fairly slow for my standards. It is around half a megabyte when uploading.
What do you like about Minecraft? I like the openness of it. The ability to do whatever you want when you want. I can hop on a PvP server and do that for a bit or I can hop on my SSP and do some repetitive stuff while watching some YouTube. The feeling you get after completing a build is also something that keeps me going as well. The pride I felt after completing momentous builds on my own is just great. The quick hop on for it is also a feature I love. That is really something that keeps from playing stuff like Battlefield 4. You have to wait ages just for the game to load.
What do you consider your best skills in Minecraft? When I started playing Minecraft, I usually considered myself a builder but have really transformed to a big farm guy. I pride my farms in being massive and efficient while still maintaining great style. I think I have converted to a big farm guy because of the fact that I can watch YouTube or movies while I do repetitive stuff which is great for me. The thing about building those giant farms is you do not really have to pay a lot of attention to building them as you would if you were building a house or something else. When you build a house, you really have to focus on the design of it and don't want to be too distracted. I have done some just builds without the reason of covering a farm or something and I can definitely say it was not nearly as enjoyable as making a farm. I guess I could say my best skill overall would have to be making farms with a nice polished look. I can get the farm done quickly cause it basically it just like watching TV, and building with a purpose.
Why should we let you join WitchCraft? I do meet the requirements you have stated. I also feel my devotion to Minecraft could be benefit all of the members. I play loads everyday and basically is what I fill my time with after school stuff has been taken care of. Time is a very essential element when it comes to what we do on this server as most of the projects will most likely take loads of it. I feel because I have so much of it, I can help the server out a lot. Also, I do consider myself a fair person to a have a debate with and try to focus on solving the problem instead of taking out other issues and off topic stuff, which I have noticed loads of people tend to do, me included sometimes. So I feel conflicts can be resolved very easily through me. That may sound a bit self centered but I do not intend it to be in the least the best.
How often will you be playing? As I have stated before, I can play a lot. My life has been consumed by my PC in the last two years. Between Reddit, Tinkering with my PC, and Minecraft, I am almost always on when not at school. I have put at least 5000+ hours into this game. The summer is almost all the time except when I have sports and hanging out with friends a bit.
What is your Minecraft history? I found out about Minecraft on my own when I discovered in the Google Play store. I faintly remember building my cobblestone castle. Also, Not knowing how to get rid of water in my underwater tunnel. Good times. I then switched to PC when I built my own around late 2012. I really did build the PC for Minecraft though. I then found out about Mindcrack while looking through prank videos on Youtube. Loved them to this day and they introduced to ZipKrowd. Been apart of many Mindcrack servers but want a change to ZipKrowd.
Give us an example(s) of your Minecraft creations; builds; redstone creations; screenshots; videos? Here is an album full of my SSP accomplishments: http://imgur.com/a/3zcnA
Write a paragraph (or paragraphs) about yourself: I live in Minnesota so you can get some of my Minnesota Nice! I am in 8th grade. Bit old for it but whatever. I play one sport and otherwise lift year round. American Football is that sport. I play line on D and O if you care. My favorite subject is school is Math. I plan on probably being a programmer when I am older, Maybe making indie games on the side. Anything with computers will be fine for me however.
Any questions you may have? Nope! Learned about the server from Macaulay. Hope you see this quick and like it!
-Fishy
Edit: Forgot age. I am 15.
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Alt, I am not Landon. Go back to the Netherlands.
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If any of you can do this, I will be very thankful!
Youtube channel if you would like to see: https://www.youtube.com/user/FishyGames36
Also, My skin thing if you need it: http://imgur.com/pDjatd1
Thanks!
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Age: 13
Will you follow the rules: Yes. They seem to be reasonable.
Why You: I play a lot of FTB and know the most of the mods. Even when reaching endgame I try and find other things to do to challenge myself. I like Gregtech for this reason because it makes me have to slow down a bit and I dont get to endgame as quick. I enjoy playing with others and I have gotten quite sick of playing in SSP.
How often can or will you be on: I am in Middle school so I usually can not get on in the morning but in the afternoon, I get on. I usually play all afternoon as rarely have more than one homework assignment.
Do you work well with others: I try to be kind to one another.
Do you tend to rage, and if so, towards what: I have never raged in Minecraft or FTB ever. If say, I blew up a ton of machines, I would usually just end up staring at the screen and getting off for the rest of the day, but I always come back the next day with inspiration.
Note: Friend of vMacaulayyyx and played on the same Vanilla server as him and Cow.