Bases

Map 22

The first “real” base since map 19. While we didn’t have lot of public service the base was quite nice inside. Sadly the admins decided to end the map after only 5(?) weeks.

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Map 21

We build a base on the ocean floor. Nothing special.

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Map 20

Really tiny base. No special features :-(

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Map 19

We build a hotel with 7 different rooms. Services included a public skeleton grinder and an end portal. We intended to build a casino in the upper floors but never finished this project.

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Map 18

We build a small base in a modern design. It had a trapped entrance and nightly fireworks.

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Map 17

A nice base build inside a mountain right at the edge of the warzone. Build over the road.

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Map 16

Our first real base since map 13. Probably one of the best base we had:

• Huge indoor pig zombie farm (50 23x23 portals) shared with the public
• A double zombie/skeleton spawner shared with the public
• 2 offsite locations shared with ShadowTrade. One of them was even rentable to any other player.
• A public end portal

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Map 15

Map that ran until Shotbow updated the Lobby to Minecraft 1.7.

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Notable Moments:

• None. We didn’t really play a lot. Missing enchantments on pickaxes made mining to much of a grind. Also the short map time didn’t really motivate us to build a bigger base.

Map 14

This map was supposed to only last one week (it ran for more than six weeks), so we opened the faction to new members and adopted a more casual style of passing the time.

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Notable Moments:

• We built a tower next to Stonehenge KOTH with lots of saferooms, vaults, exchange rooms, a sniper tower (which we used to throw eggs a KOTH) and a public end portal. This made some people unhappy and resulted in KOTH being sanctioned and finally removed by the admins four days before EOTW. This might have been the tipping point on the matter :-)
• New feature: a do-it-yourself base tour.
• We hosted a treasure hunt where players had to find clues using the map to locate the stashed loot.
• We had a detached trading station with saferooms next to palace, but nobody seemed to care or be unhappy about that.
• Giant animals \o/.

Map 13

We accidentally build our biggest base yet. We had 3 spawners (2 x cave spider and one public skeleton farm. We had a gold and iron farm. We offered 6 rentable rooms in a vault system. And lots of other awesome stuff. Oh. And we had 7 beacons, because our claim was so big.

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Notable Moments:

• We got on top of the nether (using a minecart) and built a small additional base there. We played music above the Nether KOTH, but it looks like noone heard us.

Map 12

Our biggest base yet. We build a casino and various automated shops. We posted this base on reddit.

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Notable Moments:

• Our base turned into a reputation farm for players that couldn’t resist noob kills. We build our first sniper tower and tried to stop that. Didn’t really work and we only killed a horse (sorry about that!).
• Our automated trading machines were great and we never had to fetch sand, clay or slimeballs ourselves.

The two diamond entrances lead to two different gambling machines.

The crew just before End of the World happened.

Map 11 (aka Map 10.5)

This map was supposed to run for 1 or 2 weeks before Minecraft 1.6 was released. Our base is a little small, because building a bigger one seemed to be a waste of time for such a short map. The release was delayed and this map ran like 6 weeks.

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Notable Moments:

• We had multiple players living in our rentable room
• Our PvP-ing neighbours were awesome and we even had a tunnel connecting both bases.

There was no spawn road, but noobs still made it to our base.

Our basement. The blue wool is a sky simulation for our animals that live below. The stairs on the right side lead to a rentable room.

Map 10

Our first real base. We integrated nicely into the prebuild road that brought us many noobs from spawn. On the left is our main tower. To the right is our automated food dispenser (that also dispensed a random potion for each 50th dispenser potatoe) and next to the obsidian platform is our automated Starter Kit machine which exchanged a fishing rod for other useful items.

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Notable Moments:

• When we just started we were camped by some diamond guy. Luckily we already had a fall trap installed and pulled the trigger at the right time. He didn’t camp us again and we got our first diamond armor ever :-)
• Strawhats and allied factions protected us from time to time when we were camped (Thanks!).

Roadside shop and trading rooms. We even had a small railway between these rooms and the main tower.

A customer reading our signs.

Map 9

We started late on Map 9 and just build base to learn things. At the very end of the map we discovered the Platypus building - the biggest trading faction - and really liked the idea that you don’t have to PvP on this server if you don’t want to. This was when we decided to run our own Non-PvP Faction.

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