JSheets3219 and Sebastian would often play private hardcore worlds. These were simple servers that had one simple rule, if either of us died, they would delete the entire world. Often times, their drunk friends (like TheTube) would join and instantly die, making them restart the world. Jsheets expressed an interest in making a server with Sebastian. They both agreed to pay a small bit a month for a (really shitty at the time) VPS.
Shortly before release
Testing the Server
Before the server was officially released, JSheets3219 and Sebastian (and possibly other friends?) played the server for a day privately. Sadly, the entire server got accidentally deleted by Sebastian. This was a good sign for Sebastian to setup backups for the official server.
Feb 4 2022
Sebastian and his friends mining
Official Release
On Feb 4 2022, around 4:00PM (MT) the server was officially released to the public.
It was running Paper on Minecraft version 1.18.1
Originally, you could actually /revive to sacrifice your life to revive another person.
There was a basic "rank" system, but it was purely cosmetic and earned through /vote (there's no vote menu anymore)
I don't think at the time, anyone really thought much of the server. Even the people who created it weren't aware of how long it would last.
First day shenanigans
The first 10 players to join on this day were (chronologically in Mountain Time)
(Honorable mention to legit_taco at 23:05:38 for being Sebastian's friend and JSheets3219 who would not end up joining til Feb 5 at 12:48:51)
The first day was mainly, as you would expect, uneventful with players joining/leaving, some staying for a bit. A lot of them commenting on the ungriefed spawn. JayDay420SebastianJeffBoyardeeTheTube and legit_taco all setup a small temporary base at 24,87,18 and got diamond tools.
There was a ton of shit-talking in chat from Sebastian's friends with some of the nerdy randoms that would come in.
You can read The First 3 Days of Chat.
Feb 7 2022
bruisemcguuch Joins
On Feb 7 2022 @ 12:24:31 (MT), bruisemcguuch joins the server. She talks a bit with Sebastian and his friends and invites Sebastian to check out her base. Another notable player to join on this day is Sebastian's friend Candyman2382.
JeffBoyardee continues work on his base. Sebastian and his friends & bruisemcguuch all chat about college life, weed, programming, and Minecraft. At this point in server history, the /revive is being abused pretty hard. Players find out that they can just go on Omegle and beg people to come onto the server and /revive them with their life.
Feb 10 2022
Some things never change
BigDoinksDude Joins
On Feb 7 2022 @ 13:39:13 (MT), Sebastian's friend BigDoinksDude joins the server. Jsheets, JeffBoyardee, TheTube, BigDoinksDude, Candyman2382, Sebastian, and bruisemcguuch have all been hanging out and chatting. bruisemcguuch joins VC in Discord with Sebastian and his friends. Together they all try and help out (and also mess with) new players that come and go. A lot of new players are still joining the server, at least for brief moments. The server is quite popular from being newly listed on so many server listing websites, and Sebastian and his friends (including now bruisemcguuch) using the /vote.
Feb 11 2022
Server lagging a bit with very little playersDevo Flower
KrispyBudz Joins
On Feb 11 2022 @ 00:08:19 (MT), Sebastian's brother KrispyBudz joins the server. He doesn't play for very long, but he does break a flower at spawn and throw it to Sebastian. Since that day, Sebastian has had an Allium flower named "devo flower" that he thought was that flower. But now that he is writing this and viewing KrispyBudz's Stats he can see that he broke a Cornflower which at this point, must have been lost to time. Other than that, nothing too notable happened that day, other than someone with a bunch of bot accounts joining at once and populating the server for a brief few moments.
At this point, some of the limitations of the cheap VPS that was being used to host the server were becoming obvious. Chunks generated very slow, and with a small amount of players at different parts of the world, the TPS would start to dip. It was seeming like there would need to be a significant upgrade soon.
Feb 13 2022
Sebastian's Birthday Block from Bruise
Sebastian's Birthday
On this day, it was Sebastian's birthday. After spending some time with his family, he came onto Minecraft and was greeted by a little birthday surprise from bruisemcguuch who he had been basing with. There was a gold block, with a cake on it, and some signs wishing him happy birthday. To this day, he still has that gold block. Sebastian's other friends are still actively playing on the server, working on their bases, or hanging out at bruisemcguuch's base with Sebastian and her. Some common questions of people joining:
"Are hacks allowed?"
"Who is the owner?"
"Is there anti-xray?"
"Why isn't spawn griefed?"
Feb 27 2022
Chucky1236 Joins the Server for the First Time Chucky1236 joins the server for a brief period, says "hello". There doesn't seem to be anyone else online. He quits and rejoins a few times. Chucky1236 wouldn't join and play for awhile (until Apr 30), but unknown to everyone, this was the beginning of something huge, that would revolutionize the server forever.
Mar 14 2022
The 420,420 Friendship Center is Built
To this point, the server is running with quite a few people coming and going. bruisemcguuch, JSheets, and Sebastian are all playing fairly regularly. The /revive is largely being abused, whenever any of the Brogres die they typically will just go on Omegle and beg for someone with a Minecraft account to come on and revive them. There are a few notable randoms that have been somewhat consistently joining also.
On Mar 14 2022, bruisemcguuch completes the first iteration of the The 420,420 Friendship Center. It's a new location that players just spawning in can easily get to for safety, equipment, and farms. The center of it is perfectly aligned with 420,420.
Mar 24 2022
Community map art
The Community Map Art is Started bruisemcguuch and Sebastian had spent a lot of time working on clearing out an area for a community map art. For some reason, they chose to dig out a massive area instead of just building over the water. It took them multiple days of work, but they had finally got the area cleared. This would be somewhere all of the server members could come together and work on a collage of pixel art for map art. The area included a rainbow assortment of sheep you could easily farm. It would actually significantly raise the MSPT just being in the area with all of the sheep. To start off the map art, Sebastian made a stoned panda, a top Windows 98 style window bar, an orthographic grassy field, with outer-space above. bruisemcguuch made a pixel-art hot girl winking.
Apr 8 2022
The Ender Dragon is Slain by Adamant21x and Llamas4potatos
On this day, Adamant21x and Llamas4potatos slay the Ender Dragon for the first time on the server. Adamant21x had been preparing for awhile to be prepared to kill it, and LLamas4potatos had just joined that day and decided to team up with him. Despite Adamant21x being the one who basically did all the work preparing, Llamas4potatos quickly stole the egg sayings "dibs" and logged off with the egg. What a greedy bitch. There use to be screenshots of this event that Adamant21x had posted to the Discord, but since the old Discord was eventually deleted, they are probably lost to time.
Note: Some of the advancement dates on their player stats might not accuratelty reflect dates, as advancements were at first on for the server, then turned off, then re-enabled sometime around Apr 20 2022.
Apr 18 2022
Sebastian Trading For End Island Flooding
The Server is Upgraded to a Dedicated Server Sebastian finally upgrades the server to a proper bare-metal dedicated server. It was hosted in Canada from Kimsufi. It was much better than the previous VPS, and only $30/month. It ran the server great, and all of the performance issues experienced earlier were entirely gone. On this day, Sebastian also traded a new player PikachuAwsome an Elytra and rockets to help flood the End Island.
Apr 19 2022
Horizon Anarchy AdBot
Horizon Anarchy Goes Down
On this day, Horizon Anarchy went down (for one reason or another). Leading to players joining from Horizon, including ACEMonkeys, Brazen_Judgement, qjamq, HeyJuchum, MaybeNebula, StarTurtle43. As soon as they joined, they were instantly in a shitty mood. They complained that the server was Pay2Win, Vote2Win, and argued the heads could be used to crash the server (what..?). They also got really upset about the colored wool that had been placed at spawn, claiming it made the server not true anarchy. So, bruisemcguuch, Sebastian, NormBugerKing, and Jsheets, all trolled them and played into it.
In reality, there was voting rewards, but purely cosmetic rank titles, colored signs, things of that nature. But the Horizon Anarchy boys were salty that their shitty server hosted had gone down because TheHorizonMC forgot to pay his server bill. ACEMonkeys, Brazen_Judgement, and some others would continue to join the server for awhile, mainly just to bitch and moan about random stuff because their main Horizon Anarchy server wasn't entertaining enough for them.
Apr 20 2022
Advancements Lost
A restart at some point had everyone's advancements wiped, including the dragon killer's. Llamas4potatos lost his temporary base at the portal near 1500 -200 to thieves, and then lost his gear to falling.
May 2022
Sebastian, bruisemcguuch, Jsheets clear out trees around spawn. For a short period, it was setup that you would get an extra life when first joining for 10 minutes, to stop people from instant dying. On May 7th, Chucky1236 and Jsheets fought in chat literally all day until Chucky wrote: "if i ever you too i fucking kill you and bruisemcguuch Sebastian420". A Discord bridge was added to the server.
June 2022
Chucky1236 reigns as king on the server. Sebastian set up a lag machine on his own server, and was crashing other server with bruisemcguuch. Chucky1236 and Jsheets continue beefing. On Jun 14 JSheets offered "an elytra and stack of diamonds" for Chucky's head, and on Jun 15 at 01:01 he wrote "I am the king now. the rain of chucky has ended!!!" The server moved from 1.18.2 to 1.19 on Jun 14. Sebastian420 and bruisemcguuch then spent days on mangrove swamps, frogs and villager farms until a warden killed both on Jun 16. The end of June was busier with Sebastian420 busy with summer classes and moving.
2023
Date
Event
January 2023
In an effort led by TheAcidWitch13, bruisemcguuch, and Sebastian beging building a nether highway. Some notable players have arrived by now, including Augustusir and sandwichcultist. This is also the month that LIDE makes his first appearance spamming the server. Towards the end of the month, House5tark flew a boat on a flying machine into the End, to retrieve an elytra and shulkers. A server vote between what the next server should bring, ends up having Skyblock Anarchy winning by a hair, and a one-year anniversary is planned for Feb. 4th.
Feb 2023
Around Feb 4th 2023, 8 people gather at 666,666 near spawn for the one-year party. MadX_5 and Sebastian420 died in the pit and both got three-day bans. bruisemcguuch told the chat: "keep it together FOR ONE DAY for the kids god damn it." In the middle of the month, the server's first massive obsidian farm is made to help fuel the highways. TheAcidWitch13 and sandwichcultist moved a large obsidian stash into a shared storage room on February 19
March 2023
TheAcidWitch13 continues to expand highways, getting the East 0-axis highway past 3,000 blocks, and earning the chat prefix "Trailblazer". Sebastian420 used his spring break to code the companion Skyblock server.
July 2023
y2kfantasy is a dedicated presence around spawn, restoring nearby villages, stocking starter chests, and constructing builds such as castles and an arched azaela garden. Players are enjoying the 1.20.1 update, putting trims onto their armor and exploring archaeology. On July 15, newcomer easy_play complained that the server was inactive and asked for a world reset, prompting Sebastian420 to dismiss it as the "dumbest shit ive heard all day.". On July 25, AcidMerman returned from an End expedition with 14 elytras and assisted y2kfantasy with raising a skyward castle and bridges above the spawn lavacasts.
September 2023
Late on September 29, Sebastian, Augustusir, and sandwichcultist shared drinks and long conversations discussing life stress, college struggles, and Sebastian's plans for a communal base dubbed Rasta Pandas.
