The Boat Wars

The Boat Wars and the Spawn Boat Bombing were the aftermath of the Capture the Flag event, carried out the 25th of April, 2020.

Capture The Flag
The official event started at noon of that day. During this event there was a high number of people connected in the server to play the game.

The game started in a 6 vs 6 by splitting the players into the Fire or Ice teams. Before the game started most players agreed to join the server's Discord voice chat, which makes it the event with the highest amount of players connected to vc at once.

Descent Into Chaos
The first games went normally, with the Fire team getting the most wins, and occasionally some Death Matches were done. It wasn't until the Acacia boat appeared that the chaos began.

The Acacia Boat
Matches before the reshuffling, the Ice team noticed they were in possession of a single Acacia boat, which they used jokingly to fight. This is the boat that would start it all.

After a few matches the Ice team no longer had the boat in sight. After asking where it was the player LookItsGriffin announced that they now had the boat. The Ice team would try to rescue the boat and defend their flag at the same time.

Boat Madness
The Fire team kept winning, and as the game went on, more different boats kept appearing the battlefield to the point a player's inventory will be filled with them and there would still be more to pick up.

After the teams reshuffled the event was no longer organized. People where attacking everyone for the boats, even their own teammates. Some players where fighting without armor or weapons while others just went on a rampage.

Aftermath


More and more obsessed with boats, a certain player took to spawn and build a machine. Ocean being a mad lad he turned on the machine and starting bombing boats everywhere over the spawn castle. In the minutes that followed boats spread everywhere, turning the castle into a ̶B̶a̶l̶l̶  boat pool.

Recycling of Boats
Wanting to clean up spawn, most of these boats were collected by Ocean and Trevoid and put into another fun machine, an OP elytra launcher with over 200 boats, which launched the player east at over 100 blocks per second. Chests of boats were put in the machine and it was almost done. Until Trevoid messed it up, exploding the boats all over. After this small setback they were all collected and put in again, and the elytra launcher was finished.

The Nerfing
After rigorous testing it proved to be a little too powerfull for the server as we saw the tps dropping from 20 to 14. Players feared Juan's wrath and for the reason some boats were taken out until the server was happy again. But it lasted only a week.. The boats taken out, the ruins of the nerfed launcher are still visible today next to the newly build Inn on the road to the Old Hills.

Until this day you can still find boats scattered around spawn, in a silent protest against the tirranical rule of Juan.