Player:Saberfysh
Saberfysh, also known colloquially on the server as "saber", appeared on Rev.10 of the Reddit Public PvE server circa November 2012, where he seems to exist exclusively on. He was first known as a citizen of Port 80 in Rev.10 under the guidance of Loganran and PopeAdam and wrote the first book on the history of Port 80, multiple copies of which can be found across the world in Rev.10 under the name "Port 80 Journal." By Rev.11 he was appointed a mayor of Port 80 and became involved in supplying and assisting public works such as roads and services. He was also the successor of Port 80's Rev.9 Drunk'n Pumpkin Bar & Pub, running the building from Rev.10 all the way to Rev.14, serving food & drinks to tourists.
By Rev. 15, he became a world citizen, digging rail tunnels, rescuing starving noobs and running trade routes between multiple cities. This was also the same time he joined Solace as a dragonslayer and started the Caledonia Mining Colony (CMC), complete with backstory that ties into the original lore of the Unity spaceship first conceived by PAdmin buzzie71.
List of Activities
Rev.10
- Built Port 80 Drunk'n Pumpkin Bar&Pub V2
- Participated in Port 80 Quadruple Wither Fight
- Built Port 80 City Billboard
- Built Port 80 Lighthouse
- Moved into Port 80 Tower apartments, 3rd floor.
- Interior Design for Port 80 Tower Lobby, Gift Shop, Lounge & Restaurant
- Funded Pearl Islands railway project
- Interior Design for Loganran's mansion and various offices
- Donated Gold and Glowstone to Tsitrin
- Wrote Book: "Port 80 Journal"
- Donated Wool to Rose City's flower wall
- Gave food and city tours to countless noobs
- Worked on Miogre's sandstone cliff house
- Built Port 80 Fireworks Tower for Marcus & Muffin Munitions Inc.
Rev.11
- Built Port 80 Factory
- Built Port 80 Drunk'n Pumpkin Bar&Pub V3
- Participated in Port 80 Sticks-only Wither Fight
- Funded iron blocks and obsidian for the Port 80 Nightclub
- Funded birch and snow for Port 80 Office Tower
- Donated Redstone to the Golden Gate Bridge
- Built roads for Port 80 West Commercial District
- Worked on Miogre's Library Manor
- Moved into Port 80 South Apartments, 10th floor.
- Built Port 80 7-11 Convenience Store
- Collected Jungle Leaves for Port 80 Jurassic Spleef Park
- Dug rail lines to Argoth and Seneca
- Funded quartz for Port 80 Lighthouse
Rev.12
- Built Port 80 Basecamp
- Built Port 80 Train Station
- Paved main roads near City Center
- Built Port 80 Drunk'n Pumpkin Bar&Pub V4
- Renovated Port 80 Hotel
- Donated clay to Port 80 Venice district
- Dug rail lines to Spawn & Pico
- Funded quartz for the Church of Miogrelism
- Built southeast public housing projects
- Funded sandstone for Sutolotus Tower
- Paved water at Port 80 Spleef Arena
- Built Port 80 Ender Pearl Shop
- Decorated the Port 80 train station's rainbow PARTY HARD drop tunnel
- Participated in Port 80 Shovels & Hoes Wither Fight
- Woodcutting duties for Kalmos' CARBON rail line
- Built Port 80 Goodwill Armor Shop
- Donated massive wood to a girl in Demacia
- Dug rail lines to Alias and Baktun
- Built house in Southern Venice District
- Wrote Port 80 Journal #2
Rev.13
- Built Port 80 Basecamp
- Built Port 80 Factory
- Invented a quad-core Furnace Cube
- Donated 11 stacks of redstone blocks to the CARBON rail system
- Built Port 80 Drunk'n Pumpkin Bar&Pub V5
- Built Port 80 Ender Pearl Shop
- Built Port 80 City Metro Line
- Decorated Nether Portal Rail line
- Defeated Argoth 5-1 in a spleef match with fishing4monkeys and ghrey303
- Funded wool for Port 80 Potion Shop
- Installed city streetlamps
- Hauled ice blocks from the Ice Machine west of Rose City
- Funded glass for Port 80 Post Office and the North Tristram Automation Tower
- Linked rail lines to Moria Village and Glothek's Giant Cruise Ship
- Dug 3600 block DEEPS rail line to Spawn
- Participated in Port 80 Wither Fight
- Completed northern seaside pier with fishing4monkeys
- Expanded City Metro to South Lake and North Shore residential
- Funded materials for the Minecraft Travel Aid (MTA) branch office
- Fetched dogs from Seneca Granary
Rev.14
- Built Port 80 Town Storage and Fountain
- Terraformed Port 80 City Centre
- Built Port 80 Crop Tower
- Donated 6 stacks of redstone blocks to the CARBON rail system
- Built house next to Port 80 Rail Station
- Built Port 80 Drunk'n Pumpkin Bar&Pub V6
- Built Port 80 Horse Parkade, Armor shop & Enderpearl Vending Machine
- Donated meat to Rose City
- Cooked 7 double chests of stone with the double furnace cube
- Dug rail lines for Port 80 Metro
- Decorated Port 80 End Portal tunnel
- Funded Red clay for Miogre's Quartz Amphitheatre
- Converted zifnab06's Zigloo from dirt into ice
- Built 'Kimagure Orange Rose' cottage in Rose City
- Built automated Pumpkin machine in Whiteoak
- Completed Skyrim Quest: DaemonDexter's Final Moments; received half worn diamond pickaxe and sword
- Donated 5 stacks of rails and 20 stacks of glass to Narissis for the noRTh Rail System project
- Traded 2 saddles to gilmanboy1 for one Skeleton Horse
- Built 'Nittouryu no Kyousan-ya' house in Argoth
- Donated 12 stacks of bricks to Argoth
- Completed the Port 80 Iron Grinder Tower
- Donated sandstone and redstone blocks to La Sable
- Donated ice to Freyhill's cardinal road project
- Donated glass, redstone, gold, rails and stone to Millenia Systems' noRTh rail project
- Completed zifnab06's Port 80 Zigloo
Rev.15
- Built crash shuttle in mountain valley
- Slayed the Enderdragon in 7 hours with Solace and friends
- Donated a stack of slime to Solace
- Built Caledonia Mining Colony
- Built rail line to spawn, then to Tizadrienne Estates
- Built cottage in Argoth NW rural district
- Donated 7 stacks of redstone blocks to CARBON
- Built rail line to Haven in exchange for horses
- Built Post Office and mansion in Tsitrin
- Built Watch tower in Rose City
- Donated 12 stacks of clay to Rose City
- Funded 17 stacks of red clay to Miogre's underground ruins
- Had photoshoot with buzzie71 in the Caledonia Mining Colony meeting hall
- Shipped 51 stacks of glass to Solace
- Traded Fortune and Silk touch picks in exchange for a beacon
- Funded 3 double chests of black wool for the End Spleef Spire
Quotable Quotes
- "Damn creepers, GET OFF MY RAIL!"
- "I guess Logan is allergic to Minecraft Communism."
- "Put your sword in her pumpkin pie."
- "DEMACIA!!"
- "The server will crash if you don't give PubliusCanis enough cobbles."
- "Here's some derp. Now climb!"
- "Oh god. Faceplant."
- "You know Thrawn, it's really sad when people are stealing dirt and torches from the town storage."
- "Barfing Potatoes!"
- "Noooo, YumYumSticks!"
- "PARTY HARD PARTY HARD!"
- "Meanwhile, I'm surrounded by about 30 chickens and none of them will lay eggs. LAY, god damn you!"
- "Epic lag."
- "Feather Falling boots -- no more construction mishaps."
- "Zomg, dimminds!"
- "Azunyan~"
- "Trust in the power of Sutolotus."
- "Restart. REPLANT!"
- "After all that wood I splurged into her, yes. Oh yes."
- "This Pumpkin Pie isn't alcoholic enough!"
- "Ceiling totemo is watching you."
- "Lol you crashed the emerald market."
- "No please, faker-senpai!"
- "Damnit rain!"
- "Bacon strips and bacon strips, and bacon strips..."
- "I feel like I just completed a Skyrim quest."
- "Yeah, if people didn't open my gate and let out all my horses, that'd be great."
- "Hello Comcast! Beat it with a stick."
- "We build nukes every other rev just to stroke the Argoth/Brom rivalry."
- "Hail mooshroom!"
- "Level 16? You don't even have runes."
- "Your privilege level is SHITLORD with a score of 145."
- "Get Flumped."
Book: Port 80 Journal (Rev.10)
The Journal of Saberfysh Port 80 Citizen
-Nov 12 2012-
After spending the first 3 days wandering at the base camps of the main cities flooded with people and chests of raw materials, I have decided to settle down at Port 80 after speaking to the mayor, Loganran. It all started with me wandering around spawn as people came and went, frantically building dirt forts and finding food, basically minding their own business in the starting days of the world. While most leaders were missing or didn't care about me, Logan was this quiet mayor standing on top of a partially built city hall and greeted me personally. I didn't know much about the previous world, but he and his delegates PopeAdam and MisterKrabs were probably the most decent people I had met up to that point. They were friendly, peaceful, and demonstrated intelligence that was hard to find during my initial wanderings on PVE rev10. Up to that point I had only heard about how political the big cities were with each other, especially Brom. Port 80 was the peaceful small town by the ocean free from all the chaos, where everybody knew each other and there was a sense of deep friendship amongst the folk coming from the previous world, PVE rev9.
Being happy with the location and the people, I asked Logan if I could settle here and make a Seaside Bar&Pub near the hill facing the shore. He approved. As soon as I made a plot, random kiddies circled around me and set me on fire. I was like "WTF" until Logan came over and explained that in PVE9 they had a bar called the 'Drunkin Pumpkin' and that people had excited yet high expectations for the building. I was a bit nervous, but had an idea they'd be proud of.
The next morning after finishing the exterior of the pub, I heard that Seneca and some others had found the End Portal and had slain the Ender Dragon. Talk about fast... and here I was still farming bricks, lol. It was at this time unfortunately that Port 80's beaches were being griefed and looted. Most people had no idea how much dirt/cobble/sand I went digging for just to keep the city stocked and repaired. The sand theft got so bad we put in some grief modreq and I ended up putting sand into a dedicated box just for mayor Loganran so he can finish building his house. But that wasn't all. Denbert, Hans, and pom32456 all got robbed the following week, leading to some tough times and tighter vigilance. I just kept digging, knowing that everybody needed it as much as I did. I even said to thrawn21 (admin) that it's kinda sad how people will steal SAND and DIRT. Happens every rev, she said.
Despite that I eventually finished the interior of the Bar & Pub, and opened up for business. Everybody loved it, from residents to travelers. The guy handling Port 80's farms, that_fish_dude, helped me with finding music discs and installed my very first food dispensers. We sat there at the bar, with Port 80 Graggy Ice, Loganran Honey Mead, Coldstream Winter Lager, and Krabs' Red Ale all on tap in 4 different colours, drinking... bottled water. We laughed and said that one day we'll get a brewing stand and sell people REAL drinks. And so we will, my friend. We will.
-Dec 15 2012-
We're about a month into the rev now. Things are finally starting to settle down. Most of the major cities have laid down nether rail lines and local lines to small villages, although some here at Port 80 aren't done yet. This place is just like a feel-good MMORPG. You don't trade with villagers, you trade with people, with anything, for anything. You can trade a saddle for diamonds, even. Every act of kindness begets kindness in return. An admin once said to us that not only are we all "carebears" compared to the other servers, we're at times even more creative than some people on the creative server! Some of the veterans and mods had built these absolutely genius contraptions to grind ender pearls, blazes, and iron golems, that it blows my mind away how they even figured out a design for these things.
I also forgot to mention my encounter with PubliusCanis, the guy who made that epic skull in the desert and got it posted famously on Reddit a few months back. According to him it took roughly 138,000 cobbles to make it, which is close to 39 double chests full of rock. Respect, bro. Respect. He was a cobble-skinned man, dressed in diamond armor and elicited tributes in the form of people barfing up cobbles when they saw him. He is the Chuck Norris of cobble. No joke.This time of course he decided on building the Statue of Liberty off the shores of Port 80, which I felt was a great honor to behold. He eventually became a Port 80 citizen, making the town about 35-40 people.
One of the kids I met on Day 1 named xxDriztenxx apparently made it big. He found a mycelium island, the rarest biome, 800 blocks away from spawn. He has now claimed the entire island, naming it Kanada. I never thought he would get that far.
Back at Port 80, work was underway on building a villager breeder and a spleef arena, so we can dig each other out. I kept promising AleaMinerva that I would help her mine, but when MisterKrabs said we were going to have a QUADRUPLE wither arena battle on saturday, I spent most of that time brewing health potions in preparation.
The night before, the admins held a hunting contest at spawn, basically a multi-stage obstacle course to capture the fictional villain Dr.Sign, in exchange for a glowstone prize. Rev7 had a similar thing called the 5K. I died over 40 times before giving up. It was worth a try; glowstone was rare because the big cities took most of it. Wellspring's mayor, Ozomahtlii, won after 6 hours.
We gathered later that day, loaded with potions and weapons to fight the Wither boss in our battle arena. Our combined strength crushed the Wither in less than a minute, and the Nether Star we looted became Port 80's Town Hall Beacon.
Around this period, Hans also moved away from Port 80, to travel the world and write books. With the Town Beacon in place, I turn my eye to finding the rest of the music discs. Even now as I write, I'm chilling on the 2nd floor of the pub listening to the latest addition to the jukebox. "far."
Sometimes we spend so much time building and scurrying that we forget to just relax and enjoy the world. Moments like these are priceless. Entertaining and inspiring visitors with food and drink is a very rewarding experience. Some of them even move in. That's how I know our work isn't done. The city can still expand. For now, we celebrate defeating the Wither, and soon we'll have an Xmas party. Better start wrapping presents under our Xmas tree.
--Jan 20 2013--
Happy New Year, everybody! We all survived the Mayan apocalypse of Dec 21 2012. On the other hand though, we're 2 months into the rev and for a while things really slowed down during the holidays as everybody vanished due to Xmas. With Logan off and Pope left in charge for the week, I farmed their Xmas gifts and then built the Port 80 Lighthouse. 48 hours later, Hafget from across the shore responded by turning his fort into a tower as well. Derp!
I gave my cache of iron blocks to PopeAdam, my gold blocks to Loganran, and diamond armor for Krabs. I also gave Fire Resistance Potions which provides them with lava immunity for their recent nether trips. I then made a quick trip to visit Hans' house in Brom and checked out Pico's jumbo Xmas tree after their party ended. By the time I came back the next day, the Port 80 Xmas tree was taken down.
That wasn't the only thing taken down tho. Slide23 (mod) had a tough xmas; his IRL house burned down. His family survived, but he lost everything else. We fixed his golem grinder and gave him all our support as a community.
After lots of downtime, Port 80 was suddenly vibrant again for the new year. I decorated Logan's mansion, zifnab began building our boat, and the gold was used to make rails for the new 4v4 Spleef Arena. Around this time some Coldstream district residents began taking notice of the arena in their neighbourhood, eventually becoming Port 80 citizens. In a very short time we began seeing new faces. Syphon_fire, freezeman, smellykid50 and Miogre began to follow SuToLoTuS into the city centre, hanging out with us and our newly formed Spleef team in earnest. SuToLoTuS had spent the better part of Xmas building the now famous Port 80 National Bank, a looming tower adorned with Lapis, Gold, and Glowstone, topped off with a piston door made of diamond blocks. The man is rich; very rich. If you're in Port 80, it's next to the train station. At one point the there were so many noobs from spawn that I had at least 8 of them following me on a city tour. In 3 days, they ate all my food. 9 stacks of steak, potatoes, carrots, and half a chest of cookies. Noobs are hungry ppl. Never forget.
During this time I had walked into a 12-year-old kid named Black_magic12345 who was homeless and came to my pub for food. He was so delighted to have found Port 80 that he wasted no time settling down... by building a netherrack derp shack on our shore. I managed to find him, clean up the mess, and moved him into Port 80 tower, 5th floor. Turns out he was new to the server, and he like many others were joining for the 1st time asking for direction and food just like in the old days. Another newcomer named Miogre borrowed some of my wood and made a cottage far out east before he became a resident and moved in to the tower as well. Krabs was 1F, Syphon_Fire was 2F, I was 3F, Miogre was 4F, and Black_magic was 5F. With all the new residents moving into the tower, I strove to get it furnished, designing the lobby, gift shop, and installing mailboxes for everybody to use, before building the underground restaurant. Logan later gave me a sponge for display :D
Admittedly I was feeling lazy after working on the tower for so long that I went traveling the world for a bit. After visiting Ra, Andromeda, Vinhaven, Port Aperture, Seneca, Walla-Walla and Necropolis, I couldn't write much; I only took pics. It was when I walked into Tsitrin and Kalmos that things got more interesting. Tsitrin was home to the Ice Maker 3000, and as long as you had a silk touch pick, you can haul back ice as a souvenir. The houses there were very unique, just like in Port 80. Kalmos was a well fortified town known for its 4 cardinal town themes, the fabled combination lock Kalmos Vault Heist contest, and the mayor, Asterix1806. Asterix is a smart man and an attentive historian. People joke, calling him Papa Asterix.
The highlight of my trip tho was at Pearl Islands. Archzinno, a very talented mayor, built the sky city in 2 weeks and challenged Socarch26 to a pro spleefing match. I did 2v2 with them after and it was the most fun I ever had even tho I was 100% noob.
It turns out spleefing matches between cities is the big ticket as the rev draws to a close. It's a sign of a city's maturity and success, where there is room for culture and sport. Kisa_Gitana even made a mini putt-putt golf course at Pearl Islands. Seeing a third of the server population come to Port 80 to spectate a spleef match is what makes me proud of my city. PopeAdam said that it had very humble beginnings in Rev8 & Rev9, but Rev10 is where we truly became a city. I'm glad I was part of it. After the server upgrade to 1.4.7 added fireworks, every city had been firing up the night sky in celebration, causing massive gunpowder & dye shortages. Here at Port 80 we made a large party hall underneath the pub's floorboards, complete with confetti and disco ball. While new towns like Baktun, South Road, Pandora and Atlantis are still being made, we're ready for our end-of-rev party to say goodbye to the world we created, awaiting its next rebirth.
Let Rev10 be the rev where Port 80 became a successful, legitimate city, full of fond memories and a bright future ahead of us. See you all in Rev 11!
-Saberfysh
Port 80 Citizen
Special Thanks: Loganran, PopeAdam, MisterKrabs, that_fish_dude, SuToLoTuS, Archzinno, Miogre, hansheilmann, xxdriztenxx, PubliusCanis, zifnab06, wyatt8740, Asterix1806, thrawn21, gdavison, Denbert, TheRandomnatrix, pom32456, Socarch26
Book: Port 80 Journal: (Rev 12)
Welcome to Rev 12, everyone! It's been a full year since I last wrote on our adventure, and much has changed. I've gone from being a citizen to being a mayor of P80. Everybody else is here too: Logan, Pope, Krabs, Freeze, Hafget, evolve90, Miogre and fishing4monkeys. This time, instead of settling in front of the spawn mansion, we had a bigger plan: for the first time ever, we were moving away from spawn. In style!
But, like everything we do early rev, those plans quickly went up in smoke. We circled the map for an entire day and found no sandy beach or shoreline, just a swamp ocean in the SE lined with snow and ice. Much troll. Such foil. Can not haz cheezburger.
We eventually made a campsite at the edge of the world @ -1900 +0, as nether portals were found one by one. The surprises this time were Kalmos, Driftwood, and a portal split between 3 cities: Wellspring, Pinkwool, and Praha Way. 9 hours later, the enderdragon was slain. This beat the previous record of 11 hours, and it was NOT Seneca. The dragonslayer's name and the egg's location remains a mystery, and Seneca's killing streak was ended by an unknown player. No answer was found.
We stayed at our campsite until the very next day, when fishing4monkeys found a beautiful river basin in the east at +1200 +0. Immediately we saw the potential of building here. It had a winding river, a mountain, and was close to Port Aperture's portal. This coincidence prompted Port Aperture's mayor, Raymond0412, to offer an alliance with us. Fishing and I thought about how this would benefit our citizens, so I said yes. We carved out the valley that night and called everyone over to their new home.
By day 3 we realized we were surrounded by neighbours. The southeast was a lively place, and soon Logan met with Metal Mountains and Port Aperture in the jungle to sign the MPA80 treaty, which soon joined the Southeast Alliance (SEA). Everybody was doing alliances. Seneca, Brom & Endor became Senebraum, Wellspring & Pinkwool became Pinkspring, then there was MPA80 and SEA. They say this was the rev of alliances... I say it was the rev of lava lakes and falling into random ravines.
Lacking a shoreline, we started improvising around our river basin. Logan decided to go Italian and we made it into a Venetian canal. This led to the Straight Tower of Pisa and a mafia room in the 3rd floor of the Drunk'n Pumpkin Pub @ +1235 +60. Shortly after the pub was built, a Port 80 legend came back to the server: SuToLoTus. We hadn't seen him in a year, and quickly introduced him to our new friends. He made the Sutolotus temple @ +1260 +160 in just 3 days. That's how legendary he is.
Fishing4monkeys was the newest mayor of P80 for a while until kp910460 came along. She had wandered here from PA, and eventually built a house, the south road, and the Port 80 radio station. Logan made her a mayor by the end of the month. She couldn't have come at a better time. Within the week, Pico, Rose City, Vinhaven, and PA were hounding us for rail connections, and we forgot about rails completely. First time away from spawn, amateur mistakes, lol. I made a station right away, and With Bogien1's heroics, we got the whole gang to finish digging the 5x5 rail tunnel to spawn, while Logan finished the main roads and Pope built us an iron grinder to supply us with rails. That was a moment of true team spirit.
After the Spleef Arena, Lighthouse and Church of Miogrelism was constructed in front of the waterfall, we had our first Wither fight in Hafget's mine. This time we used shovels and hoes as weapons. Yes, because we fight dirty that way. No swords here. It was hilarious how half of our noobs got blown up instantly by the wither summoning by standing too close. "Death spam incoming" were Logan's exact words. After a good 10 minutes though, the rest of us came through and took it down like gangsters.
I spent Halloween in Demacia @ -100 +500, dressed up as Garen from League of Legends. I got group photos with Yestermaday, YumYumSticks, MarcusPSL, and JiChoi, knowing this was going to be one of the most exciting revs Port 80 has had yet.
-Dec 14 2013- I had trouble writing after the server upgrade to 1.7.2 a few days back. Around this time last year, slide23 lost his house to a fire. This year, we lost 2 people IRL: head admin JohnAdams1735, and Rose City's mayor, SourPickleEater. Around the same time, one of our major partners in the alliance had died off. Port Aperture was no more, and its remains were inherited by a young upstart village named Whiteoak, which quickly renovated the rail station and whatever was left.
As beautiful Port 80 has become, things have been understandably solemn. SPE lost his life a few days ago in a car accident, and JA's loss a month earlier has devestated many. Memorials and statues have been made in memory of both. I remember a time when Rose city was just a 4-person village off to the side of Necropolis in rev10, and I donated the red wool that became their flag. Now, Rose city is one of the biggest towns on the server, and a major central rail hub in the Southeast Alliance. They built the Rose City Express to other cities long before Seneca and Argoth even had their stations up. Listening to Tyrangiels and theclefe now, I realize how far Rose City has come under SPE. The loss must be hard for them.
Port Aperture's death comes as a mystery to us as well. What once was a large portal town known to be one of the 4 major cities on the server came to a sudden and abrupt end. Their successors at Whiteoak consisted of only 3 people: Rokku117, SwitchViewz, and Ghrey303. I spent the next few days visiting their village, learning that they were a sister city of PA that specialized in wood and plantation machinery. They had a huge sugar cane tower that reached up to the skies, and a tree machine that would thresh out all the leaves and pump out logs to the side via piston action. For a tiny little town, they had the technology, and the potential. But I sensed apprehension and worry in their words; they had big shoes to fill, and weren't sure if they could do it. I knew then that this was where the spirit of the MPA80 alliance had to kick in. Sure, the alliance in name was no more, but anything from nether roads, to trade, to rails, we were probably going to help them with it.
Here at Port 80, we did our part to keep the place cheerful. Logan built a giant Xmas tree for the Secret Santa party, and I ran everywhere in a santa suit handing out cake and pumpkin pie. I imagine JA and SPE still wanted us to celebrate their lives. Before this, we were still making lots of progress. We had a just finished building Port 80 University, an armor shop, and a new apartment building in the South. We also hosted a spleef match against Argoth and lost badly, but people couldn't stop saying how beautiful Port 80 was. Up until the spleef match, nobody outside of the alliance knew where we were. Soon, it was on mumble, and it was in chat. Schererererer from Braum said it was the best Port 80 he's seen yet. People began to notice. This was a good thing, because we are hosting the Secret Santa party in 6 days. It got the party the exposure it needed.
I spent the next few days decorating the tree and taking a group photo with the mayors, all wearing santa hats. To top it all off, I decorated our rail tunnel in rainbow spirals. I call it the PARTY HARD [tm] tunnel. Now anybody who visits our town can sit on a minecart, press a button, and PARTY HARD just like us. We're gonna get drunk again this year too.
-Feb 6th 2014- Happy 2014, everyone! Yes, compared to what happened this holiday season, I'm definitely sober enough to write again. Between a double chest of pumpkin pie, fireworks, and two bottles of Italian red wine, I was so drunk after New Years' that I was spouting gibberish I can't remember, looking right at my screen with pie in my hand thinking "this pumpkin pie is not alcoholic enough!" Only, I actually typed it out in chat like a blithering moron. Go home, Saber. You're drunk.
The X'mas Wither Event on the 24th made us a huge killing. Basically the admins unleashed wither skeletons on us and we had to defend the overworld from the invasion. All the zombies were baby zombies wearing colored elf clothes, and the wither skeletons were in santa suits and masks too. Killing them dropped a mixture of turkey, eggnog, player heads and cake, but they also dropped wither skulls. This was also the first rev that PvE had voted on switching server difficulty to hard mode, so people were being shanked left and right by evil santas. Luckily, Pope had the foresight to pick an open field NW of town to attract the incoming horde, got 3 skulls and made a regeneration beacon on-site. Soon we had a bunker next to it. As Logan, Mio, KP and fishing came on to join the battle, we made a wooden perch for KP to snipe monsters with a bow while we manly men ran out to charge against the evil santa hordes doing manly things. By the next day we came out with lots of skulls.
All those beacons proved to be handy for the next 2 months, as Logan set our sights on a new stretch of land I call the Northern Expanse. Up to this point we only had Port 80 University built there, but after we finished the northern roads and rails, the north was taking on a life of its own, with the creation of the Pixel Lounge, North End Amenities, the gorgeous mansions of Logan and Mrsslats, and up to the very north, Fort Hafget. Others like MirkaFortuna and AisakaTaiga lived in the Northwest.
This was also the time spleef league morphed into a touring sport called Spleef Club. People would come to Port80 to place bets on a free-for-all spleef tournament. The prizes were nice too; fishing4monkeys won a free copy of Starbound.
Pope and I spent a lot of time together, leashing donkeys from Whiteoak, mooshrooms from Sapphric's spawn preserve, breeding villagers for P80 Courthouse, to completing the Church of Miogrelism @ +1200 -40, which was nearing 8000 total quartz blocks. Few will realize the sacrifices made to build this church. On Jan 6, Pope died to a zombie 25 times in a row, because it stole his diamond sword. Countless books and rare materials line the lower halls of this place. It was one of the city's masterpieces. I was convinced that it contained close to a third of the known quartz on the server. The rest was at kitcatbar's Ivory Tower @ -1480 +300, and various Braum buildings such as @-1540 -1080. But none of these would top what the server announced next.
For the first time since rev6, Reddit PVE declared the next UberProject; a massive spaceship of redstone & glowstone the entire server was involved in. 12 days later, there were 154 double chests of stone, 44 in dirt, and 33 stacks of redstone blocks. I didn't know what the final design of the Uberproject looked like @ -1600 -500, but I helped at the digsite several times and donated redstone regularly. All I know is, I'll be there again when construction of the ship itself will begin.
I'm now standing at the precipice of a rev about to end. Rev13 is coming! As I left Port 80 on a world tour, I reflected on how much has changed since I became a mayor. Many old places like Deerside, Wellspring & Pearl Islands were gone, But many new places like Rose City, Whiteoak and Catsenberg @ +400 +1800 emerge to fill in the void, alongside big attractions like Wonderland @ -1200 -1900 and Braum Opera House @ -1650 -1400. Kalmos, Argoth, Pico and Seneca keep on going.
As a mayor, I finally know what it means to build a city here. When I think about how I miss those old places, memories of their legacy fuel my spirit to carry on this heritage, to be a proud part of Reddit PVE. Likewise, we inspire others after us. Fishing and Pope agreed that this rev was better than anything Port 80 has done before. Whenever I come back, there's no place like home. In us, I saw a dream realized. This was our bright future, borne from a single sojourn from spawn.
SPECIAL THANKS: JA, SPE, Zomise, theclefe, YumYumSticks, Yestermaday, JiChoi, TheRandomnatrix, Asterix1806, Twitchy1138, fishing4monkeys, LoganRan, PopeAdam, kp910460, evolve90, Hafget, Sutolotus, AisakaTaiga, twilexis, kitcatbar, Rokku117