Frick Tower

Frick Tower

view from voxel map on 26 July 2019 (Rev 23)
Location
Server	PvE
Map revision	23 and 24
Coordinates	South of Spawn
Creators
Lead	PPGOME
Contributors	torteela, Swgnmtry
Timeline
Started	24 July 2019
Completed	26 July 2019

"Frick Tower. A glorious Tower."

―PPGOME

Frick Tower was a truly chaotic monstrosity of an event started by PPGOME during the last three days of Revision 23, when TNT, fire tick, mob damage, lava spread and water spread was enabled, giving players the chance to lay waste to the map. All build and chest protections were removed during the last days of the revision, with the exception of Spawn protections, which is precisely what enticed PPGOME to find a way to break into it and start the enormous task to destroy Spawn by indirect means.

Swgnmtry and torteela were mayor contributors in this quest.

The Birth of Frick Tower

The birth of Frick Tower was elegant and simple. Its construction began by using a simple technique: placing lava buckets, then water buckets on top to transform it into cobblestone. The higher the tower would get, the farther the lava would spread and the hopes that these efforts would be enough to break into Spawn protected claim were high during the first day.

The First Obstacle

On the evening of the 24th of July, a battle erupted on Frick Tower when Spook6 decided to released five withers on PPGOME and Swgnmtry, which destroyed part of the tower. The destruction didn't end there however, a raid followed shortly after, with dark3lement mining the tower with the intention to blow it up from the inside and a "traitor" slowing down the building efforts by compromising their supplies.

Frick Tower Will Rise

On the night of the 24th of July, torteela, Swgnmtry and PPGOME strengthened their efforts to guard the tower and complete the original plan to "frick up spawn" by laying down over 50 walls of pure cobblestone, which was enough to deter the persistent wither attacks lead by Spook6. A mayor goal was reached that night: lava started entering the Spawn claim (76 blocks in) and one of Spawn boats started burning.

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  Frick Tower before Spook6's wither attacks

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  Thick walls now ready to protect its integrity

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  Frick Tower at night, now getting close to Spawn ships

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  Another angle

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  First goal achieved: Spawn has been compromised!

The End

On the morning of 26th of July, Frick Tower engulfed Spawn in its flames. There were no survivors.

Extra Shots

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  View from the Spawn tents

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  Mission accomplished!

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  Another view from spawn

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  Top of the tower

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  Frick Tower Special Room

Frick Tower 2

Frick Tower 2 had the same idea as the original one, that being, get the tower into the spawn protection. This time, though, spawn was very high in the sky and took a lot of effort to eventually reach. Many attempts to blow up the tower were made along with players spawning withers inside of the gaps of the tower.

Multiple players sought refuge inside of the tower and made a small town on the interior. This included: residences, an art gallery, a museum of builds that Frick Tower had engulfed, farms and more. This was the area that was hit the hardest once the tower was attacked for the final time.

(Got images? DM Gome#8072 on discord. I lost most of mine to a dead hard drive)

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  Frick Tower 2 reaching the spawn ship

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  To the left, the Art Museum and to the right, the apartments

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  The museum a the base of the tower, displaying civilization pre-chaos

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  More museum from pre-chaos civilization

Frick Tower 3

Didn't even finish the last part about Frick Tower 2 and you're already preparing the 3rd section? Jeez, Gome, you lazy butt. Sincerely, PPGOME