Frick Tower
 view from voxel map on 26 July 2019 (Rev 23) | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Server | PvE |
| Map revision | 23, 24, 25, 26 and 28 |
| Coordinates | North: 1 tower. South: 2 towers. East: 1 tower. West: 1 tower. |
| Creators | |
| Lead | PPGOME |
| Contributors | torteela, Swgnmtry, RukiaKuchiki_, Enture, XeTrain, Aniomis |
| Timeline | |
| Started | 24 July 2019 |
| Completed | 26 July 2019 |
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 major contributors in this quest.
Frick Tower 1 (Rev 23)
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 major goal was reached that night: lava started entering the Spawn claim (76 blocks in) and one of Spawn boats started burning.
Frick Tower before Spook6's wither attacks
Thick walls now ready to protect its integrity
Frick Tower at night, now getting close to Spawn ships
Another angle
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
View from the Spawn tents
Mission accomplished!
Another view from spawn
Top of the tower
Frick Tower Special Room
Frick Tower 2 (Rev 24)
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.
Frick Tower 2 reaching the spawn ship
To the left, the Art Museum and to the right, the apartments
The museum a the base of the tower, displaying civilization pre-chaos
More museum from pre-chaos civilization
Frick Tower 3 (Rev 25)
Frick Tower 3 was a lava cast made by PPGOME during the chaos of Rev 25. This Frick Tower was by far the most successful and large tower to date, and had another tower join along in the festivities named Gemini. This Frick Tower was the first to reach the height limit of, at the time, Y256. Multiple people contributed towards this tower, but by now I've forgotten usernames so if you helped out, put yourself in here somewhere please.
Frick Tower 3's humble beginnings
The cobblestone wall approaching the world's spawn point
Gemini, the second, and only other, lava cast of this rev
Frick Tower near its peak
Frick Tower and Gemini meet in the middle
Frick Tower 4 (Rev 26)
This rev, Frick Tower had a lot of competition in the form of PvPers. This was by far the hardest Frick Tower to cast and it ended up mostly a failure. Below is a map of the spawn areas and all existing casts.
Frick Tower 4 begins its descent towards spawn
First bombing run on the tower leaves the Eastern end in shambles, making it much harder to continue the tower through normal means
Tower is restarted higher up in hopes of getting the Eastern end back to being a shape we could work with
Final bombing of the tower
Frick Tower 5 (Rev 28)
After a one-rev break, Frick Tower came back with a vengeance after the failures of rev 26. This Frick Tower was one of the shortest ones, but was extremely spread out. Taking up an area of about 3 to 4 spawn islands, this tower caused much destruction to the spawn area.
This Frick Tower had the most accompanying named towers thus far. These were: Isaac, Pige's Tit (bird), Tit (bird) Mountain and Sticky Cast (shown on the image below as Shak's Booty, its former name). Each of these were named by their creators, not me, I swear o _o.
Below is the area map of spawn during rev 26's chaos.
Frick Tower 5 starts on the road South of spawn
Tower begins reaching the main spawn tower
Lava enters the portal room in the base of the central spawn tower
The tower overlooking the destroyed spawn tower
One of the last images before the tower was bombed. Height at this point was at Y220
Frick Tower 6 (Rev 29)
This tower represented everything PPGOME's original quote meant. This tower was huge, destructive, and above all, glorious.
A true sight to behold, if you were lucky enough to escape spawn, Frick Tower 6 beat Frick Tower 3's height record due to the new maximum world build limit, and limited tampering from others. The conditions were perfect for a grand tower, and it did not disappoint.
Memorials
Frick Tower Memorial (built by FluffyBoizz during r27).
