sanvar's Minecraft Blog

After hearing about the Constantiam Annual Elections, after some hesitation, I decide to run together with A4EX. With support from my basemates and other friends, we start campaigning.  One of the main ways we campaigned was by creating an election mapart, designed by A4EX and created by me, and spreading it all around spawn. All highways were filled with them, and we'd give them to any player we'd come across.    read more

From some friends, I get coordinates to a castle built by the player SneakyTreeNinja, with many shulkers of valuables. Together with A4EX, we loot the place and move it to a shared stash we were setting up. Because I did not trust everyone who had access to that stash, I hid a double chest worth of kits for myself just to be sure. Indeed, after some drama, the shared stash was looted and destroyed a while later. Although I only had a chest of items, I now had more items on the server than...read more

I create my very first mapart representing the logo of the Dutch West India Company, and traded it with collectors for other mapart. read more

A basemate from the Nederbasis (Dutchbase) finds a base called Zoomertown close to a place where some other Dutch people were setting up a temporary base. We decide to loot any valuables, and place Dutch flags everywhere in order to 'colonise' it, as Dutch people do, now officially naming the place 'Zoemerdorp'. Only a week after we colonised the place, Zoemerdorp was griefed by Dot5 and Handcrafted. We hung the map of the base at the Nederbasis. read more

With some people I met around spawn, including jvyden, NobleCaptain, A4EX, dq6 and quite possible some others, we decided to go far out and build a large base together. Here I built a tower on a hill, and a small arena in a mountain (image). However, the base would very quickly go inactive as everyone was more active around spawn. read more

To get to the 'Grand Prize', I had to team up with someone else who also solved a riddle. The only options were Dot5, one of the best pvp-ers at the time, or JoeyC9, an old player who I knew nothing about. Naturally, I decided to work together with Joey. Everything seemed to go well. He had access to the x-coordinate of the Grand Prize, while I knew the z-coordinate. We exchanged coordinates and started walking in the nether. Then, out of nowhere, a player named 'bushd' shows up and star...read more

The final riddle was presented a few days later: "A hill Leo sees from a Birch TrEE", with a link to a GIF with a calculator on it. After some failed attempts at math, HondenMug (Dips) suggests typing it on a calculator and turning it upside down, like we did in the good old days with '80085'. Walking to the coordinates gave nothing, so we tried swapping the x and z coordinate. Turns out it was correct! We solved the final riddle! The prize included some mapart, and clues to the 'Grand Pr...read more

Together with my basemates, we tried to solve the second riddle presented in the annual Riddler Games, which was: "Your Prize Awaits you where Twee Detto I do!". After a bit of puzzling, we realised this actually meant "where two said: 'I do'", indicating a wedding site.  However, when rushing to the momana wedding site, we could see no prize in the location. After at least an hour of walking around the site, we gave up. Apparently, we were at the right location, but the prize was hidden ...read more

After speaking Dutch in chat with a few people from the Netherlands, I suddenly get a private message asking if I want to be part of a Dutch base. Only having based solo so far, I excitedly say yes and start walking to the coordinates. Together with my basemates: Rodeljoep, DishonoredDonkey, Dips_, houtduif, and some others, we started building. These people were the first 'friends' I made on the server; I would share everything interesting with them and no one else. At this time, I built...read more

After spending a few days in a cobblestone shed grinding for diamond gear and tools with light enchants, I decide to walk far away to create my solo base (image). I spent about two weeks building here, gathering all materials myself. Then, someone in chat gave coordinates to a supposed 'dupe stash'. Obviously, no sane person would trust a stranger posting coordinates in chat, but somehow, I did. And it actually paid off! What I found was a looted stash, with some leftover shulkers that we...read more