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This is going to be an episodic story that I release over time, I hope you enjoy :D
Prologue
The tale of the civilization of Potentia is a troublesome one. Through many defeats and triumphs, it still stands.. But things were never too stable....
~The Age Of Ignorance~
I spawned into the server thirty minutes late to it’s grand opening. I received ten pieces of cooked chicken, an odd map
that displayed the entire playable world, a reference crafting book filled with custom recipes, and a couple of fishing rods. Some players were already claiming they had their camps up and running in full capacity, and the borders of the spawn territory were lined with raiders that had already gotten their hands on stone battle axes and leather armor. I took the opportunity I had from waiting to fish in a nearby pond within the spawn territory. After about eight attempts, I caught only three fish, and one of my friends finally logged on.
It was Mat, our resident farmer! In some communities, he was given the title “Super Peasant” for how quickly he could clear and replant large farm plots without complaining about how boring it gets
With the large amount of raiders lining the borders, we decided to wait in a trench that was formed a small distance away from them. Mat and I waited until the raiders had to return to their camps. This took about half an hour, but after hiding for so long, we could get out of spawn.
We ran south-west for thousands of blocks, until we finally ran out of the chicken we got from spawn. We ended up in a plains biome that is across a river from a jungle. We proceeded into the jungle in hopes we would find some melons, or a jungle temple. Little did we know what we were getting into...
After the night passed and we had woken up, I took out my map device. I located our position, and realized we were clearly visible on the map with the ability to be raided at some point through the day. Mat hastily made plans for how to camouflage the entire camp, but we could not figure out how to do that cost effectively.
Instead, we determined our best course of action would to be cover our base in grass so it would be harder to see on the map. So we went to collecting a chunk of dirt.
In the middle of us collecting the dirt we needed, I heard footsteps from the woods. I climbed the scouting outpost in our camp, and spotted a bandit charging towards our camp. I rang the alarm to try to alert Mat about the incoming danger, but before he could respond, the bandit knocked him out, took his stuff, and bolted for the sugarcane farm. I jumped off of the tower, chasing after bandit swiftly. The bandit stole most of our sugar cane, and ran for the mountains.
After about thirty minutes of chasing him in the mountains, the bandit started to be fatigued, without food to eat he was an easy target to catch. I shoved him into a cave. He crawled away from me after landing, pleading for me to forgive him. I executed him swiftly. He then rage quit because I didn't let him keep anything, or come back.
After a long trek, I made it back to the camp, Mat was still unconscious. I carried him back inside, put his stuff in a chest, and carried on covering the camp.
I slowly built a staircase of dirt connected to a patch of grass, and built a ceiling of dirt over our entire camp establishment, knowing the grass would eventually spread, and hide our camp from the map, greatly reducing the chances of an event like this happening again.
After a couple more days, we were close to making our Capitol to the civilization. The Administrative Post informed us, along with presumably everyone else, that five civilizations have already built their Capitol buildings.
We asked one of the admins to send a letter to the leaders of the civilizations, asking for help with the gold we needed for our crown, in exchange for a portion of our surplus of slimeballs.
Most of the civilizations ignored the trade offer, but one civilization, the Breaker Battalion, gladly accepted, while Mat and I thought that "Breaker Battalion" was a weird name for a civilization. But nevertheless, we arranged to meet in a few hours at the spawn territory. I set my home point and went to the spawn territory
In a few hours I reached the spawn territory with a bag of slimeballs, which was exchanged for a wheelbarrow of gold. I teleported back home, and finished making the crown. Mat and I grabbed as much loot as we could carry from our camp, and tore it down. We found a nice swamp next to the mountains, and knowing that our workers would love the mountains, and our scientists would love to study the slime specimens in the jungle, we placed our flag there.
We promptly planned out and built our Capitol, taking about five hours to build a monstrously large structure with a nice garden rooftop, arrow cannons armed around the clock to discourage invaders, and the ability to be recognized as someone of power.
We received an ally request near instantly from the Breaker Battalion that helped us earlier. We accepted it, thinking there couldn't be harm in it… what we didn't know was that it would rope us into such a dangerous situation…
But for now, we were safe, and at peace. People were moving in, and we began research on how to crush stone to get access to the more useful ore that could have been hidden inside...
Within a day, we went through the entire ancient era, learning: how to create a large farm, how to crush stone to see if there is any minerals hidden within, how to sell off valuable minerals and metals- anything that can be used with beacons, how to train citizens to make new towns, and how to create a religion
So when we finished the research on all of these, we got to building more structures, we built a stone-crushing trommel to increase our income. Within hours we were making quite the stash of diamonds and gold from the cobblestone in the mines.
We made monuments, large barracks, and a bank. But all was quiet on the end of other civs. We asked the Breaker Battalion to essentially give us the news about what's happening, and if they wanted to buy more slimeballs
Turns out, they had already gotten themselves into a war with a civilization that called themselves “Singularity,” and they were trying to get us to help. “WE DON’T EVEN HAVE BASIC IRON SWORDS, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO HELP” I shouted at them. After a while, they understood that we were too underpowered for a war.
The shouting got the attention of the first civilization that was created, The Ottomen, of which were MILES ahead of us in progress. They allied us, and gave us supplies and money, in return we would help them defend/plan their towns. They were also allied with our other allies, and were also the with the civilization that was the enemy of the Breaker Battalion.
But with all of this, we were still going to be in a tough spot with diplomacy in the future...
More coming soon...
Prologue
The tale of the civilization of Potentia is a troublesome one. Through many defeats and triumphs, it still stands.. But things were never too stable....
Wait what? What's happening? Why not use iron swords? Why only leather armor? (Also being rewritten, but it's good enough for now)
This story is inspired after my experiences inside a civilization craft server, these kinds of servers take Sid Meier's Civilization series, and blends it with Minecraft
To make things interesting, one can not make iron, gold, or diamond swords, bows, or anything better than leather armor
Diamond, Iron, and Gold tools however, can be made regardless of technology level. Anything that isn't supposed to be a weapon does less than 1 attack damage.
to unlock the ability to craft a bow, iron sword, or iron armor, you need specific research techs to get it, which required you to build a civilization, and therefore, a capitol building, to start.
Some older servers also have battle-axe weapons, which look like normal axes, but typically do more damage (about an extra heart of damage) but cost 5 of the material (so a stone one is 5 cobble stone, instead 2 for a sword) and two of the sticks (the higher tier weapons use specially crafted, and more expensive handles for their weapons)
To make things interesting, one can not make iron, gold, or diamond swords, bows, or anything better than leather armor
Diamond, Iron, and Gold tools however, can be made regardless of technology level. Anything that isn't supposed to be a weapon does less than 1 attack damage.
to unlock the ability to craft a bow, iron sword, or iron armor, you need specific research techs to get it, which required you to build a civilization, and therefore, a capitol building, to start.
Some older servers also have battle-axe weapons, which look like normal axes, but typically do more damage (about an extra heart of damage) but cost 5 of the material (so a stone one is 5 cobble stone, instead 2 for a sword) and two of the sticks (the higher tier weapons use specially crafted, and more expensive handles for their weapons)
Camps
Camps are starting points for all players. For even the fastest of teams, the shortest amount of time between making a camp, and making a civ, is about 36 hours. This is because you need these "proof of leadership" Items as a part of the recipe. To get this, you need to feed your camp, through an upgrade called the longhouse, a little less than two stacks
of bread. Every hour, the camp/longhouse will eat, and when you get 36 of those tokens, all you need is the rest of the materials to make the founding flag.
like over a double chest of cobblestone... or 36 diamonds
but usually, for an experienced group, it should not take more than 60 hours for a civ to be made. It is sad if it takes much longer, and they dare to say they are a experienced/veteran player. Unless they're barely active.
This 36 hour ordeal is put into place so no massive army of people can just get on and rush the construction of a civ in a few hours.
of bread. Every hour, the camp/longhouse will eat, and when you get 36 of those tokens, all you need is the rest of the materials to make the founding flag.
like over a double chest of cobblestone... or 36 diamonds
but usually, for an experienced group, it should not take more than 60 hours for a civ to be made. It is sad if it takes much longer, and they dare to say they are a experienced/veteran player. Unless they're barely active.
This 36 hour ordeal is put into place so no massive army of people can just get on and rush the construction of a civ in a few hours.
Civilizations
Civilizations, also known as civs, are the heart of this game mode. Like factions, your civilization name can be anything.
This is the best way to protect your land, and become more efficient. Buildings will build on your command (given you have researched the proper technology to build them.) using your hammers, which is strictly based on town location, trade goods, some buildings, etc. Hammers are generated over time, with the amount the town show's generating every half an hour. This only matters however if something is being constructed. Hammers go to waste when generated without a construction project. Every building has an amount of hammers required to be finished in construction, and as more hammers are added, the server automatically adds more blocks to the build site. So if a building took 1000 hammers to build, and the town building it had 100 hammers, it would take 5 hours to build the structure, as it generates 100 hammers for every half hour.
Culture is another big topic in civilizations. Culture is a statistic that spans across towns, each town having their own culture amount. Things like monuments, or temples (given the right sacrifice on the latter) make more culture than the default 50 an hour. Culture is essentially a border line. You can claim things for your town only within your culture. To expand, you need to reach a set amount of culture points, and the town borders will expand. Culture is also a way you can gain VICTORY in this gamemode. As your town borders expand, you collect the benefits from the chunks that were freshly consumed by your culture, meaning boosting culture is typically a good way to increase all of your other stats.
Beakers are an extremely valuable units of measurement. All towns in a civilization put their beakers together in a metaphorical pot to research technologies. Technologies require a certain amount of beakers, and the civilization beaker count is generated hourly while researching. So if you were researching a technology that had 500 beakers required, and your civ had a pool of 100 beakers, it would take 5 hours to finish researching the technology. Beakers can be increased by: Building structures like libraries and universities among other things, certain trade-goods, and culture expansion
This is the best way to protect your land, and become more efficient. Buildings will build on your command (given you have researched the proper technology to build them.) using your hammers, which is strictly based on town location, trade goods, some buildings, etc. Hammers are generated over time, with the amount the town show's generating every half an hour. This only matters however if something is being constructed. Hammers go to waste when generated without a construction project. Every building has an amount of hammers required to be finished in construction, and as more hammers are added, the server automatically adds more blocks to the build site. So if a building took 1000 hammers to build, and the town building it had 100 hammers, it would take 5 hours to build the structure, as it generates 100 hammers for every half hour.
Culture is another big topic in civilizations. Culture is a statistic that spans across towns, each town having their own culture amount. Things like monuments, or temples (given the right sacrifice on the latter) make more culture than the default 50 an hour. Culture is essentially a border line. You can claim things for your town only within your culture. To expand, you need to reach a set amount of culture points, and the town borders will expand. Culture is also a way you can gain VICTORY in this gamemode. As your town borders expand, you collect the benefits from the chunks that were freshly consumed by your culture, meaning boosting culture is typically a good way to increase all of your other stats.
Beakers are an extremely valuable units of measurement. All towns in a civilization put their beakers together in a metaphorical pot to research technologies. Technologies require a certain amount of beakers, and the civilization beaker count is generated hourly while researching. So if you were researching a technology that had 500 beakers required, and your civ had a pool of 100 beakers, it would take 5 hours to finish researching the technology. Beakers can be increased by: Building structures like libraries and universities among other things, certain trade-goods, and culture expansion
~The Age Of Ignorance~
Chapter 0: Running Away (Added 2/17/17)
I spawned into the server thirty minutes late to it’s grand opening. I received ten pieces of cooked chicken, an odd map
that displayed the entire playable world, a reference crafting book filled with custom recipes, and a couple of fishing rods. Some players were already claiming they had their camps up and running in full capacity, and the borders of the spawn territory were lined with raiders that had already gotten their hands on stone battle axes and leather armor. I took the opportunity I had from waiting to fish in a nearby pond within the spawn territory. After about eight attempts, I caught only three fish, and one of my friends finally logged on.
It was Mat, our resident farmer! In some communities, he was given the title “Super Peasant” for how quickly he could clear and replant large farm plots without complaining about how boring it gets
With the large amount of raiders lining the borders, we decided to wait in a trench that was formed a small distance away from them. Mat and I waited until the raiders had to return to their camps. This took about half an hour, but after hiding for so long, we could get out of spawn.
We ran south-west for thousands of blocks, until we finally ran out of the chicken we got from spawn. We ended up in a plains biome that is across a river from a jungle. We proceeded into the jungle in hopes we would find some melons, or a jungle temple. Little did we know what we were getting into...
Chapter 1: Camp Travelers (Added 2/18/17)
We entered the jungle cautiously. For all we knew, there could be raiders, or some kind of trap! We found a nice little canopy to set up a temporary shelter to scout around, and collect a load of melons so we could keep running. While Mat was heading back to the shelter, he heard an explosion. He called me over, and we saw the destruction. A band of raiders were toying with us, they blew up our little shelter, not like we were really using it, but it gave us the signal to start running again.
We ran until we found a mountain range, with a few rivers around. We were running low on melons, so we turned them into seeds for Mat to farm. We set up our camp, and named it "Camp Travelers." We hid inside the camp for about an hour, getting our bearings. For a moment, we could have sworn we saw the raiders, but they couldn't attack us inside the camp, even if they tried. We were safe for now.
We laid out our list to make our founding flag. With this flag, we could start our civilization, we would be even safer when we did so. Or, at the very least, when we inevitably go to war, we'll have time to prepare, and warning when someone can attack us on our territory. However, we don't plan to antagonize, we're going to try to be as diplomatic as possible.
We made our farms that we needed to make our flag/feed our workers when we build our flag, but it was outside of our territory. Anyone could just look at the real time map, see our camp, come over and try to attack, then notice our farm, and steal all of our crops. I made a couple of stone battle axes, and went hunting for leather. When I got back about thirty minutes later, I had all the leather we needed for the armor. We were both as powerful as possible without any technology being researched. For that, we fed the campfire the coal it needed, and called it a night.
We ran until we found a mountain range, with a few rivers around. We were running low on melons, so we turned them into seeds for Mat to farm. We set up our camp, and named it "Camp Travelers." We hid inside the camp for about an hour, getting our bearings. For a moment, we could have sworn we saw the raiders, but they couldn't attack us inside the camp, even if they tried. We were safe for now.
We laid out our list to make our founding flag. With this flag, we could start our civilization, we would be even safer when we did so. Or, at the very least, when we inevitably go to war, we'll have time to prepare, and warning when someone can attack us on our territory. However, we don't plan to antagonize, we're going to try to be as diplomatic as possible.
We made our farms that we needed to make our flag/feed our workers when we build our flag, but it was outside of our territory. Anyone could just look at the real time map, see our camp, come over and try to attack, then notice our farm, and steal all of our crops. I made a couple of stone battle axes, and went hunting for leather. When I got back about thirty minutes later, I had all the leather we needed for the armor. We were both as powerful as possible without any technology being researched. For that, we fed the campfire the coal it needed, and called it a night.
Chapter 2: Surviving The Raid, (Added 2/25/17)
After the night passed and we had woken up, I took out my map device. I located our position, and realized we were clearly visible on the map with the ability to be raided at some point through the day. Mat hastily made plans for how to camouflage the entire camp, but we could not figure out how to do that cost effectively.
Instead, we determined our best course of action would to be cover our base in grass so it would be harder to see on the map. So we went to collecting a chunk of dirt.
In the middle of us collecting the dirt we needed, I heard footsteps from the woods. I climbed the scouting outpost in our camp, and spotted a bandit charging towards our camp. I rang the alarm to try to alert Mat about the incoming danger, but before he could respond, the bandit knocked him out, took his stuff, and bolted for the sugarcane farm. I jumped off of the tower, chasing after bandit swiftly. The bandit stole most of our sugar cane, and ran for the mountains.
After about thirty minutes of chasing him in the mountains, the bandit started to be fatigued, without food to eat he was an easy target to catch. I shoved him into a cave. He crawled away from me after landing, pleading for me to forgive him. I executed him swiftly. He then rage quit because I didn't let him keep anything, or come back.
After a long trek, I made it back to the camp, Mat was still unconscious. I carried him back inside, put his stuff in a chest, and carried on covering the camp.
I slowly built a staircase of dirt connected to a patch of grass, and built a ceiling of dirt over our entire camp establishment, knowing the grass would eventually spread, and hide our camp from the map, greatly reducing the chances of an event like this happening again.
Chapter 3: Making our first Civilization
After a couple more days, we were close to making our Capitol to the civilization. The Administrative Post informed us, along with presumably everyone else, that five civilizations have already built their Capitol buildings.
We asked one of the admins to send a letter to the leaders of the civilizations, asking for help with the gold we needed for our crown, in exchange for a portion of our surplus of slimeballs.
Most of the civilizations ignored the trade offer, but one civilization, the Breaker Battalion, gladly accepted, while Mat and I thought that "Breaker Battalion" was a weird name for a civilization. But nevertheless, we arranged to meet in a few hours at the spawn territory. I set my home point and went to the spawn territory
In a few hours I reached the spawn territory with a bag of slimeballs, which was exchanged for a wheelbarrow of gold. I teleported back home, and finished making the crown. Mat and I grabbed as much loot as we could carry from our camp, and tore it down. We found a nice swamp next to the mountains, and knowing that our workers would love the mountains, and our scientists would love to study the slime specimens in the jungle, we placed our flag there.
We promptly planned out and built our Capitol, taking about five hours to build a monstrously large structure with a nice garden rooftop, arrow cannons armed around the clock to discourage invaders, and the ability to be recognized as someone of power.
We received an ally request near instantly from the Breaker Battalion that helped us earlier. We accepted it, thinking there couldn't be harm in it… what we didn't know was that it would rope us into such a dangerous situation…
But for now, we were safe, and at peace. People were moving in, and we began research on how to crush stone to get access to the more useful ore that could have been hidden inside...
Chapter 4: Getting support
Within a day, we went through the entire ancient era, learning: how to create a large farm, how to crush stone to see if there is any minerals hidden within, how to sell off valuable minerals and metals- anything that can be used with beacons, how to train citizens to make new towns, and how to create a religion
So when we finished the research on all of these, we got to building more structures, we built a stone-crushing trommel to increase our income. Within hours we were making quite the stash of diamonds and gold from the cobblestone in the mines.
We made monuments, large barracks, and a bank. But all was quiet on the end of other civs. We asked the Breaker Battalion to essentially give us the news about what's happening, and if they wanted to buy more slimeballs
Turns out, they had already gotten themselves into a war with a civilization that called themselves “Singularity,” and they were trying to get us to help. “WE DON’T EVEN HAVE BASIC IRON SWORDS, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO HELP” I shouted at them. After a while, they understood that we were too underpowered for a war.
The shouting got the attention of the first civilization that was created, The Ottomen, of which were MILES ahead of us in progress. They allied us, and gave us supplies and money, in return we would help them defend/plan their towns. They were also allied with our other allies, and were also the with the civilization that was the enemy of the Breaker Battalion.
But with all of this, we were still going to be in a tough spot with diplomacy in the future...
More coming soon...
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first, your dialog sound like its from a old corny action movie,
the description is almost non existent, and where just thrown into the action no exposition? I've seen expositions by action but this is ridiculous
also this sounds like a bad fan fiction, what is this an auto-biography, you don't just blurt out in a story, even a minecraft story "this is not your average minecraft server.."
ok even this story contradicts its self over and over, they'r trying to get back home, NOPE GOTTA STOP AND BUILD A MANSION, and your trying to show a server right with that whole "not your average server" thing you would think this would be totally auto-biography style story, then why is there helicopters, tell me when helicopters, driveable helicopters became a thing in minecraft.
ok ok ok, is this a comedy, "mr. pancakes"? I get this is some kind of Auto-biography, but you just said it wasn't with a FLIPPING HELICOPTER. So, explain that
after that it just blew up into some kind of crafting montage of how the, built a nation i guess? I cant tell with this cryptic writing of yours.
over all 4/10 i got a good laugh
i wrote this to show you what needs to be built upon the next time your write, especially for this its broken more than the British health care system. So please excuse any offence on your part, i wont apologize however for trying to help.
I was thanking you for the criticism AND for NOT being like someone who is like the typical commenter who says "This sucks"
your feedback is valuable, and in the days to come, I'll compare what has been written so far to that, in an attempt to fix it
also Mr.pancake was a quick throw in name because in the real fact, I don't remember their name, but their skin legitimately was a walking derp Pancake, I knew it would be cringe, but I was hoping by now I'd remember the name, so I may just replace them with a completely fictional character, or a nameless character
but this is supposed to be an auto-biography-esque thing, I will not include some details, and some things may be made up to make the story more entertaining, as to the whole helicopter thing was to explain the dynmap that we used, however, I may just revise it to make it look like an admin placed it