Who remembers this server? Anyone? I do.

I've been thinking back to when i was younger, when i played minecraft- and i was wondering if the pages for the old servers were still up. I guess they are. Some part of me feels empty, just leaving these servers behind without a proper farewell. So i guess i should tell you what relation i had with orbitblade, huh? I loved this server.

I was looking through my oldest emails for shits and giggles when i came across an email mentioning orbitblade. I was appaled, i mean, i hadn't seen anything relating to the server in years. It was titled "Welcome to "Orbitblade minecraft fourm""; sent 2012, may 5th. 7 years ago. When i say it outloud it doesn't seem all that long, but when i think about it, its an eternity. So much has changed since then. So much has changed since i played this server.

I think i made some of my best friends on orbitblade, people who i genuenlly thought i would be friends with forever. Using the wayback machine, i went to the orbitblade minecraft fourm and i found one. DukeWick. I mean, sure, sice the wayback machine only says HTML and not page format or where thing go, all i could do was sit and stare at his name. It really brought me back. Even now, i sometimes wonder, every now and then- does he think about me? At all? I wouldn't be disturbed or angry if he didn't, but i wonder if he thinks back to when he use to play that old minecraft server named orbitblade.

I started playing on this server sometime around its birth, and was there until the very end. I remember the houses, bases, creative structures, all of these things i've created lost to time, just rotting in a server that doesn't exist anymore. It saddens me. Gave me some good stories though, like how there was a hacker on the server that use to torment me and my faction (which had dukelick in it, of course). I think his name was "Lordofthemuffins" or something like that; though that name could be comepletly false, just another thing i've forgotten and will forget about my childhood.

I swear, he lived with the sole purpose of messing with my faction. He had enchanted armor, an enchanted diamond sword, he was practically invinsible. He raided (2?) of our bases, claiming them his own and killing us whenever we tried to take them back. They were neat bases too, one of them was hidden in the jungle, under a leaf block. We had farms and everything. Another was just a giant wooden house out in some plains, but that one kept getting burned down by two people who kept coming back with flint and steels.

Sorry for the rambling, i'm not sure where i'm going with this anyway. Not that anyone will read it, but someday i hope someone will. Anyways, this hacker, he got banned eventually. I think he was working with an admin too but i'm not sure. I was mining in a mine i had created, or my faction had creat- whatever. Anyways, some dude calls him out in chat for cheating. Up to now i think he had been on thin ice but his admin friend would get him out of trouble, so tensions had been building. So this guy says they're going to ban him and his admin friend, and the hacker just starts steaming, y'know?

Cussing, curses, etc etc. To my 8 year old my that was hilarious. It felt like we had triumphed someway, having gotten that bastard gone. Afterwards, a bunch of admins created a base made of iron, emerald(?), gold and diamond as an apology. At least thats what i was told, or remember. I just know we got a sick base made of all that shit. Though somehow, i think that kinda took the fun out of it for me. The base, not the hacker getting banned. I like building bases with out own hands, not having them made for us with incredibly valuable blocks. Thats aside the point though.

The server also had creative, which i remember extremely fondly. Me and my brother, whom i played with, would build all day in that superflat creative world. I can only recall a few creations though. Most notably a "Target", which was really just a giant square building made of iron blacks that had chests in it. Sure, it wasn't anywhere near as good as a actual Target but to us it was amazing.

....Target is a grocery store, if you were wondering. We went there a lot.
We has also built treehouse house, which is a pretty generous title seeing as it was just 4 oak logs and a ladder inside them. It was great though.

There were mini games too, but i think they were added pretty late into the servers lifetime, so most of the time me and my brother played it was just us two. It was still fun though. Again though, i think factions was probably what used up most of our time. As i said, thats where we met some of our best friends. Its to bad the decline of the server was pretty depressing. One day a bunch of people were playing the server, and then slowly... slowly... it just, died. People stopped logging on, our friends stopped logging on. We never got to say goodbye. I would overhear the admins talking about the server getting shutdown sooner or later, think one actually told me.

Hell, no one even cared when i downloaded hacks. In my defence, it wasn't in any malicious intent or anything, i just fucked around with it. I remember climbing up and down a wall like spiderman, saying "look im spiderman" and an admin just flew over and was like "okay". I was pretty suprised no one cared. It was... well... it was sad. It's still sad, i've just had time to cope. I don't say "get over it", because i'm not sure if i will ever "be" over minecraft. I know we grow up, i know its inevitable and i'm OK with that. It's the only thing that gives past memories meaning. But its hard knowing that childhood is gone forever.

The friends i had, are gone, forever. This server will never come back up, no one will probably ever read this and minecraft will never be the same. It was different, back then. If you're looking at this server page for some reason you will probably know. Do you remember the sense of exploration you use to feel in minecraft? The satisifaction you felt for your builds, the amazing feeling this big, open, unknown world filled you with? I think orbitblade did a lot of that for me.

Sure, i had been playing for a while before i ever joined orbitblade, and i will always cherish those memories, but if i could go back in time to one moment in my childhood, for even just a day, it would be when i played orbitblade. I was a kid, i didn't have a care in the world- school was a joke, i didn't stress or face addictions, i wasn't deppresed, i was happy. Ironically i never knew those would be the good days- that i would recall those memories in such a fond way. I just knew i was having fun.

This kinda got derailed, and im sorry for that. I dunno, i just... minecraft was a big part of my childhood. Sure, i'm not that old now but im old enough to know that im not just a kid anymore, and i know that this has all passed but seeing this old page and seeing my old friends name really brought something back up. A very bittersweet feeling.

DukeLick, thanks for sharing those diamonds with me and my brother. We had just been raided, or killed, i'm not sure what, but i remember you came and you helped us out. That was how we met, and i wont forget that. Thank you for playing with us, for helping us make our bases, for helping us make our memories. Please take care of yourself.

And to my other close friend, whom i don't remember the username of, thank you to you too. Though i cant remember your name, i wont forget your skin. A creeper wearing a tuxedo, if i recall correctly. Thanks for playing with us. It meant more then you could know. Have a good one, and take care.


And to you, orbitblade- thank you. I know i've said it a lot through out this post, and it may seem repetitive, but there really isn't any other way of expressing my gratitude. You made my childhood amazing, just wonderful. Minecraft made my childhood wonderful, i think a lot of other people feel that same way too. Though i will never get the same feeling playing minecraft, and will probably never play it all that much again, just, thank you.

To anyone reading this message, take care of yourself. Thank you.

Great Server, 10/10