Minecraft Tragedy

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 14/12/2010 10:23 PM




 

Tragedy struck today in the Kingdom of Nospoon in the land of Minecraft.

What started as a peaceful protest escalated and resulted in the death of one Vaultist, and unconfirmed reports that it also took the lives of one cow, two pigs, and a duck.

The ruling class of Nospoon, the Elite Vaultists have been restricting the use of Warp Technology in the lands. The Vaultists only allow warping to their Holy Vault, while the Independents wish to be able to warp to other locations, such as their castles.

The Holy Vault was created using obscene cheats to create an impossible structure. While the structure itself is a cheat, and the use of warps to the inner sanctums are also cheats, the creators of the Vault claim that it is good and pure, but any other warps are cheating and therefore not permitted.

 As a move of protest, some of the Independents blockaded one of the outlying Vault structures with TNT. This highly dangerous substance can only be removed by cheating - which was designed to highlight how the Vaultists will only allow this behaviour when it suits their own purposes.

 

Unfortunately while obtaining this photo, the Vaultist Turkeybrain accidentally triggered the TNT and blew himself and the whole outlying structure entrance to pieces.

 
^ The aftermath of the explosion.

Although Turkeybrain died in the explosion, he has made a swift recovery and is once again active in the world of Minecraft.

The outlying structure was an entrance to an underground cavern, and has since been repaired.

Wether these events will swing sympathy to the Vaultist Elites, or be a catalyst that causes the Independents to unite and overthrow the Vaultist domination of Warp Control remains to be seen.

We’ll keep you posted.

MNN - Minecraft Nightly News


Comments: 5

 

Comment: 1

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 14/12/2010 10:26 PM




Sorry Turks - you weren't meant to detonate it!

 

Comment: 2

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Tue 14/12/2010 10:47 PM




Biased reporting at it's best.

He blockaded the entrance to my epic cavern, which while located directly underneath the vault, had absolutely nothing to do with the vault. There was no cheating in there.

He also didn't mention that he planted TNT in the communal vault location, unfortunately due to a door left in during construction he went a bit far and ended up in my vault (he isn't supposed to get there, that's kind of the point), stole all my rare diamond tools and laid more TNT. Which I promptly hit by accident again. Meaning I had nothing left, both inside and out.

Seriously though, it's only a game, it really doesn't matter. It's just a great waste of time.

 

Comment: 3

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 14/12/2010 10:51 PM




The sign said help yourself - I didn't know it only meant that floor.

 

Comment: 4

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Tue 14/12/2010 11:03 PM




We had to leave an access tunnel as we built it so we could set up the warps for people later. You went right through the public area into my private area. The windows give it away. There are only 2 rooms with windows, and Brendan and I have them. We came up with the idea too late to put it in for others.

 

Comment: 5

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 14/12/2010 11:10 PM




The windows give it away?

Obviously a room with windows isn't part of the public area. Sorry I didn't put the two together.