[coolaa24]

So, I was bored looking for servers, Minerealm popped up, I started off like any other noob, I asked if anyone needed a worker and if I could have a place too live if I worked for them, Than nechahara (I think that's how you spell it) Gave me a place too stay, I lived there until early 2014, I than got a donation of credits, Bought a realm right near abyssus, I was never greifed/looted, Which I'm good with I dug a small house underground, Lived there for a month, MightySoup let me have 2 horses and I mated them, I mated them again, And again, And again. I now
have a above ground house with a chicken farm and a soon too be cow farm.

[OneManWo1fPac]

This is interesting, never told staff about this since there was no need to

I joined the server from Avos greifing video, and I came to grief I joined found a village, diamond_boss which I was accepted into. I gained realm rights and when he got off I started to grief only to stop replace everything and return everything I took because I thought there was no need, I started liking the server a lot and never regretted not greifing.


To summarize after that I went from a random to an average player I stayed here a while until I found vortexes triple spanner which I gained a lot of attention for. Me and roach both semi we'll known players created vortex got known for our excellent pho skills and slowly grower to the amazing guild it is today. For anyone that wants to be a owner of such a great guild just do what I did, tarted with 3 members and just do what you do best and the best will come

[Skylord_Fox]

0820497 brought me here.
Multiple others have kept me here.
The story between is painful and tedious.

[Meowrocket]

*ahem* My turn.
I've been here since February 2011, I believe. That was back during the country system days, I believe. I joined the original Terra Celestis, led by Tyadran and Cogohst (Both of whom I knew IRL and formed the idea together). After supposedly completing the first of four (or was it five?) towers, Orion, some crazy stuff occured. THe country disbanded, Aguy130 commandeered the workers' apartments, and the tower itself was bombed to an empty shell. I picked up all I could of my beloved Terra Celestis Church and moved it to the very corner of the map with Tyadran, who had moved there to avoid the craziness around Orion. Upon rebuilding the church, a map wipe hit. With this map wipe came several new things. (Possibly the creative server; Not sure if it was around beforehand.) After much nonsense, getting banned, and realm wars, the new plot system was implemented. Tyadran all but died, and I migrated with the slightly paranoid Cogohst all over the blocky globe. After developing friendships, I left MineRealm for a bit due to an attack of "Real Life". I returned to find them all gone, most struck down in the purge involving the 'Other Server' and other scandals. I freaked out, running to the only person I remembered: Otherkitty. Soon after she allowed me to move in with her and sold me several realms to get me started, I vanished again due to real life. On return she, too, was banned, and I was alone. After much nonsense involving kidnapping Conorpk and forcing him to test death traps to negotiating reposession of Otherkitty's old properties from Hairykid980 (Think that's his name) I started expanding.Renamed the United Attican Republics after the Homeplot Attica, I took at least 7 realms total. Eventually the U.A.R. became the A.U., or Attican Union. Today I posess 16 plots, all in my name. I run a guild full of inactive players, and often only come on to talk or fight in the Mist. I need to get back into it, but life (raising a child) and other things (TF2 and Space Engineers) have slowed that down.

TL;DR: You must not care about my MineRealm life if you skipped to here. Read the whole thing, ya wimp.

-Meowrocket

[dlgn]

[mitchie151]

I joined Minerealm when I saw it on the official Minecraft forums. It was in its early days, classic 1.0 I think we called it, so in essence, the very first Minerealm map. I'd guess that was late october to mid-november 2010. I joined the forums a bit over a week after they went public, so december 16th 2010. I was very, very new to Minecraft at the time. I joined a dude called Mastermic's tree plantation, and kind of took over operations, building it into a fully sick mega farm, more than doubling its capacity... Turned out most of that was useless because people were duping things like mad back then. Diamond blocks were banned because of all the duping lol.

Pretty soon after, there was a map wipe. Classic 2.0 came around and I ditched Mastermic who had gone inactive and built my own mountain home. A few of my friends had Minecraft by that point, so we continued to build it up. There was a massive secret base underneath, and what a cool tower on top of one of the mountains... (it was cool at the time, shut up). Probably my biggest 'public' achievement on that map was a giant statue, a very amateur organic build of a dude holding a sword. A few mods TP'd by when they weren't busy and checked it out, normally to moderate praise.

There was one more map between then and 2.0, which was probably my favourite. That was the first true survival map. Kurachi was the big cities then, and I lived about 500 blocks past it, hidden into a mountain. It was actually a really cool base, I'd be proud of it even today. Everyone had their own personal rooms, and when we became prosperous enough we began to build a small city out the back. I'm actually more proud of that city than I am of what came next....

Snowvale! Ah yes, 2.0. Not a highlight of my Minerealm life. Well, to be fair, it was pretty cool. Snowvale was one of the top 10 realms. That was back in the day when you expanded a realm by placing blocks in it, so a lot of the bigger realms had massive block dumps to maximise their building space. Snowvale? We had MASSIVE walls. Ridiculously sized walls. It was ugly as sin. Even the buildings inside were a disgrace. It was pretty much everything I would now stand against.... but the people that lived there had fun, and that's really the whole point. Trust me, your friends are more likely to stick around when you let them do what they want together, rather than trying to control them like an army of slaves... I know from experience.

We had a pretty big issue with griefing and trolling at that point as well. Our neighbours, Novasbiscuit, pretty much did everything in their power to bend the rules and abuse the lack of block tracking at the time to ruin our fun. This included surrounding the city in lava, digging up the snow that gave it its name, and in general building things to insult us. When the stupid war system was implemented, they instantly declared a war upon us, which we surrendered within a week without losses, giving us the infamous title of the first and only losers of the realm war system.

By this time, I like to think I was relatively well known in the community. The residents of Novasbiscuit got what was coming for a long time, and by majority vote, their leader was permabanned. 3.0 was a better time for myself.

We started by planning to build a floating city, with ships and boats, but when I was invited by Intelli to start a new city I dropped everything. We departed from what I think was called sunnyvale? Sunnydale? Sun something. Sand? I don't know. It was pretty risky travelling through the nether at that time. But when we came out the other side... Abyssus was founded.

I think a lot of you would know the story from here. Abyssus became rather large, and when multiple spawns was introduced we were chosen to represent the server... bad move. The amount of griefing or general destruction of our theme pretty much disgusted us all to the point where we couldn't even bring ourselves to play. For a while, I pushed myself to turn it into a real city, building the tree, the pub and arena... but it got to the point where my tiny patch was no longer enough to represent the whole city. Most of it made me unhappy to see and I became pretty inactive.

It was in a conversation with a friend, either Sparkyman or iBiS, where we decided to build Sub Aurora. It was an escape from Abyssus more than anything... Let us stop caring about it (by this point it had been even more trashed by a public land wipe). Sub Aurora was a very on-off project. We got a lot of help from the community digging the main cave, but we built pretty much everything inside.

4.0 treated Abyssus well, but it still hasn't spurred us into action. The Savannah to the north would be a great place for someone to build something nice. I think a lot of us Short Circuit Gamers have moved on from Minecraft. I have over a month of game time personally, a scary statistic. I don't really have the time for it now, at least not the time to do anything particularly productive. The time I do get in holidays is better spent on other games now. Bit of variety is nice!

I think I've had a pretty good run so far!

[Ratta237]

Seems appropriate that my 1000th post is a recap of my time on MineRealm.

<LONG SLIGHTLY BORING POST ALERT>

Spoiler:

I joined in December 2011, the sun made it impossible to do anything outside, so here I was, ridiculously bored on my laptop. I decided to try out Minecraft's multiplayer, I searched around the internet for a server to connect to. I chose MineRealm, I still can't remember why I chose MineRealm.

I connected, I spawned in Roanoke and I was pretty confused with the chat and command system at first, pretty sure I disabled public chat by accident for my first few hours. I ran off into the distance, found some public land, and dig a small rabbit hole like house. Then I logged off, that was my first session on MineRealm.

At first I had no idea what griefing was. I thought everything in public land was free game. That got me banned once. Then shortly after that I got banned for swearing and then spamming. After those bans I changed my ways and I haven't been banned since.

After awhile on MineRealm started to make a couple of friendships. Joelove and Aquabreeze helped me out when I was building my first permanent home, still on public land though. Keeping to my home town of Roanoke, I didn't even know spawn city existed. That all changed when I got my first 'job'.

SchmidtBochum gave me a terraforming job for a realm not too far from spawn. Getting there was difficult, it was my first time using the subway, but Schmidt was extremely good at explaining it to me.
After I had completed the job I bought the plot of land my main home was on when Schmidt offered me membership at Lutzville. I accepted.

Life in Lutzville was pretty good, there was a guild bank and plenty of facilities (farms, enchanting tables, brewing stands etc.) but my place there never my home. I was always switching between my /home and Lutzville but it was easier if I just stayed at my /home. I left the guild.

After leaving Lutzville I focused on expanding my plot list. I built some building, tried to start up a business and even planned to build a giant cake. But slowly I was finding more and more reasons to not log on. I took a four month break from MineRealm, I let my plots disband (including one within 300 blocks of spawn realm >_<)

When I came back a lot had changed, most of my old friends were inactive/banned and I barely talked to anyone at this point. But I caught up on the forums and met some new people. Dlgn, Cobaya18, krinbros, Skylord_Fox, MrKeveCool, VVolfie and Meowrocket are just a few of the new people that I met.

After building a strange staircase house near spawn I was approached by SilverKnightM about joining a new guild he was starting called Ardania. A veteran's building guild was the way he pitched it to me. It sounded pretty good. He had bought a bunch of plots for the construction of a mansion which would be the guild's primary project. The offer was too good to refuse so I accepted it.

The first job was terraforming the large amount of plots, new people joined day by day and soon we had a large member base. The terraforming was over in a flash but once we got to the actual building there was a lot of disparity. Not everyone knew what they were doing. A lot of our recruited base had gone inactive. The guild was a crumbling wreck and I decided to jump into the water rather than wait for it to sink. I left Ardania.

And that pretty much brings us to current times. I am the one and only member of N/A and proud of it. My most recent achievement is my home's mega map. Otherwise I pretty much only go on MineRealm to either talk with friends or just ride around on my horses.

[Eetrab]

Joined whenever.

Picked a spot.

Became a hermit.

[falareborn]

When I first joined, I build a one realm large glass house. My neighbor was my nephew and we both played together. Then one day I was looking for sand, I found sand close to my realm. Mined it all, because it was public land and no claim signs (as far as I saw). Then got banned for griefing (the beach was claimed). Got unbanned, restored the beach. I started to become a Donor, and donated every month (little break of donating last month because of some financial issues) Build a large sugar cane farm. I believe I took a break, my nephew quitted later.

When i came back from the break, my realms were public and griefed. I left it, had some fresh ideas, start over. Bought four realms, decided to dig them out and build a underground Hive (from Resident Evil). As soon as guilds were introduced, TUC (The Umbrella Corporation) was born. I can’t tell much about the experiments we perform, our employee numbers, or where our bases are, but those zombies you see walking around at night? One of our earlier experiments. Anyways, then I had another break, a longer one this time.

Came back, everything was public again but I got bored of digging the 4 realms out, so I also left it. This time I decided I had enough breaks. Bought some plots near spawn city, read about villagers and breeding. I started build the TUC Cloning Site. Near my plots, I found an intact public unclaimed village (perfect subjects to experiment on). Bought it right away, build some dirt walls around it to protect it from intruders. Made glass prison chambers to store the villagers. Then build the first TUC Iron Farm. After performing several important experiments on the villagers, I moved them to the iron farm rooms. Where they live forever, to summon Iron Giants for TUC. I found out that people can be teleported to your plots, so I replaced the dirt walls at the breeding village with a glass cube.

Meanwhile the plots were full of chests, chests everywhere. TUC didn’t had a real HQ yet, so that would be the next big project. The project is still running, but it’s going to be unique on Minerealm. Meanwhile I applied for staff. BSGSamual left the staff because of real life reasons, I got accepted as staff. Now TUC is working together with North Korea for world domination. TUC is breeding a zombie army for North Korea.

[Tee]

Alright ... my real MineRealm history

I joined in January 2013 as a complete MineCraft noob. I'd built some very basic huts in SP and knew how to craft basic tools, but that was about it. After a week of playing around in SP in my spare time, I decided that MineCraft would be far more enjoyable as part of a community and started searching for a survival server.

Most that I joined were far too PvP oriented or heavily modded for my liking, until after several hours and dozens of servers I stumbled upon MineRealm. I was immediately impressed by the builds around spawn, though I did wonder why spawn itself was so desolate

Being the rule-abiding sort, I read all the signs at spawn, had a quick look at the major surrounding builds and then followed the red wool path to the teleporter. As luck would have it, I was dropped within 100 blocks of the southern map border. I had no idea of this at the time of course, and settled down happily in a picturesque little cove alongside several abandoned cobble castles.

Condensed story from there - I built a small village (on the intersection of four realms, of course...), recovered some cows from beyond the map border using a fishing rod, traded for some pigs and sheep, and set about breeding animals and giving them away to anyone who wanted to come and collect them. DarelleZindad saw me offering animals for free in chat and decided to come and pay her new neighbour a visit, which formed my introduction to Darelle, Darz, Taratsamura and all the others in Rising Destiny (or Imperial Realms as it was at that point).

I soon lost interest in the village as my architectural design skills are rather limited, and instead started work on a gold farm - MineRealm's first, as far as I'm aware. I constructed it in a large cavern dug beneath the ocean floor, with a glass ceiling allowing tranquil views of squid swimming lazily overhead, and expanded it several times (Mk I, Mk II and Mk III). At its peak, the Mk III farm spawned around 1250 mobs per hour ... slightly faster than a double skelly grinder.

Darelle then introduced me to the wonders of villager trading, and I built a highly efficient sugarcane farm alongside the gold farm. With my trusty librarian, Inkstains, and Darelle's well-trained blacksmith, I soon had diamond tools, weapons and armour by the double chest load.

At this point whispers started circulating about an impending public land wipe, and I decided that I was keen as mustard to have my 100-odd realms wiped to new terrain. So I tore down my village, dismantled the gold farm and sugarcane modules, and shifted everything I owned into my vault. At this point I really had nothing to show for my time on MineRealm except for a well stocked storage vault and a large area of land. Some months later the wipe came through and gave me the new terrain that I had been so longing for ... including 70 realms of deep ocean!

Making the best of the cards I was dealt by the wipe, I started work on the Gold Farm Mk IV, building it up near sky limit over the centre of a small ocean. I decided to make this version insanely huge, and some 11 DC of obsidian later it was finished ... the equivalent of 566 giant portals (23 x 23) spawning some 5500 mobs per hour. That's as fast as you can kill them with a sword, pretty much. It's kinda groovy

The Gold Farm Mk IV was a fairly intense project though, with a great deal of mind-numbing repetitive construction work, and it sapped much of my interest in building projects. As such I presently spend most of my time in MineRealm derping about or working on minor side projects around my vault, waiting for inspiration to strike once again