about two months ago now i conducted a unique experiment utilizing my youtube community to create something in minecraft combining all our efforts to do something incredible i with the help of others created a plugin which would utilize youtube's api to convert every single view a video got into a block a random block placed in a unique tree-like spreading structure and what we created all together turned out to be incredible over NUMBER_TOKEN million views and over NUMBER_TOKEN million blocks placed but things didn't go so smoothly from the server crashing multiple times to players having access to commands which could effectively delete everything that had been done there were some bumps along the way it was all worth it in the end though and we got to see some well-known visitors check out the server and even the most esteemed accomplishment of all a foreign youtuber copying your idea today we're going to be talking about all of that and i'll show you some incredible time lapses and behind the scenes of the experiment so let's begin oh and make sure to subscribe if you haven't already i've got a big experiment planned next that's even more interactive than this one so stick around to the end for a sneak peek of that you don't want to miss out alright so if you're confused about what exactly i'm talking about go watch this video it's a good one trust me but if you can't be bothered going to watch it or watched it and have forgotten about what happened let me give you a quick rundown basically i saw this video by tom scott and thought the idea behind it was awesome i wanted to do something like that in minecraft so i came up with an idea the main premise was that for every view a certain video i made got one block would be randomly placed in a large empty void world the block would be entirely random chosen from over NUMBER_TOKEN different blocks the initial idea was to have the blocks be placed in a large mass and grow bigger and bigger over time but in practice when a plugin was made to do just that it ended up being quite boring so i conceptualized a unique tree shaped structure that would look interesting and like something completely out of this world with the plan now set i got the plugin made with the help of a few others i ran a NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN live stream that would monitor the tree's growth over the first week but i realized that it would get quite hard to see anything cool and players might want to look at it up close so i decided that we could host the experiment on my server URL_TOKEN and let players join and fly around to observe more about that later and with everything set the video was released and the experiment began day one of the experiment was what we were most nervous about while we had done some testing of the plugin beforehand we hadn't prepared for a lot of players to join the server and also weren't sure if things would work in the long term and well i guess we were right to be worried because day one saw a variety of issues first and foremost for testing purposes we had a command that let us simulate a certain amount of views called slash test it we could use this command to choose the way the tree would grow using a seed as well as inputting a certain number of blocks it would grow to well as it turns out we forgot to disable that command once the experiment had begun and only roughly one to two hours into the experiment some players had discovered
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