Miner Mends

Miner (born: ), most commonly known in the Minecraft Bedrock community as Miner Mends, is an American Minecraft YouTuber known for his in depth tutorials, development of ChunkBot, and other types of online creation.
==Personal life==
Mayan Main Mancin (Miner Mends) was born in the United States. He grew up in an apartment, and his parents constantly worked to provide him and his sister a good life (according to public discussions). Mayan was given the opportunity to become a little league baseball player, though, according to Mayan, he was quite terrible (once shared on a livestream). He'd pick the flowers in the field, instead of catching the ball; Mayan claimed "it wasn't his thing". Mayan discovered he was quite good at diving (springboard), and dove in D1 for his high school. Although this wasn't his ideal future, Miner competed for a year in diving for his college, and plans to at least fulfill his AA, and potentially his Bachelor's (according to his Discord). 
Mayan didn't get a phone until 7th grade, and according to some of his personal stories, he felt that it was quite late in his life, compared to most students. He often felt disincluded in social activities, and that he was behind in games, due to not being able to access the online material. He'd often watch Minecraft videos on his Mom's phone at his sisters soccer games, learning how the game works without actually getting to play it. He would watch Minecraft Java plugin reviews, hoping that when he created his own server in the future, he'd know everything about how they worked, which turned out to be handy when Mayan created his Minecraft channel, 'Miner Mends' in 2020. According to his Discord, he found it neat that he was creating content he once watched, and enjoyed "his turn to get a shot at it". 
Years before his main channel, Miner used to create content from a Motorola Android Phone. Using leet.cc (formerly one of the most popular mobile server hosters for MCPE) to host his servers. Mayan once said, he had no idea what he was doing; he was just doing it. Mayan realized that creating content would become something he not only loved and enjoyed, but an art he'd learn to appreciate, which he talked about on some of his past streams. 
Over time, Mayan eventually learned a bunch of useful online skills (shown from his online projects). becoming a developer, builder, designer, etc. Mayan created his own builds for a good portion of his projects, and he also developed his own Discord bots, ChunkBot & MinerP84. Miner sometimes streams himself coding in his Discord VC, but he's talked about how he learned to code solely from reading other Github code, and over time, he acquired enough knowledge to create his own projects. Today, ChunkBot sits in over 1.5k Discord Servers, Miners largest Discords creations. 
Mayan has shared that he isn't trying to be the next Dream or the next big YouTuber. He shifted his content in 2023 from creating server reviews and SMP videos to becoming a Minecraft Bedrock tutorial YouTuber (covering farms, redstone, etc), and uploads occasionally. His true goal is to be able to inspire others and produce for his audience. Mayan is currently editing his own videos and doing some of his own artwork. He develops his projects completely independently, which is why some of his content might take a bit longer than most, as talked about in his Discord. 
==Experience & History==
===#MendingArmy Community===
The #MendingArmy community is a fan Discord created by Miner Mends. This server's sole purpose is to show your support toward his efforts (videos, servers, etc). He runs his community alone, and everything you see in his Discord was done on his own time. The server was created sometime in 2021, and was deleted and recreated in 2022. 
#MendingArmy Discord Server: https://discord.gg/mendingarmy-892125733047132210
=== #MendingArmy SMP===
What's no longer active today, used to be a renowned Bedrock server that offered players the chance to compete in Survival challenges and play together in one big massive realm (Survival World). Unfortunately, this server remains inactive and has no foreseeable recreation.
===MinerLins ===
This server was an original Minecraft Bedrock KitPvP server, created by Miner Mends. It offered a unique fair-play experience, where players could choose between different kits that would constantly change weekly, known as balance changes. It had a meta, and at its peak (during a live stream), had over 55 players online. The server eventually closed due to Pocketmine upgrading to PMMP 4.0, and Miner had no desire to fund the project into further development, especially because the server was Non-Profit. But a big factor was mainly due to the complications of having to build the server from scratch. The server remains closed, and has no plans for returning.
===ChunkBot ===
ChunkBot, a Minecraft Discord Bot that allows players to view their Chunks, Slime Chunks, measure distances, and save coordinates. Miner developed this bot to better assist his community for his own tutorials. ChunkBot is in over 1.5k Discord Servers, and has had over 200+ total premium members subscribed to the service (publicly viewable on his channel). The bot was designed to give players some free tools, whilst ultimately helping fund Miners videos, without having to rely on donations/subscriptions.
===Music===
Miner was releasing music under 'Mayan MC', but later took down all his content. He uploaded his first song on YouTube, April 16th (BrokenLens Song). This was somewhat of a satire post in terms of his music professionalism but has an impactful meaning on the community. The song was created in response to a Minecraft Server shutting down (BrokenLens), and while no other creator made a song, Miner also created/released the song on the same day the server was closing. It's not yet known whether more music will be released.
===Trivia===
*Miner has stated unequivocally that no one will be editing his videos. 'I privated a large number of my videos that had not been edited by me. I am a firm believer in high quality content! Hiring others to do that for me defeats the entire purpose of being referred to as a Content Creator.
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Category:Users who joined in 2017
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