Cactus Family Mafia

== Summary ==
The Cactus Family mafia is a moderately large group of online friends, loosely lead by Byodx, who will come together from time to time to play games such as Minecraft, Terraria and Jackbox, but they have played many more games. There is currently 26 people in the discord, alts excluded, but some are a lot more active in the group than others, with around 9 people being more or less completely inactive in the discord.
== Inception ==
Cactus Hands was created as some sick joke by Byodx on August 8th, 2017. He invited some regulars from The CraftersDimension to it and they all started yelling at walls together. For a while it was a chaotic mess comprised mostly of shitposts and scream conversations, along with discussions over Paladins and Robocraft.
== History kind of ==
Telling the history of the Cactus Mafia is like telling the history of a group of high school friends who throw basketballs and each others heads for fun, so this is not a very accurate history.
=== Paladins Cult and Robocraft ===
A few weeks or so into Cactus Hands' history a large amount of people in the discord started playing an absurd amount of a game called Paladins, which is a game sort of like Overwatch, but free. The cult saw a 1 week break where they all decided to play well over 50 hours on Robocraft in a single week, but right after that they started playing again, the Paladins cult would slowly die out over the next few months as the mastermind behind it, AreoOreo, became less involved int he group.
=== That Really Cool Terraria World ===
After deciding 500 hours of Paladins each was enough many members of Cactus Hands created a Terraria world where they would play together for around a month. This article is being written by Historio who wasn't involved in this Terraria world at all so could someone else write this?
=== Stuff and What Not ===
Cactus Hands would continue to play games together, but there wasn't really one game they were obsessed with anymore. They still played on TCD until its shutdown in mid 2018, it was also around this time that Byodx randomly decided to rename the server from Cactus Hands to Cactus Family Mafia. They would also play on the Royal Phoenix and a few realms. Byodx and Sheepzus would also start a tradition of expressing their love through multi-essay political debates, but they agreed to end them once and for all in February 2020.
=== Taking over TCD ===
When The CraftersDimension relaunched it fell under the ownership of MagicTyFighter, who was a regular in the Cactus Mafia. Many TCD staff were also in the Mafia at this point. So basically TCD became a mafia run organization.
=== JackBox ===
Holy shit that game is fun. The group played Jack Box games together a lot in late 2019 and early 2020, but as Christmas vacations ended it became a lot harder to coordinate people in various time zones, so the amount they play the game together has been reduced to 1-3 times per month.
=== Where are they now? ===
In early 2020 the seemingly immortal group finally looked like it was fizzling out, more or less being a glorified DM between Sabriner and Sheepz by the time TCD shut down. 
The group would see a boost in activity when Historio discovered Simplistica and invited everyone from the Cactus Mafia to join the server, 12 of them did and around 9 stayed for a few weeks before conflicts with Simplstica's staff made them leave. They did adopt Richie from Simplistica though and he is pretty cool.
Even after they all left Simplistica the group saw a new surge in activity with quarantine and they would start playing games together again more regularly, and soon Historio invited a lot of them to Townscraft, where they would initiate their newest member, kuroplayer.
== Individual Stories ==
Due to the chaotic nature of the Cactus Mafia its story can better be told by telling the story of their individual members. The members are listed roughly in order of when they joined TCD, but a few people never played on the server so the date they joined the Cactus Mafia will be used instead.
=== Sheepzus ===
Sheepzus was the first member of the Cactus Mafia to join TCD, with the server hardly being a month old when he joined it. He is a very kind and wholesome man and a talented builder, though his motivation is known to be hit and miss. He has been a part of the Paladins cult, the OG Terraria world, a TCD staff, and an Animal crossing lover to list a few things.
=== Epixelated ===
Epixelated, better known as Eriq, joined TCD a month or so after Sheepz did. He is high ranking for the most active players in TCD history and was commonly viewed as 2nd in command to Lucca when he was owner. He has never been super active in the Cactus Mafia discord though, only joining Simplistica for a day or so. He was quite involved in the group's brief Animal Crossing phase though.
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