Anarchyville

**Anarchyville** was a base founded by the group True Vanilla Gang on September 24th, 2021 with the goal of maintaining a spawnbase for as long as possible, building and rebuilding it despite any griefs just to see how it would turn out. The idea was created as a reference to Hermeticlock's World Famous Spawn Base and Homeland projects on 2b2t.

The coordinates of the base, located in -2333, 3222, were made public on the very first day of the base's creation, as anyone who wanted to participate to the base's development was more than welcome. It was one of the most active bases in TVE history, with almost 30 people contributing to the development of the base and countless griefs organized against it, before slowly fading into inactivity after the TVG presence officially stopped on November 1st, 2021.

## Concept

The original idea was copied from the World Famous Spawn Base and Homeland by 2b2t player Hermeticlock. At those bases, the coords were made public very early on if not at the start of the base's creation. Regardless of if the base was being griefed, the participants and contributors continued to build at the same location until the group either went inactive or the original location was so destroyed that they had to move somewhere else.

With Anarchyville, the coords were announced at the start of the project and anyone who wanted to participate was encouraged to join. The base was only a few thousand blocks away from spawn, so it could be stumbled upon organically, but it was also close enough that a new player could get to it as their first objective when joining the server for the first time. The location was important for the sake of convenience to all potential parties, builders, visitors and griefers alike.

In the words of Brsph, the de-facto "leader" of True Vanilla Gang :

> "From now on, those coords are Anarchyville, regardless of what you find or add when you get there. If the base is clean, it's Anarchyville. If it's griefed, it's Anarchyville. If there's nothing left but untouched void for years, that space is still Anarchyville, an experiment of the community."
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## History

### Initial Settlement (Sep 2021 - Oct 2021)

#### The "Place of the Challenge"

Anarchyville first started as a challenge created by EficaciousMig47 during the Era of Silence announced on August 31st, 2021. This was part of a series of events he was doing to increase player activity on the server, as it suffered through the longest continuous period of inactivity in its history.

He built a fake base consisting of birch-themed buildings and gave the challenge to everyone in the official Discord server to find this base and grief it down to bedrock. The first to do so would win. The range of coords provided was -5,000 -5,000 to +5,000 +5,000, and the players had a single pic to guess where the location was.

Despite the success of his previous events, this one did not see as much activity. Nevertheless, the base was found first by Elioty2 the next day, then by Brsph, and then by obyx, but none of them actually griefed the base. The base was decorated by countless signs put by Efic that said "the place of challenge" to let the winners know they were at the right place.

#### Founding of Anarchyville

By this point, EficaciousMig47 and Brsph were both part of the newly-founded True Vanilla Gang. Inspired by Hermeticlock's World Famous Spawn Base project, Brsph sought to create a similar base near spawn, and since Efic's challenge base had gone ungriefed, it was decided between them to use that base as the start of the "Anarchyville experiment" on September 24th, 2021. Alongside the initial buildings that were constructed for the first challenge, Brsph added a dark oak, modern-looking cabin which would be rebuilt multiple times as the first creation of what would now be called Anarchyville by the pair.

#### 1st Period of Construction

The project was made public on September 26, 2021 on the official TVE Discord server, and was received surprisingly well by the community. Despite claims that it should be immediately griefed, the base managed to last 17 days without grief, with at least 23 contributors working on the base all at different times and living in peace between each other. This honeymoon period saw several great builds come up, as well as an unexpected number of farms such as a villager breeder and a villager trading hall with armorers, farmers and many other builds. All players worked out of a community storage area on the southern mountain range, where the challenge's birch buildings stood.

#### First Grief

On October 12th, 2021, Ceddelullee and IgnIted\_7, alleged memebers of the PhoenixAnarchy group Venomforce happened to log on, and were promptly invited by Brsph to come check out the project, as Brsph would invite any new player to come contribute to the base. The pair heard that this base was standing this close to spawn, and with further approval from Inv\_c, they took it upon themselves to grief the base. Being totally new, they didn't have anything, but they quickly moved to the base due to speedhacks, and killed both Brsph and SkeeverEyes that were present at the base with a one-shot bow hack, taking their gear in the process. From there, they tore apart Bennooo's house, which was built out of wither skulls, and used those to summon withers through the base, killing anyone who came near them. The griefers didn't have anything else to grief with, so they promptly logged off while the withers sunk to bedrock and never logged on again.

#### Second Period of Construction

Brsph and SkeeverEyes rebuilt the community storage building, and there were attempts to rebuild other buildings and farms that were still salvageable, though some ruins were cleared out to make room for other buildings. Newer farms were built by Brsph, mainly a villager breeder and pumpkin and melon farm, but pretty much everything created after this point at the base were aesthetic builds.

At this point, and going forward, the base would keep being notably active, but there would also be intermittent griefs. Almost every day, a build would be griefed slightly or totally deleted, sometimes even wiped out block-for-block as if it had never existed.

Though the griefs kept being anonymous and no one ever got caught in the act, a white and yellow banner with a yellow stripe across would be left on some occassions. On November 1, 2021, Elioty2 discovered a hideout North of the base belonging to a group called the Slash - it was made clear by the signs left there that this hideout was supposed to be an embassy, and that the griefs were either made by people in their ranks or by affiliated anonymous people. People speculated that the Slash were perhaps insiders of the group, or members of the ongoing Bamboo Bois group, but no usernames were left behind, so the size of the importance of the group - if it was even a group at all - are lost to history.

#### TVG Halloween Build Contest

On October 30, 2021, the TVG Halloween Build Contest was held at Anarchyville as a final event before True Vanilla Gang decided to officially leave the project. The goal was simply to build a Halloween-themed construction within 90 minutes, at the end of which the community would collectively judge who was the winner. SkeeverEyes, BigManReef, and Brsph were the three participants, and in the end, BigManReef was crowned the winner and recieved the title of Miss Anarchyville.

#### TVG Steps Back

On November 1st, 2021, Brsph announced the end of TVG's "official" presence at the base after about a month of constant building. The project would remain ongoing, and anyone who wanted to build or grief at Anarchyville was free to do so in Brsph's eyes.

### Aftermath (Nov 2021 - Present)

While TVG was not officially at the base as part of a group effort, several members of the group were still there, including EficaciousMig47. Most of the construction afterwards was made much more difficult by more anonymous griefs in various forms. TNT bombing increased at this point, wither bombing happened countless times as well, and obsidian scaffold trails were left as a mess to clean up. By late November, most of the original builds had been partially or completely wiped out. Efic built an obsidian platform for future builds, and him along with several other members expressed intererest in rebuilding the base, but not much activity happened after 2021 at Anarchyville. Around a year later, all the roaming withers were eventually killed by Eficacious and Mirovski.

## Base Details

### Notable builds

From the beginning of the base to the end of TVG's presence, notable builds include, but are not limited to :

* The public storage building, originally built by Brsph and rebuilt countless times.
* BlockBoi's villager breeder.
* Brsph's villager armory, with armor, tools and weapons villagers + his barnhouse to house farmer villagers.
* Brsph's automated and manual food farms to eat/sell to the farmers.
* Efic's original birch buildings from the challenge.
* Brsph's dark oak modern house, the first building in the official Anarchyville.
* jazzbears' enchanting setup.
* Ramoops' quartz villager statue.
* Bennooo's wither skull house.
* 62bumperbrush's Anarchyville sign.
* Aermyne's castle.
* SkeeverEyes' pumpkin river.
* SkeeverEyes' railway.
* Brsph's bulletin board.
* SkeeverEyes' obsidian sphere.
* Efic's Anarchyville tower.
* BigManReef's Miss Anarchyville Pumpkin Tower.
* The communal zombie grinder / xp farm.

## Sources

1. ↑ It's me - I wrote that right now. -Brsph
2. ↑ Larpy response from Brsph after the grief
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 True Vanilla Gang's Discord server