Tower Wars

## An Introduction to Tower Wars

Tower Wars is a Capture-the-Flag type minigame. There are 2 teams, Proton and Solar. You are spawned on 2 islands high in space, and you have to capture the opponent’s flag and retrieve it to your island. The team with the most captures wins.

## The Creation of Tower Wars (InPvP)

It was a game created on December the 17th 2015 by InPvP developers and it was introduced shortly after. The official minigame was hosted on a server called InPvP, a Minecraft Bedrock-Only server, which was renamed to MineVille shortly after. InPvP was a PvP/PvE type server that focused mainly on PvP games, including Tower Wars, Dungeon Wars and TNT Run. After Tower Wars was released, the game hit over 23 active servers and over 100+ active players. It was one of the games that made InPvP spike up in the number of players.

It is now one of the most classic and nostalgic games in the whole of the Minecraft Bedrock community.

## Gameplay and Properties

The game consisted of 2 islands based in a space-themed map. There were two islands corresponding to their teams- Solar and Proton. Solar being blue team and Proton being red team. Each player would spawn in the base, which was a space-themed castle, that was only assessable to the corresponding team. The opposing team would be met with a barrier, stopping them from entering. There were 3 rows of iron generators on each side, and 3 rooms of gold generators. There was also a middle island with a diamond generator.

**SHOP ITEMS**

The Tower Wars Battleshop consisted of these items and their prices. Stone sword (40 iron), Iron sword (10 gold), diamond sword (2 diamond), ender pearl (1 diamond), snowballs x8 (1 diamond), corresponding wool color x16 (10 iron), glass x16 (2 iron) and more. The rest have been lost and cannot be recovered. There was also a vertical portal that you could enter for 5 diamonds that would spawn you on the elytra launchpad and automatically equip you with an elytra. The elytra was modified and made it so that it would break much faster than a usual one to prevent fly campers. Basically, it broke after you flew 2 rounds from team 1 to 2 and back.

**HOW TO WIN AND PLAY**

On each team, there were 2 side rooms at the top of 2 towers beside the main spawn base. These contained the team's flags. To capture a flag, you must go up to the flag and click or tap if you're on mobile. It would then announce your username in chat and say that you've held the flag. Take the flag back to your base and you get 1 capture. Upon holding the flag, your armor will turn white to give off your location.

## What Happened to Tower Wars?

On January the 5th 2020, MineVille officially removed InPvP, essentially leading to the discontiuation of their most prized games. This included TNT run, dungeon wars, space race and most importantly, tower wars. There is still no reason why the developers on InPvP decided to make this move. But all we know is that tower wars will forever be gone, and can only be remembered.

Some theories on why the closing of Tower Wars were the fact that Bedrock Servers costed too much, especially if it was a featured server. It could have also been the result of one of the devs leaving the job. But otherwise, we have no clue.

## How can I play Tower Wars again?

There is no confirmed server that has the exact version of tower wars. Similar variants of it are on some bedrock servers like GamePlex or MineField. Java exclusive servers like Hypixel also have some similar variants too. But, **there is a server** **that may be released that will remaster the exact tower wars and other discontinued games from InPvP.** An anonymous developer is going to announce the release of this Tower Wars/InPvP server for mainly Java players but might also release Bedrock versions or even crossplay. This server is going to remaster the exact games from InPvP, but most likely will only have Tower Wars to begin with. He says that "this is a very nostalgic game and deserves to be brought back". The server will remaster tower wars and other games. Updates soon.

**REST IN PEACE TOWER WARS**

**December 17th 2015 - January 5th 2020**