Ant Cube Survival

**The Ant Cube Survival** was a lore event held in SMPLiv during Season 2. It was based off of WilburSoot's streams where players were meant to attempt to survive as long as possible in a contained space and create societies.

## Prelude

Quarters announced on 4/28/2020 that he would be holding a lore related event. This resulted in numerous players, both active and inactive, returning to the server in preparation. Prior to the event's beginning, over 15 players logged onto the server.
icyblue87 bore witness to the area a day earlier than most, reassuring Quarters that he had done a terrific job of creating the Cube.

## The Ant Cube

The players would be teleported into the cube into a 3x3 water stack centered on 7063, 69, 4307. The group immediately had disconnections, with several players outright timing out of the server. Most were able to recover, though one, denightwalker, did not. He would drown and became the first to be eliminated, as icyblue87 attempted in vain to dig a channel and shove him out of the water. EnPaul took the 41 baked potatoes that denight smuggled into the arena before his untimely demise.

Regardless of this poor start, players such as icyblue87, zirin, NormalLizard, and Ace set out for the mines while others including EnPaul began construction of a farm on the surface above. This survival was a rocky one, with many players losing their lives to both the elements and the other players.

Below, the diggers (dubbed the Mole People) were able to retrieve riches like iron, diamonds, obsidian, lapis, redstone, and lava. Above, the surface dwellers began constructing homes out of stone, wood, and in one case, dirt. While the former group braved the dangers of the mines, the latter group faced down another, greater challenge: being stolen from by each other.

Several loud arguments would break out, though the threat of loss of rewards kept them very capable of cooperation. As the food situation grew dire, Ace stumbled upon two sheets of paper marked "christmas wreath" and "say the magic word:". He immediately informed the chat of his discovery, and eventually, at least one player begged for food. God would intervene, helping the group by spawning in roughly 4 steaks per player. This proved to be a miracle for many of the players, as certain members had came very close to dying.

Soon afterwards, the mole people emerged, finding people like Sethy and Jolt had built themselves homes both above ground and below ground. They would spread out around and visit the areas, with icy directly constructing a Nether Portal and refusing to take credit for it. Zirin had constructed her own portal prior to this, though she never used it. The group continued to survive, albeit on shaky grounds, as their food situation stabilized. Due to quarterss' temporary departure, players would continue to play and dwindle in number until there were only a very few players left.

Quarterss returned roughly 2 hours after the beginning of the event, and allowed the surviving players to journey to a bedrock box in the sky that held the players' names. Some were marked with green to show they were eligible, while others were marked by red to show they were not. The group briefly discussed this development, before each was rewarded with an extra 30 levels. Soon afterwards, the group was banished from the Cube, leaving the area deserted. Out of the original players, there was an extraordinarily small number who had survived.

## Participants

* Quarterss (de facto leader)
* Caden (as God)
* icyblue87
* denightwalker
* zirqn
* ImpulseFibre731
* TyTKaydn
* Cubic
* Grasslandia
* AceOfRoyalSuites
* Jolt
* NormalLizard
* EnPaul
* Sethy

## Aftermath

The Nether Portal on the surface would be used by icyblue87 to log a location in the Nether. He would contemplate constructing a railway over to the area, though he never did so.

The Lore's two papers allegedly despawned, though this is called into question by the one who watches.