Grogstown

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Submadoge [October 22nd - October 25th]

Grogstown Council [October 25th - November 9th]

Submadoge [November 9th - January 8th]

DankTurtleMaster [January 8th - January 8th]

Submadoge [January 8th -]

### Services

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**Grogstown** was a town in the 1.16 server. It was built under the pretense of entry to all and little rules on builds, inspired by the beliefs and structure of Ghost Town. It was created by user Submadoge on August 15th 2020. Citizens of Grogstown were known as Grogs. It's official mascot was the dog Donson, a dog that sat by the portal and protected the town. The town was located atop a mountain, near an ocean and a spruce biome. It was also situated next to the West Overworld highway. Grogstown was currently allied with Seatown, previously allied with Novac and Stal Town before they were both anexed by NoWhere, with Stal Town now being owned by Grogstown. Grogstown had a population of 115, but does not hold the title of largest town or the first to hit 100 members by decision of Submadoge.

## Complete History

### Day One

Grogstown was formed on the first day of the 1.16 servers release. The project started when by an off whim, it's creator, Submadoge, decided to create his own town instead of waiting out till the Nether Highways got started up and he would join a new town, which at the time he hoped would be a town that would be the successor of Ghost Town. Sub founded the town when walking down the mismatched path which would later be dubbed as the Western Overworld Highway, when he came across a flat hill just off the path that could be used to start a town on. There, Sub created a small house to stay in, where he would be killed inside multiple times due to the zombies that surrounded the land, in addition to the heavy lag from an influx of players.

Nearby the town was a small home owned by a player named Blue\_Dragon. Sub had left some signs outside their home asking them whether they´d like to join the town, but to this date Dragon has never answered. Sub began to set the foundation of the town by laying down stone brick roads with leaves on either side of them, a simple path design but one that Sub believed would inspire order in the town and make it seem more concrete and stable of a town than it really was. He made one strip going from the Western Overworld Highway (WOH), and off some. He constructed a massive nether portal opposite parallel to his house that the town still uses today. Sub made this portal large, as along with the paths, thought it make the town feel more important, popular, etc, etc, than it really was.

This all seemed to help as people started to come by and join the town, the first citizen being S3EDling, and others as well such as JC\_Denton and XxFighterxX. The town had 8 members by the end of the day and was steadily growing as time went by. The portal however spawned in an area where a claim had already been made on the newly created West Highway by a player named FireArmFish. This went pretty unnoticed until later on. While building up the city, Sub began to decide on a name for the town. He mixed letters and vowels together to make something to go in front of ¨town¨ and ended up on ¨Gregtown¨. The name was changed to make it sound more fluid to ¨Gregstown¨ but decided that it sounded to stupid so it was finally changed to ¨Grogstown¨. This had nothing to do with the drink, as Sub forgot it was a thing until later on. Sub laid signs all across the WOH and the West Highway telling players to come down to Grogstown, which brought many new players to the town.

### Early Days

The first few weeks of Grogstown went fairly well. JC\_Denton greatly helped out with the town and housed started to pop up all around the town. Submadoge made a list of a rules at the start of Grogstown, but they were taken down quickly after criticism from other citizens. To quote ¨did you have a stroke while writing this¨. The rules within Grogstown were never set in stone, but created and withheld by Submadoge, trying to create a town that had everything that he felt that the 1.15 towns that he saw lacked. This being to create an open environment, where all anyone has to do is to build a house, and they can live in the town. All other official business and other problems would be done by the town. These rules worked incredibly well during the early days of Grogstown, but would soon fall apart as time went on.

The Grogstown discord was created by Snorlax3601, although no one could join the server for a while due to Submadoge not understanding how discord censorship worked on the server. The first big issue that happened within Grogstown was a few raids that happened within the town the turned away a lot of new citizens, stunting players from staying in Grogstown, one leading factor which would lead to Grogstown´s death later on. S3Edling would create a farm within the town, which is the same farm still used today in Grogstown. AydenSWG invited Grogstown to an alliance as a representative of the soon to be Stal Town that was going to be created near Grogstown. This alliance was held up untill Stal Town´s annexation from NoWhere. At the end of the month, Grogstown sent out alliance requests to Oreo Town and Seatown. Although Oreo Town never responded, Seatown did and accepted the invitation. Submadoge and Banana pirate1 discussed what the alliance could mean for both towns, and they decided that when one town ran out of cows or other livestock, the other town would supply them with new ones. This promise was never held up by Grogstown, and Seatown only supplied Grogstown with a few cows before stopping and never doing so again. Besides this, the two towns still hold up a strong relationship with each other and continue to be allies.

The first major controversy within the town was when one citizen name XxFighterxX began to take control of the city. Fighter had marked down buildings within the town to be demolished as they were too ugly or incomplete by Fighter´s standards. After some tracking by the Grogstown discord and some signs being left out, Fighter was identified and was told off by Submadoge, reminded that Sub owns the town and Fighter does not. Fighter returned not soon after and began to sell plots of land within Grogstown. Although this was not a previously stated rule, Sub and members of the council (an early version of the council which were just members of Grogstown. They would later be renamed to The Senate once the actually Grogstown Council was formed.) decided that this was just a scummy thing to do and went against what the town stood for. Submadoge once again reminded Fighter of there place in Grogstown. Fighter responded to this poorly, and griefed Submadoge´s house and protested around Grogstown about the lack of rules around what can and cannot be done. Submadoge attempted to write a book of rules, but could not do so as he was on the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, and due to the plugin used to allow bedrock players to play on the nativly run Java server, he was unable to write books. JC\_Denton began to write the book, but it was never in use as Fighter had used /lock on the lectern placed down for them at the center of town. The book was never used and the only copy is owned by Submadoge Submadoge then decided to tell Fighter directly the rules that they were making, which led Fighter to block Submadoge. After a 0-5 vote on the Grogstown discord, it was desided that Fighter was to be evicted from Grogstown and never to return again. JC wrote a book on his eviction and left it in his house. This note never reached Fighter as he was banned the same day and had never returned since.

### Still going, still growing

Growth continued in Grogstown and for a while it did very well, usually gaining five or more members daily. It was also around this time that Submadoge began doing poorly in school, and wanted to form a council. The original purpose for said council was to enforce the rules that Sub had set while he was away, and he recruited members of this council, by just asking if anyone was interested in the\_council chat. There, the first Grogstown Council was formed, made up by NickCraft21, JC\_Denton0451, Drilled\_Bean, DankTurtleMaster, DXD\_Tech, ArtsyRex, Joecraftnorris, and WarheroesINC. This council was not made to be permanent, rather the council members would be switched out if they were seen unfit for there duties. This specific council did not work well. Warheroes took to much control over Grogstown and over time, proved to be to much work to keep up with, and thus, was later replaced by Trotato. ArtsyRex was replaced by LakuTheDark due to inactivity on Artsy´s part, and Joecraftnorris was replaced by SE3dling for the same reason. JC\_Denton was removed from the council due to inactivity also, and Uoiauai joined up. After some issues with War, the town was still doing very well for itself. It was growing quicky from 30 to 60 members and didn´t look like it was stopping. For a while it seemed like nothing could go wrong.

### Golden Days

While Grogstown was led mainly under the new council and Submadoge, things went very well. The council had a good idea of what was going on and had good chemistry with each other, and Grogstown continued on with it´s main goal of accepting new players in and creating an environment where they can live. For a few weeks, Submadoge was in a hopeless school situation and had to leave for a while, which led the council to overthow him and make a new government known as the Union of Grogstown. This was all a joke and in good fun but a lot of other leaders took it seriously and Grogstown had a target on it for a bit, but everything was smoothed over once Sub was able to come back on again. DankTurtleMaster and Submadoge were able to evict FireArmFish from their property and claim the land for Grogstown, making the nice portal area you see today. Submadoge and the council continued to work hard on the town as a new goal presented itself, becoming the first town to reach 100 members. The last goal was set by Curiosity at 98 members, but as Grogstown reached 80, the goal seemed just in reach. Spirit City lagged not to far behind, so a race was practically called to see who could do it first.

### The Fall of Grogstown

The day had finally come for Grogstown. The town board had reached it´s one hundredth member. The news was announced over discord and in game, but the response back was not what was expected. The legitimacy of the claim was put into jeopardy when multiple claims of fraud were brought up such as citizenship given to a member who had possibly never set foot into the town before, membership given to a person who shares an account with another member, and giving membership to someone who hasn´t played on the server in months. All of this shattered Sub´s self confidence, and his failing of himself also brought the town down, as a town can not function without a leader who is ready to lead a town. Submadoge declared the race illegitimate, and made it so Grogstown can not be given the title of first city to reach 100 members. Although the town legitimately hit said number only hours later, days before Spirit City did, the title is still given to Spirit City by demand of Submadoge. A few days later, Submadoge stepped down as leader of Grogstown, giving it into the hand of the Grogstown Council. The town did better than it possibly ever did under the council, but as time went on, the town slowly went into ruins.

As all things do, the council began to loose interest in Grogstown and the town began to fall apart. Submadoge was later elected as the monarch of Grogstown, a position that would make him the head of public affairs, and nothing more. This new position and a number of other things led to talks with the leadership of Seatown. Seatown and Grogstown began to formulate a plan to combine under the name ¨The Rando Republic¨. This idea was controversial in Seatown, but split the Grogstown leadership in half. At the possible idea of combination between Grogstown and Seatown, council members DankTurtleMaster, SE3dling, and trotato formulated Stardew City, a new city that they would both lead. Not long after announcing this, DankTurtleMaster left the Grogstown Council. uoiauai formed another city called Roof Land, but continues to remain in the Grogstown council. All of this eventually led up to the TG Earth release, where hundreds of new players joined TG Survival, an event Grogstown had no defense for. With the city trashed and in shambles, for the first time Grogstown had failed it´s one goal, to be a place for new players to live with a group of people that can take care of them. With this failure, it was determined by Submadoge that the town had effectively, died. The town still stands and lives today, multiple people live in the town, but compared to it´s previous growth and work ethic, the town is nothing like it once was.

### Revival(?) and War

Around a week after TGE´s release, it was discovered that not only was Grogstown´s job taken by Ern as a starter town for new player down the WOH, but the town had taken the remains of Tree Town, something the Grogstown council had been talking about doing for months. Ern was also taking copious amounts of land and began to sandwich Grogstown in, preventing it from expanding. Ern was also a town with a poor quality of builds. This lead the Grogstown Council to begin talking about a possible war with Ern to possibly revive the town and put on some event for the server to enjoy. DankTurtleMaster was promoted in the Grogstown discord from a non-citizen to ¨bitch¨, a role that would allow him to be in council discussions, and act as a begrudging council member, while still not ¨officially¨ being a council member. While in the middle of a discussion about war, Seatown, Grogstown´s only ally declared war on Ern. Grogstown hastily joined in, joining the Fuck Ern Alliance (FEA) and beginning World War Ern. As Submadoge was unable to play on the server due to school finals and the end of the first semester, Grogstown didn´t do anything at the start of the war. Grogstown would partially help in The Acquisition of Bacon Town, but besides that not much was done. At the moment, Grogstown has multiple plans not yet revealed that will be enacted sometime in the coming week.

### Reign of Dank

After the rise of Ern and the popularization of build restrictions, some council members are starting to suggest a revamp on the system of Grogstown. The people who wanted to revamp Grogstown into a town that is more like Ern or Soup were called "Reformists", and the people who wanted to keep the system in place were called the "Traditionalists". As Submadoge announces his retirement as King, a new leader needed to be chosen. Eventually, DankTurtleMaster, a major reformist, won the throne. His reign was symbolized by radical change and rapid demotion. Council members like Se3dling and Uoiauai were ejected from the council. This was met with opposition by other council members. Eventually, then former King Submadoge put an end to his rule. His rule lasted for less than a day.

### Expansion

Recently, Grogstown was gifted Stal Town after it was unannexed by Nowhere. The building of a dome around the entire town was started, which is still in progress. Meanwhile, a new state would be started as a "rebirth" of Grogstown, which would implement much of the Reformists' proposed changes. It's located behind Stal Town, which would become the third state in Greater Grogstown.
None of this was to occur though, as the Greater Grogstown project was cancelled, with only a foutnain and a couple of roads, and the Stal Dome was suddenly stopped by DankTurtleMaster as he was no longer interested, leaving a black glass circle around the town.

### The Great Return

On the 9th of February, Submadoge annoucned that he will abolish the council and cancel plans for expansion. The government of Grogstown returned to its original government type, hence makeing it return to its original form.

## Timeline and History

*(Keep in mind the name of the town appears to change throughout this time, but the only change of name that happened was the Union of Grogstown, the names shown here are only there to reflect the government status of the town. The town had always just been called Grogstown)*

August 15th - Late Autumn: Grogstown [Anarchist Commune]

Early September: Grogstown, led by Submadoge [Absolute Monarchy]

*Early September: Adoption of the council and senate*

Early September - October 7th: Republic of Grogstown, led by Submadoge [Presidential Republic]

*October 7th: Coup of Spookmadoge*

October 7th - October 15th: Republic of Grogstown, led by Spookmadoge [Presidential Republic]

*October 16th: New Constitution, Overthrow of the Presidency*

October 16th - October 22nd: Union of Grogstown [Parliamentary Commonwealth]

October 22nd - October 25th: Return of the Spook [Presidential Republic]

October 25th - November 9th: Union of Grogstown 2: Electric Boogalo [Parliamentary Commonwealth]

November 9th - January 8th: Kingdom of Grogstown, led by Submadoge [Constitutional Monarchy]

January 8th - January 8th: Kingdom of Grogstown, led by DankTurtleMaster [Constitutional Monarchy]

January 8th - February 9th: Kingdom of Grogstown, led by Submadoge [Constitutional Monarchy]

February 9th - Current: Abolition of Grogstown council, Monarchy led by Submadoge [Absolute Monarchy]

## Members

* Submadoge
* SE3dling
* NixeyGamer
* AmazingHunter24
* DqqhN
* JC Denton0451
* AGuyWithADog
* Toxiccrafttundra
* SleezyBreezy23
* Atherz
* Snorlax3601
* NickCraft21
* Budderdance
* Uoiauai
* WinterStars
* Evanchan721happ
* HarryFrikenBomb
* Drilled\_Bean
* PepsiPlaysMC
* Sofianicky
* HoleInMyHouse
* Landonion\_S
* Sshortstack
* Jacy\_\_\_
* tt41
* Ouriya
* JoeoftheBob
* Issaclai06
* WoekieNoob
* Diamondcatchers
* VuipeS2
* FrancoElManco
* Oof7860
* EvenTommy
* B4AAAAM
* Peak8D
* Shining\_Expo
* LakuTheDark
* 1nkyd1nky
* AverageCityFox
* Kamal\_Dash
* Mowmee
* OdinoRaptor
* gayasianfrog
* ArtsyRex
* Ravioli\_WillyOli
* Froggy\_Jaiden
* AtomicGlaive
* JustDandyMayo
* spookie
* Joecraftnorris
* dweebelo
* Deloxo
* SuperAbra
* JonwilkesBooth
* thedrake5051813
* TimmyTurner502
* Partyharry
* BuffIllaoi
* DXD\_Tech
* Jwh404
* SpacierGiant
* Flamezz99
* DankTurtleMaster
* BananaBoy482
* The\_Nub123
* Transparent\_milk
* Trotato
* Its\_Jembers
* DrTomato3384
* WarheroesINC
* lousysmousy
* GrogFrof
* HJZ\_2611
* Onyxly
* Kira\_Kuinn\_yt
* Avatar28350
* Itspengu
* Clinthgr28
* Bmo28
* dabnation1232
* PremiumRobot
* maloware
* Rivalkevin9999
* dannhi
* prismicc
* RadicalZer0
* Banana pirate1
* mercuryliquid
* Hypzee1
* nOeml5926
* Blue\_dragon
* ikeafrigerator
* HailNeatoBurrito
* WarHeroesYSC
* NotFishXD
* Busyrumble
* SmuggleYT
* Sk3ptical
* Aking2222
* Liam\_donahue07
* blue\_escape45
* JorgeLuis0205
* Serpain\_King
* Agent256
* stupots22
* DEMONICSQUASH
* AToastyKat
* Pighead\_
* Leyugaff

## Landmarks

* SE3dling's community farm
* Grogstown Tower
* The Viewing Tower
* JoeoftheBob's house
* The Grogstown Mall
* The Pride Flag
* The Space District
* The Canal
* The Park
* The Town Hall
* The Radio Tower
* Bjorn's Statue
* The Cobblestone Statue
* The Strange Statue
* Grogstown Arena

## Grogstown Gallery

SE3dling's farmGrogstown TowerThe Viewing TowerJoeoftheBob's HouseThe Pride FlagThe Space DistrictThe Town HallThe Strange StatueBjorn's Statue in GrogstownRadio Tower in GrogstownThe Cobblestone Statue