Faction resets

*Not to be confused with Faction rollbacks, in which faction data is rolled back to a backup from a restore point.*

**Faction resets** are events on the SMPEarth server in which faction-related data is deleted, reset, or cleared.

## First Reset

The first faction reset took place about half an hour since the server was launched. It was due to immense amount of players on the server up to a point that it had reached its maximum capacity. Hence, many players had to recreate their factions once the server was rebooted.

### Factions Affected

* Antarctic Empire (created by Technoblade)
* Kingdom of Jordan (created by CaptainSparklez)
* United Nations (creatad by Chip)
* CityOfEngland (created by Spifey)
* New Montana (created by Kwite)
* UnitedWyomingUnion (created by UnderscoreMason)
* Packle (created by Pokay)
* German Empire (created by Jawsh)
* Kingdom of Florida (created by FitMC)
* Scottland (created by Smajor1995)
* FinchStew (created by ArlusFinch)
* Newfoundland (created by WilburSoot)
* Ukraine (created by DinksterDaily)
* Switzerland (created by King Burren)
* MountEverest (created by ThePixelBomb)
* TeaParty (created by InkTea)
* Nahanni (created by Luemas)
* Nihon (created by Altrive)
* Marioluigi (created by Sneegsnag)
* SpanishInquisitors (created by JunkyJanker)
* USSR (created by Weesterner)
* Pogland (created by Ph1LzA)
* TheBritishEmpire (formerly known as Brexit and TheBritishEmprie[sic]) (created by BluesDank)
* Greece (created by ItsAsaii)
* Bean (created by Krinios)
* Kpop (created by SootCharlie)
* Nam (created by SenzuFrijole)
* Beefster Island (created by OGBeefStew)

### Aftermath

* Technoblade, the first player ever to create a faction on SMPEarth, reestablished the Antarctic Empire.
* WilburSoot recreated Newfoundland.
* ArlusFinch recreated his faction, now renamed Transatlantic.
* DinksterDaily reestablished Ukraine.
* JunkyJanker reestablished his faction, now renamed Spain.
* Sneegsnag reestablished his faction, now renamed Marioloogi.
* Jawsh recreated the German Empire.
	+ He later changed it to KingdomofPrussia, but renamed it back to German Empire a couple of hours later.
* KaraCorvus, who didn't get to create her faction as she was making her way to Turkey, created her very own Corvarian Empire.
* Altrive reestablished his faction, now renamed Japan.
* OGBeefStew reestablished his faction, now renamed Isla De Pascua.
* ItsAsaii reestablished Aeropostale (previously named Greece).
* Krinios, after evading Jawsh's sovereignty, recreated his own faction, Bean Island.
* ThePixelBomb reestablished MountEverest.
* VoiceOverPete, who finally set foot on Greenland, created his very own faction called VoiceOverLand.
	+ However, he disbanded the independent faction and was recruited to join the Antarctic Empire with Technoblade and Ph1LzA.
* CaptainSparklez reestablished the Kingdom of Jordan.
* SenzuFrijole reestablished Vietnam.
* King Burren, like Krinios, reestablished his own faction, now renamed BurrenEmpire.
* InkTea recreated his faction, TwitchPrime.
	+ However, he disbanded it to join Spain.
* UnderscoreMason recreated his faction, now renamed WelcomeToWyoming.
* FitMC reestablished his faction, now simply named as Florida.
* Pokay recreated Packle.
* AntVenom, who was a member of Packle for a time, left the faction and recreated his original faction, Stal.
	+ Much later, he renamed it to Starcaller and claimed Lipan Point in Grand Canyon for "personal significance".
* Kinganii settled in Turkey and created her own faction called Kebab.
* BluesDank recreated TheBritishEmpire.
* Jamakattack, who arrived in Poland, created a faction of his own called Toeland.
* Kwite reestablished New Montana.
* Quackity logged on for the first time and formed the Pen Island faction in Central America.
* Timotainment created Bosnia.
* TommyInnit created Business Bay.
* Weesterner reestablished the USSR.
	+ He was joined by Kinganii who had disbanded her faction after Kara had asserted dominance over the Turkish region.
* Chip created the faction Illuminati, which piqued interests amongst many players but was unfortunately disbanded.
* Grunk created the faction BurgerKing.
	+ Later, he disbanded the faction and decided to join Spain with JunkyJanker, LukeOrSomething and InkTea.
* IAmSp00n created the faction AllNaturalState.
	+ He later renamed it to Arkansonia.
* ConnorEatsPants joined the server and created the faction ConnorEsports.
* Luemas reestablished his faction, now renamed Yukon.
* Cscoop joined the server and created the faction SouthernCalifornia.
	+ He later changed it to San Diego.
* Swiftyislive created the faction FrontierLand.

## Second Reset

The second faction reset occurred overnight between Day 1 and Day 2. Chip decided to restart the server to fix some of the bugs and glitches concerning planes, factions and the Dynmap.

### Factions Affected

* Aeropostale
* Antarctic Empire
* Arkansonia
* Bean Island
* Bosnia
* BurrenEmpire
* Business Bay
* ConnorEsports
* Corvarian Empire
* Florida
* FrontierLand
* German Empire
* Isla De Pascua
* Japan
* Kingdom of Jordan
* Marioloogi
* MountEverest
* New Montana
* Newfoundland
* Packle
* Pen Island
* SanDiego
* Spain
* Starcaller
* TheBritishEmpire
* Toeland
* Transatlantic
* USSR
* Ukraine
* Vietnam
* WelcomeToWyoming
* Yukon

### Aftermath

#### **Faction reestablishment and territorial reclamation**

* Krinios found out that the volcano on his island was taken by Kwite of New Montana, along with another unclaimed volcano (Krakahumungus) in Sumatra, Indonesia.
	+ Later, Kwite returned the volcano back to Krinios but managed to keep the Sumatran volcano.
* Tommy seized the opportunity and raided the Ancient Stronghold, though he was subsequently killed by Technoblade.
* BeefStew managed to reclaim the Easter Island (which happened to be a mooshroom biome) and Chile in South America.
* Michaelmcchill reestablished Packle along with RoastedJames and reclaimed their lands in Northern California.
	+ On Day 4, Michael added Pokay back to the faction and promoted him as a moderator. However, Pokay disagreed that Michael now is the leader of Packle, despite the fact the former had spent hours retrieving their faction's lands.
	+ In response, Pokay left the faction and made his own called Temporary, based in New Mexico.
* Pen Island lost their control over central Mexico.
	+ It has since been reclaimed.
	+ Since the initial reset, former member 24FramesOfNick has not yet rejoined the faction.

#### **Territorial crisis**

* KaraCorvus accidentally left her autoclaim on and left a trail of faction claims over the Fertile Crescent.
	+ As she manually unclaimed them chunk by chunk, she decided to do the shortcut and placed a massive radius faction claim over the Arabian peninsula and unclaimed it afterwards.
	+ However, due to the nature of the overclaim plugin, it expanded drastically up to a point where she unintentionally owned the Middle East and taken parts of the Kingdom of Jordan.
	+ The crisis, known as The Middle East Claiming Crisis, was later resolved as Kara disbanded the Corvarian Empire and started anew as well as paying CaptainSparklez a diamond block, 4 emeralds and 4 steak as reparation.
* VoiceOverPete reestablished the Antarctic Empire and began to reclaim Antarctica and Australia.
	+ However, he did a miscalculation on the radius size of faction claim and ended up overclaiming not only Australia, but also a large portion of Bean Island.
	+ This cause a major crisis that almost started a war but Pete managed to sue for peace and undo his mistake. The crisis was later known as The Great Boomer Misunderstanding.

#### **Faction claim arts**

* BeefStew created an ' 👌 ' sign in North America and a creeper face west of Chile.
* Kwite claimed the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and wrote the phrase "SUB2KWITE".
* Jmak spelled out "UNSUB" in northern Russia.
* Weesterner created an image of hammer and sickle, a famous icon for communism, over Russia.

## Third Reset

A third reset occurred around midnight on Day 5, during which the End Raid on the southern End Portal took place. Notably, it resulted in the Antarctic Empire's claims being removed with players taking advantage of the open stronghold to gain access to the Moon.

## Fourth Reset

A fourth and massive reset occurred on Day 76 as all factions that existed on SMPEarth at the time vanished, totaling 46 player factions and 3 special factions. JoshA20 later confirmed that this was a result of a data loss. Factions remained disabled as the plugin was corrupted and required the server's information to be migrated to a different plugin. The migration failed and the players had to manually reclaim the areas belonging to their factions.

All areas on the map were now unprotected, allowing for TommyInnit to remove a prank at Technoblade's Palace as well as claim a bow in return. Likewise, the Corvarian Empire, Log Lagoon, as well as other factions raided Business Bay in order to take some of the Golden Apples obtained by the faction.

### Factions Affected

* Aeropostale (ItsAsaii)
* Alaska (Luemas, Swiftyislive)
* Antarctic Empire (Technoblade, VoiceOverPete, Ph1LzA, Wispexe)
* Arkansonia (IAmSp00n)
* Bean Empire (Krinios, Sylvee, Beatsolos, Osidinum)
* Bosnia (Timotainment, Thunder1408)
* Business Bay (TommyInnit, TimeDeo, Bitzel, LukeOrSomething)
* ConnorEsports (ConnorEatsPants)
* Corvarian Empire (KaraCorvus, Fitba)
* DeezNUTS (Joko, Miqzah, Krtzyy)
* England (BluesDank)
* Evil Incorporated (King Burren, Condifiction)
* Fille (Toxxxicsupport)
* Funnydog (Fruitberries)
* Gamboje (Tubbo)
* German Empire (Jawsh, Reflex, UnderscoreMason, Slimecicle, YoItsGold, QueenRhianna, Svyoshi)
* Hazbinhotel  (BedheadBernie, Ben3759)
* Ice Empire (AllanahVA)
* Inquisition (JunkyJanker)
* Isla De Pascua (OGBeefStew)
* Japan (Altrive)
* Kievan Rus (DinksterDaily, EpicDonutDude)
* Kingdom of Florida (FitMC, SalC1)
* Kingdom of Jordan (CaptainSparklez)
* KiwiKrew (SootJack, SootDan, SootDavid)
* Kpop (SootCharlie)
* Kwig (Quig)
* Lego Land (ARTYMO, ArchieMcW)
* Log Lagoon (Grunk, TanningOil, SoftWilly, Isaacwhy, InkTea, Kiharii, LarrryCroft, Purpled, Bandanabloom, BrodyAnimates)
* Marioloogi (Sneegsnag)
* Newfoundland (WilburSoot, Sophietexas)
* New Hawaii (Jameskii, Eret, ScotGriswold, SenzuFrijole)
* New Montana (Kwite)
* NoBootBoys (GingerPale, RainyMuffinn, NevercakeGames)
* Packle (Pokay, Michaelmcchill, AntVenom, RoastedJames, Wuna301, CrowWing15, FallyFire)
* PenIsland (Quackity, Aksually, Hooverr)
* Pogland (Jamakattack)
* Poyo (Kinganii)
* San Diego (Cscoop, Traves)
* Safezones (Special)
* Scottland (Smajor1995)
* StateOfDeNile (X33n, RedVacktor)
* StreamTimeCapsule (IDKMason, RobTob, ReeKid)
* The Irish (RTGame)
* Transatlantic (ArlusFinch)
* USSR (Weesterner)
* Warzone (Special)
* Wilderness (Special)
* Zootopia (WardenToons)

### Aftermath

   Due to the critical data corruption, on Day 81, Chip decided to host an event called **Reclaiming Day** on Days 84 and 85 where all players would have infinite faction power, spectator mode (via `/fly` command), and access to a teleportation command.

Despite the announcement, some players began to reestablish/create their own factions and reclaimed their territories.

#### **Day 81**

* Krinios became the first to reestablish his faction, Bean Empire.
* KotiePlayz established Gamboje as a method to extort diamonds from Tubbo.
	+ Tubbo refused to comply and reinstated his faction as Gambojeistan instead.
* WardenToons reestablished her faction, Zootopia.
* Wuna301 reestablished his faction, Packle.
	+ Later, he gave the leadership of the faction to Michaelmcchill.
* Quig created a new faction called TwitchPrime.
* Grunk reestablished Log Lagoon.
	+ BrodyAnimates rejoined the faction.
* TimeDeo reestablished Business Bay.
* Eret reestablished his faction, now renamed Ursus.
* VoiceOverPete reestablished the Antarctic Empire.
* Ben3759 reestablished Hazbinhotel.
* Timotainment reestablished Bosnia.
* Jamakattack reestablished Pogland.

#### **Day 82**

* Swiftyislive reestablished his original faction, now renamed SoyBoys.
	+ JinnyJhinJIN and Awtra became members of the faction.
* KaraCorvus reestablished the Corvarian Empire.
* X33n reestablished the StateOfDeNile.
	+ RedVacktor rejoined and BlueVacktor was officially inducted into the faction on his first day on the server.

#### **Day 83**

* Krtzyy reestablished DeezNUTS.
* Sylvee created her own faction, BYC, in an effort to reclaim Bean York City.
	+ She later disbanded it and rejoined Bean Empire.

#### **Day 84 (Reclaiming Day)**

* DinksterDaily reestablished Kievan Rus.
* ARTYMO reestablished Lego Land.
* Fruitberries reestablished his faction, now renamed This.
* Luemas reestablished Alaska, but only managed to retain territories similar to his original faction, Yukon.
* Sophietexas reestablished Newfoundland.
* CaptainSparklez reestablished the Kingdom of Jordan.
* IAmSp00n reestablished Arkansonia.
* Pokay, in protest of Michael's leadership and insistence to pass the leadership, created a faction called PENISLOL.

### List of Factions that have yet to be re-established following the Fourth Faction Reset

* Aeropostale
* ConnorEsports
* England
* Evil Incorporated
* fille
* Florida
* German Empire
* Inquisition
* Isla De Pascua
* Japan
* KiwiKrew
* Marioloogi
* New Montana
* NoBootBoys
* PenIsland
* Poyo
* San Diego
* Scottland
* StreamTimeCapsule
* The Irish
* Transatlantic
* USSR