Crashdemons

**crashdemons** is an admin and plugin-developer on AztecMC.

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# History

## WestWorldMC

Crash started as a player online at the related server WestWorldMC around the time of Minecraft 1.7 and the 1.8 snapshots especially on the 'Dinnerbunny' (snapshot vanilla server) with AmityInfliction, Dukesma, Turok2SeedofEvil, and Zaphorexofpain among others.

While working up to moderator and admin roles, Crash gained teamwork and gameplay moderation experience. Afterwards, the owner offered crash the opportunity to set up and manage servers, where he gained experience with linux and craftbukkit servers (console and configuration).

During a redesign of the Westworld Avatar server (bending/ability server) and after some prodding from Dukesma and the owner [after finding out Crash could program], Crash wrote his first server plugin(s) as extensions to ProjectKorra - although these plugins were written blindly without proper dependency support. It would be some time until he returned to writing plugins.

After playing and helping with larger servers with many plugins, this left a slight disillusionment with servers that had too many plugins and stability or compatibility issues, or gaudy displays beyond vanilla.

Despite WestWorld vanilla being relatively successful and other servers in the Bungee network having waning population - there was some talk among staff that the owner wanted to close the Vanilla survival server. Combined with other factors, Crash devoted more time playing elsewhere - seeking something better without knowing he was.

## AztecMC

Crash joined on the first AztecMC map (Valley spawn) with AmityInfliction. He found that on the server there were others also seeking more plugin-light servers and specifically a mostly-vanilla survival server. During this period crashdemons played under the banner of the Cult of Neptune with svartl and zeddy (friends from IRC).

He was later offered a staff role and worked up to admin. During this time he was still honing his skills with Java and did not feel comfortable developing plugins over using premade, stable ones - as well as focusing on college.

After two years of not touching plugins (2016), he felt comfortable enough to make a tiny plugin for Aztec for automatic restarts and onscreen warnings; parts of this would be later reused by a Cron plugin by NShadeIV that performed timed events including restarts. Crash would not seriously commit to developing plugins at this time, instead programming only personal projects.

### The Hiatus

Near the end of 2016 and the Island map, a falling out had occurred among the staff where one of the admins received a lot of flak from the others, but not without some dissent. After a difference of opinion and some regrettable words, the admin left.

Because of hasty feelings about the ban (without being more informed) and a few more regrettable words exchanged, Crash decided to leave the server due to difference of opinion and to remove himself as a problem; though this change didn't go without some additional impacts to the staff.

During this time he focused more on his studies and personal projects.

### The Return

After a little under two years (2018), Crash made contact with the active staff on Aztec and caught up. He was more-or-less welcomed back to a staff position soon after, during the Desert-temple map.

A few months later, Minecraft 1.13 was being released and a couple of situations occurred that needed attention: Firstly, a beloved plugin, PlayerHeads was no longer being actively maintained and was broken by major 1.13 changes. Secondly, command suggestions were no longer filtered properly.
Crash was able to develop a fix for PlayerHeads (then later rewrote it to use textures instead of username-skins) and developed a plugin to filter command suggestions by group permission. The first action didn't go unnoticed by the plugin owner, however.

After these changes were generally well-received without major issue, Crash went on to develop and maintain several plugins for Aztec and general use, with a focus on stable simplicity.

## The Woo

Although Crashdemons may just seem like your average programming loser, it turns out that crash actually is a big fan of pop smoke. This was recently discovered back in December of 2020. It is still unknown how big of a pop smoke fan crashdemons is. Does he bump *Get Back* in the whip, or does he woo walk his way to his destination while listening to *Dior*? These questions are still unknown, but one day, I will sit down and have an interview with crash about his specific pop smoke preferences.