The Raid on Bake Squad

The Raid on Bake Squad (sometimes referred to as "The Bake Squad Massacre") was the first battle to ever take place on the server and was a raid on an early group known as Bake Squad by two Hopping Hills members, being zuhm and Okami\_HD

#### Prelude

During the first day of the server many different factions were formed as players gathered into groups for safety or to play with friends. During the first 6 hours of the server, PvP was disabled which meant no raids took place. During this period of time a group named Bake Squad set up a base in the middle of what is now the Cyprus continent, the base at the time only consisted of one house and a large mine but by the time of the raid a second building made of sandstone was also under construction. Towards the end of the grace period the members of the group (pistonpoek, panicparrot, OlympianPlate and, \_pixelpanda) had all logged off for the night but before doing so had taken a screenshot with the base members (OlympianPlate excluded) standing in front of their house holding cookies and posted it on the Holy Order of Bread

#### The Plan is Simple

Whilst in a voice call with Grey\_Spirt, Okami\_HD saw the screenshot in the state-smp-chat on the server’s discord and realised just how much information the screenshot revealed. The players not only showed that they were next to a lake but that they were in a spruce woods biome, which Okami had already noted to only be found next to mountains. After searching across the mainland for around for over an hour he had ruled out all lakes there and set his sights on the southern island of Cyprus which he planned to get to by following the river south before crossing at the rivers end. During his crossing he noticed a campfire in the distance that he immediately boated towards. This turned out to be the beginnings of The Anarchist Republic of Solaria and Okami noted it down as a possible raid target. Okami then continued on into the island to check out the lakes that were shown on the map, eventually on the final lake, he found the base and immediately noted down its coordinates and began making plans with zuhm to raid it and Solaria in one fell swoop the next day.

#### The Raiders of Hopping Hills

The next day, Okami logged on and met up with zuhm at the Hopping Hills main base. They headed for the end of the mainland river before crossing into Solaria where they met FloppaDeluxe, who had just logged on. Okami decided to leave Solaria alone since Floppa had been nice to him and zuhm the previous day and Okami was currently employed under Solaria's leader Vault\_Destroyer as a mercenary. Before their approach on Solaria they had waited for OlympianPlate to log off as they knew he had already gathered full diamond armour and thus was the largest threat in the Bake Squad. They quickly moved from Solaria to the Bake Squad base and waited on the hill nearby for one of the members to re enter the house so that they could take them on in a 2 on 2. The group then snuck down the hill behind the Bake Squad base where zuhm /msg'd Okami asking if he was ok to charge in and kill them. Okami gave the order and zuhm ran in and killed both of the outside players before running in to kill the player still indoors and the players that he had just killed who were now respawning. The battle ended quickly with Okami never attacking anyone during the whole raid and all 3 of the players at the base were death banned by zuhm, though they were notably not exile pearled.

#### After the Battle

After the battle, the Bake Squad members took to discord to complain to the admins that the raid wasn't allowed as the raiders hadn't provided forewarning of the attack. In response zuhm posted an image of him and Okami standing in front of their base as a play on the original screenshot used to track them down. Vault ended up reviving panicparrot as he wanted to lock his chests to prevent items from being stolen with the 2 groups agreeing that the raiders could take diamonds so long as they left at least a stack behind.

#### Aftermath

After the raiders left OlympianPlate (henceforth Smag) logged on to discover that his locked chest that contained full diamond armour, diamond tools and multiple golden apples had been looted. Smag believing the raiders had used a bug to steal from his chest asked for zuhm to return his stolen items. Okami and zuhm both attested that they hadn't touched the chest and that they had been in similar circumstances before with Okami having iron taken out of his locked furnaces and zuhm having multiple stacks of logs taken from a locked barrel. Zuhm offered to use some of the diamonds he had gained from mining and during the raid to craft Smag some new armour but upon zuhm's arrival at the Bake Squad's base, Smag noticed zuhm's own diamond armour and mistakenly though that he was showing off that he had taken the armour. Once zuhm went into a crafting table, Smag started attacking him with an axe dealing large amounts of damage but zuhm quickly gappled and killed Smag in retaliation. The misunderstanding was cleared up in the discord chat and zuhm stated he would give Smag some items once his death ban had ended.

At the request of Vault, Okami gave up one of his lives in order to revive pistonpoek. What he got in exchange for this is unknown but he has stated that "it's gonna be pretty fucking helpful".

#### Public Opinion on the Raid

Solaria quickly denounced the attack, creating an autonomous zone for the Bake Squad to build in that would be under protection from the Republic which caused relations between the two groups to sour leading to the ARS-HH Desert Conflict later down the line. Hopping Hill’s also began to call out how despite being referred to as an anarchist republic, Solaria had no elected leader and had shown no inclination towards a system free of a governing body. Solaria argued against this claiming they were leftists anarchists and that they could have an election whenever if they asked Vault to run one (which he later did). This confusion is what likely lead to the change of Solaria's name. Okami also began referring to members of the Republic of Solaria as "Southern Motherfucking Leftists Anarchists" as a reference to a line from the song "Washington on your Side" from the musical Hamilton the line originally being "Southern Motherfucking Democratic Republicans".

Notably many players began referring to the group as a whole as raiders which Okami denounced as only he and zuhm took part in the raid and they had done so on their own authority since Hopping Hills was a group commune and had no leader.