Smugglers' Port

Smugglers' Port was a storage base and home for multiple groups of people, most prominently a clan called USN. Almost all images of the base were taken after its destruction and abandonment, some parts were rebuilt and may not be accurate to the base's original design.

## Beginnings

The base was originally created on June 30th 2020 by a user called BigChill10YT. The base was originally be planned to be used as a sort of mine, but that idea was eventually replaced with a homebase for the USN. The base was built at the site of a base that had been griefed 2 days prior.

With the help of users space\_marine10 and lnfiniteVoids, the base expanded to acquire a second floor, a mine, a storage room, a farm, and 2 large empty rooms.

## The first destruction

One day, around a week after the base's creation, BigChill10YT unknowingly used flint and steel on one of the wood floors of the house before leaving to go base hunting. Once he got back, the fire had inflicted massive damage to the base, but it only took BigChill around 20 minutes to repair it.

Over the course of around 2 weeks, the base was remodeled and repurposed numerous times, gaining a third floor used for crafting and storage, an enchantment room, an animal farm, and an expansion to the original farm.

## Alliance and The second destruction

Since the first destruction, the animal farm had been replaced with a pet graveyard, and an aquarium was also introduced along with an empty higher floor. It was at this point where BigChill and space\_marine formed an alliance with the soon-to-be Valhalla (civ) clan, lead by Smashter2002. The 2 groups got along together nicely, space\_marine even planning to fully move into the clan's village and only use Smugglers' Port as a storage unit.

Only a couple hours after moving there, civ's village was raided and burned down by a player known as g3tth3m0n3y. BigChill decided to move everyone to Smugglers' port, which was now lit up outside. lnfiniteVoids had even built a separate house there.

The two groups soon found out a player called xpmh seemed to be working for g3tth3m0n3y and teleported him inside the port. everything was blown up and most resources were destroyed or stolen.

After about a day, BigChill returned to the ruins of Smugglers' Port and rebuilt everything, block for block, a former civ, now USN player called ToriDawn2996 even moved in for a short while.

Parts of the base were remodelled and expanded, with the additions of a furnace room, a cage area, and an expansion to the third floor, the mine was closed because every ore down there had been mined, making it obsolete.

## The griefing period

Over the course of a couple of days, the base-dwellers noticed resources slowly going missing from chests, as well as a new structure in the distance. Exploration showed this to be a netherrack castle, inhabiting the item thief, who claimed to have griefed the original settlement that Smugglers' Port was built upon. After some griefing attempts, this mystery man set a tnt trap up inside the Port, minimal damage was done but boundaries were constructed around the port area, and a massive wall was erected, as well as a watchtower.

space\_marine discovered this griefer was actually sneaking into our base via a mine, at which point a large portion of the Port's animals were killed, this was the last time the Port kept livestock. As revenge, lnfiniteVoids griefed the netherrack castle, encasing the whole thing in lava, and this was the last they heard of the griefer.

## The final days and The third destruction.

After doing so much over the course of a few short weeks, the watchtower was repurposed into a community centre as civ members were stopping by regularly to rent tools out and to heal, plans were also made to tear down the wall and begin building surface houses. But that night, the base was discovered by Redfox315, Moiiyy, and EchosWorld1. The third destruction came after they stole everything and had torn down the walls of the base, the flooded it with water and lava and used the resources they'd stolen to grief the outside. BigChill tried putting up a fight, but was weakened and killed. He got away to a backup base that had been abandoned by civ and decided to give up on the old base. He couldn't /home to the Port because the lava would kill him, and the griefing would be too big of a job to clear up. This is the point where Smugglers' Port was abandoned.