MCParradox

MCParradox in his home town of Noxburgh

Sam drinks tea, like a true Brit

### Known for

Refusing to light work areas, Frequently dying to creepers and skeletons, Creating graphics and user skins, Editing other users' wiki pages and erasing half an hour of work, Editing the wiki at almost 5am

**MCParradox**, or **Sam**, is one of the founding members of the server. He was present for the world's creation, and responsible for the first build on the server; the small survival bunker on Spawn Island. A seasoned veteran of creative servers such as **The Voxel Box** and **Build the Earth**, and a university architecture graduate, Sam has always been drawn more towards grand architectural projects and beautification than survival, combat or farming. As such, he can rarely be seen with any high-level gear, much prefering to slowly and peacefully work on his construction projects.

## Projects

### Early Server Projects

In the early days of the server, when it was just 4 friends trying to survive on Spawn Island, MCParradox built the entrance building to the survival bunker. He later expanded this bunker adding a sunken living space, an exit corridor with storage rooms leading to a rear entrance and dock, and four subterranean bedrooms, two of which featured large underwater windows. MCParradox also built a small lighthouse in Deanmark in preparation for the server's public opening.

#### Schloss Baumherz

Main article: Schloss Baumherz
As his friends split up and started building on their own islands, MCParradox followed suit. He sailed south-west from Spawn Island and discovered Baumherzinsel, where he began constructing a white stone castle, modelled after the German Schloss Neuschwanstein. After initially constructing the square tower, groundskeeper's lodging and the gatehouse, MCParradox took a long break from the server, starting around June 2020. Returning in November, MCParradox vowed to complete his castle, and constructed most of the great hall. However, work stalled on the roof installation, and two more buildings on the grounds were never built, so to this day the castle remains incomplete.

Spawn Island Survival BunkerSchloss Baumherz as it appeared in May 2020Schloss Baumherz as it currently stands, incomplete
### Noxburgh & Bibbinghaben

Main article: Noxburgh
Just as work was slowing down on Schloss Baumherz, MCParradox was planning a new project. The server had changed during his hiatus, and no longer was it a small collection of builds around Spawn Island. It now featured several rising towns such as NewTown and Edale, and he wanted to be a part of that. Inspired by many airships he had built in the past, he scouted out a location south of Edale and founded a steampunk city, anchored by a large AeroDock. Though progress on the city would be slow, as he has so far built it alone, the location is already planned out into several districts, including distinct residential and industrial zones on opposite banks of the River Ember. The town is connected to the ShuttleMetro network at Noxburgh North Junction, and will soon feature a local rail line and airship connections to neighbouring towns.

The Residential Town of BibbinghabenView from the bridge over the River Ember
### ShuttleMetro

Main article: ShuttleMetro
MCParradox returned to the server in November 2020, to find a fledgling **ShuttleMetro Network** taking shape. Once Edale was connected to the network, he was eager to see the same happen to his young town, Noxburgh, and set about building a revolutionary station there. He helped to plan out the first major addition to the network, the Ocean Line, and took it upon himself to standardise the existing network. He designed the first ShuttleMetro logo, which was improved upon by Shippam to become the official logo in use today, and also maintains the Official Network Map.

ShuttleMetro's 1872 brandingThe current network map
### Other Projects

#### Stal House

Main article: Stal House
As one of only a few server members not to have contributed to NewTown, MCParradox made a promise to MORTHRIN that he would build a house there once he had completed work on Noxburgh North Junction. Inspired by one of his favourite buildings in real life, **CSH22** or the Stahl House, he planned a sleek, modernist retreat surrounded on three sides by floor to ceiling glass. The house sits on a plateau just east of the town centre, and overlooks the railway line and the forthcoming harbour district.

Stal House, NewTown
## Biography

MCParradox is a close friend of rshuttle1337, and is usually one of the first to join when he starts a server. Since he started playing the game in 2011, he has been far more drawn to creative building than survival or combat gameplay, and as such, spent a few years on the creative server called **The Voxel Box**. When that server was closed down, he did not migrate like the rest of the community did, instead taking a step back to focus on exams and starting university. He played on a couple of short-lived private **Tekkit** and **FTB** servers with Shuttle, before the launch of Shuttlecraft 2015. Learning to play in survival mode after many years of creative gameplay was quite the challenge, and he still has a lot to learn about the basics even today.

Outside of Minecraft, Sam is a big fan of theme parks and roller coasters, specifically the Disney Parks around the world. He even spent a summer working in Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida. He has a bachelor's degree in architecture, and started his master's degree in the same subject in September 2021, with the dream to one day work at Walt Disney Imagineering, designing the theme parks he loves. He enjoys sci-fi shows, WRC, F1, and skiing, and has a growing collection of playing cards. When not on the server, he can often be found playing Stellaris, Civ VI, Dirt Rally 2.0, or F1 2021.

## Trivia

* He first started playing Minecraft in 2011, around beta 1.3, when his friend rshuttle1337 showed him a lighthouse he had built. He played frequently until 2015, then picked the game up again with the launch of Shuttlecraft 2
* The "MC" in MCParradox's name does in fact stand for Minecraft. His username was initially Parradox (a mispelling that stuck), with a prefix or suffix added for whichever game the account was for, but the "MC" quickly became part of the name, and has been used since