Survival 3

Survival 3 is Ben's survival world, and was the third survival mode server. It does not have a "real" name, as none of the survival servers do.

## Creation

Survival 3 was conceptualized on January 3rd, 2020, when Ben lamented the lack of a permanent survival world to Snivy. Ben had "always preferred survival to minigames," so he decided to remedy the problem by creating Survival 3.

## History

### The Early Days

Ben and Snivy were the first to join the world, quickly gathering resources. Progress was slow, but steady. The Nether was reached the day after the server was created, right after Phun joined the world for the first time. Cactus. was found by Snivy during this period, and was given a living area in Birch Bay. Notable structures built during this time are the Beach House and the Watchtower. Big Tree's construction started during this period as well.

### The Grand Recession

Due to the group's lack of built-up resources like iron, quality of living dramatically decreased. In addition to this problem, the true extent of mob griefing was discovered, as Creepers blew up sections of several structures, such as the base of Big Tree and the edges of the Beach House and Watchtower. The world's only known monster spawner at the time, a cave spider spawner, was also unceremoniously blown up less than an hour after its discovery. The only structures built during this time were the Gamer Hole and the AFK-inator. During roughly the final day of this time period, Snivy's Journal was completed with the destruction of the desert village that had taken Cactus. hostage during The Early Days.

### The Return to Form

After the group's stock of built-up materials was built back up and Birch Bay was protected from Creepers, living was good. The first netherite was found during this time, and was used to upgrade Ben and Snivy's chestplates (and later the Idiot Incapacitator). Roughly a day after the netherite was gained, Snivy built the skeleton XP grinder, leading to several enchantments. The rest of this time period was not very important, due to it being simple mining and grinding.

### IDPR 7

IDPR 7 (short for Important Day Post-Replacement 7), named after the date these events were written down under in Ben's New Journal, began with Ben acquiring the music disc Wait in a caving incident. After the disc was safely contained in the Gamer Hole, Ben and Snivy went on their Grand Nether Adventure. Him was tamed and several bastions were looted, culminating in repairing a broken portal leading to a location in the ocean roughly 6k blocks away from spawn. Because of the XP gained during the trip, Ben was able to upgrade the Idiot Incapacitator to Sharpness V. This caused Ben to temporarily go insane from the power and die due to overdosing on pufferfish.

### The Grand Prosperity

mighty return, ender dragon defeat, end ship race, disc collecting

#### Jerome

Jerome the Skeletone is a skeleton that spawned in Ben the Drowned's cage during The Grand Prosperity. Due to the cage's shoddy construction, Jerome accidentally killed Ben the Drowned. Snivy and Phun burned the cage to the ground, much to Ben's horror. Ben rebuilt the burnt parts of the cage with Nether materials, then God (read: Ben in creative mode) revived Ben the Drowned. This bewildered the group, but ended up as one of the happiest moments of the server.

#### Ben's Betrayal

Sometime late into the Great Prosperity, Snivy accidentally dropped his elytra due to a bad bout of lag, Ben managed to get it and hold it for a 2 netherite ingot ransom. Snivy attempted to reverse the ransom by taking the Corpse Killer and threatening to burn down Birch Bay, but it didn't work. Ben's reputation was hugely damaged because of this, but due to Snivy having no other options, Ben had succeeded in holding the Elytra hostage, forcing Snivy to go through with the trade.Later, while Snivy was mining in the Nether searching for Netherite, they had died, however, Ben had changed their spawn coordinates to "6969, 69, 6969", the middle of nowhere, and with a lack of resources at that, making it near impossible for Snivy to get two bars, or even back home. Thankfully, Ben had teleported in later to give Snivy a Nether portal so that they can actually get mining, but shortly afterwards, Snivy's pickaxe was low on durability. Snivy had managed to get Ben to give them an anvil, three diamonds, and enough experience to repair the pickaxe. But it didn't take long for it to happen again, and Ben wasn't willing to give Snivy the resources again, so instead they gave him a bunch of wooden pickaxes, which worked, although inefficient. However, Snivy had a trick up his sleeve, Snivy said that they should be giving him *golden* pickaxes instead of wooden ones, due to them having lowered durability. But Snivy knew that golden pickaxes actually mine faster than unenchanted diamond pickaxes, and that the lessened durability would mean that they'd have to give Snivy more pickaxes more frequently. The plan had slightly backfired later though, as Ben gave so many pickaxes to Snivy that not only could all of the pickaxes not fit in Snivy's inventory, but it actually started to lag out the game. Eventually, Snivy had gotten tired of all of this mining, so they had a plan.

The plan was to ask Phun for the coordinates so that they could head back home and repair their pickaxe. It was a rather long trek, but Snivy was able to get back home while Ben was offline, Snivy had quickly went over to the server's Skeleton Grinder to repair it, and got Phun to help mining at that. With the two's combined efforts, they were able to fulfill the ransom for Snivy to get the Elytra back. This, however, was not the end of their adventures, as they had a second plan past that. Since Ben was still offline, they still had some time left to spare, so they decided to use this time to try and find a second End City, so that they wouldn't even need to repay it and could keep the netherite all to themselves with no cost. This plan had actually worked, allowing Snivy to keep all of the netherite they had gathered. But unbeknownst to Ben, they had actually gathered a third bar of netherite for Snivy, which they then fused their two swords into one, creating the Arbor Exeggecutor, and after upgrading it to a netherite sword, it became the strongest weapon on the server at the time (though Ben was able to make his Idiot Incapacitator slightly stronger at a later time).