Goblin Empire

* City of Gobland
* Gobvill

* Goblin fWhip

**Fearless leader:**

* Sheriff Jimmy (Epp. 8–12)

The **Goblin Empire** (sometimes the **Cave Empire**) is an empire featured in the second season of the Empires SMP. Its capital city is the **Goblands**, located inside a dripstone cave.

Its chief architect and captain of industry, Goblin fWhip, actually proclaimed Sheriff Jimmy to be the goblins' fearless leader until they had a falling out. Although rarely mentioned, the goblins appeared to have crowned a number of kings by the time of the finale.

## Banner

TBA -- [*Two designs; one posted in Tumble Town's pagoda, the other designed by Shubble and posted at Spawn*]

## Settlements

*For a broad list of settlements and buildings in Empires Season 2, see Locations/Season 2.*
The Goblin Empire currently has two settlements. Their capital city is the **Goblands** (sometimes Gobland), a bustling industrial city under a mountain, Goblin Town, is the town that greets all visitors to Gobland, and **Gobvill** is a small farming hamlet located outside the cave along the Goblin Pickle Road. Gobvill was settled not for food but rather to help the empire fulfill its mud brick needs.

### Architecture

Goblin architecture uses a characteristically asymmetrical, crooked style termed "goblin wonk" by its builder fWhip. Their buildings mostly feature sagging wooden roofs in the colors of red, orange and blue, atop pale stone, wooden, and mud bricks walls with wooden accents. Towers rise from several of these buildings, and walls of mangrove root keep monsters out of the settlement. Wobbly wooden supports hold up its bridges and minecart rails.

 Roofing
 Trim
 Flooring
 Paving
 Garden patches
 Retaining walls

### Buildings

Major buildings in the Goblands include the blacksmith in the Stone District, the butcher & the animal barn in the Pork District, their warehouse, and the pride of the Goblands, the Drip tavern. In the center of the city is a muddy pig pit, where the goblins breed their riding boars. Deeper in the cave is some warped cave fungus foliage, and in the depths of the cave the goblins have started exploring an ancient city. Goblin fWhip's starter house served as the rendezvous of all emperors and empresses for the End Incident.

The goblins have some machinery on display in the city, including an automated cobblestone machine, lava drippers, a super smelter, and various minecart rails suspended from the cavern ceiling. Smoke from the goblins' fires vent out a collection of smoke stacks at the top of the goblins' mountain.

Some buildings have potato gardens or hydroponic pickle farms.

Goblands (exterior)
Cave base entrance (build)The Goblin Pickle Road (build, expansion)Smoke stacks, Animalia side (l o r e)Goat railSmoke stacks, Stratos side (🔴 4 Nov., ep. 17)Gunpowder factory and surrounding rail lines (ep. 24)Gunpowder factory AFK point (ep. 25)
Goblands (interior)
Cave starter base (build)Pig pit (build)Animal Barn (build)Stone district housing row (build)Blacksmith (build)Warehouse & gold vault (build)Butcher shop (build)Shrieker cage (build)The Drip, tavern interior (build)The Drip, tavern exterior (build)The Sheriff's Home Away From Home (build)Pork district housing row (built on stream)Courthouse (build, interior)Busy street (timelapse)Gobland Lava Forge.pngLava forge (timelapse)Hermit houses (ep. 15)Engineers workshop (ep. 16)Waterfront homes (ep. 17)Reed farm (ep. 17)Gobland Alleyway.pngAlleyway (ep. 19)Elytra raceway (ep. 19)Aqueduct mill (ep. 19)Basalt farm (ep. 20)Hospital (ep. 22)Cobble generator (exterior) (ep. 23)Oddity botique (ep. 23)Pylon thing (ep. 23)Shiny shop (ep. 23)Gobland Bee Home.pngBee home (ep. 26)Portal (ep. 26)Glow squid pools (ep. 26)Adoption center (ep. 27)Deep Dark tour building (ep. 27)Apartment building (ep. 27)(*Backside*)
Tango's work
Bamboo farm (Tango ep. 32)Super smelter (Tango ep. 33)Tango Track (Tango ep. ?, fWhip ep. 23)
Gobvill
Gobvill, farming hamlet (build)Windmill (🔴 16 Nov)
Elsewhere
Secret hideout under Stratos (build)Goblin Empire Hoglin Ranch.pngHoglin ranch (build)Secret basement in Animalia (build)Gobland Tram System (started ep. 6, completed ep. 19)Goblin shrine to the Book of Law (build)Bridge outpost (timelapse)Festival hog race (ep. 14)Tram system to spawn (ep. 16)Spawn area (ep. 25)Ancient Empire Gobland Sign.pngStone district sign donated to King Pixlriffs' museum (ep. 25)Goblin cart donated to King Scott's empire (ep. 25])
## Economy and infrastructure

The Goblin Empire claimed control of the cave goods trade, meaning they reserve the right to declare war on any empire that also exports either stone or raw copper.

### Reliance on explosives

A massive automated cobblestone machine in Goblands is the center piece of their economy, designed ultimately to generate emeralds at the expense of TNT. The goblins also built an explosive tunnel-boring machine, in an ambitious effort to build a secret tunnel to Dawn,. Midway through the project, the goblins realized the machine exposes copper veins for mining, bolstering their supply of one of the Empire's main exports.

This explosives-based core of the goblin economy initially relied heavily on the gunpowder trade from Tumble Town. Several factors reduced this reliance, from an overwhelming amount of copper and rock reserves gathered to an economic shift in the direction of pork. In episode 12, the goblins cut ties with Tumble Town, but they did not find another source of gunpowder until much later, when fWhip and Mayor Lizzie of Animalia orchestrated the Gunpowder Plot.

### Agriculture

In the Empire's early days the goblins subsisted off cave potatoes. By episode 3 the Goblin Empire started to value the pig as a strong source of protein, and by episode 5 they introduced the cave pickle as a staple snack in goblin cuisine. Soon after cultivating the cave pig, the goblins inadvertently bred them into a unique giant riding boar. They later started ranching hoglins in the Nether, ultimately meeting all of the Empire's food needs with cooked porkchops.

Later on, the goblins expanded to settle the farming village of Gobvill on the surface. Its purpose was to produce wheat for mud bricks.

### Transportation

An ongoing project has been to connect the city of Gobland to each of the other empires via underground rails, including a tram system to far-eastern empires of Dawn and Olipoligo. This project seems to have lost steam after the wide tunnel to Dawn was finished being bored, as it was a slow going and time-consuming process. The goblins have completed a number of smaller tunnels: one to Animalia in the west, and one to Stratos and Chromia in the east. Exhausted after boring the tunnel to Dawn, the other seven empires were too far even for goblin energy to finish the project. Later on, however, fWhip was inspired to expand the tram system towards Spawn.

The city of Gobland relies on a number of wooden mine cart rail lines, both for goods transportation and people moving. Fuel is ferried from the lava drips to the super smelters, and their skeleton spawner is only accessible by rail. Another rail transports goblins from the city's villager breeder to the downtown district.

Through the illustrious cave entrance into Goblands, the Goblin Empire is connected by roads to Animalia (westwards) as well as to Stratos, Chromia, Cogsmeade, Dawn, and the Spawn Area (eastwards).

### Other projects

One of the Empire's earliest projects was building a double skeleton spawner, which fWhip has offered access tickets for. In a later ambitious expansion, the Cave Empire started exporting their pickles at the risk of starting a dye war with Chromia, who controls the dye trade. Chromia never bothered to respond.

## Allies and enemies

The Goblin Empire has been involved in trades with almost every other empire and has been quick to declare alliances with them.

Relations with their closest neighbor Animalia are possibly the most stable: With the present of Boris, Ambassador of Goblands, diplomatic relations between Animalia and the Goblin Empire officially started by fWhip's fourth episode. The two come to each other's aid when either blows their emergency horn, such as when Gobland was overrun with chickens or when Animalia's greatest explorer went missing.

The goblins' alliance with Tumble Town has been the most dynamic. By episode 8 the two empires' alliance was going strong, both sharing a reverence for the Law. In fWhip's 12th episode, however, the two empires turned on each other after fWhip delivered wardens to everyone's bases. Ever since, fWhip has been slandering Jimmy and even pushed to democratically elect a new sheriff.

Early on, Goblin fWhip assembled all other empire leaders for an international End Mission resulting in the End Incident.

### Chronology

This list should be expanded upon.

Ep. 1
Gobland hosts a gathering of leaders for the End incident.
[ Ep. ]
Ally made of Tumble Town.
Ep. 8
Enemy made of Olipoligo when fWhip incarcerates Oli
Alliance strengthened with Tumble Town, when Sheriff Jimmy promotes fWhip to his deputy. The Sheriff is proclaimed the goblins' Fearless Leader.
Ep. 12
Alliance broken with Tumble Town, when the Sheriff fires fWhip.
Ep. 18ish?
Ally made of Animalia
Ep. 23
Alliance strengthened with Animalia, when the two empires join the gunpowder trade together.
## Gallery

Cobblestone machine (build, rebuild, rebuild again)Lava farms (build, expansion)Gobland Super Smelter.pngfWhip's super smelter (build)Tango's super smelter (Tango ep. 33)Goblin Empire Hoglin Farm.pngHoglin auto-farm (build)Fertile dripstone cave (villager breeder) (discovery)Basalt farm (ep. 20)Gobland-Animalia Gunpowder Farm.pngGunpowder farm (ep. 23)Piglin bartering station (ep. 24)Glamor shot of a street in GoblandGlamor hot of another street in Gobland
## Trivia

* The Goblin Pickle Road was initially laid by Lizzie.
* The coordinates of the ancient city below Goblands is 150, -275.
* Goblin imagination is fWhip's tongue-in-cheek explanation for how several of Gobland's rails are held up without supports.
* Anything painted orange is fireproof in goblin lore, hence their use of acacia wood, copper, and orange glass to contain and channel lava (materials which would otherwise catch fire or melt when exposed to molten rock).
* Gobland's houses have roofs to shed dripstone water from the cave ceiling.
* Grian stumbled into something he shouldn't have seen.
* Goblin children are "dug out of the mountain like any other precious stones."

## References

1. ↑ JoeyGraceffaGames, ep. 12, "Giving Katherine Elizabeth A Magical Gift!!" (1:12) – Pirate Joe displays Gobland's coordinates.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ep. 27, "I FINISHED Building my MEGA Cave Base" – "THE GOBLIN KINGS DECREE..."
3. ↑ Ep. 27, "I FINISHED Building my MEGA Cave Base" (9:19)
4. ↑ Ep. 9, "I Built a FARMER VILLAGE" (6:23) – fWhip frequently refers to Solidarity as the goblins' fearless leader.
5. ↑ In Boris's name, it's "Gobland," but fWhip frequently refers to the cave as "the Goblands"
6. ↑ Ep. 19, "BIG BUILDS and ELYTRA COURSE!"
7. ↑ Ep. 9, "I Built a FARMER VILLAGE" (11:50) "Gobvill" sign
8. ↑ Borkon (2 Sep 2020), "Ridiculously simple tunnel bore | Minecraft Java 1.16-1.18" – via YouTube.
9. ↑ Ep. 6, "I Built a Cave STORAGE ROOM" (20:46) – Secret tunnel bore
10. ↑ Ep. 3, "I Built an ANIMAL BARN" (17:00) – Riding boars appear
11. ↑ Ep. 6, "I Built a Cave STORAGE ROOM" (4:20) – Hoglin ranch
12. ↑ Ep. 7, "I Built a Butcher Shop with GOBLIN VILLAGERS" – Hoglin auto-farm episode
13. ↑ Ep. 2, "I Built my Starter CAVE BASE ENTRANCE" (4:11) – Double skeleton spawner
14. ↑ Ep. 5, "I BUILT a BLACKSMITH" (3:17–5:25) – Joining the pickle trade
15. ↑ Ep. 4, "I BUILT a CAVE VILLAGE" (24:12) – Ambassador Boris
16. ↑ LDShadowLady, ep. 1, "A Wild Start" (6:18) – Lizzie founds the road to Stratos.
17. ↑ Stream, "I Put a WARDEN in Smallishbeans Base!" (1:46:23)
18. ↑ Ep. 5, "I BUILT a BLACKSMITH" (3:07) – fWhip mentions goblin imagination
19. ↑ Ep. 13, "Building a GOBLIN LAVA FORGE" (15:08) – Goblin fWhip uncovers a fertile dripstone cave good enough for farming crops on.
20. ↑ fWhip : Bryce [@Failwhip] (25 Apr 2023). "canon empires lore: gobland children are dug out of the mountain like any other precious stones, sometimes it's an emerald.. sometimes it's a new member of society🤷" (Tweet) – via Twitter.