Gob SMP

The **Gob SMP** series consists of three (four?) distinct Minecraft survival multiplayer servers hosted for private gameplay on Gobcord. As of March 2022 there have been five seasons with the latest installment ran until 18 March.

## Season 1

Gob SMP Season 1 (then called *Losers SMP*) was started by Greem Jestay, who at the time was a moderator. The server was hosted on a free server hosting service sometime in February 2021. The server faced many performance issues such as connection, lag, and uptime, and it was decided to move the SMP onto a paid server hosted by another member.

### First Gay Cabin

It was during Season 1 that Sam had constructed the First Gay Cabin for Greem and Sam to live in, which included a lovely seaside view, bountiful gardening, and a quaint, compact, homely design. Not far from the First Gay Cabin was the Trans Tower, another staple of the first season of Losers SMP made by Summer. Unfortunately, these monuments were lost during the second season reset. There are no accessible photos for the original gay cabin as of yet, but there is one of the Trans Tower.

## Season 2

The second and third seasons of the Losers SMP was hosted by one of Kris's Floridian compadres Bunger, who paid for and maintained the server. The second season was voted to be a modded playthrough, with several quality of life mods installed such as a world map, compass, land claims, and an improved HUD. One of the most prominent of these mods, however, was Mekanism, which allowed players to create energy from a myriad of sources such as carbon, thermal, and nuclear power. This was basically only used by Bunger and The Gay Cabin. After several weeks of the playthrough, the amount of mods and the constant addition of such strained the performances of the players on the server and generally overwhelmed the gameplay. In addition, resulting from a lack of creativity, players became bored after defeating the ender dragon and getting gear so good that they could essentially kill God. Thus, it was decided the server would restart and a new season would begin, this time unmodded (by popular demand).

#### Second Gay Cabin

The Second Gay Cabin was constructed during Season 2 by both Greem and Sam together. It was built to be a bigger and architecturally superior homage to the previously lost Gay Cabin; fitted with the same quaint, homely look and seaside view, but also with a dock landing, a willow tree with a small bench to sit under and be captivated by the glory of nature, and a nearby McDonald's made by Greem. Naturally, this cabin was also lost to the reset of the following season, but not before being photographed.

The McDonald'sGay Cabin view from the willowGay Cabin front view

## Season 3

The third season was only live for a few days, perhaps a week, as the season began not long before the Goup d'Etat which replaced Kris as the owner of Gobcord. Bunger cut funding for the server shortly after. During this short-lived season, Fort Swag was in the middle of construction atop of the snowcapped, montane Swaggerlands. There are no photos of this fort, and it would remain unfinished.

## Season 4

Losers SMP Season 4, now Gob SMP, launched on 16 May 2021 -- a month after the presumed end of the SMP in April -- and was hosted and paid for by Sam (you're welcome). It was the most-played and (subjectively) the most enjoyable seasons of the SMP, with many goofs gags gaffs guffaws chortles and hijinks abound. However, this playthrough suffered the same fate as its second-season predecessor, as after Kris and their British dog Luke beat the enderdragon and everyone got elytra, interest in the playthrough faltered and everyone began to be bored from a lack of creativity. Because, it's not like you can *build things* in Minecraft or anything. In all seriousness, the season was fun even if short-lived, and its success gave much enthusiasm for a fifth installment of the SMP.

### Mount Swagger & The Wall

Mount Swagger was a gothic castle built inside of a massive mountain in the savannah in which four SMP players lived; Sam , Greem, Pink, and Matt (who had partial autonomy from the base later in the season), with Sam and Pink being the two biggest architectural contributors to the base. The base was organized as an anarchist commune, in which every last resource was shared publicly with base members, and no one had personal possessions.

In opposition to Mount Swagger was The Wall, a hole in the desert reinforced by a giant, gated wall. There were three known members of the wall; Kris (the owner), Luke, and Jester. The Wall, according to the lore, was in ideological opposition to Mount Swagger and wanted to destroy communism. This involved two zany and whacky comical mischiefs; the destruction of Matt Co. and the few times Kris placed a bunch of banners around Mount Swagger and I had to take them all down.

Matt, who ended up being a member of Mt. Swagger, originally had a company named Matt Co., which sought to destroy the world and promptly took over the original spawn area. This capitalist occupation was what originally prompted the migration from the now-cratered spawn area to Mount Swagger. At some point, Matt became simply too poor to maintain his capital empire and allowed Mount Swagger to bomb the fucking shit out of it, thereby mortally wounding the oppressive foundations of capitalism.

Snosm was also a parasitic constituent of Mt. Swagger, living in the walls. All he did was annoy me >:(

Mount swagger side aerial viewMount swagger at night from afarMount swagger terracesMount swagger front viewSecond-floor interior of Mount Swagger courtesy of PinkMount Swagger as viewed from the south courtesy of PinkAerial hind view of The Wall w/ shaders courtesy of PinkAerial front view of The Wall w/ shaders courtesy of Pink
## Season 5

After the end of Season 4, ideas for the fifth season of Gob SMP included the community construction of a city, much akin to SMP Live. It was proposed that the fifth season would begin sometime at the end of 2021 in anticipation of the terrain generation update for Minecraft, but the fifth season wasn't announced until 13 February 2022.

In January 2022, the idea of Kal hosting an SMP on her computer for free was tossed around, prompting hopes for the soon arrival of a new playthrough without the worry of server hosting costs. Kal attempted to follow through with this but was told to stop by her school's IT department. A fifth season was announced to be hosted again by [me] and begin on 19 February 2022 after I got almost 600 dollars in tax money back from the IRS. The server was planned to be hosted with resource packs and quality of life game mods similar to Season 2.

Gob SMP Season 5 began on 19 February 2022 with QoL mods such as Quark, Terrablending, Just Enough Items (JEI), and Waystones, and the BetterVanillaBuilding resource pack. Two new members -- Durr-Memey and Bizarre Diego -- joined the server after the beginning of the SMP, and no one fucking likes Diego.

It was announced on 10 March 2022 that Season 5 would be ending on the 18th when the server's payment was set to lapse. The playthrough was marred with issues faced in the previous season -- lack of time and interest -- as well as challenges faced by the school year and issues with mods driving away players such as in Season 2. On the same day, Season 6 was announced to begin as another unmodded playthrough on Friday, 17 June, but was indefinitely postponed. Though this wasn't announced, Season 6 is seen to be the unofficial final season of the SMP. Season 5 ended on its announced date on 18 March 2022, the server running for just under a month.

### Status as a new server or continuation of the previous server

While Gob SMP Season 5 was created on a new server plan with Apex Hosting, the server has the same IP address as Season 4, raising the question of whether Season 5 should be counted as a new, distinct server or just a revival of Season 4's server. Sam is [I am] the only who cares about this because I [Sam] write[s] the wiki.