The First Server

**The 1st Server**, also known as **Rusty's Server**, was the first Minecraft multiplayer (vanilla) server the League of Mothers would play on. It was created by Rusty around the first few days of February 2021, most likely lasting until March to possibly April. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the server was heavily played on, with it being a peaceful pastime to distract members from what was happening in the outside world. Some impressive builds were constructed compared to the previous realms, though sadly most were left unfinished. Nonetheless, the world's large constructions started a precedent that future Minecraft servers should focus towards major build projects, along with actually completing them. It also saw non-active members of the LOM make an appearance, such as VOR, and (at the time) TheWoman. As such, the server is looked back on as one of the best LOM worlds.

This world is not to be confused with the First Realm, as it was decided that from this world forward (or one before it), the LOM would not use the Mojang Realms service, due to the allowed player limit on a world being small and for more general ability to configure a server.

A link to the world tour on the LOMCast Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-dNDuwu6I&t=245s

**The History**

With the world created, Rusty would first enter the world, followed closely by Shmexi, RoxyVelma, Weeb and Joker. However, the latter half did not stay on the server for very long due to being "terrorised" by Roxy and Shmexi. After leaving, Shmexi would mockingly create a burning monument to remember the two who fled. Eventually, Bilbo, Kelloggs, Elyag and Pops would join the server, all settling in what would become known as Lomington, which would be the first time that a community in-game referenced the name of the server itself. Many impressive builds would start to be created, with Bilbo building a large Incan-styled temple, then later tearing it down to make a Stone Henge-esque build with a bar underneath it, alongside a medieval tavern right next door. One of her few appearances in LOM history, VOR would join the world for a while, making a little dirt shack (truly the best build). A "joint build" project was made between Kelloggs and Roxy, both settling on hills facing opposite each other. Roxy would style his hill as an erupting volcano with a ruined castle on it (though not much of one), whilst Kelloggs would make his hill look like a lavish garden inside of a well-kept castle courtyard, luckily just directly placed on top of a zombie spawner. Both would build an ornate bridge, representing both sides and connecting them both together. The joint build would apparently inspire Rusty to create more intricate base builds in future worlds. However, in this server, they stuck to creating their plantation-esque build, with a giant underground layer housing their villagers. They would also build a brutalist council building for matters needing to be settled, though it was rarely used only ever for some bantz with the boys. Shmexi would build a cosy Hobbit hole as his house, alongside a floating island with a wizard's tower on top, built next to a giant gate that would lead the members of the world to the End portal for when the group were finally ready to fight the dragon. Elyag's only contribution to the world would be carving out a giant hole and practically nothing else (though tbf he said he was going to build an impressive house inside of the hole but couldn't be arsed). Kelloggs would later build a large penis inside the hole to symbolise s\*x, this would be quite fitting, as later in LOM lore Elyag would become synonymous with sex itself. Pops would build their wooden Simpsons-esque house, a Femboy Hooters and a giant mega build of a castle to compete with Kelloggs smaller castle, looking similar to Lord Farquad's keep in Shrek (you think he's compensating for something?). Kelloggs would later team up with Rusty in building a giant build himself, making the foundations of Notnotre Dame. Originally supposed to be a giant build of the famous Paris cathedral (before half of it burned down in 2019). Though after seeing how mega of a build it would be, Kelloggs decided to go with a more gothic-esque church design instead. This would still seem to be too challenging to fully complete and alas it was left roughly half-finished. During this time, the first appearance of TheWoman on a Minecraft server also occurred during this world for a short period, with her making a small house on a makeshift island close to the town, along with building the biggest monument of the server, a single dirt block, named by Kelloggs as 'The Woman's Giant Fukin Monument'.

Some other iconic moments would occur during the server's life, such as the trolling of Bradders, perhaps taking on his divine form of the Lord KB during his reign of terror. KB would troll many of the builds, leaving behind towering nerd poles around the town whilst escaping Lomington's staunch defenders, along with building some naughty phallus symbols around the town, which Kelloggs would save one of them, encasing it in glass to remind the players of the trollish wrath of the Lord KB. Another moment would be RoxyVelma's younger brother joining the world, building his 'wolf panther den'. He would steal from other players and would generally act like a goon, such as genuinely accusing Kelloggs of griefing his base when creepers would blow up right in front of him. As was tradition, near the end of the server's life, the group would embark on killing the Ender Dragon, following down a giant bridge Shemxi had made, starting at the giant gate built at the town. Shmexi had also built a surprising new dungeon for the players to venture through, with various mini-games like parkour to get to the portal. Near the server's ending, Pops would lose motivation to finish his giant Farquad Castle and would ask Rusty to give them creative mode to complete it. Though most of the server's players were already moving on from the world anyway, this would mostly annoy Kelloggs, as it felt like all of his work on survival in building his castle and church was practically all for nothing. To add that even with Pops being given creative, they still didn't finish the build anyway. As such, by the LOM's Third Server, worlds would be given a strong precedent to not allow creative mode under any circumstances aside from fixing damages to unjustified griefs (such as in the Third Server when a hacker joined the world).

All of this aside, the server is remembered as one of the best (and maybe longest) worlds the LOM would play on. A personal favourite of Kelloggs, it kept him and many other LOM members "sane" and together during the Covid-19 restrictions, giving them a fun thing to do to pass the time. As also stated, it would be one of the first worlds where players would start building more intricate creations, which would be emulated in future servers.