Takeovers

**This article describes real server events.**

**Takeovers** are events in which a group of people, or even a single person, decides to cause harm to the Minecraft server, usually in the form of **deleting worlds** and **Coreprotect logs** to prevent restorations. Usually, these takeovers are accompanied by a motive, which in most cases may be revenge. Unlike the name implies, takeovers almost never result in someone gaining access the host's account. Nor do they take the dedicated server and it's files hostage. The exception to this is Sven's infamous takeover from 2019, where Sven held his own files hostage from the rest of the community.

Takeovers are often seen as petty and the last thing any Fredditor should do. Regardless, takeovers are one of the most common and damaging acts of harm towards the community.

The fact that there is a freddit lore wiki dedicated to Waving is kinda cringe LMAO

## History

### The Cold War of 2016

The first takeovers occurred during the second half of **2016**, and the term derives from them. **Woger**and **WavingStory**attempted takeovers in various forms for different motives. Waving wanted to retrieve ownership of the configuration files he had made for the server, while Woger did it out of mayhem. These early takeovers consisted of demoting staff and de-opping and banning them from the server. Waving provided the server with a plugin at some point which contained a backdoor in the form of the **/waveen** command, which would lock all staff out of the server and unban Waving.

Due to the motives of the 2016 takeovers consisting of wanting power over the server, such server deletion events were named **Takeovers**. None of the 2016 takeovers had permanent consequences on the server.

### The 2017 Takeovers

#### Psy and JAFC

After being tempbanned for his temper, **JAFC**got **Psy**to unban him and op him on the morning of **March 19th 2017** . The server was quiet at the time, with **Orb** online building in RPCity. **Psy** joined a while later and banned Orb to commence the takeover.

JAFC's motive was to get revenge for bullying which had gone unaddressed by most of the server's staff at the time . The two had discussed it lengthily in DMs, but upon initiation of the world deletions they began to regret it. Eventually, Orbconvinced JAFC to unban him from the server, and proceeded to ban both JAFC and Psy before unbanning anyone else they had banned before initiating the world deletion.

A day later, logs were posted publicly, detailing JAFC and Psy's plans in DMs

Worlds had to be rolled back to a 4 month old copy, meaning several builds were lost. A few months later, JAFC and Psy appealed for an unban, which was accepted a while later. They were able to prove change, and the community trusted them with ownership and adminship, with JAFC becoming owner and hoster in early 2019 and Psy having risen to admin until being voted for owner in early 2020 alongside JAFC, until the two of them left the server a while later.

#### The minor setback of 2k17

On **April 14th 2017**, **axe\_face**was demoted from staff after a Discord group was leaked in which they shittalked various fredditors and mocked them for their autism . The next day, **Axe**, **Pope**, and **Bob**placed repeating command blocks around spawn to ban various staff members along with deleting the worlds, along with placing various signs directly attacking members for various real life issues and spawning various NPCs around spawn with racist caricature skins and the name **chicken nugger**. The worlds had been backed up two days prior to this and due to various other contingency measures that had been put in place after the Psy and JAFC takeover, the event only caused a minor setback, hence its name.

In September of the same year, Axe, Pope, and Bob returned on alt accounts to grief the server in a **Happy Heart** livestream. Their griefs were rolled back quickly, and they've remained permabanned.

#### Waving's 2019 takeover

Despite the 2016 takeovers, Waving was unbanned in late **2017**. In early **2019**, he became **tech support** to aid in setting up the new dedi which JAFC had purchased. In July, he was promoted to admin.

Around the middle of August, Waving was demoted entirely following an argument with Orb, who was owner at the time. Despite being offered various chances at regaining staff and proving he deserves admin, Waving refused every time, wanting a full promotion back to admin.

On **September 18th 2019**, after his attempt at a public poll backlashed, Waving joined Minecraft server, placed a sign in front of **Noble**, who was active at the time, containing the command to delete all worlds. Why he did so is unknown, but immediately after he used the command to delete the RPCity world and issued another command to wipe the Coreprotect logs, preventing a rollback. **Pig**was able to join in time to ban Waving, but the world had already been deleted. With the last backup being around 2 months old, many users ended up upset about the event, especially those who had worked on the **Chumbruh**locations that were created in the week following up to the takeover attempt.

The next day, it was discovered that Waving had failed in wiping the Coreprotect logs, meaning the world could be mostly restored. A few chunk errors persisted in the form of random floating half iron doors, and overlapping builds in **New Fazville**. This meant his takeover had minimal consequences.

His ban following this lasted 3 months.

## References

1. ↑ A Reddit post detailing the takeover as it unfolded.
2. ↑ JAFC revealing his motive to Nido in DMs
3. ↑ A Reddit post containing links to the JAFC and Psy DM logs before their takeover
4. ↑ Axe's demotion