The Great Arctic Beacon Heist

TimeDeo attempting to break the barrier block.

**The Great Arctic Beacon Heist** was committed on Day 45 primarily by TimeDeo. The goal of the heist was to steal the beacon under the Northern End Portal. His reason is that beacon was "cosmetic" and "owned by nobody".

## History

### Day 45

Prior to the Moon Landing, Deo noticed that there was a beacon under the Northern End Portal. He didn't attempt to retrieve it, however, because the majority of the players and admins were nearby and he didn't want to get called out.

After the event was finished, Deo made a quick attempt to steal the beacon, but soon realized there was a barrier block and bedrock protecting it and went back to the end to find Elytras and Shulker Boxes. When Deo finished hunting for the previously mentioned items, he quickly returned to try and find a way to get the beacon.

First, he tried to find a hole in the bedrock but found none, so he tried using various TNT methods in an attempt to break the beacon and used a single-player world to test these methods.

Whilst Deo was finding a way to obtain the beacon, Technoblade came into his chat, curious about what he was doing. Technoblade then came to check him out and tested his crossbow on him, causing a slight distraction to the heist. Eventually, they went into a VC where Techno said he was going to "*ominously watch [him]*".After a brief scuffle with land-claiming, Technoblade left and Deo continued on his way.

Deo spent a few more hours finding ways to access the beacon and gathering resources. Eventually, Deo found a video that explained how to break the barrier block protecting the beacon, and went back to the Northern End Portal to try it out. After clearing out a large area and setting up the contraption with the video's help, Deo finally managed to break the barrier protecting the beacon. However, he failed to break the beacon because it was world-protected, which left him devastated.

As a last-ditch effort to obtain the beacon, he asked LukeOrSomething to bring him TNT and TNT Minecarts to blow up the beacon. When both of those didn't work, Luke went to ask Chip to give them a beacon for their effort. Chip said no, stating that it would be cheating. When they rebutted that Technoblade also got beacons for free, Chip said that those beacons were gained through ARG and were considered legitimate except for one. Chip then added that they would make beacons cheaper when Deo complained that they were too expensive.

Defeated and angry, Deo decided that if *"[he] can't have it, then nobody can,"* and he set off to destroy the beacon using the same method he used to delete the barrier block. His first attempt to break the beacon failed, however, so he went back to look for resources. Luke supplied Deo with the resources needed to break the beacon, and on their second try, they successfully broke it. They also found an iron block under the beacon and took it.

    Out of spite, Deo placed a sign that said *"Deo 1 - Chip 0"* where the beacon formerly was. Due to the world-protection, the sign is unable to be broken and is permanently ingrained in that spot forever.

Although the main goal of stealing the beacon was a failure, the goal of removing the beacon from its former spot was technically a success and Deo deemed it victorious despite countless hours and resources were invested on it.

### Day 46

    Following the heist, JoshA20 posted a tweet and decided to give Deo a challenge at his base involving several layers of bedrock and a beacon at the end of the bedrock tunnel.

This challenge by Josh was first discovered by TommyInnit, who noted this as some "ARG sh\*t", as the contraptions inside of this bedrock tunnel included barrier blocks and world guard, items/abilities not utilised by players. He left a sign at the top of the entrance noting that it was really "weird."

Later on, Deo logged on and found this challenge. Upon his first entry to the area, Tommy supplied him with cobblestone and various materials in order to accomplish the challenge.

Deo failed the parkour challenge numerous times before making it to his first checkpoint. He finally made it to the beacon before realizing that he needed blocks in order to reach it. Thus, he went back to the parkour section to open the chest that Josh spawned in. However, this time, instead of redoing the parkour, he gave up and decided to walk through and use ladders instead to climb to the beacon area. Following this, he redid the block-breaking procedure in which he failed at first but then eventually got it, being rewarded 9 diamond blocks and a beacon.

## Trivia

* When Deo was in the Moon, Philza tried to steal the beacon too, but as soon as he realised that it was protected he gave up.

## Gallery

Deo building while watching the YouTube video on the back.The Day 46 challenge.

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