Svalbard Seed Vault

The building as seen from the SMPEarth Dynmap

The **Svalbard Seed Vault** is a Minecraft recreation of the real-life Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the SMPEarth server. It is located in Corvarian Svalbard and built by KaraCorvus of the Corvarian Empire on Day 51.

## History

### Day 51

KaraCorvus set out to reconstruct the global seed vault, often referred to as the "doomsday" vault. She began by collecting at least a stack of every seed, plants and fruits available in Minecraft from all over the server. In the end of her noble mission, she managed to gather almost everything, except for sweet berries and lilies of the valley which is apparently absent and unavailable on the server, and cornflowers, despite spending numerous amounts of bone meals to cultivate them in flower forest biomes.

Hours later, Kara went to the island colony of Korean Svalbard where she researched its real life location and deduced its corresponding location on the server. She then started planning out the foundation for the main entrance based on its real life counterpart, which translated as 4 blocks wide, 2 for the passageway and a block for either side of the wall. She also cleared out a portion of the land to expose the cliffside of the mountain. Not only that, Kara placed snow blocks and snow layers to spruce up the front yard of the vault.

Though her game crashed several times while crafting the building materials, Kara managed to construct the main entrance using polished diorite mined from underground nearby. The custom recipe allows her to transform one diorite block to 8 polished diorites with a stonecutter. Later, after finding out that the island is barren of absolutely any trees, she flew to northern Scandinavia for some wood and then returned to the island. Unfortunately, Kara died from landing too hard on a islet between the two locations while trying to obtain the glowstones there. She respawned in her palace and had to fly her plane back to the site of her death to reclaim her inventory.

Iron trapdoors and iron bars were used to make a small bridge by the entrance, while gray wools made up the grating above the iron doors. Sea lanterns adorned the front wall as well as the ceiling of the main passageway into the mountain where the vaults are. She placed about 48 barrels in total for the collection of floras to be stored there. Kara almost lost her green shulker containing those precious items by the island where she died earlier, yet she managed to retrieve it in times and started placing them according to their types by row.

The 48 barrels are divided into 3 group: 30 by the central wall and 9 barrels on either side of the vault chamber. The central barrels are designated to store seeds, tree saplings, and agricultural produces, while the barrels on the right and left side contained flowers of almost all sorts, with 2 extra barrels remained empty, possibly for sweet berries, chorus flowers or any other floras that she might have missed that exist in the game. The arrangement of those items are as follows.

### **Left side**

 White tulips
 Rose bushes

### **Right side**

 Alliums
 Wither roses

### Day 52

Kara brought CaptainSparklez and Krinios to the vault as part of their mini world tour. While the latter two was impressed on the recreation of the seed bank, Krinios was quite disappointed that there was a lack of 'Krinios flower' (cornflower) in one of the storages of the seed vault. Kara explained that cornflowers are quite rare on the server, plus they do not spawn naturally as she had to manually grow them using bone meals.

As Kara added some cornflowers that she managed to acquire earlier to the collection, Krinios remarked that the structure somehow looks like a hardware store. Jordan then asked genuine questions about the nature and function of the real-life structure, which initiated an intellectual discussion about plant facts. He shared a plant fact that while they are aesthetically and culturally synonymous with the region, palm trees in Los Angeles are not native to California and only pose bad effects to the local ecosystem.

Much later during their trip, one of Jordan's Twitch viewer called the landmark as "Paul Blart Seed Vault".

 Colonies
 Corvarian France •
 Corvarian Hong Kong •
 Corvarian Kara Sea •
Corvarian Svalbard •
 Corvarian Fork† •
 Corvarian Rio† •
 Landmarks & Locations
Kara's Palace •
Parisian Eiffel Tower •
Ganja Hut •
Kara's Kat Kafe •
The Louvre •
**Svalbard Seed Vault** •
Kara's Ark •
Temple of Heaven •
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