Duuuval Island

The official flag of Duuuval Island.

Duuuval Island is a faction on the Public SMP Earth server. It is led by datdownie, who established the faction the first hour of when the Public SMP Earth (Beta) server was born.

## History

### [Beta]

#### Day 1

Starting off spawn, datdownie was aiming for Florida as his premier destination. However, he immediately got stuck on the world border as he attempted to cross it via boat. Once an admin came to the rescue and unstuck him, he continued his way towards Florida.

Upon arrival, datdownie immediately claimed a box on the northeast side of Florida, naming it DuuuvalCounty. He tried attempting to claim more land but was unsuccessful due to the small limit of power each player was given.

After that discovery, he went on to strip mine and made a temporary home beneath the ground next to the strip mine. A foundation was then later built within the claimed land as a future house was to be constructed.

#### Day 2

Not too much happened for DuuuvalCounty on the second day. Leader datdownie was focused on completing the future house & underground infrastructure. He later found out that there were some natural pigs spawning next to his unfinished place, so he pushed them all the way to the underground, storing the pigs in a boat.

Sometime later, datdownie realized he needed a bed to sleep on. Natural sheep were rare to begin with, but luckily a user named Yoolryy, leader of the PeasantCoality, provided datdownie the needed wool to make a bed. This concluded with the two allying with each other (though since then the alignment has been neutral for unknown reasons).

#### Day 3

Spanner and datdownie spectating the Blizziran-Latvian War.

With some hard work and time, datdownie finally completed the exterior of his home. With oak wood accents & oak leaves acting as shrubbery, the house looked quite nicely decorated. The interior was then modeled partially, adding three rooms: one bedroom, a dining table using two boats and two slabs, and a path down to the underground infrastructure.

During construction, a user informed datdownie that there were two unclaimed cows fenced in at South Florida. He quickly came with a boat and nabbed the two cows, and placed them in an expanded underground infrastructure. This would later become a farm for pigs & cows for DuuuvalCounty.

Throughout the course of the day, datdownie went on to explore other parts of the world, including Antarctica where he allied with Blizziran after discovering a weak point in their base's walls. During this point in time, PVP would be later enabled, which resulted in the Blizziran-Latvian War. Leader datdownie went on to check the warzone, then was immediately assaulted by one of the members of Latvia, PauIBlartMallCop. Soon after, Admin Spanner came around and was spectating the war in the air. She saw datdownie on the sidelines and she then built a tiny spectator stand in which both datdownie and Spanner sat at, watching the two sides slaughter each other for entertainment. The two later met up at datdownie's home where they chatted for a few minutes before Spanner had to do moderator work.

#### Day 4

The boat garage of Duuuval Island.

While exploring the world, datdownie stumbled upon a black sheep by its lonesome near the coast of Mexico. He would take it back home and fence it in the front of his home. He later dyed it cyan, the primary color of DuuuvalCounty.

As the livestock in datdownie's underground infrastructure multiplied, he knew this would be a perfect time to start selling them. He first needed a reliable way to transport the livestock out of the small boxes and to do that he would create a garage for boats. By creating a stairway up to sea level, it would be perfect for livestock to be moved through the water, especially with the opening of the unofficial Panama Canal.

DuuuvalCounty established a trading network soon afterward when several factions asked for either cows or pigs. Knowing how young the server is, datdownie sold each livestock for two diamonds each, which became a worthwhile profit, in the end, totaling up to 38 diamonds (20 on sales, 18 on tips). Tips were given to datdownie because of how dedicated he was on delivering the livestock via boat to other continents such as Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Even throughout the job of delivering livestock to other factions, datdownie stumbled upon two skeleton horses at the back of his house. He took both of them in (after obtaining a saddle from a courteous player) and put them with the cyan sheep.

#### Day 5

The new landscape for the faction after the Florida Initiative took place.

A day after the success of trading and gaining new allies along the way, disaster struck for DuuuvalCounty. What was once a faction residing in the state of Florida is now surrounded by ocean water as the Florida Initiative took place while datdownie was offline. Distraught, datdownie attempted to repair the state of Florida but was stopped by Afrikaland's Jesus\_Ghost. Boiling in anger, datdownie would enemy Jesus\_Ghost, and soon after Jesus\_Ghost would assassinate a defenseless datdownie while he was removing some of the letters surrounding Florida.

A few minutes into the conflict, Jesus\_Ghost infiltrated the House of #DUUUVAL and pretty much kept datdownie in a death loop. This would later end in Blizziran's 5w\_ saving datdownie and ultimately killing Jesus\_Ghost to end the short conflict. Jesus\_Ghost ended the battle by stating that datdownie cannot attempt to repair the state of Florida, which datdownie reluctantly accepted. Because of the damage done to the place around the faction, the name was aptly changed to Duuuval Island.

Sustaining all the damage, datdownie went on to message 5w\_, asking if he can join Blizziran. While datdownie was rejected, 5w\_ countered the deal with wanting Duuuval Island to be a Protectorate to Blizziran, which datdownie accepted.

#### Day 6

RuddyInnit (left) and 5w\_ (right) making amends.

As a new day for Duuuval Island rose up, a conflict outside of the faction took place collectively known as Public SMP Earth vs Tubbo & Co. took place during the night of Day 5. Tubbo ended up having op powers after a tweet sent out by Admin JoshA20, showing the server's IP address & encouraging Tubbo to cause havoc upon the general public. Throughout all of this, several mobs were destroyed, including datdownie's "Sheeple" as they were nonexistent after the server rollback. This prompted datdownie to make a to-do list, stating that the Sheeple must be retaken after the events of last night.

Sometime later, datdownie warped to Antarctica to find the exterior area of Blizziran in shambles as it was later explained that the area was assaulted by hackers. So datdownie, offering to help repair the exterior of Blizziran, patched up most of the dirt blocks and even built them a snow bridge to their front door.

After a brief intermission, war broke out once a member of Blizziran was slain by a BusinessBay member. Blizziran's 5w\_ & others, including datdownie, joined the fight against BusinessBay. Unfortunately, the group was met with an impeccable defense as traps and base camping ensued. Some players lost their items as well as valuables, and datdownie was among the casualties. The war would end on a stalemate as a peace treaty was made between 5w\_ and RudyInnit.

#### Day 7

The fight between the otherworldly mobs in the Ritual of Stal.

After a wild day, things seemed to settle down for Duuuval Island. Nothing was bound to change as datdownie continued on his task on building a highway for his skeleton horses. However, datdownie noticed someone approaching his island, and soon warped back home. The user revealed himself to be rafaeltheraven, a person that just joined the server. At first glance, he seemed to be the typical person trying to find his place in the world. Soon after, it was revealed that rafaeltheraven was recording the history of the server as a whole. With some similarities in goals, datdownie lent rafaeltheraven a helping hand and decided he'd stay in his faction as a place to stay.

With a new member established, more trades and conversations were taken care of, as datdownie made amends with Yoolryy as well as sending off a free cow to Trashland as a means to make them their ally as well. datdownie would then later take a brief intermission to gather his thoughts about the future of his faction.

Some time later, datdownie would find an interjunction underground, leading to different ways to the surface. One led to Mexico, and the other to the center of the state of Texas. This would be a success in datdownie's book and he was going to call it a day, until something warded him off.

An argument was being made at the expense of a notable music disc known as Stal. Because of this, the Ritual of Stal happened on the northern tip of Antarctica, where large beings of an otherworldly kind appeared before Blizziran and EastChina, the two power factions of the server. datdownie would teleport for this one-of-a-kind event and witnessed something that couldn't be described. Much later, a small end-material monument appeared before the players, and contained in the monument was a Nether Star & a book titled "7", which at first datdownie took from the chest, but was smitten by the admins and was prompted to put it back. Throughout this event, datdownie died a few times, once by a charged creeper as well as a huge horde of indistinguishable mobs in a bedrock hole.

## Relations

### Allies

* Blizziran
* Raj
* MalayanFed
* Krakow
* Sardinia
* CelesteMountain
* EastChina
* BusinessBay
* PeasantCoality
* Trashland