Swastika Tower

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**Swastika Tower** (unofficially named) is a base started by a large group of players who intended to build a base near spawn for fun. Of this party of players include:

Biggo Stanko, BlueSJ999, S3dney, Japan6016, FogboundBirch30, and Snine19. The base started construction in Late July, but some of the party's members left the base and never built there. The base featured a large tower in the shape of a Swastika, which was named Swastika Tower by Snine19 and BlueSJ, and the name eventually went to the entire base as well. This base was short lived as it was griefed by Cahruun.

## Base History

The party was started and lead by S3dney in late July. S3 gathered a large group of players at nether spawn most of which joined S3 in voice chat. S3 wanted to build a base with all of them, so he ordered the party to travel in the nether to find a spot for the base. However, some still stayed behind at nether spawn. The group decided to build a nether portal at -6000 -1500, which translated to -48k -12.2k in the overworld.

### Construction

When they got there, Snine began to build the Swastika tower. He built a giant swastika on the ground. S3 expanded onto the swastika an made a second swastika above the first and connected their corners.

After the party had died off, Biggo and Fogbound left the base. Japan still visited the base, but didnt build. S3, BlueSJ, and Snine were the primary members of the base.

The trend of adding new floors to the swastika would continue. Everyday, a few more floors would be added. BlueSJ built other structures outside of the Swastika Tower, including a UFO, and other structures that he himself cannot name.

Snine19 built some of the Swastika Tower, but mostly built rooms inside of the base. One of the more recognizable rooms of the tower was the Mosque and the Mihrab. He'd also built another mosque and a Kaaba outside of the base, both of which were never finished.

Before it was griefed, Swastika tower had over 10 floors going all the way up to y level 120.

### Griefing

The base did not survive long as it was griefed by Cahruun in early August. It is still unknown how Cahruun found out the base, but most of the base members point to a coordinate leak. Turk was also there during the griefing, an ally of Cahruun.

## Architecture

### Swastika Tower

The Swastika Tower was simple in architecture. Every floor was shaped as a Swastika. The floor itself was a combination of Netherrack and spruce planks. Netherrack would sort of outline the swastika floor and spruce would fill it. The tower had also donned a cobblestone frame which was to be filled in with windows and walls, but it was griefed before it could be complete.

### BlueSJ's House

BlueSJ built his own residence within the base. His house was very small, only filling in about a 10x10 area. In here, BlueSJ stored his armor and tools, but also had crafting tables and other utuility blocks. The house itself was made of spruce wood, and it had a polished granite floor. The house was made to represent a face, the door being the mouth, and the nether portals as eyes. BlueSJ also used wooden slabs to create the top of the head, hair.

### Mosque

The Mosque was built by Snine19. It was incomplete when it was griefed, and the roof was never finished. Much like a real life Islamic Mosque, there was a prayer hall and a mihrab to pray. The mosque had a striped pattern of Netherack and spruce for a floor.

### Kaaba

The Kaaba was built by Snine19. It was a giant obsidian cube which was supposed to have Arabic calligraphy printed in gold on it, much like the real-life Kaaba. It was never finished.

### Aerial Structures

BlueSJ built all of the structures in the sky. They have no meaning and BlueSJ himself stated that he does not know what they are. There was a UFO looking structure in the sky, an obsidian structure which looked like a top, and a giant x-symbol encased in a circle.

## Trivia

* The Swastika Tower is one of the most tallest and biggest manmade structures made on the server (discounting lavacasts)
* The first base to refer to Muslim places of worship
* Over 10 people planned to build at the base, only 6 traveled to the base, and only 3 of them actually built.