Grian

Grian, also known as The Third Watcher after he left Evo, was a former member of the Evolution SMP. He was most infamous for his foundation of the Grian Empire, pranks and other things in the Evolution SMP.

His series ended on September 11th, 2018, after the ender dragon fight when he became one of the Watchers.

His episodes 29 and 38 are private, and no longer viewable his channel.

## Appearance

Grian's skin throughout most of the series was his old Link-themed skin.

Grian's main skin is dirty blond with light skin. He wears a red sweater and grey pants. His face is made out of two black pixels for each of his eyes.

## History

Grian was the founder and the owner of the Evolution server when it began on October 1st, 2017.

Grians final episode of the server was of the dragon fight, where he joined The Watchers when everyone jumped through the portal after killing the dragon. His joining of the Watchers had a modified end screen poem, where a text color representing Grian and additional text mentioning some of the other Evo member was added in.

### Beta 1.2\_02

#### Video #1

##### Introduction

Grian starts off the video by welcoming viewers to the first episode of Evolution SMP and stating the current version the group is playing on.

After Salems Lady claims to have seen a "ghost chicken", Grian tells the group that she's probably not crazy because the early versions of Minecraft were incredibly buggy. He then tells the group that they will likely encounter many of the bugs in this series.

Grian then moves on to introduce the members of the server starting with Salems\_Lady and continuing through the circle. NettyPlays, InTheLitteWood, bigbst4tz2, SolidarityGaming, MiniMuka, Tomohawk\_1989 and ending with syszee.

Grian mentions that some players either have no skin or the wrong skin. He says that this is due to the version of the game being so old that it doesn't register some skins as they are rendered in the current version. (Java 1.12) Grian states that you'll know who the veteran players are if they didn't have their current skin. He then asks NettyPlays when she started playing Minecraft and she says that it was a couple years ago.

Grian states that this will either be an entirely new experience for some of the group while the rest will be reliving some memories. He then mentions how he would like to pull some old pranks that used fun glitches that were patched out of the game.

He ends the introduction and calls for the group to disperse and to make this place home. After a black screen, Grian starts off on his own adventure.

##### Solo adventure

Grian states that Evolution is his first SMP if you don't count Arkers SMP, which he states that he ended as it did not go his way. Grian then says that being in the beta version of MInecraft is more comfortable for him as it is kinda what he grew up on in the game. He hadn't been on a survival world in so many years that being on the Beta 1.2\_02 world was more familiar than the most recent version. (Java 1.12)

He then mentions that although the older versions of the game are more familiar to him, it isn't the case for the other members like NettyPlays and SolidarityGaming. That the older versions were a lot harder and he guesses some of the newer players might die a lot. Grian articulates that it isn't because the mobs are stronger but rather that the game contains a lot more bugs than what they might be used to.

Grian starts listing off some of the more obvious differences starting with the absence of the hunger bar. In the Beta 1.2\_02, you don't eat to gain hunger but rather eat to regain hearts. He also mentions that you can't sprint in this version. Mobs also just hit you repeatedly in a cycle you can't escape. If you get overwhelmed, you're probably going to die.

After cutting down a few trees during the explanation, Grian proceeds to craft some oak planks out of the 5 logs he collected. He then accidentally places down a plank before going to craft a crafting bench saying that he already left his mark on the world. Using the crafting bench, he makes himself a wooden sword and pickaxe.

After killing a cow for 2 leather, Grian talks about how there isn't a lot of food in the early versions. Pork chops, wheat for bread and mushroom stew are available while there's no chicken, lamb, or steak.

Grian then spots a small pumpkin patch mentioning how they have no use at this stage in the game. He collects them for when they become useful later down the line. Grian also points out a small glitch when he puts the pumpkin on his head, the texture is backwards. He also mentions that the pumpkins don't protect from enderman as they are not a thing in Beta 1.2\_02.

The base that Grian has in mind is a submerged city, taking advantage of Beta 1.2\_02's water physics that got changed in later versions. He then mentions that he needs a lot of snow for the project.

After collecting materials for a bit, Grian continues his list of things that are different by bringing up boats. He mentions how they're a pain to use but that their design and mechanics didn't change for 5 years. After spotting snow and breaking the boat, the dropped item wasn't the boat but rather the crafting materials for the boat.

After a bit more than 3 in game days, or about an hour-two hours IRL, Grian has ended up with almost 7 full stacks of snow blocks or around 1752 snowballs. It took longer than he would've liked because in the earlier versions, snow only gives one snowball per slab. During the process, he died once but is not ashamed to admit it because it's really hard when you're getting overwhelmed with no armor.

But it's a good thing that Grian died because he discovered another source of snow that happened to be near spawn. He is also thankful that beds are getting added in the next update, Beta 1.3.

When arriving at spawn, Grian fixes the Evo logo and makes a "Did you die?" station for players when they respawn. It includes a furnace, crafting bench and a single chest. After demonstrating how dumb the old mob A.I was in earlier versions by leading a zombie into a lava pit, he discovers another players house. He leaves a rose inside as a present.

While looking for a spot to build his base, he finds a couple chunk errors. Using them, he is able to find two diamonds which he makes into a sword eventually. He is going to build his large-scale Subnautica style base in an area that has a deep bit of ocean and close to spawn and also near a snow-covered mountain. The only thing that is not ideal is the bit of ice floating nearby but says he can remove it later.

Grian starts terraforming the little bit of island to make a temporary shelter for when he is working on his main base. While doing so, he talks about how he is happy that Snow Golems are going to be in the next update as well as being able to gather more snowballs more easily.

Grian also mentions that block textures, specifically the cobblestone textures, look really bad in the early versions. Though Mojang changed them fairly quickly. As such, he decides to build his house mainly with stone though adds some cobble for texture.

After using two stacks of stone, Grian decides to go mine for some more. He makes a little hobbit hole mine entrance and plans to use the area that he digs out for a future project.

While adding the cobble texture to his house, Grian says that while the different textures didn't quite work together and there were limitations to how one could use some blocks, it all still worked.

He ends the video by saying that he's excited for this series and all the fun builds he'll get to make. After playing for about 3 hours on the first session, he's enjoying his time recounting all the nostalgia. Having started his career playing in creative and not playing survival in the full release, the early versions feel like an entirely different game to him. Just as he's signing out, a creeper spawns and destroys part of the house.