The Australian Bamboo Heist

Moments before the bamboo heist

**The Australian Bamboo Heist** (also known as the Great Bamboo Heist) was a minor operation executed by KaraCorvus on New Hawaii that took place on Day 18.

Unlike any other heist, this unique operation was witnessed by one of the members of the New Hawaii faction, ScotGriswold, who unsuccessfully attempted to stop it. Kara had also constructed one of the first redstone-powered flying machines on the server but had it dismantled immediately after the heist.

## History

On Day 18, GrunksPromise and InkTea asked Kara if she has any bamboos, to which she said no. They vented on the lack of the rare bamboos, most probably due to the nature of the map made in 1.12. Kara then volunteered to look for them to have it planted and available for supply in Europe.

Initially, she went looking in the Asian region where bamboos were expected to be found, as it would be in real life. However, only pandas were found with no signs of the plant. Distraught by this futile attempt, she then traveled to New Hawaii where the faction had them planted in their capital. However, she could not harvest some of it due to the faction claim. She even requested Sylvee's assistance to break the plants for her, but the latter was also prohibited from breaking blocks in Jameskii's faction. Kara then tried other alternatives for bamboo such as fishing in the jungle biomes and searching in the New Guinea island of the Bean Empire.

She then considered the idea of constructing a redstone-powered piston flying machine designed to indirectly break the blocks for her. This led to her excavating resources necessary for the machine such as redstones in Australia and quartz in Krakatungus. ScotGriswold then interfered her operation by inquiring Kara's business in New Hawaii via VC, to which she admitted her desire for the rare plants but unable to retrieve them herself. However, Scot was thousands of blocks away from her to physically interfere or intervene as he boated his way back home, much to her advantage.

   Later on, the contraption was almost complete thanks to the chat's guidance. However, Kara accidentally triggered it to move the wrong way, and it ended up moving into the jungle instead. Not long after that, Scot had finally arrived in New Hawaii, and Kara invited him to witness the momentous occasion long in the making. Scot then immediately blocked the machine from moving forward. Still, Kara insisted that it would not do much harm as she had strategically placed some blocks at the end to stop it. She fixed the machine, and again, it moved the opposite way and drilled even further through the jungle before a giant tree obstructed its path.

Another quick fix and the machine was activated once more on its correct path of destruction. Scot was knocked off the machine when he tried to ride it. As the machine moved closer to the bamboos, Scot finally realized what was going on, and Kara finally confessed that she's destroying some of the bamboo stalks for herself. He attempted to stand between the plants and the machine but she pled to see if it even works.

    At last, the operation was successful as the machine plowed its way through and she managed to get her hands on the prized bamboos. However, the flying machine continued its course and it accidentally took off a small portion of the roof of Jameskii's AFK fishing shack, much to both players' surprise. Scot initially deemed this as an act of war but quickly retracted his statement when Kara offered to settle this in a duel, stating how poorly armed he was at the time. Kara reassured him that no harm was done, the machine was dismantled, the shack was quickly fixed, and the bamboos will regrow in time as if nothing had happened. Scot acknowledged this and let Kara leave with the stolen bamboos.

## Aftermath

After seeing how the machine works, Kara considered the possibility of building more of it soon and setting them loose all around the world, dispensing salts all over the players. She brought the bamboo home to the Corvarian Empire and planted them in her palace garden and around her villager trading hall.

On Day 20, Eret, another member of the New Hawaii faction, inquired her of the heist when she came to visit him at the Ursus base in India. She fully admitted and took responsibility for the operation as she showed the clip of the flying machine destroying the bamboo stalks. Eret was astonished by this operation and fully acknowledged this as a proper heist (being a thief himself who involved in the Hawaiian Heist). Thus, he allowed Kara to keep the bamboos due to her successful efforts. Meanwhile, no known reaction was given by Jameskii, leader of the New Hawaii faction, regarding the heist.