Cakemate2001

Cakemate2001 is a player that joined in 2016. He has two alt-accounts, network563 and network564. Formerly, his main account was network563, but he created cakemate2001 to make his Minecraft alias match with the rest of his online presence.

## Appearance

Cakemate uses a skin that is meant to look like a "Renaissance Gentleman". He wears a blue tunic with red sleeves and red slacks. The outfit is accented with gold and purple.

## Behavior

Cakemate is a friendly player who will often offer free basic materials to new players. He usually has his alt, network564, somewhere in spawn with an enderchest containing all the game's plant varieties which he offers to farmers. Recently the spawn farm was built, making this service rather obsolete.

Cakemate has not ventured beyond 10k from spawn because he likes interacting with casual players without having to travel long distances. He is fond of underground structures and rarely builds above ground unless he has an excess of material and time. This is a tactic he has perfected over time to avoid being excessively griefed.

Cakemate has played Minecraft (in browser) since the original Yogscast series and has owned Minecraft since Beta 1.6.4 (2011). Despite this (or maybe due to this) he has a very casual, noob-like playstyle. He has little interest in meta-gaming or auto-farming and did not regularly use enchantments until version 1.12. He has no grasp over or documented success with combat after the combat update and "just want[s] to build a castle". He understands red-stone well, but doesn't use it for more than automatic doors or lights.

## History

**War Era**
Cakemate first joined VanillaCraft during the War Era. During this time he was searching for servers to return to Minecraft online gameplay since his friends and family had stopped doing frequent LAN parties. He played infrequently and did not contribute to any meaningful structures or events during this time.

**Classical Era**
During the Classical Era, Cakemate constructed a large tunnel just outside of spawn on the (East?) side and was housing a small force of noobs. He dug a tunnel from that cavern out under the ocean to a distant desert Island. This community lasted for a while and he slowly terraced the spawn area and restored the landscape. Eventually new players started joining just to grief, so Cakemate built a wall around spawn with a single iron door that opened from the outside and began interviewing new players before letting them out to reduce the griefing issue. Unfortunately, this was against the rules and the admins destroyed the wall a day and a half later and he was warned against similar future constructions.

Eventually Cakemate moved to the (North?) side of spawn and took up residence in some old structures. From there he began constructing a new city. The center piece was a pit mine that he lured hostile griefers towards on several occasions before pushing them off the cliff to kill them. Part way through the construction, Cakemate was contacted by Cow\_Strangler who gave him a set of God Armor and a silk touch and a fortune diamond pickaxe pair with mending. This greatly increased the construction speed of the city and it soon came to have several districts and 24 meter high walls. Cakemate maintained the city daily against the slow entropy of griefing randos and hosted a small population of people willing to live near spawn (~5). Later on he was gifted mending Elytra by Cammorista and he worked with kitcat427 using their elytra to build canopies on the city's mega spruce trees.

Cakemate also joined kitcat's clan and built a small house in her town before the end of this era.

Cakemate was impressed with the server's citizenry and donated $100 to the server. The admins built a large statue of him next to his city and he switched his name text to dark green (at this time he was still playing as network563 and was generally referred to as "net").

**Rebirth Era**
Saddened by the end of the previous map and busy with school and an IRL career in politics, Cakemate went on hiatus from the server. He occasionally logged in to talk to friends and was active in the discord, but he did not build anything on the Rebirth Era map. He was also troubled by the intense block lag of the ocean update and since most of his time was spent mining, the situation did not accommodate his play style.

**Rebirth Era 1.15 Map**
At the end of 2019 Cakemate returned to play once again. The server still suffered infrequently from intense lag, but it was not too much anymore. Cakemate played through the beginning of the year, first building a small homestead to the NorthWest of spawn about 1k both ways. This was griefed within a few weeks, but it was enough time for him to be adequately equipped and collect a strong supply of farm animals.

He then moved to the site of NetAbyss1. All of his structures from that point forward are considered part of the abyssal network. They are large (> 32 x 64 x 64) underground caverns planted with flora and fauna. He lived here for a the first few months of 2020 before being the first victim of hamoodi. Hamoodi attacked the underground site by griefing the castle facade above it and then breaking most of the light sources within. Hamoodi was relentless and chased network563 whenever he logged in, trying to "teach him a lesson about building too close to spawn". This was when Cakemate bought the new account cakemate2001 for the dual purpose of having a correctly named Minecraft account and to avoid being needlessly harrassed. He donated another $40 to get green name text on his alts (which wasn't necessary, but he wanted to support the server).

After the name change, hamoodi teamed up with ommepomme1 to form the Dongos and raided Havenport. In March, Cakemate moved with Ajfrosthawk to a location around 8k, -8k. He built another large cavern, NetAbyss2 and used it as a staging ground to build a nearly 1.5km road through the Nether back to the spawn portal. It was then announced that the Nether would be reset when the Nether update was released. Cakemate did not log in again until August because he was moving out IRL and was spending more time with that than online.

As of the time of this writing (2020/09/04) Cakemate is constructing NetAbyss3, having abandoned the last base when he found it had been raided in his absence. Ajfrosthawk moved on as well, forming the Shadow Clan. Cakemate has not lost any exceedingly valuable items in any raids due to the fact that his important belongings are kept in the enderchests of his three accounts; however, the frequent destruction of his enderchests in raids is a minor set-back.