Realm XX

Realm XX (10 September 2021 - 24 September 2021) was the 20th Realm in the Realm series. Although this Realm can technically be divided into two Realms, due to the numbering but the real Realm XX is in actuality the 21st one. Initially starting near the end of June, this Realm was reactivated in September with new goals and new members in mind.

Background
After Realm XIX had concluded with a very much so inactive end, Aman decided that they shouldn't hold any new Realms until the 1.17 update. Initially thinking that the Realm creation bug would've already been fixed for all platforms but it was not. After the Realm had been created Aman told everyone and they started playing it. Tarun had a misconception that the update had not been split in two parts and didn't want to play with only the ore changes. Shaniel had indirectly challenged Aman by saying that he only relied on resources given to him by Chris, so Aman decided to live alone in the mountains this time. With Aman's separation the rest started making a base inside of a ravine but didn't do much. Aman was the only one with glowberries but needed many resources which he took from their base. The group didn't join VC sessions anymore to play Minecraft and randomly just came online without much interaction, so it was safe to say that this Realm was too dead to be counted. Making this the first ever Realm which was not saved because of the fact that it was too insignificant to be saved. Another reason was that a few members such as Shawn could not play at the time and thus missing out on everything going on at the moment. After this Realm ended Aman decided to wait until everyone could play so the next Realm would've been much better. Throughout this time another concept popped up which was the original three ATK members speedrunninng against the newer members but couldn't do it because of not everyone being able to play. It was later decided that they'd do this after the upcoming Realm. Aman had previously discussed with Tarun that this Realm was to be made on 10 September, so Aman held out until then. At the time Realms still weren't heavily anticipated yet everyone started playing them without issue. The first few days weren't as active as hoped but the activity started peaking after a few more days. Daniel and Derrel were both unbanned for previous accusations because there wasn't enough positive results from the past Realm to deduce that they were in fact guilty. This Realm also saw the introduction of Serge and Try, two of Shawn's friends which were the most active by far.

Events
The first day could be seen as uneventful in the beginning, but looking back there are many things that happened on that day. In the early moments of the Realm not many were online but enough to call it a group day. The first event was that Aman died from a creeper explosion which was very ironic. After that Aman explored a bit out of the forest and found a mesa biome, the first one in any of the Realms. After exploring for a bit they lost interest and decided to head elsewhere. Aman had initially planned on building something near a coast, but Shaniel had taken him to explore the seas instead to find something more interesting. While doing so, they found a treasure chest but not much else, so they decided to return home. By then, Saiyan and Timothy had made a few chests on an isolated island in the middle of the ocean and Timothy began building a ladder into the skies to the heavens he called the "Aether". Because the rest did not share his motivation of building a fortress at build limit, they decided to look elsewhere. While Aman was building a tunnel connecting Timothy's island with the mainland, the rest had already gone to the other side of the mainland and had found a pretty decent location to build at. While Aman was busy with thinking of something to build and eventually settled on a simple but efficient base, Chris had already made his and only needed to fill it in. The others got bored because they didn't have much to do and eventually everyone left for the day.

The second day was more eventful than the first one, as many things happened this day. As usual, Timothy had requested assistance from Shiva and Timothy to get the materials for his fortress, which they did. While doing this Shaniel accidentally killed Timothy's horse named Rudy. After a period of silence it was revealed by Shaniel that the griefer had striked again for the first time of this Realm and poured a bucket of lava on the roof of Chris's house, causing it to burn. Besides the roof, nothing else was destroyed. Later after the only online members had given their statements, it was confirmed that something wasn't right about the situation. Shiva had told Aman that he had placed a lava bucket inside of their chest and that it went missing shortly after the incident happened. The same bucket could later be found in Shaniel's chest, arousing suspicion. Though most of this was disregarded as it was a minor incident but it was kept in mind. For the next following days only small progression was made. The group started mining and had amassed many resources except for diamonds, although everyone had their own share. Chris had expanded the main tunnel that was made by 300 blocks and the group decided to mine a 5x5 tunnel for old times sake. Aman also constructed a bridge connecting his side with the other side where Chris and Shaniel were living. This bridge model would later be used for many other bridges that would be made. Tarun had the idea of creating an island in the middle of the ocean filled with redstone contraptions, but only managed to create 1 farm in the end. Because Shiva was living in Aman's house they both contributed to their resources. Shiva had also made a sheep and cow farm to not have any problems in those sectors.

One of the following days Tarun, Saiyan, Chris and Shiva decided to explore in order to find a jungle to progress Tarun's redstone contraption efforts, with Aman joining halfway but not finding anything. Because of this failure, some left to do other stuff, with Aman and Shiva finally organizing their chests in their basement for future purposes. Timothy was also reportedly halfway done with the construction of his fortress. Then Shawn managed to join the Realm after all previous efforts had been in vain. Shaniel had called everyone up to Timothy's Aether, but then everyone fell down. As each of them fell, they witnessed Shawn descending as well. Timothy and Saiyan left but the rest decided to explore the Nether to find a fortress as they had difficulty with finding one. Instead of finding the fortress, they found a bastion. While knowing how dangerous a bastion could be, they decided to explore it anyway. However this proved to be a massive mistake. After arriving, Shaniel died from fall damage and his items were lost, with him also leaving. Chris was also somehow killed but managed to get his items back. With the four of them continuing to explore, Tarun was cornered and he was killed, with Aman hurrying to collect his items. Chris again died and decided to leave as well, only leaving Aman and Shawn. While Aman was busy collecting Tarun's items, Shawn managed to get into the heart of the bastion to collect Chris's items, but was killed in the process, losing his items. Aman also got into the heart of the bastion and discovered a magma cube spawner, which was the cause of the magma cube influx. Dying because of this, Aman continuously returned to the bastion only to die over and over again and almost giving up, but then remembered the fact that Chris's Fortune 3 diamond pickaxe was at risk as well as the bow Shaniel had gifted him. Eventually managing to get all of these items, except for his bow, which would place a scar on him. To this day most of the items which Aman had collected from the dead stayed in that bastion.