Realm IX & IV

Realm IX & IV, now called Realm IX & V (11 August 2020 - 21 August 2020) was been the very long awaited Realm of 2020.

Background
Most of the things that happened before the Realm, are explained in the two articles above, so we won’t be going into much detail here. Anyway, the expected date was 1 August, which on the day before, 31 July, was celebrated in the way of a build battle, ending with fireworks, to represent the happiness everyone felt that night. However due to some other errors, the waiting time was increased, until Aman got in contact with someone from Mojang Support, who eventually settled the entire ordeal.

Even after waiting for the response, the wait was still on, but Aman eventually received an update to 1.16.20, which fixed the bug of purchasing Realms. And with that, the Realm begun.

Day 1:


Day 1 was very hectic to begin with, with everyone hyped up for the creation of the new Realms, Aman was again bothered with all the commotion everywhere. Since they spawned on an island, very coincidental because a previous Realm also had the same spawn, but this one didn’t have any trees, but ocean everywhere. They each went off exploring in different directions of the ocean, and Tarun & Chris stumbled upon some actual lands. Everyone slowly got towards the location, with fishing becoming the primary food source, and everyone doing certain tasks to help each other to survive. After Aman finished the house and was starting to dig underground for the stripmine and also the room corridor, he found some diamonds. Tarun made a farm outside and Aman also captured some sheep. Chris & Fardeen went off exploring, but because of a small issue, which involved lag, Chris died and he started off fishing again. While busy with hard work, Aman was suffering from hunger issues and also lack of tools, while everyone was filling him up with other tasks, so one of the last tasks was making the rooms, which he did, but with help later. Fardeen was becoming a bother during this time, and was really starting to get on people’s nerves. Previously, not too long after the Realm has the bugs, Chris had promised Aman to stay with him, which he agreed to. They both asked Tarun, but he never answered, so when he instantly also came in to join up the rooms together, Aman snapped, because of his hard work and dedication, and lack of appreciation in return, triggered him to be a solo-player, even though he still shares his bunch with the group.

Day 2:
The second day was very, very hectic. It started with Chris building a Nether-portal, which raised everyone’s suspicions a little bit higher about his true intent. Aman & Fardeen has planned a fishing-rod scheme, where Aman would slowly build up his enchantments on his fishing-rod and bow, but that was halted and eventually failed due to following events. While these two were busy, someone stole both Fardeen’s iron and Aman’s oak logs, this infuriated Fardeen to a certain extent. Not too long before, Owen, Timothy’s brother, had joined the Realm, but that was partially unknown, so when the suspicions of Aman & Fardeen led them to the room of Chris & Tarun, and they caught Owen and his items in the room, Aman quickly told Timothy to dispatch him, as the two others could get mad later. Owen started moving his stuff, only to be killed by a enraged Fardeen. Since Aman’s oak logs were stolen, he decided to get some from the nearby swamp, and took a saddle from Chris just in case he’d find a horse, which he did, a very fast one in particular. When he came back, he saw that Owen had build a small hut outside of the main house, and Fardeen was not allowed. Fardeen, already as mad as he was, started fighting with Owen once more, but during this fight, Aman threw the fishing-rod Fardeen wanted to switch on the ground, which the just respawned Owen had picked up. This gave Fardeen an excuse to blame Owen for, and Owen eventually dropped it, also leaving somewhere to build another secret spot. Timothy was mad, and threatened to leave the Realm, but Fardeen apologized just in time and Owen was welcomed to the actual base.

During the later half of the day, Fardeen was being constantly watched by everyone, and it was even thought that he might be lying about his items being stolen. Aman lost the fishing-rod Fardeen gave him, and traded with him a recently fished one as pay. Curious to explore the Nether, Aman, Tarun & Owen set off to explore it, with Chris joining later. With Chris having provided some support for the portal, as it was floating in the sky. The first times to get to the other side of the basalt delta were hard, but Chris revealed that he had made a tunnel, which went beneath. After Chris left for awhile, Tarun & Aman ventured off into the delta to find other biomes, which Tarun did, a crimson forest. They both started with the tunneling to each other, and reached each other, and made the tunnels safer. After this, everyone went mining, but most of the people left for one reason or another.

Later, Aman, Timothy & Owen start a wall-project, as mobs in hard mode had been amplified and is was way harder, which each passing second in the night one would be behind you. After the wall was completed, the only way around was through a gate, or through the peninsula to the west. Shaniel started making preparations for a zero-tick farm, and Tarun was still mining. Chris, having been absent, was told by Aman that he shouldn’t be mining for ancient debri, as he was always trying to get ahead of the rest. Chris, being upset by this, left. During this, Shaniel & Tarun started working on their zero-tick sugarcane farm. Aman, trying to get evident with Chris, started investigating the Nether, mostly where Chris would’ve mined. He found one part, but stopped and blinded by his own ideals, went deeper, with the idea of heading to the crimson forest to start mining there. However, while trying to reach the other side of the part which was open and undefended, he died. Timothy came to assist him, only to die in the process. After regathering, Aman & Timothy were ambushed by Piglins, who almost killed them. This left in mind the thought that the Nether needed to become a safer place. Chris later requested to not take part in this Realm any further, because he was being annoyed by the fact that we were ‘holding’ him back.

Day 3:
This day started off rather peaceful. Aman told Chris to help him making the Nether path a bit safer, but came late, so Aman did it himself. When Chris came, the two ventured south of the path into the crimson forest, which led them to a Piglin Bastion, which they couldn’t fully explore, due to the constant attack of the Piglins. Aman managed to grab the netherwart and escaped, with some obsidian as well. Chris died, and his items despawned. Timothy also came over to assist, but died in lava. Aman explored further and found a giant birch forest, which he would use as a way of getting wood, already having harvested stacks. Later in the day, Aman & Chris started building a Nether-base, next to the Piglin Bastion, which was a success. They also started to trade with the piglins, giving them many enderpearls and also other valuables. After doing so, instead of going back, Aman proposed they should explore more, so they could find the warped forest for twisting vines and endermen. Chris had already started the construction with a bridge above a lava pool, which they completed and led them to the other side, which was only Nether ruins. They explored deeper, only to end up in a soulsand valley and another basalt delta. While trying to go back, they died, and they lost their items. Having to start from scratch again, they’ve vowed to only go to the Nether when fully prepared. They would come back online later.

Timothy also build his minecart-track during this time when no one was online. Chris came on later, but Aman did not as according to the plan. Tarun came on, and the two of them started mining loads. When Aman came online, Tarun had already left and Chris showed him their progress and he started mining too. Chris left later, and Aman continued for another while. To kill time by waiting, Aman & Chris started exploring, which led to them discovering the eastern side of the map, where they found another ruined portal, which led them to another place entirely. They also continued east, and their map ended. Chris died and requested Aman to come back with his pickaxe. After Chris left, Tarun came online. The five now had nothing really interesting to do, so they started to mine ancient debri, where Fardeen used the bed-tactic and the rest mined 5x5. Fardeen had luck on his side and found many, always asking Tarun to come and grab it for him, as he had no diamond pickaxe. This angered Tarun at last, because he was keeping him occupied. Shaniel left in between, and Aman, Timothy & Tarun started considering the bed-tactic, as Fardeen was starting to get on their nerves. They realised that it wasn’t the bed-tactic that was efficient, it was the luck factor that was, because with difficulty they found one. It was rendered to a 40% chance of efficiency, and they decided to start exporting wool from the Overworld, so they could make the concept faster.

Day 4:
During the day-time, it was clear that Fardeen had the most ancient debri, although 27. This was because he played through the night, taking advantage of our absence. With the bridge to the Bastion becoming ever so dangerous, as more ghasts kept spawning, and other mobs like zombified piglins, piglins and skeletons blocking the path, it was clear to cover up the path and start on the railroad. Aman & Tarun started working on the walls, and Timothy started on making tracks and placing them down. During this, Fardeen was mining more ancient debri for no reason, and Chris was also. Even through Chris started late, he finished before Aman, who was preoccupied with the track. Shaniel was also mining, and after Timothy was done on the preparations, he also went mining, where he got a full set of netherite armor. After completing the first half of the track, Aman went fishing, and the rest just continued mining. Chris started another bridge to the south of the portal, and Aman continued it. However, while examining another crimson forest, a piglin caught him by surprise and shot him down, killing him. He called Timothy for help, which he did, but also got ambushed by another group. Wehn Owen came, the same happened, and Aman decided to retreat from that area for now. When Tarun came back online, Aman was still fishing for resources, and also started mining a bit. After awhile, Tarun came back, done with mining ancient debri, only leaving Aman to it, because only he still needed it. While Aman did feel behind, he was reminded that Fardeen gave him two, and he asked Chris for the three which were still in his chest, so he couldn’t be mad. He got many things by fishing, such as resources for a maxed fishing rod and bow. Timothy also came very close of finishing the railroad, but needed more iron and gold.

Day 5:
Aman started this day early of, as he wanted to finish the ancient debri aspect as fast as possible, as he was the last one needing it. He got three as starters, but was thinking of another strategy to mine, which he eventually established, Shaniel also came online, and started a search for the Nether Fortress, as it was necessary for progression, blaze rods were needed, for both potions and for ender eyes. Aman decided to keep mining, but found nothing, so he left for awhile.

Later that day, tired of doing nothing, Chris eventually started exploring for a warped forest and/or Nether Fortress, he found a warped forest, and told that to everyone. While trying to do something of use, Tarun headed there, and together with Aman they found very big tree, which contained one and a half stack of wood. After Tarun left, Aman came back online to farm up on endermen, and discovered something of interest. Later, when he told Tarun this, both of them started discussing possible future possiblities for these outcomes. They also told Timothy & Chris about this, who were probably also expecting this fact. Trying to explore through the nether, Aman, Tarun & Chris found striders, and used them to travel over lava. They didn’t find anything of use, but they did die many times, with Aman dying as last, in lava when killed by a blaze, making Fardeen assume that they were in a fortress, while he was lucky in finding one near a wall, possibly near a fortress itself.

Day 6:
Fardeen is currently trying to extract as much as possible from his secret village, giving the rest suspicious feelings. He offered to give Aman a very powerful book if he fixed the zero-tick sugarcane farm, even proposing to make it in the village, but Aman declined that aspect, as it would mean Fardeen monopolizing the machine. He did agree, but only on group territory, which Fardeen reluctantly agreed to. Aman repaired the sugarcane farm, in probably a better way, and is waiting for his pay. He started exploring the rest of the map again, after someone stole his map, also making new discoveries in the eastern hemisphere.

Later that day, Amar came online, and started playing with us since the third Realm. Aman & Chris started making a automatic fishing farm, which was a success and they started working to XP-grind a bit. Realm-activity has been slowing down for awhile, with Fardeen constantly antagonizing everyone from his village resources. Chris & Timothy have been trading with him, so they could also feed of the resources. It’s unclear when Fardeen & Shaniel actually started on their village trades, but it’s believed to have happened near Day 4. Owen also dissapeared from Shaniel’s home and left a mess behind, for unknown reasons. The room hall was also partially destroyed.

Day 7:
Aman started this day to explore a bit more, because he had to leave early yesterday, due to internet issues once again. Once returning home, he started fishing for awhile and then started fixing the mess in the room halls, where he started suspecting Owen, due to Shaniel’s room also being damaged and the things that were destroyed in the hall were mostly build by Owen himself. Aman also checked out the enchantments for his armor, because he was behind on enchanting, due to the previous statements on previous days. Timothy also later revealed that Owen had tunnels beneath the base, which connected him from his room to everyone’s except Aman. This frightened Aman a little bit, as Owen could’ve easily been the pinnacle for disaster when it came to possible thefts.

Later, Aman also traveled to Fardeen’s said village, with said enchantments on the books. To conceal this fact, he exited through other means, which he does not want to reveal to Fardeen just yet. He has acquired his necessary books which he needed to finalize his armor and tools. Later that day, with nothing of value to do, Aman wanted to start with building a courthouse and investigate each crime committed in the Realm, which the first one was Fardeen’s theft of a stack iron ores. Not wanting to go on trial, the criminal, Chris, confessed instantly, which came as a shock for many, because he was already excused out of the many suspects. Chris was charged by Fardeen to give him an enchanted book, which Fardeen gladly accepted. Fardeen said he accidently found a End Stronghold, and he and Aman both confessed their findings and their secrets which they had held for the past days. This actually came as a surprise, also shocking to say, but after this, everyone had their eyes on everyone, and it was becoming unclear whether or not someone was going to try something out of place.

Aman later attempted to show Tarun & Chris the location of the village via the Nether, but Fardeen snooping around in everyone’s bussiness once again, followed us, probably thinking it was a Nether Fortress, while it was not. Somehow, he became mad, and started attacking us with his netherite sword, which did plenty damage. With Aman, Chris, Tarun & Timothy having discovered the village, Fardeen killed the villager with the sharpness enchantment, probably for safekeeping. Also, he couldn’t profit from monopolizing the village anymore, as everyone knew about the exact quantities and prices of them.

Day 8 t/m Day 10:
These days are listed like this, because not much has been expected to happen in these days. Chris & Fardeen have already finished with their enchanting and are waiting for Day 11, to fight the Ender Dragon and move on to the next Realm, impatiently awaiting the others to quicken this process. Notable events which have happened are things like when Aman made the path to the village more secure.

However, on Day 9, something happened which would shock the entire relationships with Fardeen forever. Fardeen had previously said that he wasn’t going to go online until Day 11, also known as the Ender Dragon fight, but seeing that Aman had called everyone together to complete their enchantments, like always, he needed to interfere with everyone. Everyone was giving eachother books that they needed to complete their weapons and armor. Chris finished, but Aman, Tarun, Shaniel & Timothy still needed books, such as mending. Tarun thought about going to the villager that traded mending books cheaply, they called him MendingMan affectionately. However, because Fardeen was already done with mending books, and for a selfish reason, he killed MendingMan with his fire enchanted sword. This permanently damaged everyone’s opinion of Fardeen, who had claimed that if they had asked him the coordinates of the village, they could also use him, which he previously had denied giving, making him a massive hippocrite. This would damage the reputation Fardeen would have in future Realms.

Losing hope in finishing the villager project before Day 11, they stopped it completely and abandoned the village, leaving the villagers alive as proof that MendingMan once existed. Aman attempted to finish his zero-tick sugarcane machine there, but also stopped almost completed, because the villagers weren’t of use anymore. After everyone retreated back home, they were still unsure what to do in the meantime.

Day 11:
Aman started this day off early, because he was one of the last ones who still needed to enchant most of his items, such as his armor and sword. He had borrowed Fardeen’s fishing-rod the previous day and started using it. While getting great enchanted books, his XP was going up rather slow, and decided to do the unthinkable by going to the Nether Fortress to farm there. He was confident that it would be safe there, because they had previously already fortified it. However, after he got there, the noticed that the items he’d lost on Day 5 were still there, and to check if his previous items on the ground which he had died were there, he went down and gathered some XP, but while going up, he didn’t pay attention and got hit down by a wither skeleton and died. He attempted to get back there once again, which almost worked and he had his items, but got killed by a magma cube because his WiFi was lagging. Since the striders weren’t around anymore, he decided to make his own path of out block to the place, which actually worked. He got his items and started XP-farming then.

Some time later, Fardeen came online, and went to the Stronghold. He asked Aman for assistance, who was busy XP-farming, so Aman decided to make a Nether-portal connected to the Stronghold, which worked. Aman & Fardeen started searching for the End-portal, and used Aman’s strategy of blocking off areas which they’d already visited and had resulted in a dead-end. After exloring for a bit, they finally found it. Aman, who was still behind on XP-farming, headed for the fortress, and Fardeen accompanied him for safety measures. Aman started struggling, as he had lost his diamond armor he had crafted, so he took his netherite armor and went out. To not damage his armor, Aman lent Fardeens’, and started XP-farming. Aman, who was busy, asked Fardeen to make the path safe in-case of emergency. After XP-farming ‘till the last minute, he came back home with 34-levels. However, as soon as he said not too kill him and left, someone had the fun idea of actually killing him. Aman was so enraged, that he didn’t want to play anymore, because all his hard work at the last minute damaged him. Luckily, everyone enchanted a bit for him, which kept him playing.

Going to the End, the island which they spawned on was very far from the mainland, and that caused issues. Everyone was shifting and trying their best not too fall off, but the threat of the Ender Dragon flying by and also the endermen being a constant issue. Before trying to go up, they made a small tunnel, where they made an infinite water source, and then went up. Aman instantly shot one, and is remembered for having also shot the last two. It’s unclear who and who shot the other ones, but the Ender Dragon in this Realm was the fastest defeated, but only the endermen being a constant threat, dealing massive damage even with netherite armor, this caused Timothy’s death, and the only death.

Secrets

 * On Day 7, afraid of being on trial, or also annoyed, Chris revealed that he was the one who took the stack iron ores, also revealing that he took some of Aman’s items as well. This came as a shock to many, because Chris was one of the suspects no one had anticipated.


 * At the point of later Day 7, Shaniel & Fardeen were rightfully exposed to their plans to kill the Ender Dragon before anyone else. Evidence such as hiding the village from everyone so they could enchant faster, and being more quiet than usual made others have suspicion. Also after Owen’s disappearance for leeching off of Shaniel’s plentiful resources, which he never had, which also explains why he’s been quiet, besides complaining about someone ‘stealing’ his resources, instead it was his own roommate which he had planned from the start to use as bait. Also how Aman had Fardeen’s Messenger-account, he was able to keep a keen eye on him. Luckily, keeping the location of the Nether Fortress a secret from the two, halted both of their plans and forced them to give it up.

Aftermath
This was the shortest Realm up to date, mostly because of the fact that everyone had been waiting for one for 2-months now, and they wanted to experience the new update first hand together and rushed through most of the core mechanics which made the Realm actually fun. This is why Aman proposed that the next Realm should be a solo one, and this would become Realm X.