Realm XVIII

Realm XVIII (4 May 2021 - 18 May 2021) was the 18th Realm in the Realm series, with no special name, because at this point it was getting pretty old. This Realm is known for being a very interesting one, as the ongoing crimes were getting more and more investigated. While certainly not as eventful as the previous one, it did have a fair share of interesting events which would possibly play a major part in the future.

Background
Something which must be discussed before talking about the events of this Realm, must be the events which made the previous Realm the most controversial as it was. It was clear that Tarun didn't oblige with living in a community after the events of Realm XV, also stating that when living in a community, it would halt progress, thus going out on his own. Those who went with him were the ones who hoped for a more relaxing approach to the Realm and one who went where there was work to be done. Overall, they started living in a community of their own, with Tarun claiming that he didn't ask for it, yet took what he got, thus going back on his entire words and doing the same thing that Aman hoped doing. Most of the important events that happened in the later days is explained ln the Realm XVII article. This had created a sort of rift between the two sides, this would in fact impact the future of this Realm itself.

First Days and Breaking Oaths
Because this Realm had started where the previous one had left off, Aman, Chris and Shaniel were still with the previous mindset that the others would not accept them again and quickly started going off somewhere to live, far away from the rest. While Aman and Shaniel were gathering many items for the base construct, Chris and Steven went into the mines and started grinding resources very efficiently. When they were partially finished, Tarun came and decided to go live in a community "like they had wanted us to". The others agreed and followed him to their base. Aman, Chris and Shaniel started off aggressive, as they didn't want the others to disrupt them again. But while they didn't want to cause any more unnecessary issues, the others decided to agree, but on a certain condition that they wouldn't do something without permission and would not cause any more ruckus. Before this agreement and the situation was settled, Timothy and Shawn left to go somewhere to make their own little bunker to live. Shiva eventually also went there to live as he had nothing better to do. Chris also went hunting for a Nether Fortress, but found a Piglin Bastion instead, giving Aman the loot.

Making Farms and Building More
The second day was one of the more uneventful days of this Realm, yet it showed that if everyone worked together in a better way than just mindless stealing and grieving, we could build a massive community area which big structures and farms. Everyone started making some types of farms. Tarun created a big sugarcane farm which could also count as a bonemeal farm next to the smaller sugarcane farm. Chris attempted to create an iron farm in the sky, which didn't work. He also made a semi-functional iron farm on the ground, which did provide iron to a certain extent. Chris possibly found the Nether Fortress today, and made some enderchests so everyone could safely store their items. Both bases were connected by a tunnel that Aman had made, later a minecart track was built to connect them. Shaniel built the massive potato farm which would be responsible for creating the public XP-farm, which would later be destroyed by accident and by creepers. Aman and Chris attempted to explore the world to see if they could find something of interest, maybe a few villages, possibly desert temples or something major like the End Stronghold. While they explored 1600 blocks, they eventually only found a spruce forest, and due to lag, Aman died. Chris placed his items inside of a chest and then left. Aman's items were here until tomorrow.

Griefing and Fortress Exploration
This was the first of the many griefs that happened. Many of the future griefs that happened on this Realm we mostly targeting Shawn's side, the so-called "Communists". At first it made it look like someone from the other side was targeting them, but it soon appeared not to be true as Aman and the rest helped them with getting some of the resources back. While trying to find out who it was, they ended up thinking it was Daniel, but he didn't join the Realm yet. When he did join, Aman tried defending him when saying he didn't know about the locator map, until they found him in the community base. Enraged because Aman had tried defending him, Aman killed him and reset his spawn multiple times. Daniel claimed "he was passing by" which was a complete lie by most chance. They allowed him to stay, but not near the main base, but far away in a mountain. Aman eventually left him be. Tarun had built a gold farm further away in the desert also, which he showed Aman, who was about to retrieve his items which were in the chest 1600 blocks away. He made a few maps to explore and eventually found his way back home. The "Communist" base was also again grieved for the second time, but this one was more minor than the first time.

Later that night the group, except for Shiva because of his major fear of the Nether, decided to go and explore the Nether Fortress together. Chris led the way, showing some paths which went above lava, high ground and many other things to fear. The paths weren't as safe as they needed to be, though, which made everyone a bit paranoid. After trekking for a long time, they finally found the fortress, and also mapped the entire area out. Now having knowledge of the fortress, everyone could now easily get blaze rods, although it was a very dangerous journey to make.

Defeating the Ender Dragon Early On
Because everyone was very low on resources and needed ores like iron and diamonds desperately, they decided to go mining to find them together. By now, Shaniel had already left and the rest were already in the mines. While racing to find the most diamonds, Shawn accidentally found the End Stronghold, which proved to be directly underneath the desert village they had found on the first day. Because all of them had nothing to lose, they decided to go and challenge the Ender Dragon this early on in the Realm. They already had the necessary ender eyes to enter. When they went in, they quickly managed to defeat the dragon, posing absolutely no major threat. They decided to further explore the End, by trying to find End Cities. They found many of them very fast, and each of them eventually managed to claim an elytra. However, while at the first End City, Shiva made an oopsie and fell from a high place, due to shulker involvement. Timothy also somehow died, with Aman and Tarun going to take his stuff, but somehow not being able to give it to Timothy later, due to a shulker box mismatch, possibly. After exploring further and getting more and more elytras, Shawn eventually died due to too many endermen coming to attack him. Aman and Tarun came then with the idea to make many shulker boxes so they could store their items safe and sound, so they could kill themselves later and be back home safe. Aman put all of Shawn's items inside of a special shulker box and the two continued on. Not able to find a new End City and already having enough elytras, the two eventually stored their items and killed themselves, so did Chris. If they had come up with the shulker box quick storage system earlier, Shiva might've still had his items and Timothy wouldn't have suffered from losing his beloved trident over the mismatch.

New Goals in a Post-Dragon Realm
Now that they had defeated the Ender Dragon already, they needed something to do for this Realm. Shaniel, like always, needed to find another excuse to blame the rest for leaving him behind while fighting the Ender Dragon. Because he had wanted to explore the End Cities too, as he supposedly had never went to one, because the Realm was already finished before because of defeating the dragon. Aman reminded him that defeating the dragon was not the end, yet it was the beginning of a new era in the Realm. They decided to just continue on. Tarun decided to stubbornly go into the End again for elytras and some loot, knowing that he alone could barely do anything. He fell into the void, and requested Aman to help him. While Aman was on his way, he was hit by an enderman and also fell into the void. Because his second account no longer functioned, he went and made a new one named FooliganSixty9. While he was saving his main account, Tarun realised that he couldn't save himself anymore, and just died. After Aman had managed to save his account, Tarun was busy working on getting his items back. There was also an issue with the gold XP-farm, so they went there to check it out. Aman, who was low battery at this point, decided to leave and come back later. Because of suspicions of being the thief/griever, both Derrel and Daniel were both banned from the Realm until further notice.

Trial by Lava
By this point, the Realm was in a state of completion. Farms had been built, almost everyone was walking around in netherite armor and had maxed out gear. What was left to do? That was the question that Chris and Tarun had, and some others who I cannot list here. There was one universal goal which was left was to catch the thief/griever/instigator of all of the previous major griefs and thefts. Their presence was causing unrest within the Realm and the community in general, so they made it their primary task. Why was this in the final paragraph? Because it was important for this part. The final griefs all started after Tarun had died in the End. As previously stated, Tarun, Saiyan, Chris and Shiva were all preoccupied with fixing the gold XP-farm. Around this time, something happened while they were busy doing so. The suspect placed TNT under the pressure plate which opened the door, and also one inside of the massive potato farm. They also closed the back of the base with obsidian and also once again grieved the "Communists", which would almost crush their motivation entirely. The catch was that the only ones near the base were Shaniel and Steven, because of the others were at the gold XP-farm. After Shaniel had "accidentally" walked on the pressure plate, thus exploding the front of the base, Tarun came to his conclusion. Later that night, Tarun messaged Aman telling him that something interesting had happened and that his suspicions on Shaniel increased tenfold. He showed Aman what had happened. According to him, while attempting to fix the gold XP-farm, he had died, and because his bed was on the backside of the base, he was basically spawn trapped because of the obsidian, making his way out through the stone brick wall. He also saw Shaniel standing in the corner near the door. His suspicion arose because when he left the base, nothing exploded, but as soon as Shaniel stepped on it, it did. But according by Shaniel, Steven was also there at the time, but any evidence leading to him was scarce, because he could've only been there to visit the house and because he lived on top the mountain. According to Chris, Steven said that it was the person with the dragon head, which Shaniel in fact did have.

Because Tarun still had items such as the obsidian which he later mined, and provided a proper explanation of the scenario, most of them believed him. Tarun also brought them to Shaniel's little hiding place where he planted nether wart to avoid certain people from making the tipped arrows. After mining around the area and finding nothing of significant proof, they patched things up and left. When Shaniel came online, he denied all accusations, much to the boredom of the rest. Tarun went and made a small pit in the sand and all of the ones present were to attend. A trial, of sorts. Tarun made all of the present throw their items in the pit, and reclaim them if there weren't items of interest. Aman went first, successfully. But when Shaniel came, Tarun poured down lava prompting Shaniel to leave. Shaniel then was hesitant about joining the Realm because of a chance that he could die. Meanwhile Shiva and Shawn also did the same as Aman, successfully. Owen as also a witness of this trial, which would be called the Trial by Lava. Because there wasn't enough "proof", proof being a vague concept in this case, they decided to end this case, as the only main suspects at this point were Shaniel or Steven, who both had been in the Realm where the griefs were most severe. After they had finished, and Tarun had gone to play something else in the meanwhile, Aman and the rest went to help patch up the "Communists" base. After it was done, they finished and left.

Final Days
It seemed like this Realm was almost over, so the group decided to fight the Wither together, which left everyone dead and to reclaim their items as fast as possible. Eventually the managed to kill it, and the nether star was given over to Aman, who crafted the beacon. While the group did have some issues with creating the beacon platform itself, it was eventually built and they enjoyed the small time they had with the Haste II effect. Because of the amount of ore blocks that were spent creating the platform, they decided to take back all the blocks and split it between the owners to prevent it from being stolen. After this, they all came online doing their own stuff once in a while, with the final memory of this Realm being one last night, where some enjoyed their elytra and some just doing what they did. Aman finished off by himself making his netherite set, finally. One of the last moments of this Realm was that Timothy forced Shiva to do labor to gather materials for a structure or house of sorts. This made Shiva travel across the entire Realm.

Aftermath
This Realm had ended on a rather interesting note. It showed that when you have almost done everything in the Realm, such as the basics of defeating the Ender Dragon and also the Wither, there isn't much more to do survival wise, except for some optional elements, which could've been applied in some other way, but wouldn't have been as effective. The mystery of the thief/griever was still not fully solved, yet we got a slight hint of who they could've been after all, which would lead into a list of events that would happen in the next Realm, Realm XIX. This Realm was crucial to solving this mystery which had been present for a total of four Realms so far.