Current Events 2021

This is a page to keep track of day to day events related to SimPvP, including things which wouldn't be important enough for Server History or News. The record officially starts on January 1st, 2021, and events prior to then do not belong on this page.

View Current Events 2020 or Current Events 2019 to see previous archives.

January 2021

January 1st:

• The server's physical host location, French Polynesia, entered 2021, prompting Burger_Malone to update the page. This was the highlight of their New Years Day.
• A large battle takes place in the PvP world between members of the Church of Francis and the People's Coalition, with no conclusive results.

January 3rd:

• Burger_Malone completes an 8x6 Map Art, the largest on the server so far.
• The Church of Francis griefs the YeeterMyPeeter base Axetown.

January 5th:

• ElectricChugg, willowienal, and AntiFreezeFluid officially join Quabbin.

January 11th:

• AntHand, ostrich1414, Sellout9, Zepheron, and 4Pilot, on behalf of the People's Coalition, raid and annex the base Three Words, Lord1 and Tenced's main city.

January 12th:

• Korijenkins and ostrich1414 annex Poop City, removing it entirely and relocating it to Void City where it will be on display indefinitely.

January 13th:

• After four and a half years, DakkaDok officially steps down as SimPvP admin.

January 18th:

• The People's Coalition raids and annexes Pepe's Holy Land, a base created by MrMeeps and Church of Francis member TomixPlayz.

January 19th:

• After the base is discovered by 2b2t players, ostrich1414 and Zepheron grief the City of the Divine Lord, Wilbur (Wilburia) before the others can grief it.

January 24th:

• Plugin portal frames can now be built with crying obsidian.

January 28th:

• After days of negotiation, The Imperial War finally comes to an end as the People's Coalition and the Church of Francis officially agree to mutual peace.
  • A small peace conference is held at Gibraltar Castle, a former base griefed by the PC at the start of the war back in December 2020. Members from both the PC and the COF attend the summit and sign treaties.
• The Trade Federation is formed.

February 2021

February 7th:

• The Francillian Freindship Work Camp (FFCW) is established by the Holy States of Francis, bringing several new players to the base as slaves and forcing them to mine stone, while giving them supplies, food, and shelter.

February 12th:

• 4Pilot discovers Azdin actively griefing Castle Snowfrog manually. After driving him off, 4Pilot decided to lavacast what remained of the castle to prevent Azdin from doing further damage.
• In a related incident, SkullerG further decimates Azpipia, which had already been heavily damaged in 2020.

February 15th:

• Ostrich1414 founds Riverwood, a small base made for new players. Three new players are immediately brought there the day of its founding.

February 16th:

• Tenced becomes the Supreme General of HSOF by stealing the Supreme General Sword from Lord1 after a pvp that also involved James8B.

February 18th:

• 4Pilot's refurbished end portal pyramid is griefed by an unknown player, although many point to e_lee as the culprit.
• Azdin National Park is created near spawn by ostrich1414, Lord1, SkullerG, 4Pilot, and iLxgend. The park is made by igniting hundreds of stacks of TNT and creating dozens of withers, as well as a few lavacasts.

February 26th:

• A minor incident takes place at Riverwood in which vandalism from The Order of Wilbur is discovered on the Holy States of Francis's temple, resulting in the HSOF to retaliate and spread their own vandalism throughout the town. However, the incident is resolved swiftly and peace is made.

February 28th:

• International Lord1 Day.

March 2021

March 2nd:

• An entity malfunction at The Commonwealth's gold farm brings the server's TPS down to 1 and FPS to 0, forcing ostrich1414 to implement a whitelist with a minimum of 8,200 hours in order to fix it.

March 3rd:

• After 8 years, 9 months, and 2 days, Ralph returns to the server, blessing SimPvP and its community with his presence.

March 5th:

• The first ever Map Art Competition begins on SimPvP (more information here: [1])

March 20th:

• MoWobbler becomes the newest SimPvP admin.

March 23rd:

• After BossCoww beats clipchip's time on The Spawn Challenge for the first time since 2017, the "DO NOT TRUST CLIPCHIP" sign is promptly changed to "YMP WIN POOP LOL :-)".