The Commonwealth
| The Commonwealth | |
|---|---|
| Clan | |
| Name: The Commonwealth | |
| Status: Active | |
| Formed: December 27, 2018 | |
| Members: Hamieb, Das_Dankgineer, TonTheKidRS, Vinmanh, Duffilufagus, Passaconaway, anthonys244, pdittydunn, DarthBacca77, SilverBackSlaps, Aesken, Potteritis, Bren4020 | |
| Bases: Sanch Vegas, Triterrus, Byzantium, Atlas, Better New Jersey, Moar New Better Jersey, The Outpost | |
The Commonwealth is a major clan formed on December 27th, 2018. It is a wealthy and powerful team with many expansive bases, such as Triterrus, Byzantium, and Sanch Vegas. All the members of The Commonwealth are friends in real life. The Commonwealth history is split up into five distinct time periods, with each period represented by a base. Throughout The Commomwealth’s history, they’ve had 21 members spanned across 149 accounts. The official song of the Commonwealth is She Wants Sex by Lil B (https://youtu.be/-6rKkQuLfS0) in honor of SilverBackSlaps
The Outpost
Upon joining simpvp on December 27th, 2018, Hamieb hastily founded The Outpost and invited his brother, Das_Dankgineer, and two of his closest friends, TonTheKidRS and Vinmanh. They gathered resources at The Outpost until they felt prepared to move on and create a more permanent base. The Outpost was a unique time in Commonwealth history. The team was poor but tight. They had diamonds out in the open in the chests, and the four of them worked together to quickly obtain essential resources such as enchanted diamond tools and large supplies of food. The Outpost itself was a skeleton farm with many chests around it and an expansive stripmine.
Triterrus
Early History
After obtaining the resources required to move out, the original four members made their first attempt at moving out to establish a long term city. Shortly after the first expedition, they realized they weren’t far enough from spawn due to the discovery of a crafting bench 5000 blocks away. Their second expedition led to a small lake with a Savannah, Jungle, and Forest biomes around it. They looked around to find a good area to build their first city. After some searching, they agreed to settle around the lake. This success marked the birth of Triterrus, which became the team’s first city and capital.
Structure
Triterrus was divided into 13 regions, one region for each member plus an industrial region, and the jungle. The jungle was supposed to be a group build area, however it never took off.
Expansion
Shortly after founding Triterrus, they invited two more of their friends, Duffilufagus and Passaconaway. Duffilufagus awed the team with his building skills, and frequently gave building advice to all members of the team, leading to an overall increase in building skills throughout the team. At this time the team had no official name, but was unofficially known as “The A Team”, however The A Team was simply known as “Triterrus” with Triterrus serving as both the team and the city. The team decided to make an official name, and they agreed upon “The Commonwealth”. They allied several teams and bases, including Struthio, who was their closest ally and sister city. They continued to invite their friends until they peaked at 11 members. During this time, The Cult of Sanchez was founded, and a shrine to Sanchez built by Duffilufagus could be seen in Mythruindale
Industry
Triterrus contained a wide variety of farms, which included a super smelter, a kelp farm, a melon farm, a pumpkin farm, a sugar farm, an iron farm, a gold farm, a fish farm, a villager breeder/trading hall, a nether wart farm, a beacon farm, an auto crop farm. These farms, in addition to extensive AFK time by many of the members (especially TonTheKidRS) quickly brought The Commonwealth extreme wealth, much of which would remain with The Commonwealth for years.
The SilverBackSlaps Controversy
SilverBackSlaps was one of the many members of The Commonwealth, but unlike most members, he would never talk or add anything to the team besides his underground base. One day in The Commonwealth discord voice chat, he joined the call when most of the team was in the call. The team was playing music using the rythm bot, and SilverBackSlaps added his own music, which was a song by Lil B called “She wants sex” https://youtu.be/-6rKkQuLfS0. After the song was over the team went silent, shocked by what they’ve just heard. SilverBackSlaps said in a monotone voice “how did you like that, did you like that” and then left the voice chat. Later, several people noticed him stealing from almost everyone in the base. In response to this, The Second Constitutional Convention of Triterrus was convened. Passaconaway organized a fair trial, where Das_Dankgineer and Hamieb would make a case against him, and Vinmanh and TonTheKidRS would make a case to defend him, and Passaconaway and Duffilufagus would judge based on the arguments. Vinmanh made a compelling defense, pleading that SilverBackSlaps was innocent due to insanity because of the Lil B song they had listened to earlier. The team faked a grief on the city to convince him to give Hamieb his diamonds, which he did. SilverBackSlaps then started to blow up his underground area, which the team wanted to get the resources from. In a panic, Hamieb and Duffilufagus broke his bed and killed him.
Decline and Abandonment
Triterrus was abandoned on May 21st, 2019 in order to find an area further from spawn. It was destroyed as a part of The Byzantium War in February 2020. Triterrus at its height had well over 60 buildings. Duffilufagus made a video featuring almost all of Triterrus https://youtu.be/tfxrKd6mUoM
Atlas
Atlas was designed very differently than its predecessor. It was based entirely off of group builds with a large statue in the center and a series of circular walls. The base felt forced, and was quickly demotivating. The outer wall has a radius of over 1000 blocks, making it the largest perfect circle on simpvp. The outer wall outline was mostly built by Hamieb, who now hates circles. It was built up by Das_Dankgineer. Within a few months the team quickly went inactive, partially due to many of its members being in college, and TonTheKidRS joined Yittrium.
Byzantium
Founding
Upon returning to simpvp, Passaconaway, Hamieb, and Duffilufagus, had noticed all of the teams gold was gone, which had been stolen by TonTheKidRS to help fund The Holy Wilbur-Francis War. They had felt that Ton had betrayed them, so they moved out, taking all the wealth of The Commonwealth with them, and founded their own base, called Byzantium. It was named Byzantium due to its unique geography. Das_Dankgineer would join them shortly after
Structure
Byzantium was designed to be group based like its predecessor, Atlas, however it was less forced than Atlas was. It emphasizes maintaining a small team. Byzantium was not a Commonwealth base and was fully independent of the Commonwealth, despite all of its members being in the Commonwealth. Byzantium was also the first city to have The Cult of Sanchez as it’s official religion, which is now the official religion of the Commonwealth.
The Byzantium War
The founding members of Byzantium were incredibly angered by TonTheKidRS theft against them. So they sought revenge, and wanted to loot Yittrium to get back at him. On January 5th, they looted Yittrium anonymously. They announced it 15 days later. After months of increasing tension, ostrich1414 organized a raid on Triterrus, and after DarthBacca77 said the Yittrium coords in chat, Triterrus was raided again. Duffilufagus and Das_Dankgineer responded by bombing Yittrium.
The Turtle Peace
AntHand had messaged Hamieb asking to buy turtles from Byzantium in order to use the turtles to obtain coords. Hamieb could tell his intentions, and with the help of Duffilufagus set up a random turtle farm away from Byzantium, leading them on a long journey to nowhere. A Peace Treaty was signed shortly after the turtle scheme failed. During that time, Byzantium raided one of Antzakes1 bases. After The Turtle Peace, The Commonwealth became an active team again with Sanch Vegas as it’s new capital
Sanch Vegas
Images
Triterrus at its height
An eight of Atlas’ outer wall