Anarchyville

Anarchyville is a base started by the player group True Vanilla Gang with the goal of building and rebuilding despite griefs just to see what turns out. The idea follows the tradition of Hermeticlock's World Famous Spawn Base and Homeland projects on 2b2t. The coords of the base were made public the day it started on September 26, 2021 as an invitation to any who would like to participate.

Base Coords: x = -2333, z = +3222

Concept
The original idea is copied from that of the World Famous Spawn Base and Homeland by 2b2t player Hermeticlock. At those bases, the coords were known very early on if not at the start of the base. Regardless of being griefed, the participants and contributors continued to build at the base until it either went inactive or was so destroyed they decided to move somewhere else.

With Anarchyville, the coords were announced at the start of the project and the invitation was open to anyone who wanted to contribute something. The base is only 4,000 blocks away from spawn so it could be stumbled upon, but also close enough that a new player could get to it as a kind of first goal when joining the server for the first time. The location was important for the sake of convenience to all potential parties.

In the words of Brsph, one of the members of True Vanilla Gang,"'From now on, those coords are Anarchyville, regardless of what you find or add when you get there. If the base is clean, it's Anarchyville. If it's griefed, it's Anarchyville. If there's nothing left but untouched void for years, that space is still Anarchyville, an experiment of the community.'"

The Place of Challenge
Anarchyville first started as a challenge created by EficaciousMig47 during the Era of Silence and announced on August 31, 2021. This was part of a series of events he was doing to increase player activity on the server as it suffered through the longest period of inactivity in its history.

He built a fake base consisting of birch-themed buildings and gave the challenge to everyone in the official Discord to find this base and grief it down to bedrock. The first to do so would win. The range of coords provided was -5,000 -5,000 to +5,000 +5,000, so you had to find the base first.

Despite the success of his previous events, this one did not see as much activity. The base was found first by Elioty2, then by Brsph, and then by obyx, with none of them griefing. When you found the base, it was decorated with signs that said "the place of challenge."

Founding of Anarchyville
By this point EficaciousMig and Brsph were already part of True Vanilla Gang. Inspired by Hermeticlock, Brsph though to found a base near spawn, and since the Eficacious' base had gone ungriefed, it was decided between them to use that base as the start of the Anarchyville experiment. Besides the initial buildings that were constructed for the first challenge, Brsph added a dark oak modern cabin which would be rebuilt multiple times.

1st Period of Construction
The project was made public on September 26, 2021 and was received surprisingly well. Despite claims that it should be immediately griefed, the base managed to last 17 days with at least 23 contributors working on the base at different times. This honeymoon period saw several great builds come up, as well as unexpected farms such as a villager breeder with armorers, farmers and such. All players worked out of a community storage area.

1st Grief
On October 12, 2021, Ceddelullee and IgnIted_7, alleged memebers of the PhoniexAnarchy group Venomforce happened to log on, see that this project was happening, and took it upon themselves to grief. Being totally new, they didn't have anything, but they did have a hack that enabled them to one shot players with bow, killing Brsph and SkeeverEyes and taking their gear. From there they broke apart Bennooo's house which was built out of wither skulls and used those to summon withers through the base and killing anyone who came near. The griefers didn't have anything else to grief with, so they promptly logged while the withers sunk to bedrock.

2nd Period of Construction
Brsph and SkeeverEyes rebuilt the community storage building, and there were attempts to rebuild other buildings and farms. Some ruins were cleared out to make room for others. A villager breeder and pumpkin melon farm were built, but pretty much everything after this point was aesthetic builds. At this point and going forward there would also be intermittent griefs. Each day or so, a build would be griefed slightly or totally deleted. In some cases, it was made to look as though the built was never built. After some of these griefs a white banner with a yellow stripe across would be left behind, but noone claimed the griefs as they went on. This was the norm until November 1, 2021 when a hideout called the Slash Embassy was going. No usernames were left behind, so it's still not known how big the group was if it was a group at all.

TVG Halloween Build Contest
On October 30, 2021, the TVG Halloween Build Contest was held at Anarchyville as a final event before True Vanilla Gang decided official leave the project. The goal was simply to build a Halloween-themed project within 90 minutes. At the end the community would judge who was the winner. SkeeverEyes, BigManReef, and Brsph were the participants, and in the end BigManReef was crowned the winner as Miss Anarchyville.

TVG Steps Back
November 1, 2021 marked the end of TVG's official presence at the base after about a month. The project remaining ongoing and anyone who wanted to contribute to or grief Anarchyville was free to do so.

Aftermath (Nov 2021 - Present)
While TVG was not officially at the base as part of a group effort, several members of the group were still there, including EficaciousMig. Most of the events afterwards were griefs in various forms. TNT bombing increased at this point and wiped out most of what was left. Eficacious built an obsidian platform for future builds. Despite interest from different members, not much has changed at the base.

Resources
Initial Settlement Resources:


 * Food
 * Villager breeder
 * Armor, tool, and weapon villagers
 * Villager-bought diamond gear
 * Farmer villagers to get emeralds
 * Manual and automatic pumpkin/melon farms to sell to the farmers
 * Enchanting setup
 * Community storage area
 * Miscellaneous manual agriculture farms like wheat, bamboo, and sugarcane
 * Zombie grinder / xp farm