Fido488
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- Aug 23, 2013
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"The God Faction"
-Antster360
(Survival Admin)
-Antster360
(Survival Admin)
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS A SKYPE CALL
The VEX faction began as a group of friends from across the US (and one from New Zealand) with one thing in common: Robotics and MINECRAFT.
The faction began with a few members cowering under the ground, way to close to spawn, constantly forced to shift whenever anyone walked overhead. Deciding this was ridiculous they moved much further out ( between 2000-5000 blocks from spawn) and set up camp under a small lake that would be soon become the home of the VEX Faction.
TAKING FLIGHT
At some point they decided to move to the sky in order to protect the faction from raids. Centered over a small zombie exp grinder they began to build.
It was at this point where I joined the faction and we began building the "unraidable base."
THE GREAT WALL OF VEX
The final base is impenetrable to TNT cannons (including hybrid sand-TNT cannons), impossible to reach from the ground (until later) and has a solid obsidian floor. The base covered 9 chunks of VEX's 49 chunks of claimed land.
Outer Wall and under structure was built later
NETHER WART HANG-OVERS: BANDITO GETS A HEADACHE
VEX Needed a reliable source of money so some farming techniques were devised. Originally, water cleared wheat farm was built but it was soon converted to Nether Wart because of its profitability.
Banditofernando complained of headaches after farming ridiculous amounts of Nether Wart. When asked to collect even more he yelled in a delusional outburst, "NETHER AGAIN!"
We were able to artificially inflate the cost of nether-wart by using other faction members bids to raise the price thus allowing us to get lots of money from items that would have normally have sold for much less.
At one point we managed to sell 1 torch to Thin_Icee for $10k. I don't think we ever thanked him for that either....
Thanks Thin_Icee!
Edit: He claims it was only $8k.... Still... That's a lot for a torch.
THE HOPPER SORTER THAT BROKE THE SERVER IN 15 SECONDS FLAT
My pride an joy on the server was an 87 Item Fully Automatic Sorter.
Designed with faction raiding in mind the system had 6 empty chests next to Faction Home that allowed us to quickly dump an inventory of stuff to continue raiding. All items would then flow across the sorter and into their respective chests.
Resources
Mechanical Blocks
Foods
Auto smelter
(Iron, Gold, Raw Bacon, Raw Chicken)
Auto smelter
(Iron, Gold, Raw Bacon, Raw Chicken)
Each item sorted requires its own chest and 3 hoppers.
- 3 hoppers x 87 items sorted + 2 hoppers * 10 overflow chests + 30 connecting hoppers + 10 hopper auto smelter = 321 hoppers total
- 321 hoppers x 5 iron = 1555 iron
According to Antster360, one week after this was finished, it created so much lag on the server that it crashed within 15 seconds of startup. So yes CEO_HUTCH... I guess it was me crashing the server... Sorry....
When I logged in after this I had no idea I was the cause of the lag. To my horror I found all of my hoppers had been world edited out of the base.
I nearly rage-quit at this point.
THE SUPER-DUPER IRON FARM: GOLEM IRONY
Once auctions were added to the server we decided that we needed more financial power. As we always seemed to have an iron shortage I started looking into building an iron golem spawner. After procuring several villagers from our zombie spawner (healed with a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple) I began the long process of drowning moving them up to just under the floor of our base. (Really though, I killed 4 villagers for every villager that made it to the top of the water elevator). Then began the construction on what is known as the IRON TRENCH (basically your average Iron Golem spawner on steroids). The design would output between 1,300 and 1,400 iron per hour.
Sadly the spawner only lasted 4 days before the great hopper purge. So much for that plan...
THATONETOMAHAWK: NOW FEELING SHEEPISH
Warning: The following with contain a multitude of really baaaaaaaad puns.
I should probably start by introducing our sheep farm: http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/xp-machine-vex-faction.54012/
There, I intoduced the sheep farm... What you want more?
Okay here goes.... So at this point our Super-Duper Iron Golem farm was raking in tons of money so we bought some sheep spawners. Okay... More than just a few.... Wool we had had around 36...
One of 4 separate sheep spawning modules.
With the cobblestone removed.
The 4 flow paths that lead the poor sheep to their doom
Stupid numbers of sheep piling up in the killzone
It was at that point where ThatOneTomahawk's faction came to us.... With the coordinates of our base.... Like a wooly bully... Scaring us sheepless....
And so began the bargaining and bribing to keep our coordinates private. For an undisclosed cost (many diamond blocks) he agreed to stay quiet.
If you want to hear him talk about our faction see his youtube post here (don't mind him walking around in his underwear):
Mr Baaaaaaa humbug (Tomahawk) and his faction was granted access to our sheep spawner as part of our bargain with the understanding that if we needed help protecting our base in the event of a raid he would come help us out. I don't think I need to ram home how important this ended up being later on.
The some of the last remains of VEX sit underground somewhere with a sheep spawner that will fill your inventory with wool in 10 minutes.
Needless to say our base probably has the most spawners you will find on any factions land.
MORE COMING SOON! COLLEGE IS GETTING IN THE WAY 
You try being a robotics, computer science double major sometime
You try being a robotics, computer science double major sometime
THE GOD ARMOR
TABOR THE GREAT AND TABOR THE BANNED
MODS RAID ON VEX
$1,200,000 DROP PARTIES: LET THE ECONOMY BURN
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TABOR THE GREAT AND TABOR THE BANNED
MODS RAID ON VEX
$1,200,000 DROP PARTIES: LET THE ECONOMY BURN
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