Boatmurdered
Boatmurdered was an old group base founded by Andrew_Gill, with its origins thought to be in mid-late 2011. Template:BaseTemplate
History
Pre-founding
Following the departure of Andrew_Gill and his friends from a small and barely documented town named Brones in mid-2011, they founded a new base; Boatmurdered.<ref name="YouTube"<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSfQke7_aoc</ref> The base was christened Boatmurdered after a game story of the same name in Dwarf Fortress, the "Chronicles of Boatmurdered."<ref name="YouTube"/> A video of the original game in Dwarf Fortress can be found here.
Founding
Andrew_Gill and his crew founded the base in September 2011, Andrew's first and final permanent residence.<ref name="YouTube"/> <ref name="Reddit"<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t/comments/a4lr87/the_legendary_base_of_boatmurdered_211111/</ref> The newly established group wanted to pay homage to the stories of Boatmurdered, so they created their base underground, with construction beginning in September 2011.<ref name="YouTube"/> Construction continued into November. Base documentation began around this time.
Peak of activity
At their peak, Boatmurdered had 20-30 active players at the base. Boatmurdered was a base that was somewhat ahead of its time, as it contained many materials and some components that were rare on the server (notably vines).<ref name="YouTube"/> The base featured a mass transit system, which was quite useful for the time.<ref name="Reddit"/> Soon after the founding, the group formed good relations with the Dwarves (Kaameron & TylerCB) and the members of Fellowship of the Diamond who were basing at Diamond Town.<ref name="YouTube"/>
During the base's peak in December, the group, along with the Diamond Town residents, the Dwarves, popbob, and other individuals led a large occupation of spawn. Activities included creating lavacasts and bombing out large sections of spawn. The group concentrated their invasion at the spawn area, which was on top of a 15x15 obsidian platform at the time. As part of the occupation, they treated an enchanted Golden Helmet worn by TylerCB as a symbolic "crown," rallying around it and defending it at all costs. Losing the crown would have meant defeat, and at one point, the Dwarves came under heavy attack, briefly retreating before regrouping and returning to the fight. The occupation lasted 4 days before Hausemaster intervened to remove the lavacasts placed there so new players could escape as usual.
Decline
Over time, Boatmurdered's residents split up and moved on to new projects, citing boredom and lack of activity among other reasons. Andrew and others took residents they were suspicious of to a base called Stoneforge, also known as Deepforge, while Core768 took other, more trusted members to a base called Rhodes. Stoneforge acted as a decoy to retract attention from the main base, Rhodes. Stoneforge was later insided by CytotoxicTcell.
Boatmurdered was griefed multiple times over the next few years. Some notable griefers were Sato86, fubster, xarviar, and Jacktherippa.<ref name="YouTube"/>
Rebuild
On July 28th, 2021, a player named 7tu began rebuilding Boatmurdered, trying to recapture what the base would have looked like. He finished it by August 4th, 2021. The final product was approved by Andrew_Gill himself the next day. Since then, the base had received various visitors until it was griefed anonymously in September 2022. This was partially due to the very close proximity to spawn (some would consider its location right on the fringe of spawn and the greater spawn region).
Description
Boatmurdered's notable aspects include:
- Boat Murder District Transit System (BMDTS)
- Boatmurdered's abundance of vines
- Offices, apartments/residential units, and a dining hall
- Player tombs, which were a tradition to Andrew's bases
Boatmurdered was created between a few ravines, about 30 blocks high from the floor of the base to the tops of the ravines.
Notable members
Note: There may be spelling errors in these names as these were taken from an audio transcript.
- Andrew_Gill
- KiwiWololo
- Patty_Melt
- Core468
- Rokushoebo
- Kaameron & TylerCB (The Dwarves)
External links
- Imgur album, published on 31 May 2012: https://imgur.com/a/5Xwfo
References
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