The first team event!
Last night, the first AESMP event, Ravager Raid, took place!
Here was the info:
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The first event is defending villagers from a raid! You are being tasked with building a house in a chunk outside your base chunk (following the parameters set), after which you will be given three villagers to defend. The mods will give a player on your team bad omen, upon which your time will start. Rewards will be given based on number of surviving villagers and speed in finishing compared to other teams. If you can't find the pillagers, tell a mod and they will locate them for you.
Rules:
Interfering with other teams is allowed. Using your base chunk to hide your villagers is not. Your villagers must be able to be killed by the pillagers, not hidden in a place unreachable. You can keep items you get from the raid. Bringing in replacement villagers is not allowed.
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Later, I changed the grading to reflect the fact that some teams had many more participants and deaths than others.
Here’s the recap:
Spooky had one participant: Poj
District had all four participants: Taylor, Mac, Anna, and Fizz
Moles had 2 participants: Shadow and Cloud.
The event was set to start at 8pm EST, with the players logging on to build their houses. Poj started his raid much earlier than the other teams, with the others starting at 9pm EST, when he started at around 8:20-8:30om EST.
Spooky’s base: I forgot to grab a screenshot, but it was a single floor cobblestone house with a cobblestone crow’s nest at the top. There was a small ditch dug around it. The base was located near Spooky’s base chunks.
District’s base:
A tiered deepslate tower with a smaller separate tower nearby. There are stalagmites surrounding it and it’s built around the water. The top has deepslate walls around the edges.
Moles’ base:
A tiered deepslate tower surrounded by lava, The top is made of slabs. It’s positioned in the corner of the world surrounded by plains.
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Results:
Poj was competing solo, and their house was not as defended as the other teams. Their base chunk being close by was helpful since they could run back to retrieve their items. They died twice during their 37:42 run, with the raid being uncompleted in the end. They placed third with no villagers, since there were only 3 teams playing.
District positioned some players at the tops of the different towers and at the bottom of them. Fizz and Mac both died during their 16:58 run. From what I could tell, they struggled with the water and maintaining health while still fighting the higher tier mobs, such as the vexes and ravagers. While they had villagers remaining, they placed second.
The Moles had Cloud stationed on the tower the whole time, with Shadow running around on the ground. I noticed that he was in charge of leading around the mobs such as the ravager while Cloud shot at them. They had the advantage of having received tipped arrows from a lootbox they found a few days before. Despite having only two players, they suffered no deaths and finished in an incredibly quick time of 8:16. Despite having no villagers, they placed first.
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Snow’s comments (rambling section since this blog has 2 followers lmaoooo and it’ll help next season):
I chose to give the Moles first place since they had a much better time and significantly fewer deaths with half the players. Next season, this event is likely to reappear, but most likely later since it turned out to be more difficult than expected for some teams. I might push to schedule it at a more universally convenient time so there are more teams online, since that makes it more interesting and might lead to people actually interfering with each other. Hopefully, players will also be more willing to do that, since everyone seems pretty gun-shy right now.
I’m pretty surprised no one tried to do more actual tricks and strategies; the moles used the tactic of multiple floors for the villagers, but it didn’t help them. I was thinking people would try something like spawnproofed layers of walls, maybe using rails so the villagers wouldn’t wander. Maybe the tactics will evolve soon.