Story
Have you ever heard of SurvivalWorld, or Dreamfinity? They have one thing in common: they are survival-oriented Minecraft servers, where players are free to build whatever they want, amass wealth, and trade with other players in a simulated economy.
SurvivalWorld
The legendary French-speaking survival server. It has spanned the game’s versions. Opened in , I only joined in . Although I have been inactive since joining BUT Informatique, I have had great times with its welcoming community.
With the plethora of free time that confinement gave me in 2020, I built a business empire. I became one of the richest players on the server.
I have built and lost friendships. I explored, built, colonized, exploited, automated, and amassed a lot of wealth throughout this fictional world.
However, over time I gradually grew tired of the game and chose to donate all my possessions to a friend.
But hey, maybe one of these days I’ll come back and have a look.
Dreamfinity
Minecraft is a very complete game, but I’ve always had an interest in mods. Especially in relation to industrialization and automation.
Because yes, in video games what I like the most is exploiting the environment, building factories, automating production. It’s better to do this in a video game than in real life.
For this you need mods like BuildCraft, IC², Galacticraft, Immersive Engineering… I had already played many solo games but I was tired of them. I wanted to try the multiplayer experience.
That’s why I chose to join Dreamfinity, a survival/faction server on the same theme of automation.
I started on Spacecross. I traveled the world for a while before settling down in the steppe, between 3 hills.
My (brief) space conquest
The conquest of the Moon was a short but intense part of my game.
However, after arriving, I noticed a problem with my oxygen mask and I began to suffocate:
Fortunately, the cavalry arrived: another player came to my rescue.
Despite the language barrier, we became friends.
Finally, I was able to plant my flag (which has absolutely nothing to do with current events)
In the end, I’m surprised to have made it this far. Even though in the end, my base was looted and I lost everything, I had a lot of fun building it.
Also, I didn’t understand anything about how the server worked or the messages. It’s a Russian server and there was no English translation available.
Technocracy and the Great Reset
Okay. A few months after this rather frustrating experience I joined Technocracy. This sub-server is similar to Spacecross, except that it is not oriented towards space conquest but industrialization on Earth. Which is, in the end, what I wanted. And so a claim system is proposed to protect its constructions from looting.
I built my base:
Everything was fine, however after a few months of rest it was dismay. All my resources and constructions disappeared.
After asking the question on the Dreamfinity Discord server, I learned that the world had been reset.
Suffice to say, I won’t be returning to this server anytime soon.
I guess the lesson here is that solo isn’t so bad.