I created a KINGDOM on THE WORLD’S BIGGEST Minecraft Roleplaying Server

Stoneworks is the biggest Minecraft roleplaying  server in the world where the strong rule supreme   and the weak are culled. It’s a server that  tells the story of countless kingdoms and empires   rising up to overtake the map and the  inevitable betrayals that led to their  

Downfall … And for some reason I thought that it  was a good idea to try to start my own nation.  After years of this server being up, every  nook and cranny of this world has been explored   and most importantly – claimed. And Claims are  the reason my journey on this server began. 

A friend of mine contacted me a while ago and told  me that he had been playing on this server called   Stoneworks. Him and some other players tried  founding their own nation – Austonia. The only   problem was that the land that they were building  on was claimed by another mega nation – Anglounia.  

Claiming in this context means just that they said  that it belonged to them, and no one has the power   to contest that claim. My friend agreed to become  a vassal of Anglounia, while keeping all their   rights like freedom to build as they want. And  that exact right would be stripped away from them  

Just weeks later by a tyrannical leader  called JohnyDjackson. But Austonia needed   a strong ally to topple this mega nation. “Great results, can be achieved with small   forces.” – Sun Zu. Right now, I have no force.  After a discord announcement and vigorous  

Screening of the participants *insert really  loose screening*, we had our team of elites.  We needed to grow as fast as possible else  our nation would be stomped out before it   could blossom. While taking a tour of Austonia, we  were informed that we couldn’t set up camp right  

Next to them, because Jonny was still heavily  restricting where they could build. We received   ten diamonds and some iron as a gift from Austonia  which might seem like a lot, but you would need   more than 3 diamonds just to brew 3 splash potion. Eventually, we just randomly picked this peninsula  

Near Austonia as our new home. We hit the jackpot  and someone before us had started constructing   a wall which now would be OURS. Because so many  Minecraft features have been removed from the   server to avoid lag, the only way to, for example,  get gunpowder is to buy it via the admin shop  

Which takes coins and those coins can be traded  for with gold. A war costs millions of coins.   Strengthened by some fine wine, we began  grinding. I also lent myself a horse and a cow   to jumpstart our new country which we named  Luxenstein. Our nation would go to war with  

80 men and return with 81. So, I come  back to base after gathering materials   and see a player in full diamond armor just  chilling in the middle of the base. I am like wow,   someone has full diamond armor already. I  naively sneak in respect and the guy attacks.  

I still think that he is one of our guys and  I don’t even seriously run for my life. Only   when the guy has me down to half a heart, do I  run. At least until I run out of food. Tonvald,  

The guy in the full diamond armor then proceeds  to go on a rampage in our camp until no one is   left alive. Remember how I said that all land is  basically already owned by someone? Yeah, that  

Was the certain someone. I might be naive, but  not incompetent, so we group up with all the   members. Before our fully geared main force can  arrive, Tonvald got taken out by two of our scouts   in iron armor which doesn’t inspire confidence  in his PVP skills. After he had lost,  

He would sometimes visit our now blossoming town  demanding his stuff back. When we didn’t reply,   or just outright kill him, he would spout nonsense  about having a large nation as his backer and that   they would come to destroy us, but we never took  him seriously. Instead, we started a farm, built  

A community house and just continued grinding.  Beta Players would come by from time to time   telling us that we were squatting on someone’s  land, but we continued continuing following the   sigma trillionare grindset. Too busy making  my house look like a willy. Some of our guys  

Started heavily researching alcohol which has  no use apart from making the game unplayable   or gifting it to nearby countries. Unless you  mix it with red bull, *insert flying off*.   Thanks to the recruitment notice on  my discord server, an anti-Leo faction  

Formed on the server and people started organizing  raids on our not yet fully grown country. I could   luckily stop the whole thing from escalating in  time, but it was somewhat of a wakeup call to   continue working on increasing our defences. The  thought that the potions we had brewed and the  

Diamond Armor would suffice as defense was crushed  when two bandits stood before our gates. You can   pay gold to have a certain area of influence, in  which enemies can’t attack you unless they declare  

War … bandits are an exception to that rule. So,  I am like: hello … what’s up? I instantly got shot   by a power five bow, lost half my health and my  right-hand man got killed. The only thing I could  

Do is to follow sun tzu’s advice: “The supreme art  of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”   and log off. Apparently, they were hired by  someone who thought that I was going to ruin the   roleplay of the server. I hadn’t investigated  his until now, but roleplay on this server is  

Serious business. There is a thriving market for  books with … let’s say improper content. Stefan,   someone from the elite squad even tried out  writing *pronounced* fanfiction of another guy   and his book sold so well that people even  asked for continuations. It’s not unusual  

For people to get married on the server, or to  do some adult talk if you know what I mean, but   I digress. The people of Luxenstein disliked  the shape of my house, so I, unfortunately,   had to destroy it. All the while, Tonvald, you  know the guy that originally owned this land,  

Had built a “fort” right next to our base. But for  some reason he trusted one of our guys, who simply   created a way, so we can get into his base in case  he logs on again. Luxenstein now has a giant wall  

And our own flag. Because the owner of the land  that we were on had been inactive for a while,   we also had no problem claiming the peninsula.  All the while we continued to grind and grind,  

We did. We were ready for our war of independence.  But we couldn’t declare war the usual way by   writing a declaration of independence. That’s  BORING! This needed to start with a big bang.  Three days later, all the leaders of Anglounia,  Austonia and Luxenstein were invited to the  

Austonian keep to celebrate their partnership.  Everything seemed fine. The local chat was filled   with roleplay. This is how things should be.  The food is ready? Perfect. Jonny was bossing   around the people of Austonia as usual.  Enjoying his virtual power. Enjoying his  

Virtual date *break off in laughter* Ah, this  is so cringe, my eyes. It just so happened that   there weren’t enough seats for some austonians and  me. I also just happened to walk across a chimney   that just happened to lead right to the room that  was filled with high ranking anglounian officials.  

Everyone was slaughtered. Operation  red wedding was a success,   well apart from the fact that I got  attacked and killed by one of my allies.  Anglunia was fricking pissed. And if I mean  pissed, I mean Russian kid level pissed. It didn’t  

Take them long to attack. Because the meeting was  happening at 8 am, only one of my guys could join   the initial conflict. Eventually, we did retreat  behind the walls of Austonia to brew pots,   buy gear and use Austonia’s illegal large-scale  crack kitchen to farm xp for enchantments.  

The war would start in three days which  would enable the opposing sides to loot each   other’s chests and destroy each other’s builds. Finally, on the day of the war, the Austonian’s   apparently thought it would be a good idea  to start clashing before our guys arrived.  

When we eventually enter the server … nearly  instant disconnect. A queue with 100 people   usually takes 2 hours, by that time, the  war would be over. Without our backup,   Austonia stood no chance. In a last-ditch  effort, Austonia destroyed their own city  

And moved all the valuables to a secret  stash. We eventually had to follow suit   under the tyranny of states who took advantage  of our loss. But I will never regret.   Luxenstein is still alive  and fighting on the server,   so I put their discord link in the description.