Spalmipede

Spalmipede
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Status	Alive
Playtime	1,020 hours
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Date	12 May 2025	No.	2,109
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Allegiances	The Order Of The Sanctum
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Spalmipede, often referred to as simply Spal, is an alive player and member of The Order Of The Sanctum. He is the first and at the moment only player to have obtained All Advancements and to have built a full netherite beacon.

History

Spalmipede had been searching for a server that had no cheats, no land claims and /tp commands, a small world border and where griefing and pvp were allowed. Spalmipede was not a fan of the Hardcore ruleset, but everything else checked the boxes for him to check it out.

The Early Days

Spalmipede joined the server on May 12th, 2025, spawning in a large snowy biome. After navigating through iceberg fields, Spalmipede jumped in a portal and started to travel by nether roof. Along the way, he left the nether to locate a stronghold about 20k out. Living off chorus fruits, he walked and pearled his way out over ten thousand blocks, before finally finding an unlooted ship and leaving the end with an Elytra. Back on the nether roof, he travelled further out from spawn and eventually began construction of his starter base.

An Early Tragedy

On May 20th, at well over 2 days of playtime, Spalmipede was finishing up his ominous bottle farm. After jumping from the afk platform above the pillager outpost and trying to engage his elytra, the game froze for several seconds before being met with a death message: "Spalmipede fell from a high place". Spalmipede couldn't believe it. Just his luck that he was building the ability to easily have totems to prevent such a death, and fate worked against him. Kosmiau, agreed to finish out Spalmipede's final wishes: he retrieved his head, returned to Spalmipede's personal base and buried the head near his treasured bees.

Revival

May 30th, 2025. Spalmipede received a discord message from non-other than the server owner himself, jake276493. Jake informed Spalmipede that his death would be reversed. Spalmipede couldn't believe what he was hearing, apparently the incident being caused by server-side issues. Grateful for the opportunity to come back. Spal returned to the server that day, and has been a consistent player ever since.

Spalmipede's Headquarters

A New Lease on Life

Spalmipede returned to his base to resume construction. The base now features a villager breeder, several trading halls including librarians, farmers, clerics, and every kind of smith. The base also included several farms (sugarcane, bamboo, pumpkins, melons, iron, gunpowder, slime, and xp), each one wrapped in a decorative building, leaving not a single naked farm to be seen. It was just the end of June, nearly a month from his revival when he finished. With his base completed, Spalmipede was now ready for bigger goals.

Trapping the trappers

The attacks at spawn had begun. Trapped portals were becoming the norm as LightGreyPanda and InternetFound were setting them up. After the death of another notable player, Th3eternal1, and refusal to give back the heads to their friends, something had to be done. Spalmipede gathered information about InternetFound's base, spent hours of grid searching flying around the expected location and finally found it on July 16th. Sneaking into the base, Spalmipede found all of the heads of InternetFound's victims. They were his top priority to save. Shoving them into a nearby shulker with some armor trims in it, he secreted them away, leaving the base without touching anything else.

Spalmipede at InternetFound's Base wearing his head

Spal waited until the next day to reach out to InternetFound, offering him a deal. If there were no more traps or killing of random players that could be linked to InternetFound, Spal wouldn't leak any cords. In fact, Spal would even remove InternetFound from the 'wanted' list of The Order of the Sanctum. InternetFound decided to ignore the deal and instead started to pack up his base. In doing so, he notices that the trims that Spal took previously are missing. Taking advantage of the situation, Spal returns to InternetFound's base to return the trims. Placing the shulker near his packing area, Spal then rigged it with TNT Minecarts. The trap isn't expected to kill, as it is in a wide open area.

In an unfortunate stroke of bad luck for InternetFound, he pops a totem on his way back to his base. When he checks the shulker, he is vaporized alongside dozens of chests nearby.

Seeing the death ping on the discord server, Spal immediately logged back in and retrieve InternetFound's head, just seconds before LightGreyPanda showed up on the scene. Spal and LightGreyPanda did not engage each other. However, LightGreyPanda never rejoined the server after this event.

The Spawn Project

Spalmipede's Spawn Dome

The Dome

June 26th, 2025. Feeling that Spawn was sad, and with his base completed, Spalmipede took on the challenge of sprucing Spawn up into a more favorable shape. Before he got started, spawn was sparse with a few cherry trees and some berry bushes. The plan wasn't shared with anyone else, to make it a surprise. The iconic dome was built in a single session over the course of several hours. Many players would stop by, wondering what Spal was up to. Once the project was done, Spawn has continued to be a more popular location, inspiring multiple smaller builds to be created in the area since this original iteration (notably Canes, The Pink Puh Club). Some players have even taken to living nearby.

The Dome inspired SquirrelMC and TheCosmicalKing to found The Order Of The Sanctum. Spalmipede joined them a few days later.

Spalmipede's Spawn Domes

The Domes

July 24th, 2025. Spawn is looking like it's bleak shape around this time. The dome has been griefed, and at the same time LelecoHacked had plans to give the spawn of the nether a face lift as well. Moving his inspiration back to the overworld, Spal began to build his nether hub in the overworld, providing it with the underworld look it has on the surface.

The Domes lasted quite a while, eventually giving in to Spawn's fate of never-ending destruction.

Legend goes that one day Spalmipede will return to spawn to build again.

To be continued

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