The Age of Destruction

Marked by the appearance of several griefers right after the death of BlueLegionary, the age of destruction began after the 0, 0 region got lava casted by XenoKino and further lava casted by an unknown player on April 9th. This happened amid discussions on polls towards the banning of Lava Casts, which resulted in an agreement to disable them. Because of this decision, the 0, 0 lava cast was reverted by the admins.

On April 19th, player StarForgeXL joined and immediately griefed ComplexFrquency, vines420 and FatherCreams old base, as well as a nearby desert settlement. He posted a message in the Discord server stating that he would destroy all bases he found. This message contained a few screenshots of him destroying the desert settlement, which ComplexFrquency quickly identified. Complex then decided to immediately look for StarForgeXL, asking the Skulk Syndicate for help, marking the first collaboration between Team Vortex and the Skulk Syndicate. They quickly found and killed StarForgeXL in the nearby Savanna biome.

On that same day, the famous trapping of SillySelene took place, which was a joint collaboration between the Skulk Syndicate, noavier (who soon after joined the group) and Moctezuma0. For more info on this event, see Skulk Syndicate.

During the Age of Destruction, player Kosmiau set up trapped houses near spawn to kill newer players, amassing a death count of at least 11, quickly turning him into the highest kill count player on the server. The trapped houses had no identification, however vines420 put effort into defusing them and investigating the culprit, and soon he determined that it must have been Kosmiau based on the statistics of placed blocks used for the traps, such as Skulk Sensors.