Month of Sorrow, July 2020

The Month of Sorrow was a prolonged period of loss and unfortunate events in Ung Svane. It affected many players on the server including Griffin2448, Orcus_Maritimus, Umiko, and TheWolfSlayer61.

The period began with the release of Minecraft 1.16 on June 23, 2020, which created a new bug in the game that caused Minecraft Realms to stop saving world backups for hours at a time while players were still online. This meant that hours of progress made in Ung Svane could be lost at any time. This went on for a couple of weeks before an apparent fix occurred in early July.

On July 3, 2020, Orcus_Maritimus lost all items from his inventory, including his elytra wings and diamond tools, during a mapping expedition to the east of Port Threemast. This happened when Orcus_Maritimus crashed into a spruce tree that had not been rendered yet while he was flying using his elytra. Despite his and Griffin2448's best efforts, his death location could not be found and he subsequently lost his inventory. July 17, 2020 hosted catastrophes for both Umiko and Griffin2448. The first occurred while Umiko was helping Griffin2448 construct a blaze farm in a particularly dangerous fortress in the Nether. While trying to follow Griffin2448, Umiko fell through a well disguised hole in the netherrack into the deep lava ocean below. Umiko lost all his items, including his brand new netherite pickaxe due to another bug in Minecraft Realms which caused netherite items to be destroyed in lava instead of float. The final event affected Griffin2448 and occurred on the same day. Early into a minor caving run with Umiko, Griffin2448 began to briefly walk by a small lavafall in an uncharted cave. Right at that same moment, however, a creeper fell from a hole in the ceiling and blew up on impact. This immediately killed Griffin2448 and sent his items flying in the direction of the small lavafall. Amazingly, the only item to end up burning was his elytra wings. The caving adventure was then cancelled, and they went to the end to replace the wings instead.