On 15 July 2021, early in Axolotl SMP Season 1, Omen_49 wandered into prop’s Veteran Base while carrying the Bad Omen effect, and calmly announced “i started a raid”. 1 Because of the Veteran Villager Trading Hall, the base counted as a village, and the raid was on.
The waves
What followed was, by prop’s own account, “the hardest raid i (personally atleast) have ever seen”. 2 The waves kept coming: “another fucking wave”, then “this is like 10th one”. 3 4 The chat describes 15 to 20 vindicators at a time, plus evokers, witches, three ravagers and swarms of vexes, spawn-camping prop and kira so that they were killed over and over as they respawned.
prop died with two totems on him and lost his “pog sword” and full diamond armour, plus 30 levels; kira lost the armour prop had made for him. 5 The villagers, at least, survived.
The boat trick
Eventually, after an hour or more, the defenders worked out that the vexes would stop if the evokers died. They caught the evokers in boats and killed them while being spawn killed themselves. 6 With the evokers gone, the raid ended, but the base was badly damaged. prop’s retelling in the history channel on 6 October explains the trigger: “because of the villager trading hall in veteran base the area counts as a village”. 7 Suresh and Grimwatch are also listed among those caught up in it.
prop joked at the time that it would make a great YouTube video.
Primary sources
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i started a raid
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the hardest raid i (personally atleast) have ever seen before
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another fucking wave
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this is like 10th one
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made me loose pog sword and full dia armour
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until eventually we managed to catch the evokers in boats and killed them while continously getting spawn killed (which stopped the vexes)
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started a raid (because of the villager trading hall in veteran base the area counts as a village)
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and omen randomly wandered into the veteran base with bad omen
