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Too Fast: The Day-One Shutdown

Within hours the launch group had diamonds and a Nether portal, so prop stopped the server to force slower progress.

Event ASMP S4 18 Apr 2025

The launch of Season 4 on 18 April 2025 went too well. Within hours, the group was already deep in a cave, “got diamonds” and “built nether portal”, and prop decided that was enough. “progress done for the day” he announced 1, then followed it with “no more progress” 2, and the server posted its own epitaph: “Server stopped!” 3.

When IRIS asked later whether the server was down, prop explained that he had stopped it himself: “forcing slow progress” 4. The reasoning was a quote he supplied for the group: “hold up this is way too fast progression, lets end it here today” 5.

That was not the end of the plan. Prop intended to enforce a Nether ban “till we make a cool base somewhere first” 6, with a twist for the season: everyone lives together in one shared base, not as guests of whoever built first. IRIS said he might join and was starting a new game that night 7, and prop promised to call him once everyone else was online.

  1. prop · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat progress done for the day
  2. prop · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat no more progress
  3. ASMP Chat · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat Server stopped!
  4. prop · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat forcing slow progress
  5. prop · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat "hold up this is way too fast progression, lets end it here today"
  6. prop · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat now we gonna try to force nether ban till we make a cool base somewhere first
  7. IRIS · 18 Apr 2025 · #mc-chat i am starting a new game tonight