Lecture on Melon Farming Server Experience

Overview

• Instructor enjoys farming melons.
• Spent 100 days farming melons.
• Attempted to break the world record for most melons farmed with 9 others.
• Today’s story about a melon-infested server experience.

Server Details

• Server joined with objective to build a melon cult.
• Social experiment: players join the server, which only allows 8 login sessions.
• Limited world size: 2000 blocks wide.
• Limited ultra-valuable items like Netherite and the dragon egg.

Initial Actions

• First move: Plan to burn the dragon egg as a statement.
• Competitive race with another player (Fory) to the dragon egg.

Dragon Egg Saga

• Faced challenges finding the dragon egg.
• Egg fell through the portal to spawn location, inside an unbreakable hitbox area.
• Solution: Hide the egg on the spot and create a ruse with sand to deter Fory.
• Ultimately managed to convince Fory to burn the dragon egg.

Cult Initiation

• Developed an underground base for melon cult activities.
• Persuasion strategies to convert players (Fory) to melon enthusiasm.
• Built Goodwill by trading resources and interacting positively.

New Players and Building the Cult

• Regular server activities and bonding with other players (Jorus, Grace).
• Spammed melons to impress new players and invited them for tours.
• Created and expanded farming resources to support group.

The Pumpkin Incident

• Melon structures sabotaged with pumpkins by other players.
• Strategic approach: Agreeably acceded to the pumpkin sabotage and managed to revert back to melons.

Final Days of the Cult Leader

• As leader's time on server wound down, focused on securing legacy.
• Built puzzles and scavenger hunt leading to the melon shrine.
• Ensured players know melons’ importance before logging off.

Final Moments

• Cult leader’s departure marked by passing scavenger hunt to remaining players to continue the legacy.

Conclusion

• Building the melon cult involved strategic resource gathering, player persuasion, and creative problem-solving.
• The legacy hoped to be upheld by solving riddles left by leader.