Fort Swampy

Fort Swampy was built by amkhz in early April of 2020.

Founding
Amkhz originally built a small cobble hut at the location during his first days on the server at the end of March 2020. After a few days of mining and stockpiling food, he moved on to a new base further out from spawn. Later during April, Amkhz built up a small castle structure in the middle of a swamp lake.

"The Rest Stop for New players"
As the base was too close to the spawn region to become a large, permanent settlement, Amkhz made the new base into a starting point to aid new players. After forming the Turtle Island group, he routinely journeyed to Fort Swampy, leaving food, iron and gold equips, and other items to provide respite to weary travelers. A few small, manual farms, and animal pens were added over time.

SwampTown
In October of 2020, Eraser_Cat asked Amkhz if more buildings could be added to the area. Within a few days, a large medieval theme town was being constructed at the site. Players involved included Eraser_Cat, Tayloric, FutureBabe, Amkhz, Tetedemile, Sborm, CloudDragon29, Butts_Mahoney, Majumaru, Oztin and many others. After a few days, there began a series of player kills that occured at the base, sometimes involving players using potions of invisibility. Death messages were also disabled during this time due to an issue with the plugin, which added a sense of horror to the spawn base. After a few days, the killings died down and players restarted building efforts.

The Sign Board
The visitor sign board was a long lived feature of Fort Swampy. It remained ungriefed since April of 2020 until November, when some new players aggressively burned buildings and broke the cobblestone saying "lolanarchy." At its height, over 40 players had left signs with dates of their visits to the base, arguably the most of any base on the server.