Cyberdog Safaris

Cyberdog Safaris
Cyberdog Safaris
	Cyberdog Safaris discord logo
Event
Type	Recurring, ±2-4 hours
Date	Various; see below
Activities	exploration, survival
Organizers	_edo
Attendance	6 - 14 players
World	[[]]

Cyberdog Safaris (and Camping Trips) are events in which a bunch of Cyberdogs go on a Survival trip; exploring a minecraft world starting with an empty inventory. On the dogcraft.net server, they are called a Camping Trip; on another Minecraft server, they are called a Safari.

During Camping Trip #2, Febr. 10th, 2018

Rules

Start with nothing. No gear, no inventory.
Keep moving. Take along only stuff you can carry.
No teleporting. Except…
When you die, don’t pick up the items you lost, so don’t use /back. Instead, /tpa to another camping trip member and start with an empty inventory again.
At the end of the trip, leave all your acquired stuff at the end location.

Traveling with dogs during camping trip #1, Jan. 27th, 2018

Intention

The trips are intended to have an as fresh as possible newbie, vanilla experience. When playing on a building-focused server as dogcraft.net it is sometimes refreshing to drop everything and play the game as if you're starting all over again - and it's fun to do it together, with a bunch of other cyberdogs. A trip usually lasts for a couple of hours. While traveling, the group often sets up makeshift camps, to survive the night, sleep, regroup, acquire some food or do a bit of mining. Signs are often placed at such locations, to inform any possible future traveler. At the end of the trip it has become common place to make a modest cabin or house. The travelers leave their acquired belongings there and mark the built with some signs (trip number, date, participants, etc). After the trip the event is usually documented with a forum or discord post, including pictures.

Although most trips so far have been initiated by _edo, anyone can do such trips. They can be planned in advance or just done in an ad-hoc fashion.

Final camp of trip #3 on constantiam.net, Febr. 25th, 2018

Past trips

#1 January 27th, 2018, a Camping Trip on dogcraft.net Survival 2 world
#2 February 10th, 2018, a Camping Trip on dogcraft.net Survival 2 world
#3 February 25th, 2018, a Safari to constantiam.net
#4 February 28th, 2018, a Safari to 2b2t.org
#5 January 17th, 2019, a Camping Trip on dogcraft.net Survival 3 world
#6 March 24th - April 4th, 2020, a Safari to Iskall's 2020 Server
#7 August 14th, 2021, a Camping Trip on dogcraft.net Survival 4 Husky world


Past Trips & Safaris
No.	Date	Type	Destination
#1	January 27th, 2018	Camping Trip	Survival 2
Trip members: zap_plays, marbou9, FastShift078, Gumby1, heatjr, Aeghu and _edo. We started in Havana. From there we took the NTN track south as far as it went. In the overworld we traveled further south, setting up camp for a couple of nights. We found some dawgs that joined us :) We dug for diamonds... and played some music! Traveled further with the dawgs... And set up our final base. Logged for posterity... a fine trip. Thanks!
#2	February 10th, 2018	Camping Trip	Survival 2
Camping Trip #2 was such fun! We were with a substantially bigger group than the first trip. In random order: Quasi_1987, SummerFlower123, dragnrider70, Brianetta, heatjr, badlittlepig, AtollaBell, cutekitten43, ramokhan, Tinker_Bob, _edo, Aeghu, _gewoon_iemand_, ectobeast (and zap_plays, didn't I see you running along too at some point? :P ). Like the first trip, we departed from Havana. We took the NTN (Nether Transport Network) east track to AttolaBell's base. From there we continued straight east in the overworld. Along the way we made a bunch of temporary camping sites. group photo! We found a jungle, with a jungle temple! leaving some modest markers along the way... pondering the feasibility of parkouring over the lava... boating over an ocean, continuing east... and making a lil' cabin at our final camping site, with a cramped but cosy interior. Last players standing :P And again, the full camping trip gang logged for posterity.
#3	February 25th, 2018	Safari	constantiam.net
We visited another server and did something similar to two previous camping trips that we did on dogcraft's survival 2 world. With this safari we went to an anarchy server (constantiam.net) where there's no moderating, griefing is allowed, pvp is on. It gives a very rough, vanilla experience. The spawn area looks something like this: The partaking cyberdogs: badlittlepig, dragonranger35, marbou9, quasi1987, _gewoon_iemand_, Aeghu, Brianetta, CuteKitten43, Gumby1, OPwrecker, ramokhan, Skelleton123, zap_plays, _edo. Our goal was to survive, get away from spawn and set up a base somewhere relatively safe. At spawn, it was all about finding portals, sharing coordinates and trying to meet up. We set up our first camp just* outside spawn, where we could get some basics (food, wood, basic tools). Luckily, we had no hostile encounters with other players. During the night we had to hide from the mobs on our tiny house, all crammed together. We did some wheat farming and some fishing. Then we packed up our stuff and went for a longer trip through the nether. Many a brave cyberdog gave its life fighting off the agroed zombie pigmen attacking us in the hard-to-traverse nether spawn area. Only a few of us managed to make it out of there and run down one of the long nether highways, away from spawn... Relatively further away from spawn we set up our final camp where we could settle and regroup. One by one cyberdogs arrived at the Dogcraft outpost. Quasi 'beautified' the camp with his signature block... ... and another cyberdawgie arriving... 'home' sweet home...
#4	February 28th, 2018	Safari	2b2t.org
Yet another safari. This time an adhoc visit to 2b2t.org, the second oldest minecraft server. It's an anarchy server with no rules, no moderating, lots of pvp and griefing. Also, the world hasn't been reset since 2010. It's known as the world's worst minecraft server. This is what spawn looks like: Participants: darparniox, Quasi1987, Dinosaur_Rider, zap_plays, skelleton123, _edo. Spawn in fpv (first person view). sure...one of many deaths. Spawn in the nether. In the nether I (_edo) ran into another seemingly new player. Instant bonding! :P We found a veteran player minding his own business and we thought it wise to creep up on him. He, however, did not agree... I lost sight of my new found friend but finally found my way onto a highway in the nether: the best possibility to escape spawn. There I was able to meet up with fellow cyberdog darparniox. Two cyberdogs on a roll! We travelled a substantial distance and succeeded in setting up camp, meet up with more cyberdogs, get some basics, create a bed... and make our tiny mark! :P
#5	January 17th, 2019	Camping Trip	Survival 3
Impromptu camping trip with: AcroBoyGaming, Bricky_Stix22, minelikecrazy10, OPwrecker, TBNRGalaxy1, _edo Departing from spawn with boats
#6	March 24th - April 4th, 2020	Safari	Iskallia
Main Article: Iskallia Safari (March 2020)