Cyberdog Safaris

Cyberdog Safaris
Event
Type	Recurring, ±2-4 hours
Date	January 27th, 2018 February 10th, 2018 February 25th, 2018 February 28th, 2018 January 17th, 1019 March 24th - April 4th, 2021
Activities	exploration, survival, newbie-vanilla-feel
Organizers	_edo
Attendance	6 - 14 players
World	[[]]

During a Cyberdog Safari or Camping Trip 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

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

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

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.

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 Iskallia

Documentation
	date	Camping Trip or Safari	World / Server
#1	January 27th, 2018	Camping Trip	Survival 2
#2	February 10th, 2018	Camping Trip	Survival 2
#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
#5	January 17th, 2019	Camping Trip	Survival 3
#6	March 24th - April 4th, 2020	Safari	to Iskallia
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