# bearssss

**🐻 bearssss** — the friendly neighbourhood bear, day-one Supporter and the softest voice of the founding generation.

- **Era:** 2020-09-08 → 2023-03-05
- **Stats:** 1,216 chat lines · 63 kills · 128 deaths · 3 advancements
- **Group(s):** [The Supporter Bench](https://techgarage.ca/books/the-scrubcraft-project/page/the-supporter-bench)

## The first winter

bearssss was in-game by **Sep 8, 2020** — weeks before the archive — greeting his own dawn with a trademark *"h-hewwo"* and a sense that something had changed: *"its weird to see the server again without the anarchy."* The verdict was in: *"a new era."* The bear quickly became one of the friendliest faces in spawn chat — *"hi person,"* *"hey welcome!,"* *"hiya"* to anyone who logged in.

## The welcome wagon

New players got the full bear treatment. bearssss was the unofficial orientation desk: *"this is a semi-vanilla smp"*, with economy and protected land (*"if you support the patreon you can get land that people cant break"*), and directions that became legend — *"from spawn, take the modtown teleport window thing"* and the immortal *"you can go to the trading town (modtown) and check it out or just jump off the platform by the item shop."* Always patient, always encouraging: *"well is there anything that confuses you so far?"*

## The redstone hermit

When not greeting strangers, bearssss could be found elbow-deep in machinery: *"i do minimal redstone stuff so far but im getting better"* ... *"i have a dumb contraption and im about to build aother."* Chicken farms, iron farms, drowned farms, item sorters, wool economies — *"i like redstone and making efficient farms"* — and a running battle with server lag: *"im trying to make my redstone less laggy rn,"* *"haha tps go brr."* The tools of the trade: silk touch always, *"so dont have to smelt stone."*

## A heart for every creature

The bear's soft spot was mobs. There was the cat at the village — *"theres a cat here,"* *"poor little kitty,"* *"i wish i could take him home"* — the pet enderman that disappeared (*"lost pet ... never to be seen again"*), and the peace accord with a new one: *"theres an enderman chilling here and i dont like killing them bc we are buds but i'm so afraid of accidentally looking at it."* Solution: trap it in a boat — *"i feel way safer with him trapped then lmfao."* Even the advancements tell the story: *Light as a Rabbit* (Nov 2021), *The Cutest Predator* (Jan 2022), *Sticky Situation* (Feb 2022) — three animal-taming milestones and not a single combat one. With 63 kills against 128 deaths, the bear lost most fights and never seemed to mind.

## The Jenava loyalist

bearssss was proudly Jenavan: *"yeah im actually jenavan,"* *"simply following the jenavan way,"* *"do buy from jenava"* — and keeper of the holy text, the *"bibel"* of Jenava. When the empire needed cheerleading, the bear was there: *"@ jenava scrubcraft renaissance."*

## The guardian of the grove

One quote outlived them all. In Nov 2021, when someone mentioned the forest around WildKing's domain, the bear drew the line: *"if it's one near wildking's giant tree, leave the trees closer to his base alone."* The woods stayed safe.

## The night owl and the shopkeeper

bearssss ran on the wrong clock: *"it;s 6:30 am hre,"* *"i will when its not 4:20 am,"* *"ok ima try to go to sleep before the sun rises."* His late-night hours were spent haggling — cobble for diamonds (*"anyone got cobble 4 days?"*), unbreaking III books, wool (*"what color/how much?"*) — building up *"my shop"* and dealing with the world's only successful negotiation: *"ahhhh you've negotiated before XDD uh three diamonds for the lot?"*

## The shape of an era

Two and a half years with real gaps and real returns — the founding winter of 2020, a long silence, then *"first time back in a bit"* in Nov 2021, a busy stretch of building and trading into early 2022 (*"working on new base,"* *"carving out a mountain"*), and a final quiet season ending Mar 2023. Some players are defined by their tallies; the bear is defined by *"im a half gamer"* — a hundred decorations, a few good trades, every animal in the area politely left alone.