bearssss

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

• Era: 2020-12-0709-08 → 2023-03-05
• Stats: 1,216 chat lines · 63 kills · 128 deaths · 3 advancements
• Group(s): The Supporter Bench

The first winter

bearssss was therein-game onby Sep 8, 2020 — weeks before the very first archived day — Dec 7, 2020archive — greeting thehis own dawn of the server with a trademark "h-hewwo" and a sense that something had changed: "its weird to see the server again without the anarchy." By day two, theThe verdict was in: "a new era." The [Supporter] tag was on their chest from the start, and 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.