Recently, something at the forefront of my discussions with my NN staff has been inactivity. I've been told there may be a rumor going around that NerdNation is dead, dying, or dormant, and while I assume that's not the general thought on the matter, I would like to clear up where we as a faction stand.

Since the beginning of our time here on CraftyMynes, we've been standing on unstable ground. I'll be the first to say a portion, a large portion, of that was my fault. I allowed spies to slip in under my nose and let traitors prosper. There were a lot of outside influences as well, largely because of my series on YouTube and the faction's initial reception from the community. For months we were plagued by insiders and betrayals, along with raids, preventing us from settling down permanently and always putting us on-edge.

Finally on October 10th, NerdNation purged most of its members, and shortly after this time, the insiders were eliminated. At this point, it would be fair to say that NN had to start from the ground up, reworking our systems, building up our bases, and slowly allowing people back into the faction. Up until recently we have been reshaping ourselves. With a decision that was made a few days ago, we have seen increased activity and building, along with more ideas for the future.

We have come out of the times of raid after raid. We are now leaving our "hibernation" and expanding once more. Finally we are able to work on projects we've wanted to do for ages, things like Harvestar's wonderful flamingo hunt, community events involving more than just NerdNation. We are making some final adjustments before coming back full-stride, re-writing our system for NerdNation Adventure Team (a project that until now has been stalled). Along with our allies in Stranger's Company and Illumislimey, with a few more hopefully allying with us in the near future, we hope to bring a lot of fun experiences to CraftyMynes very soon.

A rough yesterday leads to a stronger tomorrow. We are not dead, and our dormancy is about to come to a close. Thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way. <3

Love this idea! Good luck everyone!

The edited video has been uploaded! Enjoy!

@MaggiAusDaKann Impossible! XD

Very much possible! Just takes practice.

@MaggiAusDaKann are y0uu allowed to have a waterbucket

Nope. Can't have anything that isn't from the island aside from chorus fruit, and even that you have to harvest yourself.

This is slightly off-topic, but not enough so to be irrelevant. Is there any real use to owning one of these bows? I understand it's extremely rare now and certainly a valuable possession; I'd love to own one myself. But in terms of actual gameplay, is anyone really going to take their Mending+Infinity bow out with them to battle, whether it be PvP, a boss fight, or just day-to-day activities? The risk of losing it doesn't seem worth it, seeing as just owning one makes you the proud owner of a treasure.

Not trying to ruin anyone's excitement or anything, just genuinely curious if anyone would actually USE a bow of such caliber and rarity.

The UNEDITED video is now up. If you don't want to watch for 3 hours and 20 minutes, then wait until I upload the edited version on Wednesday.

The unedited video either had an issue uploading or is just taking a heck of a lot longer than expected (it's been uploading all night). The link should hopefully be working in a few hours, and the edited video will go up today as well.

I love this place it's amazing <3

@OtherGreenGamer I really like this idea. It is a lot of tedious work to get the patterns down, and getting used to the particular heights of your obby towers. It's really interesting to see what speedrun-esque tactics people can come up with while doing a thing over and over until perfection. Doing this, you do develop skills whether useful or not, so hey, atleast you get something for all that work.

I'm sure @NerdieBirdieYT can attest to that as much as I can.

Absolutely! I learned a lot about the dragon's attack patterns, about endermen, about enderpearls, and chorus fruit, and some other tricks. It is certainly very difficult and time-consuming, but it teaches you a lot.