Chapter XXVII: Nine Lives of Fyzz — A Friday the 13th Reckoning in BeastWorld

I. The Teeth

The sabertooth tiger did not announce itself. They never do. One moment Fyzz was picking through the underbrush south of the old trade road, iron daggers drawn, scanning the tree line for movement. The next moment, ninety points of damage carved through armor, through health, through confidence — and left exactly ten hit points standing between a seasoned adventurer and the cold respawn screen. Ten. Out of a hundred. The kind of number that turns your stomach into a fist. Fyzz staggered, bleeding pixels, vision swimming with the red pulse of critical health, and for one crystalline second the entire realm held its breath. The sabertooth circled, amber eyes catching the pale light filtering through the canopy, muscles coiled beneath striped fur like steel cables wrapped in silk. It lunged again. This time, the daggers weren't fast enough.

Fyzz was killed by Tiger_Sabertooth.

And that, dear readers, was not the beginning of this story. That was merely the appetizer.

II. Dawn Patrol

Friday the 13th broke over BeastWorld like a yolk cracked on a skillet — golden, slow, vaguely ominous. The server had been cycling through restarts all morning, six in total across the day, the digital equivalent of a realm clearing its throat before delivering a monologue. At 05:01, before most of the civilized world had considered the existence of coffee, CodingButter materialized at coordinates 204, 127, 1779 — the high plateau east of the central basin, where the sandstone cliffs catch the first light and the wind smells like ambition and quartz dust. This was not a man who had come to fight monsters. This was a man who had come to build.

Seven minutes later, at 05:08, WandereMirorB blinked into existence half a continent away, at coordinates -1882, 159, -7516 — deep in the northwestern reaches, so far from civilization that the map itself starts to look nervous. What WandereMirorB was doing out there in the pre-dawn darkness is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a suspicious number of reconnections. Over the next hour, WandereMirorB would enter and re-enter the realm no fewer than six times, bouncing between the far northwest and a secondary position near -586, 123, -688, like a hummingbird trying to decide between two particularly compelling flowers. Server instability? Exploration mishaps? A secret project at the edge of the known world? The chronicle records, but does not judge.

What is known is that during those brief windows of stability, WandereMirorB found time to deal some absolutely devastating blows to the local wildlife. An 86-damage critical strike against a Level 13 creature — the kind of hit that makes the target reconsider its life choices in the microsecond before those choices become irrelevant. A 58-damage wallop against a Level 50 elite — and let me repeat that for emphasis: Level 50. WandereMirorB walked up to something that could charitably be described as a walking apocalypse and hit it hard enough to make it flinch. Twice. Two separate 58-damage strikes against Level 50 targets, plus an 86-damage execution against a Level 20 that probably thought it was tough until it wasn't. Four total mob kills may seem modest on paper, but when your targets are the kind of creatures that have their own zip codes, quality absolutely trumps quantity.

III. The Architect and the Colosseum

While WandereMirorB played tag with death itself in the wilderness, CodingButter was engaged in a different kind of battle — one fought not with swords but with geometry. The command log reads like the fever dream of a Roman emperor who had just discovered a CAD program. Cylinder after cylinder of Rock Sandstone Brick materialized above the plateau, each one titanic in scale: 66 blocks wide, then 65, then 64, wall thicknesses shifting from 7 to 6 and back again, the spacing and density tuned with the obsessive precision of someone who knows that a single block out of place at this scale would be visible from orbit. Undo. Redo. Undo. Adjust. The editline commands tell the story of an architect wrestling with perfection.

The numbers are staggering when you actually picture them. A cylinder 65 blocks wide is not a building — it's a landmark. It's the kind of structure that changes the skyline, that becomes a navigational reference point, that makes first-time visitors stop running from wolves long enough to whisper "what is that?" And CodingButter wasn't just building up — the Air cylinder commands suggest interior carving, hollowing out space within the sandstone shell, creating rooms or passages or an arena floor within the massive structure. The time manipulation commands — time set night, time set noon, cycling back and forth — paint the picture of an architect studying their creation under different lighting conditions, watching how the shadows fall across the curved walls at noon versus midnight, making sure the structure looks as breathtaking under moonlight as it does under the midday sun. This is not construction. This is art direction.

At one point, CodingButter teleported to WandereMirorB's position — perhaps to recruit a second pair of eyes, perhaps to say "come look at this," perhaps simply because even the most dedicated builder occasionally needs to remember that the world extends beyond their scaffolding. The time commands resumed after the visit, the light cycling through its phases again and again, noon and night alternating like a divine strobe light as the colosseum — or temple, or arena, or whatever magnificent thing it will become — slowly took shape against the sandstone sky. And then, quietly, time pause. The world froze mid-breath. The architect stepped back. Considered. And the chronicle suspects, though cannot confirm, that a smile crossed their face.

IV. The Ballad of Fyzz, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Respawn Button

At 06:20, approximately ninety minutes after the dawn patrol began their respective labors, Fyzz entered BeastWorld at coordinates -949, 122, 207 — the western lowlands, where the forests give way to rocky scrubland and the creature density goes from "manageable" to "did someone leave the mob spawner on?" Three minutes later, a second entry at -932, 111, -41. Fyzz was moving with purpose, cutting north through increasingly hostile terrain, and what followed over the next several hours would become the stuff of HyBeast legend.

Thirty-two mob kills. Two hundred and eleven strikes of blade against scale, fur, chitin, and bone. Two thousand six hundred and forty-five points of damage dealt. And nine — nine — deaths. Let us speak of those deaths now, because each one is a story, and each story is a testament to a player who absolutely, categorically, unapologetically refused to quit.

Death Number One: the sabertooth, as described. Ninety damage in what was likely a single pounce. Fyzz survived the first hit with 10 HP — a miracle measured in single digits — but the second strike came before the healing could. Death Number Two: a fox. A fox. Now, before you laugh — and you will, because the Discord will never let this go — consider that foxes in BeastWorld are not the dainty woodland creatures of pastoral fantasy. These are Level-scaled predators with teeth like carpet knives, and at low health, anything can be a death sentence. Fyzz was already battered from previous engagements, health hovering in the danger zone at 14 HP after a 21-damage hit, and the fox found the gap in the armor that everything else had been looking for.

Death Number Three: Poison. Not a creature. Not a blade. Poison. The slow, insidious kind that ticks away at your health bar while you frantically scroll through your inventory looking for the antidote you swore you packed. The data doesn't tell us what delivered the venom — a spider, a cave mushroom, an ill-advised mushroom stew — but it tells us the poison won. Death Number Four: a rat. Yes. A rat. And again, before the mockery begins, remember that Fyzz was fighting through wave after wave of hostile mobs, health never fully recovering, potions running low, and even the lowliest creature becomes a credible threat when you're running on fumes and prayers. The hit log shows Fyzz dropping to 3 HP — three — before a subsequent 8-damage rat bite sent them back to the respawn point. Three hit points. That's not a health bar, that's a rounding error.

Death Number Five: a Scarak Louse. For the uninitiated, Scarak are the insectoid horrors that dwell in the caverns beneath BeastWorld, all mandibles and malice and chitinous armor that sounds like dice rattling in a cup when they charge. Fyzz had been fighting with 9 HP, then 1 HP — one single hit point — dancing on the razor's edge between survival and oblivion, before the louse delivered the finishing blow. One HP. The human body, even a digital one, is not meant to function at one hit point. Your hands shake. Your vision narrows. Every sound becomes a potential death knell. And Fyzz kept swinging until there was nothing left to swing with.

Death Number Six: an Outlander Cultist. Now we're talking. The Cultists are no joke — robed figures wielding dark magic and worse intentions, the kind of enemy you're supposed to approach with a plan and a party, not solo with a pair of iron daggers and a dream. Fyzz went in anyway. The combat log shows damage received from the Cultist stacking up relentlessly, health dropping to 10 after a devastating hit, and then the final blow. There is something almost poetic about it — the lone wolf against the cult, outnumbered and outmatched, fighting until the math said no.

Death Number Seven: a Spider. Classic. Timeless. The arachnid encounter is a rite of passage in any fantasy realm, and Fyzz walked into this particular web with approximately 10.6 HP, which is the kind of number that makes healers weep and statisticians wince. The spider, possessing neither mercy nor the ability to appreciate a good underdog story, finished the job.

Deaths Eight and Nine: Skeleton Archers. Both of them. The bony snipers of BeastWorld, perched on ridgelines and ruin edges, loosing arrows with the kind of accuracy that suggests they've had centuries of practice — which, being undead, they literally have. Fyzz tanked hits of 19 and 17 damage respectively, health hovering at 11 and 13 before the killing blows, each death coming at the end of a prolonged engagement where survival was measured in individual heartbeats.

Nine deaths. Nine respawns. Nine times walking back from the void, dusting off the armor, re-equipping the daggers, and marching right back into the wilderness to do it all again. Thirty-two kills despite the dying. Two thousand six hundred and forty-five damage dealt despite the damage taken. This is not recklessness — this is commitment.

V. The Community Current

While the realm's warriors fought and built and died and built some more, the Discord hummed with the particular energy of a community in the middle of figuring itself out. The conversation in #general read like a roundtable discussion at a fantasy engineering conference — which, when you think about it, is exactly what it was.

The great Pipez Debate of February 2026 raged on with the quiet intensity of people who care deeply about virtual plumbing. The core issue, as the community saw it, was elegance: the pipe system works, but it works the way a Rube Goldberg machine works — technically functional, aesthetically distressing, and occupying approximately four times the space it should.

"The Pipes are garbage imo"

Someone dropped that grenade into the chat with the casualness of a person who has spent hours wrestling with fluid dynamics in a block game and has decided that life is too short for suboptimal throughput. The counterargument came swift and sure:

"never setup full ae2 config eh?"

A fair point. The pipes aren't logic — they're long-range hoppers, one-way conveyances for items that don't ask questions about where they're going, only that they're going. The Easy Storage Network handles the thinking; the pipes handle the moving. It's a division of labor that works beautifully once you stop trying to make the pipes do things they were never designed to do.

"Too complicated to set up. It literally took you hours to set up the shop"

The shop — CodingButter's automated trading post — runs on Pipez channels feeding into the Easy Storage system, and yes, it took hours, and yes, it works, and yes, that's the kind of tradeoff that separates the tinkerers from the tourists. The conversation spiraled outward from there into territory that would make a game designer's heart sing: discussions about naming items (harder than it sounds), the need for standardized power systems (essential but politically thorny), and the fundamental tension between the game's fantasy aesthetic and the community's appetite for industrial automation.

"the hard part is the whole industrial/power stuff is kinda off brand for the games current 'fantasy' vibe so someone's gotta come up with something that goes well with that and automation stuff instead of power I think"

This is the kind of observation that sounds casual but is actually profound. How do you build a factory in a fairy tale? How do you automate resource production without turning Orbis into a strip mine with particle effects? The community is wrestling with these questions because they care about the world they're building, not just the systems they're exploiting. Belt mods and Factorio-style logic were mentioned. The possibility of vanilla Hytale eventually including power systems was acknowledged. And in the meantime, the server will keep improvising, keep experimenting, keep building pipe networks that take up too much space and arguing about them in Discord with the love that only true craftspeople bring to their complaints.

The leveling discussion added another layer of complexity — the mob scaling system that makes a Level 3 skeleton a two-shot kill and a Level 20 skeleton a prolonged engagement (a distinction Fyzz could have written a doctoral thesis on by the end of the day). The PvP implications were debated with genuine concern for fairness: if levels gate combat effectiveness, how do you keep PvP balanced? World splitting? Separate rulesets? The answer, as is often the case with communities this young and this passionate, was "we'll figure it out when we need to." And they will.

VI. The King Arrives at Dusk

The day had wound through its final hours, the sun making its long slide toward the western edge of the map, when at 21:11 — nine o'clock in the evening, practically fashionably late — TyrantKing materialized at coordinates -933, 111, -46. Nearly the exact same position where Fyzz had spent hours carving a path of destruction and respawns through the local fauna. Whether this was coincidence or intent, whether TyrantKing came to survey the carnage or to add to it, the chronicle does not say. What it does record is that over in the streaming channel, TyrantKing had been broadcasting to the world — the Twitch stream was live, the crown emoji was deployed, and the runic text in the stream title (ᛏᛁᚱᚨᚾᛏ ᛏᚱᛁᛒᛖ) translated from Elder Futhark reads "Tyrant Tribe." A declaration, a brand, a battle standard planted in the digital soil.

Meanwhile, in the admin-notes channel, mod links were being dropped like breadcrumbs leading to the server's future: Better Lootbox, Portal World, Ecotale Banking ("this is cool," someone noted with the understatement of a person who has just discovered that virtual economics can be as compelling as virtual combat), and Better Battlepass. Each link is a seed — a potential addition to BeastWorld's ecosystem that will go through the staging process, get tested on dev, and either bloom into a feature that changes how everyone plays or get quietly composted. The future of HyBeast is being curated in real time, one CurseForge link at a time.

VII. The Final Watch

By the time the small hours crept over BeastWorld, the realm had processed 3,502 points of total damage dealt, 36 mob kills, 9 player deaths, and exactly zero PvP kills — a remarkable statistic for a Friday the 13th, a day that by all superstitious rights should have been a bloodbath between players. Instead, the community turned its aggression outward, toward the mobs, toward the wilderness, toward the fundamental question of whether iron daggers and determination can overcome a world that scales its monsters to meet you at your level. Fyzz answered that question with a resounding "eventually, yes, but it's going to cost you."

CodingButter's sandstone colosseum stands unfinished on the eastern plateau, its massive curved walls visible for hundreds of blocks in every direction, a monument to the idea that building something beautiful is just as heroic as killing something dangerous. WandereMirorB's expeditions to the far northwest remain shrouded in mystery, the coordinates hinting at territories that most players haven't even seen yet, let alone fought Level 50 elites in. And somewhere in the western lowlands, the grass is a little shorter, the mob spawns are a little thinner, and there's a very faint bloodstain in the shape of someone who died to a fox and is never going to hear the end of it.

The server rests now, processing its six restarts, its mod updates confirmed, its architecture stable. Tomorrow is Saturday, and Saturdays on HyBeast have a way of drawing out the full roster. The colosseum needs walls. The pipes need optimization. The Level 50 elites need killing. And Fyzz — dear, glorious, unkillable-because-they-keep-coming-back Fyzz — probably needs more potions. BeastWorld will be here, waiting, as it always is. Bring your swords. Bring your blueprints. Bring your opinions about pipe routing. There's room for all of it.

Today's Highlights

• Fyzz survived a 90-damage sabertooth strike with exactly 10 HP — then died to the follow-up, kicking off a legendary 9-death gauntlet through BeastWorld's most dangerous wildlife
• WandereMirorB landed an 86-damage critical strike on a Level 20 mob and went toe-to-toe with Level 50 elites twice, dealing 58 damage each time to creatures most players avoid entirely
• CodingButter spent the pre-dawn hours sculpting a massive sandstone colosseum — 65 blocks wide with 7-block-thick walls — cycling between day and night to perfect the lighting on a structure visible from across the map
• Fyzz clung to life at 1 HP after a Scarak Louse encounter before finally going down — one single hit point between glory and the grave
• The Great Pipez Debate of 2026 erupted in Discord, with the community wrestling with the fundamental question of how to build factories inside a fairy tale
• TyrantKing made a fashionably late entrance at 9 PM, spawning at the exact coordinates of Fyzz's earlier killing fields while streaming live on Twitch under the Elder Futhark banner of "Tyrant Tribe"
• Fyzz was killed by a fox and a rat on the same day, proving that in BeastWorld, everything is dangerous and nothing is beneath your dignity
• Four new mods appeared in admin-notes — including Ecotale Banking — hinting at an economic revolution brewing in HyBeast's future

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