| “ | The wood and cobble, black stone too. Ancient totems are coming through and Gregory we never forget Gregory. He’s our mayor, our pride and joy. He loves and love him back. Our beautiful gogtopia. Gogy never lets us down. Church prime and the center of this town. Gogtopia | ” |
—Gogtopia Anthem | ||
The Town That Never Was, formerly known as Gogtopia, was a newly formed nation by Karl Jacobs, GeorgeNotFound, Fundy, BadBoyHalo, and Awesamdude on December 26, 2020. It was destroyed on the same day as its development by Karl on his stream.
In the country were several different builds, including the home of the mayor, a central pavilion, a smaller version of Church Prime, and several smaller homes.
The Town That Never Was is the first installment in the one-shot episodic series, "Tales from the SMP", currently headed by Karl.
History[]
Karl, George, Fundy, Bad, and Sam ventured out into the wilderness of the Dream SMP with the express purpose of building a town under an hour. Karl announced that something would immediately happen after the timer, but kept exactly what would happen as a secret.
The five started by building the central pavilion. From there, they expanded outwards, building the mayor's home, several smaller homes, a mobile Church Prime, and a snowman statue.
During the building process, the five also found a zombie villager and revived it. The group named him "Gregory V" and crowned him as mayor of the country.
Lore[]
Throughout the building process. Various "lore" was added to the country through various actions such as hanging chickens to the fences, forming building supports, and George adding "ancient totems", structures constructed from obsidian, crying obsidian, and oak wood stairs. George threw an egg directly into the air, which landed and hatched four chickens. These chicks were hung under Gregory's house.
A raid was started roughly a minute before the timer would end, caused by George walking near Gregory with the Bad Omen effect. Karl claimed it to be the "first war". It lasted for 3 waves, and was easily defeated by the citizens. The banners looted from the raiders were hung on the tower of rich as a sign of victory. Sam would later die to a zombie under one of these flags, and was revived through a ritual.
Gogtopia's Destruction[]
After the timer ended, Karl asked everyone to stand on top of the a platform overlooking the country as he put in some finishing "lore" touches. Karl took nearly half a stack of TNT from his ender chest and began placing it around Gogtopia. He then detonated the TNT, destroying all buildings that were constructed. After it was destroyed, he renamed it to "The Town That Never Was".
Karl then stated that he had planned to destroy the country before its creation because he wanted the moment to forever stay a memory within its creators instead of it being able to be used as leverage and eventually become irrelevant.