AbolishSuburbs

AbolishSuburbsAbolishSuburbs, also known as Mich, The_Ohioan, or by his real name Jacob is a moderator on the Mappercraft Minecraft server. He joined at around early August, 2015, and has been playing fairly consistently since. This makes him what players on the server refer to as a "veteran" or "vet", meaning a player that played or has been playing on the server since nearly the beginning of its lifespan. The first nation he was in was in Crimea during Earth World Mark II and has been in several other nations since. He has only led once nation as of recent, and that is the country of Zuiderland. For simplicity's sake, he will be referred to as "Mich" for most of the duration of this article.

History
A lot of the early history in regards to AbolishSuburbs' involvement on the server, especially Earth World Mark II, III, Islands of Conquest, and Distorted Europe Mark I, may be either incomplete or falsely recalled information and information from other players or sources from this time period would be well appreciated.

Pre-Mappercraft
AbolishSuburbs, who had been previously known as "Mich56", or simply "Mich", joined the Mapping community and the TheFutureForEuropes wiki at around February, 2015, for his interest of history, geography, and geopolitics. He had been a fan of Minecraft for a while at that point, but got bored of it at around the time he started his YouTube channel. He became a somewhat infamous name in the community during this time, being known for being annoying and a bit of a troll. This would soon change, however when he discovered that the mapper by the name of MonsoonJr99 was hosting a Minecraft servers for the community he had joined just seven months previously.

Monsoon/Xenodine Earth World (Marks II-VII)
AbolishSuburbs joined Monsoon's Minecraft server, which has been retroactively labeled as Mappercraft for simplicity sake, around early August, 2015. Regardless, he was guided by RedSnakeize on how to play on the server and told him to join the then nation of Crimea. He accepted, and began to build his cobblestone house and dug a large mine that would let him obtain his first diamonds. Then, he began making settlements and colonies for the nation in the Shetland Islands, southeastern Greenland, and Prince Edward Island. Eventually, AbolishSuburbs got bored of living in Crimea and lived with IrishMapping in a country by the name of "Krimea". At around the end of the world, he moved again, living with player KML in the "Outer World" region of the Earth World map in a house they made while they further continued their grind for gear.

Mich' joined Earth World III from around the start on January 16th, 2016. Unfortunately for him, he did not store his items from the previous world, and since Monsoon wiped the player data from everyone before starting a new world, he lost those items. He joined the nation of Asuka in Namibia with Cambrian_ and Wolfkall at world start and started setting themselves up. He helped build up the city gradually and start grinding for maximum armor, tools, and weapons during this time. [WIP]

[IV]

After the inactive Amplified World, players were craving for a sixth edition of the Earth World franchise that the server was known for. Earth World Mark VI began on May 7th, 2017, and Mich joined the server on this day. This world would be the server's most popular, active, and eventful world it had ever seen so far in its lifetime, with a lot of the playerbase of the time referring it as one of, if not the best edition of the Earth World series. Mich stayed in Starymglia and he began to have a bigger role in the server's dynamic as a whole. This world was not only the world which set the foundations for Mappercraft's modern meta, but also set the foundations for Mich's playstyle, become more of a technical Mappercraft player who made profits off of his business ventures.

[VII]

Islands of Conquest [WIP]
Islands of Conquest was the second world Mich played on. He joined as soon as world start, on August 30th, 2015. He, for the first time, started his own nation by the name of [???] with a player named Zack, previously known as nanobite360. Tensions had been building up between [???] and the Alicornian Guild, which was a nation led by FedexMC and batboy1999. Wolfkall was infamous for being chaotic and a raider on the server, and on September 19th he rebelled from the Alicorninan Guild and begins raiding from them and a country called Spawnetia. He then most likely joined [???], which is the time when he, Mich, and Zack formed "friendships" with each other, with the three adding each other on Skype and playing other servers and games with each other.

Magnaterra World [WIP]
From the previous antics that occurred in Islands of Conquest World, Mich began making a name for himself on the Monsoon's Minecraft server.

North America World, EU World, and Varenburg World
After Earth World Mark IV, MonsoonJr99 stepped down from being host on Mappercraft and instead gave that title to Xenodine. For Mich, this is when he began becoming inactive from the server. He joined and played on North America World for a little bit from the start on August 15th, 2016, but due to lag issues that plagued the world in the beginning and general boredom, he quit. The world eventually ended on September 18th of the same year due to players getting bored and map corruption issues that occurred.

He continued his break from the server, not even joining the EU World a single time after the end of the North America World. However, Mich would come back for a little bit on Varenburg world, joining the Underground Militia with Tomad, agnius06, and Wolfkall. He never played on this world actively, though. This world ended on November 12th, 2016 and Earth World Mark V was coming up from a week that time.

Amplified World
Mich joined Amplified World on its release February 11th, 2016, a few weeks after the end of the popular Earth World Mark V. Although this world started with a decent amount of players on launch, this world became infamous for being one of the most inactive worlds ever seen in this server's history. Mich would join the Rechonian Republic, led by Tomad, in the city of Valkryia. He built a skeleton XP farm a decent ways out from the nation's core that would be used by the majority of the nation's members. At the end of the world, Mich decided to move out of Rechonia and went thousands of blocks out into a Mushroom Island biome he stumbled upon by accident. He planned to make a city there, but due to world inactivity and boredom from the server he scrapped the idea and quit

Doom's World
On August 27th, 2018 DoomShroom hosted the Mappercraft minecraft server under a new Earth map. Mich had joined the Holy American Empire and had created a house in what would be become Cleveland in Mahoning state. Not much happened during the world relative-wise, though Mich was trolled and messed around with by Sikorskiii, leader of the Holy American Empire and moderator of the server, and many other members of the nation. During his time in the nation he had created a mob farm which would help the nation get gunpowder and other mob supplies and modestly expanded his town overtime. When Dan got banned from Mappercraft on December 27th, 2018, Mich would become a member of the provisional Regency Council that would end up reforming the Holy American Empire into Araga, the first time the country had existed outside of the main Monsoon-Xenodine Earth World series of maps. The world would soon end on January 23rd, 2019, which is the same day that Solace World I would launch.

Solace World I
After the controversial reign of DoomShroom as host and the end of the world he hosted, Solace World I would begin on January 23rd, 2019. Mich would join this world on launch and claim the country of Laurentia, which originally encompassed the territory of the British Thirteen Colonies in real life. [WIP]

Solace World II
When Solace World II launched on January 4th, 2020 Mich formed the nation of Zuiderland with agnius06. He intended it to be a horizontally organized commune of sorts where all resources would be shared and direct democracy was to be in place. Mich and Zuiderland would remain isolationist for most of the world, with few exceptions. [WIP]

Hawaii World
Mich joined the Hawaii World at launch on May 30th, 2020, with him founding the Surfdom of Kauai with agnius06 just a day prior. He was the first person to go to the end and managed to kill the Ender Dragon with a few other people including Tomad and Sikorskiii. However, Mich never managed to obtain the dragon egg, as the host at the time Vegatable managed to steal it and place it inside of the spawn ship. Nothing much happened after this event; Kauai stayed isolationist, Mich constructed a decently large city while agnius06 went mostly inactive.

Vegatable/Multi/Jenny Earth World (current map)
Mich joined what was then Vegatable Earth World Map on October 24th, 2020; the day of launch. He joined the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was back then led by Skaltronx. The first week of the server remained mostly uneventful in regards to him and Holland as a whole; all he did was mostly grind for mineral resources and maximum enchantments on his weapons, armor, and tools. However, there were two other significant events that did occur during this time period: one, Mich participated in a nether battle alongside bonito_pibb, agnius06, and FlamingArrow06 against members of the Slavic Empire Owning69, Ficomm, with an ultimate victory for the former's side; and two, Mich began the construction of a villager trading hall in Holland alongside agnius06 and other members of Holland.

As the second week of the world began on October 31st, the end was accessible for the first time; Mich before this had been grinding for eyes of ender for finding the end portal and to eventually fight the ender dragon. By around 6:55 PM EST, Mich had found the end portal in Greenland, successfully killed the first ender dragon on the server, and secured the dragon egg. After that, he began raiding end cities in the outer end, got a substantial amount of highly enchanted diamond gear, and returned back to the overworld. A few days later on November 3rd, Mich began construction on his own factory in Amsterdam, quasi-competing with Pibb's two factories in the same city; he finished construction on the same day.

[WIP]

After expressing criticism of what happened with Holland and its integration into the Roman Empire; on February 12th, Sikorskiii released its land on the island of Sulawesi to Mich and agnius06 to form the country of Mingren (now called Mingguo). In the coming days and weeks, Mich with minor help from agnius06 began repairing SoAss' tower in Indonesia. He also began becoming more involved in the global geopolitics of the server, volunteering in wars such as the Prussia-Fovrix war on March 1st and volunteering for Dajiang in the Dajiang-Babylon War on March 2nd. Starting in late February, Mich began working on the city that would end up being named Mizhou, formerly Mountainside.

Staff History and Server Perception
Mich has always been somewhat of a controversial figure on Mappercraft in the eyes of the staff, with regard to how he has been banned several times in the past and still to this day. In spite of that, he managed to become appointed a discord admin by the staff team on March 2nd, 2019. As role changes took place on the Discord just before the start of Solace World II, Mich's position would eventually be changed to chat mod. He would begin as staff on the Mappercraft server from here, with him taking care of the trash in the discord server and helping manage him alongside other staff members. On January 6th, 2020, just one day after the start of Solace World II, Mich would become moderator on both the Discord and Minecraft server. Unlike most moderators nowadays, Mich did not apply to become moderator, instead he was appointed by the higher-level staff team as part of a consensus that he was most suited to become one at the time.

Mich still remains a moderator to this day, with him now being part of the Mappercraft Moderators' Union, a group formed by Sikorskiii to advocate against alleged admin and owner level, or "Blue role" corruption, to push for things such as greater permissions on the Minecraft server, and to form consensuses with each on certain issues. The perception Mich is generally positive, although his approval as moderator on the server is more mixed. [WIP]

Trivia and Other Information

 * During a day on February 2018 on Distorted Europe Revived, Mich and player named DoomShroom, had created severe cobble monsters at spawn and openly broadcasted their intentions to do so in chat. Eventually, Xenodine or one of the staff members at the time permabanned them for doing such acts. A few months later, DoomShroom would ironically assume role of server host after the departure of Xenodine, with Mich also being unbanned.
 * Mich for the majority of Mappercraft's nation has played either in an isolationist nation or with an secluded gameplay style. The only times this really deviated were Earth World Mark VI, where he would play more a role in the geopolitics and economy of the server, and Solace World II, where he led Zuiderland, a nation who was heavily involved in the server's economy and to a lesser extent its geopolitics as well.