Web Video / SpeedSilver Civilization Experiments

Released on February 16, 2022, "I Made 100 Players Simulate Civilization in Minecraft..." was Speed Silver's first foray into the Civilization Experiment genre. Featuring 3 different regions compared to Ish 13's 4 and Magic Gum's 5, it continued to show off the resourcefulness and determination that was demonstrated in its inspirations. Following a tale of bloodshed and warfare, with tragedy and triumph in equal measure, the video showcased the story of how these 3 groups of Minecraft players survived, thrived, and waged war within a Hardcore Minecraft server, this time filled with ancient temples filled with treasure and beset by many natural disasters and world events. Will these players survive to live another day? Or will they tear each other apart to claim victory over each other?

Due to Speed Silver's previous videos in the "100 days" genre, it immediately attracted a large following, allowing Speed Silver to host several more Minecraft Civilization Events, each with their own theme, features, and events. The first one, "I Made 100 Players Simulate Medieval Civilization in Minecraft... " took the format and shifted the setting into a fantasy medieval world, filled with orcs to slay, mines to extract, and ruins to raid. In particular, the players were split between 3 different races, one per unique region, with different perks and resources to manage. In "100 Players Simulation Civilization on Zombie Island in Minecraft...," Silver instead put the players on a tropical island filled with wildlife and natives, but with one catch: the island would be infected with zombie virus that would mutate and spread amongst both players and the environment, with the cure being in short supply. Instead of being placed into 3 teams, the players instead were divided between the scientists managing the virus and the test subjects who wanted to escape. These two videos would then be followed by "I Made 100 Players Simulate Civilization in Jurassic Minecraft...," which returned to the 3 team setup, but was set in a prehistoric era, filled with dinosaurs to kill and numerous new disasters to be wary of. Will the players triumph in these events too? Or will new players and characters take the spotlight?

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Tropes Include:

• Position of Literal Power: During each civilization event, each group would be allowed to elect their own king to lead their civilization, giving the elected a Protection 5 crown, special powers (usually including doubled health), and other benefits relevant to the event.

"I Made 100 Players Simulate Civilization in Minecraft... "

• Actor Allusion: When Silver introduces Im_A_Squid_Kid as a member of the snow cvilization, he says he is the "1st, I mean 2nd, best potato farmer" in reference to Im_A_Squid_Kid's role in Technoblade's "Potato War" series.
• Assassination Attempt: After winning the crown from Starkiller via demonstrating their might to his followers, one of Ize's lead supporters assassinated Starkiller below a building during the Blood Moon by claiming someone was Trapped In The Basement and then luring him down below to be killed.
• Bad Moon Rising: After the leadership election, a Blood Moon rose over the landscape and stayed there for 5 days, casting night over the landscape and increasing mob spawns, causing everyone to head indoors and hide, while those who weren't careful fighting outside were killed by the mobs.
• Chekhov's Gag: You know that zombie player that Invictable had to lug all the way from the old desert base to the new desert base? Well, it turns out he was a good soldier, as he helped kill the jungle when they invaded.
• The Conspiracy: The Jungle civilization had a high amount of things go wrong for them, like having their cow killed while they were away mining, having the temple's loot be stolen in secret by a few players, and having to put up with Ize trying to win power. This was because a group of Jungle warriors disliked the peaceful nature of the Jungle's government, sabotaging the team to make it easier to take control. Once they realized that Ize would be the perfect king to lead their army into battle, they sponsored Ize in a Military Coup, forcing Starkiller to concede power to him lest he be overthrown directly.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Snow State did not stand a chance against the Jungle state, being almost completely annihilated, with only one player escaping with his life, having only killed 1 in the process. This immediately put the Desert on high alert, and confirmed the Jungle as a force to be reckoned with.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: How was the last jungle person killed? By being fed to a zombie of one of the dead Desert players.
• Draw Aggro: During the final battle, the Jungle king, Ize, distracted the Desert's elite warriors from his own elite warriors by attracting their attention, then using his elytra to escape safely. Unfortunately, the opposing players figured out his strategy, turning their attention back towards his weaker players, evening the odds before Ize was caught and killed.
• The Famine: Just like in MagicGum's first civilization event, The players had to contend with a permanent hunger effect, which forced them to have enough food or die to starvation.
• Final Battle: The Battle between Jungle and Desert at the desert base, featuring fierce fighting from both sides as the desert fought a ferocious battle to defend their homeland.
• Military Coup: Starkiller found himself the target of one, as several PvPers in the Jungle decided to, alongside Ize, take power in order to fulfill their goals of world conquest, which they felt Starkiller wasn't able to. To do so, they marched up alongside Ize to Starkiller, demanding part of the leadership be delegated to them. Starkiller acquiesced, but the soldiers later had him assassinated to prevent anyone from supporting him as opposition.
• Product Placement: Due to the video being sponsored by Genshin Impact, the video not so subtly includes Genshin Impact banners on several objects, including the podium of the Snow church, or on the desert's water tower.
• Special Guest: One of the players on the Snow civilization was none other than Im_A_Squid_Kid, the main Antagonist in Technoblade's "Potato Wars" series.
• Wham Episode:
  • Ize meeting up with the Jungle's PvPers, who had the exact same plan as him: Usurp Starkiller.
  • That leads into Ize forcing Starkiller to stand down as main leader, followed by Starkiller getting assasinated during a monster raid.
  • Followed by Snow getting annihilated by the Jungle.
• What the Hell, Hero?: The response by the Snow players to Silver after the supply drop for last place contained a ravager that killed 3 of them.

"I Made 100 Players Simulate Medieval Civilization in Minecraft... "

• Assassination Attempt: Before The Conspiracy was formed, Ize planned on betraying the giant civilization and helping his buddies in the elf civilization due to getting increasingly angered by the Giants' disorganization. Sensing an opportunity, he assassinated Seawattgaming himself, promptly leaving for the elven forests.
  • During the giants' election, two players were assassinated by their rivals before one was elected.
• The Conspiracy: While Ize was away at the center mountain trying to get loot, several giants including Seawattgaming decided to plot an assassination against him by luring him to a throne that was secretly over a dripstone trap, pulling the throne out from under him to get him killed. Foiled because Ize was too angry at the giants' disorganization to even care about the throne, immediately suspecting that it was a trap.
  • Funnily enough, Ize himself was involved with one, as the elves Invictable and 5aitama, who opposed the main elvish group's leadership, decided to invite Ize over to take power in a Military Coup. Ize gladly accepted, seeing as he didn't like how disorganized the giants were, assassinating Seawatt on his way out. They then also assassinated Starkiller, then used their powerful gear to persuade the elves into voting for Invictable, the member uninvolved in the direct assassination.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The elvish attack on the giants, which killed most of them with not a single elvish casualty.
  • The first dwarvish raid on the elves, which took out 4-7 elves with zero casualties.
  • The dwarves versus the giant orcish raid, using their siege weapons and enchanted gear to annihilate the army with only one death.
• Defensive Feint Trap: The fundamental strategy of the dwarves during the Final Battle, baiting the entire elf and giant army deep into the mountains, where the dwarves were at an advantage due to having better pickaxes and smaller height, allowing them to mine quicker than the other two races. This allowed them to pick off exhausted elf and giant players one by one, leaving only Ize, Invictable, and 5aitama left, who also fell to the trap and died due to the dwarves' coordinated counterattack.
• Final Battle: After allying together, the combined elf-giant alliance engaged the dwarves, fighting a ferocious battle in the mountains and underground, with the dwarves using a Defensive Feint Trap to whittle down the elves and giants until they were defeated.
• Military Coup: Once again, Starkiller found himself the target of one, as several PvPers in the elf civilization decided to plot against him and the other civilization members to take power, including the players 5aitama and Invictable. To do so, they invited Ize over from the giant civilization, then assassinated Starkiller, using Ize's presence and their high tier gear to persuade the other elves into electing Invictable as leader.
• Our Elves Are Different: As a player faction, the elves, in exchange for only being at standard health and height and being vegetarian only, were the only faction to have access to magic while using bows and arrows better than anyone else.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: As a player faction, in exchange for being carnivorous and being unable to swim or boat across water, the giants had increased strength, health, and movement speed, which meant that they were powerful in close quarters combat.
• Our Orcs Are Different: As a neutral faction of raiders and attackers, Orcs would appear and menace the civilizations with Orcish warriors and goblin bombers. They were deep green and Always Chaotic Evil, attacking on sight the various nations, even grouping up for a major assault later in the event.
• Our Dwarves Are Different: As a player faction, the dwarves, in exchange for spawning in a biome that couldn't grow food, had additional mining prowess, the ability to eat coal and iron ore in addition to normal food, the ability to use their pickaxes as weapons, and were only 1 block tall, allowing them to easily live underground instead of on the surface.
• The Plague: Instead of having a hunger event, this event, being set in a Medieval Fantasy, had a plague instead, which would spread out from a player randomly chosen in each civilization to others nearby, causing them to lose natural regeneration and take wither damage, forcing them to social distance, drink milk, or die to the plague.
  • One player even Afked on a mountain away from the team, which meant that he still had the plague when he logged back on, reinfecting the giants.
• Special Guest: Once again, Im_A_Squid_Kid from Technoblade's "Potato Wars" series is a player on the Dwarf civilization, hoping to do better than last time.
• Treasure Room: Deep inside the mountains at the center of the map, there was a room containing a platform topped with tons of different ores and materials that the players could use to advance their civilizations, including Diamonds and Netherite. Said platform was guarded by a group of orcs and surrounded by a pit of lava, threatening anyone who would try to get the loot. After opening as the third world event, all of the factions rushed to try and claim the treasure. The dwarves arrived first and fought off the defenses, successfully gaining the loot with minimal casualties and earning a Goblin Trader to exchange the loot with. The Elves and Giants, however, came too late to grab the loot, and thus clashed for a while until they realized that most of the diamonds were already gone, retreating back to their own civilizations.
• Wham Episode:
  • Ize and 5aitama once again doing a Military Coup, with Ize betraying the giants and assassinating Seawatt, before coming over to the elves and assassinating Starkiller too.

" 100 Players Simulation Civilization on Zombie Island in Minecraft... "

• Bad Moon Rising: Once again, after the leadership election, a Blood Moon rose over the landscape and stayed there for 3 days, casting night over the landscape and increasing mob spawns, causing everyone to scramble to setup defenses against the incoming zombies, while those who weren't careful would die to the zombie mob.
• The Chase: Following their discovery, the "anti-cure" scientists were attacked by the entire scientist army, who killed one of them and forced the rest to flee into the jungle. The "anti-cure" members, however, were able to evade the other scientists by maneuvering through the jungle, giving them just enough space to revive their fallen teammate with a remaining antidote, then running through the jungle and across the strait dividing the island before arriving safely at the survivor camp.
• The Con: After the antidote was discovered, piggybacking off of Silver's suggestion that the cure could instead make zombies stronger, a group of scientists – Seawatt, Evbo, and Grox – decided to spread the rumor that the cure had side effects by doing stunts such as poisoning one of their own with a pufferfish or rotten flesh and then claiming that this was the work of the antidote. This culminated in them leading a group of scientists to destroy the antidote dripstones, secretly pocketing two of them to use later.
• Death from Above: After capturing one of the scientists' skybases by suprise, TimeDeo and his men took the opportunity to drop TNT minecarts on the unsuspecting scientists below, killing several.
• Draw Aggro: TimeDeo's plan to steal the antidote dripstones from the scientists hinged on using the former "anti-cure" scientists to distract the enemy team as their strike force built above the base, ready to drop down and steal their target.
  • Similarly, during the Final Battle, Tarpor, king of the survivors, used his powers and armor to distract the scientists guarding the base into attacking him, allowing for survivors to try and sneak past the scientists into the depths of the base, tying up many scientists for a good portion of the battle.
• Final Battle: Between the Scientists and Survivors on the second to last day, fighting ferociously for control over the laboratory and the rescue beacon inside as the time to the scientists' reinforcements quickly approached. The survivors won by using the king, Tarpor, as a distraction, pulling the scientists away from the staircase, allowing the "anti-cure" scientists and the survivors following them to mine underground and evade the scientists that way, forcing the scientists to retreat to safeguard the area, splitting them up and leading to several of their deaths – including that of Ize – while allowing the survivors to successfully take down the Super Mutant with the nether star and get away with it just in time.
• It's Raining Men: The second part of TimeDeo's plan had the main task force drop down from their platform above the enemy base to steal the antidote dripstones, which was accomplished safely by using boats to slow their fall.
• Machete Mayhem: One of the new modded weapons that the Scientists and Survivors were allowed to craft were machetes, which dealt much more damage than normal swords. Naturally, being more powerful than swords made them more commonly used on other players and zombies than cutting through forests.
• Poison and Cure Gambit: The plan of the "anti-cure" scientists. After spreading the false rumor that the cure had side effects, they were able to safely steal the antidote dripstones, giving them a monopoly on the antidote source. They then lured players into an abandoned house with promises of more dripstones, and then killed them to increase the demand for the antidote. Unfortunately, they should have chose a better location for the plan...
• Spanner in the Works: What caused the "anti-cure" scientists' plot to be discovered? They had set up in one of Ize's abandoned houses, which meant that, when Ize came back to his old house, he immediately recognized that the scientists were lying about what was in it, which allowed him to run away and alert the rest of his team.
• Zombie Apocalypse: The premise of the event. Due to an experiment Gone Horribly Wrong, a zombie virus and its associated zombies were released from a test lab on a tropical island, which forced the scientists manning the test lab to escape. In addition to the scientists, there were two groups of test subjects also brought to the island on a fake cruise, who took the opportunity to escape their holding cells and seek out equipment to survive on the island. These two factions, opposed fundamentally, then had to figure out a way to survive the zombie hordes spreading amongst the island's native population to wait for or call for backup.

"I Made 100 Players Simulate Civilization in Jurassic Minecraft... "

• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Said word for word by Seawatt as he mugged a person for their dinosaur scale boots: Either he dies, or he trades his boots away. The player, apparently a good sport, not only complied but also joined their Mafia.
• Blow Gun: One of the weapons added to fit the theming of this event, the blow gun allowed players to shoot poisonous darts at dinosaurs to weaken them.
• The Cameo: Somehow Notch, the creator of Minecraft, and Gru from Despicable Me both managed to join the server on the Cretaceous island. Whether or not Notch was the real deal was left unexplained, but seems unlikely considering the circumstances.
• Chekhov's Volcano: A Five-Second Foreshadowing/Spoiler Opening version, seeing as the volcano was set and shown to erupt at the beginning of the video.
  • It also fulfilled a second purpose: to contain the safehouse against the meteorite coming to end the event once and for all.
• Civil War: A brief one between The Mafia and the rest of their civilization, that resulted in the victory of The Mafia, after they successfully managed to identify a faction planning on killing them.
• Colony Drop: It woudn't be Jurassic Civilization if you didn't have a meteor coming to end it all.
• Draw Aggro: Starkiller's main plan to kill the Jurassic dinosaurs: Hit them himself to attract their attention to him, then let everyone else dogpile the dinos before they attacked someone else.
• The Dreaded: By this point, Ize's presence, because of all of the previous civilization events, was primarily regarded with much fear and terror by all of the Cretaceous players.
• Fake Defector: lilmustard's plan for the Cretaceous to conquer the Triassic hinged on faking his own defection to the Triassic, since one of the players offered refuge to those they believed were fleeing from Ize's rulership, then using that opportunity to distract them from the approaching Cretaceous army.
• Joke Item: After Seawatt had led The Mafia to victory against the oppssing factions on their island, Silver decided to give Seawatt a Cross that would, supposedly, have the power to instantly kill people, but instead was entirely useless. Seawatt briefly fell for the trick, using it to attempt to kill one non-aligned Triassic member, but quickly realized how useless it was. However, he decided that, if it wasn't actually useful, then he could instead imply that it was, enchanting it to make it look more convincing, then killing another Mafia member who was secretly on low health to sell the illusion, making it into a Weapon for Intimidation.
• Human Resources: One of the things that The Mafia trafficked in were human organs.
• Lethal Lava Land: The volcano at the center of the island was depicted as such, being crisscrossed with rivers of lava, constructed entirely out of basalt, and having an obsidian platform filled with treasure at its center.
• Machete Mayhem: Just like the last event, the survivors were allowed to craft machetes to defend themselves against dinosaurs and kill other players.
• Made Of Gold: In addition to the usual golden apples, the players in this event were allowed to surround dinosaur meat in gold too, which also granted regeneration.
• The Mafia: To help take over the Triassic civilization, Seawatt and Nessie formed a Mafia in order to consolidate power under their control. They would conduct criminal activity such as mugging random people for their gear, stealing enchantment tables, threatening people into agreeing with their policies, and conducting assassinations on those who would oppose them.
• Prehistoria: The setting of this civilization event, featuring tons and tons of dinosaurs, dinosaur themed armor and weapons, and dinosaur related catastrophes such as a volcanic eruption and a meteor strike.
• Optional Boss: After the carnivores spawned in, the players were all given the location of a boss cave, each of which housed a boss monster and its flunkies that would drop a large amount of dinosaur scales, allowing the players who killed them to become much more powerful than those who didn't. However, the boss encounter was made to be much stronger than normal dinosaur encounters, meaning that those who didn't come prepared would be killed.
  • The Jurassic civilization had to fight a giant T-rex and a pack of Dilophosauruses stuck in a cave only accessible by a waterlogged tunnel.
  • The Cretaceous civilization had to climb down into a large sinkhole to fight a Spinosaurus guarded by Velociraptors.
  • The Triassic civilization members Seawattgaming and Nessie had to climb into a large, underground, sandstone cave to fight, instead of a single boss monster, a whole swarm of Eoraptors.
• Rise to the Challenge: As a stereotypical thing to happen in dinosaur movies, the center volcano erupted halfway through the event, causing lava to flood the map bottom to top, forcing people to find or make high ground to avoid meeting their grisly demise.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Between The Mafia and the rest of their civilization during the volcano event.
• Tempting Fate: One of the people inhabiting the dinosaur skull noticed that the lava was just 10 blocks away from reaching their position, and proclaimed that there's "no chance the lava gets to us" due to how high up they were from the bottom of the map, only to have the staff member on scene tell them to immediately build up anyway, giving them barely enough time to escape the rising lava.
• Thirsty Desert: The setting for the Triassic Civilization, just like in real life, the people who lived there found out that, for the most part, there were no plants or food that they could grow. Thus, some players resorted to immediately attacking the dinosaurs present on the island, which was a bad idea, as the dinosaurs proved very hardy and strong. This led to several deaths before they managed to discover a moss-stone covered dead dinosaur skull, at which point they settled down, using the bone blocks that made up the skull to begin farming food for their team.
• Weapon for Intimidation: What Seawatt did to make the cross Not Entirely Useless: by enchanting it and killing a low health ally with it, he could sell the idea that the cross actually instakills people, allowing him to intimidate the rest of the Triassic into submission.