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anyways i said i was in charge of promoting the channel and while no one agreed with me, i'm the biggest blog involved so:

all empires fans!! go follow the unofficial empires s2 recap channel!! the first video drops tomorrow, you don't want to miss it!!

we've been working really hard on it and i think it's going to be wonderful!!

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Gem Episode 2 Recap

Hello! Slow going I’m sorry but it’s here! Will try to get the main episodes out as they upload and catch up on Episode 1’s when there’s a slow day.

Also I saw somewhere about people wanting to work together on recapping Empires. Don’t know you guys but I’d always be happy to work with others, add on other mods or even just give over the blog name if that works better. But enough about that, you guys are here for a Recap! So here we go.

Link: Empires 2: Sunshine Barn - Minecraft 1.19 Let’s Play Ep.2 by GeminiTay

Episode Length: 25:12

Date of Upload: June 28th, 2022

Others Featured: fWhip, Jimmy, Pixlriffs

Favorite Quote: “We have the most intelligent type of bee species around here” (talking about a bee stuck in a corner staring at it)

There are two main things Princess Gem does in her episode: build up the titular Sunshine Barn and go caving for Redstone in order to make an automatic bee farm.

The farm is build relatively quick into her episode, with the exterior Timelapse being finished by 1:48. She also build an exterior area and moves in some cows after making a few “disappear” so it’s more manageable. She also moves the pigs in to a much smaller area in the barn as well, as well as expand the farmland out front.

She keeps the sheep in the pre-existing pens, but not after having a run in with fWhip, her fairy goblin. He drops a stack of bones for the sheep he re-dyed and sheered before running away. This actually makes Gem’s job easier as she’s now able to separate and re-dye the sheep based on the pen they’re in: one for red, orange, and yellow.

The last animal she wants to take care of is the bees, which she wants to put on the barn’s second floor a farm in order to collect a lot of honey automatically to both trade and use as blocks in her build. To do this she needs three things: redstone, quartz, and string.

The redstone is gotten through a mining trip with The Sheriff, Jimmy. They dive headfirst into it, quickly finding the Deep Dark and The Ancient City. Since neither of them really know the mechanics of the place, they set off a lot of sensors and eventually summon the Warden. They panic-tunnel away, but do get hit for over half-health by the sonic screech. (At max like three braincells in that whole encounter). They find another cave with much less Warden in it, but more monsters. The mining trip ends when Jimmy is exploded by a creeper.

The quartz and string are much easier to get. Gem doesn’t want to go to the Nether after THAT adventure so she trades with fWhip for the Quartz and Pixlriffs for the string. She trades honeycomb with both of them. With the all the necessary components, she finally sets up the bees in her barn. She also makes a small well for her infinite water source and the episode ends shortly after, showing off some fanart from her character after Episode 1.

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Empires Season 2 Day 1 Recap!

Hello and welcome to the Empires Recap! I kinda fell off this blog due to school but hopefully I can keep this up for Season 2! Individual Episode Recaps will hopefully be out within the next few days, and will also be linked here one they are done. I’ll also have a playlist on YT if you want to watch the episodes in chronological order, which you can check out here.

The way this is formatted is Major Events will be covered first with a title and a color. Each episode uploaded will have a brief summary with a (eventual) link to the slightly more individualized in-depth summary. The major events reference will be colored and referred to by their title so I’m not rehashing the same event 10 separate times.

So with that stuff out of the way, let’s cover all the Episode 1s that dropped on Saturday, June 25th and (for Joey) Sunday June 26th.

Spoilers for Episode 1s of everyone below the cut. Long post up ahead.

Major Event - The Intro

Episodes it can be found in: Pixlriffs, Sausage, Jimmy, Shubble and Joey

Everyone gathered at Spawn around a campfire and fWhip welcomed in the new season. Lizzie points out an empty seat and Joey wishes someone was there to fill it. False appears and they welcome her to the circle. Everyone than splits off.

Major Event - The Dragonless End

Episodes it can be found in: Pixl (partial), Gem, Lizzie, Sausage, fWhip, Shubble, Joel and Joey

fWhip calls people together and everyone but Scott arrives at his base. He says the stronghold has already been filled in though nobody has been to the End. He says he wants help investigating it. Pixl says they should but Jimmy is skeptic, wondering if they should. Mostly because most of the group is in Iron Armor still and if it could be a trap. Joey accuses it of possibly being a Lizzie trap due to the events of Afterlife. She denies it or anything being suspicious of her. The group all go in and see that they portal is lit. One by one they jump in, save for Joey who is pushed by fWhip.

In the End, everyone quickly prepares for a fight before realizing there is no dragon. There is a lot of scrambling because people looked at endermen. They think it might be Scott but they dismiss the idea quickly, saying it’s not his style. It also can’t be any of them, since Sausage points out they all got the [The End?] achievement. fWhip apologizes for bringing them all there for nothing and people begin to head home.

Individual Episodes (In Upload Order*)

*If two people uploaded at the same time, they will be counted in the order they appeared in my sub box on YouTube.

Pixl’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Pixl recounts the history of the region before showing the Intro. He is settled into a Savannah biome before going caving with fWhip. He then proceeds to explain his plan for the season while making a storage system. He then doing some enchanting. The rest of the episode covers The Dragonless End, but cuts off after the group discovers there is no dragon.

Gem’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Gem gets some basic Minecraft out of the way before going out with Sausage to find every wood type. She is settled in a valley beneath a mountain just off a stone shore. She gets some crops growing, some animals penned up, and some iron armor. She builds a starter house and explains her concept for the season. FWhip comes around asking about the End, before build a small starter dock for trade. Sausage and Joey come by and the three head off to fWhip’s for the Dragonless End.

Lizzie’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Lizzie settles in a birch forest. She collects a sheep as the founding member and build it and her a tent with a tent. She also breeds a fox to kill chickens for food in its own tent. To do this, she goes caving for redstone and trades with Joel for the quartz after creating a path between them. She then tries to get a baby sneezing panda and some parrots to her empire but they die to a creeper on the way. She builds a trail in memorial. She then shows off the Dragonless End.

Sausage’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Sausage starts off his episode with the Intro, before he goes off with Gem to find every wood. He settles in a bamboo jungle, showing off the area in while teasing his character’s backstory. He builds a dock on the edge of the area. FWhip comes by to ask about Sausage being in the end, which he denies. There is a flashback to earlier when he and fWhip head to a Mangrove forest and raid villages for hay bales. Flash back to the present, Sausage builds a starter house and explains his inspiration for the season. Joey comes by. They then sail off, recruit Gem, and head to the Dragonless End.

Katherine’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Katherine starts by moving from the village she is living in and explaining her backstory. She looks for new land to settle in, raiding an abandon village in the process. She settles in a area between two villages set up by her people. She goes mining for some iron for armor before going to the nether for supplies. She then builds a starter house.

Jimmy’s Episode

Individual Recap

Jimmy’s Episode starts with the Intro, then he goes off and gets basic tools. In doing so he triggers everyone who knows Minecraft by breaking Emerald with a stone pickaxe. He settles in a badlands biome. He raids a village. He goes mining for iron and finds a Sheriff’s hat while exploring the abandon mineshafts. FWhip comes and asks him about being to the End, before joking the others in the Dragonless End. Afterwards, he meets up with Sausage for some spruce wood. He then builds a starter wagon.

False’s Episode

Individual Recap

False wakes in a place unfamiliar to her after having dreams of it before. She heads towards spawn, narrating over the Intro. She initially settles on an island, but later in the episode moves across onto the side of the nearby mountain. She goes mining to gear up, then joins the others in the Dragonless End. She saves several villagers from an already raided village, and spends a healthy amount of time freaking out over frogs. She gathers all of the woods and some cactus from a wandering trader and builds a starter house.

Scott’s Episode

Individual Recap

Scott starts with the Intro before heading off to the Meadow he claimed while doing basic Minecraft. He does some off camera mining and grinding before he raids a desert temple while collecting sand for sandstone. Scott heads to the nether tog get both Nether woods, and dies once in there. He builds his starter house. FWhip comes by asking about the End, which he denies and calls anyone who goes into the End episode 1 a crazy person. He makes a dirt path and pens for his sheep and chickens off camera.

fWhip’s Episode

Individual Recap

fWhip starts out doing basic Minecraft, saying he will build a cave empire this season. He raids several villages for hay and rescues 4 allays from a pillager outpost. He settles in a small cave close to spawn to start that he shows Joel. Later in the episode he moves to a larger dripstone cave. He explores to find all the wood, running into Sausage to help find the Mangrove Swamp. He gets a goat horn and more resources off camera. He goes mining with Pixlriffs where he dies to a creeper. Twice. On his way home he scares Lizzie with the goat horn and see the range on them. He torch spams and walls off an area and builds his starter home. He captures two zombie villagers. He breeds two pandas in the jungle and gets a baby sneezing panda (And yes, it’s the same panda that dies in Lizzie’s episode). He finds the stronghold while strip mining for diamonds and finds the portal lit. He gets diamond armor, does some enchanting, goes to the nether. He asks around and recruits people for the Dragonless End.

Shubble’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Shelby, the witch, starts off her episode being late to the train that will take her to her assignment as a resident witch: the Evermoore (a Mangrove Swamp). She plants a house before joining the others for the Intro. Her house has sprouted when she returns. She helps Joey find his way out of the swamp while also introducing him to her pet toad, which she later names Tortoise. FWhip comes by asking about the End, which Shelby denies going to. She then heads off to help with the Dragonless End. She stops by kKatherine’s, who is opening a shop, and asks to be her first customer. She commissions her for a witch’s hat. She also relegates a mangrove propagule to being her wand until she can get the proper supplies to make one, and makes a mailbox for letters.

Joel’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Joel, a 5’8” human male, does an intro for the series and explains what happened to his last character (I understand the Beans has made a decision, but given it’s a stupid ass decision I’ve elected to ignore it). He shows the aftermath of the Intro, where he is the first death of the season, before Gem also dies. He sees fWhip’s secret cave before settling on the other side of the mountain. He does basic Minecraft, including dying and caving. He goes to the Nether for Quartz and dies. A Lot. And murders a lot of children. He stops and gets full diamond because he kept dying. He finds an Ancient City on his way back but only looks from afar. He goes back into the Nether and dies to a gold flame sword after killing two children. FWhip comes by asking about the End. He scared Katherine with a sign and traded with villagers to get Fortune 1 to put Fortune 3 on his pickaxe (he broke 157 lecterns, that man was DONE). He went back to the Nether for Quartz and collected other materials for his first build, scaring fWhip along the way. He gets a goat horn and trades with Lizzie. He builds a fountain that is the center of the Empire. He wishes that he was tall and strong before jumping in cause he heard it was magic and comes out an 11ft God. He adds sexy to that wish and it gives him a beard. He heads off to the Dragonless End. He then wonders what happens if you throw other stuff in the fountain and chucks in a golden apple. Lore happens but we have to wait until next episode for it.

Joel Death Count: 8

Joey’s Episode:

Individual Recap

Joey shows his backstory and wakes up on the shore with not much to his name. There is a flashback to the Intro. He goes exploring for a place to live, running into Shelby in the process. He finally settles in a small cove next to Sausage. He goes looking for materials when he runs into Sausage at Sausage’s place. Sausage takes him to Gem, and the three meet up with the others in the Dragonless End. Afterwords, he goes with Pixl and Sausage to raid End Cities and look for his crew, but leaves the earliest once he nabs an elytra cause this man has like nothing. He then gets some rockets from fWhip and flies home. His elytra breaks looking for dark oak wood and he stays up several nights looking for gunpowder and phantom membranes. There he builds a starter home.

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currently processing all over again that two separate smps decided to say "lets just destroy everything in an tragic apocalypse and have everyone either run away with no reconciliation or Fcking Die" within a month of each other. literally what juice were the hermits and the empires ccs sipping at the end of 2021.

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Going to try and Reboot this blog for Season 2! I’ve got a lot of free time this July and hopefully I can stay as up-to-date with everyone. Day 1 Post should be out tomorrow, and I want to have the individual Episode 1s out during the week.

Thanks to everyone for being patient with me, and here’s to Season 2!

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Empires Recap: Sept 19 - 25th

A/N: Hello and welcome back to another recap! Credit where credit is due to @weareallstardustfallen who did their own amazing recap of events this week while I was busy trying not mental overload myself from tests, trying to watch all of Last Life POVs even though I didn’t need to, and turning another year older. But I should be getting into a swing here soon.

Also, what kind of recaps do you want for individual episodes? Do you want episodes play-by-plays like I’ve been doing, where it’s basically like reading the episode, or more of a TL;DR kind of summary talking about major points? Let me know cause this account if for you guys. But anyways, let’s get into the recap. Spoilers for the following Episodes:

fWhip Episode 22 & 23 (Sun, Sat)

Joel Episodes 20 & 21 (Sat, Fri)

Joey Episode 20 (Thurs)

Lizzie Episode 16 (Sat)

Pearl Episode 8 (Sun)

Sausage Episode 32 (Fri)

Scott Episode 20 (Sat)

Shubble Episode 18 (Sun)

Major Events

Bloodlust of the Lost Emperor - Joey, taken over by the bloodlust of the crown gifted to him by Xornoth and jealousy, kills fWhip after being shown what he did to the corruption (fWhip 22)

Battle Arena - Pearl and Sausage build a battle arena between their based, however twice - once proposing the idea and another time during their first fight in the arena - Sausage gets possessed and turned into a more corrupted version of himself. Sausage does not remember anything during these blackouts. Also, Pearl wins the fight. Then the two go around delivering invites for their event to everyone. They talk directly to fWhip, Joey and Shubble while they leave books at everyone else’s place (Pearl 8, Sausage 32, fWhip 23, Scott 20).

Gunpowder Boys Prank - fWhip meets with Pixlriffs to trade and share demon discoveries and how they have been utilizing the corruption to their own benefit. They then work together and put two elder guardians in Mythland: one in The Dark Tower and one under his house in the dungeon. They try to get a third by his afk hole in the Iron Farm, but it dies. (fWhip 22)

The Diss Kiss Track - Joel is bored with everyone focusing on something that doesn’t exist, so he writes a diss track on fWhip and recruits Jimmy to MC. The Diss actually turns into a “Kiss” track as Joel proposes they become allies and maybe kill Scott together (Joel 21, fWhip 23)

Sausages and Jimmy - Sausage notices the wall is taller. Sausage flies over to Jimmy’s, working out a deal to replace his villagers that was killed in the raid corrupt!sausage set off. Corrupt!Sausage takes over, asking how it felt when Jimmy released Scott and Gem. Jimmy says he wants the old good Sausage back but the Corrupted Version said he’s never coming back. The villagers are “replaced”, two with heads and one with a pillaged (Sausage 32)

Omg they were Allies - Scott and Jimmy go on a date in a cave Scott built that includes a tunnel of love. Basically: Scott gave the gays everything they wanted by making a cute romantic scene for him and the Codfather to secure their alliance.

Demon Watch

Crystals are being noticed by more empires, but also crimson warped trees are appearing. Xornoth hasn’t actually appeared in anyone’s episode but Sausage has teased he will be a special guest in the Arena Event.

Solo Events

fWhip - starts the beginning of his mega base with the Tinker’s Forge and outlined some of the rest of the mansion, outlines more of Salmon Mountain, does a manual sugarcane farm between his place and Shubble’s, builds part of the path between his and Shubble’s bases, takes Gem’s iron sword in order to upgrade it to Netherite

Joel - Completes the outside of the mega base, shows Pixl the Mythland Embassy and trades for Copper, builds a recording studio, cuts down some tentacles 

Joey - gets a horse to turn into a raptor, spends a whole lot of time trying to get netherite for a bow (that doesn’t exist btw) and scares Shubble after her “Wolf Spirit” threat. He also threatens Jimmy to Scott who tells him not to touch him.

Lizzie - Lizzie worked on decorating the rest of her side of the tunnel between her and Katherine’s base.

Pearl - works on a cactus farm, she also checks on Sausage’s Dungeon as he casually mentioned that he had Gem and Scott locked up, but it was empty.

Sausage - mysterious narration that outlines the Mythland King’s fall (very Watcher like). Builds an “Embassy” in Pixandria as a retaliation for the Elder Guardian Prank

Shubble - Spends most of her episode building her castle and dealing with a raid she didn’t know she could trigger with one villager.

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empires recap - week of sept 18

the videos released from saturday, september 18 to friday, september 24 were:

-sausage's episode 31: he finds the elder guardians from fwhip and pixl's prank, kidnaps gem and scott with the help of joey, and builds a fighting arena with pearl

-shubble's episode 18, summarized by @aroallosupremacy: she works on her castle, deals with an accidental raid, and introduces the lore for her citizens

-fwhip's episode 22: he relocates his gunpowder to avoid thieves and discusses his plans for a vault, works with pixl to leave elder guardians in mythland, and builds a tinker's forge

-joel's episode 20: he builds a significant portion of his megabase, and plans to write a diss track on fwhip

-pearl's episode 8: she interacts with possessed!sausage, and builds a fighting arena with sausage

-joey's episode 20: he reacts to the new corrupted trees at his and fwhip's base, gains a new mount, and shows it to shubble

-sausage's episode 32: he confronts jimmy, distributes invitations to the fighting arena with pearl, and builds an embassy in pixandria

-joel's episode 21: he builds a new building, mezalean records, and writes and performs his diss track

detailed recaps under the cut!

sausage 31:

-sausage opens the video by stating that he thinks he’s probably around 85% corrupted -“there’s still a little bit of good inside me. for right now, though, we’ll see how it goes and how long that’s gonna last!” -he begins to talk about his plan to kidnap gem and scott, but is interrupted by mining fatigue from one of the elder guardians fwhip and pixl left; he kills the guardian and vows to figure out who put it there, asking mythland’s spies to help him do so -he brews some awkward splash potions, and brings them to the summoning circle; possessed sausage appears and converts them to splash potions of sleep -joey arrives, and they meet with xornoth to discuss the plan; it says to do what they like with gem but leave scott alive, as it’ll deal with him later and he’s part of a larger plan -they ambush gem and scott in rivendell and bring them to sausage’s dungeon, where they say that they know what the two are planning and start by demanding what gem is planning with the egg; she and scott say that it’s a baby and might not even hatch, but joey claims it isn’t worth the risk -gem tells sausage he isn’t a real wizard, and he kills her with the staff, followed by joey also killing her -they interrogate scott about his relation to xornoth, but decide they think he can go as he’s not as much of a danger; however, they change their mind when he says he’ll still banish xornoth -gem: “scott, maybe say less words” -they decide they have enough information and leave them in the dungeon, confident that they won’t escape; joey leaves -sausage gets bad omen from a pillager patrol and starts a raid at jimmy’s after killing the cow he was attempting to milk; possessed sausage appears briefly to comment on it and say that he’ll leave it for jimmy -he meets up with pearl to build the arena, and she comments on the corrupted tree which wasn’t there when they were building; he doesn’t know where it came from but thinks it’s probably xornoth and says he’ll blow it up later -mid-arena fight, possessed sausage appears, and pearl manages to kill him. shortly after respawning, he’s back to normal and has no memory of the end of the fight

shubble 18 (written by frog):

-Shubble builds her castle -She accidentally start a raid, though she manages to safely lock away her singular villager -She shows off her custom textured parrot, which looks like a woodpecker. -One of the pillagers manages to get into her mooshroom farm, but she successfully kills them while keeping some of the livestock alive. -She successfully defeats the raid, checking on the villager, who is still alive. -She asks the villager if he would like to be imbued with the spirits of the Undergrove. She stresses the fact that this is an optional change, and takes the villager’s actions to mean that they consent to this change. -She then ‘imbues the villager with a forest spirit’, using a nametag to change their skin to one that resembles a wooden golem. -She explains that the lore for her villagers and golems is that they are wood carvings that she imbues with forest spirits to give them life, bringing said spirits from the spirit plane into this plane. -The one villager that she had was a special case since Xornoth had summoned him for her to kill, which she had refused. -The villager, hilariously, ends up changing his job several times throughout the course of the episode. -Out of RP, Shelby comments on how it would be hilarious if Xornoth dressed as her for Halloween, since he seems to be obsessed with her. -She continues on building her castle. -She ends up accidentally using one of the two totems she gained from the raid, passing it off by saying she says she did this to attach her life to her kingdom symbolically.

fwhip 22:

-he decides that he needs to work more on protecting the grimlands, and starts by working on the mountain range -he talks with joey, who wants to know why there’s no corruption, and is offended when he says he composted it; joey claims it’s sacrilegious and kills him -he heads over to rivendell to build an embassy, hoping to retain some of his alliances -with that done, he relocates his gunpowder into his enderchest to avoid thieves, hoping to control the flow of gunpowder to xornoth’s supporters, but plans to build a vault to free up space in the enderchest -since it will be made out of copper, he meets up with pixlriffs, who explains that the corruption is damaged by copper; pixl also shows him the copper aging facility and gives him three and a half stacks of copper, but explains he now has his own supply when fwhip offers gunpowder to trade, and asks for information instead -pixl also shows him the farm he created from xornoth’s lava, and fwhip asks for his help on a heist; he agrees -fwhip: “you’re a fan of a heist, right?” -pix: “you had me at heist.” -fwhip describes his plan to bury elder guardians under mythland, and returns home to work on his stonemason population while they wait for sausage to log off -he provides blaze rods to pay for the copper, and goes with pix to find sponges; after some mishaps, they clear the sponge room and fwhip goes to dry out the rooms holding the elder guardians so that pixl can send them into the nether -they put an elder guardian in the blood well and another in sausage’s dungeon, but when attempting to put the third guardian underneath his iron form it dies, and they decide two is enough -he returns to the grimlands and begins creating a tinkerer’s forge, in order to build weapons and materials which can even the playing field between them and xornoth’s supporters -he takes advantage of the crystals xornoth left to use the lava as a power source for the forge, as well as getting more red glass since he’d been running low -he builds several towers to go near the forge and discusses his future plans to build an alchemical warehouse leading from the railroads that are connected to the forge -he starts work on a communal sugar cane paddy between his base and shubble’s to try and remedy his lack of sugar cane and provide a natural barrier between the two empires

joel 20:

-joel kills some horses for the intro, and explains he spent a long time gathering materials (and also broke a netherite shovel) -he decides to build the other half of the megabuild, which takes him three days irl, and finishes the other large towers -after cleaning up some missing trapdoors he shows it off with shaders and notes that the only major missing pieces are the walls and the central tower -before he can work on those, he plans on building a super-smelter -he comments on the corrupted trees and crystals from xornoth, but reaffirms that he doesn’t believe in the demon and therefore they aren’t actually there -he displays the creeper he’s trapped in a boat, wanda the watcher -joel says that because the demon’s not real, he needs to spice things up, and plans to write a diss track on fwhip with jimmy’s help, to which he agrees -to end the episode, he leaves pixl a note and some terracotta asking to arrange a meeting so he can get some copper

pearl 8:

-she notes that the beanstalk has grown, and partially absorbed one of the corruption tendrils, which she doesn’t think is good; she also plans to build on the beanstalk when it’s big enough -she decides to build a cactus farm, and notices the addition of the crystals -possessed sausage comes to welcome her to the dark alliance; she says she would like to play more games with xornoth and challenge it, but she doesn’t want to be evil -she tells him that he’s possessed and needs help; he denies it and says that it’s just his morning voice -he proposes the idea of a fighting arena, to which she agrees, but reminds him that she wants to challenge xornoth without being evil; when he threatens the others, she insists they’re not killing anyone -he again says it’s his morning voice and leaves while she tells him that she’s worried and she didn’t agree to killing people -sausage returns, this time unpossessed, and doesn’t remember being there the first time but he again says it was his morning voice, and deflects when she tries to ask about it -he agrees again to the idea of a fighting arena, but says he didn’t come up with it; he says “help” and flies off, and pearl says she needs to work on cultivating her plant in order to help him -she discusses sausage and again says she wants to fight, not be evil, and says she’ll pretend to be in the evil alliance to try and make him good again and help him fight the possession -they build the arena, and pearl comments on the fact that the corrupted tree doesn’t fit with the arena -they fight in the arena, and sausage is possessed mid-battle; when he does, the video takes on a red tint, which clears when she kills him; when he returns to normal, he doesn’t remember it, and she claims his bloodlust took over, and warns him to be careful -he mentions that he has scott and gem in his dungeon, and goes to check, but the cells are empty, and she wonders if she needs backup or if she could convince sausage to let them out

joey 20:

-he plans to kill jimmy for freeing gem and scott, and says he needs an army since sausage is his only ally -he’s found a spell to turn a horse into a terrifying creature, so he needs a horse -he sees that there’s been more corruption, and finds it beautiful, but he’s jealous that fwhip received more; he distracts himself by going to find a horse, but can’t find one -he notices the dragons at gem’s tower, and is angry that they’re there but says they spark a memory from a past life which he can’t quite recall -he bumps into scott, who says this is his village, and warns him away from hurting jimmy, but points him in the direction of horses -he finds a horse, and isn’t able to bring it down to xornoth’s den; he does tell xornoth he needs his magical abilities to convert the horse, and turns the horse into a raptor, and also plans to get more raptors once he has a place to keep them -he goes to the nether to get ancient debris, because scott insulted his bow for being basic, which he admits is true, and then remembers that netherite bows don’t exist; instead, he goes to ask xornoth for a better bow, which it provides -because scott isn’t online to show the bow to, he goes to show the raptor to shubble, intending to scare her; she denies any responsibility for the wolf spirit’s messages, which he clearly doesn’t believe

sausage 32:

-the episode opens on a flashback to 3 months prior and narration by an unnamed figure who refers to him as “our king” and discusses sausage’s destiny, and claims to have been making sure he followed the right path -sausage says he can’t take this much longer, and he’s losing track of time; he also says that his death will come sooner or later, and he’s learned to just deal with it -he decides to spare a wandering trader because they sold miniature tnt, but he’s briefly possessed and kills them; when he returns to normal he assumes they left -he takes food down to gem and scott, and discovers that they’re no longer there; he states revenge is coming -he feeds bubbles and the general, and learns jimmy freed the prisoners, and added more height to his wall; he says he’s going to snap and goes to the cod empire, where he explains some of the possession and how he started a raid, and jimmy demands he replace his villagers, which sausage agrees to -he is possessed, and confronts jimmy about releasing gem and scott and making his wall taller than sausage’s; jimmy says he wants the old sausage back, and sausage he’ll never see him back again before he tries to kill him and leaves villager heads on chains where his villagers were -he meets up with pearl to distribute invitations to the arena; first they go to fwhip, who threatens them with a bow and demands to know what they want. he and fwhip shoot each other a few times, and he listens to pearl’s pitch before he and pearl decide they should leave -they head to joey’s empire, and confirm they didn’t place the mushrooms that are everywhere and invite him to the arena. he agrees to come -they leave an invitation at gem’s tower, and sausage takes one of the swords on her wall despite pearl’s discouragement -they also leave an invitation for scott, and pearl again says they need to cure sausage: he says “one day this’ll be all over” -katherine, pixl, lizzie, joel, and jimmy are left invitations as well -they give shubble an invitation and initially claim it’s for a party, sausage mentions an underground betting ring he’s going to run and a “special guest” who they claim isn’t xornoth -he also asks her about the wolf spirit, who she says must not be one of the emperors -sausage hides gem’s sword in one of the barrels, and is briefly possessed- pearl has him drink milk in an attempt to cure it, which fails, and he again says normal sausage is gone -as revenge for the elder guardians, he builds an embassy uninvited in pixandria, which includes some kind of “special treat”

joel 21:

-joel decides not to work on the megabase, as he did a lot of it last episode -he goes to scare lizzie, which fails, and asks her for a line for the diss track -he says he wants to build a relaxing place to write it, and takes down one of the tentacles to make room for another building; it turns out to be a mezalean record shop -he does some terraforming and builds the record shop; he writes the diss track, and goes to meet with pixl for copper; he mentions that there’s a new building from sausage, which pix hadn’t noticed. there is a perpetual bell-ringing device inside, and pixl enters, but joel cuts there, saying that it’ll be better to watch pixl’s video -he makes “the demon’s worst nightmare” which is an efficiency 5 hoe, though he still insists the demon doesn’t exist and someone is trolling him -he and jimmy go to perform the diss track on fwhip, which is actually a “kiss” track instead, and they agree to kill scott together sometime; jimmy says he can’t because he and scott just became allies

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Hi yes I want to recap all the episodes but I’m right now swamped with tests and just … I’m really backlogged but I’m trying my best with the past episodes.

Is there like a master post/place that summarizes what’s happened so far in Empires?

I’ve fallen behind and would like to catch up somehow.

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Weekly Recap: Sept 12th - 18th

A/N: Hello and Welcome to Weekly Empires Breakdown 1! Sorry I don’t have many episode breakdowns to attach to this, I go really in depth and with 3 tests in 4 days this week I just didn’t have the time to dedicate to all the episodes to give them the breake=down they deserve. I will get to them eventually, but this overall my main focus. One week of Empires Video’s Lore all nice and summed up for you guys. So look out for these every Monday, covering Sunday to Saturday so people have a chance to watch all the videos the videos and I’m not spoiling the vids that only came out yesterday. Also, perspectives of events will only be sited if it was released in a episode in this timeframe. Duplicate events may be included week to week based on what creators upload. And feel free to let me know if I missed anything important. So, let’s get into it.

Videos Included this week:

Gem Episode 13 (Fri)

Jimmy Episode 15 (Fri)

Joey Episodes 18 and 19 (Mon, Fri)

Katherine Episode 20 (Sun)

Lizzie Episode 15

Pixl Episodes 22 & 23 (Mon, Fri)

Sausage Episodes 29 - 31 (Sun, Wed, Sat)

Scott Episode 19 (Fri)

Shubble Episodes 16 & 17 (Sun, Tues)

Major Events - Multi-person Lore Events 

The Phantom Joins? The Assassin’s guild - Sausage meets the Assassin, who seems interested in joining the guild but is anti-demon, though doesn’t show his stance outright. Sausage asks him to fulfill a contract and bring him the head of an Empire’s Ruler. He then immediately kills Sausage with blue firework rockets (Such a power move omg). (Sausage 29)

Meeting of Scott’s Allies - Scott calls all his allies to Rivendell to propose a plan for their corruption: put it in a box somewhere far away and forget about it. Katherine volunteers her box of corruption, incased in obsidian in the mountains. They all put their corruption in the box and walk away. In a later scene, unknown to the characters, the box begins to leak corruption (Gem 13, Katherine 20).

Re-solidifying an Alliance - Pixl heads to Katherine to re-solidify their shaky alliance. They do this by heading out to the desert and collecting rare mob heads Katherine does not have (Katherine 20, Pixl 22)

The Bloodlust of The Lost Emperor - Joey, taken over by the bloodlust of the crown gifted to him by Xornoth, goes out and kills both Shubble and fWhip (Joey 18, Shubble 16)

Meeting of the Corrupted - Sausage and Joey meet up. They gush over the power they have been gifted before Joey suggests capturing people. They scout out their targets: GeminiTay and Scott Smajor, while Sausage informs Joey on what he knows of the two. This mainly includes the Dragon Egg, the lack of corruption on one side of Rivendell, and the brotherly relationship between Scott and Xornoth (Joey 28, Sausage 30)

The Capture and Rescue - Joey and Sausage meet with Xornoth to talk about the plan of capturing Scott and Gem. He says they can do what they want with Gem, but Scott must be kept alive as he’s part of the bigger picture. Scott and Gem are talking around Gem’s Embassy at Scott’s when Joey comes up to them. Joey tries to get them to follow him but they refuse. Sausage, who was sneaking up on them, come out and hits them with sleeping potions. Scott and Gem wake up with Mining Fatigue in Sausage’s dungeon, where they are questioned: Gem about the dragon egg and Scott about the brother thing. Gem is actually killed twice during this. Sausage and Joey try to get them to hand over the egg and stop trying to stop Xornoth and they refuse. They leave them there after Scott points out they can’t do anything while trapped. Jimmy, coming to Mythland to brag about how tall his wall is to Sausage, finds the two and frees them. (Gem 13, Jimmy 15, Joey 19, Sausage 31, 

Gunpowder Boys Prank - fWhip meets with Pixlriffs to trade and share demon discoveries and how they have been utilizing the corruption to their own benefit. They then work together and put two elder guardians in Mythland: one in The Dark Tower and one under his house in the dungeon. They try to get a third by his afk hole in the Iron Farm, but it dies. This series of clips also confirms Pixl either has no idea about The Phantom or is denying his knowledge about to fWhip, who seems to acknowledge the incident with Sausage and The Phantom.(Pixl 23, Reaction in Sausage 31)

Battle Arena - Pearl and Sausage build a battle arena between their based, however twice - once proposing the idea and another time during their first fight in the arena - Sausage gets possessed and turned into a more corrupted version of himself. Sausage does not remember anything during these blackouts. Also, Pearl wins the fight (Sausage 31)

Demon Watch - What is happening with corruption, the demon itself, and the resistance efforts against it

The Eyeball has moved, the last known location of it being Lizzie’s base. Crystals have also popped up around the server floating above people’s builds, usually important ones (this is pointed out in Sausage 30). Xornoth physically appeared in 3 episodes this week: Joey 19, Sausage 31, and Shubble 17. To Joey and Sausage, he appeared to over them assistance in their plan to kidnap Scott and Gem, and also to tell them not to touch Scott. He appeared to Shubble, taunting her first by calling her a coward and killing Lord of Mars (o7) but also by showing the power he could gift her if she joined his side. Considering he destroyed her last kingdom, she refused and then he killed her. Resistance stances have been mixed. Gem still has possession of the egg, with no indication if it will hatch anytime soon. fWhip has turned the corruption into fertilizer. Pixl has observed that copper slowly kills the corruption  by turning it into a harden substance and, when struck by lightning with a copper rod, can petrify the tentacles in a fossilized state. Katherine had tried to cure the tentacles with the potion that cured her flowers, but it and the new Moat have failed to stop their advancement.

Personal Events - Buildings, Trade Deals, Personal or Single-Person Lore not including the demon

Gem - Gem builds the embassy at Scotts. After returning from being captured, she calls on friends from other servers to help protect her and the egg: Three White Dragons with purple wings now circle her wizard tower.

Jimmy - Jimmy builds a tower next to his wall, officially taller than Sausages, and plans out the border for his wall/mega-base to surround his kingdom. He also promises one diamond to anyone who brings him a cod head.

Joey - Joey works on the start of the interior of the water temple. It’s not finished, but he also talks about his goal as emperor of the lost empire is to build up the temples of the 4 elements - Fire, Water, Earth and Air - to reunite the kingdom in harmony again. He also is still jealous about the amount of corruption other empires are getting, and is also jealous of when empires have a lack of corruption as shown with his meeting with fWhip.

Katherine - Katherine might bring Pixl in to the plushie business, but at the very least has a sale as he wants a husk plushie in his empire. All other events in her involve the corruption or other people.

Lizzie -  Lizzie builds a tunnel from her empire to Katherine’s, decorating the inside to make the steady train ride more enjoyable. In the dessert section of her tunnel she girlbosses tricks Joel and Scott to do the manual labor for her. She also receives Sausage’s “Thank you for Helping to Kill the Dragon” present

Pixl - Pixl returns to Pixandria after several episodes of self imposed exile. He has a brief interaction with Sausage when the man drops off his “Thank you for Helping to Kill the Dragon” Present, basically telling him you are not welcome here.

Sausage - Sir Carlos finally arrives in Mythland, warning Sausage that he cannot escape becoming fully corrupted. He gifts him an artifact he needs to keep in his inventory to escape the spirit realm Bubbles will guide him through after he fully dies, although he is a bit frustrated that Sir Carlos doesn’t tell him who gave him the information or the artifact. He takes a stealth mission to gather information on the other empires, saves the bloodsheep that have been disappearing since Xornoth came to full power, and got the Great Staff of Mythland gifted by a friend.

Scott - Scott shows off his embassy buildings and gets conned by Lizzie to build her tunnel for her

Shubble - Shubble focuses on building a mushroom house for one of her future villagers, and builds the embassy at Scott’s base. Xornoth also gifts her a villager, mainly because he wanted her to kill it testing out her gifted powers. 

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Sorry in the delay in Episode Recaps. I have 3 exams next week as well as some other stuff planed on the weekends. (Which doesn’t help now that several people uploaded today.). I’ll get to them eventually and I will hopefully still have a weekly recap out Monday. Thanks for understanding. <3

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Shubble Episode 17 Recap

Link: Empires SMP #17 | XORNOTH SHOWED ME THE FUTURE OF EMPIRES | Shubble

Runtime: 23:19 (2319! We’ve got a 2319! Sorry I’m a nerd I’ll leave)

Date of Release: September 14th, 2021

Other Players Featured: Xornoth (No captions in video, translation provided), fWhip

Note: The way Shubble does Empires is her videos are typically stream highlights. As someone who actively watches Shubble’s streams, some extra context may be provided in italics. Chat will be referred to as such. Cross outs will be my personal commentary.

Intro and Revenge Arc: Shubble opens the video by talking about how she want’s to get revenge on Joey and Sausage. Joey is obvious since he killed her because of Xornoth. She also blames the Creeper death of her original parrot to Joey. She does later show the replacement parrot later. She wants revenge on Sausage because of his instrumental role in killing the dragon and freeing Xornoth. She wears the angry wolf head as a disguise/mask so as not to be recognized. She doesn’t want to do anything drastic this time, just a warning. She believes all people are beyond saving, except maybe Joey. After arriving at Joey’s base with the dark oak signs she made, she realizes they’re too dark and heads off to find some glow squid ink sacs to make it more readable. At Joey’s she also sees hers and fWhip’s head on the wall.

Xornoth Logs on - After getting the sacs she heads to her skeleton spawner to repair her elytra so she can fly to Joey and Sausage’s (girl please put Unbreaking III on it it would help SO much.). As she gets out of the minecart she see the chat message that Xornoth has logged on just as it begins to fade. She become even more scared when she realizes it is only her and Xornoth online.

<Xornoth> >:)

<ShubbleYT> go away

As she leaves the mine, she finds the path up blocked by stone. Xornoth’s head pops out as she breaks ground. He also puts lava down at the entrance which she blocks with cobble. She digs a side path that links to a nearby pond and Xornoth looks at her as she swims up. There is some eye contact before he disappears. She gets defensive as a tentacle wraps around her castle. The ground then begins to die, more tentacles sprout up in front of her, and the sky grows dark with a storm. She heads down to the fairy circle, Lord of Mars and Lord of Saturn in tow. Shubble is blinded and she and Xornoth exchange words (his responses below). She wonders what else he wants now that the dragon is destroyed. He wants destruction and, besides what she has seen, there is plenty more to come. She replies that they are going to defeat him, if they can get all the kingdoms together against him. Gem helpfully /s replies in chat “no we’re deffo gonna sit back and take it” She blames him for Joey and partly sausage, who Xornoth says was already corrupted before he arrived. She says they found a way to cure it, but Xornoth reminds her that that was when he wasn’t at full power. He then calls her out for not protecting her kindom, attacking her golems and poisoning Lord of Saturn. She mounts the Mother Wolf, Lady Sun, and warns Xornoth to not come closer. He says she can’t do anything, none of them can do anything, and kills Lord of Mars (o7). She vows that Xornoth that he will pay, calling herself the angriest wolf spirit of them all.

The Temptations: The grass is restored, but Shubble thinks it was only a glimpse of what he can do. Xornoth then appears in front of her, but quickly disappears before he can do anything. She says that she was going to get revenge, but she knows now that’s only going to fuel him more. He appears by the Mother Wolf and Shubble rushes to protect her. She stakes claim to the land while riding her, calling it her forest. He then appears on her castle, which makes Shubble call him a horrible leader whose only friends he bullied. He denies it, saying they simply chose the side that will win. She counters saying that they were corrupted and that they wouldn’t choose him if they had free will. Xornoth tries tests that theory, temporarily gifting her with regeneration, strength, and resistance. He shows her the power she could wield by allowing her to one-shot a zombie (it was originally a villager who spawned, but Shubble refused since he was an innocent man), and playing into her need to protect her people and kingdom. She seems a little swayed, but stands firm. She says that a leader earns the respect of their people and she won’t loose sight of it because of the power he gifted her. She then calls him out for what he is: a sad, sad spirit that lost who keeps being reborn angrier and angrier because no one really loves you so you make them fear you. He then says wonders why he needs love when he can do this.

<ShubbleYT> fell out of the world

The Warnings: Shubble finally gets the time to dig a grave for Lord of Mars, who valiantly fought by her side. But she admits that Xornoth was right and that Joey and Sausage are running rampant and need to be reminded that there will be consequences of their own actions. She leaves a message in front of Joey’s Fire Temple and Sausage’s Dark Tower: You have angered the forest dwelling spirits. Repent or you’ll face the consequences - Wolf Spirit. She then lights both up with glow ink sacs and red dye. She also thinks of an idea of her becoming the wolf spirit, combining her spirit with Lord of the Moon’s to become a hybrid to be better fit to lead her people and her wolves. The next day, she logs on and finds these crystal or portal things floating above her base.

Mushroom House Build and Ending: She spends most of the rest of the video building a mushroom house for her people, using the same base design from her coven house from X Life SMP by Dad’s Guide on YouTube. She builds it accidentally right next to one of the tentacles, picking away at it as needed with her hands before it disappears entirely about halfway through. Any corruption went into the corruption box at her base. There is a point where she died from landing too hard with her elytra, which lands her at spawn since the loft bed at her base is considered obstructed. She tries to run back but takes enough damage especially with the lack of food not regenerating her health that she dies again by falling on a stalagmite. fWhip, who was lurking in stream quickly logs on to help get her stuff back since he thinks she died at his base. He was taking the bins out irl and missed the first death. She then finishes the build’s exterior and ends the video by saying how much she loves this server and this village and her builds and that she never wants to loose it.

Xornoth Translation (? = unsure) (Any break ups of dialogue are done because someone talked between speech, does not include video cuts)

“Hiya”

“Hi” (x2)

“I want destruction”

“You’ll see there’s plenty”

“[laughter] I’d like to see you try.”

“Well that involves you all working together, which you CANT.”

“That man [Sausage] was already corrupted before I showed up.”

“It’s cute you think that will work. You cured it [the corruption] before I was at full power.”

“There’s not much brain between you all.”

“Look at you, cowering in a circle in a hole. Hastier? to defend your own empire. Just like you wouldn’t defend you’re own people.” (The amount of times I listened to this line and only heard Tastier is more than I’d like to admit.)

“You sure?”

“Your Empire’s citizens have some hearts too”

“Your wolves’ hearts will crush easily in my fist enough.”

“That poor? little puppy can’t do anything to me now. You can’t come together to defend your own empires, let alone each other’s.”

“And [Lord of] Mars will pay for it.”

“Mars is dead.”

“I’m sure you don’t say.”

~~~

“They joined the side that will win.”

“The side that gives them POWER.”

“You sure you don’t want the power?”

“You could be unstoppable. Never lose your home again.”

“Why would I take your home if you’re working with me?”

“I can give you something to punch.”

“No, but you can punch this.”

“Fine. Look, 1 hit. You can crush your enemies in your fist. Never be bullied again. No one would ever make fun of your height.”

“People would fear you, people would BOW DOWN to you. Isn’t that what you want … as a ruler?”

“Fear, love. All the same. Gets the job done.”

“Who needs love when I can do this?”

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can i just say how much im looking foward to this blog? as someone who struggles with anxiety, ive been skipping certain parts of episodes then just trying to pick it up from people yelling in the tag but knowing that eventually there might be an actual indepth recap is so comforting <333

(why watch a series with so much inter-personal conflict if it triggers your anxiety, you say? im a dumbass who got attached akjsgdf)

also psst you might want to turn on anon asks?

Sorry I didn't realize I forgot to turn that on. Anon is on now!

But yeah, I get that. I know some matters can definitely can be anxiety inducing as someone with it myself. I'm sorry if this seems slow at first but I'm hoping to catch up to everyone eventually. I'm glad I'm able to help!

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Joey Graceffa Episode 18 Recap

Link: It’s Time to HUNT The Other Leaders… - Empires SMP! - Ep.18

Runtime - 20:41

Date of Release - September 13th, 2021

Others Players Features - Shubble, fWhip, Sausage,

Intro and Potion Prep: The episode starts with a recap of the end of Episode 17, with Joey’s feelings after putting on the crown, new red eyes and a pension for bloodlust. He creates 3 splash potions of harming in his Xornoth shrine before he is forced to wait for someone to come online.

Queen of the Undergrove: He flies over to the Undergrove when Shubble is online, where he expresses disgust at her mushroom castle and jealously over the corruption. He meets with Shubble, who immediately points out the new crown and eyes. Joey says it was a gift from his Boyfriend, and Shubble says what he has done by releasing Xornoth to full power was not a good thing. She thinks that he should have stayed a prisoner for all the bad things, which Joey immediately calls out for specifics on. Shubble simply looks around at the corruption but Joey sees it as beautiful and thinks she should consider herself lucky. He then gets even more jealous when she brings up the Eyeball that was watching her, calling her a liar and wondering why Xornoth would even want to watch her. He thinks his boyfriend just confused her place for his. He then kills her shortly after calling his relationship toxic and takes her head.

Count of the Grimlands - fWhip is Joey’s next target, where this time in the air he takes note of the specific lack of corruption around fWhip’s village. fWhip is found hanging out with his villagers, saying he has turned a new leaf and is starting on his hero arc. fWhip ties to point out his new crown but Joey won’t let him, demanding to know why fWhip isn’t evil anymore. The main reasons fWhip gives is that he feels bad for trapping Jimmy and wants to help him out as well as helping the people come back from being bullied and murdered by Sausage. Joey thinks that is wonderful and makes a note aloud to stop by and encourage him to continue. Joey tells fWhip he is the King of Kings by the crown and the red eyes before asking about the corruption. fWhip shows him where he has been turning it into bonemeal where an enraged Joey kills him. fWhip pleads that they are friends in his final moments, which Joey denies post-mortem.

The Meeting of Dark Disciples - Joey meets with Sausage in the dead of night at the dark tower, where they spend a few minutes basking in the dark tower, the gifts that Xornoth has given them and the kills they have made in his name since the dragon fight. Joey then suggests that they capture people and terrorize them, to which Sausage then shows him the dungeon fit for two. Joey wants one of them to be Gem, his only official alliance member. Sausage talks about how she kicked him out of the Wither Rose Alliance before showing Joey the dragon egg at the Crystal Cliffs. They agree to consult Xornoth before doing anything, because if the dragon hatches it would bad for him. They murder a few mobs and a goat before Joey asks who the second victim should be. Sausage hints about a possible relative to Xornoth before taking Joey to Rivendell. Joey wonders if he’s evil but Sausage proposes he’s the complete opposite, and Scott wants to smite his own brother. He shows Joey the magic stag and talks about how he thinks the Stag statue is preventing the corruption from coming to the other side of Rivendell. They agree that Scott and Gem are going to be the ones they capture, the two most powerful ones they have to watch out for according to Sausage. They part ways to think about how to trap the two and Joey ends the episode shortly after.

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fWhip Episode 1 Recap

Link: EmpiresSMP: My New Starter House! Ep #1 Minecraft 1.17 Survival Let’s Play 

Run Time - 25:33

Date of Release - June 12th, 2021

Other Players Featured - Gem, Sausage, Katherine, Pearl, Pixl

Intro and Series Details: fWhip opens up the episode by welcoming us to Empires as a whole, something he has been working on for a while while he is joined by 9 other MC creators. He explains the goal of the SMP for everyone to build up and rule over their own kingdoms and experiencing the stories that brings. he shows the land he has claimed: a plains biome stretching from a nearby forest to a mountain more off in the distance. As he begins the early game grind, he talks about have a shared texture pack that’s he has been working on for the series that fans might recognize from his Hardcore Series.

Early Game Action: A lot of the beginning of this episode is dedicated to the Early Game Grind. This includes getting supplies like ores and food, defeating monsters, and crafting armor and weapons. During his exploration, he raids two villages, finds a double skeleton spawner, makes friends with a dog, and finds a desert for harvesting sand. He also claims a mountain under the title of Count fWhip.

The Mining Expedition: fWhip heads to Sausage’s and meets up with him along with Gem, Pearl, Katherine and Pixl. Sausage has villagers in a “prison” that he says not to look at before showing the others the cave they will be exploring. They split into 2 teams, with fWhip going with Katherine and Gem. Gem is the first one to find diamonds with Katherine shortly after. He mines some to get the advancement before handing the two he mined to Katherine for her to make a pickaxe, also using sticks and a crafting table Gem and fWhip had because she didn’t bring any. fWhip is the first to find an amethyst geode and they all take a second to admire how pretty it is. They find a ravine and while mining gold, Katherine makes the joke it looks like butter. They also find a zombie spawner where Gem and Katherine get some name tags

Quick Sausage Encounter: fWhip goes to get some dark oak and gets yelled at by Sausage in a boat with a panda (the general) for taking stuff from his land, the dark oak forest. fWhip argues with him, saying that Sausage’s land is across the lake from where he is chopping while Sausage says everything the Dark Oak touches is his kingdom. fWhip then points out the plains biome behind the little dark oak patch he was mining in and they ring a bell of friendship. fWhip warns to be careful of Wolfie, and when Sausage doesn’t take it seriously, fWhips sicks Wolfie on him.

Base Upgrade: Farmer fWhip is going strong. He’s been growing a ton of berries as well as almost other crops. He also has places where has grown Spruce, Dark Oak and Jungle Trees and is slowly trying to grow dripstone. He also shows off some of the veins of Diamonds he has found when deepslate mining for his starter base. He mines one 7 block vein for diamond tools before launching into Timelapse Mode. He shows off the house interior before expanding the dripstone farm with the OptiFine Beta. He cuts away to show he has reorganized some of his crops, mainly the berry bushes and gotten 2 more dogs. He clears out land closer to his base and relocates the wheat field. He tries to build walls on the side out of polished deepslate before deciding it was too dark and replacing it with andesite walls instead.

Carrot Hunt and Wrap-up: fWhip sneaks past Gem’s base in order to get to the village he found earlier. He only finds wheat and villager trades that want carrots, but this man is determine to get all the crops. There is a montage of him killing cows and horses to get leather, only paused when he remembers they installed the Mob Head Data Pack. He shows the brown and chestnut horse head before calling himself a bad person. He find a carrot finally, and then the continuation of the Cow Horse Killing Montage. fWhip goes to Gem’s place to check it out and sneakily trades one of his horse heads for a moss block, running away as Gem calls him a killer. Despite all the killing, he still builds a temporary pen and attracts a few cows and two sheep over. He then tries to mine one of the blocks of diamonds from the untouched vein with a Fortune 3 Golden Pickaxe he found by a ruined Nether Portal he found on his carrot quest before learning the hard way gold can’t mind diamond. He then wraps up the episode.

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PixlRiffs Episode 22 Recap

Link: Return to Pixandria … & ALLIANCES! • Empires SMP • Minecraft 1.17 Let’s Play [Ep. 22]

Runtime - 26:49

Date of Release - September 13th, 2021

Other Players Featured - Katherine, Sausage

Intro and An Exile’s Choice: The episode opens with Pixl on the Nether roof by the Ghast Farm by gnembon [video found here] and he now has several Shulker boxes full of Ghast Tears and Gunpowder. He then says that he is going home to Pixandria, a decision he has taken a lot of time to make. He doesn’t take it lightly, as he still feels guilt over his role in the death of the dragon. But he made it for several reason, including the loneliness of the Nether Roof Desert and missing the sky, needing to protect the kingdom in case one of his enemies comes in his absence, the sense of neglect he feels just straight up leaving his kingdom and just the general ability to do more in the seat of power then in the shadows. So, he has made the choice to return.

The Enemy’s Visit: Pixl, upon his return, talks of possible experiments with the corruption involving Sea Lanterns, Water, and of course Copper. However he only has enough time to throw the Shulker boxes from the Nether into the auto sorter before Mythical Sausage shows up. He is in his Dark Blacksmith outfit wielding his Scyth, delivering presents to all of the Codvengers for their role in helping to kill the Dragon. Pixl calls it the “Mythical Sausage Gloating Tour” before inquiring about the Scyth, which Sausage claims is a soul eater. The gift contains 2 emerald blocks, 2 diamonds, a full stack of iron blocks, 28 magma blocks and an Assassin Mythical Sausage Head. The box also original contained 16 blocks of Nether Wart Corruption before Pixl burned it. Sausage also reminded Pixl that he will be spared after giving him the Trident, but Pixl doesn’t believe it considering ALL THE CORRUPTION TENTACLES AROUND PIXANDRIA!! Sausage says he can only do so much, trying to assure the Copper King that he personally would survive but the surrounding areas might fall. Pixl says he wouldn’t want to live like that, activates his defense systems and threatens Sausage out and to never come back. Sausage does leave, but not after leaving the cryptic last words, “I’m everywhere at once.”

Copper Experiments: After Sausage leaves, a small band of Pillagers arrive which are quickly defeated with the captain being burned to not risk the villagers. But now with some time, he’s actually able to play with some corruption and it’s reaction to Copper. Heading down to his copper field, he gathers what has been oxidizing and puts a variety of different stage coppers around the most isolated tentacle like a tourniquet and just wait for results. This was based on how hard some of the corruption got when it invaded his copper designs earlier, with age not really mattering all that much. He also shows off just how much gunpowder and Ghast tears he has, and hints at later making a deal with fWhip for a mutually beneficial gunpowder selling deal.

Fixing Alliances: While the experiment runs Pixl tackles the next item on the agenda - securing his more rocky alliance with Katherine. He takes a few of the Thunderstorm mob heads, as the Ruler of House Blossom loves collecting heads, in the hopes that she will be interested in these rarer types. When he’s almost there, he spots Pearl’s Beanstalk in the distance. He flies over to check if it’s corruption, which there is a tentacle wrapping around it, and then comments he has to check what Pearl is doing over in her empire. He meets with Katherine at her castle, wanting to make amends as a reformed man. She gets excited about the heads, showing off Plushie Pals Incorporated when Pixl says he has several stacks of Drowned heads and shows off her head collection. Pixl offers to help her get heads of her own of the mobs—Creeper, Skeleton, and Zombie—after Katherine admits to never seeing a charged creeper before naturally in MC. The two also swap Mythical Sausage heads with Katherine getting the Assassin skin and Pixl getting the regular one.

Head Collecting: Katherine and Pixl head for the desert, when Pixl shows off his head collection in a double chest. Katherine takes a Ghast head, claiming this is the best alliance ever as the way to her heart is animal heads. Pixl goes to the Shrine and summons a thunder storm and the two head to a nearby plains biome to farm heads. Katherine stands on the tree, hitting creepers with the channeling trident to charge them while Pixl lure the mobs and blocks the explosion with his shield. They get the creeper and zombie head this way. They then get a music disc (C418-stal) from a skeleton shooting a creeper, before Pixl dies to the charged creeper because his shield broke to get the skeleton head. After the hunt, Katherine questions the Nether Portal on the tentacle, which Pixl explains was to get high enough to the Nether Roof and now just looks like a posh tentacle.

Results & Wrap-Up: Pixl quickly updates his death count in the Vigil to include 2 more deaths, the one from the creeper and one offscreen before arriving at Katherine’s. He then checks the tentacle to find the bottom has harden behind the copper but not to the rest of the tentacle. There is, according to Pixl, some dark force sustaining it and it needs much more than a single ring of copper to fix. So knowing this, while not sure how, he believes there is a way to destroy the whole tentacle with copper. He ends the episode thinking about what he could try and gives the audience the same question to think about as well.

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Empires S2 Recap Masterpost

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Weekly Recaps

Episode Breakdowns (#Empires Weekly Recap)

FalseSymmetry (#False Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

fWhip (#fwhip recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

GeminiTay (#Gem Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

Episode 2 - June 28th, 2022

Joey Graceffa (#Joey Recap)

Episode 1

Katherine Elizabeth (#Katherine Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

LDShadowlady (#Lizzie Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

MythicalSausage (#Sausage Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

Episode 2 - June 28th, 2022

Pixlriffs (#Pixl Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

ShubbleYT/Shelby (#Shubble Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

Smajor1995 (#Scott Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

SmallishBeans (#Joel Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

Episode 2 - June 29th, 2022

SolidarityGaming (#Jimmy Recap)

Episode 1 - June 25th, 2022

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Welcome to Empires SMP Recap!

This is a project aimed to take a little stress off people’s shoulders when trying to catch up on all the episodes of the Empires SMP. This is currently just a one person project so forgive me if this ends falling behind but I’m trying my best to not have that happen. So, here’s what will be featured here:

Single Episode Breakdowns of what happens in each video including structures built, player interactions and any lore. Released as soon as I can, as I am only one person and there are 12 people. I also have a life outside of Empires, so please be patient if an episode recap gets missed. I will try to be as faithful to upload order as possible. May get backlogged, especially starting around Mid-August.

The occasional Stream recap. This will only happen if a CC (content creator) says something in a video that only happens on stream that’s lore related (ex: Scott telling but not showing the demon stalking him on stream). Stream Recaps will not be for every stream since CCs either A) Mainly use it for resource collecting/terraforming/building or B) it ends up in the video such is usually the case with Shubble and Solidarity.

Weekly Breakdowns of what happened in a given week mostly focusing on lore. This will not include episodes already released. Time frame will probably be similar to the Hermitcraft Recap, with release on Sunday covering episodes that drop before that Friday. The exception will be Week One, where a Day 1 Masterpost will be made covering what happened and then the following Sunday (July 3rd) with be the Week 1 Recap.

A Pinned Master Post with every episode I’ve recapped and weekly breakdowns for the current Season.

Asks will be open with Anonymous enabled to ask clarifying questions about canon Empires content, such as when a given event occurs in someone’s video.

All posts will be tagged with #Empires Recap if you find all the posts I will inventively send out. This is also a one person project that I decided to start at like 2am so if I’m behind I am sorry. Tagging will be in the main tag but not the individual creator tags. The Master post has all the tagging conventions so you can find what you are looking for if it isn’t linked yet.

Hope this helps and I’ll see you in the recaps!