User:Joethahobo

joethahobo first joined UltraVanilla on June 8th, 2020. He is the founder of the town of HoboNation, named after his old 2013 server of the same name.

Joethahobo is also a founding member of ASUV, and even built a HoboNation embassy in Alliance City.

Early life
Joethahobo found this server through Reddit, in hopes of playing a peaceful game alone, but with other people to chat with. His first day he walked 10,000 blocks north to set up a base far from any other players. Here he created a simple wheat, carrot, and potato farm, as well as some sheep and cow pins. Upon discovering the dynmap for this world, he decided he was too close to other people, so he decided to walk another 20,000 blocks north.

By day 4 he found what he believed to be his permanent base. He set up his large crop and animal farms and created a large villager hall upon the sea. He gathered up lot's of materials while planning what he would do on the server going forward. Joe decided he wanted to build a very large city, however, he had heard that the server spawn would be moving millions of blocks away once the 1.16 update came out. So Joe figured he would wait to build his city in the new land.

While waiting, Joe decided to gather up as much resources as he possibly could before moving out in the new lands. He began to mine. Cave by cave, strip mine by strip mine, he only grew his wealth. He spent 3 weeks of nothing but mining for Iron, Gold, Diamonds, and trading for emeralds, so he could set up his beacons as soon as he got to his future base. From his weeks of digging, joe was unexpectedly launched into the top 1% of the servers players.

HoboNation founding:
Eventually, 1.16 came out, and Joe was ready to move out. He dismantled everything he owned and, thanks to shulkers he bought in aurora, he packed up and headed out. He knew his project would be massive, so he ventured out 25,000 blocks north of the new spawn. Joe decided to set up base at a desert so he could gather large amounts of sand that he needed for his builds. On July 3rd, 2020 he had found it. Joethahobo found his desert that day, and established the town of HoboNation.

Once he got all situated and everything unpacked, he began to dig. He dug and dug and dug for 4 straight days until there was enough room for his first tower. On July 8th, the base for the Sears tower had been placed. Joe worked hard, but eventually built and finished his first tower. Impressed by the effort, Joe's friend LargeCarl joined the server for the first time, and came to HoboNation to help out. Throughout the next 2 weeks, 5 or 6 people visited HoboNation, with a few helping to dig the place out. Joethahobo was happy. HoboNation was finally taking shape. To date, over 1,500,000 blocks have been mined from the land of HoboNation in order to make room for the city.

HoboNation continued:
So far Joe has built 3 towers in HoboNation; The Sears (Willis) Tower which he uses as his home with many farms inside such as sheep and creeper farms, the Empire State Building, which has a bar/pub built by Enderslayerxz3 on the first floor, and a villager hall on the 2nd floor. The 3rd building is the Frost Bank tower from Texas, which is used as a convention center for big meetings that take place in HoboNation.

Joethahobo's plans right now are to build the Freedom tower (One World Trade Center) next, and potentially the Bank of China after that.

USUV:
Through his time digging and enjoying the server, joethahobo had heard of an Alliance being formed. Joe learned about the ASUV and decided that he wanted to take part in it. Since HoboNation met all the requirements, he joined the United Settlements of UltraVanilla. He attended the inaugural meeting on July 25th, and took part in ensuing battle of Alliance City against the Murder Guild who had attacked the very same meeting. After the meeting had concluded, Joe was happy with what the Alliance stood for, and wanted to build a HoboNation embassy nearby. On July 26th, he completed the exterior, although still has work to do on the inside before it is officially open.

On August 22nd, Joe hosted the 3rd USUV meeting at the HoboNation convention center. 15 members and guests attended the meeting, and then enjoyed some drinks at the bar across the street following the meeting.

Alliance City:
After building the HoboNation Embassy, Beeper (the man behind AC) was thoroughly impressed and suggested that joe should build another tower. Joe contemplated this idea for a while, but finally agreed. During the final week of August, he began building his 5th tower on the server. As of right now it is still under construction.

Shop:
As of August 5th, 2020 Joethahobo made his very first shop, located in the Alliance City shopping district. His shop sells goods such as Emerald blocks, Iron blocks, Quartz, Coal Ore, valuable Enchanted Books, Gunpowder, and much more. The prices for the items he sells are some of the cheapest on the server. He is also willing to match any price found on the server for stone blocks and its variants (Andesite, Granite, Diorite). Joethahobo also has a section in his shop where he pays the customer for work. Joe's shop has "Contracts" that let people dig at his town of HoboNation in exchange for diamonds. The current rate is 14 diamonds per 16x16 chunk dug down to Y 20.

With the introduction of Borealis, or Aurora 2.0 aka the new central shopping district, joethahobo created his new main shop on August 28th, 2020. His shop is a towering 4 story building representing his town of HoboNation. Inside the shop, Joe sells a wide variety of items including but not limited to; Gunpowder, Fireworks, Enchanted Books, Iron, Quartz, and Emerald blocks, Coal and Redstone Ore, a wide assortment of wool and stones. Joe prides himself on selling the cheapest stones on the server as a result of constant digging in HoboNation. Although lordpipe does tend to dispute this fact, however her stones, while they may be cheap, are rarely if ever stocked.