Empires SMP

 'Empires' was an SMP played by LDShadowLady and many of her friends. The series was started on June 12th, 2021 and was played on until the end of January 2022. In the server, each player chose a biome to be home to their Empire. The aim was to build a strong empire, form aliances with others and gain the 'crown' (that gives you the power to make a rule that everyone else has to follow) along the way.  

 

 

Lizzie's Empire
When Picking her empire's biome, Lizzie chose the ocean biome, making her the 'Ocean Queen'. Her Ocean empire consists of many large lily pads scattered across the ocean that hold villagers, animals and her allies' embassy's. Lizzie herself resides in her 'Prisma-Palace', made of quartz, prismarine and pink coral blocks. Other notable buildings include her ship, shipwreck, bakery and multiple tourist attractions such as the Landarium and boat tours.

 

Rooms
Her palace is currently made up of 4 towers. The largest one holds the entrance, the Axolotl enclosure in the roof and her chest room in the basement. The second tower holds her bedroom, the third is her 'war tower', holding her throne and banners for her own empire and her Allies' empires and the final tower is where she displays her cool armor sets. The 4th tower was notably built by Joey after he lost a challenge between himself and Lizzie.

Allies & Enemies
Current Status with each player -


 * Smallishbeans - Allies [Married]
 * katherineeliz - Allies
 * JOEYGRACEFFA - Neutral [were temporarily enemies]
 * ShubbleYT - Neutral
 * Smajor1995 - Neutral
 * fWhip - Enemies
 * MythicalSausage - Neutral
 * PearlescentMoon - Friendly
 * Pixlriffs - Neutral
 * SolidarityGaming - Allies
 * GeminiTay - Neutral

The Crown
The 'Crown' was an item introduced into the series in episode 20; 'The Crown'. Whoever was in possession of the crown was the 'ruler' of the Empires server and as a result, they got to introduce one rule for the other Empires to follow until the crown was passed on. Lizzie recieved the crown from the previous ruler Joel, in episode 22 of her series after winning Joels game-show. Her rule was that every player on the server could only eat cake, she accompanied this rule with her bakery, where she sold cake, allowing herself to profit off of her rule.

Trivia

 * The Empires SMP bears many similarities to KingdomCraft as they both involve the world being divided into multiple Kingdoms/Empires where the players make alliances and enemies.
 * Empires SMP is Lizzie's first of two series to be played on 1.17, the second being Last Life.
 * A couple of the early thumbnails for Empires episodes aren't actually taken from the server. At the time of Empires premier, Optifine wasn't yet updated to 1.17, meaning Lizzie couldn't add shaders. To prevent her thumbnails from looking out of place and less pretty, she recreated thumbnails in another world in order to have shaders on it. She was able to get shaders for episode 4.
 * Many regulars, such as SeaPeeKay, LaurenZside and Yammy are notably absent in Empires.
 * In episode 18; 'The Blue Axolotl' Lizzie and Scott sang an original song 'Deal with Destiny.'
 * For more information on the Empires SMP, visit the Empires SMP wiki here.