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So this post is going off a bit now? Which is fun? But, more importantly, it's a little out of date, so let's catch up!

After Alice shows up and names Zloy's overcomplicated autobrewer ("Barbrewa", who is not sentient), things are generally pretty quiet for the two. Alice moves in, Zloy is slightly wary of being around his servermates because he goes full zombie when he sleeps and keeps biting his villagers, Lyarrah points out that Players can't be zombified and Silent is a zombie already, and everything is about as normal as you can get on the Truly Bedrock SMP.

Meanwhile, everyone else is dealing with this Season's main plot in-between pranking each other with various foodstuffs (long story), which consists of a mysterious group called The Worldbuilder Corporation sneaking around and fixing bugs. TBers are mostly put out by this, because they were using those bugs, thank you very much, and they've also somehow managed to get the moon back in one piece, despite the fact that it's been blown up at least thrice by this point.

Zloy takes a break around this point and steps back because of irl mental health problems to organise his basement, so what he and Alice are doing for a while is partially up to interpretation (I like to think they were having a father-daughter bonding arc). Needless to say, the next time we see them, they're raiding a Pillager Outpost for Allays. Zloy tells Alice that they're essentially better item sorters. Alice, who is an AI constructed mostly of item sorters, is not amused about this.

Alice also gets shot by a Worldbuilder, which is fine because its just a proxy and not Alice's actual consciousness or something, they have more, but it's not fine, because this has apparently been a common occurence lately.

This angers Zloy more than anything else the Worldbuilders have done (including 'fixing' their main source of experience in a world where dual-weilding is obnoxiously limited), because that's his child and you just don't do that. So he calls the Worldbuilders the fuck out, and meets with a representitive while Alice clears out.

See, since the Worldbuilders have been targeting Alice for some time now, it'll only take so long until they realize that the easiest way to deal with them is to take out the redstone filters which make up he core of Alice's being.

But this leaves a problem- Alice is a building. Buildings can't exactly move. Certainly not to another celestial body on short notice, which is what they have to do now, because the best place to hide from the Worldbuilders for a bit is the place they just finished repairing (read: the moon).

(Alice also probably doesn't want to be reliant on the moon, because this is would be their first time seeing the real thing, in one piece, waxing and waning, in their entire life. They know the TBer's track record with the thing).

Anyway, Alice's main problem is that a fully sentient AI's file size is, apparently, quite large. Large enough that none of their proxy bodies can fit them, anyway, which means they need something else.

Something compatible with Vanilla Minecraft, like their father's zombie form, so they know they'll be safe. Something that can travel easily, that can make it to the moon and back. Something similar enough to the item filters that are the basos of their entire existence. Something like the Allay that's been floating around behind them for the past ten minutes while they debate with themselves.

Meanwhile, Zloy's meeting with The Representitive (who was not named, so I'm going to be calling him that), and mostly complaining about all the weird problems were previous Truly Bedrock Seasons' main plots. Then he discovers that the Worldbuilders are planing to just reset the world instead of dealing with the problems individually (which makes some sense, but the All Store is one of the things that'd be deleted), and also that The Representitive is... Racist? Speciesist? Look, he wants to deal with all the players-that-are-technically-also-mobs, which is a list that includes Pigglesworth (a pig), Silent (a zombie pigman/lin) Tizztom (a fox), and Zloy himself (a decapitated zombie head piloting a different zombie body).

Zloy is not happy about any of this, naturally, and he's ready to throw hands with The Representitive, but the Representitive has a diamond sword which is unfortunately more effective than Zloy's bare hands. The idea is to just let Zloy (the decapitated head) despawn, which means The Representitive arguably didn't even commit any real crime. This also means The Representitive needs to wait five minutes, and Zloy'll be damned if he lets his last five minutes go by without annoying The Representitive as much as possible.

(Why The Representitive doesn't just exit the room is beyond me. Like. The door is right there.)

Speaking of the door, it's only two minutes into Zloy's time before a little Allay flies in, picks up his head, and shoves it over The Representitive's face.

The good news is that Alice is no longer tied to the All Store's continued existence! The bad news is that they're mortal now. Still, no solution is ever perfect, especially not when it was thought up in less than an hour.

Zloy and Alice dump The Representitive in a ditch and find a zombie body because Zloy feels sick while possessing the guy (whether it's because The Representitive is That Bad or if it's just because Zloy's unused to being alive is up for debate), and then it's time to meet up with the rest of the group and get the hell out of dodge.

It's pretty much what you'd expect from a Truly Bedrock road trip: loud, chaotic, scuffed, and they break the moon at one point (gotta maintain branding). Zloy's brought Alice, of course, but at some point between receiving a signal from Mr Onion and being dropped into a new world that was thrown out by the Worldbuilders, they've dissapeared.

Currently, I'm not sure if Alice is actually missing or if they're just hanging around off-camera while everyone gets established. We'll have to wait and see. Zloy is building up a concrete shop, which is probably a mistake (concrete converting is absolutely awful in Bedrock).

Who is Alice and What is Zloy: An Essay* on the Lore of Zlobert Experience

Aka I did not watch hours of Zloy videos and dig through his Tumblr to keep this information to myself.

*This will not be written in essay format. I have a visceral hatred toward structured writing. Thank you for your understanding.

Zloy is a dimension-jumper/worldhopper, which means he spends most of his time doing whatever he wants wherever he wants. Of course, Zloy was actually alive at one point, and he had trouble surviving in servers he wasn’t native to.

The solution? An exosuit! What exactly this damn thing is is a little unclear, but it is, presumably, pretty good at keeping the man alive, and most likely has an awful lot of robotic functions, or at least can be easily fitted with robotic functions.

So Zloy was doing his thing in some world or another when he ran into the ghost of a witch. Said witch’s ghost then proceeded to steal Zloy’s original body for reasons that are unclear to me but might have come up somewhere maybe? (Zloy for the love of god please tag your lore consistently I’m begging you-)

Zloy, now disembodied and watching a witch run around in his former body, then proceeded to possess the nearest humanoid creature, as one does. Said creature was, of course, a zombie, which was allergic to sunlight, as most zombies are. Being possessed by the ghost of a Player didn’t exactly change that little fact.

Fortunately(?), Zloy knew how to cure zombie villagers! And, consequently, how to look after his new zombie body: golden apples and weakness potions. Of course, those can only manage an actual zombie so much, and also his body was kinda decomposing, and part of Zloy’s brain was being exposed to the open air and the guy was just kinda miserable in general, so he made himself a helmet out of his available materials. (Gold. He made a gold helmet. It got stuck to his head pretty much immediately. Now he’s even more miserable).

So Zloy’s wandering the land, consuming weakness potions and golden apples, a helmet glued to his head that he’s waiting to break but also really doesn’t want to have break on him, and eventually it does, in fact, break, because gold is not a very practical metal to make your helmets out of.

Unfortunately, the helmet breaking does not change the fact that it is still, in fact, very much attached to Zloy’s head. The golden apples, meanwhile, finally start doing something useful, so Zloy is now a ghost possessing a zombie with chunks of gold helmet embedded beneath his skull that conveniently work as sunscreen.

(either the apples or the helmet also turned his eyes yellow at some point)

And things are looking up! Not only has Zloy brute-forced his new body into being a fully functional Player, but his newfound zombie nature means he’s compatible with worlds by default, because zombs are a Minecraft constant. He’s free to travel the universe and cause problems for everyone, including himself!

Eventually Zloy finds his way to a little server called Truly Bedrock, where the moon is in pieces before they even start and the inhabitants are every flavour of unhinged imaginable. Zloy, who has seen weirder things than a broken moon and is also very unhinged, was right at home!

…Until said home got blown up by a chunk of moon.

And then the rest of the moon.

Fortunately, the TBers are frankly impossible to kill, even if they get bits of moon dropped on their heads every season finale. They’re like extremely weird cockroaches (affectionate).

So welcome to Season Two! This is where things get really interesting.

Zloy starts the season off with a shop in their new shopping district called the All Store. The All Store’s function is that people can both sell common resources to it, and buy from it, ideally creating a shop that restocks itself.

Originally it starts out as a fairly traditional chests-and-signs shop, but after a while Zloy gets bored waiting for the server to update to 1.16 I guess, so he revamps the All Store with an awful lot of well-explained redstone.

Realizing he’s kinda created something that could tangentially count as an artificial intelligence, he dubs it Allistore (Alice for short), mostly for the pun.

He then takes a break to reinvent the TNT duper because those don’t work on Bedrock. His solution is ghasts. He also builds a bunch of pirate ships and giant skulls because Zloy. He ignores the current ongoing serverwide problem that is beacons causing nether corruption in the overworld, but so does the rest of the server so.

Eventually going back to the All Store, Zloy gets to work and expands it once again and kinda rants in the general direction of whoever’s been messing with the circuits.

He finds a dark oak sign saying ‘hi’ in one of the dispensers, renames it to ‘henlo’, and chucks it into Alice’s water stream (which is set up to never let items despawn, meaning it'll in there forever) as a stupid joke.

Then he goes off to design a vault! It has elder guardians, cobblestone generators, obsidian, the works. His plan is to convince his servermate Dadcraft73 to pay Zloy for the right to put his diamonds in said vault. Dadcraft agrees, so long as a) the diamonds are insured and b) Zloy stores his diamonds in there as well.

…So the diamonds get stolen like a week later.

Zloy’s put on trial, and the court is a kangaroo court, and nothing makes sense and a definitely-not-Foxy-person shows up at one point while Judge Foxy steps out of the room, but he ends up owing Dadcraft hundreds of diamonds he doesn’t have.

Zloy finishes his expansion of the All Store, and checks his accounting chest to find not the results of his test run, but a face saying hi dad. Here’s the sign you lost.

So it turns out Alice is, in fact, sentient. Somehow. Neither they nor Zloy are quite sure why.

(It’s at this point Zloy switches from using she/her to they/them pronouns for Alice. Canonically they’re fine with both. )

Zloy installs a shulker box swapper so Alice can talk more easily than messing with the accounting chest, and then Alice tells him to get his act together and reopen so they can maybe earn Dadcraft’s diamonds before Zloy gets locked in his own vault (which is a very effective prison).

Alice mail-orders a mech from Mr Beardstone, who has a mech shop for some reason, and Zloy realizes Alice can look after themself and doesn’t really need him anymore. He gives them the diamonds he managed to accumulate and goes off to lock himself in his vault-turned-prison for the remainder of the season.

Alice is, quite frankly, having none of this, so they scan the inner workings of the mech and combine that information with a scan of a thing named Chuck that showed up like once and…. Look, I dunno what that thing is either tbh. There's no context as far as I can tell.

Anyway, these scans come in useful when Alice uses them to get Zloy’s old exosuit working and operational and they finally have a player-sized body to work with, so it’s time to bust Zloy out of jail!

Alice basically tells him to get his act together and get mining, because apparently he hasn’t told anyone other than Lyarrah that his shop is a person, and they don’t particularly want to get repossessed.

Zloy does a lot of mining and gives Dadcraft a stupid amount of diamond ore arranged in the most obnoxious tree he can manage and that’s the end of that.

The TBers finally decide to do something about the ongoing beacon corruption, and JessieB comes in with news of an extremely big, extremely ominous nether portal that will spell the end of the server.

Naturally, the TBers go to investigate, and learn that the extremely big, extremely ominous nether portal will not, in fact, turn off. And then a giant magma cube came out and started destroying stuff.

While most of the TBers ran to upgrade and fire FoxyNoTail’s giant laser, Zloy and Beardstone split off to make a giant mech out of shops for Alice to pilot, and Alice fought the giant magma cube… at least until the laser destroyed both the mech and the magma cube.

The problem, as you might imagine, is that giant magma cubes tend to split into many, many, many smaller (large-size) magma cubes that are now swarming the entire server. The things are everywhere. There’s no escape.

Foxy figures that hey, they haven’t had the moon fall on them yet, may as well get it over with. He shoots the moon with the aforementioned laser, and everyone hauls tail into the very secure, apparently moon-proof vault/prison. Zloy doesn’t want to leave Alice to die, but Alice just kinda yells at him to get in the vault, they’ll be fine, they literally can’t die as long as the All Store still stands.

Zloy grabs part of Alice and goes, and then another chunk of moon lands on the TB server because these people really can’t go a season without that happening. It’s a wonder they have any moon left.

Speaking of which, the moon is suspiciously fine for Season 3. Not only is it in one piece, something that has not been the case for the server’s entire history, and also Alice shows up and starts acting really weirdly about halfway through the season (the thing Zloy grabbed turned out to just be a monitor).

Turns out Season 3 is a simulation run by Alice so the TBer’s brains don’t die while they heal from being squashed by the moon again. Unfortunately, Alice had to strip a lot of Zloy’s permissions to make this work, so even if they do pull everyone out, Zloy will be left without a functional body, and- no, stop offering yourself up as sacrifice you stupid zombie.

They break the server via the medium of maps, because maps in bedrock servers take up obscene amounts of data and completely destroy the file size. That’s not a TB-exclusive thing, that’s just a known problem with bedrock edition.

They get out, but Zloy’s body is, in fact, no longer functional, so Silent chops off his head and they take it with them. Zloy is fine, if rather grumpy from being stuck in Silent’s hotbar and unable to do anything except loudly judge Silent’s actions.

Eventually Silent gives up and gives Zloy to a random zombie he finds in a cliff, and Zloy, once equipped, is once again able to possess the zombie’s body and is capable of making that everyone’s problem, including his own.

Alice shows up eventually, names his overcomplicated autobrewer, and starts chilling in his hotel.

In short: Zloy is a ghost possessing a decapitated zombie head possessing a zombie. Alice is his offspring, an immortal AI/building who is able to use player-sized proxies to interact with people in a more traditional way. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#for those who may be trawling the notes and want an update :3 #fun fact: Tizztom is considered Zloy's nephew because he's Lyarrah's adopted son. Take that as you will.#I'd go into the family tree if i could ever get a read into whatever dynamic Zloy and Silent have going on #it's honestly impossible to tell #canonically Alice just looks like a regular Allay but I like to hc they kept the pink eyes #Rayvee actually Writes

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Oh, Twelve. You have no idea. Truly Bedrock lore is a very long, very complicated ride.

I'll preface this by saying that I haven't watched all perspectives (mostly just Zloy and Lyarrah), and I haven't watched a ton of seasons 0 & 1. That said, I feel I have a pretty decent idea as to the lore of this damn SMP, or at least a better one than a lott of people.

We start in Season 0, where a collection of players load into a Bedrock world that might be normal if a) it wasn't a handful of islands in the middle of the ocean, b) the players weren't all completely insane, and c) the moon was in one piece. The moon is not in one piece. The moon will not be in one piece for many seasons.

Like I said, I haven't watched much of Season 0, so I may have missed out on some plot (I think there was time travel involved?), but by the end of the season, they've built a small but thriving community on the ocean and islands, and have decided to sail to greener pastures, because they wanted to experience the wonders of the 1.14 update or something.

As the group sails gracefully away on their boats and giant turtles and whatnot, a piece of the moon falls to the land below, destroying the fleet and conveniently resetting all progress.

Welcome to Season 1! Don't get too attached.

Season 1's world is actually JaseyBee's own personal singleplayer world, in which the Truly Bedrock crrew just kinda showed up. Jasey's opinion on this is blatantly ignored.

[EDIT: I made a mistake, this isn't Jasey's world. It was actually JessiieB's, who is a completely different person. My only defence is that I was going off spoken words for this and their names are absurdly similar.]

The Season 1 has two main problems: One, the moon is still very not much in one piece, and pieces of the moon are still travelling toward the server, and two, Illager patrols have a habit of spawning and spawning and spawning and spawning and- you get the idea.

The TBers mostly ignore the moon in the hopes it'll go away, and they complain loudly about the constant Pillagers but don't really do anything about it, and they coninue to build stuff and cause each other problems because that's the kind of group this is.

By the end of the season, enough of the TBers have decided that maybe they should do something about the moon thing to drag the more reluctant players along with them as they hunt down a woodland mansion in the hope that killing off enough Illagers will make the moon behave itself.

The mansion they find is weird, in that it is actually several mansions stacked on top of each other at odd angles, and also there is a hidden room inside wih a circle of small, strange creatures doing some sort of ritual.

There are two trains of thought, here: Either the mysterious beings are performing a ritual to bring the moon down on them, and they should kill them; or they're performing a ritual to stop the moon from destroying everything (again), and therefore should not be killed.

Lyarrah and Jasey [Jessiie] are the only ones who subscribe to the latter. Consequently, they are also the closest thing the server has to any impulse control. Truly Bedrock does not have much in the way of impulse control.

Murders are commited, moon chunks start to fall, everyone takes shelter in the nether to ride it out, and the server resets.

Season 2 is upon us! There is notably Less Moon in the sky, but there is still Some Moon left and it's not like minecraft has tides or whatever to be affected by it.

Season 2's main problem (because there's always a main problem) is that placing a beacon down and activating it will result in slowly expanding nether corruption. The obvious answer would be to just burn all the beacons on the server and ban them outright, but that would require acknowledging the problem.

Meanwhile Zloy has a sideplot where he bulds an item sorter/accounting system/AI for his shop. The AI is called Alice. They're sentient. Zloy is their dad.

Meanwhile meanwhile, FoxyNoTail obtains a giant laser. Foxy is not the sort of person who one should allow to have a giant laser. Nobody on Truly Bedrock is the sort of person who one should allow to have a giant laser. At some point, Big Chicken carves SilentWhisperer's face into the literal sun. Who's Big Chicken? Well, he's definitely not Foxy in a chicken skin doing a bad Russian accent. Definitely not.

Meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile, Zloyxp is building a giant, impenetrable vault. He intends to scam Mr Beardstone out of his diamonds. The vault lasts for one week. It does not last two.

Back in the main plot, Jasey is being guided through the Nether by a group of piglins, where she finds a giant, ominous portal frame and decides that she should tell someone about it, marking her as the most proactive member of the server. Unfortunately, she is still kind of stuck in the Nether.

Also, there's a time traveller from a future in which everything was overrun by the beacon corruption. His name is BrunoDanUy, and he tries to tell people before things get too bad. Unfortunately, everyone blatantly ignores his warnings.

Eventally, during a group meeting, GruvvaGuy mentions that there's a great big portal over by his base which he didn't build, Jasey valiantly manages to not strangle Foxy on the spot, and everyone gets over to Gruvva's base in time to witness a Magma Cube the size of a building come through. The group bolts.

Zloy and MrBeardstone team up to build a giant mech constructed out of shops and operated by Alice. Everyone else goes off to upgrade, aim and fire Foxy's giant laser. Alice fights the Cube for a while, the giant laser finishes both of them off, and now the server's been overrun by less giant, far more numerous magma cubes.

Bruno tells everyone that "Whatever you do, don't shoot the moon with the laser", and Foxy and Silent immideately go shoot the moon with the laser (Bruno's trying his best, guys).

The laser is a direct hit, everyone gets their asses into Zloy's vault, and the season ends with the traditional moonfall and enough magma cream items to probably crash the server.

Season 3 time! This world's problem is that, uh... um. Hm. Well, this is new. While Season 3's world does have Nether and End biomes in the Overworld, everything else seems weirdly fine. Including the moon. Especially the moon, actually, because it's in one piece for the first time in Truly Bedrock history.

And aside from some glitches (which go ignored, because this is Minecraft Bedrock Edition and glitches kinda go with the territory), and some huh-Alice-is-acting-weird, everything's fine and dandy!

...Except it isn't, because Season 3 is actually an insustainable simulation powered by a singular Minecraft shop in order to keep the TBers' brains alive while they heal from being crushed by the moon for the third time, and now Alice can't shut it down without risking their zombie dad due to his weird biology.

Season 3 has the quickest turnaround between revealing the plot and actually doing something about it, probably because Zloy is better at listening to Alice than Beardy is to Bruno or Foxy is to literally anyone.

They get out, the main change is that Zloy is now a Zombie possessing a decapitated zombie head possessing a zombie (as opposed to just being a ghost posessing a zombie, which he was before), and the moon is back to being in pieces, although there really isn't all that much left by this point.

Season 4's main problem is that there is a weird, shady group of not-TBer people hanging around, usually glimpsed whenever a glitch mysteriously rights itself. These range from odd (where did that second dragon egg go?), to mildly annoying (I could have sworn there was a surface spawner around here somewhere), to downright inconvenient (removing a furnace glitch in which a player can get absurd amounts of xp in a version without dual-wielding). They also manage to get the moon in one piece (for the first actual time in the server's history), so you know they're evil.

The shady group is called the World Builder Corp., they build worlds, and it only took them, what, three years to notice that the Truly Bedrock server had some problems. They decided to clean up the server to bring it up to standards, and their roadmap also includes gletches which are buddy-that's-a-person, including Pigglesworth (who is a pig), Zloy (who is an item), and Alice (who should probably not be sentient, but they are, and we love them).

That's right, folks! That hybrid discrimination MCYT fic trope? Someone finally did it in an SMP!

Oh, and the Worldbuilders are shutting down the server, Alice is now an Allay, and Foxy has an RV capable of space travel. Don't worry about it.

They take the only natural course of action, which is to fly to the now-repaired moon, because the Worldbuilders won't think to go there for a while. They find a house on the moon, which apparently belongs to a couple of definitely-not-just-Foxy-with-a-weird-costume-and-bad-accent (it's actually really difficult to figure out if these characters exist in-universe or not; people just go with whichever option is funnier so it changes on a dime). The only one actually in the house, though, is Bruno, who has apparently been hanging out on the moon for a bit.

(OOC: I assume what's happened is that Bruno took a hiatus from TB during S4 and this is just a way for him to be back in S5, but I don't watch Bruno so I could be wrong.)

Before they leave, Foxy decides to plant the ruly Bedrock SMP flag, which causes the apparently shoddily-repaired moon to break apart again. They take off, land in another world, and manage to get through their second season finale without getting directly crushed by a chunk of moon (although it's broken again, so it's only a matter of time).

y’all, I’m watching the newest Truly Bedrock season, but there seems to be a lot of lore? any TB fans wanna catch me up a bit on all that?

#I'll be real I just went into an infodump-writing coma and cranked this out #i did NOT intend this to be so long holy crap #twelve I apologise you'd probably get a more abriged version by watching the actual series #TB is such a wild ride tbh the lore is just. Insane.#honestly tho? you'd be shocked what you can pick up from only watching the episode 1s and finales #and zloy has a summary vid for the worldbuilders in particular #you'll have encountered Mr Onion if you watched the episode 0's for S5; that's another kind-of-Foxy character #TB is a very special flavour of buckwild #i can't wait for the S5 finale nobody's been squashed by moon chunks in so long...#once again I apologise for the length #watch recaptrio #and goodnight #rayvee actually writes #truly bedrock #tb smp

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