The Architect

The Architect

The Architect was an anonymous figure who was funding wars in V3 by supplying Gold and Gear to multiple PvP factions. When a player was asked how they got so much gold, they would simply reply, "The Architect". The identity of the anonymous figure was exposed to be the M.I.A EarthPol Staff Manager Dandire.

Method of Duplication

Through the use of CoreProtect, Dandire would pick up a shulker box full of loot and roll it back and pick it up again. After they stacked themselves full of shulkers, they would do /kill Dandire over the top of a giant hopper bay that would prevent players from picking up the items. Creatively, this bypassed the traditional logging of CoreProtect because the inventory pickup was never counted, and it just appeared to be regular shulker box interactions.

Dandire would only login after 0xBit was offline and deploy regular drops at large nations such as DenFish's nation of Baja Blast and the nation of The Republic. At the time, Helper pmkcanadian would later be banned for his role in coming up with the schemes to bypass CoreProtect.

Discovery and Collapse of V3

Eventually, their own greed got the best of them when 300,000 Gold was found in the Nation bank of Baja Blast which consisted of mostly PvPers who only logged on for Sieges and never spent any time grinding or building.

Many others in the community started to get suspicious and 0xBit lead an investigation that ultimately revealed that multiple sets of gear and hundreds of thousands of gold was illegitimately spawned in by Dandire. This would eventually lead to the banning of everyone in Baja Blast and The Republic. This would eventually tank player count; the economy was behind repair, and this eventually led to the shutdown of V3.

In a later time, Dandire said that he did the duping because he did not agree with 0xBit's changes to the server.

Return to EarthPol (2023–2025)

After nearly two years, Dandire would return to EarthPol after speaking with 0xBit. He apologized for the stuff he had did in V3 and said that he had enlisted himself into the Army because he was affecting others around him with disruptive similar behavior. 0xBit accepted his apology.

Over the course of two years, Dandire and 0xBit would become friends. Dandire would play on the sister server of EarthPol called Polaris in 2023. This would be the last time Dandire played Minecraft until June 2025.

In June 2025, Dandire returned to EarthPol with a group of friends who would later create the Town of Eden under the nation of Antarctica. Dandire would eventually rejoin the EarthPol staff team as a Helper on July 22nd, 2025 after gaining trust with KeijoDPutt and the approval of 0xBit.

Behind the scenes, Dandire was restricted to a maximum rank of Moderator, however this would later get overturned after he stepped up to be the Staff Manager after KeijoDPutt's ban. Dandire filled in his Staff Manager duties well for a few months but beginning November 1st, 2025, Dandire would begin to express he was getting burnt out.

The Architect Returns (November 2025)

Fast forward to November 14th, 2025, Dandire decided it would be "funny" to go back to the days of The Architect and supply a few nations with Gold, Armor and supplies beyond their wildest dreams. The cheating began at the Siege of Syracuse.

Dandire was documented spawning in TNT Minecarts from Y: 400+, this was reported to 0xBit by RomanDiCario who sent footage of himself at y: 319 showing carts coming from the heavens.

0xBit looked into the matter and looked into all of Dandire's actions in CoreProtect. It is when reviewing these logs that 0xBit noticed an odd location of actions at X: 20000, Z: 20000. Out of curiosity, he would visit the location.

At this location, 0xBit discovered 4 single-chests, the chest contained TNT, Iron Blocks, XP Bottles and Yellow Shulker Boxes full of Golden Blocks.

Immediate Action Taken

After the discovery of the room, 0xBit immediately called in a private-group chat with all server managers and owners and immediately stripped Dandire of his permissions.

Dandire was brought before the chest of spawned in gold and asked questions by 0xBit about why he did what he did. Dandire admitted there was no way out of this and it looks bad but he was doing it because 0xBit had given RomanDiCario gold and "adjusting the rules".

The gold was given to RomanDiCario from Bolshebricks's personal balance that he had accumulated from his time in Hokkaido. The rule change in question was a correction to 4.1 - Combat Engagement which said "Combat Engagement Rules apply" but failed to clarify what those rules were.

These were clarified on the fly during an incident involving ToastIsPower and TheDays_ who were practically spawn camping some members of SPQM. They were given verbal warnings to stop instead of regular warnings because the rule was not clarified correctly.

Regardless of his justifications, he was ultimately banned from the server and stripped of his rank as Staff Manager.

Follow-Up Investigation

After the ban, further investigation was taken to determine where the gold had gone.

In the logs, it was discovered that CakeLordVODS was teleported into the secret room by Dandire. CakeLordVODS would transfer this illegal gold directly to Kippenwortel who would put it in his shop locked chest.

In CakeLordVODS' appeal ticket, he would state that he was apart of a Group Chat made by Dandire that included Kippenwortel. They were conspiring for about a week on how and when to cheat in this stuff and fly it under the radar of 0xBit, MrTytanic, Bustun and other staff members. They planned to deliver the materials through mules to hide their tracks.

This was a good plan had it not been for the sloppy TNT Minecart spawning at Y: 400.

Additional Bans

During this investigation, while people were actively getting banned, the user ProbablyVano was busy dumping the duped gold he got directly from Dandire in the form of Raw Gold Blocks into random chests throughout his town and dumping the Shulker Shell into a random barrel in the back of a makeshift cart.

However, ProbablyVano was unable to escape CoreProtect logs and was ultimately banned for purposefully trying to hide his involvement and benefiting from duped gold. The duped gold from this incident was removed from the furnaces still hot.

ProbablyVano is close friends with ToastIsPower and was banned alongside him on a few other servers for Duping and Hacking. MrTytanic chose to extend the 2.1 ban of ToastIsPower into a Discretionary Enforcement Policy Ban.

Backlash

Backlash: After the banning of Kippenwortel, many members of the Nation of Sicily would claim foul play. As far as going to make claims up such as spawned in TNT Minecarts, invisible people without particles and damage modifications.

While one staff was caught to have been abusing absorption on his alt account and ultimately banned, this ban did not automatically prove validity to the other claims and they still remain unproven.

However, there is solid video evidence of Dandire spawning in TNT Minecarts on behalf of Sicily and Kippenwortel.

Many members began to engage in a harassment campaign in various mediums of EarthPol such as game chat, Discord and on YouTube. At the time of writing, 9 Sicilian members have been banned from the Discord.