ZiggyBase

ZiggyBase was a base built, abandoned, and griefed in 2012. It was re-inhabited in 2014, although was found months later and griefed a second time. The base is best known for the Bedrock Comet. Not so far away from the base is a big part of dried-up ocean, walled off from the water with bedrock, given the title of the "Bedrock Dam". Builders got the bedrock through popbob's backdoor, which allowed him to select players to teleport to, fly, and use the Not Enough Items mod to spawn items in. One of the members who got these perks made stashes out in the millions filled with illegal items, including bedrock. It was one of many bases that had the signature "town" in its name, as bases back then were generally called towns. The base was eventually griefed by an unknown player back in 2012, possibly Acid1212 or Harblax. Region files of the town can be downloaded here (superflat world).

The base comprised standard Minecraft castles and houses. It was more colorful than Passie Town due to the fact that it was built in a different Minecraft update, which introduced new creative blocks that players could use.

Origin
During the time of the base's founding, NFE was being repeatedly griefed, and a famous group base, SquidBase, had been abandoned.

ziggy_s, who had built at NFE, as well as passie05, traveled to -400, 800, NFE's Overworld coordinates, in the Nether. They found a portal there and traveled to the Overworld, where they found a "strange abandoned tower with trees growing around it and underground farms", as recounted by xcc2. It is unknown who build these. ZiggyBase was founded at this location.

First occupancy
Ziggy began building farms, and passie began building a large castle from a tutorial. xxc2 arrived afterward and started building an Oriental-style building connected to Ziggy's farms. Many refugees from NFE found a home at ZiggyBase, such as JDW9966, policemike55, redolunatic, x0XP, and zxcwbz1. redolunatic built an underground sheep farm divided into pens by the color of the sheep's wool. This farm was used for builds at the base such as his "Daily Dose" pill, and xcc2's cathedral. A multi-leveled automatic wheat farm was built by x0xp, a Spleef arena was built by passie, and several other builds were made.

popbob also arrived at the base, though did not build anything. After getting into a verbal conflict with Branillion, a new 2b2t player invited to the base by xcc2, he griefed Branillion's underground farm, causing him to leave the server.

After a dupe was discovered, builders contacted creamoftheslop to get the coordinates for his stash of illegal items, leftover from popbob's backdoor. xcc2 and passie traveled to the stash using the Nether roof, bringing back illegal items such as spawn eggs and bedrock, which were duped it as fast as possible. One of the members who got these perks made stashes out in the millions filled with illegal items, including bedrock. The illegally-built Bedrock Comet was built out of bedrock at ZiggyBase. The Bedrock Dam and Bedrock Bunker were also built nearby.

ZiggyBase was abandoned and griefed in 2012.

Second occupancy
In 2014, xcc2 returned to ZiggyBase find it only slightly griefed. The base was rebuilt and reinhabited. jared2013, a new 2b2t player at the time, helped at the base and lived there, making it one of his first homes. ZiggyBase was found months later and griefed for the second time. Following that incident, the base members decided to leave the base for good.

Post-grief
During The Rusher War in mid-2016, taylo and jared2013 attempted to defend and protect the ruins of ZiggyBase by covering it in a lavacast.

Despite the base being destroyed and lavacasted, Bedrock Comet remained as a well-known landmark. Over the years, many different players and groups contributed towards the ruined state of ZiggyBase. Much of the later history of the base surrounds the Bedrock Comet, as it was the only surviving build at the location until its completed grief in August 2020.

Restoration efforts
During The Rusher War in mid-2016, taylo and jared2013 attempted to defend and protect ZiggyBase by covering it in a lavacast.

During early April 2020, an attempt to remove the lavacasts from ZiggyBase was made. The project was lead by players Univercius and KBgaming, with additional help from Jimbo_Limbo and the creator of the bedrock comet, passie05. The restoration effort took about half a week and when the project concluded, almost all remnants of the years-old lavacasts were gone.

Attempts to protect the Bedrock Comet from further damage were also made. In 2020, the comet was submerged in a water cube in order to protect it from griefers attempting to destroy the bedrock through exploits. Despite the effort, the Bedrock Comet was completely destroyed by August 2020.

Bedrock Comet
For the entire extensive history of the Bedrock Comet, visit the dedicated page for the Comet here.

Bedrock Bunker
An illegally built bedrock bunker near bedrock level is close to ZiggyBase. FitMC made a video on it.

The bunker was 4 blocks wide, 3 blocks tall, and 7 blocks across (on the inside) with no way inside. When using freecam, it was possible to place blocks inside the bunker. Xcc2 said that using freecam, they used the bunker to store items as an ungriefable chest.

The bedrock has been replaced with an expoit to be out of obsidian by someone called "Press". It is unknown when this happened.

Bedrock Dam
Another illegally placed bedrock build located at X:-3500 Z:7000.