#I haven’t even drawn regular etho yet ;-;

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Quick doodle of maple prince etho

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...you have opened my eyes to a vast universe of VintageBeef lore that I was unaware of. I knew about the New Hermit Order, of course, and the UHC invention, and I've watched a few of his CTM things but -- I will take all the info and lore you feel like giving out because Beef is amazing and my knowledge is so small.

Vintagebeef my beloved <3

So the thing is, right, until about 2016 I only watched two (2) youtubers- Vintagebeef for Minecraft and aDrive for Pokemon (and funnily enough both of them are named Dan irl). So I've watched most of Beef's videos over the years and have a general knowledge of most of his stuff, except because it's been like a decade I don't remember where most of the lore comes from XD

The thing with him is that he doesn't do Lore tm the way other mcyters often do lore- he doesn't have an extensive RP series to draw from like Grian, doesn't have a solo world with steadily increasing amounts of lore like Etho or Zisteau, and while he's played on SMPs and been involved in storylines before it's not really the focus of his episodes unlike with Evo or Legacy or Empires

So where does that leave us?

IRL, Beef always has multiple series running at the same time. Often he's playing on an smp while doing a singleplayer, often modded, series as well as a CTM or modpack with a group of friends. For example, right now he's playing on Hermitcraft, doing weekly Pixelmon and Building a Zoo episodes, and a CTM map with Slip. And to me, this translates to one thing: Beef is an adventurer. He travels frequently- he explores a world and when he decides he's done, he leaves for the next one. That's the basis of my personal interpretation of his series and his character for my writing.

Ok so reading this back, this got extremely long and didn't explain much in the way of lore, somehow? If anyone has any additions to add please do so, I am very definitely leaving out a lot and would love to see what other lore people remember and are using for Beef! I didn’t include the Hermitcraft stuff since my memory of season 4 is blurry (his base was themed after the Martian, that much I know, and he and Iskall were buddies :D) and most of the s5 NHO lore is best watched from Bdub’s perspective from what I remember, and the only s6 stuff is a single line in Hermitgang and then the Area 77 arc with its possibility of an NHO reunion which we did not get rip. And s7 of course had the cloning machine and also the Podzol Party as the main lore. So all the original rambling is still below the cut though it is very long, and I'm gonna bullet point the main stuff here instead:

Actual canonical things:

Invented UHC and was the only survivor of the first ever uhc (Mindcrack UHC s1)

Married to an ender dragon (one of the UHCs I think), later father to a different dragon (Mindcrack season 3? I think?)

Might not have legs if you choose to take that joke as canon (Mindcrack s2)

Was a wizard (RAD)

is a zookeeper (Building a Zoo) 

Had a wife and kids (Sims in Minecraft)

Part of the Trial of the B Team court case (Mindcrack)

NHO founder, founder of the Podzol Party (Hermitcraft)

Created a cloning machine that sort of works (Hermitcraft)

Played the Forest which is I believe the first time he and Keralis played together (look up the trigger warnings for this one, it's a horror game)

Was the creator/owner of Sourceblock SMP (featuring some familiar faces if you know Legacy, Empires, or MCC) and there is literal magic from a mysterious sourceblock of water that teleports people and summons mobs and probably more stuff that I haven't seen yet since I'm still watching it myself

Things you can infer:

Good with animals (Life in the Woods, Pixelmon, Ark)

Is a car nerd (irl and all of the car games he's played)

Is a highly experienced adventurer who has traveled through dozens of worlds both vanilla and modded, across multiple dimensions (Twilight Forest, the Aether, the Betweenlands, Limbo), completed dozens of monuments, fought in blood sports, survived apocalypse after apocalypse, tamed dinosaurs, and played a lot of prop hunt and golf with your friends

If you're looking for what to watch for lore purposes, I'd say the Mindcrack UHCs and Team Canada's RAD series are pretty good, definitely Sourceblock and HC s5, plus the Diversity CTM maps and Ruins of the Mindcrackers maybe? And Mindcrack Prank Wars for the chaos and the origin of Team Canada. And if you can handle horror than the Forest is fun and if you don't do horror you can watch the Pojkband play golf or prop hunt they're hilarious I love them sm I want a Pojkband reunion So Bad 

Beef's first series was a singleplayer series in beta 1.4_01 though he had played the game extensively before that, and was a big fan of Guude, having watched his own Minecraft videos. The series was functionally a hardcore one where if he died Beef would delete the world and start again! I haven't actually Watched this series so idk if he died or how often lmao. When Guude made Mindcrack, which was btw one of the very first Minecraft SMPs, he also hosted a competition for people to join, and Beef submitted a video (which is still viewable on his channel I believe!) and won, and was added to Mindcrack in season 2 :D (fun fact, Guude said that even if Beef hadn’t won he would have added him anyway) 

Two running jokes emerged from Mindcrack- pulling a Vintagebeef and Beef doesn't have legs. The first is a reference to Beef dying of fall damage (I believe the exact instance was him trying to jump into his swimming pool and failing spectacularly) and after the incident, every time someone died of fall damage they were pulling a Vintagebeef. The second joke comes from Guude, who joked that the reason Beef wasn't going to a convention was because he didn't have legs, and then he pranked Beef's base by building a giant pair of legs at the entrance to his castle so you had to walk between them to get into the base. This joke has long since died and both Beef and Guude feel pretty bad about it iirc because there were people who genuinely thought Beef was disabled and were emailing him supportive messages and stuff oops. So if you go looking on the Salad or find old Mindcrack fics, you might see references to Beef having prosthetic legs!

Mindcrack also brought about the creation of several Player groups- Team Nancy Drew, Team Canada, and GOB to name a few relevant to Beef. Team Nancy Drew consists of Beef, Pauseunpause, Guude, and Baj, who formed to investigate a prank on one of the members but I forget who. They're named Nancy Drew after the detective! Team Canada also formed in retaliation to pranks, with it consisting of Beef, Etho, and Pause, the three Canadian members on the server (not including Adlington who moved to Canada but never joined the group). There was also a Team America who pranked them with American flags everywhere. GOB is Guude, OMGChad, and Beef, who played stuff like the Ragecraft, Pantheon, and Monstrosity ctms together but that's way down the line lol

Team Nancy Drew is also notable for inventing UHC. It was Beef's brainchild but it was the four of them who first played it! The first UHC had the four of them working to kill the dragon with no natural regen, with everyone dying but Beef, who "won" the UHC. The second uhc was still dragon focused and iirc is where Beef married the dragon? Memories are hazy but they do kill the dragon in this one I think. UHC was then revamped as a pvp event and became a regular Mindcrack game every few months, featuring most of the Mindcrackers and several special guests, including Dinnerbone, who as we know Thanos-snapped Doc's arm out of existence as a result of Doc killing him in one of them

In one of the seasons of Mindcrack, Beef invited swedish Mindcracker and good friend Anderzel to go caving with him and invented ABBA Rules caving, where the winner takes it all. ABBA Rules is a game where each ore (and also dungeon loot like nametags) is assigned a point value and the person with the most points at the end wins and gets to keep all the stuff collected from the game.

In Mindcrack season 3?, Beef punched the ender dragon in an... awkward area, so when the dragon died and left the egg behind, Guude said Beef was the father of the egg XD I don't remember if I watched s3 so I have no idea if anything Happened with this concept but *history of the world voice* you could make lore out of this!

So Team Canada has played a Lot of CTM maps (which fun fact were pretty much invented by another Mindcrack member, Vechs, with his Super Hostile series! Super Hostile has a bunch of things called "Zistonian", which are references to another Mindcrack member Zisteau, who has a very wild singleplayer series with even wilder lore but I digress). In Ruins of the Mindcrackers, they had a running joke that Beef was Etho and Pause's mom, which is a joke we can leave in the past actually /lh. They also played all the Diversity maps, Sky Factory, Terra Restore, Uncharted Territory uhhh and a couple more ctms and adventure maps! Each map kinda has its own story so in Diversity 3 for example they were trapped in a simulation? I think? Team Canada also recently played the Roguelike Adventures and Dungeons modpack, aka RAD, in which Beef was a wizard with a magic staff that could do anything from summon lightning to control hostile mobs.

Sourceblock SMP is a vanilla survival 1.14 series that ran for one season and the series starts with each of the Players being drawn to a strange sparkling water source that, once they touch it, brings them to the Sourceblock world. It also summons a giant zombie at one point. There's probably more lore for this series but like I said I haven't watched it all the way through yet 

He has a Patreon server called VintageCraft and has done a series or two on there as well, and played a few UHCs with them, so lore that how you will! 

Beef also played a few popular mods, notably Pixelmon, Life in the Woods, and Feed the Beast, with LitW being singleplayer and the other multiplayer. He's also recently played the Zoo and Wild Animals mod a lot. He did a short series with the Minecraft Comes Alive mod where he married one of the villagers and had two children, so that's canon now :D he’s played a Lot of Pixelmon starting when the mod first came out iirc (he chose Turtwig in his first series and built a Grass gym, then made a Normal gym in another series in uhh 2016) and he still plays to this day. Quite a few Hermits played on his Pixelmon servers with him, like Wels, Etho, Iskall, Stress, Slip, Zueljin, and also Guude and Phedran (a Mindcrack adjacent player and creator of the LitW modpack) and a few Mindcrackers on the older servers 

Mindcrack and friends played a lot of other games too- 7 Days to Die, Ark Survival Evolved, Unturned, to name a few, so you can pull a lot of lore out of these as well. Speaking of friends and non-Minecraft games, Beef teamed up with Pause, Keralis, and Slip (a former Hermit) to play the horror game the Forest, which saw them stuck on an island trying to survive against terrifying mutated human... things. They played it a few times as the game updated but as afaik it's the first time Beef played with Keralis and possibly Slip and since the game starts with the Player's airplane crashing, that could totally be how Beef first met them in-universe 

I... think? that’s everything I mentioned in the tags? There is probably way more stuff I’ve forgotten that stems from inside jokes and things that happen within each series, but I hope that was a) helpful and b) at least somewhat comprehensible lmao 

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League Two Betting: Back Exeter to pile on Morecambe's woes

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Bury need to get points away while the Grecians can take victory at Rodney Parade, says Ian Lamont, who also tips Morecambe to take a vital win…

Grecians face life after Stockley Newport County [2.7] v Exeter City [2.8]; the draw [3.7]’Amateurish defending’, ‘Off the boil’. Two phrases Exiles boss Mike Flynn used to describe his side after their late collapse at Crewe, where they conceded two goals in the final few minutes.As one comes to expect from mid-table sides, Newport’s FA Cup form trumps their league form by a considerable margin. Dan Butler returned after suspension, but otherwise it was the same team that defeated Leicester City – and the Welsh side have now lost five out of their last six League Two games, virtually killing their play-off hopes. Three wins in 16 games puts an even worse gloss on it.A fresh face or two might be needed, says Flynn. He’ll be drawing on Lennie Lawrence’s vast experience in the background, for sure. He’d love Joss Ladabie to be fit to return, to help supply Padraig Amond with chances.Exeter, meanwhile, have perked up again after a winless run of four draws and four defeats. Four wins and a draw in their most recent six came as prize asset Jayden Stockley was distracted by his move to Preston. Matt Taylor says they will have to change their style a little for Ryan Bowman, brought in from Motherwell to replace him up front.Meanwhile he has re-signed 18-year-old defender Kane Wilson, on loan from West Brom, who played for the Grecians last season. Fellow Baggie Dara O’Shea presumably reminded him how great the club can be at their best. And that’s what they’ve got to be again to push back into the top seven.Jonathan Forte (who has five goals) and Bowman, who has experience at this level, have to replace Stockley’s 16 goals pretty quickly, though, so the perfect place to start is at a team where eyes and legs are still focused on the cup. Add in Newport’s overall home record of seven wins and three draws and there seem good reasons why the visitors’ price is so big, but I’m going to take a calculated risk and back them.Baggies a boon to TranmereTranmere [2.3] v Swindon [3.4]; the draw [3.6]Tranmere put their FA Cup defeat to bed pretty well, with a comprehensive dismissal of Cheltenham despite conceding first.Rovers could do with someone to take the pressure off James Norwood, the league’s top scorer with 17, to net and they seem to have found that in Ishmael Miller, 31, on loan from West Brom, who bagged one on his debut. Fellow new boy David Perkins also impressed his new boss Micky Mellon. Plenty of managers say they need that fresh face in January and now Tranmere can push on with their ambition to reach the play-offs. But Mellon also has Ollie Banks, who had not featured since November, back and starring against the Robins last weekend.They are quite formidable at home, winning eight and – as Opta point out – only losing one, while improving Swindon have lost several of their last eight away games without scoring. They have beaten strugglers Macclesfield and Notts County.Richie Wellens’ side have conceded nine goals in eight games – a record better than many – but only scored eight, Michael Doughty chipping in with another couple (including a penalty) as they held Lincoln. The Robins are capable of achieving results, but perhaps not against their hosts in current mood. Bury need an away boostForest Green Rovers [3.0] v Bury [2.6]; the draw [3.4]Mark Cooper talks of having to “pick up” Christian Doidge after his abortive move to Bolton, after an initial loan that was organised in August. You’d think if he was training two levels higher and had been top scorer by a country mile before, he might go straight back into the team.However, the striker started on the bench against Oldham. A gentle re-introduction, then, but it surely won’t take long for Doidge to start where he left off.They need a standout scorer. No one else has netted in double figures – Reuben Reid and George Williams have six apiece, yet Rovers fly high in the division. They have an all-round great team ethos in that case. Unbeaten in six, they have done extremely well away from home recently, winning twice and drawing twice.With one goalkeeper returning to parent club Brighton, they needed to strengthen the goalkeeping options and Lewis Ward, 21, has signed on loan from Reading.But can they hold off Bury, who have taken longer to come to the ball than I expected. Yes, they have a new-to-management boss in Ryan Lowe, but they also have a history of succeeding in this division and have had a strong enough squad to give it a go from the start of the season.They sit second and it feels that now they are beginning to motor, with three straight wins, including last weekend’s 4-3 thriller over Milton Keynes in the last minute.”Free-flowing” is one observer’s take on the Shakers at present and they earned a win in their last away game at Yeovil. However, Jay O’Shea is correct that their away form in the second half of the season will be key to their chances of automatic promotion. It has to improve from the current four wins and four draws.Nicky Maynard chalked up the winner at Yeovil, while Nicky Adams hopes the crowd – the 12th man – will help get Bury over the promotion line and indeed to Wembley in the Checkatrade Trophy. They’ve got the firepower, scoring more than once regularly. Opta stress the the visitors haven’t conceded in back-to-back away games, but I’m wondering if all the facts point to one of League Two’s regular draws. Opta add that both Forest Green boss Mark Cooper’s previous two matches with the club against Bury have ended as drawsLoanee gives Shrimps a boostMorecambe [2.4] v Stevenage [3.3]; the draw [3.4]Injuries to A-Jay Leitch-Smith and Vadaine Oliver have forced Jim Bentley into the loan market for strikers. Maybe he is regretting letting Garry Thompson go now.Carlisle’s Richie Bennett is the latest to arrive, someone Bentley and his management team have admired for a while. Anyone who puts pressure on Rhys Oates is a good thing as they try to finish off Kevin Ellison’s crosses.Andrew Tutte has also been chipping in, but the “goals for” column has been a bit lacking recently. They have drawn a blank three times in four matches.Having said that, in recent home matches, while they lost to Carlisle, they have netted three against Cambridge and twice against Port Vale.Draws – three in their last six – will not keep them out of trouble at the bottom, so this must be a chance to take a victory. As Opta point out, Stevenage have won or lost alternate games in their last six, drawing two blanks in front of goal themselves in two of their last four games – both of them away.So Dino Maamria is hoping to keep Steve Seddon on loan, having brought in Moses Mokasi from West Ham already. The visitors don’t have the greatest record away. Dan Newton (2) and Ben Kennedy (1) have barely scored since the start of December, giving the Shrimps a chance of a vital win. The hosts shouldn’t be written off if they go behind in the first half either, because Opta say their last seven goals were scored in the second half of matches.

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