The HATA Piracy Corporation, or simply the Corporation, also sometimes called the Pirate Colony, is a corporatocratic pirate republic, comprising Remy, Toby, Bill, Liam, Hoang, and Lili.
The Corporation's territories are chiefly situated upon the Untitled Mushroom Island, though it also owns various other terriories, mainly islands, around the map.
Territories
- Untitled Mushroom Island
- Hoang and Lili's Untitled Farm Island
- Lighthouse Rock
- Rest Stop Island
- Polar Port
- Toothbrush Town
- Though neither founded by nor ever officially annexed by the Corporation, Toothbrush Town slowly drifted into the Corporation's sphere of influence after the arrival of the Path Network.
Map
Culture
Trafficking
Trafficking — mainly of animals, villagers, plants, and Liam — is a major part of Pirate culture, and it was even more important during the early days of the Piracy Corporation.
Due to the original Pirate settlement, now known as Torrento, being built on a mushroom island, the Pirates found themselves lacking many things they needed, such as crops and livestock, which needed to be imported from elsewhere, as they could not be naturally found on the Untitled Mushroom Island.
As such, the Pirates spent a lot of time in the early game exploring the HATA 2 Minecraft world and placing unsuspecting animals into boats in order to ship them back to Torrento. Such is how the Pirates obtained their sheep, ducks, cows (though realising later that they could have just sheared a mooshroom), villagers, camels, and goats, among other animals.
When Liam first joined HATA 2 for the first time and was invited to join the Piracy Corporation, he was brought to Torrento by Bill, who went to spawn in a boat, picked up Liam, and brought him all the way to Torrento.
I'm trafficking Liam!
—Bill, trafficking Liam
History
Timezone
Establishment of the Commune
The HATA Piracy Corporation was, technically speaking, founded before the start of HATA 2, though it was not yet known as the HATA Piracy Corporation. This tale recounts the first days of the Corporation and the journey of its founding members on the first day of HATA 2.
Formation of the Pact
On 2023-12-26, one day before the start of HATA 2, Bill and Remy agreed to be part of the same group in HATA 2. Toby also joined this group later on.
Seed Selection
On 2023-12-27, the first day of HATA 2, before the start of the server, Toby was still yet to select a world seed to use. After Billzo found an intriguing world seed, in which a large mushroom island was found to be located a couple of kilometers northeast of spawn, Toby agreed to use this as the seed for the server.
The Journey
After the server officially opened, and everyone was online (Remy arrived late) and had gathered some basic supplies, Remy, Toby, and Billzo set off together from the shipwreck at spawn in a pair of wooden rowboats. They rowed northeast from spawn.
During the journey, Remy had his Minecraft client language set to Pirate Speak (The Seven Seas), which inspired him to speak like a pirate. This also caused Bill to set his Minecraft language to Pirate Speak, and it is also part of the reason the group decided to begin calling themselves pirates.
The First Rest
They reached a plains biome landmass, stopping there for a short while to gather wood, stone, coal, and food. This was also where Toby found some sheep, placing them into boats to be taken to the group's new home in their intended destination, making Toby the first person in the Corporation to have engaged in animal trafficking, something which came to be very important in Pirate culture.
Exactly which landmass it was that the three landed on is likely to be what later became the southeastern portion of the Bilge Rats' old base, due to its proximity to spawn, the amount of grass and sand matching up with contemporaneous accounts, and its proximity to the strait through which the group sailed through to leave the Bay of Spawn.
Sailing the Seas
After passing through the strait out of the Bay of Spawn, now on three boats because they were carrying two sheep, Remy expressed regret at having missed the opportunity to tame a parrot from the jungle by spawn, which would have been greatly beneficial to the pirate persona he was maintaining at the time. Bill had offered to turn back towards spawn so that Remy could visit the jungle, but Remy turned this down.
They frequently made stops in order to raid ocean ruins and ruined portals sighted below the boat, from which they gathered various pieces of early game gear and loot. The seas were serene and the sailing was smooth, although Remy’s inconsistent internet connection did pose some challenges for the group.
The Second Rest
The party later stopped on an empty grassy island, now known as Rest Stop Island, some hundred meters to the west of the mushroom island. The island contained a single tree, which was cut down by Billzo to craft a smoker. Billzo replanted three saplings in place of the tree, but, due to the remoteness of the island, the saplings were hardly within any player's simulation distance and are still yet to grow into trees as of writing on 2024-03-29.
The purpose of this rest stop was to gather some food, chiefly sea lettuce, which was abundant in the ocean. They cooked the sea lettuce in the smokers, yielding crispy sea lettuce, enough to sustain Billzo and Remy for the remainder of the trip.
Toby's Departure
Toby eventually had to leave the game, leaving Remy and Bill to continue to the island alone with the two sheep in tow. As the two continued forth, the north tip of the island slowly manifested itself upon the horizon.
The Landing
"Land ho!"
—Remy
“Land ho!” Remy exclaimed from the crow’s nest of his rowboat. They landed on the island, finding but mycelium and mushrooms — a blank canvas on which to build their pirate empire. A single grass block was present where they landed. Billzo broke some of the neighbouring mycelium blocks and replaced the dirt, hoping that the grass would spread.
The sheep were left in the boats along the shore where they had landed, as the Glorious Plunderer and the God of News explored the island and set up camp. Remy placed down his jungle logs on the shore and planted the cocoa beans upon them, starting the first cocoa bean farm. Nearby, Billzo converted some of the mycelium on the shore into farmland, where he planted wheat seeds, thereby establishing the first wheat farm on the island.
They set up a provisional base further inland, containing a bed, a double chest, a crafting table, a furnace, and a smoker.
Hoang's Arrival
On the same day of the landing on the Untitled Mushroom Island, Hoang, who had, up to that point, been mining to the southeast of spawn, managed to track down Billzo and Remy. He arrived on the island in full diamond armour, seeking to join the Corporation.
First Villager Trafficking
On the same day, after Hoang arrived, he and Remy worked together to traffic villagers from the village now known as Toothbrush Town, so named because of the last name "Toothbrush" being so prevalent among the villagers taken from the town, to the northwest of the mushroom island. Every last resident of the village was taken and shipped to the burgeoning pirate colony.
They transported the villagers back to the island, where Billzo built a piston staircase to move their boats up onto the island and helped to place them in the new pen built to house the villagers.
First Cow Trafficking
On 2024-12-28, some time between 00:05 and 00:11, Bill and Remy set off from the Untitled Mushroom Island northwards to the land now known as Horsy Hills, located close to the cherry grove on the mountainous landmass to the north of the island.
At 00:11, Billzo and Remy placed the cows into boats and began to transport them back home, arriving at 00:13.
Remy Murders Toby
On 2023-12-28 at 02:08 (discordsrv death message), Remy shot and killed Toby.
Hoang then threatened to execute Remy for the homicide. Remy insisted that his first death be a natural one, and that he would only undergo the death penalty after his first natural death during Hata 2.
Grassification Begins
At around 20:52 on 2023-12-28, Billzo majorly expanded the grassification project on the untitled mushroom island from the initial tentative attempts at grassification following the initial landing with Remy.
Grass blocks were seeded around the provisional base area to begin the grassification process. Billzo pioneered a new grassification technique, quite different from those used during cheezsurv4, made possible by recent Minecraft updates at the time. Billzo used a shovel to turn mycellium into dirt paths, and then used a hoe to turn the dirt paths into farmland. The farmland would then dry out and turn into dirt onto which grass could spread.
