User:Diablodoc

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Introduction
Diablodoc is a user who has been with the Minecraft community for most of its development time. Although it is unknown when he was first introduced to Minecraft, he came around at a time when Minecraft was publicly only one game, likely pre-InDev.

Game activity
When Diablodoc first started playing Minecraft, the game publicly available at that time consisted of a small, square and abrupt-ending map with pigs in it. The game would request you to "register", in order to store up to a few maps permanently. However, it wasn't until he returned to the franchise less than a year later, that he made an account.

Diablodoc's peak of interest with the Minecraft franchise first blossomed during the InDev phase. As limited as information seemed, he discovered it randomly via the official IRC Channel on EsperNet (#Minecraft). When InfDev was released, an even greater dedication was given with the game.

Later, he has introduced friends to Minecraft, as well as started servers for communities. He also participated in the Overgrowth community's Minecraft server, building the slightly known "Tree of Overgrowth". After a long time, he abandoned the server, reasoned that his structures were almost entirely made of wood, too large and too intricately made to be replaced if a fire was to emerge; he didn't want to put more effort in a potentially lost project. Despite that decision, he did periodically check in later, and, continously tried to convince the back-then host of the server (Silverfish) to implement WorldGuard to protect the server from overly large fire spreads. Those attempts did not succeed.

Later on, Diablodoc participated in various servers but quit for the same reason as always: not wanting to put too much effort into something that could disappear along with the server.

However, a long time later he made a new "start" to become more active, hosting a server for the [//www.cafeotaku.net Café Otaku] anime community, of which he started a new project called the "Tree of Life", inspired by the former and incomplete "Tree of Overgrowth". The Tree of Life was a substantially larger project, consisting of a tree wide enough to fit several large rooms beside eachother in the trunk. As to the date this article initially is written, 1st of February, 2013, this project is still ongoing.

Influence
Nearly right after the material Obsidian was introduced, Diablodoc contributed an idea that would heavily influence the gameplay. After playing around with Obsidian, he iterated that its role didn't quite make sense with its current properties. Despite obsidian being ridiculously hard to chop and taking a long time to make, it was still destroyable with TNT/Creeper explosions at that time. He felt that it shouldn't be so easily destroyed by creepers - and that if it was immune towards explosives, it would be a very useful material for various purposes.

Shortly after the material was introduced, he posted a suggestion to Notch on the public IRC Chat, requesting that Obsidian was to be made indestructible towards "TNT/Explosives, like creepers". Notch approved the suggestion and said that he would implement the feature soon.

As time went by, Diablodoc eagerly tested the game over and over, but saw no signs of the feature being implemented. Believing this might be due to Notch forgetting the idea whilst being busy programming, he thought he'd remind him, to which he always received the same response that it will be done. In one of these occasions, he went a bit too far, playing off a (obviously failed) joke comment, paraphrasing "Notch, do it or I'll have to kill you D:", of which lead to a small channel kick and Notch telling him not to use threats. This was followed up by an immediate apology from Diablodoc, attempting to explain the nature not to be of the serious, nor offensive kind.

Regardless, just a small while later, the feature was successfully implemented. This has had a vast gameplay impact, given the fact that Obsidian is so far the only usable material with complete protection against explosives.

IRC
Diablodoc continued to participate in the chat, as well as the forum community a tiny bit, whilst being active with the game till around Beta. It was during SMP Beta that Diablodoc's activity started to drop, and his dedication with the game started to vary.