Ftb:Crashfield Incident

The Crashfield Incident was an event that occurred May-06 of 2013. MFFS units, which were supposed to be disabled at the time, were found to be craftable. Unknowingly, Gawsh made one of these units and began experimenting on them. Eventually this came to a near disaster situation where a multitude of players came to watch the machine turn on at Newpoint Island.

The Machine caused what players dubbed "A Crashfield," which caused players with low amounts of allocated ram to the game to crash. Gawsh, the one who turned the machine on, had just enough time to wrench the machine, therefor destroying it before the server restarted automatically, saving the players who were present.

Pre-Event
MFFS units are machines which when turned on, create a forcefield capable of keeping any player out. Included are security systems which can instantly kill a player which nearby. Obviously, as a non-pvp server, this would mean the mod would have to be disabled. Along with the mod came extremely instability with force-fields when turned on with a large distance meter. Although in small doses it is safe, too much can mean disaster.

However, it was found, disabling the mod did not work, however the server administration did not know this at the time and players who were unaware of how unstable the mod was went to work on researching it and it's functions.

Gawsh and Grizwalt began testing MFFS units, and on the same day they started, Gawsh decided to preform a security test after doing various other functionality tests (which had worked on a small scale.)

The Incident
Gawsh called Stonecycle, one of his business partners to come help test. However, instead of just Stonecycle appearing, multiple players came to watch. When they arrived, they were placed inside the field to watch Stonecycle attempt to break through the field. However, The field came with its own surprise before Stonecycle could even attempt it - it began perpetually crashing all the players present.

Players without more than 5gb of allocated ram began to receive errors, and players who did have the ram began experiencing extreme lag, and if they rejoined, would crash on entry. With the server about to restart in one minute, Gawsh managed to rush to the machine and use his gravitool on it, destroying it, and turning it off. He then disposed of all the MFFS equipment in a lava container.

Aftermath
Gawsh immediately sent a message to flubbernugget to disable the MFFS units and warned other players about the dangers.

The MFFS unit was disabled on May-07 and the server was kept safe, effectively ending any potential disasters other players might have caused.