Fumo Factory Incidents

The Fumo Factory Incidents refer to two instances of repeated server crashes as a result of the wool farm in Hertskomestat built by BE in order to build giant fumo statues. This does not include The Hertskomestat Syndicate Piglin Farm Incident, which happened prior.

The First Incident

The first incident occurred on the 8th of June, 2025. It was noted on 10:15 GMT that ‘the lag was unbearable’. Half an hour later, the server would crash every time Sourrabbit or BE logged on. This happened 13 times in total.

The server repeatedly crashing due to the first Fumo Factory Incident.

Sourrabbit noted that „I think BE left a lot of items on the ground. I haven‘t been on in a bit”. The scale of the truth of that statement would quickly become apparent. Ætérnal logged on an hour later to discover the server was crashing due to the length of a single tick exceeding 60 seconds (60 Hr), leading it to shut down with the presumption that there was a bug in the code. This was thus a slowdown of 1200x, compared to 2x in the Chickenpocalypse. He then noted there were 32,241 item entities currently loaded on the server, all of which were checking for collision with one another due to being in the same chunk, which is what led to the slowdown in the first place.

After deleting all these entities, they continued to be produced, as there was a chunk loader present to keep the flow stable, and the chests had overflown. It was found to all be wool. Following the incident, Ætérnal banned chunk loader abuse and water transport without incinerators. BE deleted the chunk loaders and shut down the farm.

The Second Incident

From 4:16 to 6:17 GMT on 12 June, the server crashed another 11 times. This time, the number of item entities was even larger, at 47,604 (i.e. approx 2 209 000 000 collision checks per tick). Ætérnal logged onto the server two hours later, noting „It‘s the goddanm (sic) wool again” and „just going near their farm was lagging my game while ticks were frozen”. Following the incident, the wool farm was decommissioned and BE and Sourrabbit were banned from making any future farms. The cause was found to be a nether portal which continued to keep the chunk loaded.

The chunk found responsible for the second incident.