M8Server | Lost Embers Post Mortem

Post Mortem

Hello dear adventurers or those that merely stumple upon this page,

Saturday, 2026-01-04, the adventure of the Lost Embers adventure map by Cake has finally come to a conclusion! For the record, we did it without keep-items on death and on hard difficulty.

Thanks everyone for participating, it has been a lot of fun! Unfortunately it turns out that we technically fall short on all 3 objectives: Wool, Topaz and even Discs ☹. Details about this are below. In total we died 2058 times and cumulatively spent about 270 hours in the world! You can download the final state of the world here.

Despite this it has been a lot of fun and the map has honestly far exceeded my expectations in the variety it offered both in terms of looks as well as geometry (cave, bridge, hanging below, on the side of a wall, dungeons cutting through into the void and of course lots of dungeons above lava)... This becomes even more interesting due to the intricate way all these areas connect! Also there were so many fun secrets to discover. Nothing is really easy which ensured, that we do not finish too soon. In fact, initially the difficulty seemed a bit much, however this was resolved itself after we turned of the plugin that prevented us from breaking spawners. That wasn't really intended anyway by the author but more a server configuration mistake.

Thanks again to everyone for participating and I hope to see you on some future map.
Sincerely, M8237.

Results

Unfortunately it turns out that we technically fall short on all 3 objectives: Wool, Topaz and Discs:

Regarding the wool, we are missing the "Strawberry wool" from the very beginning. As we have concluded before, it apparently got already lost in the first hours of playing because xRealJere carelessly and foolishly ran into the sandstone castle and got pushed into the lava by the silverfish on the way out. Now, even more unfortunately, he didn't tell us because frankly we should have restarted the map at that point. It would have just been 1 hour lost.
Regarding the Topaz we are missing on in the bottom of the City, where xRealJere did a similar stunt. Also the one from the exit of the wires is lost. We didn't know the importance of the Topaz at that point. Shame on us.
Finally for the discs, it turns out 4 disks have actually died along the course of playing to some extent without us noticing (and to some extent with us forgetting since we started the adventure). A detailed conclusion can be found below.

Wools

Number	Got	Wool	Area	Achievement	Who did it.
1	Yes	Hibiscus	The Wires	Electrician	xRealJere, not_heyhey, FinMCPringles, M8237
2	No	Raspberry	The Cliff (Sandstone Castle)	Sandy Ruins	xRealJere (Lost), M8237
3	Yes	Rufous	The Monument	Sancturary	M8237
4	Yes	Rust	The Web	Pesticide	M8237
5	Yes	Alloy	The Bridge	Highway	QAZ, xRealJere, FinMCPringles, M8237
6	Yes	Tangerine	The Pit	Rock Bottom	not_heyhey (attempt), M8237
7	Yes	Mustard	The Mine	Rochy Riches	xRealJere, not_heyhey, M8237
8	Yes	Flax	The Wall	Nomads	M8237
9	Yes	Olive	The Temple	Tomb Raider	not_heyhey, M8237
10	Yes	Pistachio	The City (Sandstone Building)	Cooperate Ladder	FinMCPringles, M8237
11	Yes	Seafoam	The City (Tallest Penthouse)	Rooftop Penthouse	not_heyhey, M8237
12	Yes	Turquoise	The Sewer	Drainage	M8237
13	Yes	Viridian	The Fortress	Armaments	KuiperBolt, FinMCPringles, not_heyhey, M8237
14	Yes	Sapphire	The Cavern	Geothermal	FinMCPringles, M8237
15	Yes	Indigo	The Oven	Baked	M8237
16	Yes	Abyssal	The Door	Unstoppable	FinMCPringles, M8237

Extras (Topazes)

Number	Got	Achievement	Who did it?
1	Yes	The Wires: Catwalks	FinMCPringles
2	No	The Cliff: Wires parting gift	not_heyhey (Lost)
3	Yes	The Cliff: Load bearing Topaz	M8237
4	Yes	The Monument: Mossed over	M8237
5	Yes	The Monument: Ghosts in the rafters	FinMCPringles, M8237
6	Yes	The Web: Winding tunnels	FinMCPringles
7	Yes	The Bridge: The lonely column	xRealJere
8	Yes	The Pit: Space needle	FinMCPringles, M8237
9	Yes	The Pit: Secret bridge shortcut	M8237
10	Yes	"Prismarine Ruins": Shiny rock!	M8237
11	Yes	The Mines: Timber hideout	not_heyhey, M8237
12	Yes	The Mines: Frozen respite	xRealJere, M8237
13	Yes	The Wall: Kiss solid ground goodbye!	M8237
14	Yes	The Temple: Pyramid power	not_heyhey, M8237
15	Yes	"Hint House": Expensive patio	KuiperBolt, FinMCPringles
16	Yes	The City: Cook's favorite rug	M8237
17	No	The City: Core Tech deep storage	xRealJere (Lost)
18	Yes	The City: Pride of the smith	FinMCPringles, M8237
19	Yes	The Sewer: Drowning gems	FinMCPringles
20	Yes	The Fortress: Sinking rook	KuiperBolt, M8237
21	Yes	The Fortress: Bottom of the barrel	FinMCPringles, M8237
22	Yes	The Cavern: Skylight lover	FinMCPringles
23	Yes	The Oven: Maintenance	M8237
24	Yes	The Oven: Troll under the bridge	FinMCPringles, M8237
25	Yes	The Sewer: Treasure Hunt!	M8237
26	Yes	The Castle: Open wounds	M8237
27	Yes	The Castle: Castle climber	FinMCPringles, M8237
28	Yes	Lucky Stone 28. Ah, so that's where it wound up.	FinMCPringles, M8237

Discs

Number	Got	Name	Where?	Who did it?	Additional Notes.
1	Yes	13	Sandstone Castle Outpost	FinMCPringles, M8237
2	Yes	cat	Monument Top Tower	M8237
3	Yes	blocks	The Wall Outpost	M8237
4	Yes	chirp	The Pit Side	M8237
5	Yes	far	The Mines Top	xRealJere
6	Yes	mall	The Temple Outpost	not_heyhey, M8237
7	No	mellohi	The City Very Top	not_heyhey	Died by Super-Charged-Creepers going crazy when not_heyhey entered from above trying to somewhat bypass the rest.
8	No	stal	At Bridge Pillar meeting Cavern	FinMCPringles, M8237	Died by Creeper
9	No	strad	Fortress Rectangular Downstairs	KuiperBolt, M8237	Died by Creeper
10	Yes	ward	Top Bridge	FinMCPringles	In the very end after understanding the meaning of the map. Unclear how we missed this all the time before.
11	Yes	11	Sewer Corner of Rectangular Room	FinMCPringles, M8237	Random find when we where finishing up.
12	Yes	wait	Mountain Top	xRealJere, M8237
13	Yes	Pigstep	The Wires Next to Wool & Corner of Round Sewer Room	Both times FinMCPringles	Why twice? Second find not on the map, it would be just on the right side
14	Yes	otherside	The Prismarine Ruins, Towards Mountain	FinMCPringles	In the very end after understanding the meaning of the map. M8237 saw it before, unclear how he missed it then.
15	No	5	The Oven	M8237	M8237 might have seen it shortly. Died by ghast fire.

Other Items That We Missed

Since there is so many of them and we seem to have done pretty well in that regard, I will not make an exhaustive list. Instead, I will only list the couple places we saw in spectator mode after finishing the map that we seem to have missed.

Player statistics

Player	Play time	Death Count
M8237	158.7 h	1644
FinMCPringles	77.5 h	39
not_heyhey	10.6 h	191
xRealJere	9.9 h	119
KuiperBolt	6.3 h	38
q_az	3.0 h	19
SyTheMan	0.2 h	4
52am	0.2 h	2
WqterColor	0.1 h	1
Leonbs42	0.0 h	1
Total	268.4 h	2058

Last Steps

After a bit of a break, FinMCPringles and M8237 cleaned out the remaining city, the final area, got the wools and did some general looks around for collectibles in particular Topazes and disks.

After we had found 2 more disks "by hand", we finally understood the meaning of the map! It turns out, it does not show the location of the dungeons (and somewhat wools) as previously assumed, but instead actually the location of the disks! Of course, we had noticed before that the marked spots were bit weird in relation to the areas and certainly not the wool, but somehow we did not question this further until almost the very end. It was really rereading the signs explaing that it's 15 in total, that we finally figured it out. 15 is wool count needed for the door, but not the total wool count (16). Also the above/below ground thing really was off before.

Regarding the Topazes we have puzzled out the location of all them purely by going off their numerical ordering which seemed to relate to the wool. Even though we had forgot most numbers of the Toapzes we had fopund earlier, this proofed to be immensly helpful in narrowing down the search space. Here it turns out that, after putting the topazes into the allocated spots, the achievement window essentially gives away this information anyway. Oops! Um, I guess it was fun to do the hard way...