How Parrot Survived 100 Days as King on the Deadliest Hardcore SMP

A Deadly Server and an Impossible Promise

On the Unstable SMP, a hardcore Minecraft server billed in Parrot’s video as the world’s largest, almost nobody survives past their first login. Parrot describes the odds starkly: out of 100 new players, only 10 escape spawn alive; starvation, bandits, and natural causes cut that number down to one by the end of the first week. The server’s culture has largely accepted this brutality as normal.

After overthrowing a prior tyrant, Lettuce K, the players elected Parrot as the first formal king of Unstable. In his coronation speech, Parrot promised something no one had ever managed: in 100 Minecraft days (about 33 hours of real time), new players would be able to:

• Spawn in safely
• Receive food
• Have a safe place to go and live

If he failed, he vowed to resign as king.

Even his closest allies — Theo, Horus, and Phada — thought the goal was nearly impossible. Lettuce himself had ruled with an army and massive resources and still never made spawn safe. Parrot’s group was just four players with no standing military. But they agreed to try: Horus would handle building and infrastructure, Phada would take on leadership in the main city, and Theo would serve as Parrot’s bodyguard and partner in combat.

Cleansing Spawn: The Wither War

Spawn was effectively a killing field. When Parrot first joined the server, he says he escaped with only half a heart, and only survived because Theo happened to be nearby. The main culprit: a huge concentration of withers at the center of spawn, instantly killing most new players.

Parrot and Theo, armed with fully enchanted netherite gear, launched a direct assault on the withers. Parrot explains how withers behave:

• At range, they try to keep their distance, making bows the most effective early tool
• At half health, they enter an aggressive, glowing phase, dealing heavy damage up close

There were far more withers than they expected. The fight quickly became chaotic:

• Armor durability plummeted
• Their health dropped dangerously low multiple times
• Random players were dying all around them while trying to flee

After nearly destroying their gear, they realized the withers had retreated into lower tunnels. When they pushed underground, they were nearly overwhelmed — until their friends Phada and Horus arrived in diamond gear to help finish the job.

By the end of day 5, Parrot’s group had done what no one on Unstable had managed before: they killed all the withers at spawn. For the first time in the server’s history, players could log in and not immediately die to wither fire.

However, spawn was still lethal in other ways: fall damage, terrain, and hostile players. To address that, Parrot turned to Horus, a skilled builder, and tasked him with fully rebuilding spawn into a fortified, safe castle where newcomers would actually be protected.

Reforming Capital City and Choosing New Leaders

Parrot’s promise wasn’t just about spawn. He also committed to providing new players a safe place to go after escaping the starting area. Traditionally, that hub was Capital City, the largest settlement on the server.

But Capital City was being run by a mayor Parrot portrays as greedy and exploitative:

• Extremely high taxes (90%) on ordinary residents
• A focus on extracting wealth rather than protecting or supporting citizens

Parrot moved to change that by installing his ally Phada as the new mayor. When he confronted the current mayor, Sir Pig, the tension was clear: Sir Pig demanded taxes from Parrot and his friends, claiming significant unpaid diamond debts. Parrot asserted his authority as king, backed by Theo as his royal bodyguard, and officially replaced Sir Pig with Phada.

At a public gathering, Parrot framed Capital City as the heart of the server and introduced Phada as the new leader. Phada’s first speech as mayor set a different tone:

• City expansion: building new districts, homes, and opportunities to accommodate the influx of players
• Tax reform: slashing taxes for ordinary residents from 90% to 10%
• Inclusivity: reaffirming that Capital City should be “a place for everyone”
• Trust-building: promising to listen, learn, and make the city feel like it truly belongs to its citizens

The crowd responded positively, and Parrot stepped back, leaving Phada to manage Capital City. This effectively split responsibilities:

• Parrot: kingdom-wide security and spawn reform
• Phada: economic policy and urban growth in the main city
• Horus: infrastructure and large-scale building

Despite this administrative progress, Parrot continued to encounter vocal opposition from older players around the server, some of whom still supported Lettuce or simply resented the idea of a king.

The Food Crisis and a Kingdom-Wide Chicken Plan

One of Parrot’s hardest promises to fulfill was food security. On Unstable, players generally eat crops like bread, carrots, or potatoes, but without villagers, large-scale automated farming is difficult. Parrot concluded that the most practical solution was:

• Massive, automatic chicken farms
• Producing thousands of cooked chickens per hour

To accomplish this, he and Theo traveled by rail for days to reach Redstone Town, a settlement famed for its redstone engineers. Its mayor, 4C, is an old friend of Parrot’s and even ran earlier in the same election.

Initially, 4C refused to help. He was worried his own people would resent him for supporting Parrot, who was controversial among many veteran players. Parrot and Theo tried to begin building farms themselves, but progress was painfully slow. Their technical approach was clumsy compared to what Redstone Town was capable of.

As they struggled, 4C reconsidered. Watching them grind away appeared to convince him they were serious. He offered to help by designing and building the farm system himself — though he left acquiring chickens up to Parrot and Theo.

4C directed them to Merchant City’s auction house as the best place to obtain a live chicken. That set off a desperate economic side-quest.

Auctions, Debt, and a 100,000-Diamond Bid

Merchant City was bustling when Parrot and Theo arrived. Chickens were extremely rare and valuable on Unstable; Parrot was told a single chicken could cost around 1,000 diamonds at auction. Unfortunately, Theo only had about 600.

With just 20 minutes before the auction, they tried to raise more diamonds through mini-games. At one archery booth, Parrot paid three diamonds per shot to hit progressively harder targets. The hardest target — a distant moving minecart — paid out 10 diamonds if hit.

Parrot began landing shots on the minecart repeatedly in front of an increasingly stunned crowd, forcing the operator to push the cart farther back and move the shooting line backward multiple times. Even from an extreme distance, he kept hitting it, racking up a large haul of diamonds before the operator finally gave up and shut the game down.

By the time the auction began, Parrot and Theo had around 900 diamonds.

Inside the auction house, a wealthy player named RealRoyalty aggressively outbid everyone on nearly every item: ominous bottles, rare gear, even high-level enchanted books. When the chicken finally came up for sale, the bidding escalated quickly:

• Parrot started at 50 diamonds
• RealRoyalty and others pushed the price toward 500
• Parrot declared 900 diamonds — everything they had

At that point, Theo impulsively shouted “100,000” diamonds, misunderstanding the scale and trying to outbid Royalty. The auctioneer accepted it at face value and sold the chicken to Parrot’s side.

Parrot was stunned. They’d just pledged 100,000 diamonds they didn’t have. Realistically, this put their kingdom into what Parrot calls “generational debt.”

Still, they took custody of the chicken, with Theo insisting they’d find a way to pay it back. Parrot worried that if they defaulted, Merchant City might break its alliance with his kingdom or even end up at war with them. For now, though, he prioritized keeping his word about food security.

Building the Farms and Outsmarting the Bandits

By day 45, Parrot and Theo returned to Redstone Town with their chicken. In their absence, 4C and his residents had gone far beyond the original request:

• They built multiple large “barn” structures filled with automated chicken-killing and cooking mechanisms
• Each barn, at full capacity, could produce roughly 1,500 cooked chicken per hour
• With all six barns running, the system could generate about 9,000 cooked chicken per hour — far more than strictly necessary

Parrot, Theo, and 4C then spent more than a week breeding chickens until two barns were at maximum capacity. Parrot describes the area as extremely laggy due to the sheer number of entities. As a bird-themed player, he noted it was unsettling to watch so many chickens being processed, but it was the only way to feed the flood of new players.

By day 84, the farms had generated nearly 30,000 cooked chickens. At 16 pieces per new player, that stockpile was enough to feed new arrivals for about 24 hours continuously.

Next came the logistical challenge: getting all that food back to spawn.

The Train Convoy and the Horn Plan

They decided to use the server’s railroad network:

• Day 85: they loaded minecarts with chests full of cooked chicken
• Theo rode about 1,000 blocks ahead of the convoy to scout for threats
• If he saw danger — bandits, enemy teams, or saboteurs — he would blow a horn
• On hearing the horn, Parrot would immediately stop the convoy and wait for Theo to clear the way

As expected, the chicken attracted multiple ambushes. Theo encountered bandits who tried to rob the train, and Parrot fought off attackers determined to seize or destroy the supply.

The biggest threat came from Sarge Law, a former commander under Lettuce K. His group intercepted Parrot directly near the train line, revealing that Theo had earlier been diverted by a decoy squadron.

Sarge made his goal explicit: stop Parrot’s mission, force him to fail his 100-day pledge, and thereby end his reign as king. He argued that a king like Parrot would destroy the server’s nature, and that Parrot couldn’t be allowed to succeed.

Sarge ordered his men to search the minecarts and destroy the chicken.

They found nothing.

The Real Transport Method

Parrot then revealed, in narration, that the train convoy was a decoy operation from the start. Knowing someone would likely try to intercept the shipment, he’d arranged a different plan with 4C:

• 4C moved the real chicken stockpile separately using a “happy guest” (the video implies a different, less obvious transport method)
• The minecarts Parrot was escorting were empty, meant only to draw attention and stall adversaries

By the time Sarge’s forces realized they’d been fooled, it was too late; 4C was likely already near spawn with the actual food.

This misdirection allowed Parrot to continue onward and gave 4C enough time to secure the supplies where they were needed most.

Rebuilt Spawn, Ungrateful Veterans, and Lettuce’s Warning

By day 96, Parrot returned to a completely transformed spawn.

Horus had used the time to build a full, fortified spawn structure:

• Safe landing area around the exact spawn point
• Pathways and walls to prevent fall deaths
• Clear routes leading to Capital City, marked for new arrivals

Players were now spawning in and immediately being directed:

• Down from the high spawn platform
• Past a designated “food giver” who handed out cooked chicken
• Onto a cobblestone path leading all the way to Capital City

When Parrot arrived, he met the player handling food distribution, who thanked him for what he’d done. New players expressed excitement and relief rather than fear — a radical change from the server’s previous state.

Parrot even took over briefly, personally handing out chicken and walking a new player, Ironclad, toward the path to Capital City, welcoming him to Unstable.

On paper, Parrot had fulfilled his entire 100-day promise:

• Spawn was safe from withers and environmental hazards
• Every new player received food on arrival
• A stable, growing city awaited them along a protected path

Yet hostility from many veteran players remained intense.

Persistent Hatred

Even as the improvements became visible, groups of older players confronted Parrot at spawn and in other areas, shouting that he’d “ruined the server” and that they wanted Lettuce back instead.

Some told him directly that they hoped he’d be banned. Others framed his kingship as meaningless, insisting his title had no legitimacy.

Theo pointed out the disconnect: they were doing concrete things to help new players, but large segments of the old guard still refused to acknowledge it.

Parrot, in narration, said this bothered him at first. Over time, he tried to focus on doing what he believed was right, even if the people benefiting didn’t fully understand or appreciate it.

A Final Conversation with Lettuce K

Parrot eventually confronted the deposed tyrant, Lettuce K, now held as a prisoner. In their conversation, Parrot accused Lettuce of:

• Letting tens of thousands of players die at spawn under his rule
• Doing nothing meaningful to fix the wither problem
• Having the wealth and army to solve spawn safety, but choosing not to

Lettuce didn’t deny he had the power. Instead, he made a more unsettling claim: he could have fixed spawn instantly but deliberately refused. He implied that uncontrolled newcomers and a safe spawn would destroy what he saw as the “real” Unstable.

He also delivered a warning:

• He suggested the server was “too far gone” and “unrepairable”
• He hinted that sometimes leaders must make harsh choices to protect their people
• He told Parrot that, as king, he would eventually face the same kind of moral trade-offs

Lettuce framed Parrot’s success as both impressive and naive, implying that the real challenges of ruling were still ahead.

Day 100 and Beyond: A Kingdom Transformed

By day 100, Parrot had met every condition he’d laid out on day one:

• Spawn cleared: all withers at spawn were gone
• Safe environment: Horus’s rebuilt spawn and infrastructure prevented immediate deaths and guided players safely outward
• Food security: massive chicken farms built by 4C and Redstone Town kept a steady supply of cooked chicken flowing to new arrivals
• Shelter and opportunity: Phada’s reformed Capital City expanded housing, lowered taxes, and opened up space for average players to build lives

The result was dramatic: Parrot reports that within a week, his kingdom’s population grew by more than 500%, driven primarily by the new players who could finally survive their first minutes on the server.

Despite that, he remained in significant debt to Merchant City due to the 100,000-diamond bid Theo had made on the chicken. Politically, he still faced resentment from veteran factions — including remnants of Lettuce’s forces like Sarge Law — who viewed his rule as illegitimate or harmful.

In the closing moments, Parrot and Theo reflect on a lingering mystery: who originally spawned the withers at spawn, and why spend so many resources doing it? Parrot admits he doesn’t know and, at least for now, doesn’t care. The only thing that matters to him is that the withers are dead and the new players are alive.

For Parrot, the 100 days aren’t an ending but a beginning. He’s proven he can keep his word under near-impossible conditions. The next question, which he leaves hanging for future episodes, is what kind of kingdom he’ll build now that people can actually survive long enough to see it.

Summary

In “100 Days as King of the Unstable SMP,” Parrot documents a tightly scoped but high-stakes promise: make the deadliest hardcore spawn on the server safe within 100 Minecraft days or resign as king.

Over that period, he and his allies:

• Eradicated a massive wither infestation at spawn
• Rebuilt the area into a fortified, beginner-friendly castle
• Installed a new, fairer mayor in Capital City and slashed player taxes
• Partnered with Redstone Town to construct huge automatic chicken farms
• Fell into massive debt to secure a single breeding chicken at auction
• Outwitted bandits and remnants of Lettuce’s regime with a decoy supply train

By day 100, new players were spawning safely, receiving food, and journeying to an expanded Capital City, even as many long-time players continued to openly hate Parrot’s rule.

The episode frames Parrot not just as a PvP player or builder, but as a leader navigating political resistance, logistical challenges, and moral trade-offs — all within the unforgiving environment of the Unstable SMP.