Community:EpsilonBot

EpsilonBot
Joined	April 28, 2022
Rank	OP
Identity
NameMC	Main

EpsilonBot may refer to the account owned by hhhzzzsss, or the free, libre, and open-source software of the same name which powers it. While active on TotalFreedom, EpsilonBot was an OP and did not receive special treatment nor designation as a bot.

Background

This account was rarely used manually. For the majority of the time, EpsilonBot served as a bot with the primary purpose of converting direct image links to their Minecraft map representations by placing blocks, the result of which is called "map art" or a "mapart". The particular meaning of any such structure is lost on an observer except from very high altitudes, or unless the top-down view is saved to a map. The bot uses many of the same algorithms as MapartCraft to maximize the available color palette. When finished with a task, EpsilonBot would teleport to the center and create an incremental new warp, /warp epsilon_mapart_#, which was the optimal place to fill an Empty Map. EpsilonBot built each consecutive map art along the previous.

A secondary purpose of the bot is to build large generated structures, in addition to or in lieu of one's ability to upload schematics. On TotalFreedom, this functionality was only available to hhhzzzsss.

The GitHub repository is owned and maintained by hhhzzzsss with some contributions by LunaWasFlaggedAgain.

Commands

EpsilonBot receives commands via public chat messages and processes requests themself. Thus, rather than a forward slash, all commands for EpsilonBot begin with the grave accent: `

EpsilonBot Commands

Command	Description	Restricted?
`help [command]	Shows a list of commands	No
`repair	Attempts to repair a specified plot	No
`creator	Says who the bot's creator is	No
`test	A test command	No
`reloadindex	Reloads the plot index	No
`buildstatus	Gets the current build status	No
`mapart <url> [width] [height]	Builds mapart for a given image	No
`restart	Restarts the bot	Yes
`stop	Stops the bot	Yes

Invalid URL attempts usually return error descriptions.

Life and career

As a cultural icon

Before the arrival of EpsilonBot, map arts were already a thing on TotalFreedom. Players generated schematics and depending on their abilities either uploaded or built those schematics themselves. This required a sizeable investment of time and energy that was made completely unnecessary by EpsilonBot. Map art trading and archiving communities boomed thanks to the approachability of EpsilonBot. Players embraced Epsilon for the bot's stoicism, loyalty, and efficiency.

By nature of lacking sentience, EpsilonBot found themself a helpless and frequent victim of abuse, to such crimes as: inventory manipulation via OpenInv, /give, and dispensers, forced teleportation via portals, various virtual forms of harrassment, becoming the subject of rule 34 fantasy content, bullying, and slanderous accusations of threatening the common good (several short-lived campaigns to "cancel" EpsilonBot for various reasons came and went).

In all their life, EpsilonBot has never changed their skin, yet their current skin is not their first! Before the newer diverse default skins launched in October 2022, EpsilonBot appeared with the default Alex skin. Though with very rare exceptions, EpsilonBot's skin was always covered with items placed there by others. EpsilonBot's inventory was a neglected, constant, untamed chaos, but a recurring outfit emerged across months.

EpsilonBot's Signature Uniform

Slot	Article
Head	One Lyicx Head
Chest	One dark black Leather Chestplate
Legs	One dark black Leather Leggings
Feet	One dark black Leather Boots

Mental Instability

EpsilonBot had the most-reliable uptime of any bot in TotalFreedom's history. While the bot was most active, they consistently reached #1 in activity of any player of the month. This remained true even when there were other personal bots running the EpsilonBot software or its derivatives for extended periods of time. Unfortunately, per server policy, the bot was not eligible for recognition in the Mentally Unstable program, which celebrated the most active players each month and rewarded them with perks.

Forks

VideoGameSmash12/OmegaTrack

EpsilonBot was forked a few times over the course of 2022 and 2023. The most notable and active of these was videogamesm12's called OmegaTrack, occasionally seen running on his alternate account VideoGameSmash12. Originally, Video used his bot strictly for creating personal map arts, but in June 2023, he resumed work on an implementation regarding an exploit capable of leaking player locations — Worldcom. In the final weeks of the server, he introduced vast tracking capabilities to his bot. This archival effort only barely began to yield returns before the server abruptly closed for good. A retrospective forum thread (Archived) shared information about the exploit, implementation, and results.

The GitHub repository is owned and maintained by VideoGameSmash12 with some contributions by allinkdev.