History WebVideo / LifeSMP

** Grian being, in one way or another, responsible for the death of at least one of his allies (or as one may put it, loved ones). %%Scar in 3rd Life, idk in Last Life, Scar in double life by being killed himself, Joel and Jimmy in limited life by saying yes out of context, Etho in Secret Life by putting down an enderman egg.
** Jimmy being ''always'' the first to be KilledOffForReal. This tradition is [[WhamEpisode surprisingly]] broken in the fifth season, Secret Life.

** Big B, as he infamously did in Secret Life, try to confuse others using about a hole.

** Pearl is once again the centralpiece of another impromptu slumber party of sorts. Martin even muses that he has finally been invited to the party that he missed back in Secret Life.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Jimmy and Grian invite everyone to join their club if they want to. Jimmy and Grian are the only reds on the server at the time. Scar doesn't put two and two together.

* Big B, as he infamously did in Secret Life, try to confuse others using about a hole.
* Martyn is once again the murderer of Pearl's dog, whose name even rhymes with Tilly!
* Pearl is once again the centralpiece of another impromptu slumber party of sorts. Martin even muses that he has finally been invited to the party that he missed back in Secret Life.

* AugmentedReality: The gimmick of the one-shot season is that the creators are playing on Minecraft VR, resulting in visual oddities like players' health bars moving with their left arms.

The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 30 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechanism of Season 2, players are allowed to gift one heart to another player per session, but without losing a heart of their own; this is one method by which players can go over 30 hearts. The other method is, similarly to Season 4, by killing people, which grants 10 hearts even when that would make the player go over 30. Much like the previous season, keepInventory is enabled.%%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is(?).This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode

3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023. The fifth season, Secret Life, started on October 20th, 2023 and ended on December 15th, 2023.

* EatTheDog: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 3. When Cleo announces she plans to go feral, Scar "fears" for her safety because if she dies, he and Bdubs would "starve". Cleo replies that she would have a dispenser system set up... then Scar argues that the dispenser might run out of food, to which Cleo half-jokingly says that the two could eat their dogs to survive. Of course, since this takes place in Minecraft, it's physically impossible for a player to eat their dogs anyway.

The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 30 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. Much like the previous season, keepInventory is enabled.%%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is(?). In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode

%% While the "Eyes and Ears" lore was originally spoilered because it was news in Last Life when this page was recently created, and the fact it's exclusive to Martyn's POV, an additional incentive for spoilering is that some fans do not like engaging in this lore (along with the exclusivity) -- the spoilering is a compromise.

* BlatantLies: On Day 7, Joel blows up the roof of Scar's wizard hut in an attempt to kill Scott and Cleo. On Day 8, he tells Scar that Bdubs vandalized the roof, who has conveniently been eliminated at that point and can't refute it. Scar learns the truth from Pearl, though.

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: In Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" lore, [[spoiler:the soul of every player (other than [[GodInHumanForm Grian]]) gains a "Fragment" during each season, [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars representing]] their death and trauma from said season, and only by winning the season can their Fragment be "protected" and not form; it is unconfirmed exactly how many Fragments have to form for a soul to irreversibly break]].

** On Day 1 of Limited Life, Scott casually describes the Woodland Mansion to burn "like a fucking wildfire". Most of the [=POVs=] cut this part out, but it is somehow ''not'' censored out in [[https://twitter.com/catsnmellohi/status/1632210637941006337 Big B's perspective]] of the conversation... presumably because Scott's accent is fairly prominent.

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: In Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" lore, [[spoiler:the soul of every player (other than [[GodInHumanForm Grian]]) gains a "Fragment" during each season, [[RuleOfSymbolism representing]] their death and trauma from said season, and only by winning the season can their Fragment be "protected" and not form; it is unconfirmed exactly how many Fragments have to form for a soul to irreversibly break]].

* OneSteveLimit: Zigzagged. Smajor and Impulse are both named Scott in real life, but Smajor is the only one who uses that name in the series. When they team up in Secret Life, their alliance is named Gem and the Scotts as a nod to this.

-->'''[=GeminiTay=]:''' I really don't want Thorns on my armor, so I'm going to hit these Endermen– ''(while visiting her Zombie farm)'' for a while. To make sure I don't get Thorns on my armor.

** The modded mechanism where Skulk Sensors can be triggered by the sound of someone's voice. At first, it's just an obstacle for anyone venturing into the Ancient City to get enchantments in order to avoid spawning the Warden in, but on Day 5, Joel and Etho rig a TNT trap using one, killing Scar (and thus Grian) while he was trying to invite everyone to a funeral for Jimmy and Tango (who had been KilledOffForReal earlier the same episode).

** On Day 3, Scar refused to make a deal when the Southlands held his horse Yellow Snow hostage. Out of earshot of the Southlands, Scar confidently told his viewers that there was no way they'd hurt Yellow Snow...at the ''exact moment'' that Grian was dropping the horse into lava.

** Day 5: Although the Red Lives are restored to Yellow, the Fairy Fort is burned to the ground, the Scottage is blown up, and the Southlands are betrayed by Jimmy, dealing a massive blow to their alliance. Scar is threatened into giving up his remaining lives to the Reds, putting him on yellow, shortly before falling into a trap and becoming Red himself.
** Day 6: There are not one, not two but ''six'' Boogeymen, three of which are Boogeymen for the second time. After numerous kills throughout the day there are six Red Lives, including the entirety of the Magical Mountain faction, and the Scottage is the only faction to survive with all its members still on green. The Southlands are officially disbanded, and as the three remaining members torch their base to put their old alliance to rest, they remain victorious in that they now have three Wither skeleton skulls (although Martyn doesn't know that).
** Day 7: The Scottage is submerged in lava by Lizzie and Joel, B.E.S.T.'s snow fortress is destroyed by a Wither spawned by the now-Red Grian and Impulse, six players are KilledOffForReal and the six remaining non-Reds are forced to band together to survive. Furthermore, the entire dynamic of the server shifts noticeably, where before the Reds were more focused on trapping and harassing Yellow and Green Names, they now shift to actively hunting them down. Every faction save for the Scottage is destroyed or disbanded as their members have either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee their homes after repeated attacks from the Reds. In the end, Scott and Cleo resort to gathering the few remaining non-Reds together (save Martyn, who they couldn't find, and Pearl, who missed the second half of the day [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to a power outage]]) and hiding them away in the Scottage's now-destroyed underground base. From this point forth, the Survivors spend most of their time looting the remains of abandoned bases, trying to fortify the few structures still left standing to protect themselves, and hiding away from the Reds to avoid being hunted down and slaughtered.

** 3rd Life ends with Grian pulling a LastSurvivorSuicide; Last Life, ends with Scott being killed by supernatural means shortly after his victory. Secret Life is the only season to play this trope fully straight ''without'' an EverybodyDiesEnding.

'''Martyn:''' ''(overlapping)'' I wanna do it ''exactly'' this way. It doesn't matter if you're a Mean Gill or a Bad Boy or a-a ''Neighbour–'' ''(kills Impulse)'' –or a Clocker! You're all going down, none of these niceties, this is a death match ''for a reason''. ''(voice deepens)'' '''''[[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope OOH, THAT FEELS GOOD! TIME IS DELICIOUS]]!''''' ''(EvilLaugh)''

-->Welcome to Last Life season 3 renamed Double Life SMP - episode 3! We start Double Life [=Ep3=] by opening the Jellie / Panda reserve and couples retreat. The first visitor is Mart[y]n and Cleo and I try to bring them back together. We became the worst paper salesman and play Grian's snow bucket challenge with Bdubs. Who will win, Bdubs or me? You will have to find out. Also, Tango lets a Warden out onto the map...

'''Martyn:''' ''(overlapping)'' I wanna do it exactly this way. It doesn't matter if you're a Mean Gill or a Bad Boy or a-a ''Neighbour-'' ''(kills Impulse)'' -or a Clocker! You're all going down, none of these niceties, this is a death match ''for a reason''. ''(voice deepens)'' '''''[[Main/JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope OOH, THAT FEELS GOOD! TIME IS DELICIOUS!]]''''' ''(EvilLaugh)''

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: As early as Day 2, everyone is getting used to seeing strange behavior from their servermates and as such they stop questioning it. Jimmy and Lizzie both call out the server on this when they fail their tasks on Day 2, as they both needed people to respond to their antics in certain ways (or at all).

* FunWithAcronyms: Much like Team B.E.S.T. from Last Life (and including three of its members), a group of players name their faction T.I.E.S. after the names of its members: '''T'''ango, '''I'''mpulse, '''E'''tho and '''S'''kizz. When Bdubs briefly joins them on Day 5, Impulse says they should be renamed to B.I.T.E.S. to include him.

* DownerEnding: As usual, everyone dies. Once the Red Lives hunt down the remaining Yellow Lives, two of the five remaining soulbound pairs at the time end up dying as a result of their own or their partners' stupidity (in oddly ironic/symbolic ways to boot). After Pearl kills the remaining two enemy soulbound pairs in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her late CanineCompanion (and LivingEmotionalCrutch), Tilly, she meets up with her own soulmate, Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her remaining dogs… before Scott blows himself up to give her the win, instantly killing them both due their soulbound-pair-induced {{synchronization}}.

* DownerEnding: As usual, everyone dies. Once the Red Lives hunt down the remaining Yellow Lives, two of the five remaining soulbound pairs at the time end up dying as a result of their own or their partners' stupidity (in oddly ironic/symbolic ways to boot). After Pearl kills the remaining two enemy soulbound pairs in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her late CanineCompanion (and LivingEmotionalCrutch), Tilly, she meets up with her own soulate Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her remaining dogs, …before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their soulbound-pair-induced {{synchronization}}.

* DownerEnding: As expected by this point, nearly everyone dies. After the Heart Foundation and the Roomies (and Martyn, the last of the Big Dogs) are taken down, the ensuing fight splits the Mounders and Gem and the Scotts' tentative alliance, with Scar, the last unaligned player, siding with the Mounders while with them at the time. The band puts up a respectable fight but are taken down by Pearl, who didn't even want to live this long or win again, and Scar, who has refused to kill Pearl, even at her own request. The final duel ends with Pearl being shot and falling off a ledge, and while [[SoleSurvivor he doesn't die at the end of his episode]], Scar is left alone after spending almost the entire series alone and essentially friendless. [[spoiler:It's even ''more'' of a downer in Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity, as Scar's loneliness and suffering is eventually [[GoMadFromTheIsolation drawn out]] off-screen [[EmotionEater for all it's worth]].]]