Stoneworks Hockey

Stoneworks Hockey is an organization in Stoneworks that hosts in-game hockey tournaments and leagues since December 2022. It was founded by Juvieus, who discovered and invented the sport in Minecraft, together with his Wilmund co-citizens FredBurton and wiegeht_s.

As of April 23rd, 2023, the community has organized three seasons already of their professional and competitive hockey league, with 170 active players, 30 clubs, and a total audience of over 600 members in their Discord.

Beginnings
Juvieus, wiegeht_s and FredBurton had already built the overly successful boat racing competitions around Formula Eldham when Juvieus first experimented with a way to play a teamsport similar to football in Stoneworks. In April 2022, he discovered the concept of kicking an empty boat around with knockback enchanted tools. The only challenge was that the only weapons which could be enchanted with knockback would damage and ultimately break the boat after a few hits. Back then the admins did not bother helping the community, which was already 90 members strong after Juvieus launched a first Discord server for the sport in April.

With the sport not being supported, and without proper hockey sticks, the idea was abandoned until November.

Juvieus was still motivated to host a league and create a competitive teamsport game inside Minecraft for Stoneworks players to enjoy, and was almost ready to invest 50 real life Dollars to buy a custom weapon, which would deal 0 damage to boats and still enjoy knockback enchantments.

But then in November he stumbled over the announcement of Wooden Custom Weapons by chance, and immediately knew that this was the technology that he always needed for his dream. He immediately crafted Wooden weaponry, enchanted it with Knockback and experimented around. The concept worked perfectly, and so he finally came up with the basic principles of Stoneworks Hockey:

Knockback enchanted Wooden Gladiuses, on a 39x25 large field of ice, with one goal on each side, and rules quite similar to football.

It took some convincing of his old friends wiegeht_s and FredBurton to try out this new game, but when they finally played they agreed to play as well in a team with him.

Juvieus kickstarted a new hockey Discord, made use of his existing event and sports community of Formula Eldham (which he still controlled at the time) and hosted the Launch Tournament in December 2022, which already 16 teams signed up for. During the course of December, the sport absolutely exploded in popularity, with new clubs, players, and stadiums being built and dozens of matches being played every single day between Christmas and New Years Eve.

Stoneworks Hockey became the hottest and most active event community of entire Stoneworks.