User:Mattesco
Background
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 | This user attended the Paris 2024 Olympic Games |
Mattesco is a player on UltraVanilla who joined for the first time on November 28 2020 and had begun regular play since February 2022, with a hiatus commencing in January 2024 and ending in March 2025.
He is a player from the European region.
Mattesco is the current owner of the Voyager role in-game.
Mattesco is the only UltraVanilla player to have won 3 screenshot competitions in a row, having done so twice non-consecutively. Additionally, Mattesco has never lost a single screenshot or build competition.
Server History & Preservation:
Mattesco constructed the Rotherhythe World Museum in late 2023 which stores the most comprehensive collection of items in UltraVanilla beyond Staff control. Additionally, he built up Rotherhythe's Wiki presence and information.
History
2020 & 21
Joining the server in November 2020, for the initial purposes of playing alongside TheSecondLord for only one evening, he initially spent his first few months irregularly joining the server to participate in random antics. Such as placing himself on auction in 2021, participating in anarchy later that same year, and stealing Second's items.
2022
Beginning in February 2022, Matt would be invited to help with Rotherhythe (then known as Brasshelm) Keep, which is where he would begin to play more actively.
Throughout 2022 he has also participated in numerous events, notably the Third Ultravanilla Olympics and the Olympic All-Stars events, and beginning with the Ice Hockey Summer Showdown, Began being a host to regular large scale events on UltraVanilla, the largest being the Christmas Festival.
2023
On January 27th, at the end of the Voyager world tour, Mattesco was granted the role of Voyager after 7 weeks travelling 2 million blocks. He would then commit himself to preserving the history of both his and Wind's attempts for the future.
In February Mattesco became the leader of the OPC. Standing as the organisations founder and main organiser.
In April he aided in organising the 4th Olympic Games and hosted the Opening and closing Ceremonies to the Games.
In spring 2023 Mattesco won 3 consecutive Build and Screenshot competitions.
In Summer 2023 he had hosted the Rotherhythe Summer Showdown events
In Autumn 2023 he was the principle host of the Duolympics
In December 2023 he led the 2023 Christmas Festival of Rotherhythe and amassed £635 of funding in UV's first charity fundraising effort.
2024
In the final days of 2023, Mattesco had announced intentions to cease all activities on UV in January 2024, settling on a final log out date of January 27th due to ongoing issues in and out of the server.
Having sold off most assets and passing on control of businesses and creating UV's first peaceful power transfer when OPC Leadership was passed on - Rotherhythe's Prince Role was passed to Mills and Hanaryheatwave
On January 27th 2024 Mattesco logged out for the next 14 months.
2025
In March 2025, Mattesco returned to UV on a smaller scale, having retired from any large event hosting and committed to no project beyond Rotherhythe.
Affiliation with Rotherhythe
Summary
Beginning with his invite in February 2022 to the Rotherhythe project, the development of it drastically changed, focusing more on becoming an actual settlement than a base. It is through this that it gained both it's USUV Membership and recognition as a state on UltraVanilla.
More information on it's history can be found over in the Rotherhythe article collection.
Serverwide Builds
Residencies:
The Matt's world tour residencies have their own article.
These are a collection of homes built on UV in multiple towns, for the purpose of learning new styles and creating links with other players. The article contains information on each home, and also further details on the project at large. Some of these homes were sold off to other players after the Final Voyage.
Community Projects:
United Kingdom Free-Build Zone
The United Kingdom Free Build zone is a large small scale replica of the British isles. The islands are planted with signs to mark the geographical locations of towns and cities in the region, and are all open to player builds. This build was created in one day, and is big enough to be viewed from dynmap at a far range.
Bass Pro Ship @ The Fleet
The Bass Pro Ship @ The Fleet is a large ship constructed as part of the November 2022 Airship building event at the Outpost.
It's theme was inspired by Bass Pro Shops, which centre around a themed space decorated to resemble natural spaces. The original purpose was for it to be the flagship store for Bass Pro Shops, however due to the Outpost's zoning rules, this wasn't allowed. The theme stuck however, and the ship was fitted with a unique swampland deck, with a ravine being located within it's hull. The blimp carrying the vessel is a large mouth bass, resembling the one from the Bass Pro Shops logo, she has been nicknamed "Elizabass." This vessel is one of the most eye-catching and recognisable outpost builds, despite it's hasty construction on the night of October 23rd.
The Outpost Lounge
The Outpost Lounge is a museum & bar located beneath the Outpost Auction house. It's a build designed to commemorate the various towns of the outpost region for the area's first anniversary, featuring each towns banner, name, and map art along with info booklets.
The bar contains multiple outpost-related drinks, and a map of the central warp hub. Above are signs placed by players who found the area before construction began. These were kept for sentimental purposes.
Rotherhythe Christmas Festival
Hosted throughout December 2022, The Rotherhythe Christmas Festival saw players from all across UV come together for a community market, multiple events, and games. The event is generally regarded as a total success. Seeing 90% of available plots used, an overall attendance rate of 46 players, and most community market builds seeing success.
The Christmas Festival is due to be redone as an annual event, and is regarded by Mattesco as "A complete success that lived up to more than even the highest of expactations, and delivered more dreams than even the best dreamt by the people involved"
This event also culminated in the arrival of Santa Claus on the night of Christmas Eve. Where he would play Ice Hockey against Jimbonator.
The Christmas Festival returned in 2023 as a Charity fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Hospital, raising £635 in donations via the Diamonds to Charity program he had organised to coincide with the festival. The 2023 Festival is considered to be his ultimate legacy event.
EGRK Expressway
The EGRK Expressway is an outpost wide overworld transportation system intended to deliver high speed overworld links between multiple outpost towns. Originally envisioned as a link for Rotherhythe Keep and Evergreen, the network was integrated into a transport plan for the Outpost entitled the OPE. In 2025 the tunnel was handed over to Seacrestria Transports with guidance by the residents of Banal Witchita, which the tunnel directly runs under.
Voyager II Bell tour
As part of Voyager II, Mattesco left behind 20+ bells across the server, accepted and displayed by all the towns en route. These bells are discussed in further detail on the Voyager page
The Final Voyage
The Final Voyage acted as Mattesco's final event, signalling the very end of all activity on UV. This was a long horse journey from Steambolt to Rotherhythe to open the Rotherhythe World Museum.
Competition Submissions:
Notes:
Mattesco is the only player in competition history to have won 3 competitions in a row, and has done so on 2 seperate occassions. (Christmas + Spring Cleaning + Soup) & (Autumn + Christmas + 5 year anniversary).
The 100% win rate:
At the closure of the 5 Year anniversary competition, being known as their final one, the victory meant the security of having never lost any competition entered, with all 6 entries ever posted scoring wins in their respective category
| Theme | Date | Submission name | Image | Result |
| Christmas | December 2022 | So this is Christmas | Winner | |
| Spring Cleaning | January 2023 | Voyager Shipwreck | Winner | |
| Soup | March 2023 | Impact of Astronomical Portions! | Winner | |
| Autumn | October 2023 | Welcome to the Season of new beginnings | Winner | |
| Christmas | December 2023 | What community magic can really do! | Winner | |
| 5 Year Anniversary | January 2024 | SNCM Spawn railway depot and museum | Winner |
Serverwide Status
Matt has been involved in various serverwide and community projects throughout 2022 and 2023, including builds, organisations and events.
Roles
The Voyager Custom Role:
- Achieved the status of "Voyager" on January 27th 2023
Events
Organised:
- Ice Hockey: Summer Showdown
- Rotherhythe Christmas Festival 2022
- Olympic All-Stars
- 4th UV Olympic Games - Opening & Closing Ceremonies
- Darkshire Pride
- Rotherhythe: Summer Showdown 2023
- Rotherhythe: Harvest Festival 2023
- Duolympics
- Rotherhythe Christmas Festival 2023
- The Final Voyage
- Halloween Pub Quiz
- Christmas Pub Quiz
- UV Trivia Pub Quiz
Participated:
- UV Olympics III - 3 Silver Medals
- Olympic All-Stars - 2 Bronze medals, 1 Silver medal
- UV Olympics IV - 1 Gold Medal, 1 Bronze Medal
- Bedwars - Winner
- Ice Hockey: Summer Showdown Duos - Champion
- 6 time build competition - Champion
Organisations:
Economic & Community
- Founder of the OPC
- UV Olympic Committee member
- Commander Large Mouth Bass of the Outpost Fleet
- Founder of Voyage Fashion Design
- Founder of the Rotherhythe Foundation on behalf of all Charity donations made via events