Doublestep Crisis

The Doublestep Crisis, also known as the Doublestep Inflation Crisis or Doublestep Debt Incident, was a brief server economic crisis that occurred between May 7^th and May 8^th 2026. The crisis saw over $1,000,000 of inflated funds generated by just a few players overnight, which had to be deleted to avoid breaking the economy.

History

Origins

The seeds of the crisis were planted on May 7^th 2026 when Lootmeister's selection of illegal items was rotated to include the block Doublestep. Lootmeister's deals are intended to be seasonal ways of making some extra money by selling illegal items obtained via the Shrines.

However, when Doublestep was added to Lootmeister's shop, the quantity that had to be sold was set to x1 instead of x64. This meant that when a player sold x64 Doublestep to Lootmeister, they earned $1,792 rather than the intended $28. Additionally, the money and chest space for Lootmeister, like that of the Admin Shop, is infinite, unlike player chest shops. As a result, players could sell infinite amounts of Doublestep to Lootmeister without the threat of the shop running out of money or the chest running out of space.

Inflation Crisis

Several hours after the addition of Doublestep to the Lootmeister shop, MrRaccoon44 discovered the error in Lootmeister's shop and used it to make nearly $23,000. Word quickly spread to the other players online at the time. After they had sold out their own quantities of Doublestep, they cleared out the various server shops at the mall, /warp capital, and /warp warehouse of not only Doublestep, but also Step, Stone, and even Cobblestone, which were smelted down, crafted, and exchanged at the shrine for more Doublestep.

Three hours later, Senior Moderator Discoo removed the Doublestep sell sign at Lootmeister, and Administrator zavdav installed a sign with the correct sell price. But by then, the damage had already been done; roughly $1,090,427 had been earned through Doublestep sales to Lootmeister by 10 players.

Resolution & Doublestep Debt

On May 8^th, Administrator SvGaming234 logged onto the server and learned of what had occurred overnight. He and fellow staff members RobertWesner and VanillaCake__ spent the next few hours undoing the inflation crisis by calculating the amount of unintended money earned by each player who sold Doublestep to Lootmeister and using admin powers to seize and delete the extra cash. The three players who lacked the money to be seized due to their spending were thrown into debt. After 24 hours, all debts were repaid and the crisis ended.