WAITING FOR LIGHTNING
TRANSMISSION ARCHIVE

The transmission archive

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Transmissions and published replays, newest first.

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Complete session records.

58 sealed transmission records, including sessions with missing or pending recordings.

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  1. T059In progress · provisional
  2. T058Replay pending
  3. T057Replay and record
  4. T056Replay and record
  5. T055Replay and record
  6. T054Replay and record
  7. T053Replay and record
  8. T052Replay and record
  9. T051Replay and record
  10. T050Replay and record
  11. T049Replay and record
  12. T048Replay and record
  13. T047Replay and record
  14. T046Replay and record
  15. T045Replay and record
  16. T044Replay and record
  17. T043Replay and record
  18. T042Replay and record
  19. T041Replay and record
  20. T040Replay and record
  21. T039Replay and record
  22. T038Replay and record
  23. T037Replay and record
  24. T036Replay and record
  25. T035Replay and record
  26. T034Replay and record
  27. T033Replay and record
  28. T032Replay and record
  29. T031Replay and record
  30. T030Replay and record
  31. T029Replay and record
  32. T028Replay and record
  33. T027Replay and record
  34. T026Replay and record
  35. T025Replay and record
  36. T024Replay and record
  37. T023Replay and record
  38. T022Replay and record
  39. T021Replay and record
  40. T020No-video incident
  41. T019Replay and record
  42. T018Replay and record
  43. T017Replay and record
  44. T016Replay and record
  45. T015Replay and record
  46. T014Replay and record
  47. T013Replay and record
  48. T012Replay and record
  49. T011Replay and record
  50. T010Replay and record
  51. T009Replay and record
  52. T008Replay and record
  53. T007Replay and record
  54. T006Replay and record
  55. T005Replay and record
  56. T004Replay and record
  57. T003Replay and record
  58. T002Replay and record
  59. T001Replay and record

PUBLIC TRANSMISSION ARCHIVE / YOUTUBE / 46 REPLAYS

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TRANSMISSION 047

Transmission 047 - The Vigil | Day 47 | 400/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 400 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 6224 IRON BARS MADE / 400/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 040

Transmission 040

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 160 IRON BARS

161 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 397 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 4912 IRON BARS MADE / 323/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 035

Transmission 035

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 4208 IRON BARS MADE / 269/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 030

Transmission 030 - Lightning Recorded | Day 30 | 225/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 48 IRON BARS

64 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 3424 IRON BARS MADE / 225/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 025

Transmission 025 - 020 Poles Completed | Day 25 | 174/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 272 IRON BARS

16 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 2592 IRON BARS MADE / 174/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 024

Transmission 024 - 006 Poles Completed | Day 24 | 154/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 80 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 2320 IRON BARS MADE / 154/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 023

Transmission 023 - 020 Poles Completed | Day 23 | 148/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 224 IRON BARS

135 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 2240 IRON BARS MADE / 148/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 022

Transmission 022 - 022 Poles Completed | Day 22 | 128/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 336 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 2016 IRON BARS MADE / 128/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 021

Transmission 021 - 035 Poles Completed | Day 21 | 106/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 560 IRON BARS

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 1680 IRON BARS MADE / 106/400 PLACED

TRANSMISSION 020 / INCIDENT RECORD

The work occurred. The recording did not.

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 13 POLES / 176 IRON BARS

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 1,120 IRON BARS MADE / 071/400 PLACED

NO MOVING-IMAGE RECORD EXISTS

On September 3, 2026, the preparation system reported READY and the operator pressed Start Streaming. OBS created neither a local recording nor an outbound stream, and YouTube never became live. The failure was discovered only when the session ended.

The surviving world state and telemetry confirm that the field advanced from 58 to 71 completed poles. Thirteen poles—059 through 071—were erected. The final session snapshot records 1,950 blocks travelled, 182 blocks broken, zero deaths, zero natural-lightning events, and 176 iron bars crafted during the interval.

The measured interval from the armed-broadcast marker to the final world snapshot is 4 hours, 46 minutes, and 36 seconds. Telemetry and four surviving screenshots document outcomes, but they do not reproduce the player’s first-person actions, camera movement, sound, or experience.

No reconstruction is presented as the original Transmission 020 recording. This entry preserves both the completed labor and the failure of its video documentation.

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TRANSMISSION 019

Transmission 019 - 010 Poles Completed | Day 19 | 058/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 160 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 944 IRON BARS MADE / 058/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 018

Transmission 018 - 004 Poles Completed | Day 18 | 048/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 96 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 350 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 784 IRON BARS MADE / 048/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 016

Transmission 016 - 005 Poles Completed | Day 16 | 043/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 80 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 335 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 672 IRON BARS MADE / 043/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 015

Transmission 015 - 012 Poles Completed | Day 15 | 038/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 144 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 335 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 592 IRON BARS MADE / 038/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 011

Transmission 011

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 13 LIGHTNING RODS / 64 IRON BARS

50 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 335 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 240 IRON BARS MADE / 017/400 PLACED

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TRANSMISSION 008

Transmission 008 - Survival Labor | Day 8 | 003/400

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CORRECTED PUBLIC REPLAY / ORIGINAL LIVE REPLAY RETAINED AS INCIDENT EVIDENCE

MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 174 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 112 IRON BARS MADE / 003/400 PLACED

CORRECTED PUBLIC REPLAY / RELAY INCIDENT

Sealed from the Transmission 008 baseline and final Walter samples, Minecraft's append-only project archive, the completed YouTube broadcast record, the OBS master, and the OBS and relay diagnostic logs.

Distance travelled
5,129 BLOCKS
Blocks broken
2,267
Deaths
0
Natural lightning
0
Pole assemblies completed
0
Field change
003 → 003 / 400
Independent OBS master
2:25:40 / RETAINED

The field remained surveyed and unchanged at 003/400 while the artist began the underground perimeter excavation. The original YouTube live replay is damaged: the destination-isolated relay still used lossy localhost UDP queues, and its YouTube queue produced thousands of circular-buffer overruns, tens of thousands of corrupt-packet reports, and 92,953 timestamp-discontinuity reports. This public replay is the verified continuous independent OBS master: 2:25:41 of H.264/AAC at 30 fps, decoded cleanly in beginning, middle, and ending samples; OBS reported 22 lagged frames out of 262,217 attempted frames (0.0%). The original replay remains part of the failure record. The relay no longer uses UDP or MPEG-TS between its ingest and platform outputs.

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TRANSMISSION 007

Transmission 007 - Field Survey | Day 7 | 003/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 174 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 112 IRON BARS MADE / 003/400 PLACED

SEALED DAY 7 RECORD / RELAY INCIDENT

Sealed from the Transmission 007 baseline and final Walter samples, the append-only pole-completion ledger, Minecraft's saved world, the completed YouTube broadcast record, and the OBS and relay diagnostic logs.

Distance travelled
2,594 BLOCKS
Blocks broken
778
Deaths
0
Natural lightning
0
Pole 002 completed
AUG 21, 2026 · 1:43:49 AM MDT
Pole 003 completed
AUG 21, 2026 · 1:55:08 AM MDT
Field change
001 → 003 / 400

The canonical survey remained locked at the Y=89 plane. Poles 002 and 003 were completed by hand along the northern border and are preserved in the world and pole ledger. The public construction index temporarily remained at 001/400 because a historical Transmission 006 recovery object overrode newer live telemetry. The YouTube replay contains discontinuities: the shared relay queue filled when its YouTube output slowed, dropped encoded packets, and repeatedly reopened OBS's source connection. OBS itself reported neither encoder overload nor material render lag. Delayed gameplay sound was consistent with an open, audible browser replay feeding earlier actions back into the room. No pole or Minecraft record was lost. Transmission 007 has no independent master from which to reconstruct the damaged platform replay. Destination-isolated relaying is active; a proposed external recovery disk was safety-blocked after failing filesystem verification.

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TRANSMISSION 006

Transmission 006 - 001 Poles Completed | Day 6 | 001/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 0 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

0 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 174 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 112 IRON BARS MADE / 001/400 PLACED

SEALED DAY 6 RECORD / FIRST COMPLETED POLE

Sealed from the transmission baseline and final Walter samples, the completed YouTube broadcast, Minecraft's saved statistics and command log, and the verified documentary capture of Pole 001.

Distance travelled
5,126 BLOCKS
Blocks broken
1,115
Deaths
1
Natural lightning
0
Pole 001 completed
AUG 20, 2026 · 1:53:47 AM MDT
Field change
000 → 001 / 400

Pole 001 at the northwest position was completed at the Y=89 target at 1:53:47 AM MDT. The candidate grid remained in preview state at close: the artist attempted survey confirmation before creating the preview, so Minecraft did not persist a canonical survey. A creeper death occurred later in the transmission; Walter then collected dropped items. His exact 31 saved stacks and the verified pre-death level-30 experience state were preserved. The original floor-dependent recovery-barrel placement failed in the cramped underground base; a wider air-space search and one-time exact restitution were staged for the next verified official-world join. Walter's ability to collect dropped items was removed after the transmission.

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TRANSMISSION 005

Transmission 005 - Search for the Field | Day 5 | 000/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 12 LIGHTNING RODS / 64 IRON BARS

36 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 174 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 112 IRON BARS MADE / 000/400 PLACED

VERIFIED DAY 5 FIELD OBSERVATION / TARGET REVISION

Sealed from the pre-transmission baseline, the final Walter sample, Minecraft's command log, and a read-only scan of every position in the 400-point preview grid after the world was saved.

Distance travelled
3,383 BLOCKS
Blocks broken
229
Deaths
0
Natural lightning
0
Assemblies verified at former Y=81 plane
18
Assemblies complete at revised Y=89 target
0

The artist inspected and worked across the candidate field, but no canonical survey was locked: /lightningfield preview was run and /lightningfield survey confirm was not. The saved world contains 18 continuous iron-bar assemblies, positions 001–018, each capped at the former Y=81 preview plane. After the transmission, the target was revised to Y=89 because the terrain rises across the footprint. Those 18 assemblies remain real, preserved construction, but now require eight-block extensions and are not counted as complete at Y=89.

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TRANSMISSION 004

Transmission 004 - Lightning Recorded | Day 4 | 000/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 126 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

387 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 162 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 48 IRON BARS MADE / 000/400 PLACED

CRASH-RECOVERED DAY 4 RECORD

Sealed from the transmission's pre-stream baseline, the final Walter sample recorded four seconds before the crash, Minecraft's saved world files, and the append-only publication ledgers. The Minecraft world saved successfully after the incompatible More Armor Trims mod crashed the integrated server.

Distance travelled
4,878 BLOCKS
Blocks broken
476
Deaths
0
Natural lightning
6
Iron-bar placements
37
Lightning-rod placements
9

No canonical field survey was confirmed, so the public field count remains 000/400. Placement telemetry records 37 iron-bar placements and 9 lightning-rod placements as experimental construction. The artist reports testing rod tips at Y=77 while evaluating a possible shared plane at Y=81. YouTube preserved and completed the public video; authorization was renewed on August 19 and the final title and description were published and verified against the sealed local record.

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TRANSMISSION 003

Transmission 003 - Lightning Recorded | Day 3 | 000/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 21 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

64 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 36 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 48 IRON BARS MADE / 000/400 PLACED

RECOVERED DAY 3 RECORD / WALTER OBSERVER ERROR

Recovered from Minecraft's saved statistics by comparing verified pre- and post-transmission world archives. Walter joined, but a capitalization mismatch caused the project recorder to observe Walter instead of the player.

Tracked movement
4,777+ BLOCKS
Blocks mined
1,207
Deaths
0
Mob kills
11
Lightning recorded
215
Copper ore mined
16
Coal ore mined
55

The world and raw Minecraft statistics remained intact. No field survey was confirmed during this transmission.

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TRANSMISSION 002

Transmission 002 - Search for the Field | Day 2 | 000/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 13 LIGHTNING RODS / 0 IRON BARS

40 COPPER INGOTS PRODUCED / 48 IRON BARS PICKED UP

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 15 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 48 IRON BARS MADE / 000/400 PLACED

RECOVERED DAY 2 RECORD / WALTER NOT PRESENT

Recovered from Minecraft's saved statistics by comparing the verified pre- and post-transmission world archives. Walter's project recorder was not active.

Tracked movement
4,305+ BLOCKS
Blocks mined
1,165
Deaths
0
Mob kills
19
Copper ore mined
68
Coal ore mined
69
I forgot to bring Walter along on this journey. There will be mistakes, but we will work on fixing them and get into the swing of things eventually. We don't fail. We fall up.
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TRANSMISSION 001

Transmission 001 — Search for the Field | Day 1 | 000/400

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MADE DURING TRANSMISSION / 2 LIGHTNING RODS / 48 IRON BARS

TOTAL AFTER TRANSMISSION / 2 LIGHTNING RODS MADE / 48 IRON BARS MADE / 000/400 PLACED