User:Bezo/Drafts/Gringotts

Gringotts is a SpawnMasons project that is shrouded in mystery on 2b2t, and is centered around storage and sorting of an incredibly large amount of shulkers from an undisclosed large stash. It is named after the Gringotts Bank, a fictional location in several Harry Potter novels. The name of the project was leaked to the public by Joey Coconut in December of 2020.

The interface of Gringotts, as provided by leijurv.

History

The PreJune Leak

In February of 2021, on a PreJune SMP server run by HermeticLock, Spawnmasons member Henry leaked many details about the Gringotts project to Bezopasan, Jared2013, and Flick3r over in-game chat messages. This was one of the first big leaks about what Gringotts was and how it operated. It exposed that it was more than just a bunch of shulkers, but was also connected to a web server as well.

Sorting System

One of the chat messages sent by Henry

More messages revealing info about gringotts

Gringotts member, ufocrossing, warning another player not to bring a Gringotts shulker to their base.

0x22 lets the public know where the items of Gringotts came from.

According to Henry, Gringotts is a huge project that is operated via Baritone bots that are auto sorting items into shulkers. While the shulkers were provided by ufocrossing and bases found via Nocom, the webserver integration and technical aspects were created by Leijurv and 0x22. Each shulker in Gringotts is named “this is a spawnmason shulker” in varying capitalization and that name has data in it, which is connected through a web portal to a larger database. The naming system was also used in tandem with Nocom to target those who stole from or griefed the SpawnMasons. There is a mod that enables shulker peek based on those specific names. If someone is using the mod, it updates the database when you withdraw the item/items. If you are not using the mod, it might slightly desync the system.

The Webserver

The mod is detailed in this screenshot.

The name of the project as revealed by Joey_Coconut

In October of 2021, the URLs behind Gringotts were discovered, as well as extra information about how the interface works. The web server is hosted on https://gringotts.spawnmason.com/ and is currently password protected. It includes an interface where you can search for specific blocks via ID or name. In the interface, on the left-hand side, it displays a picture of the shulker contents and the amount of the specific shulker in the system. Hovering over an item in the shulker displays any enchants or custom names of the items within the shulker. Every individual shulker has a random 5-6 digit id, which is listed as well. There are URLs for each block ID. An example of one of these URLs is: gringotts.spawnmason.com/search/”block-id”/”page-number”.