At the beginning of 2016, Triz's computer ceased to work, thus removing her access to her girl friends in Minecraft. During this time, she played on her tablet and often watched YouTube. She often watched jacksepticeye and Markiplier, two YouTubers known for playing video games. One game she especially liked to see them play was called Undertale.
Around February of 2016, she got a new computer and played Minecraft again. This time though, her friends were busy on Skype, but a few had disappeared entirely. With the fragmented friend group, she was a bit bored. Throughout March and April 2016, she had rediscovered that the Hypixel Server was still fun. She started to look at the forums and was interested in the design and the reactions that people could give to each other's posts.
On April 16, 2016, she had an idea for a minigame on the server. Based on the book series 'The Five Kingdoms' by Brandon Mull, she called the minigame 'Crystal Raiders' after the third book. The gameplay would be that you would get points by doing parkour challenges, and you would use these points in order to damage the other team's crystal.
Throughout 2016, she would post many other things on the forums. See Hypixel Forums for more in-depth information. During July 2016, she had gone on a vacation with her parents to the Dominican Republic. She loved it, it was one of her happiest memories in her life. Later during the year, she had become friends with Carl and started to read Homestuck with him.
Carl had beef with people he disliked at the time, which were roleplayers especially. He got Triz to 'raid' roleplay housings on the server with him. Triz decided to make her own housing as a satire of these roleplays. It was a giant square with nonsense everywhere around it. Carl on the other hand, had housing that was glitchy. You could pour water and it would go outside the boundary. With a few others, Triz concluded the year building penises in Minecraft. She also drew something with a mouse using firealpaca.