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Portugoa
Portugoa is a discord server which has been the center of the modern /int/craft community since the conclusion of i38 in early 2023.
Founding
It was founded by Falklands/Goaboa on the 2nd of may 2022 originally for the purpose of organizing his faction in i37–The Reddit foreign volunteer fighters in Ukraine. Following the utter failure of i37 it was repurposed for use in Epochcraft 3 to serve as the discord for Falklands' town of Goa.
Rise to relevance
In the heralded i38, Falklands decided to make Portugal with numried. As you might imagine, it was around this time the name “Portugoa” came into use. Falklands' penchant for diplomacy resulted in Portugoa becoming somewhat of a hangout for the relevant players of the server–oldfags, nation leaders, even jannies would regularly chat together and hang out in voice calls. After i38 concluded its' offical discord server was made read-only. Portugoa remained active as many of the iteration's most important players were already in it. Roles were made for each metagroup, group gaming sessions were planned, vc calls continued. Much of the server's conversations and memes spawned from the many 'debates' between Voth and ArkySaw. Can you perceive Rome?
Grimur crusade
In late 2023 news of the upcoming Grimur reached Portugoa. Intrigued by the shameless porting of 34's combat config, interest in playing the server began to arise. In an extremely rare instance of pan-/int/craft unity, most everyone decided to play together with Portugoa as the headquarters. To the surprise of Falklands, he was chosen to be the leader of the faction. The coalition consisted of Ex-Strykergang/Vothgangers, Domsquad, Various TaP subgroups such as Cyprus and the Macacos, some ex-Jannies, and many more assorted /int/craft wanderers.The buildup to Grimurs was highly contentious between the admins of Grimur and Portugoa in general, who violently debated each other over the philosophies of the server and the fears that its mechanics would make the server shit (Tldr, the Portugoans were correct, it was dogshit).
Once the server released Portguoa fashioned itself as “Chudtopia”, but later changed to 'Wesphalea' (referencing “the west has fallen”) due to Grimur's admins having HRT rage over Portugoa's chuddiness. Portugoa was one of the server's largest nations, numbering around 80-90 players, and carried out what may have been the server's only successful military campaign. Eventually, everyone had grown tired of playing Grimur because frankly it was utterly terrible. The spiteful admins ragebanned most of Portugoa's members anyways, so the crusade ended around early January 2023. The crusade on Grimur brought in many new members to Portugoa–primarily from TaP. Although the server was terrible, it did unite together the contemporary community of /int/craft together in a way never seen before. Chuds won btw
2024 and Project 2025
After the humiliating (and completely expected) collapse of Grimur, the community of Portugoa was as strong as ever and continued on as normal. During Crusalis' ww1 iteration, the small handful of /int/crafters who played it–including that server's owner, Gaz–used Portugoa as a sort of french salon where any secrets and politics of the server were openly discussed and memed.
Later that year during summer, Fili's new /int/craft iteration was dominated by groups closely affiliated with Portugoa, Vothgang, the Domsquad, and Fedward/Swag gang who controlled various nations in the Caribbean region of that server. Although this coalition was not as airtight as some critics would claim, it's existence caused some within the community to feel Portugoa had become a hugbox. Ghoul in particular wrote a four thousand word article on his blog decrying what he views as Portugoa's monopoly on the community and its' culture. For now, this sentiment had yet to boil over.
Obligatory Scape and rape section (someone else write plz)
After the end of i39 the Host Cabal formed and work on i40 under the codename “Project 2025” had begun in the secretive janny channels of Portugoa. The community was as active as ever. Voth regularly presupping people in theological debates, Fedward annoying all, Falklands casting random polls for people to vote in. A communal letter to TaP lolcow “Godtm”, who was convicted to prison time for shouting racial slurs in a zoom call of predominantly black 2nd graders, was drafted. New channels were made: the Slop trough to house fedward's incessant supply of tiktok slop, and the Crystal realm to house those who were trapped in Crystals for falsely predicting Kamala Harris would win the 2024 US presidential election.
Civil war and civil war
In the wake of i38, Fedward, a rising star, and long-time moderator and Strykerist Voth, began to feud over initially minor greivances as allies during 38's wars. Consistently annoyed by Fedward's highly aggressive and effective shitposting antics, Voth sperged out and went on several banning sprees under the guise of preserving peace and quality of conversation. Falklands, a strong believer in clemency, would unban them as was Portugoa tradition; but Fedward, his followers, and members of the Cyprus Group took it personally, and plotted to destroy Voth in i40. With the sudden return of Stryker to /int/craft in full form as leader, LeiteArts10, still apparently salty over losing i34, returned in kind; proving vital to the 'Fedwardist' cause as a shadow leader of sorts. This became The primary conflict of i40 and strongly influenced the geopolitics of the iteration, enveloping even faraway states into it's protracted scope. After the Official N.I.G.G.E.R victory, the defeated Fedwardists, both those banned for espionage or those who left of their own volition, were allowed back into Portugoa and tensions calmed.
The success of i40 solidified Portugoa as the cultural center of /int/craft from late 2024 to 2025. The three successive iterations spawned rapidly out of Portugoa in one way or another; either being conceived, developed, or explictly made for the Portugoa audience.
Post-Cabal Portugoa
After the relatively middling success of i41-i43, the Portugoa /int/craft Renaissance had subsided in summer of 2025. It saw four iterations, seven major war days, innovations to nodes, and many great memes and memories. In the wake of these servers and in the fallout of Fili's recurring maltreatment of his more officially branded /int/craft discord hub, Portugoa resumed its status as merely the primary “/int/craft hangout” server after the disbanding of the Cabal.
Tensions arose between the members of various TaP affiliations including Cyprus and the minor faction of Volatile_Gaming, and Falklands stemming over drama which began to boil over in i43. It revolved around the notorious detrans female and later confirmed groomer, IncelChud, who's membership in Portugoa had long been unpopularly maintained by direct decree of Falklands under the prevailing policies of clenency and benevolence, and with the understanding that contraversial figures such as her keep the server active and more interesting. During i43, IncelChud appealed to Falklands to join his jannytown of Goa, which Falklands accepted. As a result of her nefarious deeds finally catching up with her, IncelChud suddenly left the server and deleted all of her accounts which rekindled discussions and shitposting regarding her. This, combined with several fiercely contentious debates between Falklands and the various TaP loyalists over the inferiority of TaP and modded servers as in general led to a protracted campaign of shitposting and assaults on Falklands' character which lasted around two months. Falklands' inital attempts to silence the endless shitposting and to kick the worst offenders distressed the rest of Portugoa's neutral members who saw the move as rash and damaging to the health of the community. On October 11th, 2025, after a relatively normal day of chatting, Falklands got into two heated shitflinging matches, particularly newfag TudorCms; who for some reason deigned to reveal his extensive and very embarrassing erp history with IncelChud. This spiraled into a war of vicious trash talk and insults that lasted the entire day. TaP loyalists joined in against Falklands later in the evening, and feeling the final straw falling upon his back after months of undue torment, Falklands disregarded all popular opinion and permanently banned all of the worst actors for ruining the server's quality. Expectedly, the server improved almost overnight.
So far in 2026 the server has slightly receeded from its average activity in earlier years, but retains daily interactions and regular discussions and debates. Portugoa's golden age has ceetainly come and gone, but it retains its status as the only active pan-/int/man community.
Fuck off were full