ศึกษางานต่างประเทศ
🛤️ ศึกษางานต่างประเทศ: A Comparative Case Study Between Art3mis Royal Decree and Thailand’s Senate Travel Budget
“ส.ว.เตรียมดูงานต่างประเทศ งบ 67,500,000 บาท หัวละ2.7 แสน”
✈️ Why Do Powerful People Go Abroad to “Study”?
Across the real world and Minecraft servers alike, there's an age-old tradition among high-ranking individuals: when in doubt, go on a study visit abroad.
They’ll say it’s for:
- "Innovation exchange"
- "Infrastructure benchmarking"
- "Digital transformation capacity building" (Whatever the f**k that means)
But to most citizens, it often translates as:
“A bunch of people went on a fully paid vacation with your tax money.”
Now let’s compare two cases:
- The Thai Senate's plan to study "mass transit" abroad with 67.5 million baht (approx. ฿270,000 per head)
- The Art3mis Royal Decree's own "diplomatic visit" to a functioning foreign server: Minecart Rapid Transit (MRT)
📜 The Study Visit that Actually Studied Something
🟢 The Art3mis Case
MoNoRi-Chan and Califrog, founders of the SPKZ/Art3mis Minecraft server, decided they wanted a better minecart system.
But instead of booking a flight to Zurich or Tokyo, they used something better:
A Minecraft Account purchased 15 years ago.
They went to Minecart Rapid Transit (MRT) — a long-running, metro-inspired Minecraft server with:
- Functional city zoning
- TrainCarts plugin usage in full-blown realism
- Sign-based railway control systems
- And more bureaucracy than real governments (respectfully)
This was the digital equivalent of a world leaders’ summit…
But the only thing they spent was electricity and brain cells.
🔴 The Thai Senate Case
Meanwhile in the real world, the Thai Senate prepares a study visit abroad, with:
- ฿67,500,000 in approved budget
- 250,000–300,000 baht/person estimated cost
- Purpose: ศึกษาโครงการคมนาคมต่างประเทศ
But when asked what they actually “studied,” the public often receives vague PowerPoints, stock images, and a PDF with 3 bullet points like:
- ต่างประเทศใช้ QR Code เยอะ
- รถไฟมาทุก 5 นาที
- เราควรศึกษาต่อ
🧮 Comparison Table
| Category | 🇹🇭 Thai Senate | 🟩 Art3mis Royal Decree |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | ฿67,500,000 | ฿0.00 (except time & server hosting) |
| Purpose | Study public transport abroad | Study rail plugins for Minecraft |
| Method | Fly abroad, eat, take photos, return | Login, spectate MRT, take notes, install plugin |
| Output | 40-page PDF no one reads | Plugin fully integrated in test world |
| Plugin Used | None (They use taxis IRL) | TrainCarts |
| Cost per Delegate | ฿270,000/head | $26.95 (account cost, one-time) |
| Long-Term Benefit | Unclear | Functional Minecraft transport system |
| Public Reaction | "เที่ยวฟรี?" | "โคตรเนิร์ด แต่มีประโยชน์ว่ะ" |
🚉 TrainCarts Testing: From MRT to SPKZ
Upon studying MRT’s implementation of TrainCarts, MoNoRi-Chan downloaded it immediately and booted up…
"Fourth Server" — a Frankenstein creation of every world ever saved since 2012:
- 1.7.10 DesertMap
- 1.12.2 TestWorld1
- Legacy Bunker from WinkMC
- Nether without portals All connected via Multiverse, jammed together like a sandwich of trauma and tech.
It was chaotic.
It was beautiful.
It was Production Environment.
“If it doesn’t crash, it’s stable.” – Califrog
🧠 Lessons Learned
What Real Government Can Learn from MoNoRi-Chan:
- You don’t need millions to study a working system
- You just need curiosity, a decent server, and access to GitHub
- Studying someone’s working model is fine — but bring something back and install it
“ไม่ใช่ไปถ่ายรูปคู่กับรถไฟญี่ปุ่นแล้วจบ” “ต้องเอาปลั๊กอินกลับมาด้วย เหมือนที่เราทำ”
💬 Notable Quotes
🧑🍳 Freedom Ramsey (Califrog): “If you go to another country to study transport and come back with no railway but a full stomach, you're not a senator — you’re a tourist.”
🧠 MoNoRi-Chan: “This plugin cost me less than a ramen. And it works. ส.ว. ซื้อราเม็งยังแพงกว่านี้”
🎖️ Final Result:
- Art3mis now has a TrainCarts candidate installation
- Plugins tested in live but non-critical servers
- No taxpayers harmed
- No 67 million baht spent
📌 TL;DR Summary
“ศึกษา ≠ เที่ยว
ศึกษา = ติดตั้งปลั๊กอิน
เที่ยว = ของบหลวง”
And thus, the Royal Decree proves once again — open source and Minecraft autism can outperform an entire legislative travel committee.
