Townscraft's Timeline

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== Pre-History ==
=== 2016 ===
* July
** Luccalol creates The CraftersDimension (4th*)
** _TwistedPixel_ joins The CraftersDimension (Date unknown)
*September
**Sheepzus joins The CraftersDimension (Date Unknown)
=== 2017 ===
* January
** TCD's Map is reset (Date unknown)
* March
**MagicTyFighter joins The CraftersDimension (Date unknown)
*April
**Sabriner joins The CraftersDimension (17th)
* June
** Historio joins The CraftersDimension (17th)
*September
**TCD 3rd Begins (3rd)
=== 2018 ===
* April
** TCD's 4th Map Begins (8th)
* August
** The CraftersDimension is shut down (20th)
=== 2019 ===
* March
** Simplistica is launched (29th)
* April
** MagicTyFighter relaunches The CraftersDimension, 5th Map Begins (28th)
* October
** Historio creates The Vanilla Experience (15th*)
*December
**TCD's 6th Map Begins (23rd)
=== 2020 ===
* January
** Historio retires from being The Vanilla Experience's owner (1st)
* February
** The CraftersDimension ends its second run (13th)
* March
** Historio joins Simplistica (28th*)
*April
**Historio invites a lot of his friends who used to play on TCD to Simplistica (1st)
**Despite having fun initially, corruption in Simplistica causes most of Historio and most of his friends to leave (10th)
**Historio begins repurposing the server his friends used to be an SMP server (15th)
**First server ads are done (16th)
**Ravyneex, also a former Simplistica player, becomes the server’s first applicant (16th)
== The Era of Old ==
=== The Early Days ===
**Townscraft is officially launched (17th)
**Town rule #1 is amended (17th)
**Montrex is founded (17th)
**Summerhall is founded (17th)
**Bilgewater is founded (17th)
**Server is upgraded from 3gb of RAM to 5gb of RAM (18th)
**Town rule #4 is added (19th)
**Issue fixed where operators would keep inventory on death (20th)
**0 tick farms enabled (20th)
**Bluemax2000/Spartacus is promoted to Junior Moderator (21st)
**Funkytown is founded (21st)
**Staropia is founded (21st)
**Inactivity rules added (22nd)
**_Pork is promoted to Junior Moderator (22nd)
**First draft of war rules created (23rd)
**Zhu09 becomes the first player to be permanently banned (23rd)
**First population census (24th)
**PoofThonk is founded (24th)
**First dragon fight (25th)
=== The Bilgewater Golden Age ===
**Server reached its capacity at the time: 20 players (25th)
**Donation system opened, but doesn’t work (26th)
**Ban reports made public (27th)
**Bourbonville is founded (28th)
**Two PoofThonk members grief each other (28th)
**Town rules amended (28th)
**Server rule #1 further clarified (28th)
**End dragon grief disabled (29th)
**Fire tick disabled (29th)
**Townscraft upgrades to a premium server (30th)
**PoofThonk becomes the server’s first ruin (30th)
**Kuroplayer creates the server’s new logo (30th)
*May
**Historio improves TPS issue significantly (1st)
**Gentlemens rules amended (1st)
**Core protect is reinstalled after completely breaking after switching to a premium server, resulting in all the logs being wiped (2nd)
**Historio announces no new towns for the next two weeks amidst fear of the playerbase being overextended (7th)
**Donation system fix doesn’t work (8th)
**BruisingToaster is promoted to Junior Moderator (8th)
**2017 Time Revert (8th)
**Typo in application format finally fixed (13th)
**Town rule #7 is added (15th)
**Application format redone (18th)
**Moderator and Admin colors made to be easier to see in the Discord (19th)
**Auto-restart added after nightly crashes start happening again (21st)
**Villager optimization plugin added (21st)
**Added feature where server auto-restarts on crash... sometimes (21st)
**Bilgewater closes recruitment (22nd)
**Hostile Mob Cap reduced due to entities causing TPS lag (23rd)
**Staff team structure is overhauled (23rd)
**magnetron_hd is promoted to Junior Moderator (24th)
**The Great Purge of District 66 (25th)
**End is pruned for the first time (25th)
**Small edit to staff team structure (25th)
**BruisingToaster and _Pork are promoted to Moderators (26th)
**Skyto_ invites a ton of his friends, resulting in the creation of the 2nd Commietown, after the original one on Simplistica fell (28th)
**Render distance turned down to 5 temporarily (28th)
**Change to how chat is formatted, towns are now identified by prefix instead of colored names due to running out of colors (30th)
*June
**Server is upgraded (2nd)
**Server hits 20 players on at once for the 2nd time (3rd)
**Mob cap is made to be per-player (3rd)
**Per player mob cap increased from 8 to 16 (4th)
**The button is created (5th)
**Tag begins (5th)
**Per player mob cap increased from 16 to 25 (8th)
**Server reverts to peaceful mode multiple times (9th)
**MagicTyFighter promoted to Admin (9th)
**Valhalla is declared a Ruin (13th)
**Bourbonville becomes a Ruin (13th)
**Alabasta officially becomes a town after weeks of preparations (14th)
**Gentlemen's rule #7 added (14th)
**Kyoto is founded (14th)
=== The Crisis of July ===
**Bluemax2000/Spartacus is demoted and perma-banned shortly after (16th)
**Census project resumed by Sabriner (17th)
**Ticket system added (17th)
**Seed leaked, but quickly covered up (18th)
**Trusted players loose seed access (18th)
**Wiki officially launched (19th)
**Rule #11 added (20th)
**Town rule #2 replaced with a new rule (21st)
**Host migration and 1st temp-map (24th)
**Host migration complete (25th)
**1st temp-map ends a few hours after the migration (25th)
**Arcadia officially opens after laying dormant for a month (25th)
**The Crackdown begins (27th)
**Server updates to 1.16.1 (28th)
**Nether is reset (28th
**Rule #12 is added (28th)
**Bedrock breaking enabled (28th)
*July
**_Pork is removed from the staff team (2nd)
**Sabriner is promoted to Jr. Mod (2nd)
**kuroplayer is promoted to Moderator (2nd)
**Banishment and Wild West concepts introduced to the public (3rd)
**Wild west is well received by most players and its development begins (3rd)
**Staff manual created (3rd)
**Akatsuukii leaves the server (3rd)
**Rule #13 added (4th)
**2b2town incident (4th)
**Historio takes a break from moderating (4th)
**xSweety is promoted to Jr. Mod (4th)
**Mass burnout strikes the server, resulting in a lot of OG players leaving or taking extended breaks (12th*)
**TNT Duping is enabled (15th)
**MOTD finally fixed after being broke since day 1 more or less (15th)
**Server turns 3 months old (17th)
**kuroplayer resigns from the staff team and leaves the server shortly after (17th)
**Historio returns from staffing break (17th)
**Historio announces no new towns until August 1st (17th)
**Staff Manual released to the public (20th)
**Application format is edited (21st)
**Kimberrrr is promoted to Jr. Mod (23rd)
**notreallyjacob is promoted to Jr. Mod (23rd)
== Era 2 ==
=== Reconstruction and the Three Kingdoms ===
**Dustpeaks starts growing at a fast rate (26th*)
**First staff-sponsored PvP tournament begins (29th)
*August
**Gentlemen's rule #8 is added (1st)
**Bilgewater and Summerhall start making a resurgence in population after a lull of inactivity (1st*)
**With most of the prominent members of the server gone, a whole new set of players joins the server in early August (2nd)
**Kezta, an Aztek-inspired town, is officially declared a ruin by Historio (7th*)
**Montrex is declared a ruin after over two months of inactivity (9th)
**kimberrrr is promoted to Moderator (14th)
**ufolov wins Townscraft's first PvP tournament and wins the Dragon Egg (18th)
**Bilgewater's population begins to decay (18th)*
**xSweety and notreallyjacob, the mayors of Dustpeaks go inactive and resign from the staff team later (18th*)
**Redwood City is founded (28th)
**Dustpeaks sees a mass exodus in the absence of its leadership (30th)
**Discord Moderator position created (30th)
**X_AgUsTo_X is promoted to Discord Moderator (30th)
**Summerhall sees unprecedented growth due to ex-Dustpeaks members joining it (30th)
**District 66 declared a ruin (31st)
=== Summerhall Resurgence ===
* September
** Minershaft's Casino in Summerhall becomes a major location on the server (1st)
** Summerhall becomes the most populated town in the server's history up to that point (1st*)
** xAleckay promoted to Discord Moderator (6th)
** The Morven Tour happens, and event where Townscraft members toured another SMP called Morven (20th)
** Minershaft is permanently banned for mass theft (25th)
** Town definition amended (26th)
** Wummeh is promoted to Jr. Mod (26th)
** GSit is installed, introducing /sit and /lay (26th)
** Honey Valley, a town founded by Summerhall members Wummeh and wordyregret, sees massive population growth as many Summerhall members move to the new village (30th*)
=== The Honey Valley Period ===
* October
** Kimberrrr deletes the ticket channel on accident, it takes weeks to be fixed due to the absence of the very inactive Historio (2nd)
** Doomsday event and 6 month anniversary - Historio announces that he will be stepping down as owner in a month and that Kimberrrr will be taking his place (17th)
** RinKiwa is promoted to Jr. Mod (17th)
** magnetron_hd returns to the server and staffing after a very long break (20th*)
** BruisingToaster returns to the server and staffing after an extended break (22nd)
** ASaltedProfessor hosts the Halloween event, one of the largest events in the server's history (31st)
* November
** Pandora is founded (Date missing)
** The Colonies is founded and is an instant hit (5th*)
=== The Sister Cities Period ===
** FutureX is founded (Date missing)
** Tension spur between Redwood City and the Sister Cities, both sides prepare for war (19th)
** Historio resigns from the staff team (22nd)
** Kimberrrr becomes the server's 2nd Owner (22nd)
** Wummeh and RinKiwa are promoted to Moderator (22nd)
** Dustpeaks, Alabasta, and Bilgewater are declared historical towns, meaning they no longer accept new members but still have some residents and open shops (27th)
** Nolando81 steals 131 diamond blocks from Dustpeaks, which is equivalent to 1,179 diamonds, making it the server's largest heist in history (30th)
** Redwood City sees rapid population growth (30th*)
End of Salt's additions to the timeline, edited by Historio