AHHS Minecraft Map

The Abington Heights High School Block Game Map is a creative world build of a 1:1 scale AHHS, constructed by The Meme Lord. 
== Pre-Construction ==
Meme Lord had been contemplating building the highschool in Block Game for quite a while, but was hesitant, as not only did he lack the confidence he could complete the whole thing without losing interest somewhere along the way, but also that he wasn't sure if it was even a good idea. Abington was quite iffy when it came to people recreating the school in any way, Big Andy even telling a Software Club member once they couldn't use the school for a map in their 2D game.
Regardless, on November 9, 2020, Meme Lord was growing rather bored during the school's virtual system. Certain virus prison guidelines the school had made meant students had to take classes online for half the week, and thus they all had more free time than usual. So Meme Lord told Mike Kachowski and The Snazzmaster that he would build the school in Minecraft at around 11:53 AM. Later that night, at midnight, the first progress report was posted, and construction began:
== Construction ==
Construction was obviously slow with one person making the school at 1:1 scale, but it wasn't as difficult as Meme Lord had predicted. Using a combination of a print out map of the school he owned, satellite images, and memory, a basic frame was made. Due to not having architectural measurements of the school (duh), most of it had to be eyeballed, but surprisingly the frame came to be pretty accurate. The complete frame of the school was finished on 11/14/2020. 
This is where the long haul began. The completed frame only inspired Meme Lord to complete the whole school, as he didn't even see himself getting this far to begin with. For several afternoons, Meme Lord would exclusively work on the school nonstop, and a lot was done. It was decided a bit through after starting the 3D frame for the walls and ceilings that the lighting should be 100% redstone lamps, and they would be controlled by a single switch, meaning they could all be shut on or off. Thus, the ceilings had to be 3 blocks thick. Meme Lord also made the ceilings themselves 5 blocks off the ground to really represent the height of them in real life. Despite how tall it was, the school still looked pretty accurate.
By the end of November 14, 2020, the first hallway was built, the secondary main entrance hall and the english hall. No classrooms were built yet. The next day, the Math wing was laid out and the gym completed, and by November 16, 2020, 2 days later, the entire school was more or less "built", every classroom and larger room completely filled, all the lights wired, all walls complete, etc. Meme Lord got more details and pictures as he went to school for half the week, during the school's hybrid plan. These 2 days of building were nonstop. At this point over 30 hours have been put into the build, but it wasn't done yet. 
Next was the basement, and this is where commands were used to clear out the entire space under the school. on November 17, 2020, the entire basement was constructed and completed, another day of nonstop building. At this point, Meme Lord, for the first time ever, (to keep himself sane) has been listening music for so long that he actually went through his entire playlist of downloaded music, which contains around 3,000+ tracks. 
On November 18, 2020, the roof was completed, an additional layer to hide the redstone and to give more detail. Satellite images were used to get all the little...things that buildings have on rooves accurate. 
On November 19, 2020, it was time to start on the parking lots. The entire front parking lot, and back parking lot are completed, as well as the entrance pavilion. 
By November 21, 2020, the entire entrance, all parking lots and all exterior detail is made. Every parking space is built, lamps are added, and trees. Commands are used to give the real life downward slope of the student parking lot. 
On November 22, 2020, the hill that goes around the back of the school, which supports a road where the back parking lots exit from. A complete loop of road was made on this, and additionally, more commands are used to clear out where all the fields are going to be. The largest clear out area yet, the pit is longer than the entire build itself, and more blocks are placed to give it a downward slope. The track, and all fields are built in it, as well as the fieldhouse. 
This would be the last day of construction as the school is published to Planet Minecraft by Meme Lord. 
== Publishing ==
On November 22, 2020, Meme Lord publishes the highschool to Planet Minecraft after 2 weeks of work. Minecraft's in-game statistics report the build having taken exactly 50 hours to build the entire school. 
Meme Lord had planned for the school to simply be used for messing around with Memebers. In fact, Meme Lord had already been trying to get a Flans Mod version of the world so they could carpet bomb it with B-25's, but unfortunately the world was too new to be sent back to 1.12, so it wasn't an option. Despite this, Meme Lord and Mike Kachowski got on a server the next day with the world and messed around with it, immediately blowing it up with fireball commands. Sly Frog Fry publicizes the build more on his snapchat story. Meme Lord, as a joke, submits a screenshot of the finished school to the 2021 yearbook. 
It wasn't until the next day, November 24, 2020, when things would go crazy. Dirty Mike would be shocked when told about Meme Lord's build by Mike Kachowski. At the time, Meme Lord barely knew the Software Club existed, and coincidentally, Dirty Mike and the other Software Club members were about to begin work on an Abington RPG, and thus, after Dirty Mike realized the guy who built a 1:1 Minecraft Abington was the same guy who sat next to him in Meestur Deeskuh's class, he quickly asked if Meme Lord would like to join the Software Club, to which he accepted. They figured Meme Lord could assist in making an accurate map for their Abington RPG, and thus he was added to the team. thumb|256x256px|the video-The day after, before Meme Lord even gets in class, Dirty Mike tells Meestur Deeskuh himself about the Minecraft Map, and Deeskuh immediately turns the class into a tour of the school the second Meme Lord joined the google meet. This process repeats itself, two other teachers doing the same, Meme Lord not even mentioning the school to anyone prior. At this point the build has blown up, and Meme Lord receives emails from the yearbook team for more information and screenshots. Meme Lord obliges and the build blows up further, getting nearly 100 downloads by the end of the day. 
Meme Lord makes a new YouTube channel and a video to help promote the build, and to give a quick tour to those wishing to see it without playing the game, or those who don't own Java Edition. 
== gm_abington ==
On 9/18/2023, Meme Lord began his greatest labor of gmod ever: inserting the AHHS Minecraft map into gmod. It required an array of very old tools that only worked with certain versions of Block Game, so Meme Lord had to use a wide array of commands to replace thousands of blocks on the physical map. Next, it had to be put through an old tool called Amulet to convert it to a file that the Hammer converter would recognize as being from an older version, in this case, 1.7.10. 
At this point the map was visible in hammer, but none of the textures were loaded properly, thus Meme Lord had to go through and apply the textures to each and every block type. At this point, it is 9/20, and the map was having problem upon problem. Meme Lord quickly learned that most MC maps inserted into GMOD were supposed to be small for a reason: vertices and brush limits. When the map was finally fully imported and functional within hammer, it had 27,236 brushes. It needed to be below 10,000. This would be where the agony truly began. Meme Lord had to remove as many unnecessary blocks as physically possible, and stretch and resize as many brushes as possible to make up for the holes in the map caused by this. The problem was, even when this was done, there were still far too many brushes. Meme Lord then had to use propper, a hammer tool that can convert large amounts of brushes into props, which don't count at all towards the brush count. This took about a month, and by the start of october, the map now had 8027 brushes.
The pain wasn't over yet. The brushes may have been down, but the vertices were a whole new problem. At this point, Mike Kachowski was brought in to help lower the vertices count, mainly by constructing stairs and finding holes and other areas that needed touch-ups. He also added many interactable items throughout the map. By november, the map was finally almost 100% finished. Mike Kachowski and Meme Lord played on the map several times, the map becoming a regular one to use. Unfortunately though, the map is still quite large, and it can be quite laggy for the host. The map was kept in absolute secrecy up until 11/8/2023, when Meme Lord invited the entire gang on to play on the map for the first time. The map was touched up for a few months, and finally published on 2/16/2024.
== Legacy ==
The Minecaft school, to this day, is still getting daily downloads, having over 1,200+ downloads, and 7,000+ views at the time of writing. The 2021 yearbook did indeed include the school, and in fact, gave it an entire page. It even included a QR code to the YouTube video touring it. Some cringe Class of 2021 students didn't even believe Meme Lord had constructed it, for whatever reasons.
After publishing, the school continued to get updated as Meme Lord continued to go to school and even got access to areas he wasn't even allowed to be before, Vannaniel even getting a maintenance key and showing him some backrooms as they searched for the mysterious SCP Hallway, which Meme Lord added to the build anyways. The school has been polished and updated 11 times so far, the most recent update coming out far after Meme Lord graduated. Meme Lord also got feedback from those in classes he'd never been in order to get them to be more accurate. Meme Lord was also told a year later by a 2021 student that they had a 20-person server on the map. 
Perhaps most famously within the Council, a server was made by Meme Lord, dubbed "2B2Bington", a reference of course to 2B2T, as per FitMC's videos presence in the Council, and became the Council's go-to chaos server. Mike Kachowski and Meme Lord would experiment with massive chainblock commands in a bunker and created many monstrosities to make the landscape chaotic. Melon-infecting pigzombies, fast turtles that kill you, phantoms that generate giant sand castles, silverfish that explode into sand mounds (dune!), mobs that spawned deathpits, giant obsidian walls, you name it. To even represent 2B2T itself even more, a giant trench was made surrounding the school with fireballs, filled with withers, as well as a surrounding obsidian wall and an obsidian ceiling. The server was used for many weeks occasionally, where they were often joined by Snazzmaster and Tactician, and true chaos reigned for quite a while.
Meme Lord downloaded the world when Minecraft was played less, and on 3/6/2022, the server was deleted by Aternos. At any time though, a new one can be made, with the same map, and 2b2bington can reign again.
The build was also featured as a Midnight Monday Garf on 1/28/2021.
== Neat Factoids ==
* The world that the map is hosted on has never been replaced by a copy, corrupted, or changed. The world file has been the same since the first block was placed to the last.
* (Big Tanner)'s Cow is the oldest entity on the world, given invincible potion effects to make him immortal. Unfortunately, during Meme Lord's presentation of the world to Deeskuh, Meme Lord killed it as a joke using "Rowland's Thanos-Slaying Sword", a command-modified superweapon that can be found on the map. Meme Lord quickly realized the tragic mistake he made, and thus, a chest was buried under the exact spot where (Big Tanner)'s cow was slain. Inside is a book detailing what happened, and the leather and beef the cow dropped. A new cow replaced it, it was dubbed "(Big Tanner)'s Cow" yet again, and that cow has not been replaced since.
** Each time Meme Lord updates the map, one of the last things he must do before publishing is to find (Big Tanner)'s Cow, which often wanders off, and drag it back under Big Tanner's window with a lead each time.
* There are several hidden notes and secrets in the map, congrats to you if you found them all.
* Currently the build has a total of 56 hours on it
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