CubeCraft

CubeCraft, also known as CubeCraft Games or CubeCraft Network is a Minecraft Server owned and operated by Ziax Ltd. (formerly Digital Tree Media Ltd.), a company on Manchester, England, United Kingdom and the company is directed by Marco Slater, Luke Morfill, Zed Spencer-Milnes and Luke Nolan.
==History==
=== Pre-CubeCraft (2012)===
The server is created by Morfill and Slater. It started as a Vanilla Survival Server for Slater's Friends on December 21st, 2012. Morfill founded the server with Slater joining shortly.
=== 2013===
On January 4th, Factions was Released and Fish Slap was also added and removed during that same time. But on March 31st, it began to expand as a proper Network by adding KitPvP, Splegg and Skyblock. On August 1st to Early September, they added Hide and Seek, Parkour, and Infected and Assassination. Over the same period of time, they ended reaching 300 to 400 players at the Network all at once. Leading for them to be the original staff team on the Server. Many of the members left the team which is a 50+ Admins and Graphic Designers while everyone else on the original members are still hanging around the team. On future forum posts, Skywars, Survival Games (SG), QuakeCraft and TNT Run were also added on that time period. Server Updates continued until the end of the year. They also registered a Relay Chat and a Twitter Account (@CubeCraftGames) to talk about Announcements as they reached 1000 Consecutive Players at the 1 year Anniversary of the Server.
===2014===
As they move onto 2014, developments have gone to slowdown. Gamemodes were still being updated frequently but there were no additions on the Server. However the biggest addition to the server is that the new Obsidian Rank that was announced on the CubeCraft Teamspeak. Sometime in that year, Nolan joined as 3rd Member of Team CubeCraft. Comming in July, Minecraft EULA struck down CubeCraft. Due for noticed of almost being shutted down, most of the Donator Benefits were removed and the end of the year, the team are still finding ways to do Donator Benefits.
===2015===
2015 suffered as the same problems that 2014 had. However, it started to go better halfway through the year. They reached 8,000 consecutive players and Team SkyWars released. Soon after, CubeCraft 2.1 Released on May 10th which had a lot of updates. The end of the same month, They had a new Arcade Minigame called Hourglass. Spencer-Milnes joined as a new Developer of the Team CubeCraft, making the server having 4 Original Members and Directors of Digital Tree Media (now Ziax). The next couple of days, CubeCraft reached 30,000 consecutive players due for Eggwars' Growth. As the old Minecraft YouTube's adaptation to the Minigame, CubeCraft climbed their way to the top. Leading for being the 2nd Largest Servers in Minecraft Java Edition.
===2016===
2016 became one of the strongest years in their History. They had a new Bedwars Update and they merge with The Chunk, bringing Blockwars and Tower Defense onto the Server. Eggwars also had a update on March. Soon after, 1.9 Released and it was the controversial Updates in Minecraft. Many Servers were experimenting something for the new PvP Mechanics and so CubeCraft decided to make it fully compatible with 1.9. Their announcement of 1.9 being Compatible, 400 are mostly angry replies. Leading for the Server Count to Drop. The rest of the Year kept being steady as they did a revamp to Survival Games, releases of Minerware and Blockband, and the return of 1.8 for SkyWars and Eggwars.
===2017 (Downfall of Minecraft)===
2017 wasnt the greatest year as Minecraft YouTube and Minecraft's Popularity started to die due to the Popularity of Fortnite. However, this wasnt an Issue for CubeCraft as through they ended 2016 at over 4,000 consecutive players. They also kept making lots of Updates from their sleeves. Which includes the Sentinel Anti-Cheat on March 6th, Ultra Hardcore (UHC) on March 23rd, 5 New Hardcore Games on May 25th, and the awaited Party System, which was released 2 weeks earlier. On June 12th, that they will be comming to Bedrock Edition on the Better Together Update which were the Version 1.2.0. To keep both Servers alive, they make updates every week or so to keep the Server alive and to support the Bedrock Server. One of those were the Island Trilogy (TNT Trouble, Infection, Archer Assault) on September 5th for TNT Run, September 15th for Infection and September 20th for Archer Assault.
=== 2018===
On 2018, They brought few small Lobby Games in form of Fishing and Two different Treasure Hunts. As well as Survival Bingo which was popularized for the New Minecraft YouTube and the New MCYTs in just Days. February brought in new Arcade Minigames, with the return of QuakeCraft after a long Revamp and the Addition of Slime Survival in QuakeCraft, a ripoff of TNT Tag. Minerware also got 6 New smaller Minigames on March 1st and by that Time, CubeCraft Bedrock was on full Release. As most Networks having a Bedrock Edition Counterparts, they will shift away from Java Edition and CubeCraft was no exception for the rule. Parkour got re-released and EggWars received special game types. On October, they started to remove Games on the old Lobby. Leading for multiple people to be banned on the Server for causing a Scandal. By the end of the year, it got into a very sour note.
===2019===
2019 was a forgettable Year for the Community. Which was no updates and just Bedrock catching up for their Predecessor which is the Java Edition Network.
===2020===
In sometime in 2020, CubeCraft decided to rework their Staff Methodology and to shift their focus again to Java. Ever since then, EggWars and Skyblock had new updates. As well as a new and improved forum and a Among Us-themed Murder Mystery gamemode named Among Slimes on October 26th. Bridges was later on added as a gamemode for Blockwars two weeks later, followed by Colony Control at the start of December. By the end of 2020, CubeCraft was thriving once again. Having they destroyed their previous player count record onto Bedrock, even gaining more players at Java Edition now back over at 5,000 at a time.
===2021===
They are doing more stuff at Java more and more testing of new features as they enter at 2021. On sometime at June, they have fully ended 1.8-1.12.1 Support to give way for 1.12.2 Version to latest version. Soon after, they are globally releasing all updates to all of their servers which was the Magic and Mayhem RPG and the Halloween Updates which includes a new Slenderman and Creepypasta-inspired gamemode named Ender but with 20 Pages instead of 8 due to copyrights on the creator of the game.
=== 2022 ===
=== 2023 ===
==Ziax Ltd.==
Ziax Limited or also known as Ziax Ltd., Formerly Digital Tree Media Limited/Digital Tree Media Ltd. is the company who is behind creating CubeCraft. They are sometimes called Team CubeCraft due to their 1000+ Members of their roster. They worked with multiple people like YOGSCAST, Ubisoft and Insomnia Gaming Festival. They also created DemocracyLive, a Affiliated Twitch Channel created with the Britain Government. The Company was formed under the name Digital Tree Media Ltd. on 2014-2020, The name later on Changed to Ziax Ltd. within 2021.
===History===
Many of the team were still living at home, doing their exams for school and spending any spare moment running a massive gaming brand. The team which would become Ziax came together in 2014 under the name Digital Tree Media.
They started to do community livestreams raising money for charity, working with event companies and providing our games in person to the public. They reached massive success in 2015. So many prominent influencers created content on our network for their fanbases to enjoy.
2017 and 2018 were extremely tough years, which tested CubeCraft's resilience and capability as a team and a company.
In 2019 they reorganised and set some hefty goals. They wanted Ziax built on fun, and to aim even higher as they continue to learn and improve. They embrace challenges as an opportunity to grow and empowered our team, to become customer driven and more collaborative in their decisions. CubeCraft became partnered with Microsoft, that was a catalyst for where they truly launched our vision. 
In 2020, the team grew to the biggest it hass ever been. They have team members from all over the world all working together in collaboration, providing development, design, moderation, translation, support and leadership. They launched countless products on the Minecraft Marketplace each providing a unique and exciting experience for the community. The CubeCraft server hit over 50,000 concurrent players.
==References==
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