Makiro Valley Community

=== Makiro Valley ===
Makiro Valley (which was originally called "Drift Mountain" for a period of time between March/April of 2017 until 2018) was a group of players ranging somewhere in the low-hundreds which had an interest in cars and racing, especially when connected to the Japanese racing sport "touge". It was founded by Demon1979, and progressively grew over time due to an increase of activity over the years, it's peak being sometime around 2019; unfortunately, with the increase of players came instability, and issues had come up in the social standing of things. Makiro in terms of Blocksworld would continue to exist until Error 505 had killed Blocksworld.
=== Humble Beginnings (July/August 2017) ===
Demon1979 had previously dabbled in Blocksworld's car culture when he started his barn finders series, but created "Drift Mountain" which used his cars as the basis of everything. It's unknown what the first world was like, as it's since been lost to time, but the earliest record of a Drift Mountain world was titled “Doing Some Races on Drift Mountain”, published in what is believed to be July/August of 2017. The description is not noteworthy as it only lists made-up races that happened. The players featured in the world included JoshuaRedFox, TheTomster, AidanGodzilla1, waat74, and two unidentified players.
=== The Peugeot 206 Incident (August 2017) ===
In a world titled “Another One Bites the Dust…”, published mere days after “Doing Some Races on Drift Mountain”, Demon writes a story about a rival driver that's designed to challenge other users to race him, bringing action to the community. This fictional driver drove a red Peugeot 206 and killed racers as a cheap deadly rival cliche. The description of the world introducing him states "The Peugeot 206 has claimed another victim and has taken the tires and blinkers as trophies. Another driver died in this rewinding cycle of Peugeot terror."
Users created their own Makiro worlds, and Demon was able to see the community publish their own worlds about their happenings against the Peugeot 206, most involved destroying the Peugeot 206 or in some cases, saying he was revived by other means.
=== The Double Bladed Axes Team (August/September 2017) ===
The Double Bladed Axes (usually shortened to DBA) were a team created in August of 2017 when the Peugeot 206 incident ran out of steam (minus the few players that continued to fight the force in their own storylines). They first appeared in a world titled “The New Team in Town.”, with the description "A new drift crew has entered drift mountain… They call themselves the “Double Bladed Axes” or DBA for short. Mostly they use Japanese cars but every now and then they bring something odd to the match, like one guy who brought a muscle car. They didn’t race it though… This is a drone shot of the turn where the tables turned on their best FWD driver on the mountain.".
=== First Murders and First Sense of Restraint (August/September 2017) ===
At some point people claimed to have been murdered or have seen murders on Drift Mountain. This was considered the first big event created by a player that wasn't Demon1979. A player named Fantastic_Fox had seen this and decided to try and control the situation using their BWMC expertize. Demon overruled this, and decided to instead state the following "So due to many reports of murders and guns up on the mountains, we have put toll booths and CCTV at the North and East Entrances..." (Excerpt from “New System at Drift Mountain… (Toll Gates)” world).
=== Rebranding to Makiro (September/October 2017) ===
Demon1979 eventually released a world titled “History of Makiro (Drift) Mountain 1923-2017” which marked the first usage of the Makiro name. The name meant nothing at the time, and was a randomly picked name that sounded Japanese. This also solidified the fact that Makiro had been located in Japan, and not an ambiguous combination of America and Japan. Demon1979 also persisted the fact that people were all welcome, because players constantly asked Demon1979 permission in "Meeting Demon" worlds, and suggested they needed a message back for them to start participating in the roleplay.
=== The Yellow Levin Incident (August/September 2017) ===
At some point in August/September of 2017, Demon1979 wanted to become dramatic, and decided to make a gut-wrenching story of another deadly driver who drove a yellow 1986 Toyota Corolla AE86 Levin. The driver would race Demon1979 in a cinematic world and total his car, a red 1996 Mazda Miata MX-5 (NA) hardtop. This would prove to be a major impact to the Makiro community, as players demanded he be arrested for his crimes, and made worlds racing the Levin themselves. He was eventually defeated when Demon rematched him, and the Levin crashed after an attempted crash into Demon. Some players possibly made worlds of themselves beating the Levin, but this flew under the radar and were far and few between.
=== The Dekimotos (November 2017 - End) ===
The Dekimoto family were originally an unnamed duo of father and son that was part of the Drift Dragons. These would later become recurring characters made by Demon that appeared alongside him. Shindo Dekimoto (full name Shindoshi Dekimoto, which wouldn't come to be until September/October of 2019), who drove a 1999 Mazda Miata MX-5 (NB8C) in a similar style to Initial D character Satoshi Omiya's car. Lamiko Dekimoto drove a 2017 Nissan GT-R Nismo (which would later become a 1971 Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R 'Hakosuka' in June of 2018 with the world “Lamiko Lost the R35 Nismo (Makiro)”).
The first encounters with them were skeptical to say the least. Due to Demon's past of throwing out bad guys, Lamiko and Shindo were seen as bad guys too. One player even claimed that they wrecked their Porsche, resulting in the world “Paying the Bill for Lamiko”. The players would eventually get around the hypocrisy, and treat them as one of Makiro's pillars. Most players still raced against Demon most of the time, due to him being around longer and was an actual player, and not a character owned by Demon.
=== The Korean Missile Incident (January 2018) ===
In the new year of January 2018, an incident occured that would become Makiro's most known accident. The Korean Missile incident came from an unknown user that claimed a missile hit Makiro, but was a dud, saying the iconic line "It's a Korean Missile but it failed!". Demon followed this up with the world “Don’t Need to Worry Guy’s, Things are Good” with the description "Makiro Mountain is still not being “attacked”, just a firecracker and abandoned rocket/missile mistake. Only thing you need to worry about is slow traffic… anyways keep on drifting. Now that was the only abandoned rocket so there should be no more problems unless it’s a firecracker issue again… like Lamiko said. Dang teenagers." 
=== Danny's Diner, The Meeting Spot (January 2018ish - End) ===
Danny’s Diner is a sub-location in Makiro Valley that was used as the hub for meeting the other driver’s in the community. At first, it was created as a place in the United States of America, but this was during the last few moments when Makiro was still an American place, and the American name stuck as it was transferred to Japan.
The diner itself is based on a 1950’s American diner with a white exterior and red booths inside, plus other details found in this setting such as neons, chrome, and doo-wop aestetics. Demon doesn’t exactly know where this idea came from, let alone the name, but has been one of the major icons in Makiro that has never truly been changed since the day it was introduced, minus a refurbished design that only added missing details to the bland building. The building was also placed specifically near an intersection when it was vaguely stated as being either at the top of the pass, or the bottom of the pass.
=== Friendly Associates (March 2018 - End) ===
Demon1979 has managed to collaberate with several players in Makiro, such as the player TheTomster who had assisted Demon previously when it came to barn finds. Though two players stood out from the rest, often quoted as "Makiro's CEO's". These players went by the names Naycart and VampirePlayZ, and had been introduced as friends of Demon around what is presumed to be March of 2018. Naycart had previously appeared in a barn find world in September of 2017, but his prominence in Makiro world's wouldn't come until March, when he made consecutive appearances in the worlds “A Touge Ferrari Has Now Entered The Ring.”, “The Grand Re-Opening of a Dealership!”, and “Doing Another Makiro Downhill Battle”.
Naycart had created his own avatar for the community, driving a white 1986 Toyota Corolla Trueno AE86 with the panda livery, and worked as a tuner for his role in Makiro. He tuned up a Wangan Midnight inspired Testarossa for a client that eventually appeared as a small side-character for a few worlds.
Vamp's first appearances were very undocumented and subtle on blocksworld, but his name first tagged a Makiro world under the title “For VampirePlayZ (M.M.D.C Touge Drift)” released in April of 2018 by Demon1979. The M.M.D.C. Touge Drift project being a game or cinematic that Vamp was working on for Makiro, but may not have published in full.
=== Tainted History of Mermaid Hunting and Pikmin (May 2018 - August 2018?) ===
Demon1979 had grown a lot since his humble beginnings, celebrating 3,000 followers in May of 2018. Though some tension had erupted again, this time involving the trend and political side of Blocksworld's main commuity, mermaid hunting. This time period is hard to decypher from Demon1979's perspective, as documentation is very little, but from what he can remember, the people of Makiro had mainly hunted mermaids because they wanted to race and not worry about mermaids getting in the way.
Some people like TheTomster were against this, and he would later play a bigger role in the pikmin of Makiro.
Pikmin were based on the Nintendo game series, and were brought into the Makiro community by TheTomster. Everyone was against the introduction of pikmin, especially with the mermaid hunting going down, so it only made them more frustrated. The situation became worse when TheTomster gave these pikmin attributes that were pushing the game's moderation staff. At one point, someone found a pool at the bottom of Makiro where these mermaids and pikmin hung out, and Demon was very partial on how to handle this, as the pass itself was the place he created, and it didn't seem like an aspect of the pass he would want perminently placed on Makiro. The pool was never mentioned again and was forgotten about.
The pikmin situation subsided eventually when Thetomster left the game from constant undeserved bullying, and brought the pikmin with him. Demon was saddened by this, as he was a good friend like everyone else he knew, but there was nothing he could do about it. To try and remove this section of Makiro's history, he deleted the pikmin Makiro worlds he published in hopes of forgetting this part of history. These worlds are premanently lost on Demon1979's end.
=== Phenomena From Eevee House (Makiro From October 2018 - September 2019) ===
In October of 2018, a world titled “Arrived At Makiro Mountain! FINALLY!" had appeared from a user named Eevee House. The user had appeared on the mountain pass using Pokemon, with the world featuring a Swampert, a Goodra, a dog named Falcon", and several Eeveelutions, with a Vaporeon being his main avatar. Players had disliked Eevee House upon his initial appearance, but Demon1979 saw no issue with this player coming to Makiro.
Because of the backlash, Eeveehouse attempted to create their own racing events, such as the March of 2019 event "A Race Of Legends | Eevee House", in which drivers drove cars pre-1980 at a place called "Okami Peaks (Wolf Mountain Range)". The place resembled the Wild West, and Demon actually attempted to enter the event because he was interested in it. This however, fell through in favor of "Efini's Gate" in April of 2019, which was a mountain pass similar to Makiro Valley, but with personal touches such as Café Poké. 
===== NIGHTMARE's Arrival =====
Eevee House probably realized that his new racing team Mega Swerve wasn't gaining enough traction compared to other popular teams of Makiro at the time, such as Team Red Striped and The Rising Suns. He created team NIGHTMARE (in all caps), a racing team that were characterized for driving dark purple vehicles mainly of Japanese orgin; and creating havoc on the mountain pass.
NIGHTMARE had used weapons such as guns and knives, stolen vehicles, attacked drivers, caused accidents and death, you name it, they had done it. NIGHTMARE would eventually be memorialized for a scandal involving Antarctic oil that players had gotten involved in. Users such as Gonzalo1406 and belfour1 had used their cars to prevent NIGHTMARE from getting their special oil. The world that made belfour1 and NIGHTMARE iconic, "To: Everyone At Makiro", had created the concept of NIGHTMARE using mechs.
=== How Makiro Valley Had Fallen Out (September 2019 - End) ===
Makiro had been subjected to multiple issues internally. These accumilated over the years, but it wouldn't be until an issue with a user named AE86-Chan that turmoil really began. A user that had been previously involved with cars decided to join Makiro using their character AE86-Chan, who resembled a humanoid AE86. The big blockster wasn't designed with bad intentions in mind, and was based on anime tropes in a way that wasn't harmful to the community. However, as previously experienced with Eevee House, the serious users in Makiro weren't keen on letting outsiders with "strange" interests join in on the fun.
As a result, AE86-Chan was being pointed at, and some users had chosen to leave instead of dealing with the situation in a civilized fashion. As best described by Makiro user Dragon & JDM from the September 6th, 2019 world "Nah, I Ain't Dealing With This", "I'm leaving the Makiro RP until this crazy thing changes. I agree with TougeNate. Like, Human-Car Hybrids AND Pokemon somehow driving cars? No, just no."
EeveeHouse's racing team NIGHTMARE was still around, and the users in Makiro really started to think the situation was getting ridiculous; however, it seemed as though Eevee House was sick of the mistreatment to him and left with a world titled "No Country for Pokemon". EeveeHouse says that Makiro isn't welcoming of Pokemon and appears to leave the community sometime in late 2019.
AE86-Chan hadn't left after the court trial world, but rather shifted to a more realistic approach to being in Makiro. They created a character named Yuki Urawa, and had made worlds about moving into Makiro which was percieved as good by the other users due to a lack of bullying. Yuki would eventually be included by Demon1979 in one of his last Makiro worlds, "A Battle Between Shindoshi And Yuki" in which Yuki would have made the second half of the world. Unfortunately, this was when the servers went out permanently.
The servers of the game was becoming inconsistant due to a lack of maintenance at Linden Labs on their end. At this point, what can only be presumed as close to 3,800,000 Worlds have been published on Blocksworld in late 2019. This had put a big load on the servers on top of tons of models and players in the game. When players started to cause the game to bug out and add in their own models of objects, causing the servers to presumably become overloaded. The staff at Linden Labs refused to fix the servers.
=== Makiro Valley's Impact on Blocksworld (Epilogue) ===
Makiro Valley wasn't very huge in Blocksworld as it only affected players interested in cars; those players also having to be interested in drifting and Japanese cars to a certain degree. Demon did hit a certain balance when players interested in the exploration style of open-world gaming, and players who were interested in family roleplay and the wilderness.
Everyday players who bought Demon's cars possibly gained the most since it was a place that allowed them to customize and share their cars, and could cheaply afford new cars whenever they felt like they needed a change of pace. It also helped promote Demon1979's cars, and allowed them to appear at the top of the Model shop in the "Cars" category, as well as be seen as a player who could produce cars for the not-so-rich blockster.
Nothing new had happened to Blocksworld itself when Makiro Valley came around, and for the admins of Blocksworld they may not have recognized the community as something that existed. Nothing relating to Makiro ever appeared on What's Hot, nor did it affect popular players enough for them to recognize it as much as other roleplay communities, except for maybe EpicTimTam (due to Demon1979 mentioning him in world descriptions).
===== Disclaimer =====
The information presented here is only connected to the Makiro Valley community that resided on Blocksworld's original servers between 2017 and 2020. Worlds, models, and messages created that are based on Blocksworld 2's new servers are unrelated to this specific article.
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