History of PeacefulCraft

## Early PeacefulCraft

PeacefulCraft fist came online on Friday October 12th, 2012. The server opened with 8 slots and a merge 512MB of RAM. Despite the name, PeacefulCraft began as a standard survival server with mobs and PvP. There exist no records of when the peaceful world was introduced, or when PvP was disabled in the main world. The server also lacked keep inventory as this feature did not yet exist in the game. KeepInventory was added sometime around early November, 2012.

At this time PeacefulCraft was not a network and only offered the one semi-vanilla game mode.

#### Original Staff

* [Owner] Parsonswy
* [Admin] BrokenKage (formerly fuzzyunicorn123)
* [Admin] Jmarioman
* [Admin] Sidious82
* [Moderator] Flaminbrownies
* [Moderator] Generalray
* [Creative] toonlink007
* [Creative] samuelman1
* [Creative] hugecliff
* [Admin] Ohio2017. First non-founding staff member. Promoted sometime around January 2013.

#### Early Growth

Originally, PeacefulCraft was only listed on the now defunct Minecraft server listing site minecraftservers.net. There exist no known records of this listing now that the site is shutdown. A second listing was submitted to PlanetMinecraft on December 18th, 2012. This listing still exists and is maintained today. The server regularly pushed the limits of the few slots that it had and was eventually upgraded to an 18 slot server with MCPro Hosting after it's original hosting company, Avante hosting, closed their doors.

#### Notable Events

Not much information exists about the early years of PeacefulCraft. What little that is known comes from anecdotes and a few screenshots and videos that were posted to the Internet by users.

A couple video's are by Panclaw's, which are his youtube review of the server

Both of these video's were made in 2013

##### Grief of Spawn

The first few days after the server's launch are marked with major griefing incidents, hackers, and fishing attacks. The most notable being a player who, posing as a staff member from minecraftservers.net, was mistakenly given operator permissions and subsequently destroyed the spawn. The spawn area existed in a perpetual state of partial grief due to inadequate world protections.

##### Map Corruption

Sometime in late spring of 2013, PeacefulCraft was taken offline and whitelisted to host a private event - the details of which are lost to time. Following the event, and for reasons still unknown, something went wrong with the switchback between the event world and the main survival world. The resulting world was a strange combination of the existing world map and temporary event map. The event map was small, only a few hundred blocks across, so the damage was restricted to a jungle biome near the spawn area. The server continued to use this world for several weeks before the world was finally reset with the transfer to MCPro Hosting.

#### Map Features

There were few major projects or key points of interest on the original PeacefulCraft map.

##### Spawn

The spawn area is modest and peppered with 6 months of accumulated griefing damage. The spawn featured a gazebo like structure in which players spawned. The gazebo led out to a central street of clay with another building container server staff and rules. Behind the information building is a restaurant which has no actual function or services, and an admin shop which was not setup until the final weeks of the original map. Off in a corner of spawn is a public nether portal. All of spawn is surrounded by a stone brick wall. Just beyond the wall is land reserved for player-purchasable condos; only one of which was ever build, a lighthouse build by Sidious82, a suspension bridge built by Parsonswy, and the server jail.

##### Desert Temple City

To the south of spawn is Flaminbrownies' desert temple city. The city contains a large sandstone pyramid and several desert village homes. The entire city was built over the ocean which bordered spawn. Parts of the city can be seen in a server showcase video by Sonia Sou on YouTube, released November 9th, 2012. The city used to border spawn before it was moved farther farther southwest for encroaching too much on the spawn area. The original foundations of the city were not well covered and the original city location is visible just south of spawn.

##### PvP Arena

Beyond the desert temple city floated a spherical battle arena made of class and obsidian, built by Admins BrokenKage and Jmarioman. The battle arena featured multi-level, biome themed floors and was intended for use as a general-purpose PvP arena on the server. Warps were setup, though there was never any formal plugin or process to facilitate combat and item protections, so most fights were staff trying to out-op each`others' items.