Timeline

This is a timeline of Emerald Haze's history, including several notable events and occurrences.

## Terminology

For ease of comprehension, the timeline is broken into different time periods.

**Eras** refer to different maps as the server has reset a number of times. The Third Era is likely to remain the current era as the issues leading to reset the server have been addressed and fixed now and it's unlikely another reset will occur.

## Timeline

### First Era

*(February - November 2018)*

* 4th February 2018 - Server is online for the first time.
* 1st October 2018 - Server version is updated from 1.12 to 1.13.1.
* 31st October 2018 - **Halloween Event** - Several special items were sold by vendors at spawn in exchange for 'trick or treat' pumpkin pies with lore, dropped by the witches that spawned around spawn for the event.
* Early November 2018 - Problems with Shockbyte hosts results in the corruption of some chunks.
* 7th November 2018 - **Fall of the Ogre** - After extensive infiltration RepoMeister and Sammie\_Gaga raided Cathal's main iron farms.
* 21st November 2018 - Server is reset and version is updated from 1.13.1 to 1.13.2. On the EH Discord a vote was had to change the original 'no flyhacking' rule to simply 'no hacking', and the rule was changed to 'no hacking'. A Temp World is running in the Hub while the server undergoes these changes.

### Second Era

*(November 2018 - July 2019)*

* 3rd May 2019 - Jojo was banned from the server
* 10th May 2019 - **Hackgrief** - Hackers force their way into admin roles and grief several player bases and spawn. Emergency repairs had to be carried out and measures were taken to patch exploits.
* 26th July 2019 - The server is corrupted again. This was (hopefully) the final reset, as the /warp wild command was removed and the server was moved to a more stable on a dedicated server so that it would not have this problem again.

### Third Era

*(July 2019 - Present Day)*

* Some players attempt to 'boycott' Emerald Haze sometime in July. Several players who started the boycott were banned. This event was named 'The JoJo Boycott of Emerald Haze'.

* 11th August 2019 - Server version is updated from 1.13.2 to 1.14.4.
* 20th November 2019 - **Fall of Rome** - The Castle Lads base Rome is destroyed. At the time nobody seemed to know who raided the city.
* 30th December 2019 - **Revelation of Rome** - Twilight Shroud announce that they were behind the fall of Rome as well as some other things. Some Castle Lads log in and destroy the NEMA's capital base.
* 1st January 2020 - **New Year Flush** - The admins of Emerald Haze ban several players (mostly Castle Lads and NEMA members) who were trying to intentionally poach users to another server, make false accusations against the admins, threaten the server and even attempt to vandalise the Emerald Haze Wiki.
* 11th April 2020 - Server version is updated from 1.14.4 to 1.15.2.
* 26th May 2020 - A safer variant of warp wild is added to the server, marking the return of the /warp wild command. Also entering warps and Spawn now displays text that appears on the screen (e.g. "North", "Welcome to Spawn").
* July 2020 - BrokenGUI joins the staff as a developer.
* 26th September 2020 - After a massive period of player inactivity, the server itself requiring more upgrades and donations not being enough, Ninjalette and Saz make the difficult decision to close the server. At 11:46AM on this day Ninjalette announced to people on the EH Discord Server that "its with a sad heart that i have to announce the closure of emerald haze" and that she did "appreciate all of your support and patience with us through all this and i thank you for understanding."
* 28th September 2020 - XyzAH works with Ninjalette and others to help create a server in tribute of Emerald Haze.