Sunflower Town

The whole of Sunflower Town during January 2024.

**Sunflower Town** is the most populated area of Seacraft. It is located just west of Spawn, and consists of many large houses and other structures. It has a monument located in 'Town Square' which is a giant sunflower.

The town is divided into two parts. The first part is the flat piece of land that occupies the majority of the suburb (north), and a small island known as 'Sunflower Island' (south).

## Features

Designed a residential area, Sunflower Town has a few facilities for people to use.

### Town Square

Sunflower Town features a town square with a monument of a sunflower in the middle.

### Train station

Sunflower Town has a train station with four integrated shop plots, one of which is an information centre and another is a *Spelunky's* store. The station connects to the Ocean Line and the Northern Line, giving direct rail access to Spawn, Moose Forest and Stagnant Swamps.

### Council building

The council chambers for the Ocean Isles Council can be found in Sunflower Town. The building is made of prismarine and can be found on Sunflower Road.

## History

### Early History

*The Forgotten Period*Please note that the following content may contain assumptions as some of the information has been lost or forgotten.Sunflower Town was originally one of the two islands found during Seacraft Alpha and was called 'Horse Island'. The only reason for this was because the operators had spawned a bunch of horses on it.

Upon the island zac5 had built a jail made of bedrock and a disco. The disco featured a note block circuit which played a tune from Tao Cruz's *Dynamite*. Many players built houses on and around the island, including zac5, jacobme32, josh20202, asasinateddoctor and Blokestar. A statue of a wither was also constructed above the island, believed to have been made by TobesP.

Over time, the horses swam away from the island and more were spawned. This happened again and again until the operators were sick of it. Instead they placed a bunch of sunflowers on it and called it 'Sunflower Island'.

### Re-doing the island

Some time after Seacraft 2.0, Sunflower Island was a mess. Because of this, zac5 wanted to redo the island. By this he meant destroying the structures and fixing the land. However, jacobme32 (now known as Jakemaster\_360) thought this meant blowing up the entire island and rebuilding it. zac5 eventually went with it and they blew up the island and zac5 rebuilt the land.

### New Town

zac5 had received some complaints that there wasn't a lot of flat area to build big houses. He responded by building a piece of large, flat piece of land to the north of Sunflower Island. He called the area 'New Town' and released it as part of Seacraft 2.1.6.

This area became popular among players, likely due to its close proximity to Spawn. This period of time, during October to November of 2014, is known as the New Town Boom. This area was expanded multiple times to accommodate all the people who wanted to build there. For whatever reason, early settlement was concentrated around the edges of the town, with some players building substantially over the water. A cemetery was also constructed for players' various dead pets.

One of 2.2's minor versions saw the introduction of dedicated suburbs. Originally, Sunflower Island and New Town were two separate suburbs.

#### New Town Grief

*Main article: New Town Grief*
On the 18th of November, 2014 some parts of New Town were griefed during the New Town Grief, as well as Spawn and the lighthouse at Sunflower island. After an investigation ensued, it was believed that the griefer was asasinateddoctor.

### Five Nights Period

New Town remained popular among players, slowly filling up over time. Eventually, zac5 decided that Sunflower Island was too small to be a suburb and New Town had grown very large, so zac5 decided to merge Sunflower Island and New Town into one singular suburb called Sunflower Town around April 2014. However, players continued expanding the area to the west, which zac5 eventually named New Town, which caused some confusion among players.

### Fire of Sunflower Town

*Main article: Fire of Sunflower Town*
On September 11 2015, part of central Sunflower Town burned down accidentally as a result of the doFireTick game rule being set to false by Im\_Uncle\_Eddy. In particular, the block containing the houses of Sir\_Azza, Jakemaster\_360 and zac5 were burned down, starting from a fireplace in Sir\_Azza's house.

### Underworld Apartments

Seacraft 2.4 planned to bring an apartment block in the middle of Sunflower Town. It was constructed largely out of quartz. Its release was postponed until Seacraft 2.4.7, when it finally opened. However, it was never used by anyone.

### Clearing land

jaykobe had become the mayor of the Ocean Isles Council as of Seacraft 3.0, and at the end of June in 2022, he decided to clear certain properties from the area. With the help of ZacNVR, they began by relocating the graveyard to New Town. jaykobe then removed a number of structures, including the post office, the Underworld Apartments, and some other structures. He then rebuilt the town square, making a bigger sunflower and replacing the floor with wood.

## Gallery

A picture of Sunflower Town taken during June 2015 (Seacraft 2.2.13).Part of Sunflower Town was burned down on 2015-09-11 (Seacraft 2.3.5).Sunflower Island during Seacraft 2.3.7.The whole of Sunflower Town during Seacraft 2.3.14.The north end of Sunflower Town during Seacraft 2.3.14.