TERRA!

*This article is about the server. For client-side pack, see TERRA! MegaPack. For the stand-alone pack, see TERRA! ModPack.*

“ It takes more than courage to defeat the adversities of this land. Enter a world of unknown and dangers, and show them what you're capable of! ”
- ***TERRA's** official slogan as of **TERRA! Beta**.*

### Name

TERRA!
TERRA

### Runtime

June 12th - November 2021 (Alpha)
Since June 12th, 2022 (Beta, currently on hiatus)

### Creators

Heavenly
TERRA! Team

***TERRA*** (alternatively called "***TERRA!***"), formerly known as *Project B3Y0ND*, is a server created by ***Heavenly***.

From its creation, and even with having a team behind it, *TERRA* was developed almost exclusively by two people until the same team was replaced. It is planned to feature an ***original soundtrack*** with music by *Heavenly* and royalty tracks by ***Kevin MacLeod***.

Initially released as what is now known as *TERRA! Alpha*, the SMP server is currently on its beta phase, released on June 12th, 2022. However, it has been put on hold due to a variety of reasons, with the team instead focusing on add-on development for the time being.

*TERRA* aims to provide a new, almost-refreshing survival experience to ***Bedrock Edition*** by making use of custom data-driven content. Other features presented include a *lore*, encouragement of different play styles, and creativity.

## History

### Pre-Production - ORBIT

After the fallout of a conceptualised server, *ORBIT*, *Heavenly* took hold of some assets and carried the project under his wing, despite some of the previous team members trying to get him to give up.

On March 21st, 2021, *Heavenly*, who had been working on an add-on inspired by the server, was contacted to ask if he was willing to use the pack for a server he planned to make, and help him with it. He immediately accepted the offer and suggested to take his development of *ORBIT* into it.

### Production - Project B3Y0ND

Shortly after starting production of the server, *Heavenly* took the decision of working on *ORBIT* under the codename of *B3Y0ND* (alternatively, *Project B3Y0ND*) due to paranoia, believing that the previous team members would attempt to claim the project as their own - an idea not-so far-fetched since him and his colleagues had already suffered a lot of harassment coming from them.

Not too soon enough, *Heavenly* decided to rework the brand, now being called *TERRA*, due to accidentally raising the public's expectations and focusing on a theme that they could grasp more easily.

### Alpha Release

Reaching almost 200 members and a Level 3 Boost Streak on the release week, *TERRA! Alpha* had easily managed to become the most popular server of the week on the ***MCPEDL*** website.

### Evacuation and Leadership Transfer

On February 4th, 2022, the entire ***Alpha Team*** left development "indefinitely" because of diverse and unknown reasons, leaving only *Hens* to take the role of Lead Developer entirely.

In the span of 2 weeks, *Hens* managed to recover all deleted content and come up with a plan of action to relaunch *TERRA*, having to recreate the ***MegaPack*** from scratch, modify the lore and recruit more people to take part in development and moderation.

## Releases

### TERRA! Alpha

Being *TERRA's* initial launch in June 2021, this "era" was wacky at most, leading to multiple updates (packed with new titles) and emergency patches. So wacky, that the final day of its hosting is not available to put here (at the moment, at least), but it's estimated that *TERRA! Alpha* had reached its conclusion by the end of November 2021.

### TERRA! Evolved

*Main article: TERRA! Evolved*

*TERRA! Evolved* was an update released on August 29th, 2021.

It was released with the intent of having an up and running world for the community to play in while the ***Alpha Team*** worked on fixing issues with *Legends Revamp*.

### Legends Revamp

*TERRA! Legends Revamp* was a cancelled magic-themed update of *TERRA*.

Its main objective was to expand the lore and world behind the ***Terrans*** by adding more magical elements to *TERRA* while fixing broken assets.

It was cancelled due to issues with ***Mojang*** and the *Realms* service.

### TERRA! Beta

The current TERRA! release is *TERRA! Beta*, with continuous development and updates undergoing the server.

## Trivia

* ***HoneyCraft***, an old Bedrock server, became one of the main inspirations of *TERRA* in its final production stages.
* At some point, one of the admins of the *Alpha Team* leaked *TERRA's* rebrand 4 days prior to it's official reveal.
	+ However, as nobody followed him at the time, it was never known.