Seacraft

**Seacraft** is a private Minecraft server. It is predomantly a creative-mode server, where players are free to fly around and build with unlimited resources. Despite this, players can change their game mode at any time.

The server was first opened in September 2013 and ran until October 2017, before being re-opened in May 2022 and has been online ever since. The server's overworld has never been reset during this time.

The server is currently running Minecraft version 1.20.4.

## World

### Metropolitan Seacraft

The Seacraft world features a major metropolitan area with the majority of its builds and infrastructure. This area resides within and around a major ocean known as Island Ocean with Spawn being on an island in the middle of it.

There are four major land regions. The Mainland Region lies to the north east featuring Mainland Plaza, the Southern Region in the south east featuring Sam's Dragon Village and the Seacraft Castle, the Northern Region to the north featuring Stagnant Swamps and the Timberland Region featuring Moose Forest.

The metropolitan area is split into 7 local Councils that oversee their own local areas.

There is an expansive Road Network and a Railway Network which connect the various locations together.

### Rural Seacraft

While most structures are built within the metropolitan area, some settlements also exist beyond it. There are some major locations which are considered "country towns" and connect to Seacraft's Road Network via long highways.

## Staff

*Main article: Staff*
The server is run by a player with the username ZacNVR, also known as zac5 prior to Seacraft 3.0. He is the server's co-founder and has always been passionate about the server, working on many major projects over the years. He is also responsible for creating many of the server's data packs.

As the owner, ZacNVR is taking a laid-back approach to running the server, allowing players more freedom than he did in the past.

## Rules

*Main article: General Rules*
The server has a lengthy document outlining its rules which is aimed to be as detailed and clear as possible, reading like a legal document. However, this is typically simplified into three distinct rules:

1. **No Griefing.** Griefing refers to the unwanted destruction or vandalism of someone's build. In general, this means that no you should not touch any build you yourself are not apart of, unless someone allows you to. This means you should not touch even long abandoned structures without permission from their creator.
2. **Respect one another.** Seacraft is aimed to be a friendly community. As such, disrespect such as bullying, harassment, and unwanted trolling are not allowed.
3. **Do not try to crash or lag the server.** Players should be able to enjoy Seacraft unhindered by unnecessary lag or server closures.

## Modifications

The server runs with the use of various features that modify gameplay, whether it be data packs or pure mods. These are put in place for quality of life reasons and to run Seacraft's minigames.

### Mods

Seacraft runs as a Fabric server with the following mods installed. Players are not required to install any of these to join the server themselves.

 WorldEdit | Adds the ability for easier building. (Limited player access)

### Game rule changes

The following game rules are modified on Seacraft. All unmentioned game rules are set to their default value.

 Spawn radius | 3

Additionally, monster spawning is disabled by the servers `server.properties` file.

## History

### Origins

A kid named Oliver, a friend of zac5, made a server sometime in 2013. It was successful, for a while. But then one day Oliver couldn't get on and everyone in his school was stuck in bedrock, which made everyone mad at Oliver. Just in the nick of time, another kid called Alex made a server and everyone went on it instead. This was very successful and many players would go on it often.

Brothers zac5 and jacobme32 were inspired to make their own servers inspired by these. zac5 hoped to make a survival server to contrast the two creative servers. jacobme32, however, hoped to make a creative server for himself and his friends. At the time, their dad only allowed them to get one server, which he planned might become two if they remained committed to it. Thus, Seacraft was born.

### Early Seacraft

The server was founded on the 15th of September 2013 by zac5 and jacobme32. In a short period known as Seacraft Alpha, only josh20202 was invited to the server. During this time, Spawn, Spleef and Boat Race were established, and Mainland was first discovered, specifically the area which would become Mainland Plaza.

On the 19th, the server was shared to others, beginning Seacraft Beta. During this time, there was much activity. Players explored the Mainland Region and the Southern Region was discovered, starting at Sam's Dragon Village. Additionally, a major mode of transportation, the Warp Room was made during this time.

### Version 1

Version 1 began on the 26th of November 2013. zac5 hoped to make the server a survival-mode server and implemented a currency called gems. Both these would eventually prove unsuccessful.

During this time, major structures like the Celebration Area and the Zoo were built. The server also saw the construction of its first Railway Network, which was particularly helpful in connecting the server to its newer extremities, namely the Bombing Range and Freebuild.

This period saw significant griefing, marred by incidents such as the Nightmare Before Christmas and the Griefing of Mainland Plaza, the latter of which forever changed the face of Mainland Plaza, removing most of its major structures and expanding it greatly.

The server was then closed off for a time before also becoming inaccessible to even the owners.

### Version 2

Version 2 began on the 26th of May 2014. The server was once again accessible, though with its Nether and End dimensions reset. At the time, it was declared as Seacraft 2.0. Again, zac5 would hope for a survival-focused experience for the server's players, but jacobme32 would often put his friends in creative mode regardless.

This period of time saw dedicated versions, and during the Forgotten Period, some of these versions included additions such as Town, the Auto-Announcer and a new prismarine palette for Spawn when the server updated to Minecraft 1.8.

The server's golden age occurred during this time, extending from the New Town Boom in September 2014, to the Shopping Centre Boom in December 2015. Much player activity occurred during this time, including the building of Sunflower Town, the Racehorse Stadium and the Shopping Centre. The popularity of *Five Nights at Freddy's* also saw minigames like Five Nights at Caves become popular.

The server also saw the introduction of major systems, such as its Suburbs, an overhaul to the Railway Network, a new currency called "Reef Crystals" and the introduction of Councils.

After this time, the major location of Moose Forest would see much of its development.

During 2017, the server's popularity gradually died off, and the server was shut down on October 2, 2017.

### New Seacraft

A new server was started by ZacNVR with a brand new world on December 1, 2021, and was called New Seacraft. The aim of this server was to do a Seacraft-style server over again, this time with players allowed in creative from the beginning.

The area of Drakkenheim was originally built on this server, and many data packs were also created to help run the server.

New Seacraft would see some activity, but would only end up lasting until March of 2022.

### Version 3

The original Seacraft world was brought back as Seacraft 3.0 on the 26th of May 2022, 8 years after the release of 2.0. Some changes made for the unreleased Seacraft 2.5 update were released, many of New Seacraft's data packs were imported and Drakkenheim was imported onto the Seacraft world. Seacraft 3.0 was also the last update, with ZacNVR not wanting to pursue the idea of updates any more.

The new country town of Coco Plains was immediately settled, and SirAbrahamy became mayor of the Crater Council making major changes in the area early on.

From the beginning of 3.0, ZacNVR began a community project to overhaul the Railway Network for a second time, which he would continue despite the server's popularity loss in July and August of 2022.

September 2022 would see activity return to the server. Major areas received major renovations like the Zoo, Moose Forest, Mainland Plaza and Crater Village. This increased activity continued until November 2022.

SirAbrahamy and ZacNVR continued to make slow progress within the Crater Council L.G.A, foresting Crater Plains and expanding Crater Village, adding a new town square and council facilities.