The Gladcraft Legacy (article by Gladrian)

Originally published by Gladrian here:

☀http://mcgladcraft.weebly.com/news.html

(Images have better quality on original site)

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The Gladcraft Legacy

A year and a half ago on June 18th, 2013, I double-clicked a .command file on my Mac. As soon as the file executed, the map which you all are very familiar with generated for the first time, and GladCraft was created. Slowly, a player-base was built. After a while, I tried a new map, but it didn't work out very well. And so, to resurrect old memories, I loaded up the old map. To this day, that map has been the survival map for the server. I built a new spawn, and people were often online building their latest projects. Since then, much has been built; almost too much. Eventually, it got to a point where no one had anything to do. I've now determined that it is time for a restart.
As many of you are probably aware due to your griefed buildings, I am allowing everyone to destroy the map before the reset. Before everything is destroyed, I wanted to give everyone a look at the greatest works of some of GladCraft's builders and designers.

Stick\_of\_Magic, otherwise known as Ann, built an amazing series of structures centered
around an intricately designed and complex maze (bottom left). At the
the center of this maze was a ballroom complete with a chandelier (right
 top). From this maze, a PvP arena (bottom right) could be accessed,
which featured a fancy lava design on the floor and observation decks.
There was also a pretty awesome armory and smithy next to the arena
(bottom middle).

Another thing to mention in terms of Ann - this awesome to-scale chiseled quartz megablock that she built! (right)

My sister AngorianKitten contributed to the server by building this
amazing and complex parkour course for everyone on the server to try.
The entire complex consisted of an intricate parkour course suspended
over lava, a glass maze (I couldn't even beat it while flying in
creative), and two puzzle rooms. It was never completely finished.

 four, mainly Bamdome and MChallenger, built a rather large and
impressive town that consisted of town-houses like the one pictured to
the right (a panoramic image could not be taken since much of the town
had been partially destroyed). It also featured a long wall on one side,
 a road connecting everything, and even a local McDonald's!

 returns to this post with another build: the castle of the mythical

Greek King Midas. She and     many of her friends (including most of the
people mentioned in the section above) built this castle in creative to

 spent a lot of time adding to their base to make it what it is now. They
had an extensive farm (not fully depicted), a large storage building, a
set of stables, a beacon and "magic shrine", and a pretty fancy purple
creeper flag. The entire compound was surrounded by a massive stone

And of course, let us not forget the beautiful, the
majestic, the unrivaled... Humble Abode.
Designed by Demigod132, Dark\_Pheonix48, and yours truly, this masterpiece
glowed with glory.

To finish off this farewell post, here are some wonderfully nostalgic pictures:

GladCraft's first-ever spawn, created the day the server was born.      | The Hub signs, soon to replaced once the new lobby is designed (okay I guess only the first picture was nostalgic, but whatever).

A huge thank you to all Gladcraft players! Without you, the server would have eventually died. Instead, we are traveling into a new saga in the Gladcraft legacy together.

Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you all in a couple weeks on Gladcraft 2!

- Gladrian, Server Owner and Manager