History of the SMPs

In the Staanmaan community we always try to do things with our members, such as RPs and such. And one of those things is an SMP and since now almost a year we did some SMP's, so here's the history of every SMP's that existed for Staanmaan.

**The first SMP (XX/03/2023-03/09/2023)**

Around March of 2023 people from Staanmaan wanted to do a Minecraft SMP, something rather interesting in fact. It was an interesting idea and one man named Motional Damage decided to make it a reality, he heard of this free server hoster called Aternos and he started what is now known as the first SMP.

And it was a flop in fact few people played it, few hype were around it and the few people that played it weren't that active. Only Marsmath really played alot and was invested, he planned a few projects like this village colony

Since there wasn't alot of investement into the SMP, not alot happened the only really important things were, this and the time Mars house burn down probably because of lightnings. And also the SMP was snow for thousands of blocks, wich yeah for players was hell and why they didn't played that much.

However, Marsmath wanted people to be more invested in it, so for August 2023 it was announced that it was gonna restart and by that it meant new players and a RP side to the map with domains.

This ended up being delayed to October during school break unfortunately, but alas in the 03/09/2023, the OG server was nuked and one of the nuker was Motional Damage the owner of the SMP. And in that situation people would have abandonned the idea of a SMP, but Marsmath thought otherwise.

**The second SMP (22/10/2023-02/01/2024)**

In fact he wanted to restart a new SMP on a new map, so he created a new server and then we needed to wait. And in October it was here, this was surprisingly a success people were invested, there was activity and yeah there was snow in the map but it had also a great taiga biome where most of the player lived.

This community would call themself the Shire wich yeah was Marsmath adding a Lord of the Rings reference, the inhabitants were UrlocalGreek, Marsmath, ZenithedZac, CJ and Orange at the time. With this new SMP there was the added Domains concept wich basically was, the land of your base(s) and the surrondings and even colonized villages, you can expand it by building stuff in unclaimed land and one of the goal of the SMP is to have a nice looking and great domain.

An Ender Dragon egg contest was added too, wich was a contest every players rate out of 5 every domains domains based on some criteria and the domain with the most points will get the egg until the next contest. And some other added stuff, to have an understanding of the Domains concept.

Alot of Projects where planned, like a mob tower wich was made, a Roman arena, a field in a ravine, a inn, a community library wich was made, a trading center and nether boat station wich yeah were planned since SMP 1 but really started to happen in this one, everything was going well and then Steve and Emu joined.

They were very active and basically had no life and got netherite by their first day, mostly because Steve was a slave of Emu. And even if they were rich and that they were annoying, they did help us by giving us some stuff and all and even doing the 2024 firework celebration wich unfortunately wasn't recorded.

However in the 01/01/2024 Steve shot Mars to "test his bow" so Mars and Greek declared war on him, with one rule wich was to not blow our bases. Wich was broken right after since Steve blew Greek's house, so Greek blew his base as a revenge and Emu was unfortunate that he shared that village too. And Steve was imprisoned, he wasn't banned because now you can't really do that with Aternos.

But the next day when Marsmath logged back in the SMP and since he was in his house, he saw that someone placed down end crystals and we assumed Setev escaped wich he did. But as we dug down a bit we found another explosives devise in Greek's reconstructed house wich exploded, then Traveller found that too in Zac's house and for some reasons Emu touched it exploding the base and when Mars was far away from his base it exploded. We blamed Steve at first until those happened, then he did it Emu admited it he did those final explosions, at that time it was the only time the rule of what's in the SMP stay in the SMP was broken and Emu was banned from the I.M.S.

But still now that everyone lost their stuff and that we can't ban in Aternos servers, we had to cancel the SMP. And with that a final edit was made by Marsmath about the 2 SMPs.

**The third SMP (03/01/2024-.....)**

Just hours after the announcement of the SMP being cancelled, Mars decided to actually open a third private SMP while other members thought it was cancelled. So he did and the SMP restarted in the 03/01/2024, there's a bit less investment on this SMP compared to the second one but it's still important.

But few days later Mars and Greek would tell the truth about the existence of a third SMP, but still kept it private until today. And he also decided to add something more to this SMP, addons. Starting by the epic knight mod and this SMP would have the concept of eras, like entering a new era and the knight mod is the medieval era and also RTX was added for people that had it.

Some community projects started, like the treehouse project in the jungle, the colonial expansions prject and the arena and ice boat station from the Second SMP are still planned. For now that was the history of the SMPs