Suburbs

**Suburbs** are areas in Seacraft that identify addresses and the area that a council owns. This system of suburbs was introduced in Seacraft 2.2.3 - 2.2.9 when zac5 was inspired by members of the community that had put fake addresses on their mailboxes.

## List of Suburbs

### Ocean Isles Council

* New Town
* Sunflower Town
* Spawn (suburb)
* Island Ocean

### Mainland Plaza City Council

* Mainland Plaza
* Oceanview
* Hollow Hill
* Flat Hills
* Cloud City (removed)

### Crater Council

* Craterwood
* Crater Village
* Old Mountains
* Bombing Mines

### Council of Berk

* Sam's Dragon Village
* Magma Mountains
* Ripped Earth

### Castle Council

* Puddle Plains
* Freebuild

### Northern Regions Council

* Stagnant Swamps
* The Railyard
* Snippa Rippa

### Moose Forest Council

* Moose Forest
* The Great Redland
* Pine Mines

## History

### Before suburbs

In the days before suburbs were an established concept on Seacraft, various areas still formed and were named. Major areas included Spawn, Sunflower Island, Mainland Plaza and Sam's Dragon Village. Each of these areas were far apart from one another such that they were distinct places, but the areas around and in between were poorly defined.

### Release

Some time during the New Town Boom, zac5 noticed the use of a fake address on a player's mailbox (likely asasinateddoctor's). This gave him the idea to create real suburbs on the server, and eventually to implement street names too.

Suburbs were released likely in an update within the range of Seacraft 2.2.3 - 2.2.9. The following were released at the time:

* Existing locations:
	+ New Town
	+ Sunflower Island
	+ Mainland Plaza
	+ Town
	+ Sam's Dragon Village
* Newly classified:
	+ Island Ocean
	+ Oceanview
	+ Hollow Hill
	+ Flat Hills
	+ Magma Mountains

### Sunflower Town and New Town

Some minor changes occurred during the Five Nights Period.

The suburb of Sunflower Island was merged with New Town due to its small size. This formed the suburb now known as Sunflower Town. Then, jacobme32 extended Sunflower Town westward in early May 2015. Most of this extension was confusingly named "New Town", in honour of the old suburb.

### Seacraft 2.3

Seacraft 2.3 released a number of new suburbs.

* Puddle Plains
* Cloud City
* Crater Plains
* Old Mountains
* Spawn

The suburb of Spawn had been formed out of part of Island Ocean, particularly the area close to its namesake, the Spawn platform.

It is also believed the existing locations of Freebuild and the Bombing Mines were released as suburbs at this time.

### Seacraft 2.4 development

jacobme32 was the first to mark the site of Stagnant Swamps for settlement, teasing it in May 2015. zac5 would further the location with an image, and later teasing Crater Village. These were two new planned residential areas for Seacraft 2.4.

ItsMoose would establish the area of Ripped Earth in September 2015. zac5 was happy and willing to add it to Seacraft, even accepting the idea of a proposed train station.

ItsMoose would later find a new area a few hundred blocks west of New Town, building a large bridge to the area. He named this area "The Intersection". This time, zac5 was displeased with the area and wanted it removed due to the new locations already coming to 2.4. After ItsMoose persisted, zac5 eventually gave in, but made it his own by renaming it Moose Forest. The bridge was named the Intersection Bridge in honour of the former name.

These areas would eventually be released as part of Seacraft 2.4.