History of PridelandsMC

The following is a chronological history of the Minecraft Java server PridelandsMC written in the style of an actual history essay. It is not for casual readers and is intended for long time members of the community who may wish to learn the origins of the server and how it got to where it is today. You may still read this if you have stumbled across it, however we recommend you read the rules first as only a quarter of our new players ever do!

## October 2017-February 2018: Early Beginnings

To start a history of PridelandsMC, we must first go back to before the creation of the current Discord server, and to a place known as The Lion Guard Wiki. As of 2021, this wiki is rather inactive, with most of the staff having seemingly disappeared. In 2017, however, it was quite a lively place and the true origin of our server today. Our story starts on the rather fitting date of the 20th March 2017, the creation of the original Lion Guard Wiki Discord Server, a server created to discuss the Disney Junior Lion King spinoff show The Lion Guard. The server filled up with OGs of the Lion Guard community, key names that will be relevant later. The most relevant of these people were Mac Guy3135, Sarger, Dipo, PossiblySane and Xoran. The server grew steadily, boosted by its link with the wiki and a booster video uploaded to the unofficial 300 thousand subscriber channel The Lion Guard.

In October 2017 it was decided by a few members of the now established Lion Guard Wiki Discord that there should be a Minecraft Realm linked to the server, and thus The Lion Guard Wiki Realm came into existence. This is considered the very first world, however there was one world before this that lasted a day. The world was notable for being the starter world of the current owner, Mac Guy3135. Therefore the settings were almost comically easy with keep inventory on, mob briefing off and the difficulty set to easy. Despite this Mac Guy3135 still accumulated over 2000 deaths in this time and did not know how beds, food, armour, enchanting, sprinting and sneaking worked for a good three months. Despite this the overly easy settings allowed the world to become immense, with an iconic skyline of wooden skyscrapers and hilltop houses. The realm was frequented daily by the regulars of PossiblySane, Dipo (Mitch), Sarger (uwurawrus), Mac Guy3135, Xoran, and later Neb, Noot Noot, and DanD63. In around February of 2018 however, the owner of the realm, PossiblySane, quit the community and left the world to die. The world reappears multiple times later in this story and is now referred to as "The First World", "The Old World", "The Best World", "The OG World" "World 0", "World -1", or most commonly "The Possibly (or Psblyyy) World"

## February 2018-June 2018: A Switch in Styles

Even before the old world died out, the community was busy setting up a replacement. Later on in the life of the first world, Neb, a real life friend of Noot Noot, himself a real life friend of Sarger, who had no interest in The Lion Guard, became active, and well known. He therefore decided to take on the role as owner for this new realm. This realm had the same player base as before, however with everyone starting off at the same time, and at least having some knowledge of Minecraft, it was destined to be a different world with a different feel entirely. Records of this world are now few however the world never really got far as it was the first world in which people decided to leave the main community area and begin their own bases. The main town was rather spread out and situated around a small Savannah Plateau M biome which resulted in a singular, massive mountain that reached almost the height limit known as "The Spike". The world was also known for pranking and greifing among friends, something that was later looked down on. This world would come be referred to as "The Neb World"

## June 2018-August 2018: The Time of No Server

In June of 2019, Neb decided that it was time to stop paying for his realm and the world died off without too much progress to bases occurring. This meant the community was worldless. It was decided that the community would use another similar server that Sarger used to play on. This was the My Lion King Telegram Server, a very similar but inactive server with the same feel and an already established world.

This world was leached off for around two months however as the OG players of this server started to become active again, they became increasingly dissatisfied that their server was having an "incursion" as such and started to do sketchy things. Some of this included spawning in full diamond beacons and end portals, threatening to blow up the entire server if new players did not leave, makinge traps in creative that went through bedrock, accusing Xoran of stealing for no reason, giving out cow spawn eggs, and placing creepers behind new players in vanish, The old players of the server were also known for their dark humour, use of slurs, and controversial political views, with the whole premise of the Telegram group being a place for banned members of the admittedly overly strict My Lion King Forums, new players were constantly insulted behind their back and were banned from the Telegram group itself.

As a result of all this, a new Lion Guard Wiki Realm was needed fast and that is exactly what happened. This world is now very unknown and is referred to by those who remembered is as the "MLK Server" and it is unknown about whether or not it sill exists. One good part about the world was the creation of a 1.13 skeleton spawner farm using a piston and a redstone clock, which is believed to be a world first.

## August 2018-February 2019: The Split

This time the responsibility of owner would fall to Mac Guy3135, the current owner of PridelandsMC. It was also decided at this point that Minecraft screenshots and discussion were overflowing the still growing, incredibly active, but mostly Lion Guard focussed Wiki Discord and so two options were given, a category on the Wiki Discord, or an entirely new Discord, owned by Mac Guy3135. The second option was overwhelmingly voted for and thus, the current Discord we see today was created under the name "The TLG Realm". This would prove later on to be a good call. The Discord we see today has almost nothing in common with the Discord as it was made barring the name of around 3 generic channels.

The new world was again hosted on realms and again had a launch with everyone starting at once. The cast of this world included all of the players from the previous two realms as well as a lot of additions from the Wiki server who decided to join in. These were Vitani X, Mwendo and his siblings Amani and Tizo, YpsiRuss, Alex (Akida), Pandora, AlexBohnm, and Yarrier22. Also joining were Mac Guy3135's friends Krobbizoid and Seymour. This made this realm far more active than the first two with an average playercount of 4, a lot of the time. The seed was especially chosen to contain a lot of key resource biomes around spawn however spawn was never inhabited. Instead it was decided that before the wold even launched everyone would live on the same island, which was sailed to before the first piece of stone was even mined. It was around 6000 blocks away from spawn. A fast link between spawn and this and was not made for months and so getting to what became known as the "Community Island" was an annoyance to all players.

This world is known almost exclusively by the size of the house plots compared to the shop plots. It was the first world to have an economy and so it was decided houses would go on the plains side of the island and shops and farms the savannah side. As every player only ever needed one house but might want more than one shop, the house plots were vast and spaced apart, most of them coming with their own farms. Shops meanwhile were clustered touching each other. The world is also remembered as the ugliest world in the history of PridelandsMC. This is due to the fact shops were constructed of what they sold, making the shopping area an eyesore, there were also three or more of every manual farm, three noticeboards, and countless crop farms scattered everywhere. Notable ugly buildings included The Diphole, a missing chunk in the middle of the island with Dipo's house rebuilt at the bottom and The Mwendo Tower, a cuboid made exclusively of acacia planks that went to hight limit. This world is known as "World 1" or "The First Mac World"

## February 2019-March 2019: Decline

World 1 was reset in February 2019, mostly due to the absolute mess the "Community Island" had become, It was decided to have a much more planned and managed approach, with a consistent build style and the location of every building decided on beforehand. This lead to the loss of most of the players who came from The Lion Guard Wiki Discord and the playercount returned to the level it was in the Possibly and Neb Worlds. The world had a very good spawn, despite being a random seed and a town was begun. Shortly into the construction of this town however, Sarger's house and Xoran's public item hold were removed without asking to make way for a storage barge. This lead to Sarger becoming inactive for months, not returning seriously until World 7. Dipo also became absent due to a feud between him and Neb and Pandora was additionally quiet due to intense drama levels in the Lion King Discord community. The world was eventually blown to pieces in frustration showing that intently planning a world did not work. It is known as "World 2" or "The Second Mac World"

"World 3" has gone down in history as the most disastrous world in the history of the server. An uninspiring seed was chosen due to its flatness and the world never got off past an NPC village. Yet more regulations were introduced in this world such as a ban on diamond tools and armour and another ban on AFK fishing, then the only feasible way of getting enchanted books. A board welcoming new players to the server was constructed at spawn which made no sense due to the fact the only way to get to the server was through the chaotic and drama filled Lion King Wiki Discord, then renamed to The Pridelands. The structure was constructed using barrier blocks to prevent grieving which upset Neb, Noot Noot and Vitani X to the extent in which they all left in protest leaving the server staffless and playerless. The realm then went down for over a week for Mac Guy3135 to take a mental break.

It is notable that at this time, the original The Pridelands Discord, was deleted by the owner's girlfriend due to the intensely stressful 24/7 drama that was occurring on the server. This deleted almost all evidence of the Neb Realm even existing, and a lot of the early screenshots of the very first world.

## March 2019-December 2019: The Inactive Period

Worlds 4, 5, 6, and 6.1 lack merit, with all of them having less than 6 players and all of them never going past one main town and a few offsite farms. During this period, Dipo became Moderator and Xoran became Moderator and Discord Admin (Then known as server admin). Fouler also joined during this period making her the first female player and the one of the earliest players still "active" today not from the original world. The only players consistently active throughout these worlds were Mac Guy3135 and Xoran, with most of the time spend on the server being with just these two players talking to each other about anything and everything.

"World 4" was a random seed, and so the spawn was terrible and the main town built around 1500 blocks from spawn. Due to the lack of active players, only 4 players ever became established on the world, Mac Guy3135, Xoran, Krobbizoid and Yarrier22. The world was griefed once by a player known as G6, an extremely valuable account. Despite a good height variation, the build style suffered for the lack of players and every building looked the same as the last. It was also the first world in which Mac Guy3135 started to take up automatic farming. Three houses were constructed by Mac Guy3135, a pile of chests on a hill, a house with a crafting table and nothing else, and a creeper (and death) farm which looked like a house. The wold was notable for The Complex, an awful building that blocked the main path and burnt down many times. 1.14 and 1.14.1 made this world unplayable.

"World 5" was almost the opposite of World 4, being varied but also extremely flat. This is because at the beginning of this world, so many creepers blew up that the entirety of spawn had to be levelled and filled in, with at least some resemblance of a town begun, a task unenviably completed by Mac Guy3135 in a single night. This flattening theme continued for the entirety of the rather large town. This world had the notable "Cereal Boxes" two very ugly inefficient automatic melon and pumpkin farms. It also had a mob afrm in the village that was never fully decorated, as well as the first villager trading hall in all of the servers history. 5 players frequented the world, Mac Guy3135, Xoran, Fouler, Krobbizoid and Yarrier22. Despite more active players than World 4, almost all the builds were again complated by Mac Guy3135 and Xoran, save for farms.

"World 6" leasted under a day. This was due to Mac Guy3135 using the seed "3135" and accedentally leaking it to Krobbizoid. This compromised the world due to the abillity to locate dungeons, loot chests and slime vhunks using the seed. All that exists of the worls is a memory of 2 hills facing each other, a memory that can be relived by just generating a world in 1.14 with the seed "3135".

"World 6.1" Will go down in history as the least active world in the history of the entire server. This world ended up looking rather like the 4th mac realm as again, there was a lack of players to bring new build styles, with only Mac Guy3135 and Xoran ever investing any time into the world, and other players only logging on infrequently “for the meme”. The main and only town was hugly dark oak based, and never completed. This world was considered the trough of player activity, with only Xoran active at one point. Due to frequent deaths by Mac Guy and Krobbizoid, the world was quickly exhausted. The world was severely damaged whilst trying to enforce some rules and so the entire town was blown up in frustration.

## December 2019-April 2020: A New -Hope- Approach

After the shear inactivity of the last three worlds, and a lack of intrest by OG players, it was decided to revert all the way back to the Possibly Realm, the very first world. A while earlier, PossiblySane had breifly appeared to provide Mac Guy3135 with the world download, a great resource. This was uplaoded to the realm at the end of 2019 and updated through 1.13 to 1.14. Due to the fact it was a large biomes world, and a lot of the areas had been explored, finding new blocks such as coral and banboo was difficult, a running issue with the world to this day.