Season 8

Previous Season: Season 7

## Summary

Season 8 (16.07.2021-) is the current season of LtFE. Unlike past seasons, the borders on the map used stone brick and iron bars to map out, rather than the cobblestone or water of previous seasons.

This season was the last season to use Slimefun, having been voted by the Discord to be removed in Season 9.

## Map Changes

### Day 1

Season 8 was released on the 16th July 2021, at 19:00 CET. It started with minor lag issues such as two server restarts and server-side lag, however this launch was much more stable than other notable launches. Most nations secured their claims (any geographical locations mentioned refer to the real world, unless in bold):

* **Iiropa** in northern Canada began claiming an island.
* **The Turkish States of America** claimed from the northeast of the USA to the opposite side in the Pacific, just north of California.
* **The Falklands** claimed its entire core claim.
* **Jutland** completed its claims of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein.
* **The Benelux Empire** claimed its core territory.
* **The Alpine Federation** claimed all of Switzerland and Austria, as well as some of southern Germany and Czechia.
* **The Spanish State** claimed from southern Spain to past the French border.
* Both the **Roman Empire** and **Sicily** claimed their respective parts of the Italian peninsula.
* **Poland** disbanded but claimed part of its Weimar border.
* The **Grand Duchy of Botosani** snake-claimed a portion of the northeastern lands of Romania.
* **Constantinople** claimed the city and a portion of the Dardenelles.
* **Lebanon** claimed the nations of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Sinai peninsula.
* **Merina** snake-claims the northern tip of Madagascar.
* **New Somalia** claims the north of Sri Lanka.
* The **Japanese Empire** claimed the home islands and the Chinese coast, along with a portion of the Manchurian border and Taiwanese coast.

### Day 2

* **Iiropa** continued to claim north.

* The **Turkish States of America** completed their claims of mainland USA, along with annexing Cuba.
* **Peru** continued to claim the IRL borders of the nation.
* **Occtania**, a previously unclaimed nation, formed in the southeast of France.
* **Poland** expanded its claims to border Moldova, as well as snake towards Riga.
* **Bohemia** has been deleted, since the sole faction member was banned.
* The **Alpine Federation** claimed some of southern Germany.
* The **Roman Empire** expanded into northern Tunisia and western Croatia.
* **Sicily** expanded to Bosnia, bordering the **Roman Empire**.
* **Moldova** expanded from its mother chunk to occupy eastern Romania and Moldova.
* The **Isles of Lesbos** have been annexed by the **Roman Empire**.
* **Lebanon** now occupies all of Egypt.
* The **Spanish State** colonised the Canary Islands, West Africa and Haiti.
* **Morocco** expanded into Western Sahara.
* **Yemen** expanded to all but the northern province, as well as taking Djibouti.
* **Japan** finished claiming its core claims.
* **Cantonia** expanded into Hainan.
* The **Luzon Kingdom** claimed northern Phillipines.
* **Majapahit** snake-claimed some of the Indonesian island of Java.
* **Sri Lanka** disbanded, as its only member moved to the **Falkland Islands**.
* The **Atlantic Empire** claimed an island in the south Atlantic.

### Day 3

* **Charcoal** forms east of Estonia.
* **Hellas** snake-claims from the Dardenelles to the south of Greece.
* **Constantinople** disbands, with the land going to the **Roman Empire** and the faction member moving to **Byzantine Oceania** (in eastern Australia).
* The **Majahapit** finish their claims on Java.

### Day 4

* As per the colonialism rules, the **Spanish State** and **Benelux Empire** have lost their claims in Africa, as well as the **Spanish State**'s claims on Haiti.
* **Peru** has finished its claims of the real country.
* The **Roman Empire** has claimed Tunisia and part of Libya.
* **Lebanon** claimed Crete and Cyprus.
* **Moldova** has claimed modern Romanian borders, nearing completion.
* **Poland** snake-claimed to Vilnius, Lithuania.
* **Jutland** reformed into the **North German Confederation**, unclaiming northern Denmark and claiming most lands of modern northern Germany.
* **Ingurland** formed on the east coast of Great Britain.

### Day 6

(Day 5 was missed, all territorial changes have been merged.)

* **North Germany** claimed Pomerania.
* **Polish Commonwealth** claimed all lands in Latvia, as well as Western Belarus and Ukraine, bordering **Charcoal**.
* **Charcoal** has expanded south towards the Caucasus.
* **Romania** has claimed all modern-day land of itself and Moldova.
* **Peru** claimed land in the north of Chile.
* **Byzantine Oceania** has expanded to Papua New Guinea, snake-claiming the south of the island.
* The **Falklands** were reclaimed entirely, making new and more accurate borders.
* **Merina** finished claiming its nearby islands and began to claim Mozambique.