Server History

*While only open for around 4 months, the server is chalked full of history from it's amazing community A timeline of our history can be found here.*

## While AVSN was Open

### The Beginning

The AntVenom Server Network had its very first stress test on March 21st 2014, most of the community see this as the official opening date; however, the server did not fully open in Alpha until early later that week, later going into Beta on May 15th. During this time, mini games such as Deadly Descent, Survival Bingo, Leaderboard Survival, Party Time, and the popular Hungry Games were released to the public. Ranks such as “Hero” and “Superhero” were also put in place. During these few weeks most of the events took place, such as the April Fools pranks and the Birthday Prank.

While the original mini games, the detailed hub map, and the mini game filled game hub were definitely things that made the server what it was, the amazing, loving community was definitely the one thing that set this server apart from many others. The community on the server was nothing to be taken lightly, on the outside new people were being whole-heartedly welcomed each day, and at its depths you would find best friends who met through the server. Groups, such as RazX or Team Beacon, were formed through the community and some even went so far as to go outside of the server.

### The Closing

As the months progressed, the community started to get slightly worried when streams and videos of the server started to get increasingly rarer and sightings of moderators and server owners themselves seemed quite scarce. Mid July, the community received a shocking blow as it was announced that the AntVenom Network was shutting down, only to merge with MCSG. While there was a short time of protest in the community, it was quickly turned to understanding and saying their goodbyes. A few days before the very end of the AntVenom Network, the community joined in a goodbye stream hosted by AntVenom himself, leading to an emotional end quote of Ant standing at spawn saying “Lets end this where we started it”.

On July 24th 2014, the tightest knit of the community stood around spawn reminiscing of the
past 4 months, waiting for the server to officially close at midnight. The clock struck 12:01, but nothing happened (It is later speculated that the sever
was simply handed over to MCSG and it was officially their property as of July 25th 2014) . A few weeks later, anyone who had a Hero rank got the Superhero rank and the popularity of the server slowly dwindled down to
almost 50 people per day. At an unannounced date, somewhere in mid-August, the server completely shut down and had merged with MCSG.

## Afterwards

After the closing of the server, the community went on to split into multiple different groups. These groups included Team Beacon, MagnificumMC, and a Skype group that included various moderators, admins, and developers that worked on the server. The Skype group was the only one that contained AntVenom himself. Most people within these three groups intermingled every once and awhile, but the groups mostly kept to themselves. MagnificumMC ended up shutting down almost as soon as it opened while Team Beacon slowly dwindled in videos and members until it was announced that they would not be continuing. Despite the closure and official discontinuation of these groups, the friends within them stayed together for the most part.

Directly after the closure of the sever, the forums struggled and went down not even a year after the closure of the sever. The site domain was replaced with the official AntVenom website and most of the contents of the past forums were lost.

AntVenom has announced in the past that he has no interest in opening a new server nor does he like to talk about the old one. This has lead to the maps and most other private info about the sever being lost in time, currently very few people know about the inner-workings of the server and would much rather not talk about it.