Retired Realms

Unfortunately as time passes, some of our realms have been retired or merged into newer realms.

If you’re just now revisiting the server after some time away you will notice quite a few differences. We have new realms such as Abyss, Galaxy, and Pandora. And we have reset and updated Survival to a newer, better version. Unfortunately as new things come, old things will have to step down. Our beloved 1.16 original realms have been retired and merged into our newer realms.

If you held a spot in the hall of fame on any of these retired realms you will have a #(realm)HoF tag on all the new realms. *For example if you held a spot in the Classic Hall of Fame you will have access to the #ClassicHoF tag on Abyss, Galaxy, Pandora, and Survival.*

There were prize tags given out for the players on retired realms that came in the top three for top mcmmo, balance, and island levels. These players were given a #(realm)Winner tag on whichever realm the retired realm was merged into. *For example if a player came in the top three for island levels on Forest, they will have access to the #ForestWinner tag on Galaxy.*

Any physical items you had on the retired realms are sadly no longer accessible. We wanted to make sure all players, new and old, had a fair starting point on the new realms.

Below is a bit of information about some of our retired realms & gamemodes:

## Classic:

**Classic, Space, Atlantis**, and **Cookie** have been retired and merged into Pandora. You can find any tags or permission based cosmetics here such as emotes, trails, wings, etc here.

## Cookie:

Cookie was aimed to be OBMC’s most vanilla 1.16 realm. The realm was released on February 19th, 2021 and was retired on July 8th, 2023. The playstyle didn’t include spawners or custom enchants. Cookie also had no keep inventory, featured a rotation based sell and buy shop, and had Mcmmo. Not only was Cookie a much more vanilla realm, but it also posed a great challenge many players loved overcoming. Cookie was merged into the new realm Pandora, any tags, cosmetics, ranks, and kits were brought over there.

Cookie’s “sweet” theme ran throughout the whole realm. Its PvP arena featured the theme by being full of lollipops, sweet fruit, cotton candy trees, and a gingerbread house village! Cookie’s PvP tended to be fairly alive with its 1.9 style and no custom enchants. Cookie’s PvP arena also held a few easter eggs, such as 3 hidden ducks with silly messages for those who could find them.

Cookie’s hall of fame was a goal for many players. Anyone able to obtain 75k island levels and 5k Mcmmo, along with a few smaller requirements, could apply for a spot here.

Overall Cookie’s attraction was how much of a challenge it was. Rather than any of the money or island level methods you see now, players on Cookie relied solely on villagers.

## Atlantis:

Atlantis was a realm that opened on March 26 2021. It closed on July 8 2023, to make room for a new and improved realm: Pandora. Atlantis was playable on 1.16, and the spawn was build out of various ocean blocks. The pvp arena looked like a giant fishbowl. There was no keep inventory on this realm, so items would drop upon death.

The realm started out with a large farming economy but as it had a rotating shop, spawner farms and cactus farms, eventually got a bigger place in the economy. Minions helped us to mine the oneblock or our generators, but they also farmed crops, fished and chopped trees for us. We used to store all drops from the farms, and when the items came into the rotating shop sell wands would frequently be used to sell all items in the chest with just one click. To max out our armor and tools we used a lot of custom enchants (Ce’s). We all voted for the server to have a piñata party. The piñata spawned in spawn and dropped some valuables with every hit.

Atlantis' hall of fame was a goal for many players. Anyone able to obtain 100k island levels and 5k Mcmmo, along with a few smaller requirements, could apply for a spot here.

## Space:

Space was a 1.16 OneBlock realm that opened February 17th, 2021 and closed July 8th, 2023. The realm opened alongside **Forest** and **Atlantis** to bring players new OneBlock experiences. Space had rotating buy/sell shops, minions, custom enchants, and an economy based on farming. Countless players had massive cactus farms to make profits on the realm. The realm was obviously space themed, with the spawn being a space shuttle and the PVP arena being another planet’s surface. Space had no keep inventory, meaning items dropped on player death. This realm would be most like the current realm Abyss.

## Adventure:

Adventure Realm was a OneBlock realm that opened on October 4th, 2020, it was the second OneBlock realm opened on OneBlockMC. Adventure Closed on November 6th, 2022 after an explosive celebration of its life and the joy it brought to players for the 2 years it was open. Adventure Merged along with Forest into the realm that is known as Galaxy today.

**Adventure Features**

The First Adventure Island where you could fight beekeepers for money, there were several islands to travel through and complete the requirements to head to the next one.Adventure had keep inventory upon death, however it also had a 5% death tax. It also featured a rotating buy and sell shop and custom enchants.

**The Economy**

Adventure had a unique economy in that certain items like Cactus were not in the shop rotation. The biggest money makers on Adventure were glass and obsidian, due to this many players did not have large farms except in order to do Quests, or to sell items in their shops. Players would often grind end generators with atomic detonation in order to get large amounts of obsidian, and would set up large trading halls to get glass from villagers.

## Forest:

**Paradise** was been retired and turned into Abyss. You can find any tags or permission based cosmetics such as emotes, trails, wings, etc here.

## Paradise:

Paradise was OneBlock’s first and only skyblock server. Announced on December 31th, 2020 and released on January 1st, 2021 Paradise was the first realm to offer such diversity to OneBlock.

When first loading into Paradise you would be asked to choose between a few different custom starting islands. You could choose between a desert, end, flower, mesa, nether, or oak house island! Each island came with a cobblestone generator that made a wide variety of blocks you may have needed.

This realm featured minions, a rotation based shop, and a danger zone full of mobs/bosses and specific generators you could grind for loot! Since this realm did not feature spawners, the meta was farm and grind focused.

Sadly, we had to see Paradise retire on September 10th, 2022. Any cosmetics or ranks were transferred to the newer realm Abyss.

## Creative:

Creative was one of our 1.16 realms and opened on June 26th, 2021. It had to face its last day on April 24th, 2023.

Accessing building plots as well as entering the ‘gold world’, were creatives main trademarks. This world was exclusive to gold-ranking players and gave them the option to claim and build on a normal terrain map. Additionally, players in this realm were given the chance to enjoy many exciting features such as the vote piñata and access to world edit commands, which helped create impressive structures over time.

Alongside creatives many features, it also introduced the well-loved monthly build contests, which gave players the opportunity to compete against others with their builds. Each month, a different theme was chosen and players had time until the end of the month to come up with a build. These build contests were judged by the servers' staff team members. The top 3 winners received a reward, such as a custom tag for 1st place and a themed tag to match that month's build contest theme for 2nd and 3rd as well as some other additional prizes like credits.

## TNT Tag:

On May 16th, 2022 TnT Tag was released to the public. It came out the same day we retired Manhunt as a mini game. This gave players a fresh new mini game to gather around with friends!

**How it Worked**

TnT Tag was a fast competitive mini game. There would be one player with TnT on their head and the objective was to tag it on to another player to avoid being exploded! Intricate maps lead to some creative hiding spots and impressive parkour! But be careful, if you had the TnT when the time ran out you were exploded and left out for the following rounds. You were allowed to spectate the remaining players at least.

There was also special classes you could pick. Whether you picked one that let you double jump or one that made it so you could throw your TnT from a long range it always added endless possibilities and strategies for players.

**The End of an Era**

On April 17th, 2023 we said our goodbyes to not only TnT Tag but the arcade realm as a whole. It was extremely rewarding being able to provide and test out mini games within the arcade realm with players. However, we still prodive weekly events on the weekends to any and all players who are able to join! These take place on our separate events realm and can earn you in-game loot and even gold rank!

## Man Hunt:

**Manhunt’s Start**

Manhunt was OneBlock’s first mini game in the arcade realm. Announced to the public on October 29th, 2020 and released on November 6th, 2020 it’s safe to say there was good hype around the mini game. It offered a great way for players to hang out with their friend without having to wait for the queues there were for the current OneBlock realms. In fact at it’s prime Manhunt was so popular we had to find a way to up how many players could be playing at a time. On June 18th, 2021 we did just that. As well as introduced cosmetic packs available in our store for any hardcore Manhunt players to show off in game.

**How Manhunt Worked**

There were two sides in the game Manhunt, hunters and survivors. Survivors were given a task to complete while trying to evade the hunters. The Hunter’s goal was to eliminate the survivors before they completed their task. It was quite the fun competitive game mode for player’s who liked that style.

**The Ending of Manhunt**

As Manhunt’s player count dwindled off and the realm grew quiet, we decided to give Manhunt its time in retirement. On May 16th, 2022 the Oneblock community said it’s final goodbye to Manhunt. Not to fear though, we were not left without a mini game to escape off to. This is the same day we released a fresh new mini game called TnT Tag!