Fruition Period

The **Fruition Period** is one of the more substantial time periods of Version 3. It extends from the 22nd of May to the 18th of July, 2023, and is named since it saw the completion or the 'fruition' of a number of half-finished projects.

## During this period

### Crater Council developments

The period began with ZacNVR developing a better way to populate the Crater Pine trees in Crater Plains. He used structure blocks to copy nine designs of three different size categories (so, three of each size). He began this in the late night hours of the 22nd of May, extending into the morning of the 23rd. He then used these to populate the border of Crater Plains.

Later that day, SirAbrahamy returned to the server. He and ZacNVR worked to build the new headquarters of the Crater Council. It was on this day they began construction by digging a giant hole next to the planned town square in Crater Village. In the following days they would carve out various chambers in the side of the crater, with a rickety spruce walkway connecting them. This was completed on the 31st of May.

The 31st also saw the construction of Crater Village's town square, featuring a number of market stalls. The square was named 'Zossimov Square' in honour of Zossimov2000 who was the first to settle the area, approximately in the same spot the square now lies. After finishing the square they began work on an elven village project in Crater Plains, but it soon stalled as it required the building of large custom trees.

### Oceanview beach

The end of May also saw development around the beach in Oceanview. jaykobe and 180Hedgy built a dock coming out from the beach with some boats. jaykobe also populated the area with armour stands.

jaykobe furthered the armour stand population to the beach, also decorating it with beach umbrellas, a sand castle and some other beach features. He did this in early June.

### Minecraft 1.20

On the 10th of June, Seacraft updated to Minecraft 1.20. This update introduced two new mobs, the camel and the sniffer, which jaykobe promptly added to the Zoo, as enclosures had been built for them in advance. The update also saw several minor data pack updates for 1.20 support.

The update took away some of the popularity on Seacraft as players began playing on other newly-established SMPs. Such players included ZacNVR, jaykobe and SirAbrahamy.

### Puddle Plaza removal

ZacNVR removed Puddle Plaza on the 11th of June, as he had long considered it an eyesore and it had proved completely useless, featuring a lone *Business Co.* store, which had become non-functional since Seacraft 3.0.

### Forestation of Craterwood

The Crater Pine forest in Crater Plains was finished on the 29th of June. Because of this forestation, SirAbrahamy and ZacNVR had discussed the renaming on the suburb. It was on this day they finally settled on 'Craterwood'.

### Reef Crystals update

ZacNVR then turned his attention to finishing the Reef Crystals data pack, which he had begun working on during January 2023. He would release four test versions of the pack before its final release on the 4th of July, 2023. With this release, the Pine Mines became a suburb under the Moose Forest Council and Underhill became an official country town. It also saw tweaks to the Warp Book and a modification to the rules which allowed councils to deny land claims.

### Railway development

The 5th of July saw the completion of the Shopping Centre train station, which had been under construction since at least March of 2023. He also extended the railway line toward Spawn.