bits & Bytes Vanilla 2
Around this time, people were discussing about making another Minecraft server, and then the next day it was launched. Victor decided to host the server this time since he had enough money to run the server.
There was a poll for which version of Minecraft bnbmc2 will use. Out of the 11 votes, most wanted to use 1.12.2. Vehicles were not added due to it being more of a vanilla experience.
On 5:06 AM UTC, (convert this time please) the server finally launched. You initially got a set of stone tools. The world spawn was in a desert, by an ocean.
In the beginning, the server faced some trouble staying online, as it ran out of memory frequently. This was soon fixed, and buildings started emerging in the first city called “Sunflower City”. It was located between a swamp and forests. Some of the longest surviving structures include Royce’s “Little House” [86, 213], an unknown stone brick building beside it (which has been repurposed as a nether portal) [77, 220], the public bulletin and the public farm beside it (known as “Clock Square) [80, 200].
The last two continued to get expanded and still marked the town center until the server’s end. An economy was introduced with dollars as currency. On the 18th, a new city was built by Inkydink, called “Inkytown”. It only ever saw few people living there, so most buildings were for commercial purposes.
The AirCS transit system, which was already popular on the first Minecraft server, started construction on the 20th, codenamed “Project: Aren”. At this point a few private transit systems were also being created, but AirCS was going to be maintained by the community.
On the 21st a new bot was introduced to link the Minecraft and Discord chat together. The same day two new cities called “Contemporary Valley” (owned by Victor) and “Right Valley” (owned by Right Angle Productions) started construction. [60, -1683 and 85, 382 respectively] The former was home to theSupermarket, a printing press, an old-school mob farm, some homes and other buildings, the latter was only home to four buildings with a population of 2.
The AirCS project continued to expand with a central station being built east of Right Valley, connecting the 3 lines to Sunflower City, Inkytown and Contemporary Valley. During this time though, the server’s usage continued to decline, as people started getting burnt out. The server hit 1000 in-game days on the 1st of August. For this occasion multiple members built a firework show. Due to its declining usage, people started suggesting a fresh start for the server again. On the 8th of August a poll was made, whether or not the server should be reset. 71% were in favor, so the server’s map reset on the same day.
The server’s economy was disabled this time. After the reset had gone through, however, there was very little interest in the server, so eventually, the server finally shut down for good.