bits & Bytes Minecraft 1.1 & Spinoffs

The bits & Bytes Vanilla server remained dormant for months. It was only until after bits & Bytes Vanila 2.0 ended that the server would relaunch again.

As part of the season finale to The Pixel Polygon’s ''Project: Aren'' series, he quietly relaunched the original server and placed its IP address within a B-roll shot as an easter egg, in hopes that someone would discover it.

Michael “TotalTowerTech” would eventually do so, and in a private conversation with Cameron, shared news about the server’s existence, at which point the news had spread to everybody.

After that, the server fully revived. Initially the server was in survival mode but eventually it turned into creative due to request.

It was here that businesses and transit systems started to flourish more than ever, with some of the notable ones, such as Walnut and the SQTR system, emerging as reimaginings of their bits & Bytes Vanilla 2.0 counterparts.

A new minigame was developed, called the AirCS race, where players raced to every AirCS station and then back to central. New towns were built, and transportation was now expanding more than ever.

But that eventually raised a concern. Over time, expanding transportation infrastructure made up for most of the server’s activity, leaving city development and innovation essentially behind in the process.

Not helping matters is that everybody was beginning to develop their own cities, which killed the whole point of residency.

These two factors led to the server shutting down in October 2018.

Spinoffs

This move ended up disheartening a lot of people, so around this same time, the orbis. server was launched as a private server supposedly separate from bits & Bytes lore.

This server would end up shutting down around early January 2019, however, it would end up relaunching the same day as “UniCity” by Alee due to the community wanting the bnbmc1.x map back. However, new projects under the UniCity brand would end up leaving the original creative server off to the side, as the “Legacy” server.

Eventually, this too would end up being shut down after a few months due to declining interest, instead favouring new endeavours.

It wasn’t until April 2021 that Victor would decide to relaunch the server for a brand new AirCS race, after which point the server remained online as a creative server.