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Revision as of 17:32, 20 April 2012

World
Avalon
Current Status

Gone

Lifespan

Sep 25, 2011 - April 20th, 2012

Avalon (Also known as the 1.8 Test World), but now usually referred to as Old Avalon was a sub-world set up after the server updated to Bukkit 1.8 RB. It was reachable via brick portal in Pixellia north of spawn, facing the chest recovery station, or in the Hall of Portals, located in New Avalon, before it was deleted on the 20th of April, 2012.

Description

This world was set up to allow players who hadn't updated to 1.8 before this time to experience the new features of 1.8 on the server. It was a fresh map that contained all the goodies that came with the 1.8 update, including Strongholds, NPC Villages, Mine-shafts, and ravines.

The first build was a small public shelter set up by Tomousee with help from Flappyflap. Although nothing special it did provide shelter for people entering the new world for the first time.

Since then the building on Avalon had quite literally mushroomed into whole villages and towns solely consisting of mushroom houses. These houses being relatively easy and cheap to make were quite different to many other builds throughout the whole of cubic worlds.

In more recent days (December 2011) Avalon seemed to have succumbed to a massive biome corruption, turning it into a very large tundra. The world had, both literally and figuratively, reached the winter of its life.

Last History

Near the end of its life, Old Avalon became primarily a resource world as permanent residents became fewer and fewer. Swamps littered the world, which were still plentiful in clay, and many caves were still unexplored.

Occasionally, record hunts were organized on this world, since in New Avalon they would be troublesome to the non-participating users.

Demise

This world was initially scheduled for deletion on the 4th of February, 2012, but was delayed due to server problems. Later the world was deleted, on the 20th of April, but not after some intensive mining was done on the part of certain users to claim their last treasures from the dying world.