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This world was initially scheduled for deletion on the 4th of February, 2012, but was delayed due to server problems. | This world was initially scheduled for deletion on the 4th of February, 2012, but was delayed due to server problems. | ||
On the rescheduled deletion date of April 20th, the spawn went through a radical series of storms and transformations, resulting in a giant cube of water enveloping where spawn used to be. | On the rescheduled deletion date of April 20th, the spawn went through a radical series of storms and transformations, resulting in a giant cube of water enveloping where spawn used to be. However, due to additional technical problems, Old Avalon was not deleted here either. | ||
The world | The world was finally deleted at the eve of the '''Arrival of Avalon''' epoch, when the server entered 1.2.5. | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
Revision as of 22:02, 1 May 2012
| World Avalon | |
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Gone |
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Sep 25, 2011 - April 30th, 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.
On the rescheduled deletion date of April 20th, the spawn went through a radical series of storms and transformations, resulting in a giant cube of water enveloping where spawn used to be. However, due to additional technical problems, Old Avalon was not deleted here either.
The world was finally deleted at the eve of the Arrival of Avalon epoch, when the server entered 1.2.5.
Gallery
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Last photo taken in Old Avalon, of a cow trying to escape the deletion by climbing a tree.
