Community Timeline

"i think we need more of a "community" based timeline, in which we can talk about server incidents/events" - AviationPro

This is a list of events affecting the server and its players throughout its lifetime. Feel free to put in anything you'd like that doesn’t fit the normal Timeline, which has staff promotions and server updates and the like.

Effectively, this page is does not focus on staff promotions and demotions and it is intended to be a comprehensive history of the server using input from the players, to truly represent its community.

Timeline

2010

August

• 4 August 2010 - Minecraft 1.0.15 alpha released - first public release of survival multiplayer.

2011

January

• 25 January 2011 - Donation system introduced to the public.

April

• 7 April 2011 - Facebook page created: http://facebook.com/MinecraftOnline

May

• 15th and 16th May 2011 - May Unrest, the server was subject to a minor invasion of griefers as a result of postings pointing people to grief the server on a certain well known website.
• 21 May 2011 - The Defence of Okoshima's Hut

June

• 7 June 2011 - The Nothing
• 18 June 2011 - Nether enabled on the server for the first time, rendering the Fake Nether obsolete.

August

• 4 August 2011 - Freedonia celebrates its first birthday with a Cake Party

2012

January

• 9 Jan 2012 - First experimental broadcast by MinecraftOnline Radio (MCOR).
• 25 Jan 2012 - To celebrate the anniversary of MCO's donation system opening to the public, the god kit is discounted by £500 (50%) for one day only.

February

• 14 Feb. 2012 -  monk30lol Hosts a very interesting Valentines day party at Spawn.

March

• 03 March 2012 - MinecraftOnlineFreedonia (MCOF) Steam group created: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/MinecraftOnlineSteam

April

• 13 April 2012 - On the occasion of his birthday, a statue of  SlowRiot replaced that of  Flippeh for the day, complete with a pimpin hat by  Palindrome7. Rumour has it he was seen doing a rather Flemmish dance!

May

• 28 May 2012 - The first issue of the Voice of Freedonia newspaper is published at http://www.VoiceOfFreedonia.com

July

• 29 July 2012 - MinecraftOnline Radio officially associates with Arecibo Radio to fill dead air, becoming a 24/7 radio station.

August

• 4 August 2012 - Freedonia's second birthday! Celebrations are had with cake covering spawn, fun and games, and all players getting /jumpto for the day.

November

• 3 November 2012 - Nominations open for the First Annual Freedonia Sham Elections, and the position of mayor!
• 6 November 2012 - Voting begins for the First Annual Freedonia Sham Elections, and nominations close.

December

• 21 December 2012 - The Apocalypse

2013

February

• 20 February 2013 - It is now possible to collect Player Heads in PvP.

April

• 13 April 2013 - Server owner  SlowRiot celebrates his birthday on the server. Everyone at spawn suddenly get super jumping powers, causing massive injury and death to the participants. Superpowers are overrated.

2015

January

• 26 January 2015 -  benhunter09 makes the 1000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/.

March

• 2 March 2015 -  Draglide12 makes the 1337th vote at https://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

April

• 1 April 2015 - The Great Rollback of 2015.

2016

February

• 18 February 2016 -  JZTech101 makes the 3000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/.

June

• 1 June 2016 - TheCampingRusher posts videos on YouTube about a younger "oldest server in Minecraft" anarchy server, without posting the server address. Many users search for and find MinecraftOnline instead.

November

• 25 Friday 2016 - The server has a Black Friday sale where everything is 50% off.

2017

April

• 1 April 2017 - The /votemod command is added to allow players to vote for new Moderators. 68 new Moderators are promoted by the community and get a blue username.
• 2 April 2017 - The previous 68 new Moderators are now normal users again.
• 2 April 2017 - The /votemod command is removed.

August

• 4 August 2017 - The server celebrates 7 years since it was created. Using the /spawn command gives a random positive potion effect or a chance to get a cake item for the day.

September

• 16 September 2017 -  Anna_28 makes the 7000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

November

• 20 November 2017 - YouTube channel StudioMoonTV ( MoonIsMyCity) griefs the server and uploads a video. First wave of Czechia and Slovakia invasion
• 22 November 2017 - YouTube channel MaTTem griefs the server on multiple alt accounts and uploads a video. Second wave of Czechia and Slovakia invasion

2018

January

• 20 January 2018  Heijmanboy makes the 8000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

April

• 1 April 2018 - The /votemod command returns and 99 new Moderators are voted by the community.
• 2 April 2018 - The /votemod command is removed.

May

• 4 May 2018 -  Anna_28 makes the 9000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

August

• 4 August 2018 - The server celebrates 8 years since it was created, hourly gifts give special birthday items and the /spawn command creates fireworks while giving useful potion effects or cake.
• 9 August 2018 - The server gets blacklisted by Mojang
• 20 August 2018 - The server is removed from the Mojang blacklist.

October

• 6 October 2018 -  GhostPanther makes the 11000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

2019

April

• 1 April 2019 - The /votemod command returns and 156 new Moderators are voted by the community.
• 3 April 2019 - The /votemod command is removed.

May

• 23 May 2019 - 2b2t YouTuber FitMC features MCO in a video as an example of a (his words) "stagnant server" which set off a three day invasion of tourists as well as griefers looking to exploit the confusion.

July

• 12 July 2019 -  WaffleNomster makes the 15000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/
• 20 July 2019 - 50 years since the first human stepped foot on the moon was celebrated, spawn lake being converted to a moon crater with a spacesuit Flippeh Statue.

August

• 4 August 2019 - The server celebrates 9 years since it was made! Hourly gifts give special birthday items and the /spawn command creates fireworks while giving useful potion effects or cake. Cake is also set up at spawn.

2020

January

• 26 January 2020 - 2b2t YouTuber  SalC1 made a video on Freedonia about MinecraftOnline on 30 January 2017. YouTube's algorithm recommends it to everyone again three years later, bringing an invasion of many griefers and tourists. This invasion is dubbed the SalC1 Invasion.

April

• 1 April 2020 - April Fools' Day! For some bizarre reason, the server is rolled back to Release 1.4.6 with a world backup to match, and ubiquitous laggy mayhem ensues.
• 2 April 2020 - The server is reverted to its pre-April-Fools'-Day state and thus brought back to Release 1.7.10.
• 4 April 2020 - 2b2t YouTuber FitMC features MCO in a video showing the April Fools' day damage at spawn and the surrounding areas. This sets off an invasion of tourists, as well as many griefers. Because of this, the server hits the player cap of 120 players for the first time in MCO history. Admins and mods do their best to deal with inflated numbers of players for the next few days.
• 12 April 2020 - Server hits 200,000 unique players.

May

• 14 May 2020 - Community Timeline created

June

• 23 June 2020 - Server undergoes maintenance, and Freedonia and its plugins are temporarily turned off, with Freedonia 2 taking its place for a short period of time.

July

• 9 July 2020 -  Kookei makes the 25000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

August

• 4 August 2020 - MinecraftOnline turns 10 years old! Hourly gifts give special birthday items and the /spawn command creates fireworks while giving useful potion effects or cake. Cake is also set up at spawn. In addition, all users are given the /jumpto command for the day. Donors with the /firework command were give /firework mco and /firework cake to celebrate the special occasion. As this was the 10th birthday, events were held in celebration. These events were Capture the Flag (Held at the New Eden Stadium) and The MCO Awards (Held in the Glenfiddich Performing Arts Centre).
• 5 August 2020 -  mSup makes the 26000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

October

• 31 October 2020 -  ibxtoydog makes the 29000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

November

• 28 November 2020 -  Kilosaurus makes the 30000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

December

• 30 December 2020 -  r9q makes the 31000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/
• 31 December 2020 - The Visitor Center is updated. The old visitor center is replaced by a design by  Palindrome7,  xArches, and  TheDarkrai85.

2021

March

• 06 March 2021 - The Endsurrection begins
• 21 March 2021 -  swissm4n makes the 33000th vote at http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/267113/vote/

April

• 1 April 2021 - The Endsurrection Event reaches its peak as Ender Lord Flippeh's attempt to merge the overworld with the end is thwarted.
• 1 April 2021 - Following repeated lag spikes, the server is temporarily migrated to a Vanilla 1.12.2 version with anarchy and map reset to alleviate stress on Republic's ageing hardware.
• 3 April 2021 - The world is reverted to a normal one for the 1.12.2 update.
• 3 April 2021 - Freedonia's End dimension is reset with the 1.12.2 update. The main island becomes a staff-governed area that is for dragon fighting and not building. The outer islands become free-build areas. Parts of the old End dimension are planned to be moved elsewhere in the new End.
• 4 April 2021 - Server hits the player cap of 120 players for the second time in its history, a year after the first one.

July

• 4 July 2021 - MinecraftOnline shifts to a temporary Minecraft 1.16.5 server to let players explore and enjoy Holidonia for a much-needed Staff holiday, with a temporarily much-reduced set of rules. This also makes it much easier for the Staff Team to relax, and to perform maintenance on Republic's systems which is difficult to perform while the main server is running on Freedonia.
• 4 July 2021 -  sm0ney5 is the first ever player to join Holidonia.
• 6 July 2021 - TikToker camman18 posted a [tiktok] about mco, the video quoted some info from the wiki and use it out of content trying to frame the server having "Dark Secret". The video attract many new players to join the server and players need to constantly explaining there is no such "Dark Secret".

August

• 4 August 2021 - MinecraftOnline turns 11 years old! The /store command is introduced. Hourly gifts give special birthday items and the /spawn command creates fireworks while giving useful potion effects or cake.
• 4 August 2021 -  Hirudo6 becomes the first player to purchase a kit with the /store command.
• 25 August 2021 -  r9q lights the first naturally spawned end portal.

October

• 18 October 2021 - A new warp is added for the first time in 7 years! The Farm warp is commissioned after a massive collaborative effort between  Void42_,  Krenath, and others.
• 30 October - The first implementation of PenguinDungeons on ther server, bringing players the first dungeon event Halloween Harvest dungeon in /warp farm.

November

• 11 November 2021 - Server hits the player cap of 120 players for the third time in its history during the ZetaSSJ Invasion.

December

• 9 December - The second dungeon event is hosted in Winterthorn, with MinecraftOnline Resource Pack players are able to see the customize mob design for dungeon mobs.

After feedback from the first event, a new feature was implemented that allow items dropped from mobs killed in a dungeon can only be picked up by the player that killed the mob.