Kanal Town
 Kanal Town
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 Kanal Town in 2024, picture by | |
| About | |
|---|---|
| Founder |  SiOtter
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| Contributors |  KomodoDragon108  slicedtomato  CarCrasher13  HyperDray
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| Category | Cities |
| Underground? | partly |
| Fortified? | Yes |
| Public access? | Yes |
| Public build? | No |
| Transport | |
| Road link? | Yes |
| Nexus link? | Yes |
| Rail link? | yes |
| Boat link? | Yes |
| Portal? | Yes |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | X=-9255 Y=73 Z=1531 |
| Dimension | Overworld |
| Map Link | |
Kanal Town is a city in western Freedonia, in the Great Lakes Province. It was founded by SiOtter in April 2017. It currently is the one of the oldest active cities on the server.
History
Beginnings
- welcome to depressingville xD -
SnapJaw
Kanal Town found its start when SnapJaw first used the /wilderness command on April 20th 2017, which put him on a hill in west Freedonia. On this hill he built a small cabin with a canal, which would be the foundations of the town. Some time later, in May of 2018, SnapJaw invited 
Komododragon108 to visit the budding settlement, who then claimed a nearby mountain, naming it Mount Rifty. 
Psychicwinter was known to also have contributed in Kanal Town's early days.
DicedTomato
- im dicedtomatos alt so i have the right!! -
dicedgarlic
Later in 2018, 
DicedTomato became the third member of the town, which in turn inspired Snapjaw to invite 
SleeplessTheCat, his friend from a factions server. DicedTomato worked on the town on an alt account, causing a ruckus in chat when 
AlphaAlex115, 
OiTrowls, and 
mk59apr came to investigate.
Mount Dernal
- time too finish mount dernal - SnapJaw
Around this time, Snapjaw began work on Mount Dernal, although he encountered difficulties gathering enough resources and willpower to complete it. With the help of mk59apr and 
Slime_Tiger, it was eventually completed.
Hatoshi
- i think i broke a torch sorry -
Hatoshi
One day in September, a user named Hatoshi asked to come to Kanal Town, but began to repeatedly kill SnapJaw and steal from chests. Eventually, he stomped the towns crops and left. He would later grief Kanal Town more thoroughly, which would eventually lead to his ban.
New Kanal
- so why is it called new kanal town what happened to the old one -
doodlebird
After the ban of Hatoshi, Snapjaw and DicedTomato would begin a rapid expansion of the town, building several docks and new buildings away from the main Kanal Town. An apparent desire for a fresh slate led SnapJaw to declare the newly built portions "New Kanal Town," walling up the oldest builds and turning them into a monument.
Serrano07 and Speedpocok
- i hate snapjaw. snapjaw evacuated me -
SpeedPocok5
A user by the name of 
Serrano07 came to the town one day and killed everyone there. He would frequently visit, often killing SnapJaw.
Speedpocok was a new user, invited to join Kanal Town by DicedTomato. After a series of misunderstandings, Speedpocok was evicted from Kanal Town and killed by SnapJaw. Angered by this, Speedpocok would go on to grief Kanal Town before being caught by 
Anna_28.
Snapjaw and other town residents would be forever resentful of Serrano, and were often caught up in the drama surrounding him.
Partial Decay
- Kanal Town is dead - SleeplessTheCat
Around October, many members left the town, with SnapJaw declaring the town closed. None of the users with perms built anything new, and whatever new visitors the town had were wandering explorers and looters. Snapjaw would later be banned for the grief of 
NekoFlen's house. His ban appeal would be rejected on December 10th, 2018, leaving the town's future uncertain. SnapJaw gave ownership of Kanal Town to SleeplessTheCat and mayoral duties to 
Scarclaw72 until he would return. During the year 2019 Kanal Town had a storage facility made in the industrial district for town members to put their "junk" items in. In May 2020 following his return, SnappyJaw_ was given ownership of Kanal Town again.
Nexus
- the short revival that kanal town had was fun -
ElFrooosk
On the 18th of May, 2020, SnapJaw appealed again, with a vouch from 
NevadaDream and a community service sentence. Kanal Town would briefly enter the Bedrocco Empire to help revitalize it. Old and New Kanal were also rejoined during this time. As people began contributing again, SnapJaw requested a Nexus link, which was approved by 
Stromhurst and a link was added by 
jimmyd93. A little later, on May 23rd, 2020, the residents of Kanal Town voted on leaving Bedrocco, making it independent once more. However, SnapJaw would quickly sink into inactivity once more, making Kanal Towns revival very brief. It would have 2 permeant active residents living in the town until early 2023 when one of them would quit.
Ghost Town
- Oh and I remember the void body pillow in Kanal Town, we do not talk about that. - SiOtter
In 2021 Kanal Town was managed by SleeplessTheCat. A few residents lived in town at this time, it was definitely the lowest point in town history. When these residents finally all moved out in 2022 Sleepless and SiOtter got back into proper contact and Sleepless's 50% town ownership was given back to SiOtter.
Revival
- Anal Town -
Luigifan100
During 2022 SnapJaw made a couple of appearances to clean up addition grief in Kanal Town. Later in 2023, SnapJaw started to play MCO again, under the new username SiOtter. Kanal Town opened its own museum, and it joined the Newport Empire. On May 29, 2023, it also joined the New United States as its third state. On August 4th 2023 it was voted that Kanal Town would leave both the New United States and Newport Empire. This resulted in a mysterious man who watched the vote take place kill SiOtter the next day.
A time of policy changes and... pvp?
- SiOtter placed end crystal traps all around kanal town to win -
NedHuman
Kanal Town would be the first town in to open a currency exchange in 2023 under the management of Freedonia Bankers Institution. This exchange expanded trading options within the town allowing for more diverse prices to be set within town. As a result of NedHuman (unsuccessfully) headhunting town residents, the users SiOtter, 
Acesrt, and 
Outboardbag set the town up for Crystal PVP which scarred ned off. The town saw exceptional growth June 2023 - present with an average of 4 new players a month. On September 19th 2023 the Great Lakes & Kanal Town Museum turned 5 years old. The town also saw the addition of the "No unfinished builds" rule to combat and begin removing incomplete builds after 3 months of inactivity.
Chilliwack, Maple Ridge, and true cityhood
- why these [Censored] don't even know how to grife -
LordFollower
Kanal Town would be griefed for a 3rd time at the end of September 2023, it was without a nexus connection for one day. Kanals expansion would see some changes need to be made ontop of the bandaid fixed being done on occasion. This was done with the construction of Kanal Tower, a new administrational building and archive for the town. Kanal Tower is the towns first high-rise (skyscraper). The town also incorporated the neighbouring communities of Maple Ridge and Chilliwack into the city management structure. During October the city would reach 10 residents when 
IsuxzYT and 
mirko93s joined the town. Mirko built a the city a sheep farm. The SCR would also open its Kanal Town connection on the Great Lakes Railway Line around the same time. Kanal Town was now connected to both its suburbs (Maple Ridge & Chilliwack) directly. CarCrasher13 also built a giant arena in the north of town which SiOtter helped modify for CrystalPVP and spleef use.
Promotions, Christmas, going into 2024
Winter 2023 opened with the start of the Kanal Town Christmas Celebration, followed by SiOtter making a bookstore to sell books at and CarCrasher13 building a cafe below it. On December 11th 2023 Kanal Town got its very own hospital and a shinto shrine; both on the towns southern side. HyperDray the co-owner of Kanal Town made a rare visit to Freedonia to help check in on town and to approve CarCrasher13s promotion to deputy mayor. 
cozmicdudes22 attacked CarCrasher13 after being killed by SiOtter in a duel resulting in CarCrashers death, followed by OutBoardBag killing SiOtter due to a miscommunication. The town had its second mall open with Little Ore Plaza being expanded into two towers.
Spring 2024
_Daata and SiOtter begin to make the Kanal Town Golf Course and plan to host a tournament at it.
How to get there
There's multiple ways to get into Kanal Town, they are all listed below.
Kanal Town is accessible via the Great Lakes - 1 Highway (GL-1) both east and westbound from Annaheim and the Blue-2 Nexus.
You can also boat to Kanal from spawn by following the Slowriot route, New Venice route, Snow Golem Route, and Mushiana Winter Route to the Oak Route into the city centre.
Kanal Town can be reached via the Nexus at the Nexus Blue 2 Hub, it's the second platform on the left.
Places
Tourism
- Rapty Memorial
- Mount Dernal National Park
- The Cube Of Sleepless
- Dernal Mountains
- Empress Statue
- Kanal Town Public Library
- Great Lakes & Kanal Town Museum
- Old Kanal Town Historic Site
- Kanal Town Radio Tower
- Old Kanal Farm
- Kanal Town Theatre (movie theatre)
- Kanal Town Stadium
- マウンテンカワウソの寺院 (Temple of the Mountain Otter - Shinto Shrine)
Administration
- Tomato-made Roads LCC INC
- Freedonia Peace Keeping Alliance Headquarters
- Kanal Town City Hall (closed)
- Dernal BrewHouse
- Sandbar Station
- Kanal Tower
- Kanal Town Hospital
Shopping
- Kanal Town Market & Auction House
- SnapJaw/Dernal's Die Cafe Dern - A Cafe
- Little Diamond Tower
- CarCrasher13's Bakery
- Kanal Town Bookstore
- CC13 Bakery (Little Diamond Plaza)
Farms
- Kanal Town Industrial District
- Kanal Town Greenhouse
- pumpkin farm (owned by CarCrasher13, public)
- Pork Farm (owned by SiOtter)
- New Tree Farm (owned by SiOtter)
- Old Tree Farm (owned by CarCrasher13, public)
- Potato Farm (owned by
Hyperdray, public) - Sheep Farm (owned by mirko93s, public)
Town Administration
- Note: see page Kanal Federation for specifics on management.
Kanal Town Rules
1) No Griefing
2) No Harassment
3) No pvp without consent
4) No leaving builds unfinished
Enforcement
The Kanal Town rules are enforced by Town Staff (above) and by FPKA Officers. When someone is breaking a rule, particularly a pvp rule contact an FPKA officer or Kanal Staff member. If any building or harassment rules are being broken contact a regular Town Staff.
Members & Residents
People who have joined Kanal are fit into two categories, members and residents. Members have joined the town but spend little to no time building there after one or two builds. Residents are people who build and live in Kanal nearly full time. Kanal Town residents are given a Passport under the ƒ (ƒederation passport service, also known as "Permanent residency cards") which allows them to build in affiliated & neighbouring towns like Chilliwack that also accept the passports. If a player owns a shop in Kanal they're automatically given resident status.
This is something the town has practiced since June 2018. Passports also serve administrational purposes in keeping track of the number of permanent residents in Kanal Town, which somehow has never dropped below 2. Valid passports have tags signed by either SiOtter or Hyperdray.
Current number of residents: 9(+/-1)
List of Kanal Town Staff
The town staff in Kanal Town can invite/kick people from town and enforce the rules within town. And the town mayor can promote town staff while also preforming the duties of the town staff and helpers. Town staff & the mayor operate underneath the towns owners. Below town staff are the helpers who will help town staff with any given tasks. Town staff and helpers can be voted by the community or appointed by one of the two owners of Kanal Town, currently the one criteria for town staff is having resident status.
SiOtter and HyperDray both own 50% of Kanal Town.
- SnapJaw - Town Leader/Owner
- HyperDray - Town Leader/Owner (Semi Active)
- CarCrasher13 - Town Mayor (Town staff - can promote new town staff)
LxMeister42 - Town Staff (Semi Active)
ShadowAuraI - Town Staff (Semi Active)
List of FPKA officers in Kanal
List Of Kanal Town Members & Residents
- Note: The following list is not in order of town join date.
- SnapJaw
- SleeplessTheCat
SlicedTomato- KomodoDragon108
PsychicWinter
DDOZZI
_Fafi_
Beeraeka
Paladin_Heihachi
DoggyDoply45
MrMcBricks
jriver_15
Raflamar
DorpEngineer
Mr_Sandman855
Qokko
Wolf_War
Trinak
harveygee
Freskooo- Slime_Tiger
Th3Zer0Gam3r
Senbonzakura_
BaconHunter321
Kilosaurus
fillipaddas
ellisean
SadieSadie
Ad0lfHitLer
4dre
XDCLAY
MonkeSniper221
OGvorva- Luigifan100
4untochrist- Acesrt
holychicken7
EpicBaby- ShadowAuraI
iHaveNoIdea145
_MrFib
lordsebastianman
Ghostis_s
Chewy27_
McAxolotl- CarCrasher13
Drayden17
Ron_Leggett
Wispysnail- MrMcBricks
goofy_man_lol
Flip33r
Clomik
laichuangdeace
Cosmic_potato_04
OutboardBag
Gamernox999- goofy_man_lol
Sobble816
Bigred_12
Lukedoc565
Mcaxolotl- CarCrasher13
Lxmeister42
2b2tLegends
MariosGlik
JffmVortex
CxMP69
GunCat2
JCobbler2012
ISuxzYT- mirko93s
932
Butteroil
SylveonTM
MilesPW
NinjaOverSurge
Lanless
DoerOfThings_
Doggo_Swimmer19
Doggydoply45
Deckard
cWolf1
MrCavern
LadyTako
TheZer0Gam3r
Acedukedagamer
SpyDog
Jamiepro555
Aninternetuser55
cheesemaster63
motomandd- _Daata
Shuppetauface
Rule breakers watchlist
- These players are not outright banned from the town, but are not overly welcome and will have a more difficult time joining town in the future.
Oneight Reason: Raid- Hatoshi Reason: Raid and Majour grief
Wulf_359 Reason: Attack on DicedTomato in chat and raid
speedPocok5 Reason: Biggest raid in Kanal Town and New Kanal Town history- Serrano07 Reason: Helping speedPocok5 in Kanal Town's Biggest Grief
- NekoFlen convicted raiding of chests (and being api lol)
- NedHuman assault of town members
NickolasDiamond murder of Lxmeister42 on spruce dock
OwnageCat Assault of town members during Freedonia Bankers Institution meeting
Gallery
First wiki screenshot of Kanal Town (2018).
The new visitor center (2018).
The visitors Center.
The Mountains.
Looking over Kanal Town.
Mt Dernal halfway through construction.
Finished Mount Dernal.
Mount Mosasaur Construction.
Birch Dock (2018).
Making of spruce dock.
Dernal talking to speedPocok about moving her home.
Snapjaw seeing the grief after being AFK.
Dernal Brewhouse .
The brewhouse again (different angle).
Brewhouse after 95% of the grief is fixed.
SnapJaw seeing the grief and laughing at Sleepless.
Dernal Brewhouse render from 2018.
Kanal Town Staff in 2023 after voting for independence from Newport Empire and New United States.
The most notable part of the 2023 grief - the signs left by salty player(s) pretending to be
Githis.
JCobbler2012, 
Kendon, 
SholQut and SiOtter shenanigans.
Freedonia Bankers Institutions first ever meeting in Kanal Towns currency exchange.
Peace talks between Cakeville and Bunker City being held in Kanal Town.
Part of #TEAMKANAL after winning Capture the Flag on the eve of Freedonias 13th Anniversary.
4dre helping SiOtter build Empress Statue.
SiOtter on the incomplete empresses tail.
The Empress Memorial and part of the former Rapty Memorial (floating sword, lefthand side).
SiOtter writing a book.
Very old photo of the construction of Spruce Dock in 2018.
FPKA Headquarters in 2018 right after being completed.
Kanal Towns Nexus opening in 2020.
Photo taken in the Dernal Brewhouse during its construction, note: the fort that was converted into HypderDrays house is in the background.
Cosmic_Potato_04 in the マウンテンカワウソの寺院
Multiple people inside the Kanal Town Bookstore
Kanal Town's Co-owner,
HyperDray and his house.
Map
Kanal Town in 2021.
Enderman on Birch Dock, 2021.
A remake of the first Kanal Town screenshot from 2018.
Another HyperDray photo of the town.
The Empress Statue shortly after completion.
