Takadokia

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nexus_towns.png Takadokia
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"A land of islands, canals and luxury!"

About
Founder getplayerhead.sh?HY_Turkic&16.png HY_Turkic, getplayerhead.sh?LolePlay_PL&16.png LolePlay_PL
Category Towns
Underground? No
Fortified? Partially
Public access? Yes
Public build? No
Size north to south ~800m
Size west to east ~1000m
Transport
Road link? No
Nexus link? Yes
Rail link? Yes
Boat link? No
Portal? Yes
Location
Coordinates X=-4494
Y=64
Z=9189
Dimension Overworld
Map Link


Takadokia (previously known as The Midlake Island(s), New Sardinia and New Northwest Verico) is a town located at the southern part of Lake Ganaz. It was originally founded by players getplayerhead.sh?HY_Turkic&16.png HY_Turkic and getplayerhead.sh?LolePlay_PL&16.png LolePlay_PL. It was first founded in September 2019, and it grew and grew, and growing to a point where it had control of almost all the islands in the southern part of Lake Ganaz. Though Lole is seen as a co-founder, their involvement in Takadokia is relatively minor, with them being absent for a large majority of the town's existence. While Lole was gone, HY, with the help of a few contributors, made the settlement bigger and bigger.

It has a Nexus link that connects to South (Lime) Hub 3, which is located in Takadokia Velazzo Station. It also has an FRS connection, provided by Takadokia Lole Station. Vizima is the nearest warp, and is around 1000 blocks away.

General Information

Takadokia is located about 14,000 blocks away from spawn and is basically a town built on the ocean and a few scattered islands. It has a few notable landmarks, including the massive Takadokia Lole Station. While the overall area of the town is massive (with an area of around 800,000 meters squared), most of said area is ocean rather than actual landmass. Many of Takadokia's builds are located in small and spread-out islands, connected by vast roads of cobblestone and ice (the latter being for fast travel).

It is self sufficient for the most part, with it having both an animal grinder and a mob grinder. The capital district of the town is Velazzo, home to many apartments and the Town Hall, not to mention Takadokia Velazzo Station, which includes the Nexus link and the Nether portal. The oldest district is The Midlake Islands, with it being the origin of Takadokia and the location of the East Midlake Museum, which features recreations of old builds on the island and the oldest building in the entire town, the East Midlake Rest-Base.

Most buildings in Takadokia are built and maintained by founder HY_Turkic, though there are plenty of builds that are works of other players; see Residents for a full list of inhabitants and the town rules. If you wish to build or take up residence in Takadokia, please always ask HY_Turkic.

The flag of Takadokia.

Districts

A map of Takadokia with district names.

Takadokia is divided into eight individual districts of varying size and building density.

List of Districts
District First mention Description Photos
Velazzo

Map Link

February 16th 2020

(as the Southern Territory)

The heart of Takadokia, Velazzo is also the town’s largest land district, and the district that visitors will most likely see first. It’s made of three individual islands; the eponymous Velazzo Island, Freska Island and Vysoky Island. In addition to containing the Town Hall, it contains the town's Nexus link. It has many scenic seaside apartments, as well as the Lettuce Skyscraper (built by getplayerhead.sh?Freskooo&16.png Freskooo) and Vysoky Palace.
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The Midlake Islands

Map Link

September 15th 2019

(as Midlake Island)

Often regarded as Takadokia’s oldest district, the Midlake Islands are an integral part of the town’s history. It's comprised by three islands; East, West and South Midlake Island. It was from this district alone that Takadokia spread out and became what it is today. It contains several builds, most notable of which being the Independence Memorial. An honourable mention is the East Midlake Museum, which showcases Takadokia’s oldest builds.
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Grande Sardinia

Map Link

January 30th 2020

(as Project Vizima)

The only district with little to no landmass to its name, most of Grande Sardinia’s “territory” is situated on or around a cobblestone bridge 200 blocks in length. It can be seen as the suburbs of Takadokia. Along with The Midlake Islands, it’s one of the oldest districts in the town. It has quite a few builds, including the Town Library and Plank Road. It’s the starting point to a bridge connecting Takadokia to the warp city Vizima.
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Nea Makedonia

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March 5th 2020 A Greek-inspired district, Nea Makedonia is built on the islands of Voreia and Kriti. Kriti island contains an apartment complex, as well as the Bunker Museum. On Voreia Island stands a tall apartment building originally made by getplayerhead.sh?Kotobuki_&16.png Kotobuki_.
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Verican Lebanon

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March 7th 2020 A Middle-Eastern inspired district, Verican Lebanon contains only one apartment building. Its name comes from the fact that the island on which the district stands was originally claimed by Verico.
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Hafkletta

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January 13th 2021 One of the most empty districts, Hafkletta is also the southernmost district of Takadokia. Currently, other than a row of furnaces and a few chests, the district is devoid of any builds.
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North Ganaz

Map Link

December 22nd 2020

(as North Gazan)

A peculiar district, North Ganaz is separated from the rest of Takadokia by a thousand blocks. As its name states, it's located in the northern quadrant of Lake Ganaz. The only connection it has to the rest of the town is an arguably unfinished bridge. It’s also quite empty, with only a small haven for boats, a horse stable and a lone hut. As a side note, the island of North Ganaz is the largest non-artificial island in Takadokia.
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Old Loletown

Map Link

September 16th 2019

(as South Loletown)

Another historic district of Takadokia. Old Loletown’s mainland contains founder getplayerhead.sh?HY_Turkic&16.png HY_Turkic first ever build and house in Freedonia, as well the house of its co-founder getplayerhead.sh?LolePlay_PL&16.png LolePlay_PL. On an island to its north stands Sardinian Eden, a small village built in the style of the town New Eden, with even a working clock tower made functional by getplayerhead.sh?aggrievedCanine&16.png aggrievedCanine, the architect behind the actual New Eden Clocktower.
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Notable Builds

Below is a list of a few notable builds found in Takadokia. These buildings are significant in some way, be it historical or sentimental.

List of Notable Builds
Build Main builder Construction started Description Photos
Takadokia Lole Station

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getplayerhead.sh?HY_Turkic&16.png HY_Turkic 2020 A humungous FRS station, originally built to partake in the Freedonia Best Railway Station Competition, where it ended up winning 4th place. It started construction in May 2020, but wasn't connected to the Freedonia Railway System until February 2023. The station is a complex made up of a few different sections. By area alone, it is the largest single build in Takadokia.
Vysoky Palace

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2020 A palace that also quadruples as an apartment, a hotel, a mega farm and a music tower, located on Vysoky Island. It started construction early in 2020, but wasn't completely decorated and finished until early 2024.
Town Library

Map Link

2024 A massive sanctuary for avid readers. It was one of the most expensive buildings to construct in Takadokia, utilizing almost a double chest full of bookshelf stacks to build, taking up a few stacks of diamond blocks.
Independence Memorial

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2024 A memorial commemorating the 4th anniversary of Takadokia's independence, located on South Midlake Island. It's heavily based off of builds like the Parthenon.
East Midlake Museum

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2021 A museum containing Takadokia's earliest builds, located on East Midlake Island. While most of the original builds on the island were taken down, identical copies were constructed using the exact same blocks from the originals. However, a few were left intact and unmoved; the signs placed by getplayerhead.sh?LolePlay_PL&16.png LolePlay_PL are original and untouched, being historically significant. This also applies to the Rest-Base and Lighthouse, the first and second buildings in Takadokia respectively.
Lettuce Skyscraper

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getplayerhead.sh?Freskooo&16.png Freskooo 2020 The tallest building in Takadokia, located on Freska Island. It is the only true skyscraper in the whole town, with a height of 65 blocks.
Fuzbol's Tower

Map Link

getplayerhead.sh?FuzbolMC&16.png FuzbolMC 2023 Being a nexus warp, Takadokia contains one of getplayerhead.sh?FuzbolMC&16.png FuzbolMC's signature towers. The second tallest building in Takadokia, it is 58 blocks tall (7 blocks shorter than the Lettuce Skyscraper).
Crystal Beacon

Map Link

getplayerhead.sh?Darkerfly&16.png Darkerfly 2020 A massive beacon crystal. One of the first builds in Takadokia not to be constructed by HY.
Takadokia Ship

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getplayerhead.sh?Wolf_War&16.png Wolf_War 2020 A massive ship made for Takadokia, adorned by the colors of the Takadokian flag.

Residents

The rule board of Takadokia.

In order to become a resident and/or secure build perms in Takadokia, you must agree to the town rules located in the Nexus link. Once you have agreed to these rules, you will be given build perms and your name will be written here on the category below. This shows that you have agreed to the town rules.

Residents who joined Takadokia prior to the creation of the official town rules are listed separately.

post-2023 Residents
Player Date Evicted?
getplayerhead.sh?NightSteak9&16.png NightSteak9 11 Jan 2023 N
getplayerhead.sh?Luigifan100&16.png Luigifan100 5 Feb 2023 Y
getplayerhead.sh?Leo_Belgicus&16.png Leo_Belgicus 22 Feb 2023 N
getplayerhead.sh?E6V&16.png E6V 8 March 2023 N
getplayerhead.sh?FuzbolMC&16.png FuzbolMC 11 March 2023 N
getplayerhead.sh?_WizardDev_&16.png _WizardDev_ 6 Jan 2024 N
getplayerhead.sh?EchoBey16&16.png EchoBey16 4 May 2024 N
pre-2023 Residents
Players
getplayerhead.sh?Shoottokill780&16.png Shoottokill780

getplayerhead.sh?_MisterAwesome_&16.png _MisterAwesome_

getplayerhead.sh?Freskooo&16.png Freskooo

getplayerhead.sh?Sonnylew&16.png Sonnylew

getplayerhead.sh?Sleep75&16.png Sleep75

getplayerhead.sh?Trillium&16.png Trillium

getplayerhead.sh?9u1&16.png 9u1

getplayerhead.sh?jriver_10&16.png jriver_10

getplayerhead.sh?Bobbyblue767&16.png Bobbyblue767

getplayerhead.sh?Warze&16.png Warze

getplayerhead.sh?winx51&16.png winx51

getplayerhead.sh?NecropolisOfLove&16.png NecropolisOfLove

getplayerhead.sh?beatlekids&16.png beatlekids

getplayerhead.sh?WWEAva&16.png WWEAva

getplayerhead.sh?lucameo8&16.png lucameo8

getplayerhead.sh?LucaTigerShark&16.png LucaTigerShark

getplayerhead.sh?Scooter280&16.png Scooter280

getplayerhead.sh?boyscout415&16.png boyscout415

getplayerhead.sh?1Catnip&16.png 1Catnip

getplayerhead.sh?LittleMeruru&16.png LittleMeruru

getplayerhead.sh?Dani_In_the_Jaus&16.png Dani_In_the_Jaus

getplayerhead.sh?Ghostie05&16.png Ghostie05

getplayerhead.sh?Razorsky&16.png Razorsky

getplayerhead.sh?SomeRandomGuy&16.png SomeRandomGuy

getplayerhead.sh?IWasOnYourLeft&16.png IWasOnYourLeft

getplayerhead.sh?DespawnDia&16.png DespawnDia

getplayerhead.sh?ibxtoydog&16.png ibxtoydog

getplayerhead.sh?cavyX&16.png cavyX

History

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Founding of The Midlake Islands

On September 9th 2019, HY_Turkic and LolePlay_PL stumbled upon a small island while exploring, setting up camp on the island, which quickly became a permanent stay. Both Lole and HY tended to the island (which was later named "East Midlake Island"), while Lole went inactive after some time. HY continued to develop the archipelago alone, building and decorating. It was around this time that HY decided to establish a bridge-building project that would connect the Midlake archipelago to the warp town Vizima.

New Sardinian Federation

On February 4th 2020, HY incorporated the Midlake Islands into a new federation; the New Sardinian Federation, which started off with six initial states; East Midlake Island, West Midlake Island, South Midlake Island, New Azerbaijan, Voishah and Vysoky. Meanwhile, the town of Sand Island (owned by getplayerhead.sh?pretzel33&16.png pretzel33), became an autonomous part of New Sardinia, which started a long bond between the two owners and their towns.

The Federation did only last sixteen days, however it laid the groundwork of what would become modern Takadokia. The name "New Sardinia" would not be abandoned until the name Takadokia was adopted a few months later.

Purchase from Verico

On February 20th 2020, getplayerhead.sh?Beeraeka&16.png Beeraeka bought New Sardinia for 15 iron blocks, starting the Verican rule of the town. New Sardinia was rechristened New Northwest Verico. It was under Verican rule that Takadokia was expanded into what is basically its modern borders.

NNWV enjoyed a high degree of self-governance, being independent in all but name, with HY even getting into a petty squabble with Beeraeka upon seeing that he had cut a tree in New Azerbaijan.

This relative autonomy meant that not much changed upon NNWV's independence from Verico. Now being wealthier than he was when Beer bought New Sardinia, HY repaid Beer back the 15 iron blocks that he used to buy the town. New Northwest Verico lasted for two months before independence was declared.

Independence from Verico

On April 20th 2020, HY announced his intent of succeeding from Verico as the Second Republic (later Commonwealth) of New Sardinia, bringing back the name last used by the Federation a few months back. The town would be formally independent from Verico, but would continue to remain part of the Bedrocco Empire. Excluding a few name changes, New Sardinia would remain relatively unchanged from its independence.

Sultanate of Takadokia

Not long after its independence from Verico, New Sardinia was once again renamed, this time to Takadokia. This name change was meant to bring the town’s identity closer to that of Turkey and Islam, plus to adopt a more unique name. HY wanted a name that would reference the big leap forward his settlement had taken, taking the Arabic word for "progress" (تقدم taqadum) and combining it with the name of the ancient city of Cappadocia, birthing the name Takadokia. Takadokia became a sultanate, with Beer instated as the sultan.

United Bedrocco States

Takadokia was soon incorporated as one of the member towns of the United Bedrocco States (UBS). The UBS was a state part of the Bedrocco Empire, consisting of three cities; Takadokia, Sand Island and Cascadia Wood.

Tensions were rising between the sister towns of Takadokia and Sand Island; at the time, the two were in constant argument on the topic of newcomer residents. This meant that, whenever a new player joined the server, both HY and Pretzel would attempt to get the player to join their town and not the other.

Thus, the United Bedrocco States (‘’UBS’’, initially named the United Kingdom) was created as a compromise. The two would be part of the same entity, which itself would be part of the Bedrocco Empire. This would not only quell the conflict between the towns, but also allowed them to combine their total population. Cascadia Wood would later join the union as its third member state.

Full Independence from Bedrocco

After a few months of being under the UBS, HY had enough of foreign rule as a whole. After five months of Bedroccan rule, Takadokia officially left the UBS and the Bedrocco Empire, becoming fully independent. After this, not much changed. HY toyed around with the idea of having a new system of government, but eventually just decided to scrap the geopolitics and make it a regular town.

Intertakadokia

Intertakadokia was a confederation, which united all the cities HY owned. This included the likes of Outherland, Selverland, Summittown and, of course, Takadokia. It was quietly abolished, having no reason to exist.

Renovations

In December 2020, HY decided that the towns of Takadokia had to go, leaving only the districts. His reasoning was that the towns were too small. And so, he, with the help of Lole (who had just come back), got rid of the town borders, leaving only the districts. The districts were not to be removed, only the towns.

Motivated, HY started renovating old places and buildings all around Takadokia. These renovations initially started with the creation of the East Midlake Museum, a museum containing Takadokia's earliest builds, built around the East Midlake Lighthouse and Rest-Base (latter of which is the first building in Takadokia).

Next, he moved on to the district of Asariguene, where he redid the Nexus link and the governor's office. Wooden roads were added for convenience in almost all Takadokian Islands. The organisation of districts changed as the Free State of Loletown and Sardinian Eden were combined into Old Loletown, and the central districts of Takadokia were combined into the district of Velazzo. There were also some other minor changes that were made to clean up the town in general.

Around this time, the expansion of Takadokia ceased, and HY focused on populating the town.

Subpages

Below is a list of subpages that link to this page.

New Sardinian Declaration of Independence

Gallery

Below is a gallery of screenshots taken of Takadokia's various locations.