Please see Part 1 before reading this

The design was so ridiculous that even thought they poured a lot of diamonds into it, all we had to do was break 2 blocks of DRO to get to the chest. At that point, right when we were ready to declare our ultimate victory, ScentTreeDown gets on mumble, almost crying. He starts asking what happened and i explain to him that Miner_Bill's been a massive cunt and that we already pearled 3 people and took control of their castle. I finally get them to comply with my demand, releasing Ladiesman_95. After they free him, we start leaving and release the people that we captured. PRUSSIA STRONG!”

A propaganda picture from that time.

A short while after this, myself and a few others realised that we weren't really fitting in to the LSIF anymore. I won't go into this in detail as it was fairly private and (I hope) it's all water under the bridge now.

I started hanging out in Prussia and Mt Augusta with the other people who had left – Babycham, Redpossum and Teajizzle to name a few. This was also the time of the Gimmick Brigade – one of the first symptoms of the disease the HCF invasion had spread to Civcraft. Chiapas was spared raiding due to Tea's participation in the GB (on the InspectorBellend account) but a lot of damage was done both to property and reputations.

Blueavenue by this point had returned after a long while (another former LSIF member) and told me his vision in mumble of a mutualist city that avoided drama and was comprised of friends. It sounded amazing and we began filling the ocean.

During construction, one of the biggest events in Civcraft history began. Hamster, a HCF player had volunteered to host backups for ttk2. He abused this and learnt where everyone's wealth was kept, how to break into the biggest vaults and even spawned in wealth like stacks of diamond blocks. This led to the reset. An entire world and it's history was destroyed through the actions of one person.

One thing that I think is essential to understanding the history and culture of 1.0 is The Pylon, created and edited by one of the lost players I miss the most, tactful.

After the reset was announced, the server died. I remember running around now heavily griefed nether roads at what used to be peak time, and seeing only 4-5 other people on the entire server. One event of personal significance happened at this time as well. Hamster also had access to eveyone's player file – including their IP address. Fluffy, a HCF player was in a mumble channel with a lot of people started bragging that he knew everyone's IP. I dared him to prove it and he posted a bunch of information about me, including my IP. He was banned for doxxing, but I believed it was truly an accident and he hadn't meant to release it. After a while he messaged me asking to testify on his behalf in modmail, and I did. The reset necessitated a long, hard look at everyone's current place on the server. Would people stay together, trying to rebuild lost glories or would they start anew, with new people and a new city? Blue realised this was the perfect time to construct Carson – we'd never gotten further than a small hole in the ocean on 1.0.

I was part of Carson in it's beginning, but after a few weeks I burnt out yet again. I built myself a tomb and a funeral was hosted – here is the video. I also received an obituary from the People's News Today

I was dead for a while, entirely coincidentally as long as it took to excavate Carson :⁾ then I escaped from Hades and returned.

Carson by this point was a well-oiled machine of Botlords and CoolPvP so I travelled to the far , and joined Prussia in their new capital city of Breslau. I've been here ever since, going through cycles of inactivity in this quiet but beautiful city.

What I've seen over the years I've played on this amazing server are: A change in social attitudes – ancaps believed strongly in complete freedom of speech. Slurs that are now a bannable offence were commonplace, as were casual sexism, racism and other bigotry.

A decline in political discussion – the subreddit used to be a battleground between capitalism, socialism, anarchism and fascism. Property rights and economic theories were common topics.

The rise of statism and the seeming death of anarchy – 2.0 has seen large city-states with constitutions, large inter-quadrant alliances and established justice systems, rather than the individualist arbitration of the old world. 2.0 has also seen the exodus of the ancaps, once the major power on Civcraft and the now inactivity of the LSIF, the other great anarchist presence on the server.

I would say that currently we have more wealth but less discussion. Prot and even unenchanted diamond armour was once the sole preserver of bounty hunters and the mega-rich. The server was safe enough that the majority of people walked around naked for most of the time, focusing more on building and debate than fighting over land.

There is greater playerbase diversity at the cost of intimacy on the subreddit – most people had at least passing acquaintance on 1.0 and you would usually know a fair bit about their city as well. On today's map, the sheer quantity and diversity of towns and players leads to something closer to the actual world, where you know the people and towns close to you.

I've made so many friends over the years (and lost a fair few as well) that to write a list of everyone would probably take up as much space as this post. You all know who you are.

I've also missed out great swathes of history and interesting detail, mostly because I don't remember it well enough to justify spreading possible misinformation. Things like Augustan elections, the Dolan cult, ZombieLenin's antics and many more are entirely absent from this shallow, blurred history dredged up from my murky memory.

I leave you with a video I made trying to recapture the feeling that 1.0 had for me. The video features Mt Augusta (and my blocked up nose, I had a cold at the time) but it sums up a lot of what the server means to me.

incredibly disorganised tl;dr

Pumpkin Jacks – early statism v ancap, Kizantium rooftop, first convo with Sami about rogersd (grefer hunters) – ran away from Jack's Hold, just after the Fall of Columbia, dropchest in the desert and small church – absentee property rights – left for several weeks, came back and claimed a small island called the DDR, Realised ZombieLenin already filled that niche, left for Mt Augusta – Discovered Ataraxia (LSIF commune), the CPMA, more Sami. Joined LSIF (charcoal offering) and built the infamous Honecker House - spent the majority of 1.0 playtime with the LSIF – nether commune, visits to Goldmayne, movie nights, Internationales, Leningrad – People's News Today CKC – hung out in the CKC, learnt ancap theory and practice - Chiapas – moved to the , to be safer and closer to allies (Prussia, Agraria, Communa ,etc) -HCF invasion. Destruction of Mt Augusta. Nether travel not safe. - Gimmick Brigade - Little War within the War – Left LSIF due to internal conflicts, decided to join with Blueavenue in his utopian Carson project and hung out mostly with the Prussians in mumble - RESET RESET RESET RESET RESET – Hamster, running around an empty nether, being accidentally doxxed by fluffy -Carson – Joined, went inactive (funeral) - Breslau – returned, joined Prussia – musings on changes in server culture