History

Timeline of Amplicity.

Despite the server opening in late December 2022, the idea had been thought of since late November, with first setting up the Discord server in early December!

All dates that follow down below are in UTC.

A screenshot of the server Spawn on 27/12/2022.

04/12/2022: Discord Planning

First thoughts of creating a server started then, with very first start of planning, plugin list, wondering what this server should be like, etc.

25/12/2022: Test Server

On this day, Admin 4untochrist set up an original test server, where we would start setting up different things, especially making sure to test and verify that plugins installed would work properly. 

This server was originally hosted on Apex Hosting, with 4GB of RAM. The first screenshots of the server were taken on this day and the following ones.

26/12/2022: Leaked IP and Early Testers

The 26th of December was the day the Discord server was open to public, and due to a slight mistake from SenatorApple, who forgot the IP was in a publicly readable channel of server setup, some players started joining the server despite it not being publicly open. The first two to join on this day were RobotReaction and AaVB, who would later go on to become Moderator and Admin respectively.

The channel was quickly made unreadable, but the mistake had been made, and a few other close friends were allowed to join for what was considered a time of beta testing of the server. These players now have the Early Tester rank both on Discord and ingame represented by a "❶" before their name in chat.

27/12/2022: First Promotions

Players AaVB and LeBonPaxou, friends of SenatorApple, are both promoted to Moderator rank at the same time, making for the first official server promotions!

Players RobotReaction and cmb1100 are also promoted a few hours later, to Moderator and Administrator rank respectively.

These are the only promotions that took place on this initial host.

30/12/2022: Host Change and promotions

After about a week of testing the initial host and setting up some plugins, the server is moved to a new host, Vultam, with an upgrade from 4GB to 6GB of RAM.

Users NickEter and helpimdeadinside are also promoted, to Moderator and Administrator rank respectively, making for the first promotions following the host change.

The latter user also becoming the first Donor in the server's History, after a donation of $10!

31/12/2022: New Years (and more promotions)

What we could consider to be the first Server Event, took place on this day, a New Years party, also seeing the very first collectible item being made, a "New Year Firework". Celebration doesn't end there, as we also see two more Admin promotions, when users 1Catnip and moderator AaVB are both promoted!

01/01/2023: Just a few more...

User Link03 is promoted to Admin, while users Daltalf and _Plague_Rat_ are promoted to Moderators after showing interest in the position.

06/01/2023: Tiny Admin Accident

After spawning 200+ wardens (because why not), administrator 1Catnip attempts to get rid of them through a command. But due to a typo in the command, he instead killed every entity in loaded chunks...except wardens. Luckily the damage was very limited.

07/01/2023: Bigger Admin Accident

While in server configuration, SenatorApple attempts something he shouldn't have, trying to change the world name, after a restart and upon logging on, he quickly notices his mistake. 

This is a new world generated. None of the old buildings are here, the Spawn isn't the same, it is basically a fresh world. 

Unfortunately, no screenshots of this exist as he quickly went back to the config to fix his mistake, this mistake world only existed for a few minutes, and renaming the world to its old name fixed everything! 

Later this day, users Spektra_ and Radis and promoted, to Admin and Moderator respectively.

12/01/2023: Website creation

This website was set up and created on this day, following the purchase of a custom domain both for the ingame server, and this website!

17?/01/2023: 100 unique players

Around the 17th of January, the server reaches 100 unique players!

19/01/2023: No Water Day

On this day, helpimdeadinside makes a fatal mistake while using //drain, wanting to use //drain 30, but adding an accidental 0 at the end, resulting in 4.5 million blocks affected, despite undoing the command right away, the server obviously died and had to be killed then restarted manually. 

24/01/2023: Another Admin Accident

SenatorApple makes the same mistake again and the world is changed again, a few player log onto this temporary accidental world, some screenshots exist, the mistake was fixed in a few minutes by Apple, the usual map returning with no damage.

adxxtrun is promoted to Admin.

25/01/2023: 1 Month Since Opening!

On this day, the server opened a month ago exactly!

Player cndx also becomes our first Developer!

26/01/2023: Release of Timeplayed Ranks!

Timeplayed ranks, after a lot of work from SenatorApple and cndx, are finally obtainable! 

Please see the Ranks page for more details on how to get them!

1-15/02/2023: Valentine's Event!

The first Valentine's Day event arrives, with Spawn turning more pink and players offering written books to each other, full of nice things! This event is accompanied by a new Collectible: The Love Tulip

19/02/2023: Hunger Games!

A small hunger games event is hosted by Admin Link03, in which Moderator Daltalf is the hunter. 

This event brought many new collectibles made by SenatorApple, for the different participants!

05/03/2023: Promotions

Players LeBonPaxou and TheDemetri are promoted to Administrator rank!

12/03/2023: Admin Steps Down

Administrator 4untochrist steps down from his position on good terms, citing lack of time, and other priorities.

??/03/2023: 200 unique players (?)

At some point in March 2023, the server passes 200 unique players, according to the server list when a new player joins, this was noticed on March 29th, when a friend of SenatorApple joined and the player count showed 208 unique players ingame against 168 according to Discord relay, which had been reset and reinstalled a few times. Therefore this information is hard to be sure about or verify which side is wrong.

15/03/2023: Update?

On this day, SenatorApple attempts to test how a server update would go, to get an idea of which plugins would still function, and which would need to be updated, but upon replacing the server.jar file, he chooses one for Vanilla 1.19.3 servers, instead of Paper, which meant none of the plugins worked. It took about an hour to figure things out with some help and revert back to the usual server, with no damage

16/03/2023: Survival Feel

Administrator Spektra_ steps down from her position citing desire to enjoy the survival aspect of the server, without access to creative

20/03/2023: UPDATE!

Finally, the real update to 1.19.3 comes! 

At first flawed and needing fixes, SenatorApple stayed up quite late to first fix homes being broken. 

The next day, he received help from MrSlimeDiamond to fix the rest, and soon enough, the server was completely fine again!

22/03/2023: Red Slime

On this day, MrSlimeDiamond is promoted to Technical Admin

29/03/2023: Upgrade

The server receives an upgrade, from the initial 6GB of RAM bumped up to 8GB of RAM!

01-02/04/2023: Aintplicity

For two days, the server map was switched to a superflat world where everyone was given creative to play with! It got a little chaotic while SenatorApple realized it wasn't the best idea to give everyone creative mode. The map was generally liked nonetheless and may come back next year.

04/06/2023: New Mod!

On this day, OG player Ratrun becomes a Moderator!

07/07/2023: 1.20.1 Update!

After a few days of planning, Amplicity updates to 1.20.1!

21/09/2023: A proper donation page?

SenatorApple starts working on a proper donation page, it is not yet public, but a work in progress that may take a while to be fully ready! Cosmetics will also be available, to help keep the server running!

03/10/2023: Creative World??

The creative building plots are launched officially after some testing! 

We hope this new feature will be enjoyed by the community!

04/10/2023: New Red!

On this day, Admin AriVB resigns from her Admin position for personal reasons.

Moderator Daltalf is promoted to Administrator!

05/10/2023: New Blue?!

On this day, player Axilie becomes Moderator!

07/10/2023 : New Red?!?

On this day, Moderator Ratrun is promoted to Administrator!

05/12/2023 : Advent Calendar!

 On the 5th of December, an ingame advent calendar was added, giving players a new item every day!

17/12/2023 : Surprise Dev

Closing in on the one year anniversary, player Java64Bit joins the Development Team!

20/12/2023 : Surprise Admin?!

Indeed, only two days after promotion to Developer, Java64Bit is promoted to Administrator!

09/01/2024 : New Blue, resignation, and demotions??

We get the first promotion of 2024 when ___Oak becomes Moderator!

On this same day, Moderator Spektra_ resigns from her position. The opportunity is taken to also do some inactivity demotions, with no bad feelings. 

Moderators RobotReaction, Radis, and Link03 are demoted for inactivity.

14/01/2024 : Promotion and invasion?

On this day, the server meets its first "invasion" when someone shares the link to the server in a Discord server with over 100+ people, leading to 15/20 new players joining, some grief happening, a lot of PvP from said players, and a surprise promotion where player Acesrt is promoted to Moderator by surprise by Java64Bit.

02/05/2024 : Staff Maintenance

On this day, player _SkyFalls was promoted to Moderator, while moderators _Plague_Rat_, NickEter and Void42_ were demoted for inactivity, with no hard feelings.