Timeline

Enchanted Sword Timeline
The server was originally created and brought online on March 16th, 2020. This was around the time the world went into lockdown due to Covid-19.

Age of Founding
The period of time when the server first came online and was running Minecraft 1.14. Spawns in the overworld, Nether and The End progress to being destroyed, blown up and lava casted landscapes.

In the beginning with few players, the server was relatively peaceful with some small skirmishes and occasional PVP.

2020


 * Enchanted Sword goes online with Minecraft 1.14.4 (March)
 * Player community goes into April.
 * The first known faction on the server emerges "The Sun in its Splendor" (May)
 * The Cage lava cast at spawn is created by OFuchs (May)
 * A group of players join the server and establish the Democratic Communist People’s Republic faction (mid June)
 * Minecraft server upgraded to 1.15.2 (June 19th)
 * Minecraft server upgraded to 1.16.1 (July 6th)
 * Seed is cracked for the first recorded time by Ichopu of the Democratic Communist People’s Republic (July 19th)
 * Bedrock support is added to the server. Opening up the server to Xbox, Switch, Windows 10, and MCPE players.
 * "The Sun in its Splendor" grief / disband event occurs on (July 17th). Players continue to log into the server in sub-factions.
 * Democratic Communist People’s Republic faction disbanded. Players continue to log into the server in sub-factions.
 * Atop Mt. Annapurna faction rises as a splinter faction from The Sun in its Splendor.
 * Discussion starts on the location of the Dragon Egg

Age of Growth
2020


 * Voting on Minecraft server lists websites is consolidated down to one voting site.
 * The The Sword Keepers is disbanded (August).
 * Many new players join the server (August).
 * Total players who have joined the world crosses the 1,000 threshold (August).
 * New groups are established on the server, and seek to dominate the server with different goals (August).
 * New 2k walls are lava casted around spawn (August).
 * Industrial sized XP farms start to appear on the server (August).
 * Players carrying 100+ to 600+ levels starts to be seen (August).
 * Mechanics introduced to encourage more PVP.
 * Enchanted Golden Apple recipe added into server from MC 1.8 (August).
 * Custom Piglin trading table to created, which adds Ghast tears. (August).
 * The MiG Moon in Gloom group emerges out of The Sun in its Splendor (August/September).
 * The Federated People's Republic is Formed (September 5th).
 * TNT recipe altered to yield 5 TNT instead of the normal 1 (September).
 * Kill Your Admin 2020 event marking the server running for 6 months (September).
 * MiG takes aggressive action to lock The End and the resources available in it with an End Portal Trap (August/September).
 * The CoE Coalition of the End is formed, but is almost immediately betrayed by one of the members (September).
 * MiGs grip over control of The End continues unchallenged, apart from isolated acts of sabotage from individual players.
 * The Dec 2020 Book and Quill Dupe is discovered. Massive dupe event.