Hivecraft



Hivecraft was a Minecraft server where the members of Hivecord can build, mine and craft their very own houses, structures and cities. Officially launching on November 6, 2021, the server was operational until April 2022 - without the prerequisite of being a member of Hivecord - at the IP address. The server went online only when one or more players are active, so this means after joining the server, players have to log in after waiting a couple minutes for the server to properly boot up.

= History =

Pre-Hivecraft (October 2021)
Phoebe mentioned in October 14 that the server should set up game nights, suggesting Minecraft as a possible game - mentioning that she had both it on Nintendo Switch, and a subscription to the Minecraft Realms service. After little deliberation (with some members prefering the Java version of the game), a survival, no cheats Minecraft Realm was set up for an impromptu game night.

The server didn't see much use after October, but the idea of setting up a proper Minecraft server lingered throughout the rest of October and into November.

1.17 (November 2021 - February 2022)


Hivecraft soft-launched on October 26, 2021, after some consultation with resident Minecraft expert Fink, settling with Exaroton as the server host provider. It was originally set up to use GeyserMC, but some technical issues at launch would mean Bedrock and Java crossplay support would not come at launch. Though it was promised for later on in the server's life, conflicts between modded Minecraft and vanilla, Bedrock + Java compatible Minecraft would mean full GeyserMC support wouldn't come to fruition.

The official launch would come in November 6, 2021, where channels for Hivecraft news and chat were properly set up - though by that point, a good portion of Spawn had already been built. Due to disuse, and the server owner spending time working on other Server Events, the Minecraft server would not update to 1.18 (Caves and Cliffs Part 2) on its November 30th release date, and would have to wait months before receiving more support.

Server outages were frequent, with the most notable lasting from the 6th to the 9th of November just a couple days after launch.

1.18 (February 2022 - April 2022)
After The Combies, Honie had time to revise aspects of the server that were long overdue - and with that, came the idea to finally update Hivecraft to 1.18 in early February 2022. The idea being to continue using the new map from 1.17, but as the Caves and Cliffs update changed so much about World Generation, a poll was set up to decide whether to change the world map or to keep it the same. Come February 11, the results were decisive, and the Hivecraft 1.18 update was scheduled for the day after.

Another poll was set up to decide Hivecraft's difficulty, with a tie between Medium and Hard modes. It was decided that the server would start with Easy difficulty at launch, and ramp up over time - a promise that was kept after the server changed its difficulty to Normal on February 14, and later to Hard on February 28.

= World maps = The world map for the old 1.17 map is available at the following link.