History of Aporkalypse
History of Aporkalypse for the connoisseurs of our server history.
2010. Aporkalypse was started August 4, 2010 as a survival multiplayer server by TooMuchPete. It began with approximately 10 unique users its first week, 25 members on September 12th, and as of October 30th 2010 that number rose to approximately 160. The cities of Porkton and New Hamsterdam appeared, and later in the year Porkton was linked to Spawn via the Carpal Tunnel.
December 20, 2010. Following a griefing incident, Aporkalypse was taken offline and Temporkalypse 1 was put online. It would run 1 week until December 27.
February 2011. A Minecraft upgrade breaking Bukkit forced the introduction of Tempork 2 on February 23, which would run for about 2 weeks.
March 2011. When Apork came back on March 8, there was the massive Big Room II project at Sunrise. Then there followed a huge buildout of rail lines all over the map. March was a very busy month on the server.
April 2011. Another Minecraft upgrade led to the creation of Tempork 3, which ran from April 19 to 25. Here the community began experimenting with survival mode and grinders. Aporkalypse came back along with the introduction of survival mode. Besterly and Tincanbot appeared, and Isle of Rock was completed (a large island with no dirt or sand). Mos Eisley and several huge Star Wars projects were built near Isle of Rock.
May 2011. This was the month of grinders. It seemed everyone was building one, be it large or small. User joecacti built a massive system of Intersnout long-distance highways that started in Porkton and eventually reached Algebracon, Hub St John, Sunrise, and Morepork.
June 2011. Tempork 4 was put online from June 1 to around June 15. It was relatively forgettable and was rather spread out. When Apork came back, the Nether was introduced. This led to a Land Run in the Nether with a tunnel & rail buildout.
July 2011. It was decided warps were going away, so everyone embarked on linking everything up via a Nether rail backbone called NHN (Nether Hub Network). The Nether is better for transit since distances are 8 times closer in that realm. This development led to the disuse of most overworld rail almost overnight.
August 2011. Knodding & sdoleck's Lavarinth creation was big news. Warps were switched off, leaving the NHN as the only viable way for going long distances (except for /home and /spawn). Slaughterhouse 5 was enlarged and improved, and is a favorite grinder hangout. Beans/Snow (a community in a Snow biome) was put online as a testbed, but was relatively quiet since the regular servers were still online.
September 2011. Aporkalypse was taken offline to prepare for numerous Minecraft changes, and Beans/Boston was put online. This would go on to be a very popular Beans server. A long debate started on the forums about if & how to allow hostile mobs when the server returns, partly due to the potential for Endermen to gradually damage Aporkalypse's hundreds of creations.
October 2011. Beans/Boston was eventually retired. On October 13, Beans/Discordia was started (see map), which culminated in several large projects like Syncinnati and the Stronghold Excavation. The primary Aporkalypse server, pork, was offline.
November 2011. Beans/Discordia was retired. Around Thanksgiving, Beans/Chicago was put online. The primary Aporkalypse server, pork, remained offline.
December 2011. Players continued to play the only available server, Beans/Chicago. Christmas came early with the return of Aporkalypse, ending three months of play on Beans servers. Unfortunately with the 90-degree compass change in Minecraft, many of the rail stations broke and chests were rotated into walls.
January 2012. The big project of the month was Terrarium 2, located outside the northeast corner of the snow wall, headed by greenie2600. There were also numerous individual projects around the snow walls, including a naval base near the southwest pole.
May 24, 2012. Due to excessive Bukkit dependencies, the Aporkalypse world was retired and replaced by a fresh start, Reporkalypse. It would become a permanent world.
August 24, 2012. Following the appearance of the Oracle and a multi-week treasure hunt spanning the Seven Wonders of the World, Aporkalypse was unexpectedly resurrected and was linked to Reporkalypse and Pigdig to form a multiverse server. This setup would continue for the next year.
December 2012. Another serverwide event: a brief treasure hunt brought users together at Santa's Workshop north of the North Pole.
February 2013. Users joined together to build Iberico, a community build in mob-free APK northwest of Second Continent. As many as 10 users were online at the same time.
April 2013. Users congregated at APK South Pole to join in a Volksmarch. The server was full as 20 people made their way northward up Intersnout 75, covering nearly 20 km of territory in about 3 hours. The event was livecasted by Synssins, and a YouTube file of the walk exists. Other members continued the Volksmarch north to the North Pole a few days later.
June 2013. As Bukkit development was lagging, keeping Aporkalypse a few cycles behind, APK/RPK/PIG were taken down and Tempork 6 (Horses) was placed online for at least the next month.
July 28, 2013. TooMuchPete announced that Aporkalypse would split from MeFightClub and begin drawing members from the Internet at large.
