HISTORY

On October 1st, 2010, Herocraft started as a small 5-person server, hosted from the owner's own home. The members of the server were from a closee-knit group of friends who were curious about the potential of such an open-ended program, Minecraft.

Since then, we have grown to being a server with over 7,000 different user-logins.


A brief history report:

The first map was set on one of the original terrain-generators and had a player-cap of only 20 people. On this map, there were few plugins, allowing players to region whatever they wished and easily access their base and spawn. There was also no WorldGuard on the map, allowing players to venture off as far as they could walk.

The map after this was known as Kingdom. The player-cap for this map remained small but it was on this map that the Township system gained it's roots in Herocraft. WorldGuard was also implemented and some major changes were being made to the server. The image of Herocraft was finally beginning to form.

The map that followed after Kingdom was later named Sanctum. This map is most known for it's Dungeons and experimenting with spells plugins. Players gained these spells and abilities for completing Dungeons around the map. Herogates were also implemented near towns, allowing players to safely travel from their town to the nexus (a portal directory) for a fee.

The map after Sanctum was Zeal. This map was most-known for the birth of the Heroes Plugin, allowing players to choose their classes and level up for these once-easily obtained spells. For obvious reasons, PVP was booming during this map as players were anxious to test out their skills and abilities on any unsuspecting Hero. Herogates to towns were removed this map, making it harder to safely get to town. This encouraged more player versus player combat, eventually leading to a huge outbreak in multiple wars, most of which lasted the entire map. Many of the plugins that we all now know today were implemented onto the server and Towns and Kingdoms were extremely popular on this map.

The next map was Dragonguarde, which featured the release of a second addition to Herocraft; Warshard. On this map, there were no dungeons like on the previous maps. Instead, the common way to level-up was by participating in Mob Arenas, an arena in which mobs spawned in waves and it was up to the group of players to take them out or be taken over. The famous "Dome of Death" event was also born on this map as did the grey-list system (as originally, all of the previous maps were white-list only excluding Kingdom). Herogates at towns were removed, to encourage PVP, and were instead placed at exact coordinates (+/1500, +/-1500).

The end came to Dragonguarde due to a massive DDOS attack from known server-attacker, Spunkiie (head of Craftlandia). The server was extremely over-loaded with data and burnt out much of the server data that was stored. With the repair of the equipment came the loss of all user data. This came right after the recent Minecraft update and so the staff of Herocraft saw this as a light in the nightmare of servers everywhere. We pushed for a huge fundraiser to upgrade to DOS-Protection and with that, brought back the server for players to temporarily play on until the new map release. Unfortunately, the map release was released a week later than was initially anticipated due to some delay in building the main features of Herocraft like Spawn and Warshard.

The last map, Bastion, is now heavily played on. This map still features Warshard and there are plans for the future of Bastion, including a planned adventure-map for players to explore and other soon-to-add maps. This map is considered partially incomplete with plans to change and add-to spawn including Dragontravel and the spawn Trade District. Until then, Dome of Deaths continue to take place every Saturday (at 8pm PST) with random events occurring on a weekly basis.

All previous maps will also be added to Bastion (in adventure mode) for players to explore and enjoy.



To the many dedicated players of whom have gotten us this far; Thank you for making a dream come-true and thank you for helping build such an amazing community.

To the new players; Welcome to the one and only Herocraft Online, voted #1 MMORPG Minecraft server in the world.