The Era of Decay (Classic)

The era started around august 7th when due to summer ending and terra nova being announced the population slowly shrunk to the point where ate times there were 0 players online.

August

• (August 7th - ???) Great Hibernation. Between waiting for Terra Nova, school returning, and the growth of other servers, player numbers dwindle on server, never reaching more than 10 (sometimes hanging around 0-2). The current belief is that the server will bounce back once the update is released later in Fall. In some regards this may also have been made worse by the continual slowdown on the server that dates even back to the Kerala War.
• (August 13th) Dupe glitch, with a lot of trees unexpectedly spawning in Russia.

• 32Gold started massive projects designed to destroy the map (such as draining the Mediterraian and others) prompting huge pushback and arguments for rules protecting the environment.
• (August 21st) EarthMC turned 2 years old
• (August 27th) The 1000th article on the EarthMC Wiki was published

September

• (September 4th) fabian2003 was perm banned for reaching 5 warnings.
• (September 10th) Chilhelm griefs Volgograd
• (September 15th) TheNakedSnail_YT turns 11 irl
• TheNakedSnail_YT keeps postponing his town celebration, with him deciding too much.
• (September 29th) Periano Nukes Petrozavodsk (his own town) and deleting it

October

• (October 2nd) Russia wins the Battle of Orleans, a decisive battle in the Russo-Hungarian War
• (October 2nd) Tang disbands
• (October 2nd) Valencia and Antofagasta disbands
• (October 3rd) Battle of Verdun happens which ends in a failure on both sides
• (October 3rd) Battle of Kola happens which ends in a Hungarian defeat
• (October 4th) Vienna falls and is resettled by the Hungarians in a campaign to get Austria to join them
• (October 5th) Runnerboy gets temp banned after staff search entire map warning him for every burnt patch they find.
• (October 6th) The_Pock raids EmperorMustache's materials for building random things, makes him rage
• (October 7th) KadeTheDank coins the terms "Puppet" and "Float" to describe the methods used by germans to preserve dead towns they do nothing with
• (October 8th) Russia wins the Russo-Hungarian war and the nation of Hungary is left to collapse.
• (October 10th) Following Hoyenah Owentheguy's early retirement Yodabest wins the Canadian emergency Hoyenah elections.
• (October 11th) First time in EarthMC history Tymek_T slept a whole night in his bed.
• (October 11th) BlueCity's spawn claims were sold to Ikea, this significantly increased Ikea's size. The Deal was worth 700g.
• (October 11th) 32Gold gets a 23 day ban for toxicity leading many players to protest the ban.
• (October 14th) Terra Nova News surpasses 200 members.
• (October 15th) The First Synist Shrine is opened in Bergen.
• (October 15th) Pinebury is expanding its borders