Timeline

1.5 or 1.6 (Start of VC Prehistory)
Not much is known about the first maps of VanillaCraft, for there are few who still remember it.


 * Vanillacraft started under bobafett356 as owner.
 * BlindCowboy joins for the first time.
 * Stadekxiel joins for the first time, after being invited to the server by BlindCowboy.

1.7 Map (Silent Era)

 * Rudycent joins for the first time.

1.8 Map (Transition Era)

 * blackwolf9182 joins for the first time.
 * The Faction "The Toast Army" is founded out of a small mine.
 * The Toast Army's base is destroyed by a hacker and disbanded shortly afterwards.
 * Arzaen joins for the first time.
 * Cow_Strangler joins for the first time under the name Shocker26.
 * xmariah becomes the owner of the server.
 * Firetick is turned off to reduce lag.

1.9 Map (Pestilence Era - End of VC Prehistory)

 * Shocker26 departs from the server.
 * TooAtomic joins for the first time.
 * PoopyPuppyPuke joins for the first time.
 * Arcsabre123 joins for the first time.
 * Moon Clan is formed.
 * Catfish42 and Wannabero terrorize spawn.
 * Ebola Clan is formed by Rekbeth(Catfish42?)/Wannabero.
 * Ebola War begins.
 * Ebola Clan raids many well-known communities, including Moon Clan and Scarlet base.
 * Ebola Base is discovered by collaborative effort of many factions and raided.
 * Most of Ebola Clan members banned for exploit abuses. Ebola War ends.

1.12 Map (Classical Era)
This era saw the rise of The Order, the first large, organised group [citation needed]. This would set a precedent for many groups in the future.

February 2017

 * Camorrista joins for the first time.
 * Shocker26 rejoins the server (now officially renamed to "Cow_Strangler").
 * Lethalizer joins for the first time.
 * (Forgotten/lost faction name) is founded by Arzaen and __Lethal, subsequent notable members include Saedin, Lunchbone, and Testsubject11.
 * Morse_Meat joins for the first time.

June 2017
20th June, 2017


 * Arzaen and _Lethal's faction raid admins Sourearth's and XaneMatrix's bases.
 * Kraken Brotherhood is also discovered, and raided. Arzaen is slain by ChromaMatrix and leaves.
 * _Haxington_ joins for the first time.
 * _Haxington_, generalbluetit, _Dead_Inside and __Lethal create The Teutonic Order.

30th June, 2017


 * TestSubject11/EdgyCommunist69 joins for the first time.
 * Cow_Strangler and Shining_Spark establish Mount Strangle.
 * Mikasue joins Mount Strangle.
 * ayden327/Drwiin blows up Birchwood.

July 2017

 * Camorrista joins The Teutonic Order.
 * Cinnadraws joins for the first time.
 * Cinnadraws joins Mount Strangle.

3rd July, 2017


 * Clyme joins for the first time.
 * Arzaen returns, raiding KindBryan/BryanH_'s team base. Cunningly slain by Petachip and later Ayden327.

15th July, 2017


 * Clyme joins The Teutonic Order.
 * FireFox2234 joins for the first time.

16th July, 2017


 * TooAtomic starts his resistance against The Order. It is swiftly insided by generalbluetit and The Order shows up en masse to kill Atomic.

August 2017
It was around this month when the Apathy War occured. A griefing group called Apathy attacked The Order, bringing them to their knees.

1st August, 2017


 * Cow_Strangler joins the The Teutonic Order.

14th August, 2017


 * Battle of Haxoria, the largest battle in VC history, starts.

17th August, 2017


 * Battle of Haxoria ends.

September 2017
3rd September, 2017


 * Dire Keep Incident occurs. FireFox2234 is banned, but begins his war against The Order.

5th September, 2017


 * Owner_of_Roblox, Owner_of_Overwatch, and Owner_of Fortnite join the server for the first time. The Owner War begins.

May 2018

 * __Lethal takes over The Holy Roman Empire and renames it to The Templar Inquisition.
 * The Owner War comes to a close with the banning of all Owners.
 * FireFox2234 destroys Haxoria and Pumpkin Town.
 * Founding of SSS by SillyGoosy and ElectricPigeon.
 * Cities Bluevale and Rosemere built by SSS with the aid of Budaholic, MrFwar, FireFox2234, and MTP949.
 * SSS cities both raided, soon disbanded.

1.13/1.14 Map (Rebirth Era)
The early map was still largely dominated by The Order, but later on The People's Legion came to be its equal and rival.

December 2018
December 28th, 2018


 * Cow_Strangler establishes Outpost Cerulean as a staging ground for the Teutonic Order.
 * Mr_Murphy7 joins for the first time.
 * AerialSN1PER joins for the first time. (approximately)

January 2019
15th January, 2019


 * Cow_Strangler leaves The Teutonic Order and rejoins Mount Strangle (renamed to "The Mons Dominion")

March 2019
3rd March, 2019


 * Lethal is overthrown and The Templar Inquisition rebrands and reforms into the People's Republic of People.

April 2019
1st April, 2019


 * AlikatHD joins for the first time and founds Greatest Nation of Armenia.

28th April, 2019


 * Eashandai's base wrecking occurs.

June 2019
1st June, 2019


 * Kill stadekxiel event.

20th June, 2019


 * Erik leaves the People's Republic of People with Pipitone and Doyle for The Order.

July 2019
16th July, 2019


 * AerialSN1PER leaves the PRoP, so Edgy and Fallen begin ruling as Consuls.

18th July, 2019


 * A violent struggle between Bflamed and Edgy breaks out on the ice road (the one who provoked the engagement is disputed), Ending with Edgy's victory. Edgy then lets Bflamed go.


 * The PRoP-CoF war begins.

22nd July, 2019


 * Raid of Vacation Island occurs.

27th July, 2019


 * The People's Republic of People renames to The People's Legion.

August 2019
6th August, 2019


 * The People's Legion and Circle of Freedom negotiate peace.

12th August, 2019


 * Fallen griefs part of Malbork, the capital of The Order.
 * The War of The Dog begins.

15th August, 2019


 * Having gained coordinates from AmberHallow due to her not knowing banners, The Order attacks the Legion's capital and the "Bamboo"zlement of Highturf occurs.

17th August, 2019


 * Fallen leaves The People's Legion.
 * The War of The Dog ends, with a Teutonic victory.
 * Edgy appoints himself as Fallen's successor, becoming Emperor of The Legion.
 * FireFox2234 is banned after it is discovered he was using a hacked client, though he claims he was only using freecam to view builds.

September 2019
22nd September, 2019


 * Tynominally (ty88ty2 at the time) joins for the first time.

October 2019
10th October, 2019


 * Patron Port is founded by Edgy, Rudy, Haxington, and MrMurphy. An Imperial Star Destroyer is completed there.
 * The Banana Republic is founded by by SillyGoosy, MrFwar, and elGeorge2K.
 * FrothyFilly7 and their accomplices attack and kill AdaRose at their base. AdaRose joins The People's Legion for protection against future raiders.

23rd October, 2019


 * Orange's War begins.

28th October, 2019


 * AdaRose betrays The Legion and defects to OrangeStoneTorch.
 * The Battle of Bel Air occurs.

30th October, 2019


 * Meridian is griefed by Fallen014, as she attempts to use the chaos brought by OrangeStoneTorch to attack The Order without being found out.

November 2019
1st November, 2019


 * OrangeStoneTorch is banned for disrespecting an admin. Orange's War ends, with an anti-Orange victory.

4th November, 2019


 * Copirus is griefed by AerialSN1PER who was suspected of using X-Ray.
 * Flanders Field is finished near spawn.

10th November, 2019


 * Haxington, Camorrista and Clyme use exploits to locate Edgestantinople, the capital of The Legion. They are all banned. Camorrista's ban is permanent, whereas Clyme and Haxington's bans are temporary.

12th November, 2019


 * Clyme and Haxington both choose to quit VanillaCraft, leaving Erik as the leader of The Order on VC's side - the three old Archons would still hold some influence for a few months, however.

21st November, 2019


 * An argument about discord structure erupts in The Legion's discord server. Though this argument was a petty one, it acted as the final straw of the constant bickering between The Emperor and the Duke of Lumen. Mr_Murphy7 and Tathal become Archduke and Archduchess of the newly formed Provinces of Lumen which secedes from The Legion - the beginning of the end for the Legion.

1.15/1.16 Map (Unrest Era)
In the immediate aftermath of the fall of The Legion, the server was peaceful for a time, until The Dongos War began to shift it down a more violent path, with griefing and pvp being a lot more common. Explosive based pvp would become a lot more prevalent this map. The three archons of The Order were banned at that point, and so the Provinces of Lumen came to dominate the server, until The Secret Society took their place.

December 2019
14th December, 2019


 * Map is reset for the 1.15 update.
 * Straevaras claims the Dragon Egg.
 * AlikatHD founds Yokai.

January 2020
January 2020


 * Purkler names their town on Tatooine "New Mos Eisley"

February 2020
3rd February, 2020


 * Jorgur returns and founds the Heretics.

February 2020


 * GraveTheGhoul and his brother NinjaTimberFox join the Heretics.

6th February, 2020


 * MrDFL joins Heretics.

17th February, 2020


 * EdgyCommunist69 kills mutterstarb with an End Crystal.
 * Yeet Gang attacks Cinna on the +Z nether tunnel. Cinna was disconnected due to internet issues. erikblue1234 single-handedly kills all 4 members of Yeet Gang.

20th February, 2020


 * The First Battle of Temptown occurs.
 * NexusTheGoy and the_vincenator are banned.

28th February, 2020


 * The Secret Society is founded.

29th February, 2020


 * The Dongos grief Havenport. The Dongos War begins.

March 2020
4th March, 2020


 * The Dongos grief Borivik's base.

7th March, 2020


 * The Dongos find Temptown and The Second Battle of Temptown occurs. Seeing that gfrekt was present during the Fall of Temptown, EdgyCommunist69 reveals Mr_Murphy's operation to The Dongos. This sparks a lot of anger towards Edgy.

17th March, 2020


 * Conflict arises in Patron Port ll between Wertia3 and Cow_Strangler. The situation escalates after Mr_Murphy7 kills Wertia, who then proceeds to sabotage the town in retaliation. The conflict draws to a close following negotiations led by Cow_Strangler. An ultimatum is set for Wertia3 that, if he leaves Patron Port ll, his life will be spared.

18th March, 2020


 * Society of Stuck gains two leaders this day. Purkler as Mayor and CaptainCluck999 as VP.

20th March, 2020


 * Leadership of Yokai is passed from AlikatHD to Ironlion_007.

26th March, 2020


 * EdgyCommunist69 joins the Heretics.

27th March, 2020


 * The Dongos discover Chronos. The Battle for Chronos occurs.

28th March, 2020


 * Society of Stuck officially names their main town Stuckville.

30th March, 2020


 * The Asian Mafia is officially founded

April 2020
4th April, 2020


 * Easter event

10th April, 2020


 * The United Nations is created.

11th April, 2020


 * The Siege of the Menger Sponge

12th April, 2020


 * The Dongos find and grief Lazarus Outpost.

17th April, 2020


 * The Dongos grief Levant Metropolis.

May 2020
14th May, 2020


 * 74152's array of alts crack the seed.

16th May, 2020


 * Rebecka becomes 7th Leader of Provinces of Lumen.
 * Seed is publicly announced that it has been leaked.

26th May, 2020


 * The Dongos War ends. hamoodi123 joins the Heretics.

30th May, 2020


 * Lumen Texturepack End Race

June 2020
8th June, 2020


 * The Heretics Schism: dissatisfied by the power structure in the Heretics, GraveTheGhoul and aria_minecraft take a bunch of people and leave.

10th June, 2020


 * The First Crafting Crusade occurs.
 * The Covenant of Crafting is formed.

23rd of June, 2020


 * Rebecka becomes an admin on the server.

24th June, 2020


 * The Great End Race occurs, with benchkcb winning the event.

July 2020
11th July, 2020


 * Tynominally and MissPrism raid and grief Fort Echelon, a shared Lumen and TSS spawn base.
 * The Summer Wars begin.

22nd July, 2020


 * The Battle of Isbukt occurs.

26th July, 2020


 * The Secret Society and the Provinces of Lumen cut off their alliance.

August 2020
1st August, 2020


 * Rouffernaught Outpost and Comet are griefed by the newly-formed M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.

2nd August, 2020


 * Lumen City is griefed.
 * AT&T are temporarily banned for "toxicity".

4th August, 2020


 * Lunaris is griefed.

September 2020
6th September, 2020


 * Simon, an obsidian dragon statue belonging to The Secret Society, is destroyed for the first time by AT&T.

7th September, 2020


 * Simon is destroyed a second time.
 * EdgyCommunist69 kills ncarmillo30, TooAtomic, BabyBurrito and Vini_Stronda thanks to an obsidian bridge.

October 2020

 * M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E shifts their attention from Lumen to The Secret Society.
 * The Great TSS War begins.

14th October, 2020


 * The Battle of Lagom occurs.

November 2020
11th November, 2020


 * The Battle of Aska occurs.
 * The Battle of Howick occurs.
 * The Secret Society and the Provinces of Lumen go to war.

13th November, 2020


 * Annick30 leaks plans to grief Gelato to erikblue1234, who then tells Rebecka. Gelato is still griefed but TSS was not hit as hard as M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. had hoped.

14th November, 2020


 * Provinces of Lumen and TSS come to a peace agreement.

15th November, 2020


 * As a meme, EdgyCommunist69 starts the "VanillaCraft Prime Minister Election". The candidates were himself, MrFwar, GraveTheGhoul and Saimir321.

16th November, 2020


 * Edgy wins the election, but most definitely not by legitimate means.

30th November, 2020


 * The Soviet Stardust Crusaders are formed.
 * The Great TSS War comes to an end.

December 2020
21st December, 2020


 * TooAtomic is unbanned.

26th December, 2020


 * The TSS x SSC war begins.

27th December, 2020


 * The TSS x SSC war ends.

January 2021
10th January, 2021


 * Mr_Murphy, Annick30 and Vini_Stronda pull off their plan against TooAtomic. They used Vini's alt to lure Atomic into a trade, and when he got his valuables shulker out, they loaded his pearl and killed him with a tnt trap.

11th January, 2021


 * Mr_Murphy, Annick30 and Vini_Stronda are banned after it is revealed that they supposedly misled stad by not giving him the full details about the operation.
 * Platupus is promoted to States General in Provinces of Lumen.

13th/14th January, 2021


 * Mr_Murphy and Vini_Stronda are unbanned with an apology for being banned without having been able to say their side and no hard feelings against the admins from the two.

16th January, 2021


 * Annick30 is unbanned, also accepted the apology and no hard feelings.

22nd January, 2021


 * QBank is founded by Queueue_.

26th January, 2021


 * The people in the Highway Integrity Union overthrow DarthObsidian64 after he threatens TooAtomic and TSS for allegedly griefing the diagonal highways.
 * ohKast becomes the temporary leader of the HIU while an election is set up.

27th January, 2021


 * The Secret Society and the Soviet Stardust Crusaders form an official alliance.

29th January, 2021


 * c4ustic is elected as leader of the Highway Integrity Union.

February 2021
1st February, 2021


 * Arcsabre is promoted to States General in Provinces of Lumen.

8th February, 2021


 * commandervv partially griefs Hisashi. TooAtomic is said to have been sighted at the grief too, though this is still unconfirmed.

9th February, 2021


 * The residents of Hisashi grief their own town.

10th February, 2021


 * Server icon is updated Original.svg

March 2021
2nd March, 2021


 * c4ustic steps down as leader of the HIU and hands it over to Jorgur.

4th March, 2021


 * DarthObsidian64 is reinstated as one of the leaders of the HIU.

17th March, 2021


 * Lasagna Clan is founded by wertia3.

30th March, 2021


 * commandervv founds Odyssey.

May 2021
3rd May, 2021


 * Annick30 is banned for a racist comment against TooAtomic.

June 2021
10th June, 2021


 * With the help of c4ustic, EdgyCommunist69 attempts to water cube the end.

12th June, 2021


 * After many threats towards TSS from DarthObsidian64, TooAtomic begins killing members of the HIU. This reignites the conflict between TSS and HIU.
 * The British Bomb Company is founded.

25th June, 2021


 * Temp Town 8 is griefed.

July 2021
9th July, 2021


 * ohKast banned for "disrespecting Stad in an argument after being publicly warned in chat". He was shortly unbanned 2 hours later

10th July, 2021


 * BBC grief 2 Heretics towns
 * Temptown 9
 * Sunny Coast
 * Najivka killed SergeDuHazard at the grief
 * EdgyCommunist69 killed Neil_RS at the grief
 * Najivka griefs a Heretics town
 * Underland

13th July, 2021


 * Spawn Farm is renovated by a team of diggers, by being moved down to bedrock.
 * The Diggers include Najivka, EdgyCommunist69, AsterxBabie, auurore, emilyzoin, Queueue_, AnythingMar, Platupus, xleoC, c4ustic, AerialSN1PER, HappyUnBirthday, InterOrbital, spraye, GraveTheGhoul.

14th July, 2021


 * x3nx and PerusNeuski are reveal to be the leakers leading to the various Heretics griefs they also took place in, on the 10th of July. Their motives are still unknown.
 * AerialSN1PER kills SergeDuHazard in self defense at spawn.

23rd July, 2021


 * c4ustic becomes the owner of VCNC until Najivka returns

August 2021
2nd August, 2021


 * Provinces of Lumen quit VanillaCraft to play on another server, citing toxicity and the admin team as their reasons for quitting the server

7th August, 2021


 * Mr_Murphy7 is banned for promoting a different server through discord DMs to VanillaCraft players

10th August, 2021


 * AerialSN1PER griefs TSS' capital Utopia. CommanderVV also states that Odyssey had a raid planned for later in the week on Utopia.
 * Ducky_Sorcery wins the underwater themed build battle.

September 2021
5th September, 2021


 * Commandervv, RenzoBoelie, and JustDilay grief a Pink Puffy Ram's base named Saint Andreas believing it to have been BryH_'s base. Commandervv apologized to Rudycent for griefing it.

6th September, 2021


 * Stadekxiel was able to ban Mr_Murphy7 from the VanillaCraft Unofficial Wiki temporarily. A vote was started by Stadekxiel on the wiki to allow members to vote on whether or not Mr_Murphy7 will keep his administrator powers on the VanillaCraft Unofficial Wiki.

13th September, 2021


 * Ducky_Sorcery announces the new faction The Highlanders in VCNC. The faction won't be active until 1.18 map reset, as it's currently in Beta.