In 2016 2b2t took the internet and minecraft community by storm a minecraft server which has been running since 2010 on the same map with bases over 10 years old from beta versions of the game and a never-before-seen detailed history with its popularity people started to become interested in minecraft history and old Minecraft servers for a while 2b2t was considered the oldest minecraft server until players dug deeper and discovered minecraft online a server running the same map that has never been reset for over 11 years which began the day minecraft survival multiplayer was officially released at this point players thought that was it a server Which began on the same day minecraft multiplayer was released there can’t be any older however another lesser known server nerd.new was discovered found have been running since june the 10th 2009 before minecraft even had survival mode in its older classic creative multiplayer however nerd.nu had reset its map Multiple times over the years and as such was no longer using the same map which it began with such as how minecraft online had therefore many players still considered minecraft online to be the oldest server as it had the oldest running minecraft world with immense history Until now recently only about a week ago another server was discovered completely hidden from the internet with only four videos total coming up on youtube upon doing a basic search a server which has also been running since minecraft survival multiplayer released on august 4th 2010 rivaling the age of minecraft Online a server with a tiny community of active players who are still active in playing 10 years later a minecraft server which has an older map than minecraft online beginning before even minecraft multiplayer was released publicly today we’ll be talking about novella and its immense history this Video is a special one so be sure to subscribe if you enjoy no pressure on november the 28th small youtuber saplo released a video titled minecraft’s oldest unknown server i found the server by i like i’d spend a lot of time and i did spend like a lot of time Looking through the archives essentially what i was like okay i want to find an old minecraft server saplo had an interest in old minecraft servers and had been searching for older servers on old web pages only accessible through the internet archive otherwise known as the wayback machine so i went to the Serverless sites and i just went 2010. that’s the uh that’s the day i’m going back to he would scour these old minecraft server listing pages many of which had ceased to exist long ago and like i didn’t go on the actual site’s current day sites and look up 2010 Servers because i was like there’s too many new servers you’re not going to find those anyone who could find them there would have already done it so i went on the back machine i was thinking someone already would have had that done but all of the pages there have been Untouched by anyone and i was the only first person to ever go through looking for 2010 servers on september the 31st 2020 he found something uh i’m thinking it went through like roughly like 5 000 ip addresses an old capture of the minecraft forum server listing Section from august 14 2010 not even two weeks after survival multiplayer was released here was a list of servers submitted by users ordered by the last time they were seen online i did way more like after i found the server i was like well there’s got to be more so i Just kept searching and i was right i found a lot more amongst the sea of servers lost to time lay novolen a dedicated server with a large existing map with random stuff to be found and regular backups of course googling novolen doesn’t really give that many results there is a simple Website with a web map viewer as we’ll get to later and the website also displays the service plugins or features and a few of its custom recipes and a brief history there also exists a few listings on minecraft server sites many of which are hidden due to the server’s Tiny player base besides that there are a handful of posts on reddit the minecraft forums and planet minecraft many of which are years old and got minimal attention heading to youtube now and besides zaplo’s video doing a simple search only reveals four videos which combined don’t even have 1 000 views Total with the most recent being from three years ago yeah i mounted monitored it for an entire year dude i saw two people online at the same time once is that it or maybe it was three people it’s like it never goes above three at online at one time like i remember it Clearly there were more than two people online one time and i was like yep that’s the most i’ve ever seen online and then it never happened again and that’s been a year before saplo’s video the server was only averaging one to three players online at best and their Discord server only had about 70 people in it it was a tiny community which had lasted over a decade the founder and server operator are boss rayuka or rob as we’ll refer to him as has been running the server since its inception but what makes novelland so Unique is that their map is even older than the server itself rob originally used this map as a single player world meaning much of the terrain near the original spawn was generated before the server went online in fact much of the early terrain was generated even before alpha in minecraft infdev When multiplayer released he decided to take his single player world and use it as a world for the server meaning this world is even older than minecraft online’s world and is likely the oldest running minecraft world in existence rob told me he created the map on april The 9th 2010 about 4 months before minecraft survival multiplayer was released and the server went online the version the map was originally generated in was inf dev 2010413 what makes novellan’s map so interesting is that rob liked to experiment with various plugins especially world edits creating interesting and unique terrain and Structures on the server we walked a couple hundred blocks from spawn one and stumbled upon floating island terrain generation which rob mentioned was from an old adventure map made for minecraft classic which rob copied and pasted into the game because why not it has long since been abandoned however this is a Common theme across the server unique and interesting builds have been built abandoned and left to age over time while exploring i also found items on the ground from where it seemed the player had died it’s likely that these items may have been sitting in unloaded chunks for years just waiting for Somebody to stumble across them because the server is so small builds and bases are nicely dispersed around the map and you could be exploring what you perceive to be the wilderness only to stumble upon a base built half a dozen if not more years ago what i’m trying to say is That the server does not feel like a museum minecraft online is a great server but due to its immense popularity you have to go out thousands of blocks to build a base and are tightly monitored to ensure not even a single torch is broken in older areas novolin Doesn’t feel like this at all and feels like a survival server straight out of 2011 with various old bases coupled with a vast and open space for players to build right nearby mobs still spawn in high frequency and threaten you there is basically zero lag it feels like it Never strayed from its survival routes there is an almost endless list of cool builds from simple decade old houses to massive cities and recreations of famous and recognizable things there’s an awesome map viewer on the official website which not only displays a bird’s eye view of the entire map but also has Markers displaying the build’s name and where warps are so you can hop on the server and easily go to it because there are so many builds i talk about a few of the most major which have some interesting backstories as well as some of the oldest which predate the server’s Release the citadel is one of the oldest builds on the server built by rob back in inf dev before the server was even in multiplayer a large box-shaped fortress which towers high above the land around it rob was kind enough to send me a save Of the world from inf dev so we can compare what some of his oldest builds look like then and now the citadel has a nice garden area within its walls as well as a moat coated with furnaces ironside is a famous stone city built by a single player over the span of five Years on and off i personally like the jets the most in this build and just for fun they copied and pasted the entire city and blew it up as well warping to dog star reveals two massive star destroyers from star wars who entirely from stone oh and if you’re Wondering what’s with all the oddly shaped obsidian portals found all around the map this was from a plugin called stargate which allowed players to walk into portals and teleport to specific locations a plug-in would stop being updated in your minecraft versions this right here is another one of rob’s Earlier spaces but before the server was even a thing rob also built this tower nearby which he used to find his way around the map and prevent him from getting lost the trees all around the map also looked strange as back when this terrain was generated only one type Of leaf block existed and three updates with the addition of new leaves there was a bug which caused current tree leaves to get replaced and will look quite funky here’s another one of rob’s earlier spaces built in the middle of a river rob would use these old style Torch locks to prevent the sand from falling and leading water into the base paragon is one of the largest bases on the server supposedly built seven to eight years ago with some players stating it may have been built in 2010 the insides are like a maze and really Give off that old-style base fill however what’s cool is that if you head to the top of the base you’ll realize that you’ve been in a massive aircraft carrier surrounded by aircrafts the base was originally built in a tiny lake but rob moved it to a massive ocean lesserk Is one of the more modern looking bases which truly looks astonishing straight out of a fantasy land just goes to show that you can also find a variety of modern builds on the server especially around the newer spawns speaking of which the server has 13 spawns normally Added when there is a new major update to the game you can see them on the map and warped to them in-game of course one spawn is a server’s first spawn which was already generated by rob in single player meaning its terrain is from infidel versions here you will find many Of the older spaces but all the way back in the server’s earliest days but what would an 11 year old minecraft server be without his community what’s so great about novolin is the fact that it has had a tight knit community for so long i decided to speak with long time Player and moderator dog rafi and ask him about the experiences he has had on the server while we tour many older towns from 2010 to 2011 which have long since been abandoned uh my name is dorgraphy yeah i’ve been playing for like 11 years now 10 years Maybe wow i was 11 when i started i’m 22 now dography has been playing on the server since early 2011. and when he first joined he hadn’t even played single-player minecraft before meaning this server was his very first experience with the game so um how did you actually find the server in the First place my friend told me about it at soccer practice one night all right okay and um we just joined and he’d been playing for like a month previous to me maybe he had some friends on here as well so there’s a there’s a big group of us like australians that Play on here now so this is my this is the dude who introduced me his house and he said you can live in the basement so i lived in the basement for a bit all right this is like my very first house just moved in yeah literally this would have been yet Ten plus years ago it was like the first server i ever joined and i pretty much haven’t played any other ones seriously since apart from like you know friends hosting of course as you can see my building skill is just unrivaled um and this is literally like where i spent like Four weeks somehow so when was the server actually i’m most active well i would say yeah like when i joined it was pretty active it really peaked probably in 2013 i would say okay i’d say that’s about right you know how many plays it was getting around then Well it would often it would often cap out so you wouldn’t be able to get in unless like you you know remember or whatever and i think the play limit was 15 maybe 20. so that was pretty common that was like every couple of days or maybe On the weekends it would cap out this was built you know pre 1.8 venture update 2011 yeah definitely so these players who have set up the shops here they’re really active anymore and not so much oh no like you know like there’s probably just probably two Players that i’ve seen in the last year that were around at this time and so you’re a mod on the server now aren’t you yeah yeah so do you actually have many issues with uh trolls griefers or anything they actually have to do much moderating back like uh pre maybe i Think it was like 2015 we had like a fair bit of shoes like the server was pretty popular so you’d get a lot of new players but um we lost like all our band records at one point in 2015 and so everyone that was banned got unbanned And we were expecting a huge wave of griefers to come in but um it never happened and we pretty much didn’t have any griefs for five years after that this would be 2010 easily um this is before me even i think so oh wow yeah that’s interesting this is this is Really cool actually this is it yeah this is like the this really has that vibe doesn’t it so this was a one of novellas former mods i think sort of made this amex a mix a lot so he’s not active anymore no we’ve lost like a lot of a lot of Mods over time you know they probably all have kids now like that you know 10 years ago so so it’s kind of scary but is that um obtained legitimately baby what do you like most about the community they’re all really like friendly and they’re all really like uh Supportive and i’ve never had any like toxicity issues with anybody on this server like there’s always like that good vibe going i think they’re just a nice group of people really and it’s nice seeing old builds and i mean i spend i don’t even build that much stuff Anymore on the server i spend most of my time just like flying around looking at yeah it’s at buildings because there’s so many like it’s just i find new stuff every day do you recognize any of these creators digital mischief or castle i think digital mischief was a moderator For a while daniel jackson what and albus were like this sort of original three and then i think kazanyo and jacksonville were just like up on our friends or whatever so they sort of stopped playing over the years but they sometimes pop in and like have a look Around and compliment people’s builds or whatever but yeah they haven’t been on for years this is a castle here it has cyan wall um as it’s like points so they used to be diamond blocks but someone someone came and stole the wall and replaced them And i think like it went unnoticed for a while but looking at that now it’s pretty obvious since you’ve been playing the server so long would you say that there was a period where you were most active and you just played off and on since then Yeah well i i sort of just take breaks for like months sometimes um but you know when i do play which is like you know sort of now just started playing again it’s like i’ll just play every day for a couple of months or so but it’s usually because there’s just no people Around so a bunch of people will come on and then everyone will start playing again and then people will sort of start to burn out the server’s gone in cycles like that for a couple of years now i think yeah no that sounds about right of course It’s interesting to see old stuff that has like unique elements to it i guess um this isn’t that old really um pretty awesome though uh you know it’s in the jungle biome currently the service world border is 20 000 blocks in each direction and the server is on 1.17.1 There are currently 13 spawns and so many warps i can’t even count them all oh and if you’re curious where the server’s name came from it’s a reference to the heinlein novel the moon is a harsh mistress where novolen is short for a russian city named new leningrad The server has a few plugins such as runecraft which adds magic runes and unique features to the game keeping in theme with the server runecraft is one of the longest running minecraft mods dating back to 2010 with its earliest versions created for minecraft alpha there’s also some custom recipes as you Can see on the website while the smp is the main attraction the server also has a classic style creative plot world which has been running for quite some time as well you can also go to slash warp old creative to really get a blast from the past rob has pasted in one of His older minecraft classic creative worlds which potentially dates back all the way to 2009 which you can fly around and explore but building is mostly limited to the plot world now the community is extremely friendly and welcoming as is common amongst older and more mature minecraft servers joining The server exploring it and talking with the players gave me more of a private smp with friends feel rather than a massive public and a motionless server if you do decide to check the server out please be respectful and friendly with the active players this is not an Anarchy server remember so there are rules and cheating is not tolerated i’ll leave links to their discord and website down below as well as where you can go to donate thank you to everyone on the server who showed me around and told me about the servers immense history it was One of the most enjoyable experiences i’ve had since beginning youtube i hope you all enjoyed the video as much as i did making it be sure to subscribe as usual thank you all so much for watching Video Information
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