What Happened to the First Minecraft SMP?

In recent history old Minecraft servers have become a popular trend on YouTube all beginning with a certain video about 2b2t but which survival multiplayer server was actually the first there is a survival world that has been active since the first hour of multiplayer being released it has seen Invasion war

And collaboration so just what is this server and how did it begin why did they fight off an army of Steve police why does its border consist of multiple circles and how was one of the biggest cities in Minecraft history created join me as we dive into the story of the SMP

Known as Fredonia Fredonia also known as Minecraft online was created within the same hour that Notch released survival multiplayer beginning on Minecraft version Alpha 1.0.15 on August 4th 2010 the server was created by slow Riot who would make him and his friend were in Chan admins at the time the server was

Live but not available to the public there would be two plugins that would be crucial in the service release to the public llama craft and H mod llamacraft allowed admins to disable fire and TNT and hmod was a plugin that allowed a server to have moderators without

Needing to give them admin access with these plugins active the server was released to the public two days later on August 6 2010 during the first month of fredonia’s existence many players were promoted to moderator through the use of the hmod plugin the server also saw its

First bit of drama with the moderator Mina demoted for spawning items then exactly one month after the SMP was created on September 4th 2010 the 1000th player joins Fredonia quite an impressive feat for its first month it was also in September the Minecraft out for 1.1.0 was released enabling

Server-side inventory this meant that true survival could now be enforced without the risk of players spawning in items one of the earliest buildings in Fredonia was a large maze created by slow Riot roon Chan and flipper designed to test the problem-solving and endurance of the service players the

Maze was based off of the Overlook hotel’s maze from The Shining and will be completed with the Finishing Touch of snow Atop The Maze walls if you’re enjoying this video so far don’t forget to subscribe right we’ve got tons of Awesome videos to come back to it the

Server was thriving and continuing into 2011 many settlements were beginning to be established the underworld was a large underground Cavern dug out entirely by hand constructed in April of 2011 it was to act as a communal mining area as well as containing underground links to other settlements project

Anubis also known as the Nexus created in the same month aimed to link all of Fredonia through an extensive network of portals headed by the Fredonia portal code it was contracted to combat the slow speed of Railway there was also a castle named Glenn fiddish founded in

May of 2011 by Andrew Dio The Legend says that the castle was created Long Ago by Duke dirts the ruler of the surrounding country this was a cold and unpleasant time as the invention of glass windows was yet to be and the juice Castle was primarily made out of

Stone but we’ll talk more about this Castle later in the video and then on May 15th disaster struck the lands of Fredonia and a group of Griefers flooded the server to fight off the Invaders the admin krenith granted all regular players community and diamond swords asking that they closely watch any new

Players you see griefing was actually outlawed in Fredonia and would result in a ban from the server if a grief happened it would be reported to staff who would Endeavor to replace any missing blocks the server succeeded in warning off the Invaders and the event

Came to be known as the May unrest five days later however another Invasion attempt would occur by a play named fruity Mario 24 who had set his spawn point in the house of Fukushima covertly causing damage a player named Charles Bachelor who happened to be passing through the area caught wind of the

Invasion attempt and began defending okushima’s Hut but weirdly every time fruity Mario would die as Steve would be summoned creating an army and a full-on war as the army of Steve police grew assistance was called and other players came to defend the base the battle would

Rage on through the night the Army Was Defeated and the battle was dubbed the defense of okeshima’s Hut the freedonia railway system would be constructed connecting settlements across distances including New Haven one of the most remote settlements in Fredonia 2011 was over and despite multiple Invasion attempts Fredonia reigned Victorious but

Then a change came to Fredonia that would be felt across its entire map the expansion of the Border in early 2012. but why would the server need a border well there is actually a very good reason for this which helped progress Fredonia at an exponential rate initially fredonia’s map was unlimited

Staying true to its name but some players would walk hours in a single Direction This left Trails of discovered land on the server’s map which not only took up disk space but would be void of any future terrain generation and blocks as it was around this time the Notch was

Planning a series of updates to the game but more importantly the Border encouraged cooperation between players and led to many Community builds due to the server’s no griefing policy players didn’t need to go far away from Spawn to preserve their base and they were actually encouraged to build together if

A player noticed another settlement nearby then they might just build a road there or join forces it was this small border that really allowed Fredonia to thrive originally 18 kilometers in diameter fredonia’s border was expanded by adding another circle to the already existing map in part to generate new

Terrain and blocks this was known as the 1.0 expansion over time the Fredonia map would expand more and more with multiple circles being added currently the Border has a diameter of 42 kilometers as 2012 came to an end so would the Mayan calendar and apocalypse ensued on the

Server there were fires earthquakes and lava everything was destroyed as hope faded the server Creator’s slow Riot descended from the sky and restored the world far away from spawn on the edge of the Northwest ocean slow right would construct Forest a heavily forested settlement with some very dramatic

Cliffs and various hanging Bridges he founded the base in July of 2014 with the name being a reference to Forrest Gump over the years many people would construct buildings at and around forest and today there are even many roads and bridges leading to and from the settlement commands are even disabled in

In the area encouraging traditional travel so players will explore the settlement time would see many more settlements continue to pop up and existing cities continue to expand in 2016 a lot would change for Fredonia as it began to find popularity on YouTube the camping Russia would post a video

About the oldest server in Minecraft and although he was actually referring to 2b2t lots of players would end up finding Fredonia instead then in January 2017 a YouTuber by the name of Mines would make a video titled the oldest server in Minecraft Minecraft online amongst all the hyper 2b2t people were

Extremely interested at the time and the video got millions of views currently sitting at over 5.3 million YouTubers such as South C1 would also make videos discussing the server consequently the server gained widespread popularity and lots of new players and in July of 2017 Fredonia reaches 100 000 unique logins

This was also around the time that they reached their 21 000th ban despite having a player cap of 120 the server has only reached this cap for four times in history on April 4 2020 FMC poster video showcasing the April Fool’s damage at spawn and surrounding areas in

Fredonia and as a result many new players including Griefers joined the server this is the first time in history that the server had actually reached the player cap of 120. over the coming days the admins and mods would attempt to deal with a massive influx of players

And only eight days later the server would actually reach 200 000 unique logins at the time the server was on version 1.7.10 but during the April Fool’s event the server would actually go back in time to version 1.4.6 that would finally update to 1.12.2 on April 3rd 2021 after six years reaching over

100 players on that day they have not updated since then due to the no griefing policy many settlements built in fredonia’s history are still in good condition and have expanded into incredible cities Len finish as we mentioned before which began as a castle has expanded into one of the largest

Cities in Fredonia with deep history and even a guide To Living there there were also rumors that a great evil is lurking somewhere below the city the only known photograph was retrieved from the body of an unfortunate Adventurer drum City created sometime in 2011 was planned from its Inception with roads and

Building spaces allocated prior to any construction founded by Tone dial with members including slow Riot it was located in close proximity to spawn and was the first fully planned city in Fredonia to this day it is one of the most well-recognized cities on the server although not founded in early

Server history Newport is the biggest city in Fredonia and perhaps one of the biggest cities created on a Minecraft SMP it was created by sneaky man in the June 2020 map expansion and he would look for players to help landscape the area around the same time a player named

Darker fly built a house close to the city seeing that this might impede on his plans to build a huge City snakey man invited darker fly to join him to which he agreed as more buildings were constructed Newport became the Hub of the Southwest portion of the map and

There are multiple roads and Railways extending from the city the city has its own staff with snaggy man being mayor and has had over 140 inhabitants there are many incredible builds ranging from skyscrapers to slightly more questionable builds the story of Fredonia began only one hour after Notch release survival multiplayer and has

Seen hundreds of settlements and thousands of players the server has been under siege multiple times but the players always managed to ward off the attackers and despite some technical issues they’ve had recently relating to getting hacked something I didn’t discuss in this video the server is still surviving and has an active player

Base to this day by strategically expanding the Border Fredonia has managed to encourage collaboration between players resulting in some very impressive cities and an extensive transportation system it is a surreal experience to join the server and explore buildings from 12 years ago that are fully preserved and despite its

Popularity on YouTube there is never a way to join unlike some other old Minecraft servers it is truly an awesome part of Minecraft history thank you so much for watching this video I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below and of course hit that subscribe button until next time