Quote from mcmann on December 17, 2019, 11:17 AM

How's it going, everyone? I hope your days, nights, weeks and years are and have been going great! I come to you today with an update that has only really been acknowledged by the ZCraft community discord itself. The ZCraft server is finally back, and it's undergoing a number of large changes.

To start, I'd like to go ahead and provide the mission statement for the ZCraft server, as it has changed numerous times throughout the history of the server. To start, the server was meant to be a place where my friends and I could just dick around and have fun! The first map that was widely played on the ZCraft server is something I reference quite often, 1.8 with friends. The mission back then didn't exist, but if I was to put a name on it, it would be to provide a common meeting ground for my friends and I to communicate, find great successes and go on great adventures. That world saw a little town of no name, a nether that was home to a friend I kept banishing because I was an angry child, and so on so forth.

The next edition of the server lived in the technic launcher when I created a modpack called ZASA's SECRET FILES. It still exists to this day, but under a different name: Save Aekon. The mission of that server was to provide my friends and I with more to do in the world than just hunt, farm, fish and die-now, we could do it in space.

After a good number of failed attempts at both city RP and FNAF RP, the server had its first branded name, mcraft. This remains the only version of the server with a server trailer to this day. Yes, that was my skin back then, I was a huge fan of DanTDM, don't judge me. Okay, maybe judge me a little. This version of the server went through a slight community increase thanks to publicity on planetminecraft and on youtube; I had around 50 subscribers at the time. Unfortunately, I was unable to come up with a method to prevent mass-scale griefing, and I was too quick to trust people. The server had been destroyed tens of times in multiple creative ways via backdoors and childhood ignorance. 

Another long-time later (and perhaps a project silver or two), and here we are today: A closed group of friends, again. The difference is my age and maturity; I now know how to fairly and properly moderate server communities as well as run events. Now, for the main announcement.

ZCraft is slowly forming into something more desirable for what I'd like to see in a world every day, and that is a healthy community in some classical survival multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft gameplay. The new server mission is to provide server participants with a positive community of like-minded individuals where an extent of personal freedom is provided that other servers forbid. The ZCraft world, Aekon, is being developed in whole as a new world. Here's what I have so far. Disclaimer: this is very much a rough draft of the ZCraft lore synopsis. Nothing stated below is finalized.

The year is 2650. We think it's been about 500 years since the past inhabitants (or most of them) deserted this planet. Nobody knows why, we all assume the worst- so we call it the cataclysm. Throughout the centuries, those who remained on the planet slowly regressed into a culture of what the Old World inhabitants knew as the middle-ages, the technologies that were previously developed slowly being lost with the culture. The history of the Old World is largely unknown.

Welcome to Aekon, the cultural center of the New World. In Aekon, we all try to be unbiased towards each other, though, for some reason, it seems like people really like to hold grudges. Here, people of all different types arrive with an ambition to live in peace and harmony.

Instead of focusing on technological advancement, the inhabitants focused on magical advancement and development- bringing forth a flurry of new magics and spells, causing new enemies to rise from the ashes of the pre-cataclysmic world. This is a far cry from what the inhabitants of the Old World knew of. But... There's something more.

Aekon needs your help. The gods have gone crazy, and the gates of hell are held open for anyone to pass through freely. Yes, we have developed all these magics to try fighting them off- but it seems all for null. Everyone needs to stick together; Terrans have to stop fighting the Zroucilt and Torae have to stop fighting the Elves. We need to rise and defend Aekon. Maybe- just maybe, if we all rise up? We can defeat the one responsible for all this turmoil once and for all: we will defeat the Demon King.