The WolvHaven Gathering
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| Inaugurated | November 2, 2013 |
| Most Recent | April 2, 2016 |
The WolvHaven Gathering also known as HavenComing or WolvComing was an annual community day event organized to celebrate and have a gathering of all WolvHaven members together for fun and games. The event was inaugurated on November 2, 2013, and took place in the Convention Centre. The event was inspired by a twitter-based Minecraft event called minecoming (minecraft homecoming).
SilverWolv liked the idea of having a day where a community would gather and decided to host the first WolvHaven Gathering. WolvHaven's event featured several other additions, such as music sharing through the plug.dj platform, allowing WolvHaveners to listen and queue music from youtube together, and in-game minigames.
Events
2013
The 2013 event was hosted on November 2, 2013, in the Convention Centre in WolvHaven (3rd Haven). The event was split into 2 different events, with a pre-party and the main event to cater to the server's Oceania party.
Participants were engaged with a game of spleef, pvp battles, and parkour course. In addition, there was also a skin design contest.
2014
The 2014 event was hosted on 13 December, 2014, in the La Resistance Central Business District in WolvHaven (4th Haven). The plot of land where the event was held is now occupied by the Transport for WolvHaven building and a park.
The event featured music sharing through the plug.dj platform, and mini-games such as paintball, build my thing, and spleef. In addition, there was also a skin design competition, and lucky draw giveaway for a copy of the steam game pixel piracy.
However, this would be the last time the event would be held on an annual basis, and the frequency would be decreased to a bi-annual event.
2016
The 2016 event coincided with the server's 5th-anniversary celebrations, 5WH, and was held on 2nd April 2016. The event location was hosted in front of the 4th Haven Eiffel Tower. With the introduction of Discord, WolvHaveners continued with the music-sharing tradition using a music discord bot. This also allowed participants to interact with each other through voice for the first time as well.
WHG2016 featured the same games, as usual, such as spleef, paintball, build my thing. In addition, a ghast attack survival game where players would hide in a building and try to survive an onslaught of ghasts attacking the building using fireballs was introduced. The event also featured a dragon ride, where players would ride on ender dragons that flew on a defined path to tour the city.
Discontinuation
Following the 2016 event, the following event was to be held in 2018, should the bi-annual schedule be adhered to. However, due to a loss in interest in organising the event, the 2018 edition was cancelled, much to the dismay of many WolvHaveners who had experienced the 2016 version.
To make up for the event, the Holiday Train Build and Race was organised in 2018.
There was consideration for a 2020 edition of the event, but was replaced with the inaugural WolvHaven Pride.
Real-Life WolvHaven Gatherings
The term WHG is often used to refer to instances where WolvHaveners from a geographic region met up in-person in real-life.
Singapore, Singapore
- 2016 was the largest in-person WHG as it included Singaporean members who were based in other regions. This meetup included SilverWolv, Ohuehue, GrassJelly, SilentLex, and Jotch.
- 2017 included SilverWolv, Grass_Jelly, and Ohuehue
- 2019 included SilverWolv, Ohuehue, and Quarxilon
- 2020 included SilverWolv, Ohuehue and Lykanatthemochi
- 2022 included SilverWolv, Lykanatthemochi, and GravityDuke
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2018 September included SilverWolv, Sophia, Quarxilon, and VincentLUMCFan
- 2018 April included Quarxilon, VincentLUMCFan and MatthieuTofu
New York, USA
- 2018 August included minebuilder1223 and EnderMat96