History of the WolvHaven Server

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Founded somewhere in Early 2011, the WolvHaven Server was founded to be SilverWolv's personal private minecraft server among friends. Over the years the server has experienced many events, good and bad and has overcome several blunders. The server continues to navigate its way through being a rather informally run minecraft server to where it is today becoming a rather well-known server in the minecraft transport builcing & city roleplay community. This page documents a rough outline of major events that happened in the server over the years and continues to evolve.

2011: Humble Beginnings

The WolvHaven Server was born in early 2011 as a private minecraft server for SilverWolv and his friends. SilverWolv was recently introduced to the game of Minecraft and the endless possibilities and blank-canvas nature of the game was attractive to him. He mainly spent his time in Single Player until he joined his friend who went by the username of __Husky__'s minecraft server. There he experienced the joys multiplayer minecraft for the first time, and decided to start his own server.

New Centrif is born

Main article: New Centrif (1st Haven)

Upon discovering that one could import an existing minecraft world into a vanilla server, the WolvHaven server was born. The server had no official name, and was run purely on the vanilla minecraft multiplayer server that came with the game itself. The server was founded with a simple goal to build a city in minecraft with minimal help from mods to the games. A funamental aspect was also that there was to be no official texture pack, as it would be a hassle to distribute and maintain such a resource.

WolvHaven back then was not a 24/7 server, and was operated using hamachi to allow other players to connect. This was often very cumbersome for new members but was sufficient given its private server nature.

Troubled Times

After the retirement of New Centrif in end 2011 with the release of minecraft 1.0 during minecon 2011, the server set out to experiment using bukkit and plugins for the first time. However with limited understanding of how permissions worked, the server soon switched back to vanilla minecraft. It would go through several iterations of different worlds and formats before settling on the next iteration of the city called Wolv City.

2012: New City, small traction

Wolv City replaces New Centrif

Main article: Wolv City (2nd Haven)

Wolv City later replaced the city of New Centrif as the main world of the server. It was also with this iteration of the city where WolvHaven took on the survival multiplayer gamemode that is familiar with us today. Players would travel out of the city in survival and mine for resources before coming back to the city to trade among themselves. Wolv City also had a particular district named Wolv Haven, which is where the server eventually gets its name today.

The Founding Fathers

SilverWolv had previously also mostly played on a seperate minecraft server named "Lucky Kingdom" where he met mash_p0tat0es. Mash originally asked SilverWolv whether he had any wool for a giant pig statue he was making, to which SilverWolv replied that he didnt even have enough wool for a bed and couldnt give him any as a result. Their friendship grew when SilverWolv bought a plot of land and built a simple wooden house in his town which he found to look very nice. Eventually SilverWolv also founded a town called "New Centrif" in the server, and mash also joined in.

Eventually both players connected on social media and mash joined in on the server on 2 April 2012 as an admin. He eventually invited his classmate y0urs_Tru1y to join the server as well, who would soon be promoted to Moderator, and then later Admin.

Together, SilverWolv, __Husky__, Mash_p0tat0es and y0urs_Tru1y make up the founding fathers of the server.

The Bukkit Experiment

Up till early 2012, the server had been running on a vanilla minecraft server. It's initial experiemntations with bukkit eventually failed due to the lack of knowledge with in-game permissions and how overall plugins worked together in general. There was also no initial need for the server to move to Bukkit given its simple nature and small playerbase.

Economy Reset

The server also underwent its first and only ever economy reset during this period of time after experimentation with economy plugins left players with illigetimate spawned-in balances. The experiment lead to certain members having millions while others in the negative balances. This negative balance eventually lead to the server's net total amount of money in circulation to be over a negative million WHD.

A full reset was performed, resetting every player's balance to $1000. All members, including staff were to obtain currency from legitimate methods such as mining and trading. To assist in this new mode, the Jobs plugin was introduced; but the very same plugin would lead to several problems with the economy later on.

Popularity on Twitter

SilverWolv would on occasions share screenshots of Wolv City on his twitter, which eventually got the attention of RookieMC97, who was a rather popular figure within a community with over 1000 followers. RookieMC97 eventually joined the server to tour and posted screenshots of the server online, which sparked interest in many of their followers who then came online to visit. However, despite all this, the server continued to remain private as SilverWolv did not have a way to finance or pay for server hosting due to a lack of a credit/debit card.

2013: New Haven, WolvHaven is public (for a short while)!

New Haven replaces New Centrif

Main article: New Haven (3rd Haven)

Wolv City eventually outgrew the ambitions for a growing minecraft city, and hence the 3rd iteration of the city, New Haven was born. This was also the first time in the server where the WorldGuard was used to protect the city's infrastructure.

Server goes public for 2 months

SilverWolv eventually reached a deal with his parents that he would finance the server and his parents would assist to pay the server bills using their payment cards. The server was hosted on a server hosting platform called mine-o-city hosting for a very affordable cost of US$5 a month, and the server only had 1GB of RAM at the time.

The server opened to the public in June to much fanfare, and had a consistent playerbase that mainly enjoyed playing survival, and new members of Staff joined the team. Carew, PixelVox, PunchingPixel and KuteKake, who were all from the Twitter community that RookieMC97 promoted to as well. This which lasted for 2 months till July where a disagreement between SilverWolv and his parents led to the plug being pulled on the server as there was no way for the bills for the server to be paid without a card even if SilverWolv could afford it.

Mission #SaveTheHaven

When the news broke that the server was going down members of the twitter community started a campaign called "SaveTheHaven" to help finance and pay for the server. A member started a paypal which ran into some issues eventually although some members had sent money to the account. The amounting pressure eventually gave way due to questioning as to when the paypal would be ready to allow for the payment of the server bills to be made and the idea was dropped with refunds made to all who had contributed.

WitherGate: Mass Grief Attack

WolvHaven experienced its first mass grief attack in 2013 where an exploit involving wither explosions and damage was used on the Sandbox by a player called MrGreen289. Over half of the Sandbox was damaged as a result and had a great impact on the server as the Sandbox then was one of the most popular worlds within the server.

Investigations later found that it was caused due to inadequate protections by WorldGuard, and was immediately fixed.

PixelGate: Staff betrayal

Due to a disagreement between SilverWolv and PixelVox, PixelVox threatened to release the NewHaven city world file to the public as he had been entrusted with the world save file for rendering purposes on the premise that the file would not be shared. This prompted SilverWolv to release the world as a safeguard onto planetminecraft. Since then, SilverWolv has been very wary of who he entrusts server files and access with in the staff team.

Launch of the Wiki

In August 2013, the WolvHaven Wiki was launched using a free service provider shoutwiki. Several articles about 3rd Haven were written. The introduction of a Wiki for the server was one of the goals of SilverWolv, similar another popular Minecraft creative server at the time - The VoxelBox.

The WolvHaven Wiki would prove to be rather unpopular later on, with frequent service outages, slow support, and a lack of customisation.

Connections with Epsilon From Tumblr

SilverWolv regularly posted builds from the server on Tumblr which sparked the interest of a player by the name of nakokun, who was the owner and founder of the city of Epsilon. Both players and servers forged a strong bond and friendship as they would often help each other out and build on both servers.

November 2013 WolvHaven Gathering poster

The WolvHaven Gathering and Christmas

Main article: The WolvHaven Gathering

The server later went public again during the November and December school holidays, and the very first WolvHaven Gathering was held in November 2013 together with Thanksgiving and Chsitmas festivities in the server. SilverWolv was also experimenting with WorldPainter during the period, and soon after the next iteration of the city NewWolvHaven was being planned and built.

It was also during this period of time where Axton would join the server, with ambitions to build a mass transit railway network that connected the city.

NewWolvHaven Replaces NewHaven

Main Article: New WolvHaven (4th Haven)

Construction for 4th Haven began in late December 2013. For the first time in WolvHaven's history, the world was custom generated using a program called "WorldPainter". It was also the first time where the city would be comprised of multiple islands instead of a single island, which was the case in the previous iterations of the city.

2014: Public, but very quiet

2014 was a relatively quiet year for the server as SilverWolv was busy studying for his GCE 'O' Level examination. The server was mainly patronised by players who played Survival Multiplayer but did not see a lot of activity.

In March, Mash_p0tat0es had donated a minecraft server which he paid but did not have a use for till the end of the year. He had bought a year long subscription with hosting provide Nitrous Hosting but plans for his own server did not fall into place, and passed the server plan over to WolvHaven. As a result, the server was hosted online, but without much supervision as SilverWolv would only come online during the weekends until December

BlameNitro

Nitrous Hosting was not very popular with WolvHaveners due to frequent downtimes and an imposed limit on storage space. As a result, whenever there were technical difficulties, #BlameNitro was the go-to tagline.

YouTube Channel

Click here to access WolvHaven's official YouTube channel.

The WolvHaven YouTube channel was launched in August 2014, and its first YouTube video of a timelapse ride of the BERT District Line was released, and since then, YouTube would be the main source where players would find out about WolvHaven. The video has over 140,000 views as of 2021.

Stalingrad Tram opens

Main Article: WolvHaven Tram (4th Haven)

In September 2014, a building competition, dubbed "Innovate", was announced to the public, with the aim of receiving creative transit ideas from the commuters themselves, which in turn, would be turned into reality if it met the three criteria: low-cost, low maintenance, and efficient. Many submissions were considered, such as a trolleybus or monorail system that ran on all three islands. However, it was settled and decided that a tram system was the most cost-efficient, low maintenance, and efficient in terms of passenger flow.

On the 13th of October 2014, player MatthieuTofu, who had envisioned the project, unveiled the Stalingrad Tram, or the Tram Line 1, or as it's known now, the WolvHaven Tram. The line opened on the 13th of October 2014, with its original route running from Stalingrad Coast (Now Stalingrad South) to Stalingrad. Just a few weeks later on the 2nd of November, Tram Line 1 extended further up north to Central Park East (now SOHO) and to Nationale (now Parkroyal) with the entire route stretching 1.4km over 9 stops.

Tram service was unreliable at first but with the introduction of a revolutionary automatic spawning tram system on the 16th of January 2015, tram service delivery increased to 95%, and ridership was at an all time high. Referred to as the future of rail transit, the WolvHaven Tram was very successful in its first year.

Upon the completion of the first line, ambitious plans were drawn out to expand the tram system further east, and possibly even into Westford, as a means of solution to replace the debilitating status of the poignant bus system back then. However, due to an also debilitating ticks per second situation, all plans were shelved and eventually replaced with buses that served the planned routes.

2015: The start of a new Era

The WolvHaven most people are familiar with began from 2015.

Financing is here

SilverWolv managed to register for a pre-paid debit card to use to pay for the server bills, and in 2015 the server shifted to a 1GB server hosted by MCProHosting. The server was renewed at 2 month intervals.

Titanium Server

Nixholas joined the server in April 2015 as he was a classmate of SilverWolv, and would contribute to many aspects of server administration, mainly handling the technical aspects of the server. A proposal for a cheaper alternative server hosting provider was given with more resources such as RAM and storage space.

The idea was for all WolvHaven services to be centralized into a single machine, with a website using xenforo. However, this proved to be fatal as a DDoS attack brought the server down. It was later found out that the server hoster was using dated hardware, which resulted in the loss of over 4 months of data and progress.

City-Build 1.0: Project Westlandia

Main Article: Gardellia

Autobus22 introduced a new creative city-building concept to the server, whereby a national rail network would be built and players would be able to claim stations and build towns and cities around their claimed stations. Work had progressed but several design flaws led to the termination of the project. It would later be replaced with Old Gardellia in early 2016.

City-Build 2.0: Westlandia2 (Old Gardellia)

Main Article: Gardellia

The project that opened after Westlandia would be the original Gardellia. This version of the world was a large world painted flat island, with the intention that players would be able to terraform the terrain to their liking after. This iteration of Old Gardellia was mired with controversy, stemming from disagreements over borders caused by the small station spacing, unequal WorldEdit rights and poor or selective enforcement of the rules.

2016:

Metro+ logo

Metro+ Introduced

Main Article: Metro+

The Metro+, a form of electronic ticket used on public transport in Greater WolvHaven and is the first of its kind in Minecraft, was introduced onto the server on the 11th of January 2016. It is valid for travel on all Department of Transport operated modes of transport including Metro, Bus and Ferries and is also valid on some privately operated modes of transport such as BERT. Whilst it was first issued to members of WolvHaven in Janurary 2016 initially with a small amount of functionality, more features such as being able to get a replacement card should the original be destroyed/lost using the original card's ID were eventually added.

A standard Metro+ card is a Name Tag that is titled Metro+ | Standard with the identification of the card while a Single Journey Metro+ is a Name Tag that is titled Metro+ | Single Journey with the mode of transport the single journey ticket is valid for. Passengers "tap" the card on a reader when entering or leaving the mode of transport in order to validate and refund extra amount charged respectively. Cards may be purchased, refunded and "Topped Up" at ticket machines found at Metro & BERT stations and major Bus stops.

The idea for a tap on tap off card system had existed in WolvHaven since as early as the Wolv City era in 2012 and during the days of the NewHaven era, a brand new ticketing system was introduced, called MyTransit but it soon ran into multiple problems with fare evasion and passengers being charged the incorrect fare resulting in the system being scrapped.

City-Build 2.0 Terminated: Too much drama

Main Article: Gardellia

In early 2016, SilverWolv announced the termination of the original/old Gardellia citing excessive drama that was caused by the world and inadequate moderation or enforcement standards. A replacement world would be worked on which would later become the current Gardellia world. A new world was desired to address all of the design issues faced by the original Gardellia.

A search for a suitable world seed was initiated, and the seed "qixtato" was selected after rounds of suggestions. Work on the network would progress over the rest of the year before its final opening

Joshypocalypse: WorldEdit disaster

In March 2016, the largest WorldEdit accident in the server occured. Then server member Jotch was working on the construction of the WolvHaven Metro extension into Mechanicsburg which was originally meant to go in the lower deck of the Silonner Bridge. He had made a selection in the North of Westward before proceeding to another location near Palais De Royale to work on another project.

However, Jotch did not deselect the selection earlier made in Westford, and while making a selection near Palais De Royale, the second point of the selection failed to register, likey due to connection latency issues. He then proceeded to //set 0 on a selection that made up almost 50% of the city.

Due to the server's then recently upgraded hardware, this meant that the server was able to handle and process most of the world edit operation before crashing. As a result, they relogged into the server to find that almost all of the city had its ground level deleted and replaced with an approximately 7m deep hole.

The Joshypocalypse incident led to the introduction of WorldEdit limits on the server to prevent similar incidents from occurring again.

WolvHaven 5th Anniversary Celebration logo

WolvHaven celebrates its fifth anniversary

Main Article: The WolvHaven Gathering

WolvHaven celebrated its fifth anniversary on the 2nd of April 2016. As part of the celebrations, a WolvHaven Gathering, dubbed 5WH, was held 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.

The celebrations featured traditional games played in previous WolvHaven Gatherings such as spleef, paintball and 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.

[Embed YouTube trailer of 5WH]

Political Parties banned

Main Article: Political Parties

All political parties were banned and vetoed with majority approval by the Executive Council on the 24th of April 2016 due to endless fighting between parties and many a refusal by many to follow server rules. Political parties would not be reintroduced onto the server until the Party-List Proportionate system was implemented in April 2017.

[Helper] rank introduced (4 Jun)

Main Article: Ranks

Promotional image for the 'It felt like I went back in time' event

"It felt like I went back in time"

As part of continuing 5th Anniversary Celebration events, the "It felt like I went back in time" exhibition was opened between the 10th and 30th of September 2016. It enabled WolvHaveners to visit the server's 3 previous city worlds, notably New Centrif (1st Haven), Wolv City (2nd Haven) and New Haven (3rd Haven).

A fresh new website

The server launched a new website on the 12th of November 2016. This came after the old website was hacked by a hacking group that was engaged by a member who could not accept their ban. As a result, all forum data was lost however no user information was compromised.

Gardellia Mainlines network at the opening of the new creative-build world in December 2016

City-Build 3.0: (New) Gardellia is here!

Main Article: Gardellia

Westlandia2's replacement was launched on Christmas Day, 25th December 2016. This followed WolvHaveners voting in the World Referendum held from 18 March 2016 to 20 March 2016 in favour of a new creative-building world. The new world came pre-built with a rail network which was presented to the public on the June 3rd 2016. As a result, the world itself was rendered as early as June 14th 2016 in order for construction of the network to begin. WolvHaveners were once again consulted on September 24th and October 30th with regards to the station design of the rail network and the rules of the new world. On December 22nd, WolvHaveners were able to start applying to build in the new world.

2017:

Old Gardellia and INNOVATE officially closed

Following the opening of the current iteration of Gardellia and the Laboratory world, the Old Gardellia and INNOVATE worlds were closed on the 22nd of January 2017.

Moderator and Administrator elections cancelled (February)

Main Article: Staff

On February 23rd 2017, President SilverWolv announced the cancellation of all future Moderator and Administrator elections. This was later revealed to have been decided in view of members of staff being afraid of punishing members of the server for fear of losing out on their votes in elections. Following this, a new appointment system was revealed on March 4th, with new Moderators and Administrators being promoted from the ranks of Helper and Moderator respectively at quarterly Staff Performance Reviews.

Initial proposed FifthHaven world map presented to WolvHaveners in early 2017

FifthHaven planning begins

Main Article: New Wolfminster (5th Haven)

With serious design flaws in the 4th Haven primarily due to its small size, proposals for the 5th iteration of the city would be floated since 2016 as the server celebrated its 5th Anniversary. This was despite the option of expanding the current world winning out in a Parliament sitting, a plan which was eventually ruled out due to technical difficulties and the greater potential benefits of starting a brand new city from scratch.

In March 2017, planning for the new city world officially begun with WolvHaveners being asked to help plan the new world and notably comment on an initial proposed map layout for Fifth Haven by SilverWolv. The proposal called for a 7km by 7km world made up of 7 main islands, and paid homage to 4th Haven with the shape of the new proposed Wolfminster island looking very similar to that of its predecessor.

Members of the community started proposing ideas using the map, drawing out districts and areas for land use; including Metro maps which were frowned upon by SilverWolv himself and other members of the community who felt that Metro and rail transit planning should not be its top priority. This eventually led to rail infrastructure planning being halted for 3 years.

Problems with the initial proposal soon ensued, as planners soon found out that the scale at which they wished to build at would result in space in the proposed world running out very quickly, resulting in similar problems as 4th Haven. This was notably due to the shift from 3-block wide road lanes to 5-block wide road lanes.

Parliament relaunched and reformed

Main Article: Parliament of WolvHaven

In late February 2017, President SilverWolv introduced plans of a brand new parliamentary system whereby general elections would be held under a Party-List Proportionate system in which the percentage of votes a party garnered would determine the percentage of the seats they have in Parliament. Non-elected players would also be allowed to participate in proceedings though their votes would weigh less than those of elected Members of Parliament. Along with the new system came a new Parliament Building and chamber which meant that for the first time, the House of Representatives and the Senate would have their own separate chambers within the same building.

The last Parliament session under the original 2016 parliamentary system was held on the 1st April 2017. After which, Parliament was dissolved and the new system was put into effect.

Political Party registration begins

Main Article: Political Parties

With the introduction of a party-list proportionate system came the legalization of political parties which had previously been banned with party registration starting on March 30th. In order to be included on ballot papers, parties had to register on the Political Parties wiki page and create a separate page for the party itself.

Televised WBC debate (2 Apr)

As part of the new parliamentary system and April 2017 General Election, the WolvHaven Broadcasting Corporation hosted a televised debate between party leaders on the 2nd of April. Topics such as stricter chat laws, trams/trains/rail systems in the Sandbox and Laboratory worlds, Gardellia access requirements, rights and autonomy and Pangaea rules were debated.

[Embed YouTube video of the debate]

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Composition of the 6th Parliament of WolvHaven

April 2017 General Election

Main Article: General Election of WolvHaven, April 2017

The first General Election of WolvHaven was held from 6 April 2017 to form the House of Representatives of the 6th Parliament of WolvHaven. Turnout was low at 30 voters, with most voters being members of the Political Parties running in the election, resulting with no party gaining an overall majority of seats.

Party	% of Vote	Number of Votes	Seats after election
The Centre	13.79%	4/29	1/12
Democratiam	3.45%	1/29	0/12
Honest and Green Party	13.79%	4/29	1/12
WolvHaven Realist and Altruist Party	3.45%	1/29	0/12
National Conservative Party	13.79%	4/29	1/12
Party for Gardellia	6.90%	2/29	0/12
Pure Haven Party	17.24%	5/29	2/12
South Gardellian National Party	17.24%	5/29	2/12
WolvHaven Architect Party	10.34%	3/29	1/12
Spoiled Votes	-	1/30	-

Formation of a Coalition Government

Main Article: SGNP-NCP-CEN Coalition

Following negotiations, the South Gardellian National Party, National Conservative Party and The Centre formed the SGNP-NCP-CEN Coalition on April 15th following President SilverWolv inviting them to form a government, enabling their leader olovld to take office as the 1st Prime Minister of WolvHaven. Meanwhile, the Pure Haven Party and the WolvHaven Architect Party formed an opposition coalition whilst the Honest and Green Party remained neutral to either side of the house.

Pangaea replaces New Hollow

Main Article: Pangaea

As part of a set of World Resets announced by President SilverWolv in January 2017, the old survival world New Hollow was closed on the May 6th marking the end of a transition period to the new Pangaea world.

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Mechanicsburg International Airport's departure/arrival concourse

Mechanicsburg International Airport opened

Main Article: Mechanicsburg International Airport

Following the opening of Mechanicsburg International Airport in 4th Haven on June 10th 2017, the server's spawn was moved there. This included the opening of a new immigration test located in the Airport Concourse whilst players could access the server's different worlds by boarding planes at the airport's various gates.

Laboratory access restricted (19 Aug)

Main Article: Laboratory

On August 19th 2017, access to the Laboratory world was restricted build access to those with Gardellia build rights and architects only. In addition, all train tracks and model railroads would be removed, though station and train models would not. This marked a major shift in the world's purpose, being the spirtual successor to INNOVATE, a world which focused on rail systems.

#server-chat launched on Discord (6 Sep)

On September 6th 2017, the #server-chat channel (then named #irc) was launched on the official WolvHaven Discord channel. Similarly to the dynmap IRC feature which existed at the time, it enabled Discord users to communicate directly with players on the Minecraft server. Following the trial period and the new feature's popularity, the dynmap IRC feature was phased out on September 27th.

Parliament process streamlined (13 Sep)

Main Article: Parliament of WolvHaven

(1st reading, 2nd reading stuff)

The 16th September 2017 Parliament Session and ensuing inquiry

Main Article: Parliament of WolvHaven

First session of the Gardellia Assembly (29 Oct)

Main Article: Gardellian Assembly

Changes to parliamentary procedure (16 Nov)

Main Article: Parliament of WolvHaven

(each bill goes thru 2 sessions)

Gardellia Expanded (Late 2017, perhaps December)

Main Article: Gardellia

2018:

Gardellian second claims (2 Jan)

Main Article: Gardellia

Shifts in WolvHaven's political landscape

Prime minister minebuilder1223 resigns (28 Jan)

Main Article: Prime Minister of WolvHaven

Formation of Forward WolvHaven: the beginning of the mega-party era (25 Mar)

Main Article: Forward WolvHaven

The layout of the current New Wolfminster, drawn by lykanatthemochi using pencil and paper

Final FifthHaven world map revealed

Main Article: New Wolfminster (5th Haven)

The initial island layout for FifthHaven came under heavy criticism by Lykanatthemochi for being "too unrealistic" and also requested for a more "realistic" island layout, and as a result, he was invited by SilverWolv to propose a new map layout as the world had already been worldpainted by then.

Lykanatthemochi followed up with the call for his idea of "realistic looking islands" on 14 March 2018 with a drawing that contained 11 main islands for development. The proposal also called for a larger map size of 10km by 10km; which was eventually upscaled further to the current 12km by 12km. This new proposal would be taken as the official layout which New Wolfminster was to be based upon.

The new proposal also followed the layout of the original initial proposal, allowing most of the previously discussed plans to be easily transferred over into the new map.

Due to its nature, the world had to be worldpainted again from scratch. To do this, SilverWolv printed a copy of the image and slid it into a clear plastic paper holder and traced the outlines of the islands using a permanent marker. He then pasted the clear plastic holder over his laptop which had the worldpainter program open and started painting the world from there using the drawn outlines as reference.

WBC Website launched (March)

Main Article: WolvHaven Broadcasting Corporation

Ground broken on FifthHaven (23 Jun)

Main Article: New Wolfminster (5th Haven)

Ofcorp launched (4 Aug)

Main Article: Office of Corporations

Metro+ B series launched (16 Aug)

Main Article: Metro+

2019:

First [Engineer] (?)

Main Article: Ranks

Staff split into Departments (19 May)

Main Article: Staff

Gardellia Mainlines code reform (May-July)

Main Article: Gardellia Mainline Code Format History

Gardellia Claim Registration (Announced June deadline August)

Main Article: Gardellia

Discord Parliament (October)

Main Article: Parliament of WolvHaven

Formation of United WolvHaven: political hegemony? (31 Dec)

Main Article: United WolvHaven

2020: a pandemic-induced boost in activity... not without controversy

A year of political turmoil

Voters lining up to vote in the May 2020 General Election

January 2020 General Election

Main Article: General Election of WolvHaven, January 2020

UWH infighting, prime minister mopsistudios resigns

Main Article: Prime Minister of WolvHaven

Dissolution of Parliament

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Composition of the 13th Parliament of WolvHaven elected following the May 2020 General Election

May 2020 General Election: the last battle of the parties

Main Article: General Election of WolvHaven, May 2020

‎[Embed newsnet coverage]

United WolvHaven disbands (November?)

Main Article: United WolvHaven

November 2020 Political Reforms

Main Article: November 2020 WolvHaven Political Reforms

2020 Referendum on the mode of representation

Main Article: 2020 Referendum on the mode of representation

WolvHaveners decide on Permanent Residency rank implementation

Main Article: 2020 Referendum on Permanent Residency (PR) Implementation

Media Revolution

Main Article: NewsNet WH

newsnet, WolvHaven's first independent media organization was launched in January 2020 by MatthieuTofu & CM Raiders. It marked the end of the WolvHaven Broadcasting Corporation's monopoly on the WolvHaven media market.

Gardellia claiming suspended for national security reasons (February)

Main Article: Gardellia

First PRs promoted to citizen (March)

Main Article: Ranks

Gardellia lost, happy April Fool's Day! (April)

Main Article: Gardellia

Pride 2020

Main Article: WolvHaven Pride

Participants in the 2020 parade lined up together with wearing banners as hats to form a "PRIDE20"

The first WolvHaven Pride was held on 27 June 2020, 2PM UTC, mainly organized by Littledoggy2 and CrazySharkGaming. The parade was first held in 2020 as lockdowns around the world due to the COVID-19 Pandemic caused real-life pride parades to be rescheduled or canceled entirely. The parade was held in Capitol Island (Fifth Haven), and participants marched from City Hall to Parade Grounds (Fifth Haven), along the Boulevard at the center of the island. Participants lined up together with wearing banners as hats to form a "PRIDE20" banner, and they marched alongside floats that were constructed along the boulevard. The parade led to the server hitting its latest record of players online at a given time of 30, the server's maximum player slots at the time.

The event had all members of the community contribute. The iconic pastel-colored howling wolf with a heart logo was created by Teh_Red. Meanwhile, street decorations and banners were made by ohuehue. Perfecttrains helped to build the firework systems.

A monument commemorating the event was built in the park behind Parade Grounds.

DevCom launched (June)

Main Article: Federal Republic of WolvHaven Development Commission

Server leadership changes (August)

(POS and stuff)

[Embed newsnet coverage]

Calidia launched (Christmas Day)

Main Article: Calidia

2021: as the world starts living with COVID, the server adjusts to a new normal

Parliament's demise

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February 2021 General Election: the first under the reformed system

Main Article: General Election of WolvHaven, February 2021

July 2021 General Election: the last General Election

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August 2021 By-Election: the first and last By-Election

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Metro+ C series launched (April)

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[VIP] rank phased out, [PS] tag introduced (June)

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Pride 2021

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2022: Shift to a creative-focused server

The ephemeral Building Blasts (March-April)

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WolvHaven on r/place (April)

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New Sandbox launched (soon)

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