Wolv City (2nd Haven)

Wolv City (2nd Haven)
To be Added
WolvHaven State
Established	January 2012
Retired	December 2012
World Information
Area	4km² (2km x 2km) (Greater Region) 0.49km² (12km x 12km) (New Centrif)
World Type	Default
Regions
Capital	Wolv City

Wolv City (also referred to as 2nd Haven or 2H) was the second proper iteration of WolvHaven City. Established in early 2012, the server was still a private Minecraft server for SilverWolv and his friends, it was originally hosted on a Vanilla Minecraft server hosted over hamachi, and switched to Bukkit shortly after.

History

Continuing New Centrif's tradition of having a city on an Island, the seed for the world was chosen as it was an island substantially larger than the original New Centrif city. An island was also easier to contain development and set boundaries as compared to a regular city on land.

This was the birth of the WolvHaven experience as we know it today, players would be in survival and go into the outskirts of the city and beyond to gather resources, then return to the city to trade, setting up businesses and enterprises in the process, with headquarters situated in the offices in different skyscrapers. This was largely inspired by popular YouTuber inthelittlewood's Minecraft server back then.

Skyscraper Race

Development in the city was picking up with the construction of many skyscraipers simultaneiously. The skyscraper beind City Hall which was constructed by SilverWolv and inspired by the chryser building was going to overtake the recently completed replica of the petronas towers. This prompted y0urs_Tru1y to quickly finish his Empire State Building which overtook the building. Afterwhich the completion of the World Trade Center would relcaim the title of being the tallest building on the server.

This lead to mash_p0tat0es constructing his rendition of the burj khalifa to gain the title of owning the tallest building on the server.

Confrontation & Civil War

The prime towers was a building project started by y0urs_Tru1y that would consist of five skyscrapers and would stretch all the way to the world height limit. Four shorter towers would surround a much larger tower in the middle and the buildings all had a very uniform rectangular shape. This irked mash_p0tat0es and SilverWolv who felt that the towers did not add any architectural value to the city while claiming the tallest building title at the same time.

As a prank both went to grief the towers with TNT and sent the video to y0urs_Tru1y. In response to the prank, y0urs_tru1y griefed mash_p0tat0es' rendition of the burj khalifa as the server with TNT. However, damaging surrounding buildings in the process.

An agreement was later made to move the prime towers to the eastrn lands of the world and the severely damaged burh khalifa was demolished. y0urs_tru1y also fixed surrounding damages to other buildings.

Geography

Districts

Wolv City had 3 districts named the peninsula, City Hall, Business Bay, and a separate island called Wolv Haven.

The Peninsula

The peninsula was the original spawn point of the city and served as the gateway to the city. It was a rather narrow peninsula that contained a single road to the city centre at City Hall. It contained the welcome centre, which a tall needle-like structure inspired by the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. It also contained the iconic Marina Cove MRT station, which was a semi-circular partially submerged glass structure.

City Hall

The City Hall district was the area surrounding the City Hall itself, and its plaza. Referred to as "Wolfminster" at times, several notable buildings line surround the area, such as y0urs_tru1y's Empire State Building, and mash_p0tat0es' rendition of the Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Towers. A tower inspired by the Tokyo Tower may also be seen.

To the West of the district was a beach and lighthouse with terraced house developments, and the Eastern section of the district contained the National Library, and the skyline high-rise.

Business Bay

North of the City Hall district was the business bay district. This contained several developments such as the World Trade Center which was a direct replica of the ones in New York, and several skyscrapers lined the seafront on the east. Buildings like the MILTEC (military technologies) building and Citigroup Center were around the area as well. Most of the trading and economic activity of the server occured in this district.

The district also contained Central Park, the Marina Bay Sands built by y0urs_tru1y and a small university building to house the WolvHaven University campus.

Wolv Haven Island

North of Business Bay is a separate island linked to the main island via a bridge. It was to be the new CBD of the city but was never completed. Plans to reconstruct the new WTC complex on the island were never completed, but had several buildings completed. To the east of the island also set the BIOTECH building which would be a prominent building in the server's history.

It is also this island where the server WolvHaven gets its current name from. SilverWolv liked the name as it sounded less cringe than "Wolv City".

Eastern Lands

The eastern mainlands were connected to the City Hall district via a suspension bridge that was inspired by the Golden Gate Bridge. Not much development happens in the Eastern Lands, and the region is very messy. Some developments include a mansion, the Hakurei Shrine and a Survival Games arena when the game was still popular back then.

Economy

The economy of the server then was mainly from players who went out and gathered resources in survival then returned to the city to trade the resources.

Production

Production was a strong economic factor in the server. The server then had enabled Craftbook mechanics, which allowed for the creation of machines for the mass production of goods. Goods that could not be produced were instead hand-crafted, such as a potion brewing laboratory in one of the buildings in the City Hall district.

Trade

Trade between players mostly occured in the World Trade Center in the Business Bay district. Players would setup companies and the trading of goods would mostly happen between the floors of the towers. This was enabled by the then-popular showcase plugin which displayed items on slabs with a buy/sell chat interface.

A notable product that was often traded was pickaxes, and enchantment books. This enabled the creation of the then-popular PAXEL pickaxe which stood for the "Pickaxe-axe-shovel" as the efficiency enchantment on a pickaxe then allowed for the quick and efficient mining and cutting of regular stone, tree logs and shovels.

Culture & Education

University

The world consisted of a university which players could attend, which mainly focused on teaching redstone basics and potion brewing. The original univeristy campus was situated in a building within the Central Park of Business Bay and would eventually be relocated to an island to the south of the main island, replacing a prison complex that once stood on the island. The relocation of the university over also brought along with it the construction of connecting rail infrastructure to the campus.

When the campus reopned, it expanded its subject coverage to include building and architecture, featuring large lecture theatres with a stage and tall windows that when looked out of showed the skyline of the City Hall district.

The Dojo

In the early development of the world, admin y0urs_Tru1y built an obstacle called "The Dojo" which was almost impossible to conquer. Players would require an extensive number of attempts to finish the course. Eventually the Dojo was shut and the MILTEC building was built in its place.

Government and Politics

The Parliament of WolvHaven met in the city hall of the city. The server had a different rank structure back then with moderators being called MPs and Admins being called Ministers back then. Staff were either appointed or elected and in June, the first Moderator Election of the server was held.

A player by the name of "Sophia" won the election, and would also go on to be the server's first female member of staff.

Environment

The biome of the city was mainly forest or plains, with rain every now and then. The biome was changed to a snowy biome during the month of December and it would cover the city in snow which proved to be very challenging as the snow would pile up and get thicker the longer the snow went, covering up roads and other infrastructure.

Transportation

Roads

Without the availability of a vehicular-road based paving material back then other than black wool, the city's streets were designed for pedestrian traffic. Footpaths were 3m wide, paved with stone bricks bordered with stone slab blocks. The roads were eventually re-paved with black wool blocks to give the city a more realistic feel, but streets remained relatively narrow and basic.

Rapid Transit (MRT)

The Wolv City Mass Rail Transit (MRT) also sometimes referred to as the Minecart Rapid Transit before the adaptation of traincarts plugin served as the main transport mode in the city. The system comprised of 3 different lines. The system would later go on to be the first Minecraft rail system in the world to incorporate Platform Screen Doors.

Metropolitan Line

The  Metropolitan Line  was the first ever MRT line to be built, and served as a shuttle between the peninsula and city hall districts. It was dual tracked and only had 2 stations named Marina Cove and City Hall. The line featured stone brick tunnels which were built using the cut-and-cover technique and were hence rectangular in shape. The line adopted automatic operation technology on the New Centrif (1st Haven) Underground's Central line with minecarts and then 10-minecart trains using traincarts.

Adoptation of Traincarts

The server eventually adopted the Traincarts bucket plugin which most WolvHaveners are familiar with today. Trains would run between stations normally using a vanilla automatic operation system based on red stone before the switch to the plugin's provided sign-based features. This was a reluctant shift was SilverWolv did not want an over dependence on non-vanilla Minecraft plugins.

City Line

The  City Line  was the next MRT line to be constructed, and served as a North-South link between the City Hall, Business Bay and Wolv Haven districts. It had 3 stations named after the districts respectively and a branch line that served an additional World Trade Center station. A fourth station named "Canary Wharf" was built between the Business Bay and Wolv Haven stations and was intended to be the original terminus of the line. The station was never opened and fell into disuse.

Unlike the Metropolitan, this line was constructed using tunnel boring by copy-pasting iron-block lined tunnel segments as WorldEdit was introduced to the server. The stations were still constructed using cut-and-cover techniques.

Underwater Line

The next MRT line to be built in the city was the  Underwater Line  and the line would; as the name suggest, go underwater. The line was iconic as it's tunnel was constructed out of glass. Though not the wisest choice of material in terms of realism the line served as a shuttle between City Hall and the relocated university campus on an offshore island.

West Coast Line

A fourth MRT line called the  West Coast Line  was planned to be built. This line woud serve the western side of the island, primarily the western lighthouse region of City Hall district, and the Marina Bay Sands area together with the Sail hotel. It would have a cross-platform interchange with the Metropolitan line at City Hall station but the line was never constructed.