Stoneworks (server)

Stoneworks, officially licensed as Stoneworks Minecraft or for short, Stoneworks MC and SMC, is a Minecraft server that is hosted via the server ip play.stoneworks.gg. The server currently hosts the following sub-servers: Rathnir, which released on September 25, 2020, Eldham, which was released on May 29, 2021 and Kylorne which released on June 25, 2022 until June 7th, 2023. Additional servers which are referred to as mini-servers are included: KitPVP which was released on June 20, 2022 and a Creative server which has limited openings at random times, with the earliest reported public opening on November 14, 2021. A Minigames server is also available, which currently only includes a minigame known as Wizards, which was released on August 30, 2021. Multiple servers had also been open, but then had been discontinued such as a Mock Siege Battles which was first released on February 19, 2022, but was discontinued due to it only being a test of a new weapon set. A modded server known as CinderModded or simply Cinder was released on October 16, 2021.

Stoneworks also features a hub, which had seen several instances The first hub was released with the release of Rathnir, the second hub was released on May 28, 2021, the third and current hub was released before December 29, 2021 built by the now deceased Cupa_Creeper. The three variations of the hub each has different features that give instructions on how to enter the server, and details on how the server functions.

Paxia
Origins of the first Stoneworks server, Paxia, is unknown, but it was described by StoneyStoner himself as a "small, quiet server" which didn't host many players. Many players theorize that this server was a private server, likely testing tools with a selective group of people, possibly StoneyStoner's real life friends. Paxia has since became a community legend, being integrated into modern lores of both Jagdas, Rathnir and Eldham. This was also where StoneyStoner likely got the inspiration to create a Worldbuilding Minecraft server. It is noted that access to this server was restricted to a few individuals from the original Stoneworks discord, who were invited to a groupchat to test the server.

Jagdas
Prior to the release of Rathnir, a server known as Jagdas existed. First released on August 14, 2020, the server would reach a large peak of over a hundred players. The server was co-founded by StoneyStoner, and Enfys, and was regarded as a successful opening. Many prominent nations such as Yimmu-Audal, Apollonia and the Kaihyo Shogunate existed. The server was also home to the infamous Crab Season, which was usually regarded as one of the server's main problems with PvP groups. The last major event during the Jagdas Era was the Nut Sacking on August 31st. The server would corrupt on September 13, 2020 due to naming issues with towny, causing the forced-creation of Rathnir. Many of the builds that were on Jagdas were lost, with very few screenshots existing of Jagdas. The Jagdas Wiki remained, which remained as stoneworks.fandom.com until it was migrated to the current Stoneworks Wiki on May 10, 2022 to combine the two wikis as one for convivence and to prevent further edits on the original wiki.

Rathnir
Rathnir was released on September 25, 2020, and currently, is Stoneworks' longest running server. The launch of Rathnir saw many of the Jagdas-era plugins such as Towny being used, causing stability issues for the first six months. Towny was switched in favor of the Lands plugin on October 4th, 2020, and is still used to this day. Early Rathnir also had mob spawning enabled, which included Drowned, who dropped tridents. This saw the beginning of the Trident market, which had many tridents for as low as around 40-50,000$, due to the abundance of drowned, and the low player count. The mob stacking plugin was also a feature, which allowed people to have multiple stacks of animals such as chickens and cows in one area without the worry of animal crowding. Mob spawning would completely cease on Feburary 3, 2021, due to the influx of new players, which would cause extreme Ticks Per Second (TPS) issues, often grinding the server to a halt.

The bypass system would be introduced on March 3, 2021, with users above Emerald Boi getting it for free as compensation.

Enfys would officially leave Stoneworks on March 25, 2021, and was replaced by Rollph (Rau l) in favor of working on his modded server. His modded server however, would also separate from the Stoneworks servers on December 1, 2021.

Under Rau_l, the server would begin to see removal of many Jagdas-era plugins that were causing issues, fixing many of the broken plugins that Enfys couldn't, and improved overall server performance and stability. As StoneyStoner, released more videos, the server would begin to peak in player count, eventually reaching a maximum of 200 players online at a given time, even during low hours. The large amount of new players would see the queue system quickly fill up. Due to this, there was a large amount of filled land by the already existing empires, and new empires that rose, seeing the word "squatter" being increased in use since this time. This would become the newest issue that would still be current on Rathnir to this day.

Eldham
Eldham would be teased on May 25, 2021 by Athaz, and was officially released on May 29, 2021. Colonization would be blocked for a week, due to the influx of players having plans for Eldham. Eldham's server was originally called "rathnir_new" and eventually coined as "The New World" or "New Rathnir". The name of Eldham would be chosen by the community by the extremely controversial United Nations of Eldham, and was adopted by staff. A few nations such as the Aurlûnor Velande, refused to call it "Eldham", and would instead come up with their own names, the most popular name being Sinawendor or "Land of Sinawis".

The world itself would be generated with a particular generator, which was proven to be unpopular by much of the playerbase. Nevertheless, Eldham would see itself grow into a server as large as Rathnir, and would co-exist as a server.

Controversy
Eldham's release was controversial, as many Rathnir and Eldham players fought against each other on Discord in terms of colonizing the continent. Terms such as "Collies" and "Rathnirites" were made. This interserver rivalry still exists to this day, but of less extent.

The United Eldham Alliance founded by Thas of the Ellysian Empire and co-founder of the original United Nations of Eldham were centers of the main controversy as well, accusing them of gatekeeping, and metagaming. Overtime however, the United Nations of Eldham would become irrelevant and forgotten, being ignored and it's existence being largely forgotten by the community, with only their library remaining as a relic. Thas would be permanently banned as well as the rest of the Ellysian Empire for mass toxicity and the Reign of Terror rules, as well as multiple other incidents.

Kylorne
The first mentions of Kylorne would be of a rumored "Third World " on Feburary 5, 2021, but it was largely a joke centered around Eldham, rather than what would become known as Kylorne. The actual rumors of a "Third World" (which would actually be the fourth Stoneworks Server) was on July 5, 2021, where discussions would continue to go around about it. EasternKhan, a then admin, would confirm that indeed there was a Third World in development, though this message was lost to time. The mentions of the Third World would be official on April 20, 2022, where whitelist applications were opened, and development of the server would go along. There was also a server vote for the name of the server, in which, Kylorne would win the vote.

Unlike the previous servers, Kylorne would be a whitelist only server, which would appeal more to the Roleplaying and Worldbuilding aspect of the server. It would be strictly moderated by Skye, a recently promoted administrator. The server would also feature things that are unique to Kylorne only. Kylorne would officially open its doors on June 25, 2022, and would have an extremely stable launch. Mob spawning would also become enabled due to the low player count, and stable server TPS.

Kylorne would officially shut down on June 7th, 2023, making it the only Stoneworks official server to shut down by StoneyStoner.