CivcraftImport:Cities/gottersheim

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= Gottersheim =

Named after it's founder, it essentially means &quot;Gotter's home&quot;, pointing to it being his first home on the server. It was annexed by Prussia on the 2nd of April, 2013, almost exactly one year after its founding. Due to its historical significance, the settlement is being excavated for clues to CivCraft's hidden history as well as being restored to its original state.

= History =

The settlement was first created when Gotterdammer, schneiderwm, and a few other players came to test bugs and strategies while the MinerApocalypse server was down. More interested in building than bug exploitation, Gotter wandered to the nearby forest and began felling trees to build a simple house. He built a barnhouse on a nearby hill with a small farm nearby. About a week after the group arrived, they abandoned the area to return to their home server. Gotter forgot about the server and his home entirely.

About six months later, in late autumn, Gotter begins searching for another server to join after MinerApocalypse had all but fallen apart. He finds /r/CivCraft and doesn't notice until another 6 months later that this &quot;new&quot; server is the very same server he and his friends played on half a year prior. He searches through pages of reddit PM's to find the coordinates to his first home.

After venturing through the nether and wilderness, he finds his settlement in a devastated state, but still recognisable! The original house still stood, but several players had unwelcomingly renovated it for the worse. What was once a house of fine timber and stone now stood a cobble atrocity. The nearby &quot;machines&quot; to test bug exploitation have also almost entirely been ruined, but their obsidian foundations and products still remain. The nearby desert hut and farm also stood, but have been turned into a crude mineshaft.

The settlement is now being restored to its original state and investigated to see what happened in the past year.

= Archaeology and Restoration =

Archaeology of the area is still in its early stages, but has revealed nothing has been added to the settlement over the last year and that several of the old constructs have been entirely removed. Investigations into when the group arrived on the server also reveals the settlement was founded on the 1st of April, 2012, with the house's foundation layed on the same day. This means the settlement and building are among the oldest on the server (the server was created on the 31st of March that year).

The main house has been largely restored to its former timber exterior, much work has yet to be done.

= Economy =

The settlement is coincidentally near an area with a few vanilla chunks. Crude mines were dug during the original settling with little success. Since the reclamation of the settlement, more formal mines have been constructed to acquire resources for Prussia.