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It started when Bastion resident Xorberax claims he was lured into a room by another player from Chan Town and was trapped there. Xorberax dented the door which made the Channer decide to shackle Xorberax for it, sparking a much larger seriesSome of events. After the shacklegear was updated, Xorberax was not shackled any more due to the Channers not being familiar with the mechanics of refueling a shacklegear, and he escaped. Xorberax decided to threaten the town of Green Spice saying he will level the entire town, or threats of a similar nature. <ref>Ｍ Ｕ Ｌ Ｔ Ｉ Ｐ Ｏ Ｌ Ａ Ｒ(March 13, 2022) "[https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/928765698543616050/952790713416945675 We had Xorborax pearled originally (assumed he got out as shacklegear was just updated) but Southern clarified that we didn't refuel his shackle right, because the mechanic is differentmembers from civcraft so he got out. He was our bargaining chip and we lost it, we were working on a treaty with Bastion as Xorberax threatened to level our town. Having lost it, Bastion stopped talking to us. Faust initiated the talks, Greenkitten our ambassador reached out to Jaysus but they never got back to us, because why should they they got their guy free.]"</ref> A little while after escaping Green Spice, Xorberax decided to go and bomb Chan Town in retaliation against what they did to him. After the bombing, somecity of Chan Towns' members logged on and followed Xorberax back to Bastion to shackle him. Some of the members from Bastion took notice of an impending attack and aided Xorberax against the attackers and got them shackled. <ref>Ｍ Ｕ Ｌ Ｔ Ｉ Ｐ Ｏ Ｌ Ａ Ｒ(March 13 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/928765698543616050/952791510242435102 "After bantering in the discord we logged on and saw that our entire town was destroyed and vault broken, and shit stolen. So we saw the guy who did it was still online and were quite pissed. Four of our guys geared up and went to Bastion to shackle him, but 3 other Bastion guys ran out and helped him and he shackled all of us.]"</ref> Immediately once understanding what had happened, Xorberax was banished from Bastion to fend for himself. Green Spice was outraged that no further punishment was taken toward Xorberax, however, Bastion members were overwhelmed and tired and had had enough of all of it. A discord user by the name of MULTIPOLAR said he later secured the release to those shackled members of Green Spice and retrieved some of the stolen goods from Green Spice. Much back-and-forth ensued between Green Spice and Bastion over what to do with Xorberax. Then on March 12, Chan Town, according to Xorberax, doxxed him into bombing the town of Bastion so they'd stop doing it to him. <ref>KingOfTheMochas (March 13 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/928765698543616050/952780268605964349 "Uhhhh I think Xorb said he got trapped in a room by Faust after he asked him to come to chantown for some reason and then Xorb tried to break down the door to escape and Faust shackled him and then he went (Apeshit) and threatened to blow Chantown to smithereens and then he got freed for some reason (channers said there was some kinda deal with jay but it sounds like jay denies that) and then he ended up ''actually'' blowing it to smithereens and then channers got reasonably mad but to an unreasonable amount and doxxed (?) him and then he agreed (?) to nuke Bastion if they stopped doxxing him and so he did and now we’re all pissed at him and also each other]"</ref> There are still a number of disagreements and arguments in the official Vciv Discord after all of this happened.

* The most populous towns, Bastion and Ember Valley, which both were near spawn and very welcoming to newcomers, being abandoned after the aforementioned conflicts. Multiple small communities had sprouted up near them and began to feel unsafe without them around. Also, too, the [[Savaguard (Vintage Civ)|Kingdom of Savaguard]], a strong and highly militant city, had once claimed alliance with Bastion, yet failed completely to respond to Bastion under siege and fire.

It was announced on April 9, 2022 by SouthernBloc that an early version of the 2.0 server has been launched publicly, to last for 24 hours, later said to be on for about 2 weeks. <ref name=":0">SouthernBloc (April 9 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/937503678477262908/962497576593150032 so for the next 24 hours, I am going to unwhitelist the test server so I can see any potential issues performance wise from the mod list currently. Keep in mind this is a beta test, and there might be problems. IP: 147.135.65.45:27500]</ref> The serverservers waslisted in this subsection were publicy released inwith the intention of finding bugs and balancing issues that can be found in the early release of new content being added. These test servers contains highly anticipated features not seen before in the Vintage Civ server such as [[Bastion|bastions]], pack animals, more enemies, new land generation, and a variety of new building blocks and other smaller mechanics.

It was announced on April 9, 2022 by SouthernBloc that an early version of the 2.0 server has been launched publicly, to last for 24 hours, later said to be on for about 2 weeks (Which did not last 2 weeks). <ref name=":0" /> The beta test server as of April 17th has players spawn at 0,0 in the very north-western corner of the world in the water. The closest landmass to the spawn point is a small island which contained a single homestead with a small overgrown farm to the south of it. The beta world has a small size of exactly 5000 blocks north to south and has every quadrant being absent except the +,+ quadrant, which the entire map is in. There has been a few small camps set up by players that have crossed the oceans and landmasses far from spawn though the server has not had as much popularity as the 1.0 beta three months earlier.[[File:2022.png|thumb|The center of the unnamed 2.0 alpha town as of April 23]]

After existing for 9 days, the 2.0 beta world was wiped for a new one that willwas supposed to last til launch day of the actual 2.0 world <ref>SouthernBloc (April 18 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/931291079939096596/965749316306214962 this one will most likely last till launch day. I wanted to see variation in the water generation]</ref>. This new world has randomspawn on, similiar to other civ servers in the genre, especially in Minecraft. According to SouthernBloc this will apply for the actual 2.0 server that will launch in May <ref>Miloski (April 18 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/931291079939096596/965749642916683846 thats going to also apply til actual 2.0?]

After a few hours from the launch of the alpha server the player Miloski stumbled upon SouthernBloc's homestead on a medium sized island. With other two future residents McBain and Fey being in a discord call together, they were informed on where the island is to join the settlement. As of April 21 this unnamed settlement has a total of 4 players currently in the mid-late bronze age with a number of other higher tier items and gear. As of April 24 2022 this server still stays in the regular IP that was used for the beta, while the test server below is now in the main servers usual IP.

On April 23 2022 SouthernBloc launched yet another completely new server which, instead of the previous two 2.0 test iterations, is connected to from the default server IP being play.vintageciv.com and has dirt gravity, changing the way players build and traverse. With the terrain generation being done for the most part and the world map much bigger than the previous two 2.0 iterations, Southern states this server will last til the 2.0 launch day <ref>SouthernBloc (April 23 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/937503678477262908/967570091162099752 @here The Test Server is now launched on the main IP, play.vintageciv.com. This will last until launch day, but the map gen tweaks are done for the most part. The 1.0 server will relaunch on the test box, but we need to test how it works on the main box. I stress that you take some time and play with the mechanics, so come launch day we have the final tweaks ready. Have a good weekend all!]</ref>. The servers name being known as the test server is not an official name but more so a placeholder name given by SouthernBloc in the aforementioned discord message reference. It was noticed the day after the server launched that naturally grown wild crops are unusually rare <ref>SouthernBloc (April 24 2022) [https://discord.com/channels/927062370352762941/931291079939096596/967917541429219370 wild crops are terrible to try and find ngl]</ref>, along with the fact that the equator is also unusually large, makes finding and growing crops much harder.