Stream Town (Survival 1)

Template:Infobox City TemplateStream Town was a major settlement in the Survival 1 world of Dogcraft. It was the scene of mass attention and building activity for a time in the community in the early-mid period of it's world and still stands as one of the biggest settlements in any dogcraft world.

Establishment

Stream Town was founded during a livestream on the 4ᵗʰ of May 2016 by server owner and YouTuber, ReNDoG (in-game username renthedog). During this livestream, he began at spawn and explored the city there, before adventuring further northwest. After finding some fresh land, he proclaimed the beginning of a new town, Stream Town, with the intention that it would the site of weekly streams to monitor it's progress as a build and landmark for players.

Then headmods, StaircaseClimber and victix11 quickly set about building the basic infrastructure for the town. Streets were arranged in a simple, grid-like pattern and given names relating to ReNDoG's survival series of the time or minecraft features. Each plot had a mailbox on the sidewalk and upon claiming a plot, a headmod would place that player's minecraft skin head in an item frame on the box.

An amount of land just north of the city was allocated for ReNDoG to build a castle for himself as part of the weekly streams.

Stream Town 'Boom'

The allure of creating a build visible to ReNDoG was strong for most on the server and this led to unprecedented activity in the new town. Plots were quickly claimed and built on before the first stream, and a City Hall was built by StaircaseClimber. Some of the earlier and most recognisable builds around this time included _edo's city block featuring a very tall and distinctive tower, Scooberson's windmill, victix11's large cake house and baaskip's hobbit hole, among others.

In a short space of time, community projects appeared in Stream Town. A library was build by ivorysnape, where players could donate written books for other to read. Another initiative was the Stream Town Neighborhood Security Association (STNSA), started by Kiterou, with intention of keeping the dark town streets mob-free during streams. The SRN began construction of a rail line to Stream Town, although this would not be completed until the next month.

As the first or second ReNDoG stream came and went, it was apparent that expansion was needed. New players and free plots meant that the original 50 or so plots were claimed in this time-frame. It became quite clear at this time that the space chosen by ReNDoG was not particularly base-free as per his quick assessment. This posed a minor challenge for the two headmods, who now had to work with nearby base owners to expand the burgeoning city. Naxela_'s large 'Caelum' base was the closest, but co-operative, and elegant solution was found. A similar situation occured with another base on the eventual southern boundary of the town. Combined, the somewhat awkward position of the city meant that it would expand further west than any other direction, making the city center and hall feel out of orientation as a result.

• Running out of space
• Chaotic streams and the end of them

Lasting Impact

• Quests and warp
• Lack of ren streams since
• Boost to server numbers