Timeline

Dogcraft Timeline graphic, by  William278, as of August 23^rd 2021 highlighting the most noteworthy events

" Exciting news everyone! I've just finished setting up #Dogcraft.net!" ReNDoG, 12^th July 2012

Information needed: Due to incomplete data available through internet archives, more primary-source information is needed to complete this highly important page. If you have information, such as key dates/screenshots/undocumented events (particularly from pre-2016), please add it to Timeline/Sources or contact a Wiki Administrator.

This page contains a timeline of significant events and changes affecting the Dogcraft website, discord & server throughout it's lifetime, effectively serving as an overview of the community's history.

Dogcraft Timeline

2012

July

The homepage of Dogcraft.net on the 21^st of August, 2012; one month after the founding of the website.

• 12 July 2012 - Dogcraft.net website founded by ReNDoG as a forum for fans to discuss videos.
• 14 July 2012 - Dogcraft.net is first mentioned by Rendog in Episode #56 of his Let's Play Minecraft series.
• 14 July 2012 - Dogolith introduced, with the new site serving as a destination for fans to apply to be "immortalized" onto the monument in Rendog's world.
• July 2012 - Dogcraft.net VIP membership program introduced, a precursor to the Patreon system today, allowing fans to support Rendog and the site.
• July 2012 - Dogcraft Shop introduced, allowing users to buy website "stock" to display on their profile.
• July 2012 - Dogcraft Dollars first implemented, which could be earned through VIP membership or for chatting on the forums.

August

• 16 August 2012 - Dogcraft Cog, Bone & Pickaxe logo designed by MudDog and unveiled by ReNDoG in a forum post.
• August 2012 - AJAX Chat added, allowing Cyberdogs to instantly message over the site.
• August 2012 - Arcade added.

September

• 8 September 2012 - Dogcraft.net reaches 1000 members.

Last third of 2012

• Between 22 August 2012 and 21 September 2012 - the www.dogcraft.net website recieves a redesign and starts using www.dogcraft.net/portal.php
• Between 22 August 2012 and 5 September 2012 - Woody Wooddog is promoted to [Website Headmod]

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2013

First third of 2013

• Between 15 February 2013 and 2 March 2013 -  IvanDogovich is promoted to [Website Headmod]
• Between 15 February 2013 and 27 March 2013 - www.dogcraft.net goes back to using www.dogcraft.net instead of www.dogcraft.net/portal.php and recieves a redesign. Accounts have to be recreated. [VIP Moderator] merges into [Global Moderator].

Second third of 2013

• Between 29 July 2013 and 1 August 2013 - Woody Woodog steps down as [Site Headmod], and leaves the staff team.
• Between 3 August 2013 and 2 Sept 2013 -  Baergo is promoted to [Website Headmod]. The rank [Trial Moderator] first sees use

Last third of 2013

• Fall 2013 - Dogcraft Dollars recive an item. The website's economy is slightly reworked.
• Between 4 November 2013 and 6 December 2013 -  Mattigins is promoted to [Forum Administrator]. (A rank that is different only in it's name and custom icon from  Razor's [Administrator]. The two roles were equal.)

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2014

First third of 2014

• Between 8 February 2014 and 7 March 2014 - Mobile game app developers benc_opposable and owda are added to and then removed from the website staff list, and given their own role, to allow them to use the forums to collect feedback on a project for ReNDoG .
• Between 9 February 2014 and 7 March 2014 - Razor steps down as [Administrator] and leaves the staff team.  Mattigins's [Forum Administrator] rank is renamed to [Administrator].

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2015

September

• 28 September 2015 - Dogcraft Minecraft Server launched for testing on Minecraft 1.8 for a select group of Pioneers.
• 28 September 2015 - Survival world launched; a Survival Multiplayer world. Spawn City was founded on this day.
• 28 September 2015 - Amplified world launched; a Survival Multiplayer world with Amplified terrain.
• 28 September 2015 - MCMMO world launched; a Survival Multiplayer world with MCMMO plugin.
• 28 September 2015 - Creative world launched; a creative mode world. The first iteration required an admin to allocate plots.
• 28 September 2015 - Skyblock world launched, with missions for players to complete.
• 28 September 2015 - First Hub world launched, with a design based on Rendog's Mole City from his Survival series world.
• 28 September 2015 - Dogcraft Discord server created.

October

• October 2015 - Construction developments in Spawn City; MoleMart building founded by  TheFreakSound and crop farms established by  NBStuart.

November

• 14 November 2015 - Dogcraft Minecraft Server launches publicly for the first time.

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2016

April

• Mid April 2016 - Survival Railway Network (SRN) founded by  _edo and  Mr_Dawgie on the first Survival world.
• Late-April 2016 - Completion of Grannydog's Monument in Spawn City, with new Spawn Station underneath.

May

• 4 May 2016 - Stream Town founded during a livestream by ReNDoG.
• 21 May 2016 - First Survival world End Dimension opening.
• 21 May 2016 - Dogcraft updated to Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update

June

• 2 June 2016 - Lackria founded by  William278 and  SENsationals02 alongside a secondary railway track of the SRN.
• 16 June 2016 - First ever main line SRN railway station completed - South Station.

July

• July 2016 - First Mall opened.

November

• 6 November 2016 - Rendog posts base tour video, touring Lackria among other locations leading to a large influx of new players.
• November 2016 - Plus-shaped Second Mall opened.

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2017

January

• 26 January 2017 - Cyberdog Events YouTube Channel created.
• 30 January 2017 - First episode of CDNN News uploaded to the Cyberdog Events YouTube channel, about the Snow Day Event.

February

• February 2017 - Snow Day event held; the first to be fully organized by the original Events Team.
• 15 February 2017 -  darparniox assumes role of SRN Conductor from  _edo.

March

New Dogcraft.net site introduced in March 2017.

• March 2017 - Dogcraft.net experiences major data loss following a hard crash, bringing the site down for the first time since 2012.
• March 2017 - New Dogcraft.net site launched with a fresh forums and design by  Mattigins. Many features were removed, such as the arcade games.

April

• 1 April 2017 - No Fooling Around: A PvP Event held, attended by Rendog.
• 22 April 2017 - Festival of Flight event held, an event based around sky and elytra-based activities, featuring flight courses, a building contest and aerial PvP.

May

• 5 May 2017 - The Survival Railway Network project establishes a Discord server, becoming the first Dogcraft sub-community to do so. More communities would do this as Discord became the definitive method of communication on Dogcraft.

June

• 1 June 2017 - HeadMod  Rustbite announces the release of a new Survival world, dubbed "Survival 2", to be released later that year.
• 10 June 2017 - Something Summer event held, a summer-themed event held on a beach with a festival theme.
• June 2017 - Wanigoora founded by  OPwrecker.

July

• 12 July 2017 - Dogcraft celebrates it's fifth birthday. [HeadMod]  LilWolfie asked Cyberdogs to name their favorite memories of the community in exchange for prizes.
• 19 July 2017 -  Brianetta is appointed as [Admin].

September

The City of Havana

• 2 September 2017 - Survival 2, the second Survival Multiplayer world was released in a livestream event by Rendog, effectively succeeding Survival 1.
• 2 September 2017 - City of Havana founded by  _edo,  darparniox and  Brianetta, amongst others.
• 2 September 2017 - Akkara City founded by  William278,  LAK3RS and  TraktorMC.
• 2 September 2017 - Survival Railway Network in Survival 2 established.

October

• 12 October 2017 - FormulaAbyss (now known as  DragonTheTek) is promoted to [HeadMod].
• 31 October 2017 - Spooktober Halloween event held on the server.
• 31 October 2017 -  Navi_Heylisten is promoted to Discord Head Mod.

November

• 17 November 2017 -  Ectobeast is promoted to [HeadMod].
• 19 November 2017 -  Rustbite steps down as [HeadMod].
• 19 November 2017 - Rustbite assumes role as [Admin] on the Patreon Modded Server.

December

• December 2017 - Christmas 2017 event held, with a large snow globe build featuring a central grand Christmas Tree, a collaboration between the Build Team and Staff Team.
• 17 December 2017 -  Navi_Heylisten is promoted to [HeadMod].
• 31 December 2017 - New Years' Eve was celebrated by a build in the end that celebrated the pass of New Year in every country around the world, an organisation of the Staff, Build and Events Teams.

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2018

March

• 28 March 2018 -  j0n_r4ng steps down as [HeadMod].

April

• 21 April 2018 - Havana is toured by ReNDoG in a base tour video.
• 28 April 2018 - Akkara City Opening Day event held on the server, with a livestreamed tour of the town by Rendog.
• Late-April 2018 - As a result of the popularity of cities on the server, a large number of new settlements are founded, known as the Townpocalypse.

May

• May 2018 - Colors event held, celebrating the "colors of life". It featured a number of color-oriented events, including parkour and a sheep-based version of "Hungry-Hungry Hippos".

June

• 30 June 2018 - Cyberdog Wiki Project is established by  William278, founding what would become the Official Dogcraft Wiki.

July

• 31 July 2018 -  SummerFlower1234 is promoted to [Admin].

August

• 26 August 2018 - The Great Survival Map of Survival 2 is completed, led by  Skelleton123

September

• 23 September 2018 - Redstone Revelry event held. It featured a large mansion with a diverse set of redstone traps and puzzles.

October

• 7 October 2018 - Hydropolis officially opens to the public, with a large 65-wither fight drawing large crowds to the short-lived city.
• 7 October 2018 -  Brianetta steps down as [Admin].
• 15 October 2018 - It is announced that all worlds would be deleted and a new Survival world would be launched on the 20^th of October.
• 15 October 2018 - Staff face large community backlash from the announcement, criticizing the short notice and blunt wording of the announcement.
• 16 October 2018 - Usage of the World Downloader mod is permitted on Dogcraft.
• 19 October 2018 - The server is closed to make way for the third Survival world, all other worlds (except Creative) were discontinued at this time.
• 20 October 2018 - The server is upgraded to Minecraft 1.13: The Update Aquatic
• 20 October 2018 - Survival 3, the third Survival Multiplayer world on the Dogcraft server, launched to the public.
• 20 October 2018 - Deliverance founded by  LAK3RS,  William278,  Rhyvin and other Akkara members.
• 20 October 2018 - Chronia founded by a group of members who built Hydropolis on Survival 2.
• 21 October 2018 - The Home Tree founded by  Dutchsoccer and friends.
• 24 October 2018 -  Ectobeast steps down as [HeadMod] and transfers to becoming Patreon Head Mod.
• 25 October 2018 -  Scooberson accepts role of [HeadMod].

November

• November 2018 - Trade Hall established by  TickleMePickles.  bricksburger and  Maverick2008 would join him to assist in construction.
• November 2018 -  William278 leaves Deliverance project to make preparations to found what would become Ouranos.
• 29 November 2018-  marbou9 is appointed [HeadMod].

December

• 21 December 2018 - The 2018 Christmas Event Opens.
• 31 December 2018 - NYE event.

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2019

January

• 7 January 2019 - Ouranos founded by  William278 and  misterblue28.
• 22 January 2019 - The Survival 3 mall opens.

February

• 23 February 2019 - The first episode of The Chase gameshow event is recorded and held in Ouranos with a number of players in attendance.

March

• 5 March 2019 - The Survival 3 Enderman and Pigman farms become public.
• 9 March 2019 - The first dogcraft spleef league game is played at the DSL arena, near Tidal Station.
• 17 March 2019 - The Helper rank is introduced, with  TiniestTea,  CaffeineJitters and  William278 serving as the inaugural holders.

April

• 13 April 2019 - Ouranos Day takes place, alongside the shooting of a second episode of The Chase, to commemorate the official opening of the city.

May

• 7 May 2019 - @Content tag added to Dogcraft allowing users to opt-in or out of pings in #shameless-plugs.
• 27 May 2019 - The new events team consisting of  Gummibear87, OldManLP85, RY44 and  William278 is announced.

July

• 7 July 2019 -  Navi_Heylisten and  Clangedinn are married on the server, to commemorate their real life marriage.
• 8 July 2019 - Spawn build challenge commences, organised by  Domino_1 and the events team.

August

• 5 August 2019 - The William anvil murder court case.
• August 2019 - The Cyberdog Photography Contest is held, encouraging Cyberdogs to take photos of the server.
• August 2019 - Saturday Nitro Live event takes place on the server; a Nitro UHC tournament. Semifinals and finals are broadcast by ReNDoG.

September

• 24 September 2019 - The server is upgraded to Minecraft 1.14: Village & Pillage
• 24 September 2019 - Due to a server issue, the server had to be rolled back a few days.
• 25 September 2019 - [Admin]  Ironboundred sets up a temporary server for players to play on, while the main server is worked on.

October

• 8 October 2019 - The Dogcraft Directory discord is founded, allowing players to have an easy portal into other community discords.
• 8 October 2019 - The Ice Boat League hosts the time zone tournament.
• 14 October 2019 - The dmgdog vs legowar1508 court case.
• 15 October 2019 - The DC leagues discord is created, a merger between the spleef, ice boat and equestrian leagues.
• 18 October 2019 - The new hub, built by  OldmanLP85,  kimandjax,  RoseRedTiger and  Mipronk.
• 20 October 2019 - The 1 year anniversary of the Survival 3 server is celebrated.
• 26 October 2019 - The official wiki is launched, with the web address wiki.dogcraft.net.
• 27 October 2019 - The 2019 Halloween event opens to the public.

November

• 17 November 2019 - Marbou's Shopping List event takes place.
• 21 November 2019 - The Hide & Seek minigame returns to the server.
• 23 November 2019 -  KazYagami steps away from Discord Admin.
• 29 November 2019 -  marbou9 resigns from [HeadMod]. A community made video is released to thank him.

December

• 10 December 2019 - Erebus is founded by  dmgdog and  TrainerMoon
• 12 December 2019 -  simply_simon_ is appointed as as [HeadMod].
• 15 December 2019 - Saturday Nitro Live Season 2 finals night occurs.
• 15 December 2019 - The 2019 Christmas Event is made public.
• 20 December 2019 - Ragecorp Winter Wonderland opens to the public.
• 31 December 2019 - New Year’s Eve is celebrated in the 2019 Christmas Island.

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2020

January

• 3 January 2020 - The 2019 Reflections Wiki Event begins.
• 11 January 2020 - The Grand Map of Survival 3 is completed, led by  _edo and  Skelleton123
• 11 January 2020 -  TekBot0507's event, Dig Fo Gold occurs.
• 22 January 2020 -  Navi_Heylisten moves position from Discord Head Mod to Discord Admin
• 22 January 2020 -  googly2002 is promoted to Discord Head Mod.

February

• 5 February 2020 - Spawn is decorated for the upcoming Valentines Day.
• 9 February 2020 - The first episode of the CDNN News in over 2 years is uploaded to the Cyberdog Events YouTube Channel
• 23 February 2020 - Erebus Opening Day takes place with over 6 hours of events, marking the opening of the end dimension city of Erebus.

March

The Dogcraft.net site introduced in March 2020.

• 8 March 2020 - The Deliverence D-Day event, organised by  LAK3RS commences.
• 12 March 2020 - /plan system instituted as an alternative stats viewing system on the server.
• 15 March 2020 - The incoming closure of the Survival 3 world is announced as well as the new Survival 4 server.
• 17 March 2020 - The St Patrick’s Day Event is the final themed event of Survival 3.
• 19 March 2020 -  bBrain becomes an [Admin].
• 20 March 2020 - The server is updated to Minecraft 1.15.2, and the world border is expanded. During the downtime, a temporary server is set up.
• 20 March 2020 - The new website is released, players have to re-register. Claimblocks and Dogcraft Dollar balances are reset.
• 22 March 2020 - The wiki is made fully public on the new website.

April

• 1 April 2020 - Survival 3 ends and Survival 4 begins.
• 10 April 2020 - Husky End Opening takes place.
• 11 April 2020 - The second Survival 4 world, Beagle is open to the public.
• 19 April 2020 - Beagle End Opening takes place.
• 23 April 2020 - The Discord Emote Competition is announced.

May

• 5 May 2020 - Dynmap is re-introduced to the server on the Husky and Beagle Survival 4 worlds for the first time since 2017.
• 17 May 2020 - The Race Around the World event is held;  Fraserxx8 and  Mark98Scholten come in joint first.
• 20 May 2020 - The Survival 4 Mall is opened, with a new multi-layered design.
• 23 May 2020 -  briggsmech is promoted to [HeadMod].
• 24 May 2020 - May Mayhem PvP event is held, hosted by  UnspeakableAl,  ProtuberDC and  Doblocks.  legowar1508 claims first place.

June

• 1 June 2020 - The @Dogcraft rank is introduced to the Discord.
• 21 June 2020 -  NightSkyPC's Hardcore Parkour event takes place.
• 24 June 2020 -  William278 is appointed Discord Head Mod.
• 28 June 2020 -  TreeManForever's event, The War of The Pillager King takes place.
• 29 June 2020 -  sasha1nine7 is promoted to Patreon Head Mod.

July

• 9 July 2020 - The endfarm on Beagle opens to the public.
• 14 July 2020 - RHN (Road and Horse Network) founded by  _edo
• 24 July 2020 - The server is updated to Minecraft 1.16: The Nether Update
• 24 July 2020 - A Dogcraft Stream Day commences to celebrate the update to Minecraft 1.16.

August

• 1 August 2020 - Lotus hosts the first spleef tournament of Survival 4.
• 19 August 2020 - googly2002 Vs dmgdog Court Case held at the Gaia Courtroom - The first court case of Survival 4.
• 23 August 2020 - The Dogcraft Hunger Games event organised by  LazyNine,  ElliottheRedd,  Montenator and  N1cM4tth3w63 takes place.

September

• 27 September 2020 - The Cyberdog Server and Discord celebrates it's fifth anniversary with a Dogcraft Stream Day and a fireworks spectacular.
• 28 September 2020 -  Navi_Heylisten steps down as [HeadMod] and Discord Admin.
• 28 September 2020 -  Princess223 is promoted to [HeadMod].
• 30 September 2020 - Miniblocks and custom armour stands are made available to purchase in the "Warm Gossip" shop in the Server Mall.

October

The current Dogcraft.net site introduced as of December 2020.

• 31 October 2020 - The Halloween 2020 Event opens to the public.

December

• 5 December 2020 - The Dogcraft.net website is updated with a refreshed look and improved log-in and registration system.
• 5 December 2020 - MoleMart (Survival 4) opened to the public in the Server Mall. A "miniblock megastore" allowing players to purchase hundreds of new decorative mini blocks and staff plushies.
• 16 December 2020 - The 2020 Christmas Event is made public.
• 17 December 2020 - The Christmas Decorating Competition 2020 winners are announced.
• 19 December 2020 - Christmas 2020 Community Stream day takes place.
• 19 December 2020 - The City of Gaia hosts ice boat races on their frozen-over canals, as part of their Christmas celebrations.
• 21 December 2020 - The winners of the Mall Overhaul event are announced.
• 31 December 2018 - New Years 2020 event takes place.

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2021

January

• 2 January 2021 - The 2020 Reflections Wiki event begins.
• 16 January 2021 - The Race around the World 2 event takes place.
• 28 January 2021 - The "Livestreaming 🔴" voice channel is introduced to the Discord, for people that are streaming.
• 31 January 2021 - The first heat of the 3rd Saturday Nitro Live competition starts, being broadcasted live on the Cyberdog Events youtube channel.

February

• 1 February 2021 - The 2020 Reflections Wiki event concludes
• 4 February 2021 - The 2020 Reflections Wiki event winners are announced.  eybwam's Northold Hollows wins Best Article;  Montenator wins Most Active Editor and  OldManLP85's Events article update wins Best Update to an Existing Article.
• 5 February 2021 - The finals of the 3rd Saturday Nitro Live competition starts, being attended by ReNDoG and won by  ThEquinox2
• 15 February 2021 - Due to record breaking storms and low tempreatures across the eastern US, the server goes down for a number of days.
• 16 February 2021 - A temporary server is set up by  Ironboundred while the main server is down.
• 17 February 2021 - Power to the server is restored, and returns online.
• 27 February 2021 - The Day of the Invasion event takes place, hosted by  TreeManForever.

March

• 21 March 2021 - The mansion-raiding loot gathering Raid on Vernal Manor event takes place, hosted by  ThEquinox2
• 22 March 2021 - Support for Bedrock Edition players starts via the Geyser plugin allowing Mobile, Console, VR & Windows 10 Edition players to join the Dogcraft server.

April

• 3 April 2021 - The Easter 2021 event is opened by the Events Team, at /phome Easter2021
• 5 April 2021 -  Rubikscubedude hosts the PvP event "OMEGA Tournament Of DOOM™️!"
• 6 April 2021 - The Events channel on the Discord is converted into a Stage Channel
• 10 April 2021 - Events team base tours are conducted as part of 1 year anniversary celebrations for Survival 4.
• 25 April 2021 - After just over a year and a half, a third episode of The Chase is recorded, this time in the Gaia theatre.

May

• 1 May 2021 - The "Battles of the Spawns" server event takes place, and is won by  Snuginthesun for Husky and  EddyTeach for Beagle.
• 3 May 2021 - [WebAdmin],  OD18 publishes archives of the Dogcraft.net forums that operated between March 31^st 2017 and March 20^th 2020.
• 5 May 2021 -  Nonium joins the Events Team

June

• 26 June 2021 - The Dogcraft Wiki receives a new skin to fully integrate it with the main website's styling.
• 30 June 2021 - The Dogcraft server goes down as hardware upgrades are carried out and data migration takes place

July

• 2 July 2021 - The Dogcraft server returns as database migration finishes.

August

• 22 August 2021 - It is announced that Dogcraft will be shortly upgrading to Minecraft 1.17.1.
• 28 August 2021 - The server is updated to Minecraft 1.17.1.

September

• 1 September 2021 - The NTN Overworld Portal Build Competition begins and was later won by  Mareel on Husky and  Minda905,  PerskyPuff &  SummerFlower1234 on Beagle.

October

• 8 October 2021 - The Holiday Shop in the Mall opens, with Halloween themed heads as it's first collection.
• 27 October 2021 - Halloween 2021 opens to the public, and is later attended by ReNDoG in a livestream.

November

• 2 November 2021 - The Wiki Screenshot Competition begins.

December

• 13 December 2021 - Build Battle at the Christmas 2021 event commences.
• 14 December 2021 - The Christmas 2021 event opens to the public.
• 31 December 2021 - New Year's 2021 Event takes place, with multiple displays across various timezones.

2022

January

• 4 January 2022 - It is announced that an update to the Dogcraft Server for 1.18 will bring the close of Survival 4.
• 4 January 2022 - The winners of the 2021 Screenshot Contest are announced.
• 7 January 2022 - The Survival 4 Reflections Wiki Event begins.
• 22 January 2022 - The T-G Treasure Run takes place within the Husky cities of Takeshi and Gaia.
• 25 January 2022 - The winners of the Christmas Build Battle, 2021 and announced.

February

• 20 February 2022 -  simply_simon_ steps down as [HeadMod].
• 20 February 2022 -  SummerFlower1234 moves from [Admin] to [HeadMod].

References

See also: Timeline/Sources