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"Welcome to the Cyberdog Nation!" Dogcraft.net
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
- 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 - Pickaxe and Bone logo designed
August
- August 2012 - AJAX Chat added, allowing Cyberdogs to instantly message over the site.
- August 2012 - Arcade added
- August 2012 - Dogcraft Dollars first implemented, which could be earned through VIP membership or for chatting on the forums.
- August 2012 - Dogcraft Shop added, allowing users to buy website "stock" to display on their profile with DCD.
2013
2014
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.
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 - End Dimension on the Survival world officially opened.
- 21 May 2016 - Dogcraft updated to Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update
June
- 2 June 2016 - Lackria founded by
William278 and 
SENsationals02 alongside a track of the new SRN. - 16 June 2016 - First ever SRN railway station completed - South Station.
November
- 6 November 2016 - Rendog posts base tour video, touring Lackria among other locations leading to a large influx of new players.
2017
February 2017
- February 2017 - Snow Day event held; the first to be fully organized by the original Events Team.
- February 2017 -
darparniox assumes role of SRN Conductor from _edo.
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 2017
- 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 2017
- 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 2017
- 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 2017
- 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.
October 2017
- 31 October 2017 - Spooktober halloween event held on the server.
September 2017
- 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.
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.
- 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.
2018
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.
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.
- 15 October 2018 - It is announced that all worlds would be deleted and a new Survival world would be launched on the 20th of October that month.
- 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 - 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.
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.
December
- 21 December 2018 - The 2018 Christmas Event Opens.
- 31 December 2018 - NYE event
2019
January
- 7 January 2019 - Ouranos founded by William278 and
misterblue28
- 22 January 2019 - The sur3 mall opens.
March
- 5 March 2019 - The sur3 endfarm and pigfarm become public.
- 17 March 2019 - The Helper rank is introduced
May
- 27 May 2019 - The new events team consisting of
Gummibear87,
OldmanLP85,
RY44 and William278 is announced.
July
- 7 July 2019 -
NaviHeylisten 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
- 31 August 2019 - Saturday Nitro Live finals night occurs.
September
- 24 September 2019 - Due to a server issue, the server had to be rolled back a few days. This was also when 1.14 was added to the server.
- 25 September 2019 - Administrator
Ironboundred sets up a temporary server for players to play on, while the main server is worked on.
October
- 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.
- 27 October 2019 - The 2019 Halloween event opens to the public.
November
- 17 November 2019 - The shopping list event occurs.
- 21 November 2019 - The Hide & Seek minigame returns to the server.
- 29 November 2019 -
Marbou9 resigns from the head moderator position.
December
- 12 December 2019 -
Simply_Simon_ is appointed as as head moderator - 15 December 2019 - Saturday Nitro Live Season 2 finals night occurs.
- 15 December 2019 - The 2019 Christmas Event is made public.
- 31 December 2019 - New Year’s Eve is celebrated in the 2019 Christmas Island.
2020
January
- 3 January 2020 - The 2019 Reflections Wiki Event begins.
- 11 January 2020 - The Grand Spawn Map is completed, led by _edo and
Skelleton123 - 23 January 2020 - NaviHeylisten moves position from discord headmod to discord admin and
googly2002 becomes the discord headmod.
February
- 22 February 2020 - The City Of Erebus is opened.
March
- 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 sur3 world is announced as well as the new sur4 server.
- 17 March 2020 - The St Patrick’s Day Event is the final themed event of survival 3.
- 21 March 2020 - The server is updated to 1.15, and the world border is expanded. During this time, a temporary server was set up.
- 21 March 2020 - The new website is released, resetting claimblocks and dcd, as players had to re-register.
- 22 March 2020 - The wiki is made fully public on the new website.
- March 2020 - Template:Bbrain becomes a server administrator.
April
- 1 April 2020 Survival 3 ends and Survival 4 begins
This page was last modified on 4 July 2020, at 15:06. (8 months ago)
