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Spawn City of the first Survival world

"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

The homepage of Dogcraft.net on the 21st 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 - 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 20.png TheFreakSound and crop farms established by 20.png 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 20.png _edo and 20.png 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 20.png William278 and 20.png 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 - 20.png darparniox assumes role of SRN Conductor from 20.png _edo.

March 2017

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 20.png 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 20.png 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 20.png OPwrecker.

July 2017

  • 12 July 2017 - Dogcraft celebrates it's fifth birthday. HeadMod 20.png 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

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 20.png _edo, 20.png darparniox and 20.png Brianetta, amongst others.
  • 2 September 2017 - Akkara City founded by 20.png William278, 20.png LAK3RS and 20.png 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 20.png 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 20.png LAK3RS, 20.png William278, 20.png 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 20.png Dutchsoccer and friends.

November

  • November 2018 - Trade Hall established by 20.png TickleMePickles. 20.png bricksburger and 20.png Maverick2008 would join him to assist in construction.
  • November 2018 - 20.png William278 leaves Deliverance project to make preparations to found what would become Ouranos.

2019

January

  • 7 January 2019 - Ouranos founded by 20.png William278 and 20.png misterblue28

2020

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