The ManaCube Timeline.

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Been working on this for a bit now, compiling all the important dates I could find from forum announcements, the ManaLabs timeline (unfortunately doesn't have exact dates), a timeline created by Dakota himself back in 2016, and my personal knowledge of the server. So, here is an updated, comprehensive timeline of some of the most historic events in ManaCube's history. If I screwed anything up here (which is very likely) or missed something important, feel free to let me know! Video coming soon :p

September 13, 2013
MineVast was created (started as a creative server)

October 30th, 2013
Skype Staff Chat was created

November 3rd, 2013
MineVast 2.0 Released
(Server turned into a network. Lobbies created. KitPvP released)

November 8th, 2013
MineVast Hunger Games Released (removed by January, and plans to add it back along with Towny in February were cancelled)

November 9th, 2013
MineVast Factions released

December 2013
MineVast Skyblock released

January 24th-26th, 2014
20,000 unique users
Record player count of 120
1000 registered forum users

March 2014
Server only had creative, factions, kitpvp, and skyblock

May 13th, 2014
KitPvP 3.0 released

May 2nd, 2014
Factions 2.0 released

July 13th, 2014
New Forums Released

July 17th, 2014
SkyWars 2.0 released

August 3rd, 2014
Skyblock 2.0 released

August 13th, 2014
Survival Games finally re-released

September 13th, 2014
1st anniversary of the server

September 14th, 2014
Parkour Released

October 21st, 2014
KitPvP 4.0, "The New KitPvP"

November 8th, 2014
Website Stats and Leaderboards
Creative became 1.8

April 15th, 2015
MineVast suffers large-scale DDoS attacks, is able to beat them out within a few days

March 15th, 2015
KitPvP 5.0 released

April 22nd, 2015
Creative 3.0 released

April 25th, 2015
The new Website/store/forums

Mid-2015
Factions and prison (which was apparently added at some point) both removed from the server, only to make a return years later in the server's life.

June 1st, 2015
Skyblock 3.0 released. Parkour starts to gain a lot of popularity

June 3rd, 2015
Olympus project announced

August 6th, 2015
SkyWars 3.0 released (beta on the 31st)

September 12th, 2015
2nd anniversary of the server

September 20th, 2015
Parkour 1 year anniversery. New spawn released

October 15th, 2015
MineVast gets a new logo/icon

December 2nd, 2015
Forums hacked (hacker got Dacon's password, used it to get into the admin panel, deleted the forum theme, replaced it with his own, and staff had to rollback the forum by 3 days)

January 22nd, 2016
KitPvP 6.0 released

February 11th, 2016
Friends re-released. Teamspeak Update

February 14th, 2016
MineVast hits 500,000 total players

February 28th, 2016
EULA compliance pushed onto the server, donators before March 31st keep perks forever, donators after March 31st only get the new donator perks. However, this wasn't enforced very heavily from what I can tell, causing problems just 2 months later...

March 14th, 2016
Droppers added to Parkour

April 30th, 2016
EULA compliance part 2. Because of slow enforcement on MineVast's end, the server was blacklisted by Mojang from Minecraft version 1.9.3 and later. The same plans for ranks did have to be implemented, but they also had to remove Gems from the store and revamp crate keys.

July 2nd, 2016
Barebones released

August 1st, 2016
Islands released

August 16th, 2016
KitPvP 7.0 released

September 14th, 2016
3rd anniversary of the server

December 18th, 2016 (the Adventure Update)
Server rebrands to ManaCube
Survival revamp
Skyblock revamp
New hub added
New website/store design
Server lore created

December 20th, 2016
Graser10 and Kiingtong briefly join the server as media owners

February 28th, 2017
Skywars 4.0 released

March 9th, 2017
Parkour Practice released

March 23rd, 2017
Parkour Map Maker released

June 17th, 2017
Skyblock 5.0 released

July 8th, 2017
KitPvP 8.0 released

August 6th, 2017
Another new hub added

September 14th, 2017
4th anniversary of the server, poll decided that Prison would become a new gamemode on the server

November 11th, 2017
Parkour 2.0 released after over 3 years without a reset. Ranks, maps, score, gems, inventories, ender chests, vaults, stats, plots all gone. However, all players got a double chest reset vault to store their most precious items beyond the reset, and titles, ranks, and cubits survived the transfer. The 2.0 reset also came with a brand new spawn and the first champion map on the server, being the Haunted Manor.

November 21st, 2017
QA team added

December 2nd, 2017
KitPvP 9.0 released

December 15th, 2017
Skyblock 6.0 released

January 27th, 2018
Manacade added, basic inventory games that you can play in the hubs

April 7th, 2018
Olympus released

September 13th, 2018
5th anniversary of the server, new hub with tons of detail, secrets, easter eggs, and even a ManaCube hub bingo encouraging you to scour the map for 36 landmarks.

October 29th, 2018
Skyblock 7.0 released

January 14th, 2019
Community droppers added to Parkour

March 9th, 2019
Olympus Season 2 released

July 13th, 2019
Skyblock splits into Oasis and Aztec

August 3rd, 2019
Olympus splits into Aether and Atlas

August 23rd, 2019
Factions returns to ManaCube after over 4 years of downtime

September 12th, 2019
6th anniversary of the server

October 18th, 2019
Dream creates a video on ManaCube discussing the longest possible jump in Minecraft. Though Dream is already big at the time, getting several million views per video, this video goes viral, currently standing at over 13 million views, much more than his other videos from around that time. Because of the popularity of the video, tens of thousands of new players flock to the server, causing chaos network-wide for about a month, and chaos centralized to Parkour for about a year until it calmed down enough to not be considered a major issue, although the fans have certainly not disappeared entirely.

February 1st, 2020
KitPvP Season X released

September 13th, 2020
7th anniversary of the server

November 11th, 2020
Parkour Adventure Update (not to be confused with the general Adventure Update of 2016) released, with a new spawn, 2 new adventure maps, and daily challenges.
 

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A lot of this stuff to me, just brings back so many good memories of the older gamemodes and everything. I wish Mojang never did that thing though. If yall are old og players that still play, CONGRATS! I'll def remember you if I met you or not, Thanks for making this server @Dacon you have cause so many good memories.
 

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Damn yo thats pretty cool ngl
Thank you for making this <3
Lmao
It's cool to look back and see what has been accomplished ^-^
 

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Crazy to see how much work has been devoloped to kitpvp. Creative on the other hand gets little to no attention now. I wish there were still hunger/survival games, it seems like most servers have also purged them completely or added some type of kits that honestly just made it pretty bad. EULA compliance also just struck again with the unbans (damn), but overall an actually pretty interesting read, thanks!
 

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loved reading this!!! thank you so much for putting it together :D

the only two things i can see missing are the Skyblocks 8.0 and 9.0 (sorry, forgive me, skyblock main here haha) - they were released July 6th 2019 and April 11th 2020 respectively!

cheers again for a great collation <3
 

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damnnnnnnn boi this is insane! u should make a yt vid on this ;)