History of Sitaku

Sitaku was founded on 20 May 2019 by Kasreti, as a private Minecraft server between friends. The server has gone through many changes and eras, shaking up the foundations of the server and rebuilding the server over and over. The server continues to evolve and navigate as a dual Creative-Survival server, with the latter more active, and the former more prominent and used in official affairs. Sitaku has also grown into a place for school discussions and hangout, as well as tehe home of some short experiments.

This page documents an outline of the events that happened over the past three years. It does not cover any worldbuilding or roleplay-based histories in depth. Refer to Lore History of Sitaku for those.

Founding of the Server
The idea came after Kasreti got Java Minecraft in 2018. He built his first Java city for a school project, visited minecartrapidtransit, and revisited old PS4 worlds, all influencing the creation of Sitaku. The main inspiration for city planning was minecartrapidtransit, where towns would be centred around train stations. As Kasreti and 9NineVolt were active in MUN and Thefutureofeuropes (mapping community), the idea of a political and judiciary system would soon make its way into the The Democratic Republic of Sitaku, seen in the formal language present in 2019-era political documents.

On 20 May 2019, a Group DM named "Minecraft Gang" was created, with the founding members Dat_Templar and Wumpus. 9NineVolt would join later on due to technical issues, and Squiddum (formerly brainless_guy) would be invited six days later. The Discord server was founded on 22nd May 2019, with the first message sent on 26th May 2019 announcing the new train routes. From then onwards, rapid recruitment started happening, as there was an eventual goal of at least 50 members through recruiting classmates or randoms.

Early Creative
Sitaku-Minha (臣拓眠葉) was initially founded as the southern-most town in the server. However, due to the limited knowledge that the three members had at the time, the geography of the area was miscalculated, leading to the initial map for the server treating West as North. This didn't last very long, and neither did the title of Sitaku-Minha. Towards the south, scouting for areas (soon to be Raven's Crack and Sub Terra) begun, as the first building was founded on the server -- the Sitaku-Minha Checkpoint, where new players received the rules, their passport, and physical cash.

The Sitaku-Minha train station would be founded by Kasreti (formerly KnowledgeGamer), and lines extended northwards and southwards -- although they were consider two separate lines, as at the time Rotcev and Shintami were considered as part of the Central line. The Central line extended through Minha-Si till Lakeside. In the middle of a tunnel, Squiddum dug out a small section for a new station, where Seaman's Cove would be founded.

Sitaku during this phase primarily operated as more of a nation-building server than a city-building server. That is, there was a strong sense of building one's own country and infrastructures, with parliament meetings and the mandatory submissions of documents to pass bills in order to claim more land, found an association, or pass new rules. Politics, including the departments and elections were an integral part of the server, and each person would create backstories for their own countries.

With limited understanding of Minecraft mechanics, datapacks were extensively used up until September, when the server changed to a Spigot server, where plugins could be added.

At the time, the server operated on aternos, creating a necessity for #log and the "Nofitication Gang" role (no one bothered fixing the typo) so people would know when the server would start up.

First Survival
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Anarchy
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Second Survival
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Creative Revival
distance learning = new porteliza

5th Survival and the Sitakuan Decline
5th survival doesnt desrve to get a page link lmao