History

NewSpawn, especially being a public Survival MultiPlayer, has a very complex history.

NewSpawn Classic is a server similar to NewSpawn Reborn and existed in 2011. Not much is known about it currently.

When alex2003super saw a reddit comment by EggYoch on the post “Fellow old minecrafters, what is your best memory from Minecraft?” describing Newspawn Classic and its fall, he decided to create a subreddit about NewSpawn and created NewSpawn Reborn.

A popular video by YouTuber reddit Oz Media prompted many intrigued people to join the server and is considered to have popularised it.

For the earliest part of the server's existence, it has been on Minecraft: Java Edition Version 1.13.2 and had a world barrier limit of X/Z ±2,500 to inhibit exploration of far away chunks so that 1.14 and later chunks could load. The first six Spawn Spots were in the 2.5k Era.

The first Dragon Event was the first time the end was entered. A failed organisation called the Endbuster Initiative attempted to lead it. FrankoBG was infamous for grabbing the Dragon Egg without telling anyone and dying with it. He is responsible for the planning of the June 2 Dragon Event. Shortly after the First Dragon Event, an Ender Dragon was spawned while Th3sad0ne was exploring the End Islands, and had to defeat the dragon solo.

On 2019-05-26, a bug involving the MCFunction system used to manage NewSpawns during the 2.5k Era resulted in a period of pure anarchy after online members were told their decisions didn't matter because the entire server would be rolled back to a backup. In Pueblo Del Rio (NS#00) a Wither and an Enderdragon were spawned by alex2003super.

The seek of an effective AntiCheat software began near the end of the 2.5k Era, when it became clear that a server like NewSpawn needed to be protected from potential hackers. While different AntiCheat software was being tested and tweaked, players experienced a variety of false positives in gameplay, leading to glitchy movement when performing certain actions and the infamous bugs that caused random damage, laggy Elytra gliding and water elevators to be potentially deadly. Eventually alex2003sper found a valid configuration which maximizes Quality of Service while keeping the multiplayer experience fair.

The 5k Era, named after the Border being increased to X/Z ±5,000 is the term for NewSpawn between the versions of 1.14 and 1.15. It started on the 28th of May. It was delayed to 1.14.2 to avoid world corruption or server-breaking bugs. The 5k era was planned to have a second Dragon Event, a Wither Event, and replace the MCFunction system used for NewSpawns between Efrafa (NS#01) and Infinite Desert (NS#05).

On 2019-10-27, a Russian youtuber by the name of Тучный Жаб made a video similar to the one made by Oz Media, in which he read EggYoch's Reddit comment translated to Russian, and thus causing many Russian fans to join the server and creating NewSpawn's Russian player population.

With the intent to fully configure NewSpawn Season 2, on 2019-09-04, the server was temporarily shut off and replaced by a Creative server, then subsequently reopened. The Creative server was then available until 2020-02-02, when it was closed due to inactivity.

NewSpawn Season 2 started 2019-11-01.

Manchineel announces the beginning of 7.5k Era

Soon after the release of Minecraft's Nether Update, the Border expanded to X/Z ±7,500, bringing 1.16.1 with it.

After more than one year since the previous increase in size of the NewSpawn World Border, the 1.17 update marked the start of a new era, bringing along tons of new features, blocks and—most importantly—a bump by 2.5k of the world size in each direction of each axis. Following this, the server continued to update during this era, and currently rests on 1.21.1.