The Museum
| The Museum | |
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| Name: The Museum | |
| Date: Opened in August, 2021 | |
| Location: Events Map | |
The Sim PvP museum is the largest collection of Sim PvP history artifacts on the server. Existing entirely on the events map, the museum consists of hundreds of artifacts from various bases over the course of the server's decade long existence.
History
Early Attempts
Attempts to create an official server museum were first attempted during the admin tenure of Pippenger. Pippenger's efforts were largely focused around copying large ungriefed or partially griefed bases in their entirety from the survival overworld map to the Events World. Thanks to his efforts, many large and small bases were preserved in their original ungriefed condition, including notable bases such as Uinia, Stonetown, Ascaris, Castle Snowfrog and many more. Although these builds were preserved on the Events map, they were not accessible by the public and existed for his personal amusement and admiration more than anything else. Ultimately, this first attempt at compiling noteworthy builds for a museum would come to an end with Pippenger resigned as admin.
Community-Built Museums
After 2016, there were few attempts at building a server museum by the Sim PvP admin team. Despite that, community members frequently created their own small scale museums to hold artifacts and items of value. Players such as LordPastaYT and Bilot had large map collections, while others like SaluutSFR collected banners. Others like DKC had an interest in collecting books. Rare items, such as silk touch shears, petrified oak slabs and Mending/Infinity God Bows were also valued by the community, and collecting rare or unobtainable items was something many did, but few displayed publicly. When ostrich1414 arrived at Belgium in 2020, he proposed a large scale museum project within the base itself due to its security. The owner of the base, Korijenkins agreed with the idea, but no progress was ever made on the Belgium museum, which died when the base was abandoned for Void City.
This, however, did not deter Korijenkins, who would construct the Pippenger National History Museum at Void City not long after starting the base. Named after Pippenger due to his long running ties to Sim PvP history, the museum was the first of its kind, storing a collection of both artifacts and actual builds that were physically removed and relocated from their original bases. The practice was controversial, with player AntHand claiming that removing builds from bases was as good as griefing them. Korijenkins argued on the contrary, that him relocating builds to his museum at Void City was preserving the existence of Sim PvP history.
Around this same time, the server's 10th anniversary was coming up, and ostrich1414, now a server admin, was working with fellow admin MoWobbler on a small group of dioramas featuring various major battles fought between players throughout the server's history. When the 10th anniversary came and went, Korijenkins began petitioning server owner Yukarion as well as MoWobbler to get his museum copied onto the Events World so others could also visit it. Eventually, the admin team acquiesced, and the Pippenger National History Museum was copied over and opened to the public for the first time in August, being referred to at the time as the "Koriseum."
The Sim PvP Museum
Shortly after hosting the anniversary event for the server, ostrich1414 resigned as admin leaving a vacancy in the admin team. A little over a month after the Pippenger National History Museum was opened, Korijenkins replaced ostrich1414 as the newest Sim PvP admin. At the time, the museum's entrances were blocked off, and there was no way in or out of the building itself, with players spawning directly inside the museum when it was hosted. Over the next several weeks, Korijenkins began to modify the building, attaching the diorama event from the anniversary where one entrance was. It was at this time while exploring the Events World, previously inaccessible to him, that Korijenkins came across the old base copies made by Pippenger. As virtually all of these bases had been severely griefed or altered by the time he became a server admin, their preservation in their ungriefed state on the Events World resulted in the next phase of the museum's expansion.
A hallway was constructed leading out of the museum in the opposite direction of the dioramas, which led to a copy of the ungriefed Stonetown dome. Lining the hallway was mannequins featuring every admin in the server's history as well as their tenure. The dome itself featured a wall with the names of all those who had contributed to the museum itself, as well as a large map of Spawn as it appeared in 2018. In the diorama section a ladder was added that could be ascended, leading to a pristine copy of The Flying Castle. A third exit to the museum was eventually added which led to a copy of Castle Snowfrog and Suit's tower. Eventually, the museum expanded enough that a hub was necessary, as players could no longer feasibly explore all of it by simply walking. The new hub was capable of teleporting players who joined to see the museum to various locations within it.
The Library
The Sim PvP Library is an ongoing project within the museum attempting to collect and display books written by players from the server's inception to its present. The structure was designed and built by iLxgend at the request of Korijenkins, but only one wing has been opened due to the sheer scale of the project as well as the volume of books needing to be chronicled.
