World Border
The World Borders of Sim PvP are locations few players have visited, and even fewer have physically traveled to. While the World Borders of today are all 30 million blocks from Spawn, in Sim PvP's earliest months this was not the case, and an artificial Border existed close to Spawn, being a source of much controversy. This page is a WIP, feel free to contribute, it will result in the deletion of some (not all) related pages.
The Overworld World Border
The 5k World Border of 2011/2012
In late 2011 a vote was held on the servers forums[1] to add an artificial World Border 5000 blocks from Spawn. The vote barely passed and the artificial Border was put in place, with players outside of it already being allowed to remain outside until they died. The creation of the artificial Border, as well as the manner in which the vote was held, was a subject of much controversy that led to a second poll[2] being held a few months later. This poll resulted in the Border being removed and also led to the creation of /world as a compromise between those who wanted a small Border for increased PvP and those who wanted the freedom to travel far from Spawn.
The World Border Expedition
Over 7 years players gradually migrated further and further from Spawn due to the removal of the artificial World Border as well as the gradual accumulation of wealth older players obtained that allowed them the ability to travel further out. ZeroVisibility reached 1.5 million at some point, clipchip reached 4 million, and Infam0us2 reached 7.5 million, becoming the furthest player from Spawn. By 2018, the record stood at 7.5 million blocks, with the 30 million block World Border not even being a thought on anyone's mind, save for one player.
On May 29th, 2018 DakkaDok began traveling south from Spawn[[3]], intent on going all the way to the World Border 30 million away. Initially, he only flew in the overworld, making the journey take 8 times as long as it would if he flew in the Nether. As a result, it took 5 days for him to reach 1 million blocks. The day after, DakkaDok died stalling his progress for 2 days until he could obtain supplies from clipchip, who agreed to provide him with materials in exchange for a portal to the Border. By the end of the month, DakkaDok had reached 8 million blocks and was the furthest player from Spawn in the history of the server.
By September 17th, 2018 DakkaDok had reached 15 million blocks from Spawn, building his infamous 15 million milestone.
When the server updated to 1.13 in November of that year, DakkaDok's progress was slowed, and a forced suicide on November 24th resulted in him losing much progress and motivation. Eventually, DakkaDok stopped 22 million from Spawn and started building his new city, Nos Aeterna. At the end of the year he began selling access to portals 8 and 15 million blocks from Spawn respectively.
Overworld Border Reached
On May 10th, 2019 clipchip reached the Overworld World Border, becoming the first player to ever do so.
The World Border Mystery
A strange glitch occurred on March 8th, 2020 that teleported cheesy_chips22 to the Overworld World Border. After this happened, he invited Zepheron to come there with him and the two left signs before DakkaDok made them leave.
The End World Border
Early Travels
Prior to Java Edition 1.9, traveling in the End was much more difficult than it is today. With no elytra to fly, and no terrain to generate, traveling required players to either bridge manually or use flying machines. Both of the latter methods were used by MisterStrawman in his early journeys through the End. Ultimately MisterStrawman's travels led to him founding Andromeda in 2015, perhaps the farthest base in the End at the time. The base was intended to be untouchable, but was ultimately found in 2019 and abandoned by MisterStrawman.
The End World Border Expedition
In 2019 TheOnlySlash decided to start flying in the End to see how far he could go. However upon reaching a seemingly endless void and being unable to go around it, he stopped and delayed his progress