Boom Town

The Minecraft Server's population continues to rise quickly, the number of unique users rising by half in the last 96 hours. Acamilo's Everything Farm continues construction in Civilization, but TechieMikey has constructed an enormously long railway coming out of the mines under Hyde's Tower, and running south all the way to the Deep Range, creating a new facility called Station Beta, an underground mine, and a new fortress sitting atop the mineshafts. It lies entirely outside the Civilization map.

With the new influx of people to the server, and the 1.4 patch allowing spawn point changes in SMP expected in the next 10 days, we may be looking at dispersion of what has so far been a very centralized world. Whereas Hyde's Tower has been the home city for the entire server due to its proximity to the Spawn Point, we could see Northchester or Station Beta, or some other Deep Range post, become a new colony for people playing on the server, expanding construction well beyond our regular view. Whether any of these places are actively preparing for that case is, at this time, unknown.