Southland

Southland
FriendCraft, BimmerCraft, and Personal Servers location
Southland Manor, the former capital of Southland (Resource Pack is PureBDCraft)
Created by	Taylor Swift, Prude, Arkon
Information
Population	15~
Founded	2011
Other Names	Danlandia, Faglandia, Dans World, Dantopia

Southland is the primary region for the TayPack server. Originally, the project began as a small hut for a 3 man server, but has since been used in Minecraft servers for every single iteration of The COMMIEVERSE.

History

Original Map

The original Dantopia. See the original hole in the ground at the bottom left.

The beginning of what became Southland can be traced back to a 3 man server hosted off of Shelarahns computer in early 2011 when Prude, Arkon, and him began playing a new survival map. Originally, the trio based themselves out of a small hole in the ground that led to a larger subterranean cavern system, but a cobblestone base was soon erected close by, a building that would later become Southland Manor. Prude decided to fuck off a ways from the base and build his own tower, later named Faglandia Tower. Arkon would burrow through the nearby mountain and build the PVP arena on top of it, and connected it directly to the main manor, now called Dantopia Manor. A faux "war" broke out between Faglandia and Dantopia, which escalated to Shelarahn building a great wall with TNT cannons on top, and glassing the Faglandia Desert. After a week or so, Prude and Arkons interest in the server would fade, and the server was shut down.

Over the next year or so, the map would be imported into various different mod packs such as Technic and several other "cities" would be added Like Dantopia City, Bordertown, and The Northern Wall.

New Map

The Southland Manor complex imported into a fresh map via MCEdit

The original Dantopia map had been used over several different versions of Minecraft, and as such, was beginning to fray at the edges where new procgen would create wildly different biomes and landmasses. To fix this, Shelarahn imported the original Dantopia Manor into McEdit and cleaned away all of the dirt and stone surrounding the cobblestone building, and imported it into an entirely new map on the newest version of Minecraft. At this time, Friend Zone as in full swing, so the new map was put up at a vanilla server for the members of Friend Zone to enjoy. It was here that the area that would later become Southland Island began to emerge. Morgan was responsible for much of the building north of the manor, including the now derelict Tower of Friendship and a statue to herself.

With the release of 1.4.2 on October 25th, 2012, and the addition of the Wither, a test was conducted on the southern end of the island to spawn the Wither. The attempt was successful and the area of destruction left can still be seen at Wither Hill.

As FriendCraft became more popular, the Friends would move to a different pack and a completely new map, leaving Southland behind.

Various Revisions

In the years following FriendCraft, Shelarahn independently would continue working on the map sporadically. The first major moves were creating the various islands by cutting them off of the adjoining landmasses using VoxelSniper and WorldEdit, creating rivers and bays as natural barriers. Secondly, Southland Manor itself was overhauled, removing the tower on top and converting it to a log roof. The surrounding island was also landscaped, adding huge trees to file in the empty areas.

Northport was added next, as a second area independent from the main island. Two compounds were built along with the bazaar and port. Roads linking the two locations were also built.

TayPack

In December of 2017, Southland was moved to The TayPack, a custom collection of mods meant to increase aesthetics and give the world life via furniture and other QoL additions.

Locations

Inner Isles

The Inner Isles as they appear on The TayPack currently.

The original area where Southland Manor was placed when imported into the new maps is the area that is now considered The Inner Isles. The island is limited to handmade projects and is usually restricted against everyone building. There was countless hidden and lost buildings, underground tunnels, and roads scattered throughout the map as a result of years and years of building and improving the islands.

Southland Island

The area immediately surround the manor and the main island of the Inner Isles, Southland Island features most of the oldest structures on the map. On the northern shores of the island, the two colossus, Southland and The Traitor Queen, stand. Next to the latter colossus, the ruins of The Tower of Friendship are seen, overgrown with vegetation. The Black Warrior River serves as the natural border along the western, northern, and eastern sides of the island, with Southland Bay forming the southern border. Along the river, are the 3 beacons, that light the path around the western bend of the river. In the heart of the island lies the marble gazebo that serves as a memorial to all those lost building Southland.

North of the manor is the old Royal Hotel and Bickham Square, which is surrounding by Southland General Hospital. To the west from the square is the New Nether Portal site and an old abandoned graveyard. East from the old hotel is the Captain Kitty Memorial Bridge that leads to Northport Island, built on top of the old gravel road that crossed the river. Past the bridge to the east in a hollow is Brendans Workshop. Just south of that is the entrance to the massive underground facility of Southland Engineering, including the Research and Development complex known as "the Coke can", a massive 5 story metal building that extends all the way down to bedrock. The site was originally used for testing and showcasing more complex mods and for testing dangerous and new systems and features.

On the very Southern tip of Southland Island is Southland Point (formerly called Danlandia Harbor). The prominent buildings here are the old customs warehouse and the Southland Beach Resort & Spa, which sits on the most southern beach of the island. There is a small bazaar in between the two buildings, and a fountain do the west of the customs warehouse. Northeast of Southland Point is the perpetually under construction Ministry of Justice complex, and the newly added Foreign Embassy (A base imported from an old Goon map called Derts Server, built by Taylor in September of 2011). Just before the bridge to these two buildings is the old site of the first Wither spawn, Withered Hill. West of the Point is the bridge leading over the bay to Wallace Island.

Directly south of the manor is Munny Sokol Park, the site of a former administrative building that was torn down and converted into a green space. The old TNT cannons from Fort Dicks were relocated here, and are currently on display, but non-functioning.

Other Places

• Dr Wheels Farmstead
• The Old Bay
• Saint Georges Tower
• The Old Bay
• The USS Swift
• The Floating Temple

Historical Locations

• The Old Tomb of Forgotten Kitties
• Mob Grinder
• Danlandia Harbor & Lighthouse
• C-Team Continent
• Dantopia Southern Watch Tower
• The Great Wall of Dantopia
• Bordertown
• Dantopia City
• Northern Border Wall & Fort

Contributors

• Morgan
• Josh
• Brendan
• Pigeon - Just kidding he NEVER FUCKING PLAYED WITH TAYLOR
• Prude
• Arkon
• A few unnamed pubbies