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New Earth
New Earth was a stream project that originally began on 26th July 2020 and ended on August 4th 2023, where a 1:4000 scale map of the Earth was opened up in sections to the public to build, both on and off of stream.
The map was pre-made with the countries and borders (depicted with cobblestone blocks) laid out, and users were allowed to build down a little and up to around 40 blocks from sea level.
The builds can be viewed by joining the server (Instructions found here) and in an internet browser via the Dynmap here. Regions can be highlighted on the map by turning on the "WorldGuard" layers found on the left menu.
This was the first stream to be played on the 1.16.1 game version.
Rules
The full list of rules for builds can be found here. The rules applied for all on-stream and off-stream builds, and were updated over time as the server develops.
Stream 1 - Western Europe
The first stream, which premiered on 26th July 2020, featured a Western Europe section containing Ireland, the UK, (most of) France, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.
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Public Build 1 - Central & Eastern Europe
The second public build that opened at the end of Stream 1 featured a large portion of Central Europe, including locations such as Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Austria.
This was expanded one day later to include much of Eastern Europe.
This build region closed at 5 p.m. (BST) 30th July 2020, in preparation for the next stream two hours later.
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The second stream was on the 30th July 2020 at 7pm (BST) and lasted around three and a half hours. A majority of the Nordic region was available for construction, including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. During the stream, RT visited and explored a lot of the Public Central Europe area built in between the streams before admiring what had been built during the stream itself.
During this stream, the maximum number of concurrent players during any build stream peaked, reaching up to 431 concurrent players.
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Public Build 2 - Northern Russia
The second public build was opened after the stream on 30th July 2020, expanding to a northern section of Russia. It was later expanded to the East on the 5th August 2020, as the video released to include even more of Northern Russia. The zone was further expanded to the East once more on the 13th August. Once again this was finally expanded to the very East of Russia, going up to the edge of the world, on the 29th August 2020. This build zone finally closed on 13th September 2020 at 1pm, making this the largest and longest region at this time.
This region marked the debut of a greatly increased presence of build groups & much larger projects, armor stand builds, and note block builds, including jingles and full-length songs. The eastern zone of Russia also marked the introduction of full regional road systems across Public Builds; the road system in eastern Russia ranges across 3000 blocks. These concepts of builds would continue in following builds.
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North-West Russia
North-East Russia
Public Build 3 - Northwest Africa
Despite the cancellation of an expected stream, plans to open a new region still went into action. This area featured multiple countries including Morocco, Algeria, Western Sahara, Mali, Senegal, and the Canary Islands.
This region was temporarily closed on 16 September 2020 as RT was touring Russia and reopened once the stream had finished.
Concerns over Large Builds and Road Networks
Many concepts introduced from the public builds in Russia continued in this zone, but concern was brought up regarding larger builds and roads; firstly, community members expressed worry about the massive amounts of space that a road network was taking, which severely reduced free space for other builders to use. In addition, there was controversy over large builds being larger than their native countries. Both concerns led to the erasure of some builds. After these concerns were discussed and resolved in the community, builders have become much more considerate about the space they use; larger projects have been scaled down and road networks changed to be less wide. These ideas of common courtesy would continue into preceding build streams.
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Stream 3 - Northwest Asia & Viewing Northern Russia (Part 1)
On 16th September 2020, RT set out to view what had been created in the Public Northern Russia area. Due to its sheer size and high amount of detail in builds, RT only managed to view around half of the region, even with the stream lasting four hours.
Throughout the stream, a new region was opened - Northwest Asia. This included Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, and some of southern Russia.
Due to the region being less filled, this and the previous public area (Northwest Africa) were both left open for players to build on and was closed on 22nd October 2020, just over a month later.
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Stream 4 - Mainland America
On 22nd October 2020, a region was opened up that covered most of Mainland America (also known as the contiguous United States), where RT streamed and toured the area while people built for just under four hours.
Changes to New Earth
This stream marked the beginning of several features for the server.
Hybrid Build Region Model
This was the first build region in New Earth to follow a new "hybrid" model for build zones: it initially started as a stream build and still remained open for building after the end of the stream. This allowed for users to complete their builds, even if they were not done by the end of the stream; it also let users build in the region at any time if they were unable to make the stream. The region was closed on 3rd November 2020.
New Earth Travel Hub
On this day, the first fast travel hub for New Earth was created; it allowed players to travel from the spawn platform to the current portal in addition to previous build regions across the map. The hub featured a straight corridor with portals on each side. Prior to the travel hub's creation, players had to fly from the latest region to explore the rest of the world.
Vivecraft Support
On 19 September 2020, Vivecraft became a supported mod on the server. This new addition allowed players with appropriate devices and a Vivecraft client to play and build in virtual reality, also known as VR. Players without VR devices could also play using non-VR clients to see other players using VR to interact with the game. Mainland America was the first build stream which supported Vivecraft.
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Public Build 4 - Northern Africa
Beginning on 22nd October 2020 following the previous stream, the new region of Northern Africa opened up, featuring countries including Libya, Chad, Cameroon and Central Africa Republic. This stayed open for an extended time for off-stream building.
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Stream 5 - Viewing Northern Russia (Part 2)
On 27th October 2020, RT planned to view the rest of Northern Russia that was missed in his previous tour, viewing the last half of builds. The stream was over four hours in length, where he also viewed the Northwest Asia region after travelling through Northern Russia. During the stream, people were limited to building within the Northern Africa region to aid in server performance; this meant mainland America was temporarily put "on hold". After the stream, the whole world re-opened, and people could build in either of the two open regions.
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Stream 6 - Canada
On 1st November 2020, RT held a stream for the majority of Canada. The stream lasted three and a half hours, where people built in the area while RT toured and looked around the build area.
This region also followed the "hybrid" model and remained open for building after the stream. It was closed on 4 December 2020.
This region was the first area to introduce the "No Tesco Rule", prohibiting the building of Tesco stores in regions that do not carry this shopping chain. The rule later changed to apply more broadly to the ban of retailers unrelated to the given country of the build stream.
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Stream 7 - Greenland
On 7th November 2020, RT streamed Greenland. This was the first time a build region in New Earth had a special theme: builders were to construct their work solely inside four domes. These large spheres were made out of white and black glass and were located above Greenland; the country previously was an ice spike biome, but these were removed and replaced with grass within the domes.
Two of the domes opened for the stream, leaving the remaining pair to open for building post-stream. They were closed on 1 December 2020, one hour prior to the tour stream viewing all the domes.
The Void
Partway through the stream, players started covering the walls of one dome with black concrete, removing all natural light source. This was a controversial move, as it broke how people had lit up their builds. A decision was made that it was to be removed from the original dome, but would be allowed on one of the post-stream domes.
Two hours after opening, a team of players worked together and completed covering the whole inside of "dome 2" in black concrete. Nicknamed "The Void Dome", the builds inside feature a theme pertaining to outer space or the general darkness. What started as a controversial build ultimately became an iconic build theme and a favourite among builders, viewers and RT himself.
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Public Build 5 - Northeast Africa
On the 1st of December 2020, RT revisited Greenland to tour the domes that were built off-stream. During this tour, players could join and build in the northeastern part of Africa. This region included countries such as Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.
The region stayed open after the stream, and closed a few hours prior to the New Atlantis stream on the 17th of December.
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Stream 8 - Atlantis
On 17th December 2020, a new square region sitting between Canada, America and West Europe was created to represent Atlantis.
This region had all water removed from it, and build height was only as tall as the water level of the ocean, meaning players were destined to dig down to create larger builds.
After the stream, this region stayed open for players to continue building.
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Stream 9 - Alaska
This region had a special Christmas theme for building. It opened on the 22nd of December 2020, a few days before Christmas during a stream. This region stayed open after the stream, allowing people to build Christmas-related things until the end of the holidays.
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Public Build 6 - Central Africa
Central Africa opened on the 4th of January 2021 as a public build area. The region stayed open for about a month, closing on the 5th of February.
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Public Build 7 - Southern Africa
The Southern Africa region opened on the 5th of February 2021, and remained open until the 11th of March. It was the last region to be opened in Africa.
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Stream 10 - Japan & Korea
This build region contained Japan, North & South Korea, with small sections of Russia and China opening on the 11th March 2021. Due to the large amount of water in this stream build, the rule regarding the consideration of coastlines was lifted slightly, allowing players to build in the ocean. This region closed on the 25th March, 2021 at 5pm.
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Public Build 8 - East Asia
This area containing Mongolia, China and Russia opened after the stream on the 11th March 2021. This was open for a month, closing on the 11th April at 5pm.
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Stream 11 - East Asia and Viewing Africa
A stream on the 20th March 2021 led RT to view all of the previously built areas in Africa. During this time, players were allowed to continue building in the Japan, Korea, and East Asia regions.
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Stream 12 - New Zealand
On the 25th March 2021, New Zealand was opened up on stream. As it was a smaller region, some lesser islands closer to the spawn platform were permitted for build use. Due to the size, this was planned to only be open for a short time post-stream. It was closed at 9pm 27th March. This was a unique build in that this build site was placed on the edge of the world map, looming over the void. This led to many unique builds where players would make cutaways of their builds, allowing players to see them from the side.
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Stream 13 - Australia
On the 11th April 2021, a stream was held for Australia. This featured less underground building space, so the height was increased compared to previous regions. It was planned to stay open for one week, but ended up closing on the 2nd May 2021 at 5pm.
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Sydney Opera House
Created by ScottyFalcs, difigano_wave, TheNewfie15, SergentBerry, Alwys_Raiin, soda_drink, Sips_for_a_sir
Co-ords: 4422 1176
Uluru
Created by (unknown)
Co-ords: 3942, 758
Sydney
Created by G0rd0nFreeman, Aerrro, ArtyRachel, AT0mIKz_456, CrispyMiner, FreddyAggie, JimbusKhan, Ottokuutio, SuperSp1ral
Co-ords: 4553, 1028
Stream 14 - Underground Australia
On the 18th of April 2021, RT streamed a region featuring underground Australia as the build site. This was positioned in the same space as the previous above-ground Australia build, with the underground area completely wiped ahead of time. The one additional rule in the area was to build upside down. This region closed at 5pm, 2nd May 2021.
Due to the lack of natural light, this spawned a lot of creations with lights, similar to The Void Greenland domes.
After this time, RT stated that he planned to have a break from Minecraft streams, although future public build areas would continue to open over the break.
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Rainbow Road and Sydney Harbor Bridge
Created by (unknown)
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Reaper Attack
Created by digdudemax
Co-ords: 4457, 867
Warp Pipe to Conkdor Canyon
Created by CrispyMiner
Co-ords: 4144, 786
Sideways Ravine
Created by (unknown)
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Public Build 9 - Central Asia
This area containing Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and small portions of China, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan opened on the 2nd May 2021. This area was open for two months, closing on the 4th July at 5pm.
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Industrial Ravine
Co-ords: 2278, -1750
by unknown
Gustav Gun
Co-ords: 2247, -1409
by AT0mIKz_456
Truth or Consequences
Co-ords: 2170, -1240
by JimbusKhan, ottokuutio, and G0rd0nFreeman
Destiny Cosmodrome
Co-ords: 1938, -1562
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Stream 15 - New Heaven
First opened on 15th June 2021, This build was inspired by RT's playthrough of Bioshock Infinite. It started off as a simple idea of a build in New Earth where people could build above the clouds, but later expanded into a build in its own world due to world height restrictions, with the later goal to copy-paste into New Earth once there was additional world height available with the 1.17 update.
This world is now accessible via the New Heaven portal in the Misc section of the New Earth hub.
A few visual tweaks were applied, such as changing the light and shadow level of the world, meaning higher clouds did not cast dark shadows below. In New Earth when visiting this location you are granted night vision for a similar effect. For the duration of the stream, the sky colour was also changed to that of a deeper blue - to mimic the feel of Bioshock Infinite.
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Public Build 10 - Middle East
This region opened on the 4th July 2021, including countries such as Saudi Aravia, Yeman, Oman, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Jordan and more. This closed on the 16th October 2021.
Public Build 11 - Mainland China
On the 16th October 2021, a rather large, rectangular build site was opened that was designated as the servers China area, but also included other countries such as Mongolia, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan. This build site later closed at midnight on 24th December 2021.
Stream 16 - Antarctica 1
On November 30th 2021 there was a stream for a small section of Antarctica. The unique catch on the region was this was based on the original Chunk Stream Build design, so each player could have a plot to themselves. This limit was later upped to two per player during the stream.
There were a total of 392 plots. Not all of these were claimed or built in.
This was the first stream in a while and acted as a refresher for a later stream.
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Stream 17 - Viewing Middle East & Mainland China
On December 14th 2021, RT hosted a stream where he viewed the Middle East region. During this time players could build in the Mainland China area which was open.
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Stream 18 - India
On 21st December 2021, an India build area opened for the stream. While originally planned to close after the stream, it was decided to close at midnight on 24th December 2021. After this build site was closed, no more build sites were opened for a few weeks to give the mods a break during the holidays.
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Public Build 12 - Antarctica 2
On 8th February 2022, a new area of Antarctica was opened up for players to build in. Unlike the previous Antarctica build, this area was open and not exclusive to chunks. While no official highlights video exists of this region, RT did tour most of it during the New Earth's 2 year anniversary stream. This area holds the record for the longest time being open to build on, lasting until 19th September 2022, making it over 200 days, or half a year, of being open to build on.
Several factors contribute to this build sites longevity, but the main reason is due to RT's desire to play other games throughout the course of 2022. RT prides himself in variety with his content, meaning New Earth was barely mentioned and resulted in an alltime low amount of players. This lack of interest meant that the mods were not willing to open more build sites until more players became active again.
During this period the Build server was upgraded to both 1.18 and 1.19 allowing their respective new blocks, aswell as the new addition of furniture models, allowing for more realistic depictions of chairs, tables, and sofas.
Public Build 13 - Melanesia
On 4th September 2022, a new area of Melanesia was opened. This region includes countries such as West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanatu, New Caledonia and Fiji to name a few. The build area wraps around the existing Australia area and extends to the world border. The build site was closed on 18th December 2022, at 24:00 GMT
This build site was one of the first to be mostly contained of water, as most of the islands above the water were too small to be accessible for large scale projects. As a result, many builders took this as an opportunity to build unique structures, as you don't really need a "theme" to build over the water. Naturally, there are a lot of ships and ocean creatures in this area, including a full on kaiju battle with giant robots.
Addendum Build - Iceland
Opened on 11th November 2022, the Iceland build is a private build centered around the island of the same name. This build is unique, in that only Server Admins and Moderators (Both current and Ex-Offcio) have permission to build here. It was created as a way for the mods to build something freely to their hearts content, and as a personal "Thank You" from RT himself for dealing with the server's shenanigans for nearly 3 years. Highlights from this build include a diamond penis, dead whales, and a lot of among us caricatures.
Stream 19 - Touring New Earth
On 6th December, 2022, RT hosted a stream focused on touring all of New Earth, his first New Earth stream in nearly a year. The stream was a "retrospective" of sorts, going back through the majority of past builds, including builds sites RT had not previously not seen before, specifically the Central and East Asia builds, Mainland China build, and the Antarctica build. During this stream, the Melanesia build site was open during the stream and accessible to viewers, and remained open afterwards. The highlights for this stream were released two days later on 8th December, 2022.
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Stream 20 - Middle America/Central America
On 15th December 2022, RT hosted a stream for the new Middle America build site, which contained the countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The Caribbean countries were excluded and saved for a later public build. The build site closed on 15th January 2023 at 24:00 GMT. It was the first build site in the America's in over a year.
This build site saw the creation of the "arrows", which started when a single player built a red arrow over a lectern to get RT's attention. These arrows eventually became spammed and were banned from future build sites.
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Stream 21 - North Pole
On 21st December 2022, RT hosted a stream for the new build site, which was called the "North Pole" but geographically takes place on the Svalbard Islands. The build site closed down on 15th January 2023 at 24:00 GMT, the same time as the Middle America build site. Currently, no highlights video for this stream exist.
This build site is currently the 2nd smallest amount of space in a build site in terms of surface area, with only an 85x85 area available to build in. To compensate for this, the build height for this area reached up to 1983 blocks, making it the tallest build area in the server. The build site is centered around a 3x3 red & white concrete pole that rises up to the maximum height in the build zone, and players were encouraged to have their builds be connected to the pole by whatever means they found suitable. The majority of the builds here are Christmas/holiday themed, as the build site was open for the majority of the holiday season.
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Public Build 14 - Caribbean
On 15th January 2023, a new area for the Caribbean was opened. The region included Cuba, Hati, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as other smaller Caribbean islands. The build site closed on 16th April at 24:00 BST. While there was no dedicated highlights video for this region, RT did tour it during the East Brazil stream.
The Caribbeans is home to many unique cultures and media, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, One Piece, and Sea of Thieves, so naturally, a lot of builds here consist of pirate ships, tropical islands, and all kinds of sea monsters. Similar to the Melanesia build, the vast amount of water gave builders more freedom to build something unique, making this build area one of the most interesting in terms of scale and variety.
Stream 22 - Pixel Art Canvas/Worlds End
On 12th March 2023, RT hosted a stream for the new build site, officially called "Worlds End", but is better described as a pixel art canvas. The build area is a one block wide stripe spanning the entire length of the world and resting at the worlds northern border, making it the smallest build site in terms of surface area. The highlights video released a couple of weeks following the stream on 27th March 2023. The build site closed on 2nd July 2023, at the same time as New Hong Kong.
A pixel art stream/build had been teased by RT and the mods ever since the servers conception. This is due to a server rule that banned pixel art, as it would often hide other builds that were behind it and overall was not a very creative use of the space given to players in the build sites. As a result, this build site spanned the entire length of the world, giving players as much room as they possibly could to create the pixel art that they previously could not build, in the nearly 3 years the server has been active.
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Stream 23 - East Brazil
On 8th April 2023, RT hosted a stream for the build site in East Brazil. It was the first build site opened in South America, and it was closed on 9th July 2023. A highlights video was released a few days after the stream on the 12th of April. At the start of the stream, RT toured some of the Caribbean build area, to give people more time to build.
During the stream, RT suggested that the Amazon Rainforest, a massive and ecologically important rainforest in Brazil, would be zoned off from players in future build sites and could not be edited, due to it's importance in the real world, and the rest of the New Earth server already being packed with builds. Zoning off the Amazon would give players a nice breather from the sheer amount of player activity present in the other regions.
During this period, the build server was updated to 1.20, allowing for it's respective new block types to be used for future builds.
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Stream 24 - Antarctica 3
On 18th June 2023, RT hosted a stream for a new region in Antarctica. It was the first stream build to be played on version 1.20. The build site was closed a day later on the 19th of June, and during this period the East Brazil and Pixel Art builds were unavailable due to incompatible server settings.
Unlike the previous two Antarctica builds, this time RT set participants game modes to Survival. Prior to allowing players onto the server, he violated the Geneva Conventions and detonated 330,000 blocks of TNT in the build site, forming a massive crater in the center. The resulting explosion tanked server performance and took approximately 15 minutes for the explosions to stop. After that, RT tasked players to build in this new environment. Supplies such as food, planks, and tools were given to players to help with building and stopping them from dying. Most of the builds in this build site are located inside or around the massive crater.
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Stream 25 - Hong Kong
On 2nd July 2023, RT hosted a stream for a new region off the southeast coast of China, named New Hong Kong. The build region closed later the same day, and a highlights video released on 7th July 2023.
The entirety of the build took place within a 50 floor tower, wherein participants were each given a 16x8x14 plot to build with 4 people per floor. RT himself participated, building the RTGame GamerShack on the 14th floor to allow players time to work. During the stream, RT commented on how he was pleasantly surprised by the number of natural builds and cafes there were in the build.
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Stream 26 - Southeast Asia
On 8th July 2023, RT hosted a stream for a new region in Asia, which contained the countries of Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, aswell as tiny bits of Bhutan and China. It was the final region to be opened in Continental Asia, and the region closed on 23rd of July. Highlights for this region were released on 14th July 2023.
The existing Hong Kong tower build remained in the same place, and a worldguard region was placed around the tower in order to prevent it from being edited. Post stream, RT was encased in a selection of blocks by players while he was AFK. Once he returned to the game, he dug his way out and escaped. This mass of blocks can be observed from the region spawn.
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Public Build 15 - Central South America
Immediately after the stream on 8th July 2023, a new region in South America was opened up for people to build in. It contained the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. This region closed on August 1st, and RT toured it during the beginning of the Southern Cone stream.
A decision was made with this build site to leave the Amazon Rainforest untouched and inaccessible for players to build on, as a way to preserve some of the natural world generation. The future build sites in South America would be set up in a way that every country would have some of its land available to build on, without encroaching on the Rainforest.
Steam 27 - Maritime Southeast Asia
On 16th July 2023, RT hosted a stream for the final region in Asia/Oceania. This region contained the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. The region closed alongside the South America region's on August 1st, 2023.
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Stream 28 - Southern Cone
On 25th July 2023, RT hosted a stream in the south of South America, named the Southern Cone. The region contains the countries of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Throughout the first hour and a half of the stream, RT toured the Central South America and East Brazil regions.
This build was the last stream build of the 7 continents, and marked the penultimate stream build of New Earth, with a final build stream to follow.
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Public Build 16 - Northern South America
After the Southern Cone stream ended, the Northern South America build site opened, the final build site in South America, and the last build site to take place on a continent. The region contains the countries of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil. A large chunk of the Amazon Rainforest directly next to the build was sectioned off to maintain some of the nature.
Finally, on the 1st of August 2023, at 17:00 BST, the 4 remaining build sites (Maritime Southeast Asia, Central South America, Southern Cone, and Northern South America), all closed down, marking the end of the country builds.
Stream 29 - New Earth Capital (New John City)
3 years and 6 days later, on August 1st 2023, RT hosted the very last build of the New Earth project. This build site was marked as the Capital City of New Earth, and took direct inspiration from the City Stream Build. Each player could choose their own plot, and build what they wanted to represent New Earth.
As a result, many of the builds here were based off of memes and trends that circled throughout the servers lifespan, including Tesco's, fleshy interiors, and Korok's. Many players also took it upon themselves to represent the past builds they themselves made on the server. All of the plots were claimed within the first 40 minutes, and the server reached its 2nd highest concurrent player count, falling just short of 400 players.
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The End
On August 4th 2023, at 24:00 BST, the Capital City build site closed, officially marking the end of the New Earth project. In the final moments of the sites closure, dozens of players gathered at the public plot directly south of spawn, where they wrote down their final thoughts and goodbyes on a large message board.
Twitch Subscribers can still view and tour the server through the build server hub, and a world download is planned to release at a later date. RT is also planning on doing one final tour of the server at a future date.