The Age of Peace
The Age of Peace is a loose definition referring to the early days on Legendary Hardcore, spanning roughly from the server's launch in late February to the middle of March. This period was marked by relative calm and friendly interactions between players with very few instances of PVP and player killings.
History
"anyways the server ive always had an itch to make is a pure vanilla hardcore permaban server" - Jake276493, 30th of November 2024
Pre-Reset
Legendary Hardcore was launched on the 9th of February 2025. Initially players were permitted to use hacked clients, as with jake276493's previous server The Superflat Experiment.
On the 20th of February it was announced that the server would be reset and that hacking would be prohibited going forwards.
February 2025
Following two days of downtime in preparation for the new launch, the server reopened on the 22nd of February at 8pm GMT (4pm EST). Initially alt accounts were allowed.
The server's first days saw a high player death rate, but this may have been inflated due to players reconnecting on alt accounts. The end was freed just hours after the server opened by lukasisgoated (aka lukaisback, lukasisgoated, babysarecute, lukasisnotgoated), ta7zz (aka mr_viski), vaccumLorde (aka imadiesoon, LUKASISALOSER), with the dragon egg stolen shortly after by Yehomere during the Dragon Egg Conflict.
The remainder of February was relatively peaceful with most players living independently or in small teams, though interactions in chat were generally good natured and friendly. By the end of February 109 player had connected to the server and 41 players had died.
March 2025
Villages and community settlements started to emerge in early March with Home Town and Souez the first to be established, as well as Spawn Town- a community settlement established at the world's origin. Several named factions had also emerged by the middle of March- with The Empire, The Kingdom and The Nomads (also known as The Goon Rats) establishing themselves close to spawn and openly recruiting players.
Early March through to the middle of March also saw the first instances of player killings, theft and griefing- though these acts were relatively few and far between.
The point at which The Age of Peace ended and The Age of Blood began is open to interpretation, though several key factors seem to have brought about the shift in player dynamics. These include a paid advertisement that saw a large and sustained increase in new joins, the death of players such as Thridz, Updesh, RoboticRomo_ and Yehomere who had attempted to protect and provide opportunities for new players, and griefing of settlements in the Spawn Region which saw some players migrate further out from spawn.