BetaLands

BetaLands
BetaLands logo
Owner	JohnyMuffin (current),  Swetz (former)
Established	2015
End-of-life date (Public access)	2nd September 2023
End-of-life date (Build transfers)	2nd March 2024
Status	Permanently offline.
Server location	Canada (UTC -05)
Server address	betalands.com
Client version	b1.7.3
Website	https://betalands.net
Discord server	https://discord.retromc.org
World map	https://world.betalands.com
Password reset	https://forgot.betalands.net
World download	https://archive.johnymuffin.com/230902%20-%20BetaLands%20World.7z

BetaLands was a server founded in 2015, formerly owned by Swetz, and owned by  JohnyMuffin.
Initially, RetroMC and BetaLands were seperate servers, but they merged in April 2018, and then split again in June due to differing opinions of Johny and Swetz.
It was shut down from the public on September 2nd of 2023.
Only staff were able to join for transfer requests to RetroMC, till 2nd March 2024, when the server was fully shut down.
This page references the server after it was accquired by RetroMC in December 2019 unless specifically mentioned.

Shutdown

On July 7th of 2023, Johny made an announcement in the RetroMC Discord server about the decision to shut down Betalands on September 1st and town/base transfers will be accepted for an additional 12 (now 6) months following the shutdown date.
The server shop was closed, and a noticeboard was placed in the intro warp.

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   JohnyMuffin's announcement on the Discord server about the shutdown of BetaLands.

BetaLands Sendoff event

Betalands Sendoff was an event announced by  EternalllZM on August 27, 2023.
General anarchy (This didn't apply to chat.), TNT, griefing, and /give were enabled during the event.
The event started on September 1, 10:00 PM, UTC and the voice channel used in the Discord server was betalands-event-sept1.
The cutoff date for transfers was changed to March 2, 2024.

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Note that the anarchy and such BEGINS WHEN THE EVENT STARTS. IF YOU GRIEF OR FOOL AROUND NOW YOU ARE STILL VIOLATING RULES.
-  EternalllZM, August 27, 2023

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  But everyone wasn't pinged.

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Note from  Noggisoggi: I joined the event near the event's end time, so I couldn't gather a lot of screenshots.

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  The TNT cluster dubbed "The Betar Bomb" that  CruxyMC spawned in and  Orknarok_666 ignited in the final minutes of the event.

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  The final moments before the server lagged.

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   CruxyMC in the bomb's core.

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  The in-game chat on the Discord server during the last moments, just as  Noggisoggi woke up.

holy, noggi is seeing the phantom betalands
-  Orknarok_666, when he saw  Noggisoggi's client still connected to BetaLands.
<  sshshark> This server was basically a fallout 76 server at launch.
No one really knows what happened in those final moments when betalands got away from us, but I like to think that the bomb eradicated it all
-  CruxyMC, reflecting days after the end of Betalands.

Gallery

• The intro warp
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   thecow275's sign in spawn.

• Shop
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• KL200's cathedral
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  The world map.

Differences from RetroMC

Some features available in RetroMC, such as container locks via LWC, Essentials/Fundamentals homes, and overviewer were also available in BetaLands.
And this is where the differences begin:

• Server-based economy, sugarcane and catus farms were the best items to sell to the shop
• Lockette was still enabled for locked containers created before the implementation of LWC
• StarGates & MobArena didn't exist
• Towny was still used instead of JVillage, and players regenerated health in towns
• No automated UUID-based account transfer
• Less updated stuff

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  The lonely wolf in spawn.

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  The greentext plugin; adding > at the start of a messages makes it green.