Restored Legacy

Restored Legacy

Documenting inactive/abandoned towns on RetroMC.

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Restored Legacy (formerly Restored_Forgotten) is a project that was initiated on July 8th 2024 by  Gazuzz, alongside  samcraft3, to document inactive and abandoned towns from RetroMC's earlier days.
The thread for this project is located here, (Discord guild invite here), and for the list of pages made about towns under this project, see Category:Restored Legacy.

Contribution guidelines

What is considered an inactive town?

An inactive town generally:

• Is large enough to be considered a real town, or have a unique characteristic that makes it worthy of being in the wiki (see Ice for example).
• Has signs documenting the town. An unclaimed town with no signs is not worth documenting! Search for the following:
  • Signs containing the name of the town.
  • Signs containing the usernames of the owner and other members.
• Has an owner who has been inactive on the server since at least 10 months.
• Does not already have a dedicated article (duh).

Please note that exceptions can be made. These are very broad requirements and do not cover every single case.

Finding inactive towns

On the server, you have a few methods for exploring:

• using /wild
  • If you did not find any village at your proximity or believe that going to the closest inactive village will take a very long time, you can use /wild and try again.
• travelling from warps, nearby towns, minecart tracks, etc.
• using StarGates
• staff members can go brrr via flying (shhh) and /tppos x y z
• combining any of these with the world map.

Documenting inactive towns

1. Be in the Discord guild and link your account if you didn't do so, to share your discoveries and ask questions about the project in this forum thread.
2. When exploring:
   • Open the World Map.
   • Enable All under the Regions button to show town claims.
   • Find the nearest village or town, and make sure it is inactive by clicking on Show More, which will lead you to a J-Stats page about the village you selected.
   • Remember that some villages may be unclaimed! Make sure to closely analyse the entire area to your proximity.
3. Once you're at a town:
   • Take screenshots of major landmarks.
   • Take screenshots of important signs.
   • If it's claimed via JVillage, look up its name on J-Stats.
   • If you've got the Mystic rank or higher, you can utilize LogBlock to see block logs.
   • If you've got the Citizen rank or higher, we recommended you set a home at the town in case you have to return to it.
4. Fill out this form to keep track of which towns have their article written and organize the writing efforts.
5. Start writing!

Writing standards

Before you start writing a page for an inactive town, you must first know how to write a good Restored Legacy article, and what you should and should not include in your article.

Read the Wiki contribution guide

If you're still new to this wiki, or to wiki editing in general, we highly recommend reading the entirety of the wiki contribution guide. It contains most (if not all) of the useful information about infoboxes, templates and other such concepts, which you will need to write a good Restored Legacy article, and basically any wiki article in general!

Structure of the article

We highly recommend following this structure while writing your article

1. General overview:
   • Write a general overview and presentation of the town with an Infobox Town detailing informations about it with a screenshot of the town from the World Map.
   • Note that some town pages may only consist of this part because of the lack of information (See Ice as an example of this, again)!
2. Building style and infrastructure:
   • This part is dedicated to explaining the building style omnipresent in the town you're documenting, as well as the infrastructure built by the members of the town (roads, railways, public farms etc).
   • We recommend dividing this section into two parts if the building style of the town is unique and deserves its own section, or if the infrastructure of the town is very developed.
3. General policies, rules
4. Notable landmarks
5. Notable members

Note that you are absolutely not forced to follow this structure. Its purpose is to serve as an example of a good approach with writing town articles.

Bad habits

• Writing:
  • Beginning an article with a title (this breaks the preview!!)
  • Grammatical mistakes
  • Too many superscripts/subscripts
  • Sections with very little text
  • Comedic writing (this is not your town!)
• Screenshots:
  • Screenshots with a very "custom" texture pack
  • Too many screenshots
  • Screenshots at a very very high FOV (unless in very specific cases, like panoramas etc.)
• Styling
  • Too much bold/italic [...] text.
  • Too much CSS and custom divs.

On the use of LLMs/AI/Bots etc.

Do not use large language models to write entire articles/generate content anywhere on the wiki, as they may "hallucinate".

The section below is, in part, taken from this Wikipedia article.

Don't use neural networks to generate content, use them to assist you at creating content.

• You may not ask neural networks to write original content and find sources, as these neural networks don't know what is right and wrong.
• You may use these neural networks as a writing advisor, i.e. asking for outlines, asking how to improve the paragraph, asking for criticism for the text, etc. However, you should be aware that the information it gives to you can be unreliable and flat out wrong.
• Use due diligence and common sense when choosing whether to incorporate the neural network's suggestion or not.
• Use due diligence when crafting prompts for neural networks. Prompts designed for this very wiki should use natural sentences and be as descriptive as possible, and include keywords such as "encyclopedic", "keep the meaning intact", etc. to minimize the AI from adding original content.