Mainland

Image of Mainland in its latest state (courtesy of Ætérnal).

Mainland was the most active location in Season 1 during the server's earliest days. Its players included Ætérnal, Marci, Unnatwain, and Mediumwave. Activity in Mainland greatly diminished after Cuba became popular and because its members were rarely active. Despite its limited development after the popularization of Cuba, people still often went there to visit the structures and to go to its nether hub which led directly to the stronghold, among other locations.

Structures

Ætérnal's House

Ætérnal renovating his house near the start of the server.

The main structure in Mainland is Ætérnal's house, the birch structure in chorus fruit farm in the backyard. It had several stories with patterned floors and was said to have numerous creeper holes in front of it. The inside of the house was very spacious and contained very few objects.

Ætérnal's house used to be surrounded by a thick bamboo forest, including the backyard. However, it was eventually replaced with oak trees and the backyard was cleared. Later on, when the first stronghold was discovered, Ætérnal obtained chorus fruit from the end and brought it back to his backyard to begin growing more there.

Unnatwain's Downtown House

Unnatwain's Downtown House

Unnatwain referred to this house of theirs as their "new main house", but it is unknown which house was their previous main house. Unnatwain also had a house in Cuba, but it is not know whether that was built before or after their Mainland house.

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ə < ʌ (courtest of Tyxaar).

When Tyxaar stumbled across Mainland, she built a structure in the sky saying ə < ʌ and blamed someone else but got caught by Ætérnal who happened to have the dynmap open when Tyxaar built the structure.

Nether Hub

Mainland Nether Hub (courtesy of Ætérnal).

The Mainland nether hub led to other locations on its continent that old players frequented. In the later days of Season 1, the nether hub became exclusively used to access the stronghold. The nether hub later had 4 paths added to it leading to different places, 2 straight ice bridges (as part of the Nether Great Ice Bridge), 1 diagonal ice bridge, and one obscured travel path passing through the crimson fungus.

• The leftward straight ice bridge leads to the Artipelago^{[citation needed]}
• The rightward ice bridge leads to Cuba^{[citation needed]}
• The diagonal ice bridge leads to Nguhrizona^{[citation needed]}
• The obscured path leads to Ice Land^{[citation needed]}

For a major time period of Season 1, the End was closed, so the stronghold nether portal was closed off with protected iron bars. However, the corresponding overworld portal was not closed off. Not knowing this, Janus entered the overworld portal but became portal trapped upon appearing in the nether portal. They were unable to talk in the chat for a long time as well, but they were eventually freed when Suqi gave them a chorus fruit to teleport away.