Steve

Steve circled in black in the top left.

Steve, originally ‘Ruined City’, and sometimes erroneously referred to as ‘Ithkn’ based on Infinico‘s misspelling of ‘I think’, is a Paulological site and pre-Raid base in northwestern Thasusa, south of the Southern Rivers and mainland parts of Enkavak and north of Keltechra.

History

Its original builder was long unknown but eventually identified as Infinico/nhāigh, who named it "Ruined City". Looking at older maps it appeared as far back as September 2022, and was likely created sometime between January and September of that year, as the server was only created in January 2022.

Rediscovery

Steve at night.

The original regeneration map for the Nguhcraft Spring, prior to Viklo asking Ætérnal to preserve Gagma Balls. Steve is marked with a black dot

The site was first noticed by Viklo in March 2024, when he was constructing the Gagma Balls Territory. This would prove to be pivotally important as Viklo‘s request not to regenerate Gagma Balls would prevent Steve‘s regeneration during the Nguhcraft Spring by complete accident. Despite this, no one knew who had built it, and the site would be forgotten once more. Elisa rediscovered it in June 2024, and asked about it, but also didn't get an answer. It was rediscovered again a year later by accruenewblue, who was looking at the Baarzenstad line, which happened to run under the area, while mapping out rail construction around Raln. A stop was made under the assumption that this was the remnants of Kog'eññe, a nearby dissolved ŋation; however, this site was soon realized to be different from Kog'eññe. The site was then provisionally given the name Steve, in the same vein as Dave and Paul.

Some other players, such as N3, claimed to have passed by it before but not questioned it. It was found after Hilja pinged every player from that time who was still on the discord, resulting in someone named Infinico/nhāigh claiming to have built it.