Spawns

What is a Spawn?

Riverside Flame Location

All Minecraft servers have a spawn, typically they are a relatively small central hub location. Usually displaying server info and providing access to certain server features. However, on Ironclad Vanilla, a spawn has a unique spin to it. It aims to provide all of the standard spawn features a player would expect all while being completely community-built. Players get to design, shape, and construct their own spawn. Giving every generation of players a chance to have a lasting impact on the server. Spawns are designed to be welcoming, useful, and a showcase of our build style.

Origin

The first spawn we had, now known as Riverside, for the first few months of the server was generally referred to as "Spawn Town" or "Ironclad Town". In the beginning Turtle had this idea of creating a mega metropolis of a spawn town. He envisioned dozens upon dozens of players all working together to create a semi functioning city within Minecraft. Player created shops, government controlled services such as a courthouse, post office, trading post, bank, server storage, and various public farms, games, amenities, art installations. Spawn town grew fast upon launch. Settled on top of a naturally generated village, it was quickly turning into something unique. It was going better than expected at this stage. Soon after various rules and restrictions began being put in place to prevent Spawn Town from turning into a wasteland of misc various staged builds from our early influx of players. This took Spawn Town to a completely new level. A standard path type was established, what would become the standard across multiple spawns. He had no intention of moving the spawn point from its current central location

Purpose

• Give new players a safe, clear place to start
• Encourage exploration, trading, and collaboration
• Highlight community building projects
• Keep the world fresh by occasionally rotating to a new spawn

How rotation works

• The current spawn gets filled in and there isn't room for expansion within reasonable distance.
• A new generation of players has joined the server ready to make their mark on a new spawn.
• Admins will choose a new location for the next spawn.
• The community moves to the new spawn ready to build new shops and government structures.

Player etiquette near spawn

• Respect shared spaces and posted build rules
• Avoid laggy contraptions in the central district
• Keep signage and paths clear for new players

Current spawn

Name

Example — Harbor

Coordinates

x: 0, z: 0

Established

Month YYYY

Primary builders

User:Name1, User:Name2

Quick links

Spawn Rules · How to Contribute to Spawn Builds · Transit Map

Spawn directory

Spawn	Established	Biome	Flame Coords	Page
Riverside	October 2018	Rivers/Plains/Coastal	-41, 79	Spawn:Riverside
New Haven	October 2019	Plains/Coastal	-1375, 3577	Spawn:New Haven
Birchcreek	June 2020	Forest/Hills	-780, 2448	Spawn:Birchcreek
Hillcrest	April 2023	Mountains/Plains	13175, 5560	Spawn:Hillcrest
Ember Valley	October 2024	Mountains/Plains/Snow/Coastal	19675, 3661	Spawn:Ember Valley

See also

• Spawn Guidelines
• Transit Map
• Building Rules