Has there been any interesting battles or big events at any point? what interesting history is on the server?

That time i rolled an enderman at spawn was kinda epic......

Also go to http://craftymynes.serverkart.com/ for info of the past

Hmm, I'll start at the 1.9 server start. The Red Army was disbanded. Kinda. As their leader left the server, he gave out the coordinates to a (Sort of) allies base. This created Team Eye's independance. Since the major faction was gone, and others were abandoned others arose, these include Team Eye and Harvestar. Harvestar had made enemies with Team Eye after raiding and give away their coords. This led to a war between Harvestar and Eye. When that died down the Penguins, Ravens and ORCA's came into play. A bit later the Red Army's leader made some albeit cryptic messages about their absence. Time went past and the Celestial Order, Sky Kin and Venomous were made though still largely a secret.

This is about the last 3 - 4 months summed up.

@yelloms Lol when I first joined, the big controversy was the killing of noobs near spawn, which lead to some short lived rules about it, then a poor decision by some players to create a town called "Myneville", it was within 200 blocks of spawn, and it was destroyed more times than I bothered to count, this lead to another VERY short lived, admin protection of Myneville... That was when Lonewolf first became an admin, and if you can convince someone to tell you that whole drama, you're in for quite a history lesson...

Ohhhhhh boy

@ORCA_Gnome Tales of old about a faction Called The House of Wolves VS The Brotherhood of steel.

Why did you name a faction "The House of Wolves VS The Brotherhood of steel"?
that's a pretty long name for a faction

@Chips_The_Gamer and so one day Kreater raged and gave up. (even though he said he wouldn't) xD

nah, cause staff stopped babysitting him and his castle which was within 1000 of spawn had to go

Sounds epic lol these things are always more memorable on vanilla servers because theyre not scripted

@_Haxington_ The Sky Is Not The Limit...

*Reaches minecraft build limit* "dang....." No hate. Long live Celestial order!

@_Haxington_ _Haxington_ 7 hours ago
And then came the Underworld, which expanded its power under the earth, and as it grew it became allied to various factions. Faction after faction, the Underworld's alliances increased, until one day...
"_Haxington_: I have an annuncement!"

...

The Dark Brotherhood became the faction of factions.
It was the most powerful organization on the server, but it did not last long.
Times changed and the leadership of The Dark Brotherhood was passed on to multiple people, and each one passed it on like a hot coal. So much power frightens people, and no one wanted to be responsible of it.

Then suddenly out of no where...

jeb_: 1.9... (Troll Face)

The old member factions disbanded, and the server was reset.
Thus The Dark Brotherhood was no more...

To this day the ruins of this long lost civilization lay hidden in the 1.8 server, waiting to be discovered...

i'm sorry this is factually incorrect. paris, apathy, red army, team eye etc you were never the most powerful faction at any given time

@_Haxington_ The original base was never found...
That's all i'm going to say.

Most bases are never found

@_Haxington_ And no, the Celestial Order is not just me.

Sure is looking like it atm lol

I say we have a showdown at some point(not now as some factions have just began) all factions compete in 3 rounds, building, pvp, and something else, farming maybe what other mechanics are there? But then we could end the debate of "im the best" and "my faction is the strongest" once and for all, till a new person claims they are the best. A classic faction v. faction.

Yea have like a server olympics lol.

@R4iscool1 Not really, there is a number of skilled players in which id like to include myself.
Having them team up is the problem.

but even skilled players aren't really bothered (as you said having them team up is the problem) especially in vanilla when there is just no need, there is no drive to continue gaining power aside from instrinsic gain, whereas in factions you have to do stuff like that, play industrially to survive and thrive