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The Bending Age world

Not all of the credit for Avatarverse's world and builds can be given to our build team. The world itself was painted years ago for the now-defunct Avatar server Bending Age and was gifted to us with the assent of Bending Age's former staff in 2020. Many of the major sites on the server are alterations of builds from Bending Age, most notably:

• Exterior of the Fire Nation Royal Palace
• Some of Caldera City's houses
• Many Fire Nation villages
• The southernmost portion of Ninuno (Sun Warriors island)
• Exterior of the Ba Sing Se Royal Palace
• Portions of Ba Sing Se's Upper Ring
• Portions of Agna Qel'a
• Layout and central buildings of the Northern Air Temple and Eastern Air Temple
• Miscellaneous structures throughout the world that would take too long to catalogue

Few if any of our players played on Bending Age, but their community still exists on the Internet. When the world was given to us, it came with the superflat world the BA staff used for building, as well as all of the items people had in chests. These rare items are sometimes jokingly and affectionately referred to as "ancient artifacts" in current Avatarverse roleplay, though few know their true origins.

Developing Avatarverse

Since August of 2020, Avatarverse put together a small team of builders to fix up the map. They labored tirelessly until March 2021 (the release of Avatarverse RPG) to build a world ready for players.

Here are those former staff members' acknowledgements:

• Administrator Kameron built Omashu, Anana Tun'ila, the Agna Qel'a Royal Palace, Port Silana on Whaletail Island, Kyoshi Island, most of Ba Sing Se's Middle Ring, Caldera City, and other builds...
• Staff member Aqualon has the distinction of giving access to the Bending Age world to Avatarverse's owner, Aztl
• Staff member Infin re-painted portions of the world, updating them from their original 1.12 landscapes to the modern era
• Staff member Parker was Avatarverse's first designer and created textures and models for dragons, bison, and many other mobs, alongside Kameron, and also helped build various structures
• Staff members/builders cuchibarbie, NickC1211, xris, Xhosu, and Tree built much of Anana Tun'ila alongside Kameron
• Builder Stacker contributed to the construction of Omashu
• Staff member Janny built Cranefish Town, which developed into Republic City, although this build has since been replaced with a more urban/modern one
• Owner Aztl terraformed and built much of Ba Sing Se's Lower Ring

Building was not the only thing going on before Avatarverse's beta release. The earliest RPG systems were being coded by the server owner, Aztl, and were compiled into a few plugins:

• Azimuth - the precursor to Avatarverse's character and nations systems, which had a character creation menu very similar our current one
• Fauna - a plugin for handling custom dragon/bison behavior
• Nonbenders - a bending plugin that introduced nonbending subclasses to the game
• ProjectKorra - a plugin created by the ProjectKorra development team and greatly altered by Aztl to make a bending leveling & progression system

Release

Plugin Development

2021

• Avatarverse RPG was released on March 6, 2021 under the former name "Indigon". There were lots of new players eager to try out the new server and lots of bugs to squash.
• In May of that year, Aztl began working on a new RPG core plugin to add tons of new features to the game. In June, the server rebranded from its former name to "Avatarverse".
• In July, Aztl released Routes, a new plugin that connected the world via a global oceanic transportation system.
• In August, Avatarverse became cross-platform.
• In October, the Azmiuth plugin received an update that added the /character command and some combat features.
• In November, subelements became randomized upon character creation.

2022

• In January of 2022, Avatarverse Core was released, which included a brand new nations system that worked seamlessly with the character and other systems already put in place under the old Azimuth plugin and marked the beginning of a new era of consolidating all custom features into one plugin that facilitated their interlinkage.
• In May, Avatarverse Core got its first update, the Combat & Jailing Update. It allowed characters to hunt and murder each other, as well as handcuff one and another and bring people into custody. It also got rid of the unpopular leveling system introduced in Beta's early days.
• In August, another update was released, which added the /reroll command, added a grace period for new characters, and updated the server to 1.19.
• On New Year's Eve 2022, the December update was released, adding 5 more hearts to players' health and other numerous quality-of-life changes.

2023

• In February of 2023, Aztl introduced some quality-of-life changes for nonbenders, like the command /hotbarfollow or /hbf.
• In June, Aztl released a major update that allowed people to create and switch between multiple characters seamlessly.
• In October, admin shops using NPCs were released.

2024

• In February of 2024, the build team completely reworked the Southern Air Temple, as well as a new spawn island, Supāno, while Aztl created a new player walkthrough.
• In March, Aztl created a new pets system that let characters tame, own, ride, and command a variety of animals.
• In May, Aztl released a sandbending update, adding 9 new sandbending moves and tweaking a few others.
• In June, Aztl released the Lotus Shop, where people can buy protected furniture and other cosmetics. Later that month, he added combat protection within settlements to help protect roleplay from being excessively derailed by PvPers. Overrides were then added to allow for combat in these areas, such as by nation police and approved antagonists. Meanwhile, Bah the builder released a reworked Ember Island.
• In July, Aztl released a new "property" system which allowed people to buy/rent protected plots of land, the payment of which went to nation treasuries. The currency was also re-digitized, and all former physical currency was rendered defunct. A new mail system was also introduced, allowing people to send items to each other.
• In October, the Western Air Temple and Crescent Island were completely redone by the build team. Later that month, Aztl released a game-changing update that introduced a new XP system with levels and skill trees that characters could progress through. This update also introduced hundreds of new items and recipes, as well as a new cooking system.

Construction

Many construction projects have taken place since Beta launched, so many that it is hard to keep track. Most of them were carried out under the auspices of nation leaders who wanted to improve the aesthetics of the land they ruled. Therefore, a new staff role, Contract Builder, was created, whosepurpose was to build for a specific nation until that project was completed. Building new towns and reworking existing ones also became a way for nation leaders to prove their aptitude. Here are some highlights:

• First reconstruction of Republic City by the build team in general
• Construction of Air Temple Island by builder Sasha
• Rework of Western Air Temple by Sasha
• Construction of Bianqui by Sasha
• Rework of Agna Qel'a by several Water Chiefs
• Rework of Anana Tun'ila by several Water Chiefs
• Expansion of Ninuno by Aztl, building of parts of La Bayan later by builder Jasper
• Reconstruction of Gaoling by builder Cody
• Construction of Hama's village (now called Noriko) by Cody
• Construction of the Cave of Two Lovers by Cody
• Construction of Senlin, Tongzhen, and Gaipan by Cody
• Rework of the Swamp by builder PachIba
• Construction of town of Bei Da Feng by various citizens/builders there
• Construction of Hortezuca by builder Alinova
• Construction of Chieseret by Zia
• Construction of Zeizhou (initially named Karnaka) by former builder Ryuco
• Second reconstruction of Republic City by the build team led by builder Cody

Design

Many of the uniquely Avatar models were designed by staff members or acquired elsewhere, and the modelers deserve credit for their work. Here are some of the most notable:

• Former admin Lori designed the Kyoshi Warrior fan, the Earth King crown, the Earth Queen crown, the original Kyoshi headpieces, the Fire Lord crown, the Western Elder necklace, and the Guru Laghima necklace.
• Former staff member Parker designed the Bear, Flying Dolphin Fish, Hippo Cow, Cat Deer, Ostrich Horse, Polar Bear Dog, and the original Sky Bison model.
• Rokucraft owner Dejakob designed the WT Betrothal Necklace, the WT Hat, the WT Wolf Helmets, the Leaf Hat, the Swamp Monster Mask, the EK Hairpiece, the EK Cap, the new Kyoshi headpieces, the EK soldier helmet, the Dai Li hat, the Straw Hat, the Sandbender Scarf, the Crown Prince headpiece, the FN soldier headpieces, the FN sage headpieces, the Painted Lady headpiece, the Combustion marks, the AN headpiece, and several more.
• Rokucraft owner Sebke_ designed the Earth Monarch throne, the Bo staff, the Earth Kingdom Spear, the Fire Nation Spear, the Earth Kingdom hammer, the Katana, the Space Sword, the Ice Trident, and the Water Tribe Spear.
• Sasspai designed the Kuren hairpiece and the EK Princess crown.
• JordanDarktail designed the EK noblewoman headwear.