Gallifrey

Gallifrey

The Citadel, capitol of Gallifrey
About
Contributors	Everyone
Category	Dimensions
Questline?	No
Public?	true
Started	4 September 2018
Released	8 September 2018
Size north to south	28,000m
Size west to east	28,000m
Height	256m
Location
Server	Alpha
Nearest warp	spawn

Gallifrey is the primary survival build world on the BadWolfMC Alpha server, currently on its third regeneration. It has a wrapping circular border radius of 16,000 meters for a total playable surface area of approximately 804,247,719 blocks.

Spawn

Gallifrey's spawn point is at coordinates x=-401.5, y=67.0, z=190.5 in the center of a large stylized compass with 24 teleport pads arranged on the cardinal and intercardinal direction points that take players to ranges of 3,000, 9,000, and 12,000 blocks in each direction. Notable landmarks around spawn (in clockwise order beginning to the north) include:

• The Alpha Mall, which includes player shops, the Art Gallery, the Bank (/bank), the Library, the Market (/market), the Post Office, several quests NPCs, and more.
• The Spawn Village, which includes:
  • The Second-Hand Shop, where new players can gear up and established players can donate supplies
  • Coal Hill School, which includes fun troll traps, quests, and our Fortnite dropper
  • Captain Jack's cabin, which includes quests
  • The Lighthouse
  • A playground
  • Stormcage
• The TARDIS
• The Balloon, also from /warp balloon
• The old Games Hub
• The "Seasonal Corner"
• Worlds Hub
• The Stonewall Inn

History

Gallifrey's first incarnation wasn't officially known as Gallifrey, but simply the "world", willed into being with the creation of the server on August 20, 2016. It served us well for a little more than two years, then retired in the update to Minecraft 1.13. Some of our favorite player builds from the first incarnation can still be explored, now in a massive underground cavern in BadWolfMC's Old Village.

Due to the extensive changes in the release of Minecraft 1.13, including a complete redesign of the oceans, new block ID scheme, and new chunk format, the server gods determined that it would be an appropriate time for BadWolfMC's first soft reset. Gallifrey Mark 2 was created on September 4, 2018 after the successful and grueling update to 1.13, and the major server builds were migrated. The world was opened to the public with a smaller world border on September 8, 2018 to conserve disk space while players migrated storage rooms from the old world to the new. Player data files were then migrated and the old world was retired on September 22, 2018. The world border was then expanded to a wrapping circular border radius of 14,000 meters for a total playable surface area of approximately 615,752,160 blocks. Some player builds were again curated for inclusion in a redesign of the Old Village.

Once again, with the massive world generation changes in the release of Minecraft 1.18, Gallifrey regenerated to it's third incarnation on December 20, 2021. While still a soft reset due to players being able to store items on Mars, the update did include a player data wipe and an economy wipe to keep things fresh.

Landmarks

Notable server builds in Gallifrey include Atlantis (built in celebration of the Aquatic Update), the BadWolfMC Mall, the Citadel, the Fair, the Old Village, the Pirate Isles, and Stormcage.