3rd of May 2016. The 11 of us from 400 base (excluding OreMonger and NatInTheHat8) got to a destination that was to be our new base. We called it Horizon. Day later, on 4th of May 2016, OreMonger arrived at his own destination and made his own base (called later Royal Dynasty) and invited his friends from 2b2t to the server.

Word started spreading around 2b2t oldfags about this server. Balonypony, SilverKrownKing, drewbooman, VargaGirl and few more joined the server after being invited by OreMonger and joined his base. Now the original 400 base divided into 2 camps that had many 2b2t old recognizable players.

Mid May 2016. Now server was alive and gaining speed. Both of our groups had a few members online all the time. Word started spreading good in 2b2t oldfag community. Solo players started joining like Jazukai or Legato.

Early June 2016. Server finally started getting "newfags" who decided to keep playing instead of logging off after few hours. But still, most of the players online were from our groups.

On 19th of June 2016 server was updated from 1.8.9 to 1.9.4 after a day of testing. Days before most players were getting as many Notch Apples as possible due to them being uncraftable in 1.9

— _mrx16 on Reddit