Iron Valley

Iron Valley is a city about a game day's away from the spawn point. The city's week-long golden age spawned not only functional buildings such as the warehouse and furnace buildings, but several decorative touches including residential areas, Lucky Kappa's Fortune Hut, Dog Court, and an unnamed yet classy fortress on a nearby hilltop, among other buildings. The city was named such due to the astonishing amount of iron extracted from the mines below the city, which happened to be nestled in a valley.

About
The city was founded over a kilometer from the spawn point, both to avoid greifing and unwanted visitors and to find a truly unique spot to place a breathtaking city. In fact, there has been only one recorded instance of foreign contact. Initial housing included primitive, wooden huts on a nearby ridge, which would soon be removed. Afterwards, the southern section of the city was built, including the neighborhood of Lakeview Terrace, as well as Lucky Kappa's, the Canal, the Warehouse, and various other buildings. Later on, the northern section was organized and laid out, but as buildings went up, morale dropped and the citizens began to lose interest in the project.

The TNT Scandal
After several awkward and expensive buildings were removed from the metropolis, user Ohairtneada posted a threat on the group's Facebook page. This threat was supposedly meant to be taken as a joke, but several users including Sniper and Dx2 saw it as a serious threat. Ohairtneada was temporarily banned by Profanwolf in the confusion and tensions rose. Productivity in the city sharply decreased over the next couple days and Iron Valley's most active players stopped logging in altogether. Several citizens broke off and started a side project, leaving only a handful of people to work on the failing town.

The DeTorching Incident
A few days after the TNT incident, users Ohairtneada, xlSquizzlx, and Zemaitis10 removed nearly every torch in the city in order to make monsters spawn within the city limits. They maintain that this was done because they believed nobody cared about the city anymore and that they were just having fun. They did indeed take precautions to protect several resource-housing buildings and nothing of importance was lost or destroyed in the zombie assault, but many remain suspicious of their true intent. Upon logging in the next day, several citizens were appalled by what had taken place and rapidly tried to restore the city. Tensions flared and fingers were pointed before Sniper and xlSquizzlx resolved to leave the town for good.