Ftb:Newpoint Island

Newpoint Island was an island with a mini-jungle biome on the east-end of the server. It was roughly 400 square blocks and only houses a few people for residence. moving for more factories and hovels to setup on the island. Most of the trees were cut down and the land has been mostly developed.

The island was first discovered by Grizwalt while looking for an area to settle in March. Gawsh and Grizwalt then built Newpoint Mansion as their new home. It was the place for the Economic Guild's single meeting, where they decided to keep using a bartering system.

The island had a chunk reset in May and caused heavy damage to Newpoint Mansion, destroying many of the machines and resources mined from the island.

History
In late March 2013, Grizwalt and Gawsh were looking for a new home after an apparent flux-attack on their old home base, increased discussions for a larger home and more isolated area away from the spawn and Edo being built nearby. Expeditions east and south from the old base were sent, and Crimson Island, a redwood forest, was discovered. However heavy forestation and large trees sent Grizwalt searching further east. The search was unsuccessful in finding any more islands, and upon returning, Newpoint Island was spotted by Grizwalt just a bit north of Crimson Island.

It was decided that the new area would be used for settlement, and a small wood shack was setup. Dotrichard came to visit in order to fix a glitch with a netherportal, and suggested a new home. Construction began immediately for a mansion, and after nearly 3 weeks of construction, Newpoint Mansion was built. The mansion became a center of operations for Gawsh and Grizwalt.

Economic Guild & Land Buyout
The Economic Guild, an unused guild since 2011, came into discussion again after Afromana of the Thaumaturge's Guild requested a more usable form of currency for their newly setup shop in Edo. A group of players agreed, and they requested that an Economic Guild be setup. However Gawsh pointed out that it already existed, and suggested they come to Newpoint Mansion, which had just been completed at the time. The talks went nowhere, and it was decided that the server should remain using a bartering system thanks to the ender-farms. The Guild was once again put into stasis after the talks.

As a result of the talks, Gawsh decided that more land from the island should be sold in order to get more diamonds for bartering, however most people did not wish to buy more land as they had no use for it. The land was given for free to Stonecycle under the terms it was not to be used for industrial purposes.

Crashfield Incident
On May-06, Gawsh and Grizwalt began researching MFFS units which were supposed to be disabled. The unit they created caused a "Crashfield." However the day was saved (even though it was caused by,) Gawsh, who managed to wrench the machine and stop players from crashing.

Newpoint Mansion Disaster
On June-06, a mass chunk corruption caused map-wide chunk resets. This did not affect many players, most of the area's affected were farming land or bee farms, causing some monetary damage. However, one of the chunks affected was directly in Newpoint Mansion, causing the roof to collapse.

The collapse caused massive damage to the structure, with one quarter being completely covered in rubble. The area affected was a storage section, with almost all of Gawsh & Grizwalts assets being plunged into the sea, and crushed by above rubble. None of the resources in their AE computer survived.

Dotrichard and Flubbernugget attempted to fix the issue by using logblock to re-reset the chunk, however, thanks to the chunk being corrupted, they were unable to revert it. Gawsh was unable to afford repairs and was forced to leave the mansion and move to their under-construction HQ, Babarak. The administrators paid compensation for the lost resources and the workroom at the mansion was moved to the HQ.

Geography
The island is roughly 400x400 blocks, is surrounded almost completely by sea and Crimson Island. The island is a mini-jungle biome, making the grass appear greener then most default minecraft land, including trees. This makes it unusable for bee farming, and only small bee operations are placed along the beaches. There is a small, unnamed lake in the middle of the island which separates Gawsh and Grizwalt's land from the rest of the plots.

A factory resides on the other side of the pond, which is where most of the work Gawsh & Grizwalt do for new projects.

Land Use
Newpoint Mansion dominates at least one quarter of the island while other small operations cover the rest of it. The East-Side of the lake has been converted to mostly farms, including peat and a self-powering wood farm. The main food-source of the island is melons, which grow along the beach as they can't grow in the mini jungle.

On the West-Side of the island, plots are being made for future housing to other players. There is a low amount of space, and as such, large plots are being placed on-top of flattened hills. The largest plot is a factory-under-construction to move Industrial Craft machines and build-craft in order to make space in the mansion, as most of the machines no longer fit for automation.