Schyldertown (1.21.x)

Located on a free-build creative Minecraft Java server, the city of Schyldertown has had an unusual history—from being moved from one server to another, to having multiple contributions big and small, to being worked on for five years, to having its lore for almost every building, and a lot more.

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Schyldertown first started on a server called Edawg878. The server had a free-build component long ago (December 2019). I still remember when I first found a Minecraft-generated village that had already been modified by adding some items to fix up the town to make it presentable. To this day, I still don't know who first built it. However, when I saw that city, I decided it would be a perfect place to build a city.


Here is the first-ever image of Schyldertown, taken on 23 December 2019. The big wooden tower near the middle remains to this day, and you can already notice work being done in the city.


This is that same village without modifications.

The Edawg878 free-build creative world seed is 333333, so we found the original village Schyldertown now sits on top of.

The city has grown significantly since then. You can observe its growth over time in this Bluesky thread.

On 24 January 2023, Schyldertown was ported from Edawg878 to Zest Creative, which remains today. This was because the server's leadership operated unbecomingly, threatening Schyldertown's (and ours) futures. Zest Creative was a server that we found to be very welcoming, and hence, we moved Schyldertown there. The process took weeks as we worked with others on Zest Creative to move parts of the city across servers while working on expanding the world that Schyldertown would be in (Laurentiro), amongst other things.

Since then, the city has continued to grow, and it remains in Zest Creative as a major city with its own lore and government system.



These photos were taken in February 2024 by Mirraine, who helped port Schyldertown across the servers. As you can see below, a lot of work has been done since then all around the city (and into the environment that surrounds it).

Now, enough about how this project was made. Let's show off the actual city today, in 2025!

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Last Christmas, Schyldertown turned five years old. In the spirit of the project's birthday (and as an annual tradition), end-of-year screenshots were made. You can view them here. In this photo gallery, you can see parts of the city, from the Mesa hills (called Maesa in lore) to the downtown area, the outskirts, and the housing developments around the city. Some buildings were made by me, a couple built by Mirraine (via a repository) and another couple from Ajeb25, while many other people contributed buildings like the city's Parliament (first image, second thread post) to the hospital (second image, third thread post) and more!

The city has it's own university as well! This links to an update mentioning the opening of a new performing arts centre. The University buildings were planned from summer of 2022 however building did not commence until fall of 2024 (which remains a work in progress to this day with two departments still needing a building) amongst various other projects in the city.

For a long time after the port, the northern part of the city was an unfinished enigma, and various spots were incomplete as well. However, this month (January 2025), the north finally got some love as a housing development was added to this long-abandoned area.

Finally, if you want more photos of Schyldertown, this neat Bluesky thread covers screenshots taken throughout the day in the city!

Let's talk shop about lore while we're here. The city has its roleplay with its own President and government structure on the server it's on. This is the list of the Presidents of Schyldertown. Meanwhile, the city has its own wiki page here (ignore the population number) that talks about some of its history. And yes, the server has its own wiki.

If you want to keep up with the city, you can view its progress in this link, which allows you to see it from a first-person perspective. If you want to help work on Schyldertown or to know the city in person (it has a few secrets even BlueMap does 't show), you are more than welcome to enter the server and apply here.

Note: The progress bar is inaccurate. This city is not meant to be completed and is intended to be worked on when people are willing to work on it. The world seed is the world seed of the village Schyldertown is based on and not the world seed for Schyldertown on Zest Creative.