Acacia Park

Acacia Park is a town in Arboria on the Crazy Fools UK Survival Server map. The town, founded by Shield543 in late 2020, is composed of buildings built in traditional architectural styles.

Acacia Park from above

History

The town was created in November 2020 when Shield543 laid out a square near his home. The location, a savanna biome, inspired the name of the square, Acacia Square. The square contained a small, natural park that preserved the land as it was found when the square was first built, and the park was named Acacia Park, which would go on to become the name of the town itself. The buildings built around the square emulated the look of an (English) Georgian town, and further buildings in Acacia Park would continue to be built in Victorian and Georgian architectural styles.

The town very quickly became an aesthetic building project rather than a natural town where players reside and explored the recreation of historical architectural styles within Minecraft.

Geography

The town is located at the approximate coordinates 13,000, -23,000 and is reachable by an in-game warp acaciapark or by following the Great North Road from spawn if opting for vanilla travel. To arrive at the settlement, a traveller will need to first reach the town of Whitewood, where an underground ice road connects to the town of Oakville. From here onwards, railways can be used to reach Acacia Park.

The town of Acacia Park is mostly situated within a savanna biome, and so contains many acacia trees. Eastern areas of the town, such as, Altun Street, MultiMakto Street and Alphacharlie Street occupy a desert biome that has been terraformed to present a more habitable appearance. This practice mostly involved laying a one block-thick layer of grass over the desert sand, with the occasional levelling out and smoothing of the desertscape. A benefit of Acacia Park’s savanna origin is that artificial grass fields laid on top of converted deserts appear to display the same hue of grass block as that of grass blocks in savanna. This helps mask the desert origin of many areas in the town, which are now more easily identified by pressing F3 to see the desert regions.

Landmarks

The town has many features including a town hall with rules and a hall to honour players who have made contributions to the town by building structures. Other facilities available in the town include several farms, some houses and a research institute. Acacia Park is also home of the Temple of Janus, the main temple associated with the player group End Corp.

Acacia Square

The square has a town hall to the north, a tunnel connecting to Altun Street to the north east, a ‘greengrocer’ and mason villager trading hall to the east, a supersmelter and pumpkin pie factory to the south east, the Grand Palace to the south, a kelp farm to the south west, a loom, a recycling centre, and more villager trading halls to the west, and finally a bridge connecting to the coastal promenade to the north west.

Acacia Park West

The Temple of Janus is situated on a hill to the west, along with a Roman style market ‘porticus’ or stoa.