Timeline

A day-by-day history of major events on Parallel.

2020

A spherical rift begins to form over Spawn Town

• March 30: The server opening is teased on YouTube.
• April 1:
  • Parallel opens to players, with access to Parallel Prime and Nether Prime.
  • The lorebook An Unfamiliar Past touches on the mysterious ruins at Spawn Town and asks where nether portals come from.
• April ?: Four purple parallel lines (later identified as linear rifts) are spotted in the sky over Spawn Town.
• April 9:
  • The four tears in the sky expand into a sphere.
  • Niall first appears, identifying himself as a traveler with an intent to "keep an eye" on the anomaly.
• April 18: The sphere expands and develops an outer layer. Niall deems this a normal occurrence, though occurring sooner than expected.
• April 29: The sphere seemingly collapses into a small 5-block area consisting of end portal blocks surrounded by barriers.
• May 12: A neutral mob, identified by Niall as a wisp, is first observed in the settlement Heiwa Kame; more wisps are later found elsewhere. Niall forbids players from provoking the Wisps by killing them.
• May 15 Construction begins on the Shopping District in Parallel Prime.
• May 28: The sphere in the sky once again expands.
• June 1:
  • The Shopping District officially opens in Parallel Prime.
  • Red, a shopkeeper villager, appears in the newly established Shopping District and sets up a kiosk. He appears perplexed, unsure of where he or his shop supplies came from.
• June 8: The Volatile Science event occurs. The spherical anomaly continues to expand. A team of players towers toward it and encounters unusual effects, such as levitation and glowing. Wisps are spotted at its base. Niall warns that it is growing unstable.

Teaser sent to Diamondback88 from Niall of a Rift forming.

• June 12: Diamondback88 posts this teaser image sent by Niall in #announcements
• June 14 (presumed): Red writes Captain’s Log 23 while in space, scanning Sector 47-B.
• June 18: The Crash Site Dungeon Event occurs. Niall requests the help of players for investigating scattered debris across Quadrant IV of Parallel Prime, which results in players finding a distress beacon and various space ship parts. The search culminated in the discovery of the Crash Site Crater Dungeon, where players found the bridge of a ship originally belonging to Red. The impact crater from the bridge component was deep enough to unearth a large dungeon directly below the ship remnant, which players explored accordingly.
• July 12: Parallel updates to Java 1.16. Nether Prime is completely regenerated for 1.16 terrain and features.
• July 26: The End opens. The Commune (now The Commonwealth) opens its borders. Players take The Ender Express from The Commune to a stronghold in Parallel Prime and fight the First Ender Dragon Battle in the End. After defeating The Ender Dragon players explore the End and discover a plethora of new structures scattering the End, including the apparent remains of Eetles containing Eetle Wings.
• August 16 Jess makes her second appearance to Parallel Prime. She notices a lot of people online and says she has to wait. Although unknown at the time, the thing she was waiting for was to open the spherical rift on Parallel Prime.
• August 20 Jess returns to Parallel Prime for the third time, saying that in a few days she will have “harnessed the power of the rift.”

Jess’s message to players when she caused the server to close on August 21, 2020.

• August 21 Jess makes her fourth appearance on Parallel Prime, leading to the Rift Harvest on Parallel Prime. She constructs a red sandstone scaffolding tower below the spherical rift near the Parallel Prime Spawn Point. The rift gains a quaternary layer of nether portal blocks, and a few minutes later Parallel shuts down with a message from Jess saying “I warned you.”
• August 23 Parallel reopens. Players discover the creation of the Parallel Prime Spawn Town near the Spawn Point and spherical rift. Niall makes an in-person appearance, where he works in the Parallel Prime Spawn Town Observatory. He and the players approach the rift in Parallel Prime Spawn Town, where they notice the primary layer has condensed to a platform of purple concrete blocks. Upon contact with the blocks players and Niall are instantly transported to a new dimension, The Sky Dimension. Players meet Buddy and King Cloudius, as well as Gino and Rudy, in The Sky Kingdom. Buddy offers a quest to players to speak to King Cloudius upon entry to The Sky Dimension. Cloudius reveals that the opening of a rift between Parallel Prime and The Sky Dimension caused extensive damage to his kingdom, and indicated an interest in establishing a cooperative relationship with players.
• August 23-August 27 Exploration of The Sky Kingdom and the rest of the available Sky Dimension reveal scattered signs with incomplete messages, an obelisk named “The Blackness of Eternity,” the appearance of Nether portal clusters, and the return of Wisps.