Timeline

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

2019

• August (Presumed): Jess recovers from a successful surgical operation (gaining one year to live) on another unknown dimension and begins writing Post-Op Log.

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.”

King Cloudius greets players visiting his kingdom in the Sky Dimension for the first time.

• 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.
• October 8 Upon killing Wisps spawning in the Sky Dimension, they are discovered to drop mysterious items called Soul Shards.

2021

• January 18 Niall joins the Parallel Discord Server.
• January 21 Niall returns to his Observatory in Parallel Prime.
• January 23 Niall announces in Discord that after completing some studies of the Parallel Prime Spawn Town Rift, he has made some discoveries in interspatial (or intradimensional) rift-based travel, which allows the use of rift energy to easily teleport to different places in the same dimension. Portal pads from Parallel Prime Spawn Town to (and from) the Red Rose Arena and the Shopping District open. Lastly, Niall informed players of an “unknown life form” detected in the Sky Dimension (later revealed to be the Crimson Dragon Ralnthar), which he needed help from players to investigate.
• June 1 Diamondback88 mentions in an announcement that Niall will be delivering a message to players at an upcoming Game Night.
• June 4 Niall delivers a message from King Cloudius to the players. The message is a call to help to players, as the crimson dragon Ralnthar, the Soul Eater has been spotted en route to The Kingdom of the Sky. He asks players to assist him in moving is wealth from his palace to Midas’s Well in Parallel Prime Spawn Town. After doing this, Cloudius asks players to prepare for battle as the arrival of Ralnthar was imminent. Upon the dragon’s appearance in The Kingdom of the Sky the Siege of the Sky Kingdom event occurs, leading to the defeat of the players and the total destruction and occupation of The Kingdom of the Sky. During the siege, new mobs such as Fire Wisps and Juvenile Crimson Dragons were observed, as well as the new item Unstable Soul Shard. In the aftermath of the siege Niall, Jess, and Cloudius discuss how to cope with the reckoning of The Kingdom of the Sky. In order to rebuild, it is concluded that interdimensional technology from Red must be procured to transport the necessary amount of materials from Parallel Prime to The Sky Dimension.
• June 30 The Monthly Top Voter Reward system is established. Included in the reward chests are monthly top voter winner map arts Mr_PresidingDent and KingDeDeDeVII win top voter prizes of June 2021.
• July 5 Parallel updates to Java 1.17. Parallel Prime underwent a border expansion from ±5000 x 5000 blocks to ±8000 x 8000 blocks (from a total of 100,000 to 256,000 square blocks in area, more than double its previous size). Parallel Prime Spawn Town has undergone some changes, where NPCs from The Kingdom of the Sky fled to various buildings in the town. Rudy established a smithy and Gino established a bakery as NPC shops. Additionally, three portal pads from the Parallel Prime Spawn Town opened, each to a newly discovered Biome Town: Mountain Town, Savannah Town, and Jungle Town. These towns were abandoned and decrepit upon entry, so it was the task of the players to rebuild and resettle these towns. All three of these biome towns were outside of the previous world border.
• July 11 Parallel hosts its second 4th of July Fireworks Show one week late.
• July 19 Players begin reporting the existence of various asteroid impacts on Parallel Prime. Crater sites [[P-A-71921] and [P-B-71921]]. Each asteroid crater contains an obsidian asteroid with loot inside of it, including a unique named spyglass. P-A-71921's spyglass was named "explore new worlds" and P-B-71921's spyglass was named "is there more to the sky?".
• July 21 An expedition lead by CreeperKing309 to a Woodland Fortress leads to the accidental discovery of Niall's Private Observatory on Parallel Prime. Players noticed a fire wisp trapped in a locked room, as well as a secret basement containing an isolated rift block. A lectern written in Galactic Standard Alphabet warned of an impending storm, which was not otherwise elaborated upon.
• July 22 Some scaffolding for repairing the Kingdom of the Sky are reported. Niall is observed in his Private Observatory, while the fire wisp inside is reported missing.
• July 26 More scaffolding observed in the Sky Kingdom. Ralnthar continued to preside over the occupied territory during the rebuilding, apparently uninterested in stopping it.
• July 30 A storm cloud is reported underneath the main island in the Kingdom of the Sky. A map is discovered in the wreckage, depicting part of a stone castle apparently not yet observed. Niall leaves paintings of asteroids in the Parallel Prime Spawn Town.
• July 31
  • Mr_PresidingDent and Motacilla_Alba win first and second top voter for July 2021.
  • Some notebooks from pillager outposts have been documented in the ice biomes of Parallel Prime, indicating tensions between the pillagers and their villager neighbors. **CreeperKing309 hosts a drop party in Savannah Town, after which players accidentally discover Jess's Outpost. Players discover more about the personal history of Jess from books including Post-op Log and World 6 Log.
• August 1 Checkered planar rifts are documented in the Sky Dimension. Fire wisps are observed once again in Niall's private observatory.
• August 2 Jess is observed in her outpost, displeased with the trespassing of players.
• August 7 Jess joins the Parallel Discord Server and asks players to help her investigate a structure linked to King Cloudius found on Parallel Prime.
• August 8 Jess and a party of players head to Jungle Town on Parallel Prime. They find Cloudius's Tower, which contains some lecterns of King Cloudius's thoughts after the Siege of the Sky Kingdom. Players learn he is increasingly preoccupied with Jess's ability to expand the rift between Parallel Prime and The Sky Kingdom, in order to expedite the rebuilding process. King Cloudius does arrive at the tower, angry with players not only for trespassing but also for failing to defend his kingdom.
• August 11 Red tells players he has made contact with his Space Station and invites them to look for parts there. Jess makes a message in discord asking players for stabilizer and powering items.
• August 15 The Space Station event occurs. Red's ship arrives near the Parallel Prime Spawn Town, and players enter the ship. Upon discovery of a zombified cadet inside the ship, the mission to reunify with the Space Station hits a much darker note. When they arrive at the space station, most of the crew had been killed and turned into zombies or skeletons. The station was severely damaged with apparent mold infestations that breached parts of the hull of the station, as well as permeating the several floors of the station. Players learn the zombification was due to a containment breach of some sort. More about Red's backstory is revealed in the various lecterns throughout the ship, as well as references to unmet characters Germaine Hoang, Logan Carter, Inmate Karl, and Moondust. After collecting the parts from the damaged station, Red returns players to the Parallel Prime Spawn Town. Jess receives the parts.
• August 18
  • Niall notifies players that he and Red have returned to the Space Station and cleared all the damage and infestation in the station. The Space Station reopens to players.
  • More repairs to the Kingdom of the Sky are underway, including a full repair of one of the linear rifts back to Parallel Prime
• August 31 robbie1776 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter prize for August 2021.
• September 19 A drop party is hosted in Savannah Town, after which the following teaser image is released.

Teaser after the Drop Party on September 19, 2021

• September 28 Players upload more books found in various pillager castles in Parallel Prime, with possible links to the Sky Dimension.
• September 31 Hypermoron wins 1st and robbie1776 wins second top monthly voters of September 2021.
• October 10 Parallel Prime Spawn Town undergoes some changes for Halloween, including a guest appearance of Frankenstein in The Observatory
• October 16 Players rematch the Ender Dragon in the Second Ender Dragon Battle to hallmark the reset of the End. Players go on to discover several new structures in the End after defeating the Ender Dragon.
• October 30 After a game night players see Jess conversing with King Cloudius about the status of expanding the rift to the Sky Dimension. Some progress has been made in repairs, and the pair of linear rifts in the Sky Dimension have now transformed to a single spherical rift. Additionally, a weird shrine to Mooism is found in the Sky Dimension.
• October 31 robbie1776 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter of October 2021.
• November 2 The following video is uploaded to #teasers by Diamondback88: [1]
• November 17 Diamondback88 posts this link to #teasers: [2]
• November 30

Teaser from November 30, 2021

• • Diamondback88 posts this calendar in #teasers
  • robbie1776 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter for November 2021
• December 11 King Cloudius reveals that December 11 is his birthday.
• December 26 Parallel shuts down to prepare to update to Java 1.18. After doing so Niall posts in #announcements that he has noticed unprecedented, extremely unstable energy readings near the Parallel Prime Spawn Town Rift. He does not know where the source is, but anticipates a "wild ride" upon returning to Parallel.
• December 28
  • Diamondback88 uploads the following teaser trailer for 1.18 into #announcements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cksJVtw6nG0
  • Parallel reopens to players. Upon rejoining, rather than being in one of the worlds of Parallel everyone is in a black chamber with Niall, Jess, and King Cloudius. Niall begins explaining what happened after players had to return all of their items into an energy vault, as they became filled with unstable rift energy for reasons described below. Then a portal pad opens, taking players to an entirely new world (in 1.18 generation) that became known as Otherside.
  • Niall explains that Cloudius exploited Jess's efforts at expanding the rift in the Sky Dimension to rid himself of Ralnthar early. By coaxing the dragon through the rift, Cloudius thought he could remove him from the Kingdom of the Sky, but the rift in the Sky Dimension was too small. This lead to overwhelming the rift between the Sky Dimension and Parallel Prime, and Ralnthar entering Parallel Prime.
  • Niall explains that another rift was beginning to form in the shopping district of Parallel prime, and when Ralnthar entered Parallel Prime this rift opened for Jess, Niall, and Red to escape through. Niall states that this was the cause of the energized gear and that players would not be able to have their gear for a while.
  • Another rift is beginning to form in Otherside, perhaps a way for players to return to Parallel Prime. Niall and Jess say that they will actively work on reconnecting the two worlds over the next few weeks while players settle in Otherside.
  • Players explore the Otherside Spawn Town and meet Willie, who mentions a fellow NPC Researcher Lane in his introduction to players. They discover notes in Lane's Observatory about various outposts scattered throughout the world that he went out to check. Willie introduces the Frontier Towns of Otherside to the players: Mesa Metro, Lush Town, and Cliff Town. Avig, the Stump Witch, is mentioned in some of the lecterns of the town.
  • The Otherside Spawn Town Rift is explored and discovered to connect to the Sky Dimension. Players see Ralnthar's tail cut off in the Sky Dimension due to Cloudius's shunting of the dragon through the rift to Parallel Prime. Blue's empty shop remains.
  • Rudy, Maggie, Gino, Hal, and Red enter Otherside. Red replaces Blue's shop.
• December 29 Players discover high energy fields outside of Otherside Spawn Town, which Niall believes are necessary for returning to Parallel Prime.
• December 30 Willie opens his build shop in the Otherside Spawn Town.
• December 31
  • All of Researcher Lane's outposts in Otherside have now been discovered.
  • robbie1776 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter for December 2021

2022

• January 2 Some pillager camps with notes named "Worrying News" have been discovered, where something is apparently eliminating the patrols.
• January 4
  • An abandoned prison cell with a note about priests from a prisoner is discovered near the world border of Otherside.
  • Niall posts in #announcements that he has deduced that Researcher Lane would be trying to clear a dungeon in Otherside, and invites players to join in meeting Researcher Lane there.
• January 7
  • Players meet Researcher Lane for the first time in the Otherside Spawn Town.
• January 15 An outpost belonging to a mysterious individual known as The Stormgate Keeperwas discovered on Otherside. The Keeper then introduces themself in a message in #server, saying that they lead The Stormgate Keepers, a society in the shadows that occasionally resurfaces. They say more visits should be anticipated from The Stormgate Keepers.
  • Nial, Researcher Lane, and the players raid The Citadel, a dungeon in Otherside containing a Portal Catalyzer.
• January 22 Construction on the Rift Catalyzer to unite Parallel Prime to Otherside begins.
• January 29 After requesting more powering items from players, Jess, Niall, and Researcher Lane successfully activate the Rift Catalyzer to open a rift between Parallel Prime and Otherside. In doing so, the Shopping District was overlayed to Otherside, having been sucked away from Parallel Prime during the opening.
  • For Jess and Researcher Lane, however, upon opening of this rift they were transported right into Ralnthar's body, so Niall and the players had to enter the dormant Ralnthar in order to rescue them. Ralnthar apparently settled in Midas's Well, where players stored King CLoudius's gold the previous June. Players had to deal serious damage to his fire gland before he let Researcher Lane and Jess out.
  • Ralnthar admitted to being in a weakened state for the time being, and threatened vengeance for when he returned to health. He offered players the temptation of his captured riches by allowing them to exchange soul shards for randomized loot from the well, until he healed.
  • Players were able to access their vaults from the closure of Parallel Prime again, and Ender Chests gained interdimensional functionality between the two worlds.
  • Red announces that he soon will be selling a Pocket Teleporter device.
• January 31 Hypermoron wins 1st and robbie1776 wins 2nd monthly top voter for January 2022
• February 28 robbie1776 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter for February 2022
• March 31 robbie1776 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter for March 2022
• April 30 robbie1776 wins 1st and Mr_PresidingDent wins 2nd monthly top voter for April 2022
• May 31 Djminer369 wins 1st and Prorandomizer768 wins 2nd monthly top voter for May 2022.