Starve.io History

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The date format is (Month)-(Day) (The year is in the headings)

General Starve.io

The Beginning (2017)

• March 24th - LapaMauve created Starve.io, and officially released it. It was new and fresh. Simple and basic. Diamond Swords were the peak and it was pretty much a current forest mode. Rabbits and Wolves were a fresh new addition to the game, and most likely very well welcomed. They became a more reliable food source than the Berries.

• March 30th - The official Starve.io Discord was supposedly created.

• March 31st - The "Attack If You Dare" update was released, bringing a new aspect to PvP with Bandages.

• April 4th - With the "Community Experience" update you could finally kind of make teams.

The Growth (2017)

• April 7th - The "Upgrades" update came in and added things that were missing, but were essential to base building.

• April 8th - The "Fashion Week" update brought us new ways to maintain heat.

• April 11st - The "Winter Is Coming" update we got the new Spears to spice up the game, along with the Furnace.

• April 17th - Most likely the best update including the Bag and the Book, the called "Look Cool" update. It made the life of the ones who played it easier.

The Success (2017)

• April 28th - The most hyped update was released: the "Winter Is Finally Here" update. It brought new challenges, a new resource, new weapons, new mobs, new items and a new Chapka. A whole new extreme challenge with extreme rewards.

• April 29th - The "Hunger Games" update was released, bringing a new game mode to adapt to.

• May 17th - The "He Is Alive!" update was released, adding a few Items that help mass base construction.

• June 1st - The "You will die happy" update was released, pretty much being the final step to help team makers and base builders.

• June~July - The hype of Starve.io would slowly decrease because of the lack of updates. However, with the "Vamos A La Playa" update the community went crazy. It was and is by far the largest single update in the game.

• July 28th - The "Chrono Quests" update. It brought a new reason to kill people: Box of Dead People. You would be able to loot three randomly selected items and not just that, but you still would receive the points of that person. It also brought Dragon Gear, which took the place of the most op item in the game. This update came with great controversy within the community. Those who were peaceful had now need to learn how to fight back because the savages were now unavoidable. A lot of people were complaining, but LapaMauve didn't revert or did anything about it.

• July 31st - With the "The Purge" update the community had mixed feelings. For some, the hood was way too op. For others, the hood was ok, balanced. Most went to #suggestions on Discord to get it nerfed, which LapaMauve eventually did on the "Sounds Good" update which the community greatly approved, having a great feedback.

The Downgrade (2017-2019)

• September 1st (2017) - April 3rd (2019) - With the lack of updates from LapaMauve, the community went into a downgrade.

The Controversy (2019)

• April 4th - After almost a year, LapaMauve finally made up his mind to add the Lava Biome and the Desert. He asked the community, and it was "voted" to the Lava Biome being added first. After pretty much two years without a major update, the first step of the Lava Biome came, the "It Smells Like Burning!" update. Amethyst wasn't the best resource anymore, and the last biome wasn't Winter, either. It would be the largest update for PvP so far, bringing the Reidite Sword.

• April 10th - With the "It Smells Like Burning (Part 2)" update, the Reidite Spear was added.

• April 15th - Finally, with the "Time Is Running Out!" update, it would bring the Lava Helmet, Sword and Spear. The community once again was split on half. Some thought the update was good in its own way; new ore, new weapons, new challenges. The other half thought it was overloading Starve.io with useless content and that he made it extremely hard to be afk and to just play alone, solo.

The Recovery (2019-2020)

• July 15th - August 22nd (2019) - After pretty much a year of emptiness and hate, the community would be greeted with pretty much weekly updates and good community feedback, updates like "The Golden Bread Hunt" Part 1, Part 2, Faster!, Various Private Servers and much more.

• October 11st (2019) - January 31st (2020) - The following major updates: Desert (As it was promised, the desert took place), Bizzare, A Blizzard With No Wizard (Winter Update), More Ways To Kill Animals (Bows and Mob Boxes) and Protect You From Bad Guys (Shields) greatly excited old players and brought new players to the community. Also, more youtubers than ever before are making videos in Starve.io.

Discord Starve.io

Green is active staff, White is new user(non), Blue (when alongside a current or former mod) is demoted user*, Pink is for bots(pre-2020), Discord Blue is for bots(mid-2020 onward) and all other colored words are level-related ranks. All of these are related to the reputation of the user in relation to the timeline.

*Note that demoted staff no longer have Blue

Hype (2017)

• March 30th - The discord was founded by LapaMauve. The first message ever sent was by Izzibaby#5917, being a google document about the recipes, in #starveio.

• March 31st - eogito joined the Discord.

• April 1st - Link sent his first message, and it seems like he was promoted to admin before this.

• April 5th - omer joined the Discord.

• April - plainG̵͔͂̚ȃ̷̡̳̤ṁ̴̙̚ë̵̦̠́r̴͕̉̆̕ joined the Discord, was promoted to moderator, was demoted and then quietly left the server. werpo was promoted to moderator.

• May 2nd - eogito sent his first artwork, which would also be the first artwork sent in #artwork.

• May 4th - The first message in #announcements was posted by LapaMauve, being a advertisement for his newly opened patreon.

• May 5th - Skalem joined the Discord, and Natsu sent his first message.
• May - eogito was promoted to moderator and omer was promoted to administrator/manager in the Discord.

• April - A clan system was implemented. You could promote and talk about clans, in different channels made for that.

• May 5th~6th - The clan system was redesigned by omer.

• June 7th - The most disliked suggestion ever on the Starve.io Discord was sent by Izzibaby#5917 and made by macakheehhehe, with 162 dislikes.

• June 12th - The most liked suggestion ever was posted on 12/06/2017 on the Starve.io Discord, sent by Deleted User with 209 likes currently.

• June 25th - Link sent his last message in the Discord. After that, we can presume he either got demoted and left or he leaved by pure choice.

• July 1st - Cura became a manager in the Starve.io Discord, becoming the first manager. She was a developer assistant, which can be saw at some old updates, which her name is referenced.
• July 5th - pizza wa joined the Discord.

• July 24th - The #how-to-report-bugs channel was created, with the first and only message being about... How to report bugs!

• June~July - The Desert and Lava Biomes turned out to be one of the most repeated suggestions on the Discord, which took notice from LapaMauve, in which he stated: maybe.

• August - werpo was presumably demoted, most likely for his inactivity.
• October - Anyone want to play? Joined the discord with a very fitting first message.

Bots & Mods (2017-2018)

• September 3rd (2017) - Natsu was promoted to Moderator.

• September 17th (2017) - pizza wa sent her first artwork made digitally.

• September 19th (2017) - αℓĸσɒα sємραɪ joined the server for the very first time.

• September (2017) - pizza wa was promoted to moderator. The clan system was removed due to drama and controvery surrounding it.

• December 3rd (2017) - #general was created, to talk about general things (pretty self-explanatory), with the first message being... "first" by Colonizor48#2215.

• December 27th (2017) - αℓĸσɒα sємραɪ was promoted to moderator. To introduce the new moderator to the community, LapaMauve pinged everyone and introduced the new moderator.

• December? (2017) - omarblob joined the Discord. Natsu resigned from the position of moderator in the server.

• February 23rd (2018) - The Discord reached 1.000.000 comments.

• May 5th (2018) - MEE6 (LAPA6) started their service as a bot for the Starve.io Discord. It would make this place a more secure, clean and organised, as before it was a disorganized mess. It would also start the leveling and ranking up system. eogito was the first one to get to level 1.

• May 6th (2018) - The #welcome started welcoming new players with the help of MEE6 (LAPA6). The first player that was welcomed was welp#5315.

• May 19th (2018) - #rules-guide had it's first registered message. It was just a little image. It was created to... You guessed it, show the rules to new players.

• May 27th (2018) - Tatsumaki (Hungry Tatsu) started their service as a bot for the Starve.io Discord. It would start a secondary leveling system, but the MEE6 (LAPA6) one remained as the predominant. It would start many mini-games, like "Tatsugotchi", "Fishy" and would establish a economy.

• June 19th (2018) - LapaBot was created. It would make the entire Discord a more lively place. It would, from now on have more games than ever, like #dungeons and #shift.

• July 16th (2018) - #faq and #roles had it's first registered messages. #faq's first message was a image, which reads "Server Faq". It was made with the intent to answer questions. #roles's first message was also a image, which reads "Server Roles". It was made with the intent of presenting the server roles; what they had to offer, and how do you get it.

• July 29th (2018) - Dyno (Cold Dyno) started their service towards the Starve.io Discord. They would polish some things that MEE6 (LAPA6) would not.

• June~July (2018) - Cura got demoted from the Starve.io Discord. omarblob and Skalem were promoted to moderator in the Discord.

• June~August (2018) - ZenChi was promoted to moderator.

• September (2018) - αℓĸσɒα sємραɪ was demoted from the Starve.io Discord.
• September 9th 2018 - JayRexium joined the discord.

Bots & Leaderboards (2018-2020)

• December 25th (2018) - Anthrax joined the Discord.

• January 5th (2019) - werpo sent his last message on the Discord. It was a long time since he last sent a message, and all he said was: ":help".

• January 28th (2019) - eogito was the first user to reach level 50, which would become the lava rank.

• March 2nd (2019) - getdunkedonbot joined the Discord server.
• March 3rd (2019) - Seedot started their service in the Starve.io Discord. They would start the #counting and guess-the-number channels, and own gamemodes. It would bring the community together, at least to count.

• June 11st (2019) - Mario first joined the Discord.

• August 8th (2019) - Anthrax leveled up to lava rank and was holding 2nd on the leaderboards, about to overthrow eogito from n°1 spot. #private-server-owner has also it's first message saying... "First?", by fatant#2647.

• September 12th (2019) - With private-servers finally opened, #game-mode had it's first message, talking about the code of "Battle-Royale" mode.

• August~September (2019) - Mario was promoted to moderator.

• January 4th (2020) - The Starve.io ModMail was created. It would become a more reliable way to contact moderators. Before that, you would need to either DM moderators or ping them, which could make them angry if they were busy. With Starve.io Modmail, all you had to do is wait.

Channels Modifications (2020)

• January 5th - nMaster joined the Discord server.
• January 7th - #roadmap was created, in order to inform the users about upcoming features.

• January 20th - The #server-status channel was "added". Due to the way it works, there isn't a fixed 1st message. This channel was made to stop confusion about which servers we're up, and if it was just them who could not join a server.
• January 23rd - davidwanqwerty joined the discord.

• February 11st - Seedot stopped service in all and every server he was in. This would completely stop the #counting, #guess-the-number and #welcome channels.

• February 19th - The server reached a total of 100.000 comments who have "no" in it's content.

• March 8th - Anthrax took spot n°1 on the leaderboards. If she keeps the same rhythm, it will take a very long time until someone overthrows her. But eventually, everything has to end.

• March 21st - Dyno (Cold Dyno) replaced Seedot to welcome new players in #welcome.

• March 24th - eogito became The New Community Manager, since the old CM, omer retired in 2018. The first community manager of Starve.io Community was Cura, she went offline since 2018 and no one have ever seen her return... at least, not yet. Also, it was Starve.io's 3rd Birthday! To celebrate, most people changed their name to "🍰Happy Birthday Starve.io!🎂"; original idea from Anthrax; And what about LapaMauve? He was greeted with a long awaited artwork from YriFox, posted by LapaMauve in #announcements to symbolize Starve.io's Birthday.

• February - March - Crub (Cloudly) left the server, due to the toxicity of it. Anthrax would also reluctantly exit and join back, due also to the toxicity and drama of the server.

• March 31st - April 1st - April Fools was... Disorientating. eogito changed his nickname to egoito, Mario changed his name to Luigi, omarblob changed his name to eogito and omer changed his name to ɹǝɯo (Quite hard to read, mainly because of the different font, but it reads omer but upside down). Also, the profile picture of the discord would change, first to having 1 ping and then having infinity pings, and change to 0 pings sometime after. Also, Anyone want to play would curse people with the mighty dave. He changed his profile picture to Dave dominating the world...?

The very next day, April 1st (April 2nd in some countries), every single channel was typed upside down, some of the text people sent was upside down, people's names were upside down... Even the picture of the server was upside down. The banner went from a cute little christmas banner to a burning hell with a starver saying "help me". To build even more the chaos, omer sayed in #announcements "¿uʍop ǝpᴉsdn pɹoɔsᴉp sᴉ ʎɥʍ ɟʇʍ". There was also the "eogito gang" and the "omer gang". The eogito gang was growing fast, but all the mods (except for eogito, which for obvious reasons went to the eogito gang and Skalem and ZenChi) went with the omer gang.

As the final event in April Fools, a new channel made specially for this event would be created: #moderator-boss. It would have different mods and the LapaBot against each other. You could either damage or defend a boss.

• April 14th - FranchestCreator was promoted to Trial Moderator by eogito. The "Moderator" section at the members list was now renamed to "Staff".
• April 21st - The Ministry for the Microbial Coalition (clan tag {𝔐ℭ}) becomes the first official clan in starve.io after them being reintroduced minutes earlier. they were first beaten by the fearless clan, but won by a technicality; a new regulation was added last-minute.

• April 24th - The original #general channel was removed. Now, #starveio was renamed with #general. To replace the original #general, #looking-to-play was created; original idea from Mogol#3020. The first few messages were "first", then "second" and then "third", but were deleted. The first message that still exists is "xd" by user 𝑶𝒑☘Nord. At last, the clan system was once again implemented by eogito, and the Staff tasked to manage it was omarblob, granted Clan Manager rank. #how-to-clan, #official-clans and #clan-chat were created.

• May 8th - FranchestCreator was promoted to Moderator.

• May 10th - As the result of minutes of begging, #dragon-cave was created, with the intentions of giving high-level players a channel of their own, without the no-ranks and low-ranks there to disrupt them. Originally an amethyst+ chat where nobody else could see it, pizza wa soon realized that not even low level mods could see the chat. The chat was then subsequently changed to diamond+ can talk in the chat, and everyone can see it (much like #artwork-chat.) The first message there was "hey it worked" by davidwanqwerty. The old starve.io was also re-introduced, with this new link, and the leaderboards in this one.

• May 19th - #voice-chat was created, with the intent of creating a chat which can help people who have no microphones. The first message was by eogito, saying "Hi".

• June 5th - eogito blocked messages in #dragon-cave, because of lots of drama happening there. Anthrax and Admiral IA left the server due to the drama happening due to Demon's Cat, and Demon's Cat was banned. eogito reinstated #dragon-cave, now with a 5 minute slowmode. Then a new 2

minutes slowmode. After some time, 15 seconds of slowmode. Finally, the slowmode was removed completely.

• June 15th - JayRexium obtains the lava rank, becoming the 5th user to do so.
• June 16th - 7ML3 joined the Discord server.
• June 16th - Kareem2005 obtains the lava rank.

• June 28th - Anyone want to play? was promoted to Trial Moderator by eogito.

• June 29th - Mario quit his role as a moderator. After, Logos King was given the role Trial Modertor, as a reward for giving him Discord Nitro. Then, the #staff-chæt was created for the staff and the Trial Modertor. The first message was from Anthrax saying: "What is this?". By an accident, even people who didn't have the Trial Moderator rank could talk there. That was very soon fixed. Then, the role was renamed to "Is secretly a furry" and a few more people were added, such as Anthrax, YriFox, lump© and Sulfur The Demon. After a few more tweaks, it was renamed to "The LapaMauve Concil". Sadly, though, the #staff-chæt was deleted. Sometime after, it was renamed to "The Furry Concil". Finally, it was deleted for good. However, Logos King kept it, and it was renamed to 👉😎👉, with a gold color.
• July 3rd - davidwanqwerty obtains the lava rank, becoming the 6th user to do so, taking only 6 months to do it, beating Anthrax's record of 8 months.

• July 8th - Anyone want to play? was promoted to Moderator by eogito.
• July 11th - July 15th - 💎Blue💎 obtains the lava rank.

• July 20th - I'm Blue obtains the lava rank, becoming the 7th user to do so.

• August 7th - eogito creates the owo rank, and gives it to davidwanqwerty. he is now briefly the record holder for most ranks(excluding selfroles) until being surpassed by Anyone want to play? when he amassed the lava rank.

AWTP's comment to davidwanqwerty after bill amasses more ranks than him

• August 28th - a mysterious Bill Kara joins the staff list, and later amasses every single rank that exists in the entire discord. Later, all of the mods changed their name and profile picture to match Bill Kara's.

• September 5th - Pink Borb obtains the lava rank, becoming the 8th user to do so.
• September 15th - Williek obtains the lava rank, becoming the 9th user to do so.
• September 19th - VictorGD obtains the lava rank, becoming the 10th user to do so.
• September 24th - 7ML3 counts the number 100000 in #counting and gets the Counter role, which changes color constantly, mostly because of Anyone want to play?.
• October 13th - Sam obtains the lava rank, becoming the 11th user to do so.

  

  Leaderboard for Trick'cord Treat as of october 14th, 8:50pm central

Pumpkin Starver

a screenshot of the pumpkin starver rank, with a scalable version above written in HTML

• October 14th - Trick'cord Treat(bot) joins the server. eogito also creates the pumpkin starver rank, the #pumpkin-patch channel, which is in a special event section. the pumpkin starver rank is given to the people with the most items gained from trick or treating. davidwanqwerty gains the rank first, followed by Temmie.io, who took over at 8. getdunkedonbot later claims the rank for himself, a few hours later, after a non* claims the rank.

• non (noun):
  • 1. Any low-ranked user in the server. They are usually looked down upon due to their toxicity and attitude, unless they are good and they rise up in the community.
  • 2. A low-leveled user in the discord server or a person who does not talk a lot.

• October 14th - Shortly after the invitation of Trick'cord Treat(bot), eogito

  

  Starve.io october server icon

  changes the server icon.
• October 15th - 1 day after the invitation of (h!)Trick'cord Treat, I'm Blue gains the pumpkin starver rank with a score of 68, with intent of stopping at 69.
• October 16th - 7ML3 wins the pumpkin starver rank with a score of 98.
• October 18th - I'm Blue gets permabanned for stealing Admiral IA's art and making it their pfp (among other reasons).
• October 22nd - 7ML3 has one rare item left until they've gotten all of the Trick'cord Treat prizes for a final total of 120.
• October 22nd - The Emerald and Reidite roles got swapped. it was later changed back as only eogito could change mee6 perms and for a while, leveling up to 40 would do absolutely nothing.
• October 23rd - 7ML3 gets the rare item "Picnic Basket" from the teddy bear trick-or-treater, gaining all the prizes and becoming the Champion of Halloween.
• October 30th - general chat got completely nuked after starve.io went down
• October 30th - getdunkedonbot obtains the lava rank, being the 12th user to do so.
• November 10th - 7ML3 obtains the lava rank, being the 13th user to do so. They also beat davidwanqwerty's record of fastest lava rank by around 1 month, becoming the new record holder.
• November 15th - Weddlz obtains the lava rank.
• November 19th - Gurisada obtains the lava rank, missing their opportunity to beat 7's record.
• November 20th - November 23rd - Simo Häyhä obtains the lava rank.
• December 24th - December 30th - mr.laith obtains the lava rank.

2021

• January 20th - The Team Seedot role was added, with 7ML3 obtaining it first, Uxleumas obtaining it second, omer obtaining it third, and getdunkedonbot obtaining it fourth. However, due to an unknown cause, Uxleumas's list of roles shows the "team seedot." (read the bracket thingy right next to this)
• January 20th - 7ML3 sends their big paragraph of JayRexium lore. JayRexium is actually two people - Jay and Rexium. Jay is commonly known as a "placeholder", and is a default starver with sunglasses (7 thinks they're a bird), and Rexium is a dark mahogany chair that smells like lavender and has no correlation to the drug Rexium (I had no idea this existed). Both of them together are often known as JayRex, but many users call them "Jay" because that's who they see in community arts, even though Jay is mute. Rexium doesn't mind, because they're very shy. Also, how is one mute and one shy when the actual user is typing?
• January 22nd - chenj12 obtained the Team Seedot role fifth. temmie.io obtained the Team Seedot role sixth.
• January 27th - 4L!#3371 obtains the Team Seedot role seventh.
• February 10th - Mochi#4294, who is an alt, buys the Team Seedot role eighth.
• February 11th - CaptainPrint#0313 becomes the newest member to get the Team Seedot role, obtaining it ninth. He is technically the eighth person to get it, due to alts.
• March 8th - Abyssal._.#7147 obtains the Team Seedot role 10th, but is the ninth person to get it. They are also the last person to obtain the role through Seedot.
• March 18th - Master0 obtains the lava rank, by posting a meme.
• March 28th - Sleeepy#7382 obtains the Team Seedot role 11th, but is the tenth person to get it.
• March 30th - #roleplay channel was added, requested by YriFox. however, it was removed on March 31st because of roleplay haters.
• April 1st - #lava-pool was added, with 7ML3 and getdunkedonbot tying for first message, only to find all 6 or so of their messages deleted, the channel locked, and sulftag (eogito's other account) saying that the "pool's closed for extreme temperatures".
• June 1st - The "eogito" account is deleted around this time (likely May 30th, but most people realized it on June 1st)
• June 8th - sulftag created #community-news and renamed #announcements to #game-story to reduce confusion.
• June 13th - I_Am_Worthless obtains the lava rank.
• June 20th - Sulfur was promoted to Trial Moderator by Anyone want to play?
• June 24th - YriFox and Weddlz were given a fake Trial Moderator by sulftag for mod speedrun. They changed people's names to furry-related names or "person simp", and then claimed it was a successful speedrun.
• June 29th - Many chats accessible to low leveled discord users such as #general or #clanchat are locked down. Bots also cease to work for an un-known reason. This was due to many nons pinging lapa asking for them to fix accounts not working.
• July 9th - sulftag demoted Skalem and ZenChi due to inactivity, and gave Trial Moderator (actual role) to 7ML3 and YriFox.
• July 27th - Seedot goes offline, bye :(. (#guess-the-number is archived, and counting is moved to pepebot)
• August 7th - Anthrax has finally reached level 100, and remains number one on the Mee6 leaderboard.
• August 12th - sulftag promotes YriFox, 7ML3, and Sulfur to Moderator. (Congratulations!)
• September 13th - Razz (Aka Retronaut) reaches level 50, obtaining the lava rank.
• November 5th - sulftag added new level roles (Topaz, Sapphire, Jade, Ruby, and Mauvium)
• November 10th - The first person to reach lava after the new roles are added is Abyssal.
• December 7th - sulftag leaves the community, and Franchestcreator takes the role of community manager. (Bye Sulftag)
• December 12th - #general-international is added by Morgan
• December 13th - sometime after this date, YriFox (Who now is Yuiko) leaves the server, popping back in periodically but not saying anything.
• December 15th - Cynder, Getdunkedonbot, and Uxleumas are promoted to Moderator by Franchestcreator.

2022

• Janurary 1st - Happy New Year!
• July 1st - The new Team Poob role is created and given to Poob members.
• July 14th - Around this time, Pepe bot#0828, which previously moderated #counting, goes offline. Counting is locked shortly after.
• December 29th - Franchestcreator adds Countr to the server, restoring #counting after 2 Lapa days.

Trick'cord Treat Leaderboard Oct 24

2023

• January 1st - Happy New Year!
• Feburary 2nd - Cloudflare is added to some parts of Starve at around this time, more things are put under Cloudflare later on.

Editor Notes

1. While in the process of making all of this, I realized a lot of the Discord's history is lost, purely because there are several deleted channels and many deleted users. Some of them even were mods, but we may never know what their names were.
2. It was a really fun adventure to bring all the pieces together. About the different figures that once moderated the Discord. About all the odd and different, even useless events.
3. We would like it if everyone reading this tries their best to contribute to this page, whether it's adding dates, information, or updates. The wiki will be much better with your help.
4. It may be hard to add some events since some of us have different join dates, and I (Anthrax) have problems with memory, so I can't really remember what happened.
5. While lava isn't the highest role anymore, it is a level milestone and a tradition to continue to update the list of people who have gained lava.

Trivia

• TBD
• There are more than three(!) times more messages in #general-international than #general-english in the year of 2022, though this trend is not consistent with the year of 2023, with there being about the same number of messages in both generals as of March 18th 2023 and with #general-international having slightly less.