The Great Crashening

The Great Crashening began around March 10th 2019 where hundreds of new Townies burst through the "gates" and wreaked havoc upon the EU and US servers.

The Great Trashening
During The Great Crashening, buildings like the Blacksmith's and Carpentry Shop got their items stolen. Hammers, Chisels, Attachments and Handles lost to the new townies, who had not yet learned the ways of co-operation.

The Great Smashening
The influx of townies, armed with their new weapons stolen from veterans and other noobs alike, laid a pointless siege upon the US and EU servers. PKing, griefing, and otherwise being obnoxious was the new norm, and order could hardly be established. The darkest days of the Crashening to be certain.

The Great Minening
The Caves were nearly emptied of all ores on the upper layers, some townies only finding copper after travelling down 6 layers.

The Great Laggening
Since the servers were not used to all these players, they had a tough time, lag spikes happening every few seconds, large server freezes lasting minutes, and worst of all, players getting suddenly disconnected without warning.

Laggening was fixed on March 19th

The Great Repopulating
Not all of these new players brought chaos, however. Some were given tours of the town, and shown the basics of each profession, ending up being respectable members of our world.

The Great Buffening
After seeing what happened, our grand creators buffed the servers, and saved us all from the eternal lag spike. Thank you, mighty overlords. PRAISE BE. (EU broke right after but shhhh irrelevant info)

Why did this happen?
Some lad named Disrupt put out a popular video about spending a week in VR. Another video by him listed ATT as a solid VRMMO, and thus, the waves entered. May the god Joel have mercy on our souls.