Grainplains

Grainplains was a base and sanctuary that existed in CrocMC during season 1.5. It was owned and operated by Corsair, and it was the server's first sanctuary.

Overview
Corsair joined CrocMC in December during the early days of Season 1.5. Immediately he got to work on a nearby build that would be transformed into a massive wheat farm. Grainplains, as it came to be known, would become a server hub and food station for new and old players alike.

History
Corsair first built the Church of Wheat on the exact coordinates (0, -500). He then made a plaza and constructed a gravel road between the plaza and spawn, naming the road, "The Great Northern Highway". He had plans to continue the road further north, but these plans were never fully realized.

Corsair continued his contruction of the base by building his own house and a storage area, underneath the storage was a horse garage, inhabited by the horses Conchúr and Diarmuid. Xur and Spacelotion joined the base early on and built their own homes close to the main plaza.

The grasslands biome that Grainplains was situated on was transformed into a large wheat farm, with many thousands of crops growing within the fields simultaneously. The landscape attracted the attention of many players and server admins, who would regularly visit the base for a free gift of a few stacks of bread.

Locator maps had not been patched during this time, and Corsair exploited this item to locate the admin base of Dubai. His intentions were benign, as he wanted to visit the base and confront the admins about the exploit, but upon arrival Fishy was infuriated, and threatened to kill Corsair if coords were ever leaked. Corsair swiftly returned to Grainplains with new tensions with Fishy, who would later on terrorize the base for no reason at all.

Grainplains was griefed during the final hours of Season 1.5. Dingo and Fishy had a major disagreement over the ownership of the server, and Fishy decided to steal the server IP address and create his own SMP. Knowing this was preparing to happen, Plague went on a rampage and killed several people in Grainplains and destroyed all the storage items within the base. The sanctuary would cease to exist when the Season shut down for good and Cocoa Season 1 was uploaded to the IP address.

Legacy
Grainplains was well-remembered by many players of CrocMC, and some argue that Season 1.5 was the "Golden Days" of the server, though founding members say that the best era came further in the past. Its successor, Haven, would not come around until late Season 4, and it met a similar fate to Grainplains.