The Last Day

Friday, January 30, 2015 — the final twenty-four hours in the archive, one player file at a time.
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11:55:41

Eastern time · the moment the archive stops

At 11:49 on the morning of January 30, 2015, Curley posted “TwitCraft shutdown”: the server would stay up one more week for goodbyes, but “all maps as of right now are backed up” and nothing after would be kept. Six minutes later, at 11:55:41, the world was saved for the last time. Every file in this archive stops there. The player files stop earlier — Minecraft writes one when a player logs out — so each one is a timestamp of the moment its owner last left the server, and the last twenty-four hours of them are the last day anyone has a record of.

Nobody was online at 11:55; the last player had logged out fifty-seven minutes earlier. The server ran on until February 6, so the real final week happened — it just isn't in the files. Times are US Eastern, the forum's clock.

The last twenty-four hours

every logout from noon on the 29th to the end · newest first

Names link to what each player was carrying; coordinates open the map at the exact spot they were standing when they logged out.

The last player

the final logout in the record

The final week

Leaving, month by month

when each of the final map's players was last seen · January 2014 – January 2015

Each player file records one last logout. Counted by month, that is the mirror image of the arrivals chart on the history page: the month in which each of the final map's players was seen for the last time. The summer of 2014 is where most of them left — and were still logging in during the server's last month.

Where the final week's players were standing

How this was made

Timestamps are the modification times of the 3,028 lobby/players/*.dat files in the final backup (the server wrote a player's file at logout and on the periodic world save, so a file's time is the last moment its owner was on). Positions, worlds and hours come from the same files and from stats/*.json, via the extraction behind What They Carried. The end time is the modification time of level.dat. The forum archive shows Curley's shutdown post at 11:49 with no time zone; US Eastern is the only zone in which “all maps as of right now are backed up” and the final save line up six minutes apart, so Eastern is what is shown here. If the board actually ran on Pacific time, every clock on this page is three hours later than the real moment — the order of events does not change.