History

torogadude, the game’s developer, began working on the game on September 6th, 2019. Previously, he had been somewhat well-known for making YouTube videos about 2b2t, an anarchy server from the game Minecraft. NotPron, A Dark Room, and 2b2t have all been cited as being the primary inspirations behind the game. Cycles, the in-game system where each player’s actions are queued on a one-second timer (changed during pre-release from three seconds) were conceived as a way of easily being able to host a large number of players on a single, manageable server. The game first went live on October 6th, 2019.

The website’s original hoster, SmarterASP, experienced a ransomware attack on November 9th. As a result, torogadude decided to switch the game’s host to InterServer, which continues to host The Travelers today.

pre-alpha
0.8.0, the game’s first major content update, launched on November 29th, 2019. This update was nicknamed “The Inventory Update”, and added crafting along with weight-based inventory management.

On December 22nd, The Travelers [subreddit] was created.

On December 23rd, pepsilord420 became the first person during pre-release to reach level 100 using the modern level equation.

alpha
0.9.0, “The Equipment Update”, launched on February 4th, 2020. This update added equipable items and the framework for player interactions.

On February 13th, the first recorded player interaction occurred between LogicM and pepsilord420.

On March 6th, 2020, torogadude’s main account was surrounded with |Personal personal reality anchors. At the time, anchors were the only placeable item in the game, and were also unbreakable. Therefore, the account was trapped without the use of admin commands.

beta
0.10.0, “The Building Update”, launched on April 11th, 2020. This update added placeable materials.

On April 17th, the game was patched to version 0.10.4. This update added in the ability to kill offline players, and a large massacre around the spawn region occurred within minutes of the game updating.

On May 5th, Bramblery became the first player to interact and be killed by “a spire of unknown rock”. This caused the first recorded “the world shakes” event.

On May 9th, 0.11.0, the PVP update, launched. The same day, SuperQGS made a wager with torogadude to fight for the implementation of lawn mowers into the game. SuperQGS lost, and lawnmowers will never be added.

On June 13th, the community hosted a gathering final pre-release at logicbrampepsibase 420. Low-range personal teleporters were shown off for the first time.

release 1.0.0
On June 15th, all accounts and world structures were wiped. The 1.0.0 update launched, and The Puzzle was implemented. The very same day, the first puzzle step was found and players began to solve it.

The first step was solved on June 17th by Bramblery and Slime_Tiger, and Bramblery became the first recorded player to own a small boat.

On June 23rd, the second clue was discovered by Bramblery. This clue remains unsolved and can be viewed on the wiki's Puzzle page.